( stage setting )

[ Voice ]

Shiemi went home. [ It's much later in the day when he says this ] ...'N she's gonna be okay there so... so it's fine, but 'm sorry for all her friends. [ He swallows. He's okay. No one should be here. No one deserves to be here ] I don't know the names of all've her plants as well as I oughta, or how you care for all've 'em... but uh. If anyone wants to have one of her plants here, I can tell you what it's named and what I know about lookin' after them.

[ If you want something to remember her by. That's... that's okay, right? ]

'N... the house is too big for me. It was kinda too big for just me 'n Shiemi too, and we was always looking for a roommate. Does anyone wanna come here? [ I don't want to be alone-- but he wouldn't be alone, Skarmy and Midori are here at least. Is it right for him to have Skarmy with him though? He's not that trainer thing... ] Like. Friends of mine, I guess... or hers?

[ A beat. And he snarls, even if he said he wouldn't lose his temper here ] Nevermind. That's all I got.

[ He's going to go back to seeing if reading manga can be good now. But even that reminds him of someone else from his home who went home. Someone who is important to both him and Shiemi, but- ... but at least she isn't that much older than him anymore. Unlike him. ]

[ Voice ]

Where's Pilouette? [ But he knows. He suspects, at least. He didn't see her when he watched everyone come in. He was then reminded people died, and today that people are coming back. But still not her - he hasn't seen her and he doesn't know. He sounds somewhat lost, he sounds choked up. He half wants to just leave the journal behind and...

Precis... ] I want to- ... Wait, what was that!

[ And then it cuts off- ]

[ Action ]

[ Because his house just vanished. So did the pool There's just a grassy field with a tree in the middle of it. Shiemi was out somewhere and now it's just him and Skarmy, Shiemi's seven foot tall murderbird of steel. Her and Rin loo confused at each other. And then Skarmy squawks at him before making to fly off. Rin ends up flipping her the bird before going to collect Midori the turtle and go off to look all over down for where his house just vanished to ]

[Video]

Hey guys, guys! I managed to work out a new attack up here! See, check this out!

[ The video shows Rin excited... but anyone who hasn't seen him while his sword is drawn might be a little surprised. His fangs and ears are both longer, and he also has blue "horns" on his head made out of blue fire. He's also got a rather large demonic aura right now, but you can't sense that through the book. And once he steps back from the video, he's got elongated claws and the end of his tail has flames too.

He's set the book up against a boulder and he's clearly somewhere up in the mountains. He's shouting at the book so that it's more clear what he's doing. But first things first, he surrounds himself and his sword with some of his blue flames ]

Okay so I did work out how to control my flames a while back [for the most part... the barrier's given him some issues when it coms to very fine tuned things] and I can also do stuff like this!

[ And at this, pointing out a decent sized rock over here, he slices it with his flaming sword - and the sword slices the rock clean in half. While he does this he also lets out a bit of an echoing shout, to focus himself. In the aftermath, though, the rock does still seem to be on fire still (blue fire) oops. But either way!! ]

See? But now I worked out something else, so check this out.

[ And he steps back, pulls his sword back, and focuses. The camera angle isn't great to see it, but in the distance there's several cans set up to stand on top of some big rock. And then he brings his sword in a downward arc and calls out: ]

Satan Slash!

[ And with that, a wave of blue fire which may or may not be semi-solid flies out from his sword (like so) and -- while he intends to knock over the cans alone the wave is too big and sends them flying back a bit. But they are not lit on fire, nor was anything else.

Either way, he turns back to the camera, grinning ]

So uh, sorry for bein' out in the mountains for a while now, but I pulled this off! I'll try no to bring any bears back to town, and I'll be back soon.

[Accidental Voice -> Accidental Recorded List Thing]

Yeah, I guess I ought to make two lists... for home, and for hear. That'd be more fair, right?

[Tapping his pen. Rin, you see, is at home and editing his cool guy list. Back home it was pretty obvious where people fell and where people didn't. The problem is, here, there's more people, they go home, and sometimes people are just killing people happy. There's a lot little "ughs, errs, and aahs" as he works here, and then finally he seems to have finished it, goes "aha!" and stands to go and goes to make some lunch.

Thing is, a light breeze blows the list onto the journal and a clip of it is recorded]

3) Ikki
4) Shiemi
5) Izumo
6) Rogue
7) Caius

[What is this list? It could be anything]

[Action]

[Aaand after that embarrassment he sets out for the town. You know, aside from his job at Seventh Heaven and training with Wolverine, he really doesn't have a lot going on. And after not being in this last draft, he feels like that probably isn't enough, right? He tries to remember if he had anything going on - and he recalls two things. One bet with Yuri which isn't important anymore because she admitted she was his friend in her going away letter and one thing where he was supposed to do... but it would be weird to call out Kotomi. And the snow's melted too, so he can't do that...

So instead he goes around to do fun things. Hes goes to the Rec Center and plays games, he goes to the Item Shop to find things, and he takes his turtle, Midori, out from the house to see the outside now it's pretty warm. Run into him anywhere in town doing random things he thinks might be fun. if you want random card you can specify a place and I'll make up some stuff]

[Voice]

Ossu, it's me, Rin. I uh, finally found my journal. [and he's not talking about where it was because he feels very foolish about where he ultimately found it. In fact, he coughs before moving on-]

So how many've you have heard of exorcists? Exorcists are basically people who save normal people from demons, when demons are causing problems or hurting people. [It's been too long] I'm an exorcist in training and so're the two girls I live with, Shiemi and Izumo. [I've been here a year] So if anyone's got some demon problems, or I guess any kinda evil spirit or stuff like that, you should know to call us. We can handle it quickly. [Please, give me something that makes sense again] ...So that's all, I guess.

[Action]

[And after that, Rin was thinking he'd sit around, surfing the journal now that he'd been without it so long, but he got bored with that after doing it three minutes. Plus with how much snow he'd had to suffer in the Ice Age, it not getting any warmer, really, and his impending birthday... he's just settled for a long walk all over town. Picking up a new coat at the clothing shop, going to see both the bridges, skirting the forest's edge. He's really all over the place, thinking about how it's been far too long.

Run into him in the course of any of that, he's a bit lost in thought and it doesn't really suit him.

[Action]

[So after running into Izumo and getting properly dressed, Rin sets out to complete his sweep for Kurikara in the item shop before heading back "home" to House 15. Possibly with Izumo he goes back there but maybe not. Either way, he ends up going there in the relatively early morning. Run into him en route, while he's looking for Kurikara, or when he's there.]

[Voice]

...Ossu. It's me, Rin Okumura. I got sent back. [And I've been informed my brother went home.

I'm apart from Yukio. I know I upset a lot of you. He bites his lip and then shakes his head. No, he's not saying any of that]

Pity it's too cold, h-huh? I wanted to go swimming in this pool, now it's kinda too cold for it...

[...Haha...]

[Video-y]

[So Ryoji Announcing in the other day reminded him. So he's on a video now! He's shirtless. His tail is behind him, and he's blushing. He is flustered and stuff! So he comes on the video and... bows to the video]

I'm sorry! During that pageant a while back! I uh, caused a problem for a lot of people [by burning their clothes off] and so I'm sorry for that! [He gets up, bows again, and then gets up again. ...Before itching his muscular abs, feeling awkward. Where should he- oh right!] And uh... Congrats, Fenimore! I already congratulated Shiemi, but you got straight up third place! That's awesome!

...Oh right, and I'm sorry I signed you up if you didn't enjoy that, Cloche.

[...Ehehe. He grins, sheepishly before he goes to pick up the journal and have it look over the pool behind house 15] I'm finally done repairing this pool! So if you want you can come swim at it! Behind House 15, that is.

[He means the people he's apologizing to. but this is an open entry so be brings it back up to his face now]

And uh, that's it.

( explanation )

[Loosely (poorly) filtered to anyone he's talked to here before except Saten // Voice]

[She's excluded just because. But yes this is easy to hack for anyone in to that sort of thing]

Hey, it's me, Rin. Look, I'm no good at lying [more like he doesn't like to anyway], but... I've kinda been doing that. Back home, a lot of you guys would have known this already as soon as you saw my flames or heard my name, so I'm just going to tell you all, alright?! [A distinct pause]

I'm... Satan's kid. I don't wanna be, but that's what it is.

[...Wait. Last time he talked about Satan-] Oh, and if you don't know who Satan is, he's the God of Gehenna? King of Hell? Lord of Evil? That guy. He's a real jackass.

[Who some might remember a few posts ago he said killed his dad, so]