In the middle of the night

[blueondeck]

[Standing outside the cabin, wondering about going in.]

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[pussyfortono]

. . . what a charming man.

[blueondeck]

Marvelous wanted me to make sure you warned the rest of your team about him. If he get's his memories back, he might be able to take your powers from you.

[pussyfortono]

Ah, I will be sure to tell them.

[blueondeck]

I'm not sure what's worse.

[pussyfortono]

He is an enemy regardless of whether he has his memories or not.

[blueondeck]

. . .

That's not the kind of Pirate I am.

[pussyfortono]

He kissed you against your will.

[blueondeck]

I know ... He could have done anything, but he only did that.

[pussyfortono]

. . . Juuzou once lost his memories in camp.

[blueondeck]

. . . What happened?

[pussyfortono]

He became who he was in the past. Sick. He had a life threatening disease.

[blueondeck]

What did you do?

[pussyfortono]

I walked away from him.

[blueondeck]

...

[pussyfortono]

. . .

I still regarded him as my enemy.

Yes, he was sick. But his disease was one of the reasons he fell to Gedou. He used his skills as a samurai to assassinate people, taking pleasure in killing and shedding blood. And to prolong his life so that he would be able to satisfy his bloodlust, he fell to gedou.

[blueondeck]

I wasn't doubting your judgement.

[pussyfortono]

That is not why I told you that.

I am saying that I felt pity for him. For who he was. Because there was a time that he followed the way of the bushido. But that pity did not change what he has already done. It is not even that he fixated on me to fight. It is the fact that he knew that Akumaro had used his family to create his sword, Uramasa, yet he still used it to kill. He believed that it cried when in the presence of someone strong, a potential opponent he could kill.

[blueondeck]

A terrible person.

[pussyfortono]

His blade cried not because it lusted for blood, but in sorrow. For centuries, it did so.

[ he pauses ]

He saved my life once. I was poisoned by Akumaro.

[blueondeck]

What for?

[pussyfortono]

Because of his obsession with me. He wanted to fight me to the death.

[blueondeck]

Marvelous will have to deal with Basco in the same way.

[pussyfortono]

Is that why he did what he did?

[blueondeck]

Baso is selfish and jaded. I don't know what he's thinking, but I know it's only about Marvelous and AkaRed. When I mentioned how he's going to hurt Marvelous, he acted like that's impossible. Now that I know he's had a... thing ... It's like Basco can't see anything but what Marvelous, or AkaRed, isn't giving him.

[pussyfortono]

. . . that could prove to be dangerous.