Deer Country In-Box

[burnitblack]

un: dabi  *cla-chick* ... what?  *growl* [ that would be his omen ] [ contact through his omni stone can be text, audio, or video. contact through his omen can be visual, mental, or physical. ]

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[swellter]

[ That makes sense. For a moment, he thought it was something else. There was always a death price to pay after they washed ashore. He doesn't know what Touya's is and it's something he won't ask about. Not when there's something more important. ]

What happened with you and Bakugou?

[burnitblack]

[If the price meant 24 hrs of feeling like shit, puking his guts out, and having to find his clothes and crap from a bunch of marketplace people, then guess that's a price.

But complete immolation + combustion isn't gonna leave much left to go on. If there's another price, he's unaware of it for now.]

He tried to kill me and failed. I killed him and succeeded.

[And failed, since Bakugou killed him too.]

[swellter]

[ The words said so plainly have his quirk swinging left so quickly it has his eyes glittering with dismay. ]

Bakugou... wouldn't do that. [ He manages to parse out through a restricted throat. ] Was he cursed?

[ Under the influence of something? Shouto didn't believe that he'd turn to killing out of the blue. ]

[burnitblack]

[touya doesn't seem at all bothered by the words or memories. internally he's irked, but it's assuaged by the spiteful pride that it at least ended in a draw.]

Probably. [he's not stupid enough to think the explosive blonde would ever willingly try to murder someone no matter how much he screams the threat.] Doesn't change the fact he did.

[does that mean touya willingly tried to murder bakugou of his own volition after the fact? yep.]

[swellter]

[ Shouto will be having a very interesting conversation with Bakugou soon after this that will have immense consequences for the brothers going forward. But for now, Shouto is blissfully unaware. ]

Even if the outcome is the same, intent matters.

[burnitblack]

[good for him. dabi hasn't bothered talking to the guy after what happened and isn't planning on doing so. there's nothing that needs to be talked about. it's not gonna bother him at all.]

And ya point is?

[swellter]

Trench isn't like back in our world. Here, we don't have a choice sometimes.

[burnitblack]

Ya think we had a choice all the time back home?

[swellter]

[ There's a pause in his reply. His expression shifting into one of subtle observation. ]

Not all the time.

[burnitblack]

It's the same here.

[one could argue they didn't have a choice. one could argue you always had a choice.]

[swellter]

[ Another pause. This time longer than the last, yet eerily his expression never changes. ]

Did you have a choice when you hurt Bakugou?

[burnitblack]

[take long enough and touya's gonna roll over and grab a nap.]

Yep. It was an easy one.

[swellter]

Why did you kill him?

[burnitblack]

D'ya have selective hearin or just choose to ignore the words ya don't like?

[swellter]

[ He simply waits for a response. ]

[burnitblack]

[does he really think he can out-patient a guy who's waited ten years?]

[swellter]

[ It's not about what he can do, it's what he's willing to do for what he wants. That's where they are very similar.

He will wait for his answer. ]

[burnitblack]

[...sigh...]

I already answered that.

[swellter]

[ Answer it again. ]

I want to know why you killed him.

[burnitblack]

Cause he tried to kill me earlier.

Happy?

[swellter]

No.

[ But he'll talk to Bakugou about it at another time. For now, he'll let it lie. ]

None of this makes me happy.

[burnitblack]

Kill or be killed world, Shouto.

[Trench has never changed its face.]

Forgot that already.

[swellter]

That's not what I believe.

[burnitblack]

That's cause you're naive.

[swellter]

I make the effort to use restraint.

[ He's never used deadly force, never will. ]