we're gonna afterparty and you're GOING TO FUCKING LIKE IT

[presomnia]

[Tiki wanders into the great hall expecting company, expecting a full room just like before to abate her loneliness and what she finds instead is...Mahiro, chillin'.

And no one else.

Okay. Cool. Fine. She'll throw a goddamn party herself IF THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING, TRY HER.

So she drags one (1) rude teen into the kitchen despite protests that he can't cook, finds Eizen actively in the middle of cooking, and takes full advantage of the situation and also her own cute charm until curry for two turns into curry for twenty four.

Everyone will find notes slipped under their door, courtesy of Tiki's new gopher since he refuses to cook, the first part written in loose, loopy handwriting like an elementary schooler who hasn't quite gotten the hang of the cursive they've been taught:]

Let's meet in the Great Hall together in about an hour and have dinner again this time, so nobody has to be alone.

[aaand under that in a completely different set of handwriting:]

I don't know why we're doing this after someone died from getting poisoned through food but at least there won't be any fucking cake. Don't come if you don't want to.

[hm. well.

in the Great Hall, Tiki's hard at work setting up Eizen's mabo curry for the taking (and she's bullied him into making exactly one plate of non-spicy curry because she loves Hanyuu), and also hard at work into bullying Mahiro into helping her set up silverware and plates and beverages. It's not much, but it's here.]

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[bratsitter]

[WHERE TO BEGIN]

Alright then... did I tell you about the kinjutsu the five villages have? What they are? You might like to hear that.

[ the story about the Academy of Brats From Hell needs you to know about Daya first ]

[originallutece]

You haven't.

[But she's interested to hear, clearly.]

[bratsitter]

To refresh, the five villages are Iga, Banten, Fuuma, Togakushi and Koga. The reason they all still exist and haven't wiped each other out is mostly because each has a kinjutsu, a forbidden or secret technique. They're hard to learn and very dangerous to the practitioner, as far as I know. They can't be shut off, they're hard to combat, and trust me when I say someone who's mastered one of these are leagues better than any other singular ninja. Often better than several combined.

[has he built up the suspense enough yet]

[originallutece]

All right.

[She can sort of see where this is going. Rosalind smiles faintly.]

And have you mastered any?

[bratsitter]

Nah, I haven't actually. Yoite, the brat I look after, has mastered Iga's kinjutsu Kira. That lets him shoot his life force at other people, which makes it so he can control their life force. Causes a hell of a lot of pain from what I can see. He's also used it to pull someone out of a coma, so there might be more uses no one has thought of.

[he has weaponized fingerguns, be very afraid]

Fuuma's Tenpenka involves shapeshifting, Togakushi has the Izuna Shingan which reads minds and is a pain and a half to fight, and I don't actually know anything about Banten's Engetsurin. Koga's Daya is the one I think you'd like best though. It's said to be "the best medicine ever made."

[be grateful, this is the kind of info a lot of people die for in his world. If you were from the same universe he wouldn't attempt to explain.

A lot of these other people in the Murder Castle wouldn't be told either tbh]

[originallutece]

[Oh, that is interesting. Rosalind's gaze focuses, and though she has half a hundred questions on each ability, she focuses on his pick.]

And what makes it the best?

[bratsitter]

It's not necessarily the best, just the one I thought, as a woman of science, you would appreciate. The cost of using it is high, but by using the brains of people in good condition--mentally and physically--you can supposedly cure any ailment. When I ran into it, the Koga were going to sacrifice ninja teenagers and young adults from their village as the ingredients.

[The "peak" of the human condition is the young, afterall.]

The best... Objectively, the "best" of the kinjutsu isn't really one. It's the Shinrabansho, which is above and beyond the five kinjutsu. It has the power to do anything as far as anyone knows. It's the "knowledge of everything in nature". Life, death, it knows it all.