kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)
Chikusa ([personal profile] kokuyoyo) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore 2018-08-22 07:45 pm (UTC)

If there's any one thing Chikusa can be thankful for, it's that he was the first of Axel's shinki, and alone for some time before Ken arrived. There was never anyone else to compare himself to, at least not so immediately in his proximity. It was his own insecurities that drove him so hard in the absence of anyone else... for better or worse.

Still, it's a shared kind of experience, a feeling that has him looking at her with a different eye. They may not share the same temple, but they share the same goals, at least, and Ginia has shown herself to be useful besides. Not to mention it's clear she's someone like Hakkai: someone who shares his train of thought, and who he doesn't have to worry about shocking too badly. So there's a clear consideration to his gaze when he accepts the paper from her- or at least as clear as anything is with Chikusa. He unfolds the paper carefully, taking the time to inspect what he's been given even as he organizes his thoughts for a proper answer.

"I... tend to lean towards fewer," he says eventually. "Even if most spells, besides song ones, require a name to cast... I don't want to give anyone the power to harm my god, or myself." Or his boyfriend, but Chikusa doesn't say that. "If I'm going to teach someone... then I either want something in exchange for the effort, or.... I want to know that they won't be someone stupid or rash." A pause as he meets her gaze pointedly. "Like Gojyo," he says simply, in a callback to the meeting which occurred only the other day.

Still, this is a good time to fold the paper back and hand it to her again. "And that's... a song to fight fires."

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