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Who: Manji and you
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Action: On the planet
When: Right now!

[One afternoon Manji opens up his communicator.] Kogarasumaru! [He speaks with confidence that he probably shouldn't have.] You remember our fight, right? Well, I'm ready if you are. Shall I meet you at your dojo or somewhere on this junk of a planet? [Thanks to this thread Manji has a fight to pick. He could just call Kogarasumaru out privately, but he hasn't figured out how to do that just yet.]

Action: Junker Racing

[You know what else Manji can do that's really dumb? Try driving a car in a junker race with one arm. How hard can driving a car be when the most advance transportation you've ever driven was a horse?

And-- opps, yup. He's just crashed. In a spectacular fashion. Good thing he's immortal? Still, he may need a hand out of that wreckage.]

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[Manji doesn't bother with a retort. Having already committed to an attack from the side he also doesn't let the unsettling expression on Kogarasumaru's face sway his hand. He throws everything he has in an attack to the crow's shoulder.]

[Shifting out of the way, he ducks low before jumping up. He slashes up as he does so and Manji will suddenly get a very close up look at the fact that Kogarasumar's sword is not shaped like a normal katana.

Because it's sharp on both sides.]

[Manji was prepared to take a hint from the back of a katana. So he didn't try to dodge that attack. He's deeply regretting that choice now.] Aw hell!

[He hisses as the sword bites into his skin, but tries for something new once more. Dropping his two pronged sword so he can reach and take hold of Kogarasumaru's blade. He doesn't care if he has to let it dig deeper into his skin, Manji wants to steal his sword away and doesn't care if he has to bleed to do it.]

[With both sides of the blade being sharp, he'll find it cuts deeply into his palm and fingers. However, the sword doesn't let go of the blade. But he can feel the injury. The warm flesh around the steel.

He can feel as the steel shifts and cuts deeper as he actually flips himself around so that he stands on Manji's shoulders. Using his leverage, he pulls to cut the hand holding his weapon, twisting the blade at the same time to cause further damage.

Manji hadn't wanted him to hold back. So he isn't.]

[For a moment Manji thinks that maybe he will be able to steal away the sword. It was going to cost him, yes, but his hand will heal so it was worth it. It's a very fleeting moment as suddenly Kogarasumaru is on his shoulders and with that additional weight on him Manji feels the sword escaping his grasp.

Only escaping isn't the right term. More he can feel his fingers severing as he loses control of those muscles as he doesn't give up on his plan fast enough before he loses a couple fingers. He always was a bit too stubborn for his own good.]

SHIT! [Now what was he going to do? He can't hold even his own blade anymore. His stubborn streak still continues as he tries to shake Kogarasumaru off while also reaching down in an attempt to scoop up any finger he can. Too wrapped up in the fight to figure out that he should give up.]

[Rather than get off, he grabs Manji's hair and puts his sword to his throat.]

Manji, it is time to give up. If you wish another round then surrender this time and heal. You can try again after.

[But this? This is really more suicidal even for someone who is immortal.]

[Manji hisses with a wince as his scalp is pulled back. He feels the cold steal against his throat. For the very briefest of moments he actually leans into it. A very small part of his old life wishing for that warrior's death the worms stole from him, but it's only for that tiny moment. He's very quick to remember Rin and how he needs to stay alive for her again and he backs off.]

Alright. Alright. I surrender. Now leggo before you make me bald.

[Immediately, he jumps off of him and lands gracefully nearby, flicking the sword to the side before sheathing it. Only then does he turn to Manji and actually move closer so that way he can watch how this reattachment works.]

You can be quite the stubborn opponent.

Yeah, I hear that a lot. [He grins as he bends down and places his hand close to the severed fingers on the ground. What Kogarasumaru will see can sometimes make a person's stomach flip. The digits twitch slightly as the worms wiggle inside and start to use their own bodies to replace the flesh that Manji lost. It only takes a minute or two before they are connected enough that Manji can lift his hand off of the ground. In another one or two he will have full use of that hand back.]

As I said immortality has dulled my skill because I can just be stubborn instead.

I like that about you though. Perhaps your skills are changed but stubbornness is not the worst thing.

[He actually doesn't look the least bit disturbed by the way the fingers reattach. In fact, he just tilts his head curiously to witness the entire event until it finishes.]

Those creatures are truly so eager for you to live.

Yeah. The bastards are good at what they do. [Even the small cut on his neck is completely gone now. In fact all damage he took to his body during the course of the fight is gone.] But they have been helpful now and then.

[He holds his hand out to him.]

May I see? Your hand.

[Manji picks up his nearest dropped blade and stashes it back into his kimono before walking over to Kogarasumaru.] Sure, I have no problem with letting people look. Unless you're some psycho doc, but you won't see anything.

[He holds out his hand for Kogarasumaru to inspect and Manji's telling the truth. Kogarasumaru won't find anything of interest. No sign of injury and he won't be able to feel any of the worms at this point.]

I am no doctor. Only curious.

[He lightly touches where he remembers shredding and detaching the fingers but there is nothing to be found. No trace of any injury. Just the skin returned to what it was.]

You cannot obtain new scars then?

Nope. I only have the scars that I had before the worms were put into me. Hence... [He shrugs his shoulder to indicate the three large scars on his face. One across his forehead, one across his cheeks and nose, and one down the side of his face and his missing eye where the last scar is. As he lacks a spare hand to gesture with. If Kogarasumaru looks further up his arm there's also a few scars there too.]

You fought many battles before the worms then.

[He releases his hand as he looks up at his face, studying how they look on him. A man with one eye and one arm. Quite the fighter to be in such an age.]

A shame a warrior like you cannot find his death yet.

I was called the hundred man killer before the worms were put into me and I didn't get that name for nuthin'. So yeah, just a few battles.

[He might be a little proud of that. Not so much the murder, just that he's been in what he thinks is a lot of fights.] I'll find my death sooner or later. Just got to kill a thousand evil men first.

How many have you killed so far?

[Or rather...how many does he have left?]

[Crap. He hates this question when people ask it. He pauses for a moment before answering. As if debating if he can lie or not.]

Actually, I'm not sure. Maybe about five? I don't know if you've noticed, but it's actually really hard to find truly evil men.

Five out of a thousand? You really do have so much work to do.

[Is that pointing out the obvious? You bet! But watch him intentionally do it anyway.]

I never said it would be fast. Besides, I don't really need to keep count. When I get there the worms will just go. The old crone promised me that once I kill those evil men that the worms will leave. She may be a bitch, but she keeps her promises.

You have known her for so long that you can be sure of this?

A couple years now. She stuck around like a bad rash and wouldn't leave me alone when she put the worms in at first.

[He laughs softly at that.]

Perhaps to see that you were doing what she asked of you?

[Manji snorts.] She was trying to get me to give up my sword and become a monk or some crap like that.

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