[catchall] Caelus

[sixillusions]

This doesn't fit Kanda at all but I saw it while I was scrolling and I had to

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[sixillusions]

[Gives him a Look like "yeah I knew you couldn't control yourself," but--]

Which one?

[He'll allow another question since it's not... well. It is technically personal, but less so than having to field condolences he doesn't want.]

[trashprince]

The guy from your unit who died.

[ kanda is soooooo nice ]

[sixillusions]

[IS THIS NICE... CAELUS YOUR STANDARDS]

Killed by one of the bastards that controls Akuma. We found him chained to a lamp post in town.

[He doesn't mention that Marie had to listen to Daisya's screams as he was excruciatingly murdered by Tyki's Teez. He doesn't mention that they'd found his body strung up like an inverted crucifix, a blatant mockery to show the Noah's hatred of God. And he certainly doesn't mention the way Tiedoll wept for him as he burned a portrait of Daisya's beautiful hometown, right before refusing to return to safety in favor of continuing to do his duty and search for more Exorcists, a desperate push to increase their numbers to the double digits without resorting to horrifically unethical experiments.

He doesn't say any of that, and what he does say comes in a flat, detached tone, like he's reading a mission report. But he does answer, so. Caelus can have that.]

[trashprince]

[ the ease at which his mind fills with questions, each more imposing than the next. kanda offers so little, speaks without wasting a syllable. of course, caelus wants to know more.

but the promise. kanda has already been permissive.

he scratches the cow behind a floppy ear. ]

That's awful.

[ it's not much, but it's not more sorries. ]

[sixillusions]

[Mm, well. It's not like Kanda is completely heartless, and Daisya was someone in his unit--annoying the way witty people are, and overly familiar with him, but someone he'd come to know well all the same--but that's life at the Order. Kanda can't remember how many times he's woken up to hear they've lost dozens of people overnight. He's not Tiedoll, treating his unit like a makeshift family, even if that's the closest thing to one he's ever known.

(And besides--Daisya wasn't the one who mattered, so. Another footnote in a history book, in the end.)]

It's better than being turned into an Akuma.

[trashprince]

Akuma is a word I don't know.

[ not a question ]

[sixillusions]

[IT'S BASICALLY A QUESTION

And he could answer... but he has run out of patience... rip]

Ask that idiot Rabbit if you want.