damned_bulletin | (no subject)

Because you're too special to be weaker than anyone else? I've met lots of guys like you, guys who were ready to roll over and die when they lost. I've been that way too. I ran out on my best friend who needed me, and I showed a bad back to the one kid who was fighting to keep everything together when everything was lost. All of that? That's too fucking easy to do.

Kid, you're a lot better off than you should be. You don't know a damn thing about that technique, or about what it took to learn it. Don't talk about it like it's some cheap trick, because it's not. The guy who made it put everything he had into creating it, and I risked my life to learn it.

Tomorrow night. Normally I'd just be looking forward to a good fight, but you're pissing me off.

That doesn't surprise me, because I've heard all of this before. Perhaps you did risk your life to learn the technique, and everything one great fighter had was poured into creating it.

To me, it's still nothing more than a trick to be learned, and potentially to be discarded- the cost you paid didn't go unnoticed. One more repetition and I'll master it. I would have managed it last night, if I hadn't been so distracted.
-Adel

Y'know, I'd be curious if you could learn shunpou. But considering it fucking half kills me to use anything advanced here, I'll probably just have to keep wondering.

I can see. But there's a difference between learning and being able to utilize.
-Adel

Also true.

...You don't know a damn thing about mastery. There's a hell of a lot more to mastery than just being able to do it.

And my hands are just fine. Fine enough to beat the hell out of you, in fact.

When I say 'mastery,' I am not idly boasting. Every last detail and possibility. Enough to begin putting my own interpretation on it soon thereafter. Now do you begin to see the difference between us?

I have no doubt as to that last assertion, obviously. But when I'm back at full strength, perhaps that will change.
-Adel

Idiot. I'm the one who made the two-handed version, and I'm not a damn master. You don't get it.

Your full strength? You mean being like you were before you got brought here? When you and your fancy lights can beat me without batting a damn eye?

I'm really starting to understand you, kid. You don't have a clue what strength is, and you don't have a clue what it means to really fight.

I hope some day, some guy comes up who's stronger than you could ever be, and kicks your ass. And I hope maybe that guy will be able to open your damn eyes.

But I'm not going to waste my time of a fight like this. Not with some punk who can't understand anything.

It's already happened, Sanosuke. There are those who, in my world, can not be defeated by someone with my power, nor with yours. To say nothing of those who, in this Institute, have managed to defeat me quite handily, all my strength to the contrary.

But I am not yet so weak that I can't hold my own in an fair fight. If you can't understand that, or why this means so much to me, then perhaps it would be best for you to remain at a distance.
-Adel

Let me guess. You pouted then too, right?

I get why it means so much to escape, and I get why it means so much to be able to fight. I got left behind once because the guy thought I was a burden, and I've lost a lot of times before. What I don't understand is why you're letting it beat you, because you can hold your own.

And maybe the other thing you don't get, is that Kenshin can't have that kind of weakness going into his sword. Fuck your fancy lights. If you can't be confident, then Kenshin can't get his sakabato from you. End of story.

Sano...

What? Are you saying I'm wrong, and that you're still going to get your sword from this guy?

One out of two. He's our only option. You can't just go around alienating people, you know.

Like hell I can't. It's like every damn bit of stress I had before I went to Shinsuu's come back, and I can't even get rid of it properly this time.

I was rather unable to do much of anything, actually. And at last you finally admit that you don't understand.

As for the sakabato... he will be getting one, as I promised him. And as it is Kenshin who I am making the blade for, weakness is not what I'll be putting into the weapon. This, at least, I can do properly.
-Adel

You sure about that? You got pretty damn pissy when you couldn't do it last night. And this blade is more important that you probably realize.

There can't be any mistakes. Not one.

Not a single flaw. I have an idea of how important this weapon is, as Kenshin has informed me of some of the particulars; that is the reason I can be confident this weapon will be perfect.
-Adel

An idea, huh? Guess I've got an advantage, being from the same place as Kenshin and all. But we aren't from the same time. I'm from the future, maybe about a month or so, and I'm telling you right now that this weapon can't fail.

It fucking can't.

Remember what I said last night. Making weapons that won't fail is something I can do.
-Adel

I remember what you said. And most of it pissed me off.

So you're just going to have to live with the fact that I'm not taking you at your word.

Used to it. I'll let my results speak for me, then.
-Adel