"What the hell is that?" Nobunaga demanded quietly, but in a deathly still voice.
Despite the seething rage, because he suspects, and his suspicion is the kind of thing that makes him murderous, his hands are steady as they flicker towards his katana. He really needs to get a couple shortswords, and not just the dirk in one boot, and razor in another, and paperclip and various bobby pins on the hem sleeves of his clothes.
Knowing that Gokudera might even feel ashamed about it, he calmly sipped his sake, even as he inched closer, ready to pour some of the healing sake down Gokudera's throat. "Kitsuno has a dozen gold bangles. They are wards for her curse in her realm. We think the curse might be inactive here, though it's difficult to say for sure."
He was still a little secretly salty that she felt she had to get a goldsmith's help instead of Nobunaga's -- though he wasn't sure if it was specifically because it was Emet-Selch or not, but there was a lot of pride in being able to look after anyone, everyone, and especially Kitsuno's freedom that made the feeling so irrational. There was probably some high-level robotics into the collar, that would make just cutting it off impossible without hurting Gokudera, but Nobunaga was fairly certain if he could examine it, maybe get a certain thief's fast finger help, he could at least remove that particular physical reminder of Gokudera's past for him. It wasn't Kitsuno, but hers was magical, and Nobunaga was a lot more confident with non-magic.
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Despite the seething rage, because he suspects, and his suspicion is the kind of thing that makes him murderous, his hands are steady as they flicker towards his katana. He really needs to get a couple shortswords, and not just the dirk in one boot, and razor in another, and paperclip and various bobby pins on the hem sleeves of his clothes.
Knowing that Gokudera might even feel ashamed about it, he calmly sipped his sake, even as he inched closer, ready to pour some of the healing sake down Gokudera's throat. "Kitsuno has a dozen gold bangles. They are wards for her curse in her realm. We think the curse might be inactive here, though it's difficult to say for sure."
He was still a little secretly salty that she felt she had to get a goldsmith's help instead of Nobunaga's -- though he wasn't sure if it was specifically because it was Emet-Selch or not, but there was a lot of pride in being able to look after anyone, everyone, and especially Kitsuno's freedom that made the feeling so irrational. There was probably some high-level robotics into the collar, that would make just cutting it off impossible without hurting Gokudera, but Nobunaga was fairly certain if he could examine it, maybe get a certain thief's fast finger help, he could at least remove that particular physical reminder of Gokudera's past for him. It wasn't Kitsuno, but hers was magical, and Nobunaga was a lot more confident with non-magic.