Akemi had told her to meet in the bar, and so with the help of Kyoko Kystal took a seat. "Thank you, Kyoko san." Her nice clothes were ripped as the arm had this bite mark as the terrible creature had tried to chomp her down. She carried a daisho that was not her own.

Going to a Crab bar in the bad part of town at midnight was not Tsugiharu's idea of a good time. Then again attending a Phoenix miai on a world where the local cultists were getting ready to unleash doom upon the planet was also not his idea of a good time. So with good times firmly off the table, he went.

The ravaged Moshi was pretty easy to pick out of the crowd of drunks.

For Shiku's sake, the Phoenix HAVE healers. Why does she want to be patched up in a dirty bar of all places?
he wondered.

Still, he approached anyways and bowed.

"Moshi-san, you seem to have suffered a misadventure."

The girl glared at the Spider. "I am Komori Kystal... So it seems."

Tsugiharu's eyes narrow at that.

"Ah, my mistake. You rather look like Moshi Atena. I'd heard that she'd gotten into some kind of scrape, and was waiting for me here." he says.

He takes out his medical kit for show.

"Medical supplies, healing magic, y'know, the works. Have you seen her around, or have I been called here by mistake?" he said.

She frowned. "She is here... Atena san... I am protecting her." She glared at the Spider. "I don't think... she has a death wish." He could see the pain in her face.

And their was an utter indifference to the her pain written on the Spider's face. There was probably a good reason he was a medical researcher and not a doctor.

"Hm, no. She has strengths and flaws like anyone else, but I don't believe a death wish is among them. She's trying to overcome her adversities to reach her goals. And she's unafraid to ask for help when she needs it."

He shook his head.

"That takes an amazing amount of strength. You wouldn't believe some of the cases I've seen, Komori-san, where aid was easily within reach, and yet the person did not ask for it, and so they did not receive it. Simple problems gaining complications until they become much more dangerous problems."

It seemed pretty clear from his demeanor, Tsugiharu wasn't going to offer aid, unless she actually asked for it personally.

She took a deep breath. It was hard for Kystal to ask for aid to this man who she probably misunderstand. She shook her head and sighed. "Would you aid her body Spider san?"

Tsugiharu considered it.

"Well, I suppose it would be a shame to waste a trip after all. I'll need permission to touch, of course, I can't shoot bandages out of my fingertips nor encourage the water kami with friendly waving." he said.

"Are you trying to be funny? I know what it entails. Moshi san hasn't told you about the crash." She winced. "Please I don't want to to the hospital."

Void was spent for insensitive.


I bet not. You'd probably get a nice padded room to spend the miai contemplating

He shook his head.

"Not at all, Komori-san. But as you're not bleeding out in front of me, etiquette demands that I ask." he said.

"Let's start with cleaning those wounds."

He unpacked his medical kit, and got to work.

Int/Medicine, 1 CR TN 20, 33 vs. 20, Pass

6 wounds restored

He examined her wounds, trying to gauge the need for calling upon the water kami.

She winced a bit at the bandaging. "You want to get rid of me, Spider san." She was better but still not quite well. "I must know why... but as you said one must not be stubborn and seek aid when proper. I know when aid is needed. I thank you for it."

The creature did a number on her she probably would have not survived.


//Wounds 13/38

Tsugiharu yawned.

"You see malice where there is none, Komori-san. he said, frowning at the deep bite marks.

"Hm, I'm fairly tired, but perhaps the water kami will be generous, they've had a couple days to play."

He pulled out his densai making the invocations for Path to Inner Peace.

Not super generous, but not too miserly at least.

PtiP 17 vs. 10, 7 wounds restored.

"How's that?"

She sighed. The girl felt refreshed. "Thank you... Much better." She looked at the Spider. "I am honest with you Spider san... If it wasn't an emergency I would have not called you. I would have gone directly to bed. I am sorry to have disrupted your sleep for a minor flesh wound."

The girl shook her head. "You say I see ill intentions when clearly you are trying to make the ego strong and the id weak."

Shiku save me from amateur psychologists armed with one whole book. he offered as a silent prayer.

Tsugiharu shook his head.

"Ie. You've observed action, filtered it through your own perceptions, and arrived at a conclusion. You've chosen to interpret this as ill intention, and written off any further introspection. A shame, truly." he said, packing up his medical gear.

"No... I have read her densai. I have seen how she feels about what you are doing. I feel small." She looked down and sighed. "You won't understand what it feel to be small." She looked at the Spider packing his things then back down. "Forget it... Forget what I said... it doesn't matter anyway."

//I apologize if Kystal is a bit intense.

Tsugiharu tilted his head at that.

"And you believe that she knows why I do what I do?" he said. "If you've come up with answers that paint me as a villain, or your personal antagonist, that's your misinterpretation, Komori-san."

"It may be a sin but I am jealous." The girl confessed, looking down in shame. "I... I am sorry." She pulled up her knees and hugged them. "She has told you that I exist... She paints me as a monster... I just want to protect her."

"Hmm. Could it be that Moshi-san has observed actions, filtered them through her perceptions, and come to the wrong conclusions as well?" he offered.

"I am willing to listen, Komori-san. You have this opportunity to say what you will, it may not come again."

"I don't know." She looked down her knees. "I understand some of her writings for I act before I think. I just feel the need to just... fight." She sighed. "I just... come out of it... and bad things happen."

Tsugiharu pondred that.

"Hmm, say waking up in a bloody and torn dress with fiercesome wounds? I have to admit if I found myself waking up in such a state, I would be very concerned." he admitted.