[col]As Michi reached out and verbally antagonized Kaito more, Katsuo let his temper get the best of him. There was a momentary warning as the air suddenly energized and was filled with the distinct scent of ozone before sparks flew and there was an angry clap of thunder as Katsuo slammed his fist into the wooden bar of the establishment. Wood splintered and scorched as the mundane furniture was obliterated by his outburst. The sound of the blast and the resulting shockwave dwarfed Michi's words so that only the statement of "Sunahoshi Katsuo you are the intended king" could have been heard before his anger silenced the rest.
"You don't get it, do you? You say things like I am the destined king but then you refuse to listen to what I have to say. You think that you know better than me so no matter what I say you just do whatever you want."
Katsuo was at his wit's end with Michi. He understood that he could not expect her to disregard her nature because that was something that she was no longer capable of doing even if she wanted to but the games she was playing with the other members of the Cabal went beyond her nature. She wasn't manipulating Kaito because her nature was forcing her to do so, she was doing it because she thought she knew what was best for them and believed that Katsuo was too naive to accomplish the goals that he had of unraveling the Ishii Regime. He understood what it was like to be chained to the nature of an ancient through the memories of Mikaboshi -- to be so much more than human but at the same time limited. But Michi wasn't the same as that. She was partially human and though she lacked the power of true Choice in the way that mortal men and women had she could feel many of the different things that an ancient could not.
"What you want from me is a king that takes what he wants without thought or respect to others. But have you given any thought to what that might look like? How closely that might resemble the man that calls himself the Wind Daimyo that you hate so much? What is the point of even fighting this battle if you only become what you sought to defeat in the first place?"
Reaching down, Katsuo rested his hand on Kaito's shoulder and gave it a firm squeeze as a crackle of energy danced down his wrist and across his knuckles. The energy would penetrate through the cloth of Katsuo's coat with ease and slip into his body, buoying his constitution for the time being. He would not change Kaito without the older man's permission and at this point given Michi's revelation he needed to ensure that Kaito would put the mission first before trying to have some kind of revenge on Michi for her choice to keep information from him.
"A king who has no respect for his people isn't a king. He's a monster. And a foolish one at that. Even Mikaboshi, limited as he was by his own nature like you are now, understood the value of his subjects and comrades."
Katsuo did not say anything further about her but he was speaking of the woman that was killed at the hands of the first Kazekage and his Four Winds of the King which signaled the destruction of the Deep Court. Mikaboshi was a creature which was quintessentially of the shadows and that made him a creature which was predisposed towards the obfuscation of the truth and reality. He spoke in half-truths and riddles but the level to which those half-truths were harmless fragments of the truth and which were truly dangerous pit-falls was always his.
"You think that as long as you can accomplish your goal it doesn't matter who gets hurt along the way because your cause is a righteous one and you're ready to die anyway so the consequences don't matter."
Katsuo was shouting now and the bar shook with every syllable as the air itself thundered with the sound of his voice. Just as Michi had seen into Mikaboshi, so too had Mikaboshi seen into Michi when he'd transformed her into the state she was now and because of their connection those memories were available to Katsuo. He felt keenly her sense of nihilism towards herself believing that so long as she could see her goal completed that it didn't matter what happened to her because she was no longer bound to Nao the way that she had been before Mikaboshi had freed her.
"But that's short sighted. When it's all said and done and we've killed all the bad guys -- what do we do with the people who became monsters so we could win? Kill them too? What about us? What should be done with the monsters that we ourselves become? Quietly die off so the next generation of monsters can take over? The only way things change is if we change them and that starts with making the choice to be above depraved tactics like this but you're so jaded you can't see that."|[legend="[[b][u]OOC Notes[/u][/b]] - [[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcZBcP8D0E]BGM[/url]]"]
Sunahoshi Katsuo - The Last Sunahoshi
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"You don't get it, do you? You say things like I am the destined king but then you refuse to listen to what I have to say. You think that you know better than me so no matter what I say you just do whatever you want."
Katsuo was at his wit's end with Michi. He understood that he could not expect her to disregard her nature because that was something that she was no longer capable of doing even if she wanted to but the games she was playing with the other members of the Cabal went beyond her nature. She wasn't manipulating Kaito because her nature was forcing her to do so, she was doing it because she thought she knew what was best for them and believed that Katsuo was too naive to accomplish the goals that he had of unraveling the Ishii Regime. He understood what it was like to be chained to the nature of an ancient through the memories of Mikaboshi -- to be so much more than human but at the same time limited. But Michi wasn't the same as that. She was partially human and though she lacked the power of true Choice in the way that mortal men and women had she could feel many of the different things that an ancient could not.
"What you want from me is a king that takes what he wants without thought or respect to others. But have you given any thought to what that might look like? How closely that might resemble the man that calls himself the Wind Daimyo that you hate so much? What is the point of even fighting this battle if you only become what you sought to defeat in the first place?"
Reaching down, Katsuo rested his hand on Kaito's shoulder and gave it a firm squeeze as a crackle of energy danced down his wrist and across his knuckles. The energy would penetrate through the cloth of Katsuo's coat with ease and slip into his body, buoying his constitution for the time being. He would not change Kaito without the older man's permission and at this point given Michi's revelation he needed to ensure that Kaito would put the mission first before trying to have some kind of revenge on Michi for her choice to keep information from him.
"A king who has no respect for his people isn't a king. He's a monster. And a foolish one at that. Even Mikaboshi, limited as he was by his own nature like you are now, understood the value of his subjects and comrades."
Katsuo did not say anything further about her but he was speaking of the woman that was killed at the hands of the first Kazekage and his Four Winds of the King which signaled the destruction of the Deep Court. Mikaboshi was a creature which was quintessentially of the shadows and that made him a creature which was predisposed towards the obfuscation of the truth and reality. He spoke in half-truths and riddles but the level to which those half-truths were harmless fragments of the truth and which were truly dangerous pit-falls was always his.
"You think that as long as you can accomplish your goal it doesn't matter who gets hurt along the way because your cause is a righteous one and you're ready to die anyway so the consequences don't matter."
Katsuo was shouting now and the bar shook with every syllable as the air itself thundered with the sound of his voice. Just as Michi had seen into Mikaboshi, so too had Mikaboshi seen into Michi when he'd transformed her into the state she was now and because of their connection those memories were available to Katsuo. He felt keenly her sense of nihilism towards herself believing that so long as she could see her goal completed that it didn't matter what happened to her because she was no longer bound to Nao the way that she had been before Mikaboshi had freed her.
"But that's short sighted. When it's all said and done and we've killed all the bad guys -- what do we do with the people who became monsters so we could win? Kill them too? What about us? What should be done with the monsters that we ourselves become? Quietly die off so the next generation of monsters can take over? The only way things change is if we change them and that starts with making the choice to be above depraved tactics like this but you're so jaded you can't see that."|[legend="[[b][u]OOC Notes[/u][/b]] - [[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcZBcP8D0E]BGM[/url]]"]
Sunahoshi Katsuo - The Last Sunahoshi
