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007. voice/action for the katabami

I'm getting sick of staring at endless expanses of water day in and day out. Lake water, ocean water, it does not end.

And those bubbles.

If the sky should dare to rain, my mood will grow dark as the grimmest of storm clouds.

[If there's one thing this journal is good for, it's complaining into. His patience for water itself seems to have run dry.

Even if Mitsunari's accustomed to being at sea by now (he'd better be, having been here for over a year), he's no sailor at heart. The islands usually provide enough of a change of scenery that he can tolerate days at sea, but the Katabami's last stop, Mirror Island, was pretty much a giant lake. That he fell into. The magic bubbles from the beginning of the month were involved. This has probably contributed to his current feelings.]

...When will it be that it is my lord's silhouette I see upon the horizon?

I grow impatient.

[And homesick, perhaps, if you can be homesick for a world you only wished you lived in.]

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[oh dear, what a day for Zoro to be in a trolly mood]

So hit an island. There's lots of 'em, you know.

...no arguments on the damn bubbles, though.

Do you think that hasn't occurred to me? Were it up to me, we would be long since docked at a desert isle.

[But he's not captain and doesn't know how to steer a ship, besides. They'd only end up wrecking with him at the helm.]

Ah, not the captain, then. Who're you with?

The Katabami, captained by Motochika.

[Every once in a while Mitsunari remembers that there was a time he'd have been mortally offended by the suggestion he'd end up a part of Motochika's pirate crew someday.]

Oho. I'm sorry.

Nah, I kid, I like Motochika. You must be one of those guys that I saw lurking about the ship but never talked to. Even so, sounds like he's been on a hell of a tear lately.

[Lurking is an apt word. He's not a friendly guy.]

Hmph. What with trading Ragna for a tuna fish...? I would not have minded if he'd never returned.

[Not friendly at all.]

Yeah, I heard about that. He's a good shipwright but what the hell's wrong with him?

Motochika's mere presence generates these ridiculous situations that others become inescapably entangled in.

Sounds like it.

[he doesn't mean to be amused...but he totally is]

Sounds kinda like our captain, honestly, but at least Luffy's never traded anyone for fish.

I've never heard of this captain of yours.

[Actually, that's not true. He's obviously seen his entries in the journal and they've even spoken in person. Mitsunari's just really bad at remembering people that he doesn't have a grudge against, doesn't see every single day, or both.]

Seriously? [yeah, because Luffy is Luffy, how could anyone not hear him?] Not even when he made the announcement about the summit?

I heard an announcement; I didn't care to remember who was making it. The summit was of no concern to me.

[What is this "paying attention to the world around you" nonsense.]

Tch. No wonder I didn't see the Katabami docked. Eh, you missed a pretty good party, that's all.

[and a tentative alliance but eh, those happen all the time]

Impatient for what?

The day my lord is spared from his death at a filthy traitor's hands.

[Well, that clarifies everything.]

So your lord died and you're hoping he ends up here before that happens?

Why? I'm glad to be rid of my master.

No. My wish is to use the powers of that shattered magic gemstone and go back. To protect him myself from his would-be murderer. You ask why? Because he is a lord worth serving, a man who transcends all others, and I owe everything to him.

What has he done to inspire such loyalty? My master created me, and yet I despise him.

Lord Hideyoshi is a conqueror of unparalleled strength and unbending will. He is the man who will unite our home country once and for all, and is the only man capable of doing so. His competitors are delusional to think otherwise.

He sets a grand example all should aspire to emulate, even if it is impossible to truly reach his level. And graciously he took me in, bestowing me with the chance to live a life that would amount to something. Everything I do is in the name of Lord Hideyoshi.

[He walks on water as far as Mitsunari is concerned.

"Created" strikes Mitsunari as an odd word to use. The only interpretation that makes sense to him is that this stranger is speaking of his father or something.]

My lord has never fostered hatred in the hearts of his subordinates. Those who have turned against him had their sick hearts poisoned with traitorous thoughts from the very beginning.

For what reason do you despise this master of yours?

He's boring, he talks a lot, he's addicted to complicated schemes that spans years and past his death and resurrection.

He doesn't really care about anything except his stupid 'Chi-Blade' and me making it for him.

[And lots of other reasons, but none he's really willing to share]

Death and resurrection...?

[Naturally, this is what catches his attention.

Sharply:]

By what possible means?

By placing his heart, or essence, into another man's, suppressing his heart with darkness.

He succeeded, and I know he sought to posses a total of twelve others at once. I do not know if accomplished that.

Uh... wow, that's dark.

You okay man?

Edited 2015-04-27 02:15 (UTC)

Am I okay? I have not been okay since even before I awoke in this world, one year ago and counting.

[It might actually kill him to go an entire day without being melodramatic about something.]

Hey man, I know how you feel. I was taken away from my guild. I have responsibilities to up hold.

But, jeez, you're... a little over dramatic. I'd offer you a drink if I were there.

I'll drink my sorrows away when I'm in the mood to feel my head pounding as if I've been bludgeoned.

[The last time he went anywhere near alcohol he spent the entirety of the next day with a miserable hangover. At the same time he discovered he was in the possession of a brand new marriage license with his signature on it. Sorting out what exactly had lead to that the night before was a headache in and of itself...]

You don't have the slightest inkling how I feel. Don't you dare presume otherwise.

I have an inkling you're a drama queen.

But I'm a nice guy, so I'll tell the secret to not getting hangovers; a glass of water after every drink and eating something while you drink.

...A drama queen...?

[He's not familiar with this phrase, but he gets the message. And because he's crabby he doesn't want to hear any advice, figuring it's meant to be patronizing.]

Go ahead and dig yourself deeper into this hole you've dug.

[Sting was being friendly in his own teasing way, not now though]

Really? You're the one digging the hole with your superiorty complex here.

[And he's done talking to this bozo]

[It's easy for Xun Yu to sympathise with Mitsunari's perspective, given the similarities in their backgrounds, although she does wonder if she's also projecting. Either way, when she next encounters him, she takes the time to make conversation.]

Mitsunari. [She greets, with a slight smile.] Will you tell me a little of your homeland?

Xun Yu.

[He might just say "no" if it were someone else asking, but he can spare the effort of answering Xun Yu.

There are two distinct versions of his homeland that come to mind. The one where Hideyoshi is alive, and the one where he is not.]

...It is a land torn apart by endless conflict. Filled with people who reject the salvation Lord Hideyoshi would have brought them; fools who now side with Ieyasu.

...It wasn't the same, not after Lord Hideyoshi was killed. His death left an indelible scar on that land. On me. The country -- the world changed that day.

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