[ When she glances back at him, Tohsaka won't find any blame—nor forgiveness—in his eyes. Well, he doesn't think she has anything to apologize for, not to him—maybe to the man she'd killed. It's not that Tomura thinks anything of it, ethically, that she had committed a murder—moreover a murder that wouldn't even stick—but Tohsaka isn't the same kind as him. Rules or no, he doesn't think she would've taken it lightly if she'd ended that man's life for good, and that means her kill had been careless, a miscalculation, something that might warrant regret. That means it's luck—the twisted luck of their imprisonment in a world that defies nature—that an unintended death wouldn't dog her footsteps into the future.
He won't point it out. Far be it from him to kick her while she's down, whether she has realized her own mistake or just wishes to lick her wounds from defeat. In any case, this time her victim has taken his own eye for an eye. Tomura's only question is whether it had truly been only the luck of the Peacock's interference... ]
He got back up—without being taken away or removing his bracelet?
That's right, [she huffs, and immediately starts chewing on the straw of their shared drink like gnashing her teeth on it will fix anything.]
It must be something naturally occurring with his body that they felt no need to stop. Stupid— the power for my magecraft occurs naturally in my body too! Just because I need to conscious activate it doesn't mean it should have been barred... My crest, too. If it was working he probably would have had to try a lot harder to kill me.
[After all... the crest is a double edged sword. An organ that rejects her body and causes her pain, yet also like a parasite that needs its host. Something that would reforge and remake her piece by piece if she was channeling enough power through it. It once did just that — allowing her to recover in a matter of 24hrs what would have taken anyone else years to bounce back from.]
What's that look for? Know a couple people who have a knack for returning from the grave?
[ Being deliberately obtuse about her particular choice of phrasing... And then maybe that would be the time to take a cool and unbothered sip of juice, if Tohsaka hasn't taken custody of it to use as a chew toy. ]
You should've known some powers weren't blocked after you fought me. [ While he hadn't tried to go too hard against her, some of his opponents afterwards may have gotten their feet put to the fire, in a way that evidenced his strength was nowhere near natural. ] But, yes. There was someone I faced later on who could heal by himself.
One: no, it doesn't include me. I didn't come back by natural means. Two: I had no reason in the moment to think he had anything of the sort. Three: was it a tall guy with dark hair?
[Rin abandons the drink and decides to dig into her own food finally. Forcing herself to give Tomura a chance to reply before she goes into trying to defend her position or complain about how "unfair" it all was.]
[ ... No comment on her first and second points. He'll let her have the final say, if only for his own peace and quiet; he'd rather eat than debate the finer points of her untimely demise and unnatural revival. ]
Mhm, yeah, [ he mumbles around a mouthful of samosa. ] Fits th' d'scr'ption.
—So what? Do you think it might have been the same guy?
[Did they lose track of the point? No, it's only a detour to get the facts settled before testing things out. After all, Rin is curious to know more about the man who... well, they're even. Almost. She may hassle him to cough up some chips for a meal since his version of killing her was more expensive than her version of killing him.]
[ He swallows and takes a sip of the drink before answering. ]
Might be. The guy I fought was called Blade.
[ He remembers it because it's edgy... Also because the guy had that regeneration ability. Although the physical description may not be too out of the ordinary, it was pretty unique for someone to retain a power like that while wearing the bracelet. Odds are it's her guy. ]
[He wasn't a cheater, but she believes he is! Wholeheartedly! Well, perhaps not wholeheartedly. Rin is salty over what happened, but she logically knows she can't begrudge him. And that if it wasn't a quick death that it's likely something like her family crest would have started kicking in to prevent her from dying. It's just he had the better ace up his sleeve.]
[ Tomura stares blankly while she makes her accusation. Big if true... ]
How'd he cheat? By beating you?
[ It's not like he intends to defend Blade's integrity or anything (hell, he barely even knows the guy), but he does know that Tohsaka is a sore loser, thanks to the game Jin Mingming started on the network... ]
[Because she didn't exactly expect to get called on that, Rin recoils and sputters immediately. Her body language is clear in the way she rears back against the backrest of her seat and her spine goes ramrod straight.]
No! That's not it at all! I overpowered him first. If he wasn't some kind of weirdo I would have won!
[And be saddled with near-eternal guilt. Though the denial is partially a lie, so it begins. It starts as something small. A tiny urge akin to an itch. For now she ignores it.]
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He won't point it out. Far be it from him to kick her while she's down, whether she has realized her own mistake or just wishes to lick her wounds from defeat. In any case, this time her victim has taken his own eye for an eye. Tomura's only question is whether it had truly been only the luck of the Peacock's interference... ]
He got back up—without being taken away or removing his bracelet?
[ This pattern sounds somewhat familiar. ]
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It must be something naturally occurring with his body that they felt no need to stop. Stupid— the power for my magecraft occurs naturally in my body too! Just because I need to conscious activate it doesn't mean it should have been barred... My crest, too. If it was working he probably would have had to try a lot harder to kill me.
[After all... the crest is a double edged sword. An organ that rejects her body and causes her pain, yet also like a parasite that needs its host. Something that would reforge and remake her piece by piece if she was channeling enough power through it. It once did just that — allowing her to recover in a matter of 24hrs what would have taken anyone else years to bounce back from.]
What's that look for? Know a couple people who have a knack for returning from the grave?
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[ Being deliberately obtuse about her particular choice of phrasing... And then maybe that would be the time to take a cool and unbothered sip of juice, if Tohsaka hasn't taken custody of it to use as a chew toy. ]
You should've known some powers weren't blocked after you fought me. [ While he hadn't tried to go too hard against her, some of his opponents afterwards may have gotten their feet put to the fire, in a way that evidenced his strength was nowhere near natural. ] But, yes. There was someone I faced later on who could heal by himself.
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[Rin abandons the drink and decides to dig into her own food finally. Forcing herself to give Tomura a chance to reply before she goes into trying to defend her position or complain about how "unfair" it all was.]
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Mhm, yeah, [ he mumbles around a mouthful of samosa. ] Fits th' d'scr'ption.
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[Did they lose track of the point? No, it's only a detour to get the facts settled before testing things out. After all, Rin is curious to know more about the man who... well, they're even. Almost. She may hassle him to cough up some chips for a meal since his version of killing her was more expensive than her version of killing him.]
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Might be. The guy I fought was called Blade.
[ He remembers it because it's edgy... Also because the guy had that regeneration ability. Although the physical description may not be too out of the ordinary, it was pretty unique for someone to retain a power like that while wearing the bracelet. Odds are it's her guy. ]
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[He wasn't a cheater, but she believes he is! Wholeheartedly! Well, perhaps not wholeheartedly. Rin is salty over what happened, but she logically knows she can't begrudge him. And that if it wasn't a quick death that it's likely something like her family crest would have started kicking in to prevent her from dying. It's just he had the better ace up his sleeve.]
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How'd he cheat? By beating you?
[ It's not like he intends to defend Blade's integrity or anything (hell, he barely even knows the guy), but he does know that Tohsaka is a sore loser, thanks to the game Jin Mingming started on the network... ]
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No! That's not it at all! I overpowered him first. If he wasn't some kind of weirdo I would have won!
[And be saddled with near-eternal guilt. Though the denial is partially a lie, so it begins. It starts as something small. A tiny urge akin to an itch. For now she ignores it.]
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