[At least it seems to have worked in brightening her up and getting her to relax a bit. Leon's not good with kids, but he at least knows that authority can be comforting in a chaotic situation like this; if he can be that authority, well...that was his job before, so it's not like it's that unusual and strange.
But he just squares his own shoulders, still damp and still a little displeased due solely to that, and then... she cuts herself.
He makes an exasperated noise as she stares at her foot--but he just draws his sword.]
Honestly, you are a troublesome child. Stay still.
[For a cut as small as that, it's easy for the magic to take hold and heal up the cut, Leon's sword glowing in the process (because of course, why not). As he sheathes his sword away again, he nods towards her shoe.]
[ It's the first time in her life where anyone's used magical healing on her, and Leon has her full attention the whole time. Her eyes widen a fraction, mouth opening in quiet astonishment. Or perhaps surprise when his sword is getting drawn, but her actual survival instincts around swords don't, at present, exist.
Certainly magic worked like this on television and in games, and spirits had medicines that could help, such as the River God's medicine, but this is something different. A GLOWING SWORD HEALING??! ]
I haven't seen healing magic before.
[ Nor does she know anyone that has healing powers has them, so Leon's officially The First One. She looks down at her feet, the injured one now healed, resting her hands on her shoes. ]
I won't be able to move as well if I do.
[ It sounds like she's apologising for that fact, since she also has a feeling that, based on experience, her shoes will get pulled back off her feet via suction if she puts them back on in this water. ]
It's not very deep, but it's enough to pull my shoes off again. I promise to be more careful. [ Not to stay uninjured, since she can't make that guarantee, but to be careful of where she's walking. ]
[Only the truly bizarre prefer the sweet embrace of death over the weirdness of Cerealia... So Leon's right at home exactly in the category he belongs in, at least.]
Some of 'em might not be able to. [THE DEAD ONES, MOSTLY.] But I mean, outside of those kinda situations, I think you've got the right idea. It's important to protect things you love and fix things that need to be fixed.
[Which is a simple deduction from a simple sword, but he does believe in it wholeheartedly.]
[She calls him out on it, and he's already mentally not in the best of places; he fumbles for a response, mouth opening, and then he just...slumps, head hanging.
He doesn't know how to answer that.
But he also can't accept that he's still this traumatized by water--he has to be over it by now, doesn't he?]
[ She's not going to make him talk about it. And she doesn't know the full story, only suspects bits and pieces of it, but in a sense... she thinks she can understand, at least a little. ]
The apology throws him off-guard, considering how Tsurumaru has acted the rest of this time--so Leon hesitates for a moment, as if searching for a trap, before he just huffs faintly and looks away.]
... It doesn't. I have no issues with the water. [liar liar pants on fire.]
You are the strangest person. I fail to see why you would persist in staying around someone who does not want you there.
[ sure, he may be an unrelenting pain to deal with, 99% of the time... but there's the rare 1% in which he's not quite a menace. but he does pause to think about what he wants to say, and in the end, settles on something a bit vague — and a bit idealistic. ]
Well, I don't like abandoning people, even if they don't want me around.
[ there's a shrug of his shoulders, as if saying that is even embarrassing for himself, too... ]
Let's go dry off — there might be towels in abandoned spa room, or something.
It isn't--! [...being abandoned. Is it? Leon's been abandoned all his life, so he really isn't sure. He doesn't want Tsurumaru around, but admittedly...there's something about being told he won't be abandoned that is--
(It's a little warm, that feeling, even if he quashes it down.)]
I don't need your pity. [Instead, he snaps that out, soggily crossing his arms and looking away.]
How do you know? If I saved their lives, maybe they'd be so grateful I'd win their hearts! Not everyone is as ungrateful as y--... [He pauses.] --Er, some people.
... Hmph. Then they are fools for trusting in someone to save them for entirely altruistic motives--of which yours are clearly not, if you are looking for their gratitude.
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[Hmph!!
The wild tsun in his natural habitat can't be tamed so easily, of course.]
It is simply more efficient in the end.
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... But what are you hoping to achieve by accompanying me?
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[HARRUMPH HARRUMPH.]
It would simply be going along my way already!
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All right, I get it. Still, thanks, Leon. Even though you're not doing this for me, I appreciate the company anyway.
... And the light. I can't deny the light helps.
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But he just squares his own shoulders, still damp and still a little displeased due solely to that, and then... she cuts herself.
He makes an exasperated noise as she stares at her foot--but he just draws his sword.]
Honestly, you are a troublesome child. Stay still.
[For a cut as small as that, it's easy for the magic to take hold and heal up the cut, Leon's sword glowing in the process (because of course, why not). As he sheathes his sword away again, he nods towards her shoe.]
Put that on before you hurt yourself again.
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Certainly magic worked like this on television and in games, and spirits had medicines that could help, such as the River God's medicine, but this is something different. A GLOWING SWORD HEALING??! ]
I haven't seen healing magic before.
[ Nor does she know anyone that has healing powers has them, so Leon's officially The First One. She looks down at her feet, the injured one now healed, resting her hands on her shoes. ]
I won't be able to move as well if I do.
[ It sounds like she's apologising for that fact, since she also has a feeling that, based on experience, her shoes will get pulled back off her feet via suction if she puts them back on in this water. ]
It's not very deep, but it's enough to pull my shoes off again. I promise to be more careful. [ Not to stay uninjured, since she can't make that guarantee, but to be careful of where she's walking. ]
kashuu.
Leon quirks an eyebrow at that, though he doesn't argue it.
Not exactly, anyway.]
I fail to see why people would live here by choice, truly.
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It might be better than where they come from, I guess. Kinda sad, though.
[He feels bad for anyone that this statement could actually apply to. RIP those guys... Sometimes literally, probably?!
ANYWAY awful jokes aside, he's beckoning for Leon to follow him! Away, out of the soggy pond of this district!!]
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He wonders about that. He's dead, after all, but... he still would rather be dead than be here. Is he really so much in the minority in that?
(Yes, Leon.)]
Hmph. Even so, they should remain where they are from and fix it, if they are so disgusted with the state of things.
[ONWARDS out of the soggy pond.]
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Some of 'em might not be able to. [THE DEAD ONES, MOSTLY.] But I mean, outside of those kinda situations, I think you've got the right idea. It's important to protect things you love and fix things that need to be fixed.
[Which is a simple deduction from a simple sword, but he does believe in it wholeheartedly.]
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otome.
To do that...wouldn't it be acknowledging a weakness?]
It--was nothing of the sort.
I'm fine.
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[ Because she doesn't see that at all. ]
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He doesn't know how to answer that.
But he also can't accept that he's still this traumatized by water--he has to be over it by now, doesn't he?]
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[ She's not going to make him talk about it. And she doesn't know the full story, only suspects bits and pieces of it, but in a sense... she thinks she can understand, at least a little. ]
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mabel.
[He seems unimpressed by this, but also a little aggravated and flustered in equal measure.
Whoops!]
I am a knight, yes, but that does not mean I have any obligation to oblige the whims of nonsensical children.
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But you still got a duty to protect! And it wouldn't be very nice to leave a child hanging around all by herself, would it?
[All said with a smile on her face!]
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Leon's expression grows a bit colder at that, and slowly, he crosses his arms.]
Excuse me?
[Danger zone danger zone!!]
Do not presume that you have any right to tell me what my duty is.
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[Granted, this was Mabel he was talking to. In her mind, all knights were suppose to be dashing young men who would sweep her off of her feet!
...Oh how wrong she was]
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tsurumaru.
The apology throws him off-guard, considering how Tsurumaru has acted the rest of this time--so Leon hesitates for a moment, as if searching for a trap, before he just huffs faintly and looks away.]
... It doesn't. I have no issues with the water. [liar liar pants on fire.]
You are the strangest person. I fail to see why you would persist in staying around someone who does not want you there.
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Well, I don't like abandoning people, even if they don't want me around.
[ there's a shrug of his shoulders, as if saying that is even embarrassing for himself, too... ]
Let's go dry off — there might be towels in abandoned spa room, or something.
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(It's a little warm, that feeling, even if he quashes it down.)]
I don't need your pity. [Instead, he snaps that out, soggily crossing his arms and looking away.]
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raven.
[Leon scoffs out at that, clearly unamused--sorry, Raven, you got a pretty princess who is more a jerk than anything (and also male, probably).]
I should have known you would have some nonsensical reason like that. It is not as though they will have any reason to thank you, you know.
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How do you know? If I saved their lives, maybe they'd be so grateful I'd win their hearts! Not everyone is as ungrateful as y--... [He pauses.] --Er, some people.
[PHEW. Nice save.]
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... Hmph. Then they are fools for trusting in someone to save them for entirely altruistic motives--of which yours are clearly not, if you are looking for their gratitude.
[Leon is the most suspicious of all, alas.]
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