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[whosaysdajare]

🧙 WHO: Sasara🎋and U 💝
⚔️️ WHAT: May catch-all 💫
🕒 WHEN: May ✨😇✨
🗺️ WHERE: Camelot 🏰
⚠️ WARNINGS: n/a

Prompts in TLs 🔖

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[whosaysdajare]

[ Without Dark magic to use on his own, Sasara doesn't know what he oughta be used to, what he needs to be seeing... what he's making Rei stand up against. He can stand it; right?

Putting his hand up, though, Sasara thinks he finds what shapes into a pang of sympathy. Just then, Rei's answer sprouts a revelation the Andara seems to recognize, almost pulses to, as if telling him "That's right." ]

W-what...? [ "It's what you wanted to hear." Suddenly, just like the old man's warning, Sasara isn't sure that he did. ] Then... the first time ya met Rosho and I...—

[ He stops himself. That's how he'd manage to come prepared? And that's how he knew about– ] About Samatoki, too, 'cause of that... [ Stuff he wouldn't say. Things Ichiro never talked about. Sasara ought to, now, but he can't stand back from where he's jumping to. ]

You're with Chuuo-ku?

[groundzeroes]

[The pain disappeared the instant he answered, but its sudden absence is a shock to the senses in itself.

The expression on Sasara's face stings more than Rei expected it to. He knew it was coming-- if not now, then at the end of everything. This should be nothing. It's just earlier than expected.

...]

Hah... Hahaha...

[Rei makes eye contact with Sasara again, wiping sweat from his face with the back of his hand. He is unrepentant, remorseless. Daring Sasara to condemn him.]

Something like that. [The bracelet burns a little-- but how else could he quantify it?] You didn't really think I made all my money from petty scams, did you?

[whosaysdajare]

[ Every thought spent on Rei, every time Sasara'd said he trusted him—and really did—is tossed back at his feet. Thrown carelessly, it looks to him, in Rei's eyes. And yet his warning just sounds hollow, leaving a sharp sense of betrayal to fill the sudden gap between them.

He has to take a leap before the chasm parts too wide to get across on his own. If he slipped... then, he wouldn't trust the other to catch him. ]

Why!?

[ But this time Sasara's is a question without any real aim. Something said, that has more than once faded silently, not even loud enough to echo, and another time been answered by himself. Whenever he asks 'why', he ends up hating the answer. Even so, the selenite clings to. He's not yet letting Rei go, not yet sending him away, or leaving him in the dust.

Maybe after this one. ]

After all 'a that... you're gonna turn your back on us? [ Rosho doesn't even know it yet– though, where there's anger outspoken, it won't take anyone but Rei to see pain underneath. ]

[groundzeroes]

"Why"?... [Ugh... god damn it. Take that stupid bracelet off already. Sasara may be unraveling, but the andara works as well as ever, and these questions are getting harder to dodge.]

I've got a score to settle. [It's a true answer, but it's putting it very simply; Rei's designs are much grander than that.]

And I'll do anything for it-- [he'll sacrifice them if he has to]-- so stay out of the way if you know what's good for you. Sasara-kun.

[Rei is grinning, but it's more like baring his teeth.]

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[ However vague what Rei's saying is and however much Sasara's been letting the matter of keeping yet another secret weigh him down, he finally feels like he's sinking. Knee deep, then quickly up to his waist, trying to twist out of it and not getting.

Vicious is what Rei's grin is to Sasara as he looks up at him.

'We'll do it together!' That's what he'd said as their leader, what he believed too. But revenge? Sasara doesn't think he can help with that– No... he can't do it, if it winds up as Rei against Rosho and him. He reaches into his jacket—his mic is there.

Rei's hand threatens the same motion. ]

I can't let ya...!

[ There's a beat. Just a moment of nothing said, though. After all, he won't take it out... Sasara just undoes the andara bracelet from his wrist and drops it. ]

[groundzeroes]

[With the release of the andara bracelet, the selenite band loosens as well; Rei slips it off, twirling it idly around a finger. Thank god--he wasn't sure he could handle dropping any more secrets.

He would battle Sasara, right now, if he had to. But part of him is glad his leader doesn't have the heart to, so Rei doesn't have to test whether or not he has it, either.]

You can't "let" me? [His grin has settled now that the damage is done, but his lordly personality still drips from his every word.] My plans will happen whether you let me or not. You should just be worried about yourself.

[....he's tired.

Rei turns to leave.]

...Later, Sasara-kun.