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[ him? him as in... mochi... ]

[ ??? ]

[ he doesn't know the whole story ( or... much of it, really ) but it kind of seems like he moved on... although, he can never really predict scaramouche, so that could potentially change. ]

[ childe hums, summoning a hair of hydro swords to his hands. ] I won't touch either of them.

Good. I wouldn't forgive you if you did. I'm still mad about the previous attempt.

This would be better away from the houses. I don't want Snail swooping in on our matters.

I did it because I knew it would piss you off, and you deserved to have something precious taken from you, since you killed Mochi.

Fine. Let’s go to the forest. [ he turns into a fox and just starts walking there. ]

And this is why we'll never be friends, Tartaglia.

[Follows him until they get far enough away so that a fight won't draw attention.]

I'd say killing is off limits, but that would spoil your fun. But let's try not to.

Oh please. You like getting under my skin too. I already said I wasn’t going to take them. [ he murmurs something after, about finding another way to get one. ]

I’m not interested in killing you at the moment and I would rather not die a second time. [ he’s still recovering, which is part of the reason he didn’t want to do this, but his mouth is cashing checks his ass can’t cash. ]

I know enough basic healing to patch you up.

[He just assumes Tartaglia wants to fight all the time, so he doesn't notice any reservations. He summons his swords, one crackling with lightning and the other made of vines and briars holding a greenish hue.]

Show me how much you've improved now that I can appreciate it.

[ if he had just died instead of changing and then dying he’d be more excited, but as it stands he’s just mentally exhausted. ]

[ still, he summons a hydro bow to his hands and takes aim… an enormous narwhal cresting from behind him as childe fires off six consecutive shots infused with electro. ]

That's not subtle.

[Not that he really cares, but damaging large swatches of the forest is probably ill advised. He whips up vines from the floor to dodge most of the arrows, one or two hit him scratching as his skin, but the electro he just seems to absorb.

And just to be a prick, a storm of lightning starts to appear above them same as when they fought in the forest earlier. He's not being subtle either.

He knows the range on that whale so he backs up, but shoots vines at Childe to hold him in place.]

[ he changes into a snake to slip through and then shifts into a rhino to charge at him, the earth behind him becoming something like a rolling wave as it launches him at scaramouche. ]

Ah. So that is what that was.

[He did notice the slight change in him but couldn't pinpoint it.]

You're going to erode faster and faster if you keep collecting Delusions, Tartaglia.

[Now that he's not panicking out of his mind, the Everlasting Lord of Arcane Wisdom is quite agile. DEX based if you will. He throws his sword of lightning like a spear straight at him, hoping to startle him or at least distract him. The other he will use like a whip to pull him up into the boughs of the jungle.]

[ the spear doesn’t phase him. he takes the hit, using his horn as a mock lightning rod… although the spear, itself, does some damage. he keeps charging though, intent on goring him, but he’s grabbed by the vine whip. shit. he hastily turns into pure hydro, the water ball retreating to take shape of a human. ]

Don’t lecture me. [ several Geo pillars start erupting from the ground, forming a circle around them as a fin appears and starts ‘swimming’ around them. ] I’m only going to get stronger.

[ and how’s that clarity doing? pheromones are starting to fill the ‘arena’ - one’s meant to make a person feel lethargic. ]

[It is so incredibly surreal watching Childe do all of that: the rhino, the hydro ball, back to human. And it shows on his face, but he steals his expression.]

At what expense. Are you even human anymore?

[And then the pheromones. He hates them and is going to remember to bring a counter measure next time. He drops a bolt of lightning on each of the circling stones intending to break them. Even if they don't collapse shards of rocks will fly at both of them, and he doesn't even bother to dodge.

He looks at the fin 'circling' and checks if there is water or is swimming in the dirt?]

…

[ his expression becomes unreadable as he turns into a tyrannosaur and just roars at scaramouche. the entire area quakes as the geo pillars burst, the electro destroying a good chunk of them and sending rocks flying this way and that way. ]

[ the fin… it’s swimming in the dirt, and should Scaramouche get distracted by childe’s most recent transformation the fin is going to disappear only for a geo shark to spring up from under ( or beside if he’s quick enough ) for a bite. ]

[*steels. I know English.]

I see a hit a nerve.

[He's a small guy. He could try to move, but that would cause more damage and the lethargy is kicking in, so he tucks down and gets swallowed whole by the shark. But as he disappears into its maw the tell tale glow of both his weapons return back to his hand.]

[ if he tries hard enough he can break the geo construct, but childe is back to himself and striding over. ] No, I’m not human, …not anymore. I don’t know what I am. [ a hot mess, but whether or not scaramouche hears him he doesn’t know. ]

[ his mask cracks from the strain of overexertion and he just summons a geo polearm to stab into the ground to keep himself upright. ]

[He shatters the geo construct with the forces of an elemental reaction.]

Why do you chase eternity then? You'll never make it. You a fighter for the Tsarista. You were never meant to live to old age.

[Vines shoot up from underneath Childe and one specifically wraps around his neck and tries to drag him closer.]

Because I made a pro- [ chokes, grabbing at the vine as he’s yanked closer. ] Promise. [ turns his nails to claws and tries to shred that vine, so he can breathe more easily. ]

I will make it. I’m not resigning myself to death just yet. My fate isn’t sealed, and I’ll make with it what I want.

[He's not going to strangle him, but he's going to drag him closer because he's a big boss now, and big bosses don't walk to their targets or look at explosions.]

You're an idiot.

[But it is said with fondness and not with malice.]

…not the first time I have heard that. [ hydro tentacles snake up scaramouche’s legs, turning to ice the moment they reach his thighs, so he’s firmly stuck in place. ]

[ he manages to shred the vine, clawed hand taking scaramouche’s chin in hand. ] And you’re a brat. [ also said fondly. ]

[ he gives him a quick kiss before the ‘shackles’ shatter and childe takes a few steps back and then just sinks into a seat. he’s fucken exhausted. ]

[He's going to stand there stunned because he just got double ko'd by two objectives and he doesn't know how to feel about it.]

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[ he holds a hand out to him. ] Come here?

No.

[Sorry, he has to be a little shit.]

[ childe just laughs, letting his hand drop. ] ...but you liked it, didn't you? [ gives him a sly ass grin. ]

[Now that's kicking off a taboo. Or rather repressing it is.]

You hit an objective. Don't be too proud of yourself.

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