<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Burdensome Bracelet and the Descendant's Deal</strong></span></div><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a5/4a/d0/a54ad0c78fe6f6ed9893fe8a6eb846e1.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Date Toshiro | Date Marceline<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 11:30AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE HQ, Kyless' Cell<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Kyless, Ryusei | Mentions:<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>Horizontal line represents a small jump in time<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Toshiro is currently wearing a cream colored graphic t-shirt (https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2292/0133/products/B_wander_640x.jpg?v=1571609586), dark cerulean cargo shorts and running shoes, a Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' insignia ball cap, and a pair of over-ear headphones with a stark white frame around his neck. A canvas messenger bag is slung over his shoulder, its surface almost entirely consisting of patches and buttons from an assortment of cartoons, movies, bands, and video games. | Marceline is wearing a red nylon collar with a black nickel bell.<br/><hr/>Toshiro replied to Ryusei's statement regarding Kyusei's potential for harm with a look that spoke volumes of the researcher's regarding of what he saw to be naivete on the younger man's part. “A model prisoner? I'm betting you either hadn't listened to what Mal and your dad had told you, or they gave you the short version about her stay here.” Toshiro's voice didn't bear a note of condescension, after all there was a significant chance that both Mallory and Azmodiel had neglected to include Kyless' behavior prior to Toshiro being placed as her warden, but if Ryusei was to potentially accept the offer the scientist had for him, he wouldn't allow him to make it without knowing all of the pertinent information.<br/><br/>“Agents Kimbo, Lu, and Chi-Yun. All three were agents of SOPHE told to stop Kyless from getting out of here. She murdered all three of them, and before you say that was a long time ago, don't. Chi-Yun was killed only six months ago. Kyless tricked Chi-Yun into hanging herself in her room using her bedding. Left her there to suffocate as Kyless escaped, probably left an illusion up so the other guards on the search for Kyless wouldn't see her struggling to understand what was happening in her last minutes.” Looking to the spot in the room where Chi-Yun's lifeless body had been found Toshiro continued with a struggled calm, his voice somewhat cracking as he continued, “I used to tease her about marrying her girlfriend at the time. I mean Cameron is a successful photographer with one of the biggest friendliest pups you'd ever know, why not... why not give her a ring? Chi-Yun always told me there'd be time later. I told her she was an idiot. Guess I was right.” Turning away from the two, Toshiro seemed to scratch his eye brow before turning back to face them, trying not to recall the sight of his friend's lifeless body tangled unmoving among the bedding.<br/><br/>The head researcher couldn't help but smile broadly at Ryusei's not taking the older man's lecturing lying down. Even if Toshiro did think that the younger man was being arrogant in assuming his precautions were overabundant, he couldn't help but appreciate the hybrid's undeniable spirit. However there was one point Toshiro had to clarify as Ryusei had thought it important to bring up on several occasions, “You've said that the bracelet makes Kyless toothless, but that's being fat headed. She didn't get out of her cell over fifty times just because she has amazing illusions, she did it by being clever, and that's a knife that stays sharp no matter how many bracelets I put on her.”<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Even after Ryusei placed Toshiro's hand in that realm of otherworldly chill and darkness, it seemed to take the researcher a moment to recognize it had happened, his mind still being trapped a few illusions in the past, relentlessly and pedantically cataloging and filing away each detail for future recollection. This took a significantly longer amount of time to process images representative of previously assumed impossibilities: Ground water trickling upwards, streaming off of towering cerulean blades of grass before pooling into a great sea that flowed so serenely over head;  waves of undulating cogs and sprockets filled with schools of chittering mechanical fish; and above all else that existentially confounding cube, so great was it's mystery that there were no words in any language sufficient to begin explaining it's cabalistic being.<br/><br/>It took a moment for Toshiro to show any reaction to Ryusei's gesture apart from mouthing soundless descriptions of what he'd seen, almost completely oblivious seeming to what had just happened. Then suddenly, with a shout of surprise and slight pain that could best be translated as, “Fuckingshitcoldamnshit!” Toshiro immediately leapt to his feet, medical instruments loudly clattering for the floor as he attempted to warm his icy hand with a combination of warm breath and rubbing it with his other hand. While he was still clearly shaken from what had happened, the sudden jolt of cold had at least brought him out of his stupor as he stumbled around the edge of the room with what seemed to be undefined purpose, the words that had been spoke to and around him during his mental overload filtering into his mind as he struggled to respond to them in a semblance of the order in which they were asked.<br/><br/>“Mean it? What do you... oh R-Ryusei? Did I... yes!” Looking down at Kyless with an increasingly less vacant stare, Toshiro looked at her expectantly as if what he had said somehow warranted a response before continuing frantically, “No no no, he could not l-like your magic but he might w-wont... not or will.” Tightly closing his eyes in an effort to compare what he'd said to what he'd meant to say, a finger held up towards the other two in the room to indicate they were to wait for him to continue, he took a deep breath before restating his garbled statement as, “It's... it d-depends on what you do with your magic K-kyless. R-ryu's probably... well he might not be the goodest j-judge of g-good, but if you h-hurt someone he thinks is good, he won't think y-you're a<em>goodthing</em>.”<br/><br/>Walking over to his fallen messenger bag, he withdrew a small steel case from inside, and after undoing to metal latches on the side, revealed a series of small glass jars within, each capped with a small metal screw on cap. Pulling the one with a sticker of a leaf and a snowflake into his hand, he held it out for Kyless to take. “Eucalyptus, p-peppermint, and a few other things. P-put this on your n-nostrils. It m-might help clear you up a bit. Least we'll know if y-you can smell p-p-pears again as soon as you smell this. It's the first time I've treated for t-this, so we'll just see if time and congestion remedies will work while we wait.” The other jars audibly rattled within the confines of the case as he held it in his free hand, waiting for Kyless to take his offered treatment.<br/><br/>Realizing it'd be best to to show the effect, he unscrewed the lid of the offered jar, took a small finger full of the thick salve within, and spread it just above his upper lip. Soon after he could feel the familiar cool feeling aroma travel up his nose and swirl throughout his head, further shaking loose the webs Kyless' magic had spread throughout his thoughts. “Ahhh, that's n-nice. Smells better than orange soap, that's for sure.” Once again he held the jar out to Kyless, his hand still visibly trembling as he did.<br/><br/>As he waited for Kyless to take the jar, Toshiro once again regarded Ryusei in silence for a moment before asking passively, “Kn-knowing all that, what do you think of Kyless here? You've heard what she's done, and you've seen what she can do. Do you still want to be hers?” With the scientist back on his feet and seemingly mostly recovered, Marceline had returned to sitting up on Kyless' mattress, extending her head expectantly towards the trickster to indulge in a promise made.