JIJI EXPRESS

[darknesshotpot]

⭐ Who: Ango and anyone who wants to kick his ass
⭐ When: January
⭐ What: Ango catchall post!

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[darknesshotpot]

[Oh my god, Hanako, phrasing...

Ango is ready with a sarcastic retort (even when dodging skeleton monsters, there's always time for sarcasm) but by the time he opens his mouth to snark, the brat is gone. Shit... did he already get booted from the Dream Sphere? The brat's floating orb thing is still there, though, bobbing in the air next to Tycoon... and there's something off about Tycoon. His eyes are yellow and his bushy tail fur has gone dead straight, making him look more like a stray cat than a tanuki...

EUUGGHHH. Ango jumps back so quickly that he collides with a Torment, crashing through dry, brittle bones.]

Oh hell no! I'm not letting a ten-year-old do weird stuff with my body!

[hanamane]

[Ah, shoot-- this was the first time Hanako had used his Possession ability in a good while, and it seemed like it went through some changes while he wasn't paying attention to it. Having two people in control at once was a wrinkle he hadn't anticipated, but... on the bright side, at least he felt a little less bad about hopping into Keiwa's body without permission now!! But, man, having his arm swing down out of nowhere to do it's own thing sure was a little disorienting...

At the very least, though, the bunshin Tycoon winds up summoning proves to be a very good distraction to the bony Torments, giving them a decent window of time to escape-- or, it would, if Ango didn't insist on being such a stupid, stubborn old fart at the worst possible moment!!!! The dead-eyed smile Hanako sends the older man's way is ten times more unnerving on Keiwa's usually sweet face, angling the blade of their weapon ever so slightly in a barely-concealed threat.]

Y'know, as much as I'd love to leave you to deal with the consequences of your own actions, that's gonna look real bad on the reports, so maybe shut up and get moving, 'kay?

[And at that, he snatches Ango by the collar, bodily hauling him away from the monsters and straight to the staircase leading them to the deep, dark depths below. With Keiwa's height and relative strength, it was easier work grabbing the other man than it would have been if it were Hanako alone, although there was still the obstacle of the remaining Torments clogging up the exit to contend with. Tightening his grip upon Ango's uniform, Hanako activates his intangibility, letting the effect spread from his shared body onto the older's man's, slipping them through the first of the defenses on the steps. They only had about a minute to work with, if not less, so they had to move, and fast.]

[i_peace]

[were it anyone else, they'd probably be more gung ho about taking control back from Hanako. Seeing as how it's just Keiwa, save for the bunshin he summoned, he's docilely letting Hanako take over piloting. Is this okay? Should he maybe be a little more affronted at the prospect of being possessed like this?

In their mind, Hanako can probably feel Keiwa's quiet exasperation at how he and Ango were still fighting and the nervous energy that always seemed to underline everything Keiwa does. He takes a second to speak up quietly if not with a slight strain in his tone;]

Ango-san will probably fight you harder if you keep talking to him like that, Hanako-kun.

[but he doesn't do anything to stop Hanako from using his body from manhandling Ango anyway. He trusts Hanako to have a plan if he possessed Tycoon like this. He's keeping track of his bunshin, it's health chipping down slowly but still effectively serving as the distraction it was meant to be. Maybe it's because he's not actively moving his own body but Keiwa seems to be able to finesse his clone's actions a bit more, having it split it's weapon into it's Twin Blade mode and trying to clear a narrow path on one side of the staircase.

With fewer enemies clogging one side of the stairwell, maybe it'll be easier for them to pass through them all]

[darknesshotpot]

You know I never deal with the consequences of my own actions!

[In the moment when Hanako-in-Tycoon's body grabs his collar, Ango materializes a smoke bomb to cover their escape. The distraction works, too, at least for a moment, but Hanacoon is dragging him closer to the Torments choking their only exit...]

...Hey, wait!

[But instead of running straight into a skeletal Torment's sharpened bones, Ango passes through them as if he were a ghost. He knew the brat could phase through objects, but he didn't know that ability could extend to other people... ugh, what a spooky feeling.]

How about phasing us through these walls and out of this dump!?

[On second thought, though, that's probably not such a great idea. They have no idea where the labyrinth goes, or what's on the other side of its walls. It's even darker down here as the light from the candle-lit chamber fades, so Ango materializes a flashlight... not that it does much to help. The darkness is so deep that it almost seems to consume the light.]