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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 27, 2012 13:35:14 GMT
As they take some tea, the general ask Durante:
"So you will go investigate about the soul swords as well? And have you appreciated your trip here?"
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 27, 2012 14:04:19 GMT
Durante nods.
"I probably will investigate. It seems inevitable that the swords will return at some point, so I need to prepare as well. I very much appreciated my trip here in Japan. Even if most people are skeptical of foreigners, I still learned very much and I'm glad that I went. I would certainly come back another day."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 27, 2012 19:27:00 GMT
"I see. Well if you come back in Japan one day, you are welcome here. I like taking to people from other countries."
He took a sip of tea and continued.
"And I am really accepting the deal. I shall take the precious fabric and you shall have Kaminari."
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 27, 2012 19:34:11 GMT
"Thank you for your invitation, general. I too enjoy talking to people from other countries as well."
Durante takes a sip as well.
"Ah, I am glad that you accepted my offer. I'm ready to exchange whenever you are."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 27, 2012 21:44:29 GMT
"Very well. Let's take the time for our tea and talk a little then we shall proceed with the exchange."
So the general continued to drink his tea while asking some questions about anything to Durante. How his trip went, who he met, what will be his next weapon to acquire...
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 27, 2012 22:19:15 GMT
"I came to Japan to find more work. Just staying in Europe can be boring, so I'm trying to broaden my horizons. A lot of the work I did was hunting down missionaries since the government considered that those people are corrupting the Japanese citizens. Surprisingly, it paid rather well. As for whom I met, there was a woman who was hell bent on killing this ronin since he killed her master. However, as a person she's actually rather nice. She was decent company and I even had dinner with her. There was another woman whom I met earlier not far from here. She was rather pretty, but she quickly left before I got to really know her. I'm hoping we'll meet again someday. As for my next weapon, there is rumor that in Greece is a god that makes holy weapons. Perhaps I can get him to commission me to get one to fight the Soul swords if they ever arise..."
Durante pauses to take another sip.
"Now that I think about it... maybe I should pick up a regular katana. There may be a time where there might be no choice to use Masamune, so I would at least have something to practice with rather than risk breaking it when I first use it... What about you general? How's your life been these days? Any great battles and any reason why you've taken up weapon collecting?"
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 29, 2012 2:22:38 GMT
The general listened to Durante and seemed surprised when Durante talked about the Greek god thing.
"To ask a god to make a weapon against the soul swords... That is quite an idea... Though I think it will be hard to get them to accept... But the price may be worth it... It might also be a good idea to learn how to fight with a katana, it is a very good weapon, you wouldn't regret learning how to use it."
"What about you general? How's your life been these days? Any great battles and any reason why you've taken up weapon collecting?"
"My life has been rather quiet these days, aside from fighting some monsters around and training some samurais... I have not been called to go fight in Korea and I do not know if I will be. But somehow it was the many fights I have been into that made me collect weapons. I had an habit of taking the weapon of those I vanquished in battle, mostly when those weapons were exotic. I would like to have one of every kind existing, I know it's impossible but I'm trying to get as much as I can. Yet classicals and renowned weapons like the masamunes are also very interesting. The masamunes are somehow part of the history of Japan. Every weapon is part if history, mostly the renowned ones, so they are really interesting for this..."
After he finished his tea, he told Durante:
"I am glad you met some nice Japaneses women yet many are shy, so the one you met who quickly left must have been quite shy"
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 29, 2012 5:12:59 GMT
Durante then finished his tea as well.
"Well, I heard even a mere baker wielding a sword of a god was able to break a part of Soul Edge, so there might be some hope... So you collected them through spoils of war? That's a good way of doing it and that's an interesting goal. I like it. I suppose that girl is one of those shy types..."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 30, 2012 3:12:51 GMT
"Well, I heard even a mere baker wielding a sword of a god was able to break a part of Soul Edge, so there might be some hope..."
"Indeed if it was a baker who first destroyed a part of Soul Edge, I suppose you could do much as well and the gods might accept to give you a sword..."
"So you collected them through spoils of war? That's a good way of doing it and that's an interesting goal. I like it."
"Well, I began my collection like this, I also collect other ways now but it was that way that I realized how many interesting weapons existed. And it did give me stories to tell my family."
"I suppose that girl is one of those shy types..."
The general then got up.
"The prettiest are often the most shy... So you are ready for the exchange, Durante-san?"
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 30, 2012 3:58:26 GMT
"I am indeed ready to exchange."
Durante then goes through his bag and pulls out the same bundle of silk he presented to the general earlier.
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 31, 2012 0:33:00 GMT
"Very well."
The general takes his masamune and carefully hand it to Durante then takes the silk.
"It is nice doing business with you, Durante-san. Take care of the sword now please."
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Aug 31, 2012 4:39:04 GMT
"It is nice doing business with you too, general. I will take good care of the sword."
Durante pulls the sword halfway out of it's sheathe to look at it's shining blade and then places it back in its sheathe. He then bows to the general.
"I must be going now. Please take care of yourself as well as your family."
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Post by Amy Sorel on Aug 31, 2012 11:58:33 GMT
"Take care as well, Durante-san. Be very careful if you want to get involved with the soul swords. And may luck be with you."
And the general bowed politely again to Durante.
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Post by Black Knight Durante on Sept 1, 2012 2:51:21 GMT
"Thank you, general and farewell."
And with that, he leaves the samurai training ground of Mt. Fuji. He heads back to the town where he first met Setsuka and goes to port to head back to the mainland and from there to head to Europe. He found a boat that would take him to the mainland, but the price was rather high. He remembered Setsuka's earlier suggestion to fight pirates and he used that to negotiated with the ship's captain. He agreed and let him on board to act as a guard to protect the ship from pirates.
About halfway across the sea, a team of five pirates managed to board the ship, but the ship's sailors, with Durante's help, managed to kill all of them. Durante then took a "Wo Dao" from one of the fallen pirates. Unlike Masamune, this katana was rather ordinary. Once the ship landed, he took his payment from the captain and started heading west.
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Post by khajita9000 on May 18, 2014 4:19:10 GMT
Yoshimitsu and his band of thieves made their home in a cave that burrowed into the side of Mt Fuji. Though for the time being Yoshimitsu was lazing on a tatami mat sat before a demonic looking statue. Yoshimitsu had a gord of sake gripped in his hand as he lazed on his side looking towards the cave mouth.
Lifting the gord to his masked face pouring it onto the demonic jaw of his mask more or less splashing onto the ground though he seemed to be drunk despite no noticable sign any sake had gone to his mouth. "Ohhh sake ye be the only true reason to get out of bed." The sound of wing beats echoing off the sides of the cave brought him to sit up straight a messanger bird flew inand perched on Yoshimitsu's shoulder. Yoshimitsu removed the message from the birds ankle and read the small message though suddenly as he schimed through it he jumped to his feet dramaticly. "Great Scott I need to be going!!" Rushing towards the entrence grabbing his sword and attaching his flag to his back then ran straight out of the cave towards a jutting cliff running straight off the cliff. Soon he was whippijg his sword about like a coptor and flew off into the distance.
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