kaisou | [diary entry four] i'm not going back to prison, for one

WHO: Veldora Tempest and you!
WHERE: Gemini and Rose Qeido's house
WHEN: Mid-June
WHAT: so like, what if your own personal Alcatraz showed up in your back yard and was full of monsters and rare ore? that would be weird, right?
WARNINGS: n/a. there are spiders in the cave if you want but like, i'm personally not gonna force a spider or snake experience on anyone.

[video posted on the Gemini network]; un: tempestdragon

[ on one hand, Veldora still isn't 100% on how cameras work.

on the other hand, at least you're getting a nice shot of his abs and chest because he doesn't usually wear a shirt; he fumbles with the phone, squinting at it as he tries to make sure it's doing the thing he wants it to do, part of his head cut off as he doesn't know what front-facing selfie mode is and he's doing his best, damn it. ]

Hello, friends! Something most interesting has occurred at my domicile this afternoon. [ it's time to go for walkies, chat--as he glances between the camera and where he's going, talking until he finally comes to a stop. ] So I've heard that, among the strange phenomena that this world is predisposed to, there's been more than a few occurrences of places from other worlds moving right on in like they own the place and what not.

[ it's not weird if immortal evil dragons fidget, is it? ] So to tell a story--once upon a time about 300 years ago or so, I ran afoul of a remarkable Hero of Legend who sealed me into a cave for--[ hm. awkward grimace, chat, we're feeling cringe tonight. ] Well, I suppose I was kind of a jerk and smashed her city up, but how was I supposed to know that cities were that troublesome to put together? I was just trying to--ahem! Ahum! Anyway, I was sealed in a cave which mean that my magicules had nowhere to go for a couple of centuries, and so the cave grew quite rich in magic ore and herbs and monsters and um!

Now that cave is here!

[ he proudly? awkwardly? turns his camera to point at a set of stone steps leading down to a tall, wide door set in a tall, gray-faced rock formation. very classique cave, if you will. ]

I briefly took a sojourn into the cave a little while ago and it is still replete with those resources, and while being down there for too long when I'm alone makes my teeth itch, Duke Wriothesley suggested that the ore and herbs might be of use to the people in the city... so. Yes. That!

A word of warning, though--I definitely saw a few of the monsters out of the periphery of my senses, so bring weapons and companions. Or come get me.

I don't... want to be alone in the cave, but I'm also happy to help anyone who might be interested in it. As long as you don't leave me there.

[ action ] at Rose Qeido's home

[ Veldora offered to host, even if it was in a startled ramble that was more feelings than thoughts--he's just a good knock at the door away if he's not hanging out in the backyard, reading his Sacred Texts and keeping an eye on the Sealed Cave like it might try to chase him down like some sort of weird dragon-seeking vacuum prison.

the day's too nice to spend huddled inside, after all. ]

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[ yeah it's fine it's fine it's all Gucci my guy

it's very weird. Veldora is in danger of figuring out that Takame might be a touched worried for him. ]

Ah, yes, well. It's a bit strange to see something from 'home', as it were.

[More than a touch now considering Veldora is being very not Veldora-like right now.]

Does it... make you uncomfortable?

[ that's a sputter and a good old gyu-ha-ha for old time's sake as he stands up, hands on his hips, trying to look like his Big Size. ]

Uncomfortable? It's just a cave; what's uncomfortable about that? It's not like it can--can grow legs and manifest Legendary Heroes or anything.

[ ... even if Kaisou is lousy with Heroes. and sealing magic. and Veldora's not at his full strength. ]

[Takame's got the emotional capacity of a bowl of white rice and even he can tell that's bullshit. He walks until he's standing right next to Veldora, big as he tried to seem. Strange for Takame given the fact that before Veldora arrived no one else matched his substantial height as an Au Ra.]

... We'll not allow anything within in to make you feel this way. Should something emerge from it that threatens you, it will be disposed of. Should being alone near it make the feeling worse, we will be with you.

[Both Takame and Rose who he's certain would say the same. Or so he'd hope anyway.]

[ they are probably eye to eye, dragon to dragon, Veldora continuing to do his level best to look completely cool and calm and collected as Takame just says stuff and Veldora has to find it in him to guffaw again. ]

There's nothing in the cave that's a threat to me, I assure you! It's. Simply not a place I have terribly fond memories of, if that makes any sense.

[ of course it makes sense Veldora nobody wants to be imprisoned and left to die. ]

It's an irrational worry, really. It's not like there's a second Legendary Hero with a grudge and a sealing skill waiting to turn up and put me through my paces... even if I'm not as strong as I used to be...

Mm. It does.

[Kami knew if a castrum appeared again Takame wouldn't be sure he could hold the dread back.]

It is still a worry. It is still a discomfort. One that you should not have to feel. I cannot change what has happened to you. But I can assure it will not happen again.

[ we would take turns kicking Gaius van Baelsar's teeth in for you Takimmy it's okay

but you know who kind of deserved what he got hit with? and looks a little guilty about it as he considers the cave. ]

I cannot act as if I am wholly innocent or undeserving of my long confinement in the Sealed Cave. I would've been free in a few centuries, once the last of my strength was spent and the body I was in died, but the thought of ever being confined to just... sitting wait for centuries makes me ill at ease. But it's a foolish worry, isn't it? No one in Kaisou has need to seal me.

[ right? right??? ]

[Leave a turn for Takame he wants nothing more than to see that man lose all of his fucking teeth.

In terms of being deserving or not of the punishment, Takame didn't bat an eye. It's not as though Takame was without guilt and undeserving of some kind of incarceration himself. And even if Veldora was a threat to his world...]

You've only done good for the city so long as I've known you. There is no need to confine you or seal you ever again here. You treat Rose kindly and protect her. So regardless, I'll not see you sealed away again.

[A sort of long pause.]

... Though it is not a fear to be shaken overnight... forgive me, I do not mean to be, ah... insensitive.

[ sometimes the senior citizen's discount simply doesn't apply; especially if said senior citizen requires an ass-beating the size of a Legion.

there's a sort of... relief, to Veldora's face as Takame, in all of his blunt assuredness, just cuts through the faff and the worst of Veldora's lingering fears, firm and stern and calm in a way the Storm dragon rarely is. it's like finding a bus stop in the middle of a growing hailstorm--somewhere safe you can hunker down while the worst spins by. ]

No, no, I assure you, I'm not... offended.

Really, I think it's silly.

It's just a cave. It wasn't even the most painful death I'd undergone, it was... the most protracted. I had a lot of time alone to think and little else, waiting for all of my magic to drain away and be dispersed--but it's just a cave, now. There's no Legendary Hero that means to bind me, probably. Rimuru's not here to help me if something were to go amiss, but... surely others would help.

[ surely? there's the furrow in his brow, the grip on his book. the root of the problem, mayhaps. ]

[there is no age limit on people who require the ultima ass beating.

Takame will more often than not sugar coat hard truths but in this case there was no need to do so. The hard truth was that regardless of if Veldora deserved to be sealed, Takame would break him out.]

Mm, there will. More than just myself, though I will surely be beside whoever else would come to free you should you become trapped somewhere.

[diary entry four] i'm not going back to prison, for one

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