Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

[chalicejoker]

Heads up--if you run into Teruo, Kinji's infiltration, some kind of yellow sea snake mermaid--be really damn careful. He's a menace.

Asshole goaded me into what I thought was a spar, but then he started singing, and it...

[Hajime's mental voice trails off in embarassment here before picking up again.]

Look, I'm not proud of it, but it's hard to get me to back down from a fight. And what he did, it...I just stopped fighting. Didn't even think to defend myself. He kept it up long enough to hit me with a cheap sucker punch.

[The irritation is just coming off his mental voice here.]

He also said several times that if I was a warrior, I should be sticking closer to the boat and protecting my school--I'm still not sure if that was a threat or not. I wouldn't put anything past him.

...and if you do end up talking to him and he mentions someone named Chalice, that's me--I'm not about to go by my real name in the same world as the Bando, even if I'm a fish this time around.

Comments

[shiroganeheir]

Certainly, Beatrice-san.

My expertise, picked up from Noriko-hime, is more of fans and throwing kunai, but I am always willing to share.

[awitchdidit]

Anything that lets me fake being my own body double if someone recognizes me is fine, really.

Also, I've never used a fan as a weapon, it sounds fun.

[shiroganeheir]

The fan that I use is quite the step up from the fans that one of my friends used at home.

This fan has some magnetic elements that allow me to throw it and have it return to me. It also has sharp edges to use as a slashing blade rather than a bashing weapon.

[She sounds rather proud of it.]

I retained it from Noriko-hime.

[awitchdidit]

...the purist in me wants to disdain the period-science-fiction elements, especially for use in this world, but the rest of me finds that fascinating.