Taxation of Emotion

[a_monetized_mind]

[When everyone returns from the mission to the Kijin Realm, Jen doesn't bother with waiting for Izuru to come out of the Grungust or talking to anyone else from the deployment. Instead, she marches out of the hangar and straight to the gym.

There, she changes and sets to work punching a sandbag again, and again, and again. Occasionally she takes a moment to talk to herself]

Jeez...What's with all those kids? Idealistic, naive little...I get not wanting to shoot your friend, but stopping someone else...

Just what the hell were they thinking, anyways...

[She keeps going for a while, but her punches get weaker and slower with every blow. Finally she throws one last punch, then stumbles over to a wall and sits down.]



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Comments

[itbelongsinamuseum]

What?

I only heard you were getting back and something really bad happened.

[a_monetized_mind]

Yeah...

So, it turns out that Kijin emperor can posses people after his death, I guess? And the only way to kill him for good is to kill whoever he's trying to posses before he finishes taking over.

I tried to take the shot, but Izuru stopped me. Astara finished it, in the end.

Hey, that kind of thing doesn't happen here a lot, does it? 'Cause that was rough...

[itbelongsinamuseum]

[Alex is speechless for a bit, only managing to mutter a "damn" through it.]

I haven't seen anything like that before...Hopefully I won't have to. [Because that was just messed up.]

[a_monetized_mind]

...Damnit.

I said some pretty mean things, those kids are probably gonna hate me for it...

[itbelongsinamuseum]

So Izuru wasn't the only kid out there? Were there any adults apart from you?...Please tell me that they at least weren't her friends as well.

[a_monetized_mind]

It was...Izuru, Kei, Asagi, Volya. They all sounded like they knew her. Izuru confessed his love to her, so...Yeah.

[itbelongsinamuseum]

[There's another muttered "damn".]

Talk about a messy situation.