[ It was only until he was well on his way to recovery that he'd heard the news—Ereshkigal had gone missing.
How could this be? What happened during the kaiju mission? Is she...?
No, wait. He still had his command seals. If she'd died, then that connection would have been broken, wouldn't it? Well, he can't be entirely sure that's how command seals work, but he had to try.
When he's fully recovered, and given Aventurine enough days to feel like everything has returned to normalcy, he decides to put his plan to action. On a day that was clearly marked for field research on his schedule, he makes his way to the edge of Neo Tokyo, in a cluster of abandoned apartments, to prepare.
Not that there's much for him to prepare, necessarily, but anything could happen with unknown magicks, and honestly it could turn out for the worse. There's a chance, even with all the safeguards, that what he wants to do ends up killing him. But even if he promised Aventurine he would not risk himself, he cannot abandon Ereshkigal either. To do so would be to break the trust she has placed in him. To do so would be to turn his back on someone he calls a friend... perhaps the first true friend he's made here.
He just can't do that.
So, once he's done what he can to prepare for that eventuality. He starts. First, with a prodding of the connection between him and Ereshkigal, symbolized by those bright red marks on his hand. With eyes closed, he summons the energy within him, and begins his attempts to feed that energy into the connection, in the hopes that somehow, he will be able to determine where Ereshkigal is, and what has happened to her. ]
CLOSED - Rin & Muramasa
How could this be? What happened during the kaiju mission? Is she...?
No, wait. He still had his command seals. If she'd died, then that connection would have been broken, wouldn't it? Well, he can't be entirely sure that's how command seals work, but he had to try.
When he's fully recovered, and given Aventurine enough days to feel like everything has returned to normalcy, he decides to put his plan to action. On a day that was clearly marked for field research on his schedule, he makes his way to the edge of Neo Tokyo, in a cluster of abandoned apartments, to prepare.
Not that there's much for him to prepare, necessarily, but anything could happen with unknown magicks, and honestly it could turn out for the worse. There's a chance, even with all the safeguards, that what he wants to do ends up killing him. But even if he promised Aventurine he would not risk himself, he cannot abandon Ereshkigal either. To do so would be to break the trust she has placed in him. To do so would be to turn his back on someone he calls a friend... perhaps the first true friend he's made here.
He just can't do that.
So, once he's done what he can to prepare for that eventuality. He starts. First, with a prodding of the connection between him and Ereshkigal, symbolized by those bright red marks on his hand. With eyes closed, he summons the energy within him, and begins his attempts to feed that energy into the connection, in the hopes that somehow, he will be able to determine where Ereshkigal is, and what has happened to her. ]