[A careful step that avoids trampling on the dead as the rank thing crosses past him. How thoughtful, Matoba notes. Ayakashi had all their own sets of arcane rules and superstitions which a human could never guess, but some things were the same no matter what you were. There were rules that had been set forth by the gods of old that even monsters would not cross- rules of division between living and dead; clean and unclean.]
Maybe. "If". [He's watchful, considering Rokurou now even closer to him. They're separated by just the gravestone; one or the other would surely have to damage it in order to make a move on the other. A cute little safety fence, for now.]
[Matoba's eye lights up with the slightest raise of eyebrow, and his head tilts, just slightly, a warning sign with a twitch at the corner of his mouth.]
"His name", huh?
[Matoba's arms finally uncross to reach fingers out, brushing across ragged, weather-worn stone and tracing out the shapes of characters- letters he can see, but which his senses tell him are not truly there. A name that forms itself by scraping what it can from the surface of his firmly-shut heart.]
Tell me... What do you See? [His head lifts to meet Ro's eye again.] What name is written on this gravemarker?
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Maybe. "If". [He's watchful, considering Rokurou now even closer to him. They're separated by just the gravestone; one or the other would surely have to damage it in order to make a move on the other. A cute little safety fence, for now.]
[Matoba's eye lights up with the slightest raise of eyebrow, and his head tilts, just slightly, a warning sign with a twitch at the corner of his mouth.]
"His name", huh?
[Matoba's arms finally uncross to reach fingers out, brushing across ragged, weather-worn stone and tracing out the shapes of characters- letters he can see, but which his senses tell him are not truly there. A name that forms itself by scraping what it can from the surface of his firmly-shut heart.]
Tell me... What do you See? [His head lifts to meet Ro's eye again.] What name is written on this gravemarker?