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[goei]

@Izou

manslayer

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ABOUT ME

The strongest, most genius swordsman to ever haunt the streets of Kyoto! That's me! So you better think twice before crossing me, ya hear?

NOTE

As long as you don't get in my way I won't kill you, probably.

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[vogelfrei]

[ It's insane to think that McGillis ironically has the better deal here - with his own world barred to him, he could theoretically pick his most important person and stick with them instead, no additional losses. A chance that is kind of wasted on a man as isolated as himself, even now that he is opening himself up just a little.

So yes, anyway. ]

A variety of wines, naturally. You can pick as you like.

[ He has more than enough money saved up to cover even an expensive bill with ease. Workaholic life!! ]

Personally, I'd recommend one of the reds.

[goei]

[We'll find a place for you yet, McGillis.

Anywa, Izou considers the wine list for a long moment, before putting it down with a sigh.]

I dunno what any of these fancy french words mean, you just pick fer the both of us.

[He's had wine maybe once or twice before in his life.]

[vogelfrei]

Oh? What a high responsibility.

[ Since the alcohol is clearly more important to Izou than the actual food. What a horrible man...

If the choice is left up to McGillis, he's going to pick one of the more expensive red options - both because he likes them, but also because he's showing off. ]

As for food...

[ He deliberates for a bit longer here, but in the end gets stuck, predictably, on the pasta page. ]

Can't go wrong with classics, I'd say.

[goei]

[Izou has a look on his face like he momentarily forgot they were here to eat food.]

Ain't all of this classic fer you, technically?
[Future man.]

I still ain't got used ta having to eat again instead of just eatin' when I feel like it.

[Or more accurately drinking when he feels like it.]

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis meanwhile just kind of stares for a second. ]

Huh. I guess I should have seen this coming, given that you're basically a ghost.

[ Maybe that means you don't have to worry about your liver?? ]

[goei]

[IF ONLY, he isn't even immune to hangover!!!]

Yeah! Back home we all get sustained on mana from the... big Chaldea orb, I forget what it's called. [Not important.]

But we can also get mana from food and... [SUDDENLY TURNING RED] other... things.

[He coughs]

But something about how Braphine summoned me I ain't gettin' mana from her so I'm just back ta eatin' and sleepin' normal.

[vogelfrei]

[ Izou, when you blush like that............. ]

Other things.

[ Is Izou telling him that theoretically it would be possible for him to stop eating and just have sex instead. Is this the statement being made here. Does he even want to know the answer. ]

[goei]

[It's not his fault he's incredibly easy to read!!!]

Yeah like... bodily fluids.

[I mean. That wouldn't NOT work. But also he likes eating so he's fine with things as is.]

[vogelfrei]

[ ...................... ]

You're functionally a succubus.

[ This is. Insane knowledge. He needs a second. ]

[goei]

That- I mean that sorta thing is like fer emergency situations!! Besides Fujimaru's still a kid so I wouldn't ever lay a hand on her like that! I got principles!!

[He's making this argument on the grounds that a succubus wouldn't have principles, I guess.]

Also hold on, at least say incubus, ain't succubus the girl ones!??

[vogelfrei]

[ Okay, alright. He's adjusting to this new knowledge. Izou's world is already so goddamn weird... This is probably fine. ]

Yes, theoretically. But the part about needing... fluids is inherent to succubus lore more than incubus lore.

[ Which is exactly when they find out their waiter is suddenly behind them. And maybe has been for a few seconds.

This makes even McGillis fluster as he then lists his order. ]

[goei]

[OH MY GOD... THE RARE BLUSHING MCGILLIS. THIS JUST MAKES IT EVEN HARDER FOR IZOU TO COMPOSE HIMSELF????]

W-well either way you can just forget I even mentioned it!

[Unless you don't want to. He guesses!! Fuck!!! Why did he mention it!!!]

There better not be one of your demon robots named after that.

[vogelfrei]

There's not.

[ Yes, thank you, let him talk about Gundam frames. But he will not forget this knowledge, and it will make things weird in the future.

He wishes they already had their drinks if only because maybe something cold will make his face color return to normal faster.]

The 72 Gundam frames are named after the demons of the Ars Goetia specifically.

[goei]

[Hey McGillis guess what.]

... Oh those're the guys Fujimaru beat up before!

[vogelfrei]

[























No. No. No. ]

If you have heard anything about the demon Bael, I do not want to hear it.

[goei]

Nah, she said at the end there, it was all 72 of them shoved insidea that guy Solomon? Dunno how they all fit in there, but they're defeated now anyway.

[Izou just casually inflicting this damage on McGillis with things he wasn't even there for.]

[vogelfrei]

I... see.

[ McGillis would normally be all over learning mythological concepts are reality in other worlds. It'd intrigue and fascinate him. But every part of how Izou's world is set-up hurts his aesthetic sensibilities and he's deciding that sometimes less knowledge is maybe not a bad thing. ]

I don't believe they ever truly existed in my world. The only physically real Bael there has ever been is the mobile suit named after the myth.

[ And also others. But mostly Bael, that's what he cares about. ]

[goei]

[McGillis like "the fate/ universe is far too silly for my taste" and frankly he's justified.]

And that's the one you piloted, with the swords?

[Of course he remembered the swords.]

[vogelfrei]

Yes. The machine of the legendary Agnika Kaieru himself.

[ He is pleased you remember!! ]

[goei]

That's the guy you got that book about.

[And using the team brain cell for a moment to additonally remember;]

When you said demons saved your world you meant whatever that Kaieru guy did when he used Gundam Bael along with the other 71?

[vogelfrei]

Also correct.

[ Izou is gaining points by being willing to remember and ask about these things. It's the simple pleasures sometimes, like being able to talk about your nerd-ass obsession with a historical figure. ]

300 years ago, humanity was on the brink of extinction in my world. Mechanical angels, cruel in their perfect purity, were indiscriminately killing all. It was Agnika Kaieru and his chosen comrades who were willing to throw aside a piece of their humanity in order to stop the threat and rebuild the world.

[goei]

[Unfortulately McGillis's dramatic and poetic history lesson is lost on Izou.]

Where the hell did the mechanical angels come from? And why'd they have ta throw away their humanity ta pilot the big robots?

[vogelfrei]

Knowledge about the angels - or mobile armors - is heavily restricted. There is much we do not know, as the history has been completely erased.

[ And isn't that interesting? ]

As for the other question... how does your world feel about body modifications?

[goei]

What, like tattoos and piercings? Used ta be in my time only yakuza and guys like that'd get em but I guess it's more common now?

[Izou does not know about cyborgs.]

[vogelfrei]

Gjallarhorn abhors them. Piercings are the highest level of meddling with your natural body that is allowed. Even prosthetics are shunned.

[ There is some horrible classism and ableism baked into the very fabric of current Gjallarhorn ideals, and McGillis has the perspective to be fully aware of it. ]

There is nothing that would disgust a good and upstanding Earth citizen more than to taint their body with something artificial - and what an irony it is, for all this purity rhetoric only has one goal: to erase the power that has saved us all.

The Alaya-Vijnana System. An implant in your spine, allowing you to connect your body directly to the mobile suit you're piloting. Your movements become one. Your reflexes become one. The Gundam frame becomes a part of your body, and you become a part of it.

By the standards of current society, Agnika Kaieru has thrown away his humanity in order to save the world.