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.

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[awfullyironic]

Not gonna kill him.

Just gonna have words.

-=prefixed with an s=-

[venetianprince]

Daviiiii... don't, ti prego...! He Sings and it's dangerous, and I don't want you getting hurt. I don't even know what other kinds of things he could do to us...

[awfullyironic]

Like I said. Words.

And if he's continues to be a dick I'll boil him or some shit. Ain't like I don't got a ton of shit hidden up my scales to whip out at a moment's notice.

[venetianprince]

It's not worth the risk, caro... besides, I may have said something cruel at the end and I didn't stick around long enough to hear how he'd take it, so maybe we shouldn't find out how angry he is about it.

[awfullyironic]

What did you say?

[venetianprince]

I... may have said he's no better than the empress if he cares so little for his fellow merfolk.

[awfullyironic]

Coulda been on the empress's side for all you know, dude.

[venetianprince]

Ah... that's true. But he said he was trying to protect his school here, so I believed him...