@Lucius Cypher @Seirei no Hai@zelosse@liferusher@Sir Lurksalot@Letter Bee @FamishedPantsThose few seconds simply staring at the elf...to most, it would just be about 5 seconds of some weirdo eyeing an armored woman looking like he'd seen a ghost for some reason. To Ease? It felt like agonizing hours as his brained tried rationalizing that he
was seeing a ghost. Just...A living ghost. What the hell was going on? Can she resurrect too? Is this some sorta twin? No, she looked way too much like the woman's corpse yesterday. How did he never notice her in the kingdom till now? Just who and
what was this woman?!
On top of that, that scene...that goddamned
scene. Stabbed bodies strewn about the area. A dead knight who previously was part of the reason a strong as hell magical woman stopped. A blanketed and confused knight. Other knights stabbed and/or on fire. Most of the architecture? It was just either on fire or burning too, as if the entire area was made out of goddamn brimstone. Civilians seemed to have tried to rip each other apart for some in vain reason as well, as though this was the necessary step. Then finally...the stabbed elf. Instead of just being a simple corpse like the rest of them, it was far different. It felt like it was...continually shifting between the very obviously alive elf before him and the corpse of one he saw previously. The broken armor, yet now in one piece...The face blood covered but was actually clean and fairly uninjured. The general smell of her blood as opposed to the current, familiar and obvious smell of alcohol that was really in his nose. Why the hell...Why the hell was this happening?! And more importantly why...why did he-?
With in an instant, everything went back to normal. Like nothing happened.
After those about 5 or 6 seconds, his brain finally snapped back into place. It almost looked like someone had just snapped out of a hypnotic trance that held him for so long. He barely even noticed how his breathing suddenly just...stopped until his lungs finally told him to do so again. Wait, didn't Blanc ask something? Or the wolf...thing that was next to her. Oh yeah...Forgot about the wolf, huh? If it wasn't for seeing it yesterday, he might've actually been freaked out a bit. Thankfully those...horrifying memories have the benefit of him remembering the people who were there. Anyway, it seemed like he forgot what they asked.
"Sorry Blanc...What did you guys a-?"As if to completely cut off his question, Blanc's growling belly instead was heard. Instead of laughing it off, he mentality went more towards just an almost bored sounding voice of
"Oooookay..." Again, did not have the mental capacity for this shit at the moment.
Strangely enough, the familiar elf, instead of simply sheepishly chuckling from the stomach roar, actually sheepishly cowered back while putting her hood on...Why? He took but one glance around the bar to realize why. A few of the patrons looked at her with pure shame and scorn for her...belly growling? What the hell? It was a stomach growl. If anything, he'd expect a few immature giggles not outright scorn. He simply let off a glare in the direction of the...scorners for lack of a better term. He proceeded to pry his exhausted body up with a grimace. Only for his rationality to suddenly show up...
Yoshi and Kondo...Dammit, he didn't want issues caused by him just randomly starting trouble with their customers, even if it was pretty understandable why. However, he was also in a very "no-shits given" mood too. So he picked what seemed like the logic alternative.
He stuck a quick middle finger up towards a few of the offending patrons. However, he did turn around to Mr. Satan Horns with his middle finger not raised, but a pointing forefinger.
"You're cool though.With that important task done with, he walked off towards where the cooking was happening. Well, more like hobbled over to there. And his head proceeded to hang back in exhaustion the moment he was over and sat down in stool.
"Ugh...I swear I need a seltzer. Or coffee."