[ S i g h. He was not supposed to return for a little while, but fine. He can be weak at times. And thus he appears before Chikusa, with hat in his hand- or ok at least tries to appear, hopefully, doesn't warp into the wall. ]
[Good news, Lancer. Chikusa is not in a very small room. Rather, he's sitting in a chill little cafe where he's mostly ignored by the regular patrons of the Near Shore, apparently going over a video. At the sight of the god, he immediately holds his hands out.]
[In the blink of an eye, the hat is yanked off the table, and Chikusa is already stuffing it into his bag along what look like a couple of other spare beanies. Why does he need more than the simple knit gray one he's already wearing? Don't worry about it.]
I'm bought. [As if he needed to be. Oh, and right- ] You were involved in that volcano thing, right...?
[As in, it's atrocious. Chikusa would expect someone who can blow up Heaven to be a little better at lying, if they're going to go on the attack like this. Or maybe he went on the attack because he sucks at lying...]
[ Alright- he can tell when he's being fished for information. Which is something he generally doesn't mind, Chikusa is part of this whole investigation and one of the people he drops the info he finds. ]
Sure he did. Mostly just being a weird kid. Like he never before saw people climbing an active volcano before! [ A beat ] It sounds like he did more than that with you. What did he try to lie about? [ Why are you so careful about the suspicious kid, Chikusa? Is it because the kid was suspicious? ]
He did sound like a god, but also like someone who is surprised at how the Heaven's are supposed to look like. I had no idea that's what he meant when he said his home is "not here"
[ The sad part, is that Caster didn't get to interrogate Sotero a lot, but he will share his impression openly ]
Looks like there are more gods living on the Near Shore than we thought. He can't be very old either.
If that were the sort of thing we were dealing with... Then I don't think a cult would be involved in this way..
[Not the secrecy, or the active recruitment, or the use of Twitter... Those are all things which lead him to the conclusion that these people still have their own free will.]
[Of course, one having their own free will doesn't mean they still can't be used.]
And that's right... That's what Heaven's been warning us about. If anyone unusual has been using our god's shrines...
I was always under the impression these things need the permission of the owner of the god they belong to.
[ Or can they be accessed against the god's will- if that's so, it changes everything. The cult knows very well the locations, they put the damned charms there ]
[Chikusa is a well known abuser of cheating and using other gods' shrines to get around when he needs to. Why not? It's the easiest thing to do, far better than trying to track down every Nanshe and Lie Tieguai shrine around... although, with how popular the pair are, maybe that wouldn't be too hard nowadays.]
[Well, whatever.]
However... according to one of the old shinki... Gods still know when their shrines are being used to travel.
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Shh, tell no one.
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Bribe me for it.
[ h a t ]
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[ He puts the aforementioned h a t and puts it on the table before Chikusa as if it was a bargaining chip ]
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[In the blink of an eye, the hat is yanked off the table, and Chikusa is already stuffing it into his bag along what look like a couple of other spare beanies. Why does he need more than the simple knit gray one he's already wearing? Don't worry about it.]
I'm bought. [As if he needed to be. Oh, and right- ] You were involved in that volcano thing, right...?
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Yeah, everything went to shit then.
[ Broken bones and broken relationships, like the one with Ginia. Memories he'd rather not remember being called forth, and acting on them. ]
Why do you ask?
[ It's either because it's related to their earlier talk. Or it might be about Ginia. ]
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[That will certainly make it easier to tell if he has anything interesting to say.]
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We met a weird kid up there, if that's what you ask.
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[Now where is the drink he stole from the cafe fridge...]
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[ Hah. ]
What's the deal with this brat?
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[As in, it's atrocious. Chikusa would expect someone who can blow up Heaven to be a little better at lying, if they're going to go on the attack like this. Or maybe he went on the attack because he sucks at lying...]
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Sure he did. Mostly just being a weird kid. Like he never before saw people climbing an active volcano before! [ A beat ] It sounds like he did more than that with you. What did he try to lie about? [ Why are you so careful about the suspicious kid, Chikusa? Is it because the kid was suspicious? ]
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[Don't mind his complete deadpan. Honestly, that kind of stupid... Whatever.]
He had to be a god, but he said he lived with his dad in a home, instead of a temple...
[Chikusa is fine with this idea of one on one information exchange.]
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[ The sad part, is that Caster didn't get to interrogate Sotero a lot, but he will share his impression openly ]
Looks like there are more gods living on the Near Shore than we thought. He can't be very old either.
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...Which means it might not actually be a god-
[Chikusa pauses abruptly, and clearly gets lost in thought for a moment as his gaze drifts off.]
..No, not right maybe...
[Sorry, Caster, he's totally leaving you out of his thought process here.]
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[ That's okay Chikusa, he knows you're processing and compiling something out there ]
Anyway- If he got into the Heaven, that means he either has some kind of a Temple here- or that someone let him in through the shrine, right?
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[Not the secrecy, or the active recruitment, or the use of Twitter... Those are all things which lead him to the conclusion that these people still have their own free will.]
[Of course, one having their own free will doesn't mean they still can't be used.]
And that's right... That's what Heaven's been warning us about. If anyone unusual has been using our god's shrines...
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[ Or can they be accessed against the god's will- if that's so, it changes everything. The cult knows very well the locations, they put the damned charms there ]
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[Chikusa is a well known abuser of cheating and using other gods' shrines to get around when he needs to. Why not? It's the easiest thing to do, far better than trying to track down every Nanshe and Lie Tieguai shrine around... although, with how popular the pair are, maybe that wouldn't be too hard nowadays.]
[Well, whatever.]
However... according to one of the old shinki... Gods still know when their shrines are being used to travel.