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[ He's not even looking at her when he's hit. More, he was looking for the source of that gunshot. The one he definitely heard. Even if Arietta didn't hear it, Liger had to, right? There's no way that he couldn't have?

... Unless it wasn't real.

He thinks that just in time to be hit by the force, launched clean out of the clinic and into the street. His sword goes flying off too, embedding into the ground and his palm reader skids off to the side. Conveniently, it opens up to the youtube thing he was just on, loudly playing the audio of Arietta getting fucked by some big burly guy ]

[After taking a minute to calm the patient (and maybe asking him to tell anyone who comes to check on that sound that it was just Liger playing by the door again), she closes the door behind her and goes out to see Rin, only to hear... porn...?]

[She makes to grab his sword first, hoping to find the sheath and close it up before Rin gets up, but... then she sees the palm reader. Flaming sword still in hand, she bends down to look at it--]

[And then immediately decides she doesn't want to look at it anymore. She almost considers stabbing it, but instead her instincts have her swinging the sword like a golf club, hitting the reader as far away as she can get it, the screen no doubt cracking when it hits the ground.]

[She doesn't even approach Rin, to ask if he's okay. Instead she screams--]

What the hell is wrong with you!?

I heard a gunshot! I guess... I guess it wasn't there...

[ He's still on his back here, holding his head and sprawled out. He heard the palm reader - both it playing and it cracking (those aren't cheap...) and he -

He feels like an idiot. Were those texts not there?

... Mercifully, the palm reader is still playing the porn, so even with the cracked screen they might be able to check ]

[He might be able to check, but Arietta has no desire to go over and look at it. Especially not while she's angry, still holding his sword.]

But what are you doing here!? You know you can't just rush into a place with sick people with a sword! And that video, and... a-and you pushed me!!

[He already explained that one, but she's really upset about it. It was only a day ago that what happened with Killua finally convinced her that Rin couldn't be responsible for the collar. And maybe she always knew, because she knew Rin would never hurt her.]

[But now... what was he even trying to do?]

I had to come find you! Come on, Liger's stalking me this whole time, right?! Ask him! Some asshole sent me this threatening message about you!

[ He's wailing this, sitting up. He's still in his demon form, groaning as he gets up a little bit. That hurt. A lot. But he's keeping a hard gaze, and making to crawl towards the phone now. ]

[Well that sure shuts her down quickly.]

...what?

Some! Asshole! Texts me out of the blue!

[ He roars this, scrambling over towards the palm reader, crawling and groaning a bit as he does. He - He can smell something he's not sure is there now. It's weird, fetid. But then this is Midas, maybe someone died here. But he gets ahold of the palm reader, trying to force it despite the crack to get back to the message log ]

[The crack means it might take a little longer to navigate away from the porn that's still totally been playing this whole time, jesus, how many rounds did they go for?? But once the sounds disappear, Arietta makes her way over to Rin's side, still keeping a tentative distance from him. Not that she doesn't believe him, but...]

...did they send you that video?

Not that one. But another one, and then you got a tag on that site.

[ It was... a real rabbit hole tbh.

...There we go, the short text chain if it didn't delete itself or something. He thrusts the cracked palm reader at her ]

A tag...? [Arietta rarely, if ever, browses the internet on her palm reader. SO that word goes over her head.]

[But then she's looking at the screen he's showing her, eyes wide as she delicately takes the palm reader from him, his sword resting in her lap.]

[And of course, she clicks the link--]

[...]

[She doesn't even wait for it to load to the point where the collar activates before she gives it back to Rin, entirely too familiar with what would come next.]

T-Turn it off.

[ In a hurry, once he gets it back he does turn it off, but he hits that so hard it just cracks the screen further, and threatens to break the relatively one-screen for whole thing ... thing. He's definitely going to need to replace it.

Either way, he looks at her with a deep concern now, his one eye narrowing to focus. ]

What the fuck was that?

[She doesn't answer for a long moment, eyes staring down at the sword in her lap. But eventually, her grip on the hilt tightens and she looks back up at Rin with a sad, almost pained expression.]

...Rin. I need you to do something for me first. I... I need to finish my shift. I have two hours left.

[And she stands, holding out his sword to him.]

Can I trust you... to wait here for me?

[There's a certain sadness in her eyes that carries in her words. She's not asking him to do this -- she needs him to do it.]

[Because right now, she doesn't trust him. She can't.]

[ She...

He takes the sword back, but he only does that long enough to put the thing back in the scabbard at his waist. He then shoves the thing back towards her, and makes to sit cross-legged here in the corner of the street. He- ]

I won't move from this spot.

[So he understands.]

[She rests her hand over his as she takes the sword back, holding it there as she looks at him.]

[Despite how painful it is for her, being unable to trust or believe in someone who has come to mean so much to her... being the one to lose that trust must be twice as bad.]

[Especially when he still trusts her with something like this. She takes the sword and cradles it in her arms with a nod.]

...I'll be back soon.

[And in two hours...]

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