Catch-all: Sakyou

[ercnerd]

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[modissty]

[Them just out here like (handshake emoji rapidly) as Claude's stolen boxers fly proudly overhead.]

For better or worse, the demons in my world aren't quite so impressive. They're a bit longer-lived and a bit harder to kill, but they're not eternal. What they have are numbers and an irritating persistence.

[ercnerd]

[Despite the subject matter, he allows himself a small smile.]

. . . Then you may be able to fulfill your wish, after all.

[modissty]

[Truly hilarious that they're both out here vibing over demon eradication like this is normal. He offers a smile in return, briefly hesitant but soft.]

If I could accomplish only that in this lifetime, then I would die satisfied.

[ercnerd]

You're still young. There's time for you to do what you have to do and experience other kinds of satisfaction while you're at it.

[modissty]

[When you live for only revenge since you were like 11, you don't really have any plans for Other Satisfactions In Life. He honestly doesn't mind the idea of just being dead after he succeeds either, god bless.]

...I should think that perhaps in this case, age doesn't have much to do with it.

[ercnerd]

No, not really.

[Perhaps that was presumptuous of him to say. Still . . .

He lets the thought go.]

A great deal can be accomplished in a single lifetime. Rather than how you'll feel when you're dying, worry about what comes next.

[modissty]

[Sieghart... Normally he might find something like this hard to listen to, but honestly, it helps a lot that he knows Sieghart knows where he's coming from. Even without knowing the gruesome details of why the man hates demons so greatly, it's an easy camaraderie to feel.

There's a little bit of a wry, amused smile, though there's some appreciation in it, too.]

You have surprisingly good advice on hand, Sieghart-dono. Perhaps this is the wisdom that comes with age?

[Complimentary and rude at the same time...]

[ercnerd]

[The complimentary words softens the mood. The rudeness, on the other hand, breaks it completely as Sieghart makes a face.]

Didn't we just establish that age has nothing to do with it?

[modissty]

[This is Sakyou, showing off his inner shithead as a sign of appreciation. Isn't Sieghart lucky?]

Mm... I was thinking to make an exception in this case, but I have the strangest feeling you wouldn't appreciate it.

[ercnerd]

[He feels cursed.]

Ugh . . . if there's one thing that doesn't matter, it's my age, so just forget about it.

[modissty]

[Is this why he died. To escape the curse of knowing Sakyou.]

Ah... [WHY DOES THIS "AH" SOUND SO KNOWING. He just nods. Why is he nodding?? Don't worry about it.] --I really do mean it, though. Thank you. ...Though I wish that no one here had to share an understanding over matters of revenge.

[There are so many of them though... there are so many revenge lads here...]

[ercnerd]

[Stop nodding.

Mercifully, Sakyou changes the subject and Sieghart is all too eager to follow suit.]

. . . It can't be helped. What's done is done. All that's left is to do what we can.

[modissty]

[He will, but the spirit of nodding will live forever.]

I suppose that's how it often is. That's why so many of us are stubborn, most likely.

[He's going to look back at this conversation and hate it!]

[ercnerd]

Stubbornness is how things get done. If I didn't stick to my beliefs, I'd have given up a long time ago.

[modissty]

It's the same for me.

[UNSURPRISING. They are the same person, after all.]

Though it does make me think of what Hanayagi-san said... About stubbornness working against us.

[ercnerd]

That only happens when you're too rigid. You should always stick to your core principles, but there'll be times when you have to adapt to what's happening around you; otherwise, you'll set yourself back.

[modissty]

[Sakyou, a person who's too rigid, sweating:

He looks like he's considering that, though.]

So it's a matter of balance. ...Well, I suppose nearly everything is, in the end.

[ercnerd]

[Learn to be flexible, friend.]

Nearly, but not all. You need to draw a line somewhere. If you always strive to compromise, you'll just become a pushover without a ground to stand on.

[modissty]

[He will be inflexible until he perishes. Someone kill him.]

I don't think that will be much of a problem for me personally, at least.

[His compromising skills need work. His teamwork skills in general need work! Sieghart saw that firsthand, wrow.]

[ercnerd]

[Sieghart very nearly throttled Sakyou then.]

Your problem is that you don't know when to let go. You could've avoided death the first time around if you'd stopped wrestling with that guy.

[modissty]

[STOP HE WAS LOCKED IN A BATTLE WITH A VAMPIRE.]

It's fine; it likely saved you all the trouble of being pursued by someone who was quite physically strong and could have probably called for backup.

[ercnerd]

Claude's a fast runner. Did you see him? He was gone before any of us.

But I shouldn't complain too much. We all got out in the end.

[modissty]

You aren't wrong about that...

[EVEN HE HAD TIME TO NOTICE HOW FAST CLAUDE NYOOMED. God bless.]

In any case, it feels like a bit of a fluke that we did, honestly, but I won't complain about it either.

[ercnerd]

Flukes are half the reason anything happens in our lives. We should count ourselves lucky that the pocket watch worked as it did.

[modissty]

Yes... It would have been a bigger mess without that. Though I feel we would have done what needed to be done, as well.

[This wholeass group absolutely would have murdered if they felt it was necessary.]