WEEK 1 DAY 5: MISSION

[wonderful_mods]

Mission: "Observe from Tocho."
Time Limit: Medium
Noise Plane: Solo
Wall Instructions: Key wall in front of Nishi-Shinjuku. Objective to be met is appropriate dress.
Wall Rewards: Poison Chains
Reaped Rewards: Thunder Pawn
Mission Rewards: 10,000 yen



["Tocho" is a nickname that refers to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, which has two panoramic observation decks. It shouldn't be hard to get there, but what awaits when you arrive?]

Comments

[tamedhollow]

So what? You're just... jaded? [How long HAD this kid been at this? Ichigo knew he was different. But HOW different? ... Was he even a kid?

Ichigo frowns and sits down on the edge of the roof, looking at the people milling around below. Totally unaware that people were fighting for their lives just beyond a spiritual curtain. The blood smell wafts up again, and Ichigo's stomach rumbles audibly] ... dammit. Shut up, would you.

[leggierissimo]

Experience something strange for long enough, and it doesn't seem so strange anymore. [And that's all the answer that Ichigo would get to that.

... that reaction gets a raised eyebrow, though. It wasn't honestly that surprising, considering how different Ichigo was from the other Reapers here, but even so...] What a thing to get hungry from.

[tamedhollow]

.... ain't that the truth. [Ichigo mutters. Just a few short years ago, anything outside of the normal Plus ghost would have been weird. Now he'd seen Hollows, Shinigami, and everything in between. Jaded was a good word for it. Acclimated might be a nicer word.

The Hollow bristles, the fur around his neck and wrists poofing up] ... It's.... yeah. [he laughs, but it's humorless] Comes with the predator territory, I guess. I should do something about it. [usually Ichigo would save his hunting for after the mission was over. Track down some people possessed by the Noise... kill two birds with one stone. Happy people, full belly. But the frog Noise floating around up here would do for now. And his hunger wasn't going to wait. Josh would start looking quite delicious, soon. So it was eat in front of him... or eat him.] Excuse me.

[Ichigo blurs out of view and reappears across the roof by the Noise, grabbing it out out it's little portal and just... shoving the whole frog in his mouth. A mouth that was suddenly much too wide to be human. Crunch. Did you know Noise bleed? Only briefly, before it all dissolves into static]

[leggierissimo]

[... oh? Well, isn't that interesting. It doesn't put him off at all. In fact, Joshua watches with rather rapt attention. Forcibly pulling a Noise from its symbol? That's quite the talent indeed.

... and in all of his years around this sort of thing, he can't say he's ever seen a Noise bleed. Not even for a split second. Then again... he could have just been Erasing them too fast to notice.]

Impressive.

[tamedhollow]

[Ichigo turns with one of the little Noise's legs sticking out of his mouth. It'd be almost cute, if he didn't still look like someone had sliced his mouth from ear to ear. The leg finally turns to static and Ichigo swallows]

Wha, that? [he frowns and lets his mouth knit back to it's... regular gape] The frogs are so little, it's not like it's hard. I ate one of the bear ones last night. [The point...! ... swing and a miss]

[leggierissimo]

[... regardless, it's still kind of amusing. Enough to make Joshua's lips quirk up, at least. How comical.]

A bear. Really. My, you should try for one of the elephants next. [So, so amused.] I can't imagine that Noise would even be palatable.

[tamedhollow]

[Ichigo blinks] There's elephants? [news to him]

They don't really taste like anything. But I need a source of spirit energy in my diet because of what I am. They're just... pure negative spirit energy, so it works out well.

[leggierissimo]

Elephants, rhinoceros, drakes... of course, you're aware of the latter. There are plenty of things larger than bears.

Well, you're just in all kinds of luck here then, aren't you? I'm sure the Noise population could use a little culling anyway.

[tamedhollow]

I like the dragons. [he mentions sort of off hand] They're pretty cool to watch.

[Ichigo just huffs and walks back over to the edge of the rooftop, hunger sated, for now] It's a good thing I can eat them. Or the Players would be in danger. More danger than they're already in.

[leggierissimo]

Hardly surprising. [Was that a jab at Ichigo? Possibly.

Nonetheless, Joshua stays put, loosely folding his arms across his middle.] If you forget, that's sort of the point of it all.

[tamedhollow]

[if it is, it rolls right off.

Another huff from Ichigo] At least when they're Erased, their spirit particles go back into the ether. If I eat them? They go away. Besides, I'd get in trouble. "Hands off", isn't it?

[leggierissimo]

[... oh.]

You mean that they might be in danger from you. [How interesting...]

[tamedhollow]

Yes. From me. I have to eat. [he narrows his eyes] If I get too hungry, bad things happen. [he touches his collar. Without Rukia, or a link to Soul Society, there would be no way to stop him, either]