6th Cut -- [Audio | Cellphone] -- [Backdated to Wednesday]

[twopercent]

[Jack's voice is a little rougher than usual in his brief message to the Network in general:]

Heh heh. Dead District's cleared out again for the time being. No problem.

Comments

[Audio, private]

[chalicejoker]

[Hajime almost tried for a video reply, but he's pretty sure he still looks like a mess. He's trying to sound as calm as possible, but he's still breathing kind of heavily, and there's flat-out no masking the fact that he's sounding pretty shaken.]

You...you said we were just going to scare them off...

[At least the accusatory tone made it through.]

[Audio, private]

[twopercent]

[Jack doesn't sound at all sorry.]

Things change. Besides, they got what was coming to them, don't you think? Working for the wrong crowd can turn out to be messy business...

[Video | Smartphone]

[thepiisatruth]

Cleared outta what?

Voice | Cellphone

[icy_heavens]

... What did you do? [Yeah, he's got a bad feeling about this, and you can hear it. More guarded than outright terrified, though.]

[ video; cellphone ALSO PRIVATE oops ]

[secondcomingof]

Jack.

I can see you hiding behind the building.

We're going home.

[ Calm words on the surface, not so much underneath. His eyes are still shimmering with that awful, disturbed shadow, his breaths are still heavy and he still looks ready to slaughter the nearest thing that comes his way that isn't named Jack Sears.

And maybe he will slaughter Jack Sears if he doesn't haul his ass back around you're right around the corner from him, douchebag don't forget your promise now. ]

To liquor and fuckall else, I don't know. Sure we got the rest of those bloody shits?

[Audio, private]

[chalicejoker]

Yeah, I'm starting to see that...

[Wrong crowd? Hajime is reasonably sure that's exactly what happened to him tonight. He tried to go with the wrong crowd, and those guys paid the price.]

But they were--they would have left if...if you hadn't...

[No, he really doesn't want to discuss what just happened in any great detail, thanks.]

[Audio | Cellphone]

[twopercent]

The enemy's thugs. They never saw it coming.

Voice | Cellphone

[twopercent]

[Ironically, considering how Jack was going on about 'fun' relative to the werewolf hunt back when he was drunk...]

Just having a little fun. Can't wait to see what the enemy responds with next time, heh heh.

[Audio only | Private]

[twopercent]

I don't see any more. Too bad, huh? They went down too easy, too fast...

[Audio, private]

[twopercent]

If I hadn't, then what? They'd still be out there, helping those pieces of shit trying to track us down. The invaders. We're just solving our problem one body at a time. What did you think we were going to do, play nicely with them and hope that works? "Negotiate"?

[Jack laughs, and it's not a particularly nice laugh.]

Voice | Cellphone

[icy_heavens]

[Damn it. When the adults aren't being overprotective morons, they're being complete psychos.]

The idea that any of this should be "fun" is news to me. [Tad less confrontational-sounding than their previous conversations. Because psycho.]

[testsonseashells]

Killed them, yes? Hope it doesn't draw too much attention.

[Audio, private]

[chalicejoker]

[It takes Hajime a moment to reply, because between that laugh and the fact that he's still freaked out, talking is hard. He should have tried texting, but that would be just as difficult. He's just hoping he didn't get followed when he decided he'd had enough and ran away.]

But that...that makes us just as bad as they are...we're supposed to be better than them...

[twopercent]

Yeah. Guess we'll just have to wait and see, huh?

Voice | Cellphone

[twopercent]

[Just a little crazy. Sometimes. Like right now.]

Don't think you're cut out for the battlefield then, kid.

[thepiisatruth]

"Enemy's thugs"?

So that's what that was all about.

Well, hey, thanks, I guess.

[Audio, private]

[twopercent]

Little tip for you: there's never any 'better' side, only the side that's left standing at the end.

Voice | Cellphone

[icy_heavens]

So being psychotic is a requirement? [Oops, there's that confrontational tone again.]

[twopercent]

Any time. I mean it.

[Why yes, Jack does sound self-satisfied about this whole murder business.]

If they're going to talk about starting the bloodiest conflict in human history, well, I'm ready.

[testsonseashells]

Notified someone beforehand, I hope.

[twopercent]

Who would you have suggested?

[testsonseashells]

No one in particular - simply someone you trust on network. Could notify us had something gone wrong.

Obviously didn't happen, but better safe than sorry.

[Audio, private]

[chalicejoker]

[That line of thought makes him feel like he should remember something. Something with those monsters. That's what he'd wanted to do in that memory where he was rampaging. Trying to kill everything else. First the other monsters, then the humans.]

Even if you're standing all alone because nothing else is left?

[Audio, private]

[twopercent]

There's always gonna be someone else. One more battle, one more war. One more enemy to kill. Haven't you ever paid attention to the news?

Voice | Cellphone

[twopercent]

[Jack still sounds amused... and aggressive, angry at the same time in that growl of his.]

Is that what you're gonna call it? Can't say if it's nature, nurture, or some combination of the two... but some of us are born to kill. We're just putting it to... good use. Saving the world, right?