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Who: Manji and you
Broadcast: Yes
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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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.

A monk? You would be a terrible monk!

[Manji laughs and tips his head back in amusement.] You got that right! That's why I thought up the killing a thousand evil man instead!

[Well this story took a turn!]

Oh! So this was your idea!

Of course! I couldn't just set down my sword forever like she wanted me to now could I?

Of course not. You are too much a warrior at heart to die in any other way than by the sword in combat.

[He's seen this heart in others before and it shines strongly from this one here.]

Exactly. She didn't quite get that, but I'll show her once I kill that thousandth evil man.

[Unless something changes his heart along the way. But he doesn't mention that. Such lessons are for Manji to learn on his own if they come up rather than to be told about.]

Being one who has already killed over a hundred, I have faith you will manage your task.

Yeah. Although I wish I had changed that to mostly evil men. Finding truly evil people was a lot harder that I was expecting.

Don't suppose you know of any? [This is Manji's attempt at a joke. He knows the answer is going to be no. Or at least no one here.]

The only ones I ever saw are all dead now.

[He's lived a very long time...]

[Manji chuckles in a slightly devilish way.] Yeah. I bet they all would be. I would be insulted losing to you if they weren't. [He gives his fingers a bit of a wiggle and then starts forming a fist off and on. Full movement already fully restored.]