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[Accidental voice]

[The recording starts with a smashing sound, as the journal takes a nice snapshot of the ceiling and part of the underside of a kitchen table. Yuan's voice can clearly be heard nearby. He sounds rather disturbed.]

W-What the hell is this?!

[Action]

[A short while later, Yuan can be seen striding through the village with great haste. Every so often, he stops to cough mildly, before continuing on his way. His hands are buried deeply into his pockets and his gaze is stubbornly locked on the ground before him.

He's headed straight for Raine's house. Feel free to run into him before he gets there.]

Edit: [And after paying a visit to Raine's house, he'll head for Kratos' place. He's a busy man today.]

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[Yuan won't say no to some coffee right now. His throat's awfully dry, so anything to drink would be nice. He'll take a seat while Kratos busies himself, stifling a mild cough.]

[Kratos turns his head at that little cough. Yuan rarely even clears his throat. But he'll brush it aside for now. If it happens again, though, he'll definitely pick up on it.

In the meantime, Kratos prepares the coffee as the both of them like it. He could use it, too, seeing how he's stayed up for more than twenty four hours now researching.]

What is it that you wish to speak of?

[If Kratos thinks that's bad, he should've been conscious to hear Yuan shortly after their battle with Aku. Curse these feeble lungs!]

Have you recovered well from our battle with Aku?

[Well, he would have if Kratos wasn't practically bleeding to death up there.]

Well enough, I suppose. I still bear a scar, but it should fade with time and healing magic.

[And he knows Yuan didn't exactly come out unscathed, too, and not just during the actual fight.]

Have you?

[Kratos isn't ill. Figures. Now Yuan is wondering whether it had anything to do with Aku at all. A few things do strongly suggest it, but there's no concrete evidence to confirm it.]

... I'm not certain. I thought I'd recovered, but after the most recent Shift, the symptoms returned.

What sort of symptoms?

[Since Kratos was mostly unconscious while Yuan was unwell after the fight, he isn't sure. After he asks, he brings two steaming cups of coffee and places one of them in front of Yuan, then sits across from him with his own. No, he swears this won't be a game of Hot or Cold Coffee.]

[If Kratos ever had the nerve to play that game on him, Yuan would punch him. He takes the coffee, holding the mug between his hands to warm them.]

Something like a cold. Or perhaps more like pneumonia. Coughing, irritable throat, that sort of thing.

... I see.

[That's... disturbing. They're angels. They don't get sick, unless they get something like a toxicosis. And Yuan shouldn't be getting anything like that.]

And they only started after the Aku fight?

[He nods curtly.] It was most severe just after the fight. Then the symptoms slowly died down, until last week's Shift.

[You know. That Shift he doesn't want to talk about with Kratos. Ever. He may not remember himself, but if Kratos ran into him while he was under the influence of... that... Well, the mockery would be relentless.]

[The downward twitch of the lips indicate that, yes, he does remember last week's shift, and while Yuan's change in particular was hilarious, it reminds him of that twinge of hostility that still rests within him as he talks to Yuan now. Thousands of years of memories have mixed with his own, one set viewing Yuan as his best friend, and the other regarding him as nothing but a traitorous enemy.

Kratos lowers his gaze to his coffee and takes a sip, laying that bit of hate within him to rest.]

You had weakened in that state... Whatever struck you attached itself to you once more.

Edited 2010-09-05 09:38 (UTC)

... There's more.

[He releases the mug from his grasp and removes the glove covering his right hand. A pitch-black stain is spreading across the back of his hand, towards his wrist. Perhaps it's more like a rash? Whatever it is, it's an eyesore. Yuan's just glad his Cruxis Crystal is on the other hand, because this thing looks like it may affect anything it touches.]

[Kratos' brow furrows at that. There was certainly a dark sort of energy coming from that, just like... Just like Aku. His grip tightens a bit on his mug before he loosens it once more.]

You have spoken with Raine of this?

I have. Healing magic has no effect on it and until we find out what we're dealing with, there won't be any other cure.

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