[7rings] catchall for mahito

[shiftingwinds]

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[touchups]

Haha. [DON'T JUST LAUGH ABOUT IT.] Wild... I wonder if that was legit info? Hey, did you mean to lock her in a freezer though? Or did it just happen that way?

[He's both 1) a ruthless asshole and also 2) genuinely curious, since he's trying to piece himself together a more coherent picture of Shi Qingxuan after the entire graveyard just decided she was Gemini Enemy Number One in the last couple of days. God.]

[shiftingwinds]

I don't know... I thought it was, and then we heard that the Avatars wanted us dead, and then they were helping us again...?

[it's been a wild week.]

I didn't set out to do things that way. I wanted to make it quick and clean, but I'm not... very good at... this sort of thing. [she's fantastically bad at murder] She got into the kitchen first and - she had a knife. I wouldn't have won a prolonged fight, so when she went in there... I think to try and get me to go in there after her, so she could lock me in...? I just...

I closed it. I didn't know what else to do.

[touchups]

I mean, a few of 'em definitely did! But I think everyone's mellowed out to "at least kinda neutral as long as we don't get in their way about it".

[It truly has been a wild week. Also holy shit!! THE MURDER DEETS... This is so much. He can't help it; there's a little huff of laughter. HE IS, AFTER ALL, A CURSED SPIRIT.]

Wow... Sounds like a shitshow. [TO SAY THE LEAST.] Wild that we didn't get a single sniff of you if you're that bad at killing, but we never did super well in a group with that kinda stuff anyway.

[shiftingwinds]

I didn't really expect to get away with it.

[like. she tried to? for envy's sake, really. but she went into that pretty much expecting to get caught.


the fact that she didn't has been eating her alive ever since.]

[touchups]

Well! I'm guessing you probably didn't expect that the whole thing with Misa and Grace would go down, huh?

[The drama that stole all attention away from Shi Qingxuan's kill, god bless.]

People tend to turn a blind eye to things they really don't wanna see from people they really like, too.

[shiftingwinds]

Not in the slightest. I... really thought I was the only one who had even tried, that week.

[UGHHHH.]

[touchups]

Nah! There were plenty of people around waiting to stab at pretty much all times.

[He would know! He was in contact with 80% of them!]

Pretty funny, though! You swerved that so hard that it ended up flipping around and making you look crazy bad to us deadzos.

[He's just picked up the term...]

[shiftingwinds]

..."swerved that"...?

[her brow furrows a little... she can kind of get what that means from context.]

...well, the fact is, I killed her. No matter what the reasons are - that still happened. Of course I would look bad.

[touchups]

Yeah! [He just. Makes one hand into a fist, and swerves the other hand around it.] Swerved it.

Anyway, you'd have looked way less bad if people didn't think you were being all secretive and fake about it. When you're all dead, there's a surprising amount of understanding toward straight-forward killers?

[Not enjoyment or friendliness or like, maybe, but a sort of "well at least you don't pretend you aren't gonna murder".]

[shiftingwinds]

That being the case, it's unfortunate for me that the words simply would not come out no matter how hard I tried to say "I killed her."

[


she means that literally, for the record.]

[touchups]

[SHE'S GONNA HAVE TO BE MORE CLEAR because Mahito the killer knows that he did not have any gag orders.]

I thought you just said you were like, sure you were gonna get caught, though? But I guess even a god would probably be afraid of the chopping block when the time comes, huh.

[shiftingwinds]

...no, I mean, until today, when I tried to say it, I literally could not get the words out. Not because I was scared, but because that was something I couldn't say.

[touchups]

[JUST

SQUINTING AT HER??? Tilting his head to the side...]

...Why... Did you get cursed or something? But curses here don't last this long, right? This is the first I've heard of a gag order curse, too.

[shiftingwinds]

I don't think one of you did it. I just - I couldn't say a word about it.

[touchups]

[PEERING AT HER...

Honestly it seems more like he's peering through her, and eventually, he just sighs and pouts and flops back into the sand.]

Aaah, I miss my sight! [HIS SOUL EYES, RANDY.] It's so hard to tell whether or not people are lying, sometimes.

[shiftingwinds]

[his soul eyes...]

I'm not lying... though of course I can understand why you would think I am.

[touchups]

[Seyes... soul eyes...]

I mean, even if you were, that'd be fine. [Mahito opens his arms widely and accepts all murderers! Even if he doxxes them to their own victims for funsies.]

It's just hard to tell how much of a human-god is still human.

[Humans are rancid as hell, after all.]

[shiftingwinds]

[well.]

I was never meant to be a god in the first place, so... I'm probably more human than most gods you would meet.

[does she think humans are rancid? no. does she know mahito does? yep! does she agree that she's rancid? also yep, she committed murder.]

[touchups]

[SHI QINGXUAN PLEASE he thinks humans are rancid for many reasons but murder is not one of them.]

Huh... [It's kind of an interesting concept, and he's curious about it! But he's also back to reigning himself in a little after being off the string in the raveyard for two weeks, because he doesn't want to get sniped at the last second by people who he knows now understand he's better off dead. Best not give extra reasons!!

So instead, there's just:] What's that mean? Were you supposed to become a ghost instead?

[shiftingwinds]

...did he ever tell you how he became a ghost, Mahito?

[touchups]

I saw it, yeah.

[Or rather, he saw some of it.]

Because humans were terrible to him while he was alive, right?

[shiftingwinds]

...his life was filled with misfortune, yes.

[she bites her lip]

But the reason why that happened to him is a little more complicated. I'm not sure how much detail I ought to go into... [a lot of it is his to tell] ...but the short version is the misfortunes he suffered were supposed to be my fate, and becoming a god was supposed to be his.

[touchups]

[WOW.

SHI QINGXUAN STOP GIVING A CURSE AMMO CHALLENGE, FIRST OF ALL!! But he just looks - surprised, at first. And then curious, because what the hell y'all.]

Eh? Seriously? How'd that even happen?

[Someone rubbed her head and his head at the same time and transferred their lucks...]

--He knows, I'm guessing.

[If she's telling him any of this at all, he definitely knows already.]

[shiftingwinds]

I don't know the specifics. My brother ascended to godhood, first - actually ascended, on his own merits. He used his power as a god to change our fates, but... I really don't understand how that was supposed to be possible.

[she frowns]

...he knew all along. I'm surprised he tolerated me hanging off of him for as long as he did.

[touchups]

[HE JUST THINKS ABOUT WHAT HE KNOWS OF MING YI.

AND CLOSES HIS EYES FOR A SECOND... His expression is neutral, at least. God bless.]

—That brother of yours is really something, huh. [HAHA!! LITTLE DOES HE KNOW. With a sigh:] How're things between you two, now? Now that stuff's all out in the opening.

[Presumably, anyway... And both things from their home and also their MURDEROUS DEEDS HERE.]