[Event Post]

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

::So, downtown, you see this rebellious redheaded lad in an Obelisk Uniform waltzing around, annoyed. Really just fuming. Maybe you'd like to bug him.::

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[becomeanwarrior]

[On break, leaning up against a bench, sipping coffee in a styrofoam cup while wearing a red blazer.]

Somethin' wrong, Jouji-san?

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

::Turns to you, Onni.::

Oh. You're the husband of the woman pretending to be my sister, right?

[becomeanwarrior]

...Pretending to be your sister?

[Eyebrow goes wwway up.]

But, yes. Haita Onni.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

She's just another fraud. Just like that teacher having my sister's best fiend's name.

::Growls.::

[becomeanwarrior]

...Which teacher...?

[Folding his arms at you, standing upright.]

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

The Witch of the Red Dorm. Professor Wakahisa.

[becomeanwarrior]

...

You really... don't have a clue what goes on here, do you.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

That something awful happened to my sister, yeah, I get that.

[fistofachilleshield]

::In a mostly empty lot you pass, there's a strange foreign looking man with a right arm guard and long hair squatting on a bunch of barrels.::

Looks like something's eating you, kid.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

What's it to you, asshole?

::Wow is this kid testy.::

[fistofachilleshield]

Oh nuthin', just you seem as tense as a wound-up spring.

::Leaps off the barrels.::

And I like to fancy myself something of a listener, maybe a problem solver.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

So you like to help people? I don't believe it. What are you playing at.

::Seems extremely cautious.::

[fistofachilleshield]

::Thinks, tapping his lip.::

I like to see things get accomplished. I guess the best term here would be...

Think of me as a social engineer.

Does that help, kiddo?

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

... And what do you get out of "Socially engineering" me?

[fistofachilleshield]

...

Heh. We make a contract of sorts.

::Grins.::

You get the power to fix what's bothering you. I take that power back when it's done.

So. What's bothering you.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

...

My sister turned into someone I don't want accept is real, she's not the person I respect anymore.

[fistofachilleshield]

So you wish to turn her back?

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

I don't think that's possible even if I wanted to.

[fistofachilleshield]

::Pulls out and throws over two cards.::

That's not quite true. Anything is possible, as long as you have the key to the right door, kid.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

The... key to the right door?

::Jouji's eyes flicker, blinking.::

[fistofachilleshield]

The world is a door, you just need to find the right one. The key and the gate are as one, all you need is to find it in the realm of your own imagining.

Though.

I'd suggest you be hasty. That power lasts for only so long before I need to reclaim it.

[afterdarkbeforedawn]

::Looks down at the cards, blinking.::

The key... to the right door...

[fistofachilleshield]

::And he's gone.::