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Lewin "Lightning" Light ⚙ Blue Exorcist
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[chichichi]

[ She sighs, exasperated. ]

I guess that's something.

[ She guesses. And it is something, just not nearly as favorable a something as she'd like and a surging curiosity. If Yukio is bound by a Morinath contract, if he really wanted to die, he could have simply broken that contract, but he hasn't.

More and more puzzle pieces. ]

Is there anything else I should know?

[lightningruins]

About what?

[chichichi]

[ This look. Get that single brain cell working, mister. ]

[lightningruins]

If you're wondering about Okumura, you'll have to ask him what he's got issues with.

[chichichi]

I'm more concerned about what he may attempt because of whatever issues he has. He's a good boy, but he's still a boy and boys do stupid things even after they're men.

[ She lifts a finger and taps his nose. ]

You know that.

[lightningruins]

'course he's a kid, but [Lewin says, and there's a little seriousness there, as he looks at her from under his bangs.] he's also the youngest to get his exorcist's certification in over a hundred years, and he did it with two meisters. He's a working exorcist, teaches a pretty complicated subject decently well, and maintains the top scores in his special advanced class in high school.

He also threw all of that out the window, live, on national television, trying to chase down the same info I was looking for. If I hadn't got that old priest to spill the beans, Yukio would've, and I don't think that's the kind of thing he could have handled afterwards.

[chichichi]

[ Setsura holds his gaze quietly for a moment as she considers this new information. More than a beat passes between them during which silence attempts to cast itself like a blanket over them. As it does, she leans slowly forward to peer more closely at him. Then, and with a very particular smile bordering on mischievous spreading across her face, she abruptly kicks that figurative blanket off. ]

You like him.

[ She'll ask Lewin who Yukio tried to shoot in a minute. This is just as important. ]

[lightningruins]

He's a kid, Set-chan. [And weirdly, Lewin feels like the only person who noticed that.]

I didn't do it for him, I'm doing my own research and using him the same as anybody else, but if he's gonna get pissed at me for something he would have done eventually, that's on him.

1/2

[chichichi]

[ She cants her head, still peering up into his face, and then -- ]

2/2

[chichichi]

You really like him!

[lightningruins]

Would I have put a Morinath contract on him if I really liked him?

[chichichi]

Yes.

[ She doesn't hesitate. ]

Because you like him and you know he's a kid capable of doing remarkably stupid things. That's partially why you let him walk out of our house that day despite the strength of your heat.

[lightningruins]

[He laughs, bright and loud.]

See! That's why I like you! [She gets it.]

1/2

[chichichi]

[ She loves that laugh. ]

Well, it makes sense.

[ To her it does, anyway. ]

2/2

[chichichi]

Shooting people seems to be Yukio-chan's solution to things.

[ Her smile falls now. ]

So, who'd he try to shoot on national television?

[lightningruins]

The head of the Japan branch of True Cross, who's also the headmaster of his high school, and the demon king of time.

I don't know if he was gonna shoot him, or just trying to threaten him, but somebody else took the chance and sniped Mephisto from the back of the auditorium.

[chichichi]

So, he's mentally in a good place and great situation in Assiah, too.

[ This boy... ]

[lightningruins]

What, you think the human spawn of Satan was gonna have an easy life?

[chichichi]

He's suicidal, you know. I'd be mindful of that since you have a Morinath contract on him. I'm sure he hasn't taken advantage of that because he has some objective in mind.

[ There's no "I suspect" in front of that last statement because she's sure of it. ]

[lightningruins]

He wants answers more than he wants to die. And he'll activate it when it's the right time, I set it up to take out more than just him, and he knows it.

[chichichi]

What's that supposed to mean?

[ Her hands are on his shoulders. She is pre-shake. The only thing that saved him was that cryptic statement. ]

[lightningruins]

You should ask him about it! [LEWIN NO]

[chichichi]

[ Her hands grip his shoulders properly and she begins to shake him wildly. ]

What do you think I am? Stupid?! You put a contract on him that'll kill him if he talks! That's counterproductive!! I am not killing our son!!!

[lightningruins]

[he's an anime character so he just lets himself be flailed comedically around

and then]

If he's our son he'll be smart enough to figure out how to talk about it without triggering it!

[chichichi]

[ She continues to shake him for an additional moment because it's kind of impressive how flexible he is about this. She does, however, gradually slow down. ]

Maybe.

[ Shake. ]