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[Thugren]

Think of.....A massive hive...Of ...Things...All of them sharing one mind.... Much like.....The ghousl you have here."
zeros symbiote says calmly.

"In fact...The ghouls you know..are a distant cousin to the things we are fleeing. Their creator has a much higher degree of independence."
 

[Armoured Priest]

"Huh....what a coincidence for you guys then huh?" Barron said. "Running from one thing only to find a play populated by something related to it, sounds like that kinda sucks. B T dubs though, are you guys still going to eat me and Hoshio or....what?" The boy asked next, still a little concerned on that part more than the sad backstory of the aliens currently residing in their bodies.

[Thugren]

the symbiotes go quiet before kamuia speaks. His voice is like a tortured rasp.

'youre both already dead.......Your body is now merged with those things."

 

Hosios eyes widen before kamui speaks again.
 

"How youre alive i have no idea.."

[Armoured Priest]

"Oh, um, ok....." Barron managed to say, more than a little shock at the news and unsure what to say now. After a moment of silence, the sullen looking boy looks up to them.  "....I get to keep my stuff even though I'm dead right?" He asked.

[Thugren]

Hoshio looks at his brother and lets out a bark of a laugh.

"I...Yea brother you can keep your stuff."
the cujo chuckles and motions everyone over.

"come...let us drink for the awakenning of two new wolves! We...We must rename you both."
he offers a cup of saken to barron with a smile.

"what shall we call you boy?"

[Armoured Priest]

"New name...hmmm." The boy contemplated for a moment after accepting the offered cup, not expecting he would be getting a new name all of a sudden but he guessed it made sense with what had happened to them. You know, death and all that. He looked down to the red black that was his body and thought of a name for him and the thing "How about Bloodbath? Its definitely what we did to those arbiters."

[Thugren]

ブラッドバス."
the cujo says with a chuckle as he holds out a cup to his nephew and pours him a cup of sake.

"It fits one of those in our family...And you?"
he turns to Hoshio and cocks his head.
"what name do you take boy?"
the older brother cocks his head and things for a long time.

"crow."he says finally as the cujo smirks thinking hard on 

"カラス"

 

....fitting."カラス

[Armoured Priest]

"Does that mean we can call what we did back there a murder of Crow's Bloodbath?" Barron asked with smile, holding up the cup of sake. "Eh? Eh? Eeeeh?.....Well I think it was funny." he reaffirms before taking a sip of the drink instead now. "Still, think the Arbiters are going to be...upset when they finally fine that scene. Hope they have zero idea what happened when they get there."

[Thugren]

My brothers already know it was you...They told me before you got here.. Ohun told me."

he points up at a nearby skyscraper where a shimmer can be seen.
"were blaming it on some other family.....We need them eliminated..YOu both will be coming with me to the arbiter academy...So we ca nstudy you and put you to work."

[Armoured Priest]

"So...we're becoming 'police' after killing a whole bunch of police? And we can't just keep working for Uncle Cujo?" Barron asked with a confused side glances between his brother and cousin. "Just how much crap is going to be thrown our way for that since they actually know?" The boy now wondered why he was about to suffer more years of school again. 'This is bullshit' he thought to himself.

[Thugren]

The cujo chuckles as he sips his drink.
“ you’ll be assigned to my area so I can keep you in line..... we’ve had a lot of those animal immigrants and ghouls sneaking past the port.... as well as those beasts from the sea so you’ll have plenty of work.”
Crow laughs and shakes his head.
“At least we can’t be arrested anymore.”

[Armoured Priest]

"Man, being legitimately paid to do violence on people, by the government, I never thought I would get a job at all let alone a good one." Barron laughed, the boy incredulous at the strange turn of events from finding out about having weird alien parasites fusing with him and becoming one another to now being apart of the government whose laws he and his family broke on a daily, if not hourly, basis and be paid for it. Maybe things won't be so bad.

[Thugren]

the family drinks long into the night, the alchol setting in deep into their bones , until...

the sun slots into the room like shafts of painful lances right into barrons eyes, crow is laying on his side, but the large imposing figure of kamui sits in the corner of the room, looking outside calmly.

"oh youre awake.."

he says with a smile as he looks back at barron.

"come and sit with me."

[Armoured Priest]

Barron gave an unusually wide yawn before getting up to walk sluggishly over to the spot next Kamui, still feeling tired after last night's celebrations and the tribulations before that. He plopped down next to his cousin and looked out at the view to see what he was seeing so early in the morning while absently scratching himself as needed. "Bleh?" was all he managed to say in his dazed state. 

[Thugren]

the city is beautiful, impossibly clean and well maintained. 

"do you know what i do cousin?"

he asks as he watches the distance, a familair motorcycle engine heard far off.

"Looks like shs going to say hello......You hung over too badly?"

[Armoured Priest]

"Bleh?" was all Barron was able to muster out of his mouth again. The engine sounded sort of familiar, but he wasn't completely sure if it was who he and Kamui were thinking. The boy looked at him, waiting for him to answer the question Kamui had asked him since he didn't really know other than being apart of the enforcers.

[Thugren]

Kamui chuckles and goes to the front gate, waiting as the car pulls up. To say the sportscar was impeccable was an understatemen, the sleek design  was low to the ground and had the the sign of the Muroka family of yakuza.

 

the doors lift upwards like jacknives and from the car cstands a woman with a smile.

"Kamui! your cousins are in and you didnt even tell me!"

The arbiter huffs, making his rebreather hiss.

 

"Becasue you arent a cujo....... WHy would i tell you the family buisness?"

She puts her hands on her hips and huffs, ignoring the arbiter completely as she holds a hand out.

"Hi there  Im yukari, im Kamuis wife and you are?"

[Armoured Priest]

"Oh, I'm Barron, cousin, hello." The boy said somewhat groggily as he reached up to shake her hand. Now, while he might have drink more than he should have last night, but Barron is sure that Kamui isn't married. At least not yet, right? But he remember what his cousin told him about her so he kept that thought in his head for safety. "Are you guys going to go do something or are we still going to report in for our new jobs?" the boy asked Kamui, rubbing his eyes to get some gunk out, and then immediately having to fix his eye back into place. He really need to get used his new 'body' thing. 

[Thugren]

“Yea no……. We can’t go to the arbiter academy…. Not yet.”

Behind you, crow wakes, his body groggy and tired as yukari smiles at him.

“Hoshio!”

The boy grumbles as if I’m pin touching his ears.

“So loud……”

He complains as kamui groans.

“We have to figure out lunch first….. which is going to be a chore since our budget was blown covering for you all.”

The cujo comes in, his face gaunt and tired as he chuckles.

“ you boys were expensive.”

[Armoured Priest]

"Oh, well we'll be paying back when we get the jobs, but what should we do for food?" Barron yawned after being informed. 'Or just eat someone.' the thought bidden into his mind. Shaking it off and chalking it up to some stuff in his system still, he stood up and stretched.