[The medbay it is!! Yasusada is exploring curiously; he's familiar with a very small amount of the things in this room, so it's probably no surprise what his question is when he greets her.]
[ The swords really be throwing any pretense of being human away. She glances over at him. ]
I think all of it is, in some fashion. Even if I don't know how. A lot of it seems to be from a... time beyond mine. Scientific advancements I know little of.
Do you and the others like you know how to do first aid?
[ do the swords know how to repair their human bodies..... ]
[Yeah, Yasusada would've tried to hold out longer but Buzen and Kashuu immediately gave up so he did too. There is not a single braincell amongst them.
Despite the lack of braincell, Yasusada looks like he's thinking about something--but he blinks at her question and looks back over the supplies.]
On humans, you mean? [He thinks she's asking if they can be doctors to people here,] Maybe a little, but it's probably best to leave it to Su-sensei.
[They can figure out how to bandage sword wounds and yams knows tuberculosis medicine but that's about it]
Oh, we get repairs! [A pause.] Sometimes we use bandages and things, but we don't have to do that too often. [Because usually they're stupid and they push through until they're half-dead and get dragged off to repairs,,] We still have to take care of these bodies, but it's not--it's the damage to our blades that matters the most.
Because the sword is more your essence than the human body you now have?
[ She thinks she understands. Or at least she is starting to understand more. It's not like her world doesn't have its own fantastical concepts, so it's not that huge of a logic leap for her. ]
I don't know if it's "more" or "equal"--but something like that. [Yasusada definitely isn't the best person to try and explain it, but honestly it's a tossup whether or not any of the swords can really put it clearly into words.] We're still tsukumogami, but at the same time, we're not anymore? It's like we're more than that.
[ She looks thoughtful as she takes that in. Even if she doesn't know what tsukumogami is, she has enough context clues to make some guesses. She nods after a moment. ]
Whatever you are or aren't, what's important is the you right now.
[ Because on some level, she can understand what it means to be something but not anymore yet something more. ]
I have to be! [He knows himself well enough to know that he'd never accept any other outcome, so.] But they're both really strong, and we haven't sensed any enemies here yet. If Kiyomitsu and I can get our blades back, we'll be fine.
Those are part of the findings for me, Yasusada. It wasn't part of the game, but it was part of this location.
[ Everything is finding to her that wasn't part of whatever was between Atsushi and Kumon, and she was more interested in the weird fuckery than anything else because that would have more impact on them than the "fun." ]
Even if parts of the prism shown to us are better, the worst still remains.
[Oh, that's what she meant. In that case, he nods.]
Even if the intentions weren't bad, it's still... people could've gotten hurt.
[And more than that--their connections to these bodies, these hearts and minds, feels tenuous enough as it is sometimes. He doesn't like the thought of them being tampered with.]
[ pixi why didn't you tell me THE THREAD HEADER WAS WRONG I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE MY AUTOCOMPLETE PICKED THE WRONG ONE HELP
anyway ]
Intention can only mean so much. [ Especially when their intentions can now be twisted. ] I think we'll have to be prepared for the worst case scenario while trying to find a way to prevent it.
[ There is so much Roxana doesn't like about all the different tunnel or room effects. If she's to murder and hate, she wants to be able to do it by her own will. If she's going to be depressed, let it be for other reasons. ]
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