KAGACHI;

[crashout]

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[preceptive]

He's a lot better than Nathan.

[stares into distance....... anyway]

What do you already know?

[crashout]

[Also just...silence after that. Yeah...yeah, true. Haha, anyway!]

I can throw punches when I need to? [Joking aside, he shrugs.] And firearms. I've been trained with pistols for my job. Not always the most useful here.

[preceptive]

[are junpei and nathan secretly dating]

Not unless you bought the gun.

[crashout]

[Yes. You caught him. Congrats.]

Oh. Yeah, obviously. [Just. Throwing that out there.] Better me than someone who doesn't know how to use it.

[preceptive]

Dick must've been relieved.

[crashout]

I think so. It's one less thing we have to worry about, but we're stuck with people who can still use poisons and bludgeoning tools and stuff. It almost feels like a game of chance.

[preceptive]

It'd probably be cheating if we could take away every means of killing—although then, I wouldn't be surprised if the demons got creative.

[crashout]

There's still plenty of ways to kill someone without weapons and that's probably the worst of it. But it makes you wonder why take away people's powers if they wanted to kill us off in the first place. What're they really waiting for?

[preceptive]

Whatever brought us here evidently wants our survival as a potential option—no reason to provide exorcism means or select the hosts to help us, after all.

[crashout]

It feels familiar. [It's what he chooses to say.] With everything we've heard about the last group...have we heard anything about hosts? What if that's unique to us?

[preceptive]

No. It doesn't sound like they had hosts.

And Tamamo told you about the vision she saw, right? If we're interpreting the order correctly, people started killing before demons were summoned.

[crashout]

Yeah, she and Izuminokami came to see me right after they got out of the room. It almost sounded like what happened with Polly and the others though with the sacrifices and stuff.

If we're supposed to learn from the other group's mistakes, that would explain the hosts. But it also opens up the chance for other things about this version of events to be changed to benefit us. We just have to find out what they are.

[preceptive]

[he nods.]

Anyway, throw a punch.

[crashout]

[Well. Kagachi doesn't have to worry about him hesitating because he's definitely immediately throwing a punch. Seems like he knows what he's doing in that regard, at least?]

[preceptive]

[good.]

Better than the others. [he takes out his kitchen knife and hands it over.] How good are you with a blade?

[crashout]

Not very. [Normally he'd try to play it off, but if Kagachi's teaching him it makes sense to be honest with his skills.] I've never been in a knife fight before if that's what you're asking, but it can't be too hard. [Right? He'll take the knife and hold it more like he's going to go in for a stab instead of a swipe, blade pointed downward.]

[preceptive]

Famous last words.

But you're not entirely wrong. Since you have the gun, you'll want to use that first, and something like a knife only if the enemy has gotten too close—in which case it's less about technique and more about which of you stabs the other first.

You know where to aim if you want to kill someone?

[crashout]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. [But there's a nod.] That was sort of the plan I had in mind with a back-up blunt object to swing. I can dodge decent enough.

[He considers the knife.] I would assume you'd aim for the heart or the lungs. Or an artery in the neck?

[preceptive]

Pretty much. [jan assumes. she's not googling "where to aim with a knife" at work.] Can you do it with no hesitation?

[crashout]

[Jan is smart. But that question is...hm.]

If it's between my life and somebody else's? Yeah, obviously. [Big words for someone who literally fumbled even questioning Escha on Saturday.]

[preceptive]

Okay. Then try to stab me.

[crashout]

[...]

Like. Right now?

[preceptive]

Right now.

[crashout]

Okay, and if I actually stab you, then what?

[preceptive]

I'd be impressed.