KOTETSU

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[ It sure was something! ]

I think I'm still in the processing mode, but was that what I think it was?

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A mutilated corpse who got everything he deserved? Yeah.

[ Well ok then. ]

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...Oh.

[ Okay, then?? ]

What did he do to deserve that?

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He murdered three girls and cut off all their limbs because he couldn't figure out a better way to fix his fuck up.

The arms he stapled to himself were their hands.

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[ His expression darkens at that. ]

Twisted would be an understatement here.

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He got what he deserved, at least. I would have put him in the ground myself if the spirit of one of the girls he killed didn't already do that work for me.

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The spirit?

[ He looks a little perplexed. Then again, given what has been happening around here... He shouldn't be surprised. ]

I don't... blame you for feeling like that.

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Yeah, spirits are born when people die with grudges.

[ So...yeah. ]

Even if you did, I should get dibs as his son.

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Your father did this?

[ He looks... baffled. Appalled. Not that it was okay before, but now... ]

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Sure did. I didn't actually know him, so that was my first time meeting him. It was one hell of a reunion.

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That's an understatement.

[ A very, very dark understatement. ]

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[ He lets out a breath that's almost a laugh, but not quite. ]

It worked out in the end even if I had to clean up his mess.

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[ He rubs his face, working to process everything he saw there. ]

Looks like a huge mess, at that.

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[ He shrugs. ]

It is what it is. [ True shikata ga nai through and through. ]

The murders in this place are actually a step up, honestly.

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[ He makes a face at that. ]

If they're all like what I saw, then I hate to agree with you, but you're not wrong...

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Mostly, beheading was the simplest.

[ A beat. ]

Well what that first asshole did was fucked up. [ Qi Rong and jerky... ]

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[ Ugh, don't remind him... ]

None of it's great if you ask me.

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Well yeah, but are you gonna be more pissed off if someone asshole ate you, or if you got a chandelier dropped on you?

...actually you might have a point.

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Yeah. It's bad either way.

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I'm surprised we haven't had any hauntings by now, come to think of it.

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There have been letters. Maybe those count.

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[ Huff. ]

Barely. Try having your bathtub haunted, it's a pain in the ass.

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Bathtub...?

[ Now that's gotta be a story. ]

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[ A sigh, but he brought this on himself. ]

I was in a fight with I guess what you could call a lake spirit at the time, so she decided to follow me home and invade my apartment. Tried to take a shower but the entire tub was flooded with swamp water and long black hair, it was gross as hell.

Wound up taking a shower that night instead.

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[ He makes a face at that mental image. ]

It sounds like it would have been a pain to deal with. And disgusting.

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I took showers for an entire week.

[ And he's a bath kinda guy! Oh the travesty. ]

I take it you've never been lucky enough to be haunted?

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I didn't even know hauntings could be real.

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That was me three months ago. Maybe you'll get lucky here, huh?

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Maybe we'll all get lucky here.