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The Last Supper - Hunting Grounds
[ Chosen idols will find themselves abruptly taken, in their unit's room one moment and out in a courtyard the next. An impossibly tall and incredibly dense garden hedge divides the courtyard into sections—moreover, it increasingly gets taller when climbed, preventing its residents from escaping their slice of the courtyard.
A few sparse bushes and trees decorate the area, but there's nothing to keep the hunted away from the hunter.
Everyone will find their unit powers are off. However, Hands and Mouths can feel the power deep within themselves—they can grasp that power and turn into their monster form, should they desire so. Hands will find themselves in a natural disadvantage, however: they're much smaller than their Mouth counterparts, diminutive in size, and moreover, while they acquire whatever claws and teeth their monster form affords them, Mouths are capable of strength beyond that—faster agility and strength at minimum, though they may also have supernatural abilities, such as the ability to breathe fire. ]
A few sparse bushes and trees decorate the area, but there's nothing to keep the hunted away from the hunter.
Everyone will find their unit powers are off. However, Hands and Mouths can feel the power deep within themselves—they can grasp that power and turn into their monster form, should they desire so. Hands will find themselves in a natural disadvantage, however: they're much smaller than their Mouth counterparts, diminutive in size, and moreover, while they acquire whatever claws and teeth their monster form affords them, Mouths are capable of strength beyond that—faster agility and strength at minimum, though they may also have supernatural abilities, such as the ability to breathe fire. ]
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
She sees him, and he's alone. She freezes in place. ]
No.
No... this can't be right.
1/2
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
My, my.
Are you here to kill me, then? Mother?
1/2
[ bitter, strained ]
—So sure they'd all be coming for you. It had to be you didn't it? Nyx attacked Nemesis in intermission, so—!
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
So I was going to kill them all.
Eat my fill.
Perhaps I'd even be too battered, by the end, for what was left. [ him. ]
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[ with a somewhat softened expression, his brows knitting to express a slight bitterness ]
No. Our heart—Venti-san—was attacked before the second round started.
This—[ with a gesture to his bracelet ]—was merely meant as a defense.
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
To kill you... It was a cost I could bear—if only it were paid in the lives of those who hungered after you. I know— I know they are out there, still!
But they are not in this arena.
...And to think we might both have lived.
[ a soft clatter against the stones: the naginata dropped from her hand, though her fingers are tipped with curved claws and red-gold scales ]
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[ in a low voice, tone pleasant though his expression betrays bitterness, as he presses a hand to his chest. he doesn't even seem to be carrying any weapons. ]
You know very well that you cannot protect me. But then, if you were to end my life, perhaps I would finally find rest—then, perhaps, I would finally stop having to fight.
Would you like to try it?
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
[ part impulse, part answer ]
You know as well as I... my children have died so many times.
I could not protect you in your former life—and whoever I am in that world, how my heart must have broken.
I do not need to kill you, here, in order to imagine how much it will hurt.
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
I understand.
. . . Then, Mother—will you do something for me?
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
Re: R2 MOUTH vs MOUTH
But as you are now, striking me down would not be worth it—you would be the hand you swore to protect me against.
Those that seek to kill me are certainly still lying in wait. Therefore, allow my safe passage now—then, return here to me in the third round.
By that point, there will surely be the adversaries you seek. You will know who would dare seek harm to your son's head.