Kill 16 - Video

[deadliest6]

This again.

[Kazuo studies things before removing a City coin from his pocket. He studies it a moment and it doesn't seem clear as to what he is going to do with it. Then, he flips it in the air.

When it comes back down he catches it.]

I play.

[And that is all. There is a crossbow in his hands now and he is on the hunt for everyone in the game.]


[ooc: Kazuo here will fight anyone and is trying to kill people. If you're interested in him killing your character, he's your man. Just let me know what is okay and what isn't. (I'm always okay with setting up an escape scenario or Kazou getting hurt instead.) Open to action here or other replies. Just know that now that he's in hunt mode, he probably won't say a single word.]

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[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[One moment. Killing someone now. Yep, that's what that scream is. Now...time to go after Umi since you mentioned she's here.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ ... WHY DID I LEAVE THIS ON?! ]

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[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[Enjoy witnessing any other horrors from him slaughtering people, Clef. Because Kazuo doesn't understand that you don't let people know how much pain you put others through.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

Kazuo.

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[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[Sorry. He hears you, Clef. He's just not talking.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ ... Right. How the hell do I know you didn't just put it down somewhere and someone else picked it up? ]

... When you find her, what are you going to do?

voice;

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[Hm. Still talking? Very well. I will give an answer.]

Kill her.

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Your honesty is appreciated.

... I guess this means I'll just have to find her first. ]

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[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[Gooooood luck with that.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Or you. In fact, maybe that's an even better idea. ]

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[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[I don't need luck when I have mad hunting skills.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ That's okay. Stay in one place and the whole world will walk right by you.

Well, Clef hasn't been staying in one place, but he's been keeping an eye on Umi and maintaining a constant distance from her. It helps that he's only after one specific person - someone he knows just well enough to be able to pick out his aura in a crowd, perhaps. ]

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[The girls got away from him earlier but that doesn't bother Kazuo. Instead he focuses on finding new targets. He can always find them again later to take them out. Walking along, he hides the weapons he's accumulated during this curse and just keeps out a crossbow. One he picked up along the way since the curse didn't let him have the weapon Umi gave to him here.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Clef is in a tree. Like teacher, like student.

The key here, he thinks, is to not give away his position as soon as he spots Kazuo. And also not to assume that Kazuo doesn't know his position anyway.

But does he know that I know that he knows where I am? That's the important question. ]

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[Guess what? This kid has senses that are practically magical and he stops beneath the tree.

That's it. Just stops.

Then he points the crossbow at the tree, right at Clef, and fires. Nope. He doesn't aim but it's amazing how that arrow flies right at Clef anyways.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Clef is impressed!

Actually, no. There's a tiny sound - a soft gasp coming from a small person - right before the arrow strikes a branch behind him.

Then, having dodged and survived, he is impressed. But not for very long.

There isn't quite a bow, nor is there quite an arrow, but archery is much more easily performed from trees than on people in said trees. Magic is just a stylized form of archery, anyway. You line up your spell, aim by focusing your will upon your target, and then pull back until your intent is taught with energy and then... let go.

So, it isn't an arrow but a shimmering white thing that goes flying towards Kazuo. ]

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[Kazuo dodges out of the way and around to stand behind a tree. He watches Clef carefully now. After all, it's another person who uses magic. But he has him trapped. In a tree.

Whipping his arm around, he fires another blind shot that heads for Clef's face then runs into view so he can throw a knife. Right at Clef's coat to try pinning him to the tree.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Clef dodges the arrow to the face, but not the knife.

Well, enough fooling around. He reaches for the knife, but pauses with his fingers just touching it. After a moment, a gust of wind shakes the tree, doing very little to it and the surrounding scenery. It has a nearly supernatural effect on the knife and the two arrows he has already shot, however, dislodging them from their resting places and sending them flying towards their original owner as though they had been shot or thrown anew. ]

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[Problematic.

Kazuo gets out of the way and ends up with a cut to his cheek. Bringing his hand up, he touches his face to find blood there. That will have to be treated later. For now, he gets rid of the crossbow and grabs a tree branch to flip up into Clef's tree. Much like someone who has been doing gymnastics all his life.

Because hey, if projectiles don't work then why not try getting up close and personal?]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Because now you are also trapped in a tree, Kazuo. Emphasis on the 'trapped' part, because the tree, supplied with an abundance of energy, is able to be convinced to grow its branches into a tangle such as to make a sudden egress quite difficult. On the upside, you don't need to worry about falling out.

Clef is crouched on the branch above, waiting in the dim light like a cat ready to pounce. A fluffy house cat, maybe, but a cat nonetheless. ]

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[He regards the branches with the look a robot might give such circumstances. A blank stare, head cocked to the side. And then Kazuo looks up and climbs quickly, reaching for Clef's leg.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Clef hadn't brought his staff. It was large, heavy, and not strictly necessary. In such close quarters, his hands were a more than sufficient tool for focusing his magic.

It was a simple gesture. His right hand, fingers pressed together, slid over the upturned palm of his left hand. Yet somehow that action was enough to command razor-sharp sheets of hypothetical ice into cold, hard, and very heavy reality in the air between him and Kazuo. They flew downwards towards the younger man faster than gravity would normally permit, as though having hypothetically fallen from a long way up.

It wasn't very often Clef got to use some of the older, more complicated spells like this. ]

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[Kazuo loses his grip and falls back on a branch below. He has cuts on him but he still doesn't seem like it's had any impact at all. Especially not with the way he rises up and starts climbing for Clef again.

In a flash, he's out of his jacket and throwing that upwards as a distraction as he flips up the other direction to get into a higher branch that Clef. Like he's vanished from sight.]

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[bequiet_hescreamed]

[ Crap. Who knows where he went? He could attack from anywhere.

Since he can't be seen, Clef tries to just sense him instead. The eye is pretty easily tricked, anyway, as is evidenced by how effective that maneuver was just now. ]

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[Well look who is now hanging from a tree branch above by his knees? He has a knife in hand and he slashes that at Clef while he's distracted.

Someone isn't against stabbing someone in the back.]