( OPEN ) MAY CATCH ALL

[cranekin]

WHO: Tsurumaru and you
WHAT: Sword lore, revisiting an old home, holidays, and shenanigans
WHERE: around Kyoto & Tokyo
WHEN: May
WARNINGS: N/A for now


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[cranekin]

If we found something, it would be a surprise.

(And if they find nothing, that could also be a surprise in its own way. Just finding the place still standing is a bittersweet one for him.

Hands on the door handle, he stops and just lingers there for a moment. Lowly,)

If they were stolen... I won't forgive them.

(Voice as gentle as ever but with a surprising edge. Truly, there are only a few things in this world that infuriate him so strongly. When he pushes on the door, it only barely budges. It's locked as one would hope. )</b Well, we'll have to find another way!

[the_fourteenth]

[As if a locked door is going to stop the former detective-in-training. Raidou steps forward, nodding to Tsurumaru to have him step aside. It's an old door, the lock likely rusted and corroded, and Raidou's stronger than he looks. He simply takes the butt of his sword and swiftly brings it down on the handle, smashing it right off.

The door creaks open, and he sweeps an arm aside for Tusuru to ahead.]

[cranekin]

(The lock gets broken like my html.......

Some loose metal pieces break off and clatter to the floor. Stepping inside, his footsteps echo and creak on old, worn out wooden flooring. It's dusty and musty and it just feels like no one has been here in a long time. It's like stepping into a time capsule... with barely anything in it.

The empty glass case with worn out event fliers and a "no photographs" sign is all that greets them at first. If they go around it and turn down the hall... there is a much larger room, wide and open with dusty, empty cases and cabinets for them to look at.)

... What an unsurprising place.

(If they manage to find anything here, they'll be lucky.)

[the_fourteenth]

[The place weas cleared, not ransacked. Nothing seemed turned over or broken. Raidou peers at cases and shelves in the dark room, in case anything evaded rescue in the past.]

Maybe this is good news. Perhaps whatever was here is somewhere safe. I hope so.

[Along with whoever took it, however long ago it was. Hopefully they got out of here in time.]

I'm sorry if you can't find what you're looking for.

[cranekin]

(He'll also check the cases. Most of it cleared. All that remains are replicas of the shrine grounds, models of props used for rituals... and in one case, there are shelves lined with small charms and dolls shaped like horses and the zodiac. Everything and anything left behind wasn't valuable enough to take or too small to bother with.)

... What a lonely place this has become.

(Voice soft, tinged with sadness, but a light smile on his face.)

You should have seen it before. Even when it was quiet, it was never like this.

[the_fourteenth]

[Replicas or not, it's tempting to rescue what he can from here, and take it back to the shrine where he works. But trying to explain where he got them would be impossible.

He turns from the shelves and gives Tsurumaru a light nod.]

I would have liked to. I'd always wanted to visit Kyoto. I know it was a beautiful place.

[Considering everything that has gone in this world, though...]

I'm glad that there's anything for us to see at all here, really. [Sad as it all is.]

[cranekin]

It is.

(It still is a beautiful place, he thinks. Even if it's more worn out now than it was before, the destruction can't hide its charms.)

Of course, it was more impressive before... but look at how it's still standing.

(And he motions towards the grounds around them,)

I think that's wonderful. It's no wonder this place was once worthy enough of being the capital.