001. - voice

[temerate]

[ --clicks on to the screech of something inhuman howling its lungs out, and the muffled sounds of someone whose communicator has turned on inside a pocket in the middle of a fight. More screeching, the ring of metal, and several crashing noises until the monster's yowling is cut abruptly short with a horrible wet sound. ]

[ Silence. ]

[ And then, much clearer and so completely calm, some actual speech. ]

Nuadoria. I had not thought to see thee again.

Thou art changed.

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[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ A long pause. ]

[ And maybe, maybe with the tiniest hint of bitterness: ]

Everything dies.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...

[silence -- why does everyone always...]

Y-yeah... But you shouldn't--

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't what?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

-- give up on them. It's not their fault.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ Silence again for a full minute. ]

[ Snarling. ]

Your name, child.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

... [intimidated by the snarling, he lowers his voice]

It's Igarashi Ganta.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ Angrily. ]

And how dost thee, Igarashi Ganta, know where the fault lies?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

I... It's not like anyone asked for this.

They don't deserve to die.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

And the creatures do? They are also alive.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

They're monsters. They're the ones that are attacking us.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they are dumb beasts. Perhaps they are incarnations of evil.

Perhaps they are as sentient as thee. I am also what is termed a monster.

Perhaps thou art as well, to someone or something here.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[he wavers between hanging up and finding out more -- but his curiosity always seems to get the better of him no matter how nervous this conversation is making him]

What do you mean... you're a monster?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ Calmer now like this is no big deal. ]

I am Mikura. This body requires consumption of human blood to function correctly.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[Shit, this again? How does he keep finding them?]

... You're a vampire?

[voice] - better go and tell someone~

[temerate.livejournal.com]

That term refers to another specific type of creature, and not my kind.

[ Conceding. ]

But there are similarities.

[voice] /scream

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[stop talking and hang up stoptalkingandhangup]

-- But you kill people for blood?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Does that scare thee?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

It's sick.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

It was a necessary evolution, no matter how distasteful. Power does not come without sacrifice.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[quietly panicked]

That doesn't make any sense.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ 8))) ]

Does it not? Those I looked after were dying. With this evolution, I had power enough to change their fates.

Even a human child should know the world does not change unless thou hast the strength to force it.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

Change their-- What did you do to them?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

I killed those who would have killed them.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...

What made you save them?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

To preserve balance is--was, my duty. Humans are not permitted to eradicate youkai. Youkai are not permitted to eradicate humans. The harmony of the city may not be disrupted.