night two - kill log.

[foxhounds]

Who: Killer and Reimu Hakurei
When: The second night
Where: The jungles of Ship-Trap Island

[ It's the dead of night in the jungle. Considering the Hunt, you have to wonder if you're actually safe out here, but it at least seems quiet. Maybe you could try getting some rest, or maybe you should keep watch. Either way, that quiet may not seem very comforting. ]

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[lotuslegend]

[ It wouldn't be Reimu if she didn't try to at least sleep. Sleeping out in the jungle is down there with "battling a nuclear hell raven" on her list of least favorite activities, but hey. It's a restless, half-aware sleep, but at some point, she does manage to huddle up in the lower branches of a tree and close her eyes. ]

[liven]

[ There's no noise to announce it, but quite suddenly Reimu isn't alone in the tree any longer. Shijima doesn't seem rushed at all; it isn't as though the evening is even close to being over. Instead she sits perched just to the side of the other girl, kicking her heels idly as she watches Reimu with a cat's unblinking gaze.

She sighs after a moment or two. ]

Aaa, how dull. Do you want a head start, little girl? It might make things a little less boring. If you can outrun me, I'll let you keep your life.

[ That's a lie. And Reimu probably can't run that fast, but she might want to get out of the tree...because if she doesn't in the next minute after Shijima stops speaking, the immortal will quite unceremoniously shove the other girl off. It's not a drop that should kill her, so it's not the end just yet. If Reimu gets out by herself, however, Shijima won't need to bother. ]

SCREAM, OH MY GOD LUCY

[lotuslegend]

[ Oh fuck.

That's pretty much all she's thinking, right now. Was she going to die? What would happen if she did? End up back in the Netherworld, stuck listening to Yuyuko yammer on for the next 500 years?

She hops out of the tree of her own volition, expression languid. ]

Giving me a head start? How noble. Most youkai wouldn't dare.

hush and let me kill you

[liven]

I'm not a youkai, so why should I bother to follow how one would act?

[ She flaps her hand, dismissively. Shijima still hasn't made any move to leave the tree herself, still kicking her heels. She apparently has no concern about being unable to catch Reimu. ]

Tch...if you aren't going to appreciate the head start, it's almost not worthwhile offering it...

[lotuslegend]

I dunno, you give off the feeling of one.

[ she shrugs ]

What's the use running? I'm pretty ordinary without my powers.

[liven]

Does your life mean so little to you? Well, if that's the case, I may as well begin...

[ An annoyed sigh. She still hasn't moved to leave the tree, but she stretches now, and leans forward. ]

If you're not even going to try to live, it's for the best you're dying now, right? What's the use to doing something useless...how do you know if you don't try it, that's the answer to that.

[lotuslegend]

Oh, please, cut the existential crap. You poor trodden soul.

Its hunting, isn't it? That's why they're not going after animals. There's no chase. So I'm not giving you or your friends any satisfaction.

[ leaning against the tree, starting to pick at her nails ]

she's not much for conversation

[liven]

Aaaa, that wasn't why I wanted you to run, anyway.

[ She's on the ground now, a blur of movement, but not close to Reimu. She's a little ways off, placing herself in the shadows - her white hair, her pink dress, and her yellow eyes are easy to see, though - and apparently gauging the distance between them with casual disinterest. ]

This should be about right. [ Whatever that means...Shijima is apparently referring to what she does next, though. There's an 8mm handgun in her hands now, and with too-quick reflexes Shijima's levels the gun at Reimu and fires. She's a trained ninja, and that includes gunmanship...to this degree, at least.

She'd aimed for Reimu's head (dead-center, trained), point-blank and without a hint of remorse or hesitation, likely far too fast for Reimu to even register anything other than "gun". ]

i shouldn't have laughed, but i did

[lotuslegend]

[ When she sees the flash of movement, Reimu closes her hands together and begins praying. It wasn't something she did when she wasn't channeling spirits or otherwise fighting, but hey, better late than never. ]

...I'm going to tear you a new one, Yuyuko.

[ Bang.

Black, black, blacker than the spaces in between the eyes of Yukari's gaps, and even more unfriendly.

Goodnight. ]

my work here is done

[liven]

[ Who the hell is Yuyuko...well, whatever. Shijima only has one thing left to do before she makes certain it was as though she was never at the scene. Crouching beside Reimu, Shijima utilizes some of the blood present (how nice she always has some around when she needs it) to paint the Eye of Providence on Reimu's left cheek.

Sitting back on her heels, she admires the effect. ]

Goodnight, Reimu Hakurei. [ Oh, so she does know Reimu's name...for all that she'd said "little girl". But there isn't any time for remorse, since Shijima doesn't have any remorse to start with. Within seconds, she's faded off into the jungle once again. ]