[Video, Dark Hour]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

[It's obvious from all of the blood that Issei's been in a fight. He has a large wound to his stomach - healed through Persona magic, but the blood is still drying on his clothes - and more blood drips down his face.

He looks relatively calm, however.]

Lord El-Melloi II. Waver Velvet. We need to speak, and it would be good for us to do this before your Shadow attacks me again.

I suppose this should serve as a general reminder not to go out alone at night, as well.

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[croibhristeoir]

[...Oh hell to the no.]

What. Happened.

[That was a stern 'did you do something stupid' voice.]

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Apparently another person's Shadow has a personal vendetta against me.

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[croibhristeoir]

Are you alright? Why were you even out on your own?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

...Looking for people confronting their Shadows alone.

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[croibhristeoir]

And you thought doing so alone was a good idea...why, exactly?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

My double is gone. I wasn't going to be ambushed by it on the way.

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[croibhristeoir]

There's still the normal Shadows to worry about. Though this is the first I've heard of a duplicate attacking someone other than themselves, so I suppose neither of us could have expected that.

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[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

[Right now, Waver's face is a mess because of his Shadow. It basically looked like he had been hit in the face with a brick-- broken nose, two black eyes and plenty of other bruising besides. No video for you.]

It attacked you? What would it do that for?

[He'd been under the impression that it was only homicidal towards him.]

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

[A sigh.]

Apparently we're in a love triangle. I was hoping we could resolve that peacefully.

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[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

...a what?

[Congratulations, Issei, that is a sentence that has never been said to him before.]

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Love triangle.

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[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

How could I possibly be in a love triangle that I don't know anything about?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

It bothers you that I'm Alexander's vassal. Or at least your Shadow said as much.

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[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Tch. And you actually listened to it?

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[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

[Kiritsugu's eyes hardly betray the fact that he's surprised right now.]

[Waver Velvet. Rider's Master. He only talked to him once, but he never gave the impression of being El-Melloi material, even if he was the Master who chose his headquarters best.]

[Then, what was the relationship between Waver and Kayneth? Judging from his speech at the warehouse, they didn't seem like much more than teacher and student, but that wouldn't have given him the right to succeed him...]

[On one hand, a participant of the War would've been ready for another participant to die, even if a close acquaintance. On the other, he didn't precisely give Kayneth an honorable send-off...]

[He gets like this sometimes, Issei.]

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

[Issei wipes some blood off of his face.]

If you'd like to comment, now would be the time.

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[maguskiller.livejournal.com]

...I'll pass the message on to Shirou.

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Thank you. He's exactly the type to do something stupid like that, and I can't always protect him.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

[THE HELL DID HE MISS.]

Issei? What happened?

[Video]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Someone else's Shadow attacked me.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Is that so? Who's shadow was it?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Waver Velvet. Lord El-Melloi II.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

How odd...

[Thinky face...] Are you alright? Where are you?

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

Returning to the hotel, and yes, not in that order.

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[revivedpianist.livejournal.com]

Is my presence required? [He's about to get up and bandaged you Issei.]