Voice | un: Avenger

[lahaine]

Ufufufu~ it seems like a lot of you are desperate for some help... [ The provocative laughter seemed to echo as the dragon witch spoke. A bored sounding tone followed. ] ...A cure for that disgusting sickness.

[ Get the facts first. You can distort them later. That was how it worked, right? One had to wonder if she really was telling the truth about knowing anything at all. The silence was broken. ]

While you sit there uselessly stewing in your disease, I made quick work of something else. [ Like hell she would call whatever that rodent was a person. ] Before the vermin was reduced to ash, it enlightened me on a few things.

Rejoice, garbage - for I will share them with you. [ With her sharp tongue and disrespectful words, one had to wonder why she was doing this. Maybe she was lying, maybe she was bored...or maybe she just knew someone who was sick and this was an indirect way of helping... ]

The disease was manufactured by the Institute, stolen, and released... hahahah...obviously. Part of the cure is a stupid plant - the Yuwi flower, is what was mentioned. [ Fingers drumming on some sort of surface can be heard as she goes quiet. That was all she knew. ]

Well, I have long proved my competency among you morons, what have you done? Better get to doing something! Hahahahah!

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[underwhelms]

You'd ask anyone you met if they knew a cure for the disease?

[ That sounds even better?? She's so determined to help... ]

[lahaine]

[ There was the distinct sound of nails being ground into a wood surface. Frustration personified. ]

I didn't go around asking because I cared or anything! [ Bullshit ]

H-He just offered up the information in exchange for his life...and I took both regardless!

[underwhelms]

[ Okay, so he's talking to a murderer. That's... different.

He tries not to focus on that part. ]

You must've been really mad about all the damage he caused...

[lahaine]

No you idiot, he was just in the way. [ She pretty much killed him because she got bored...and because she knew turning him in would have probably led to something even worse than the swift death she granted. She would omit that part. ] Salvation is not up for bargaining for me.

[underwhelms]

In the way of what?

[lahaine]

Getting where I needed to go.

Christ! Why is that so important?!

[underwhelms]

I'm curious about your superhero origin story!

[lahaine]

I am NOT a superhero. Do not ever lump me in with such pious garbage as that! I am Avenger! A-VEN-GER! You dunce!

[underwhelms]

What are you avenging?

[ The Avengers are superheroes though?? ]

[lahaine]

[ That was a very long, and somewhat depressing story. Her discomfort was made apparent by the long silence. She didn't think he knew what being an avenger in her context really meant. ] D-does it really matter what it is? Christ, being an Avenger from where I am from means you need hatred, malice and spite to survive. You fight and fight to fill the void of hatred in your heart, but you can't so you eventually just burn yourself up and die.

[underwhelms]

If you know you'll burn up and die, then why would you be an Avenger? Is that what you want?

[ Sounds far-fetched to him. ]

[lahaine]

Hahaha! You ask as if I have a choice.

[ That didn't exactly answer his question. Truth be told, she had worked so hard to be acknowledged as a heroic spirit in general, clawed her way through the throne of heroes for acceptance - only to be granted access... but as an Avenger.

Was it worth it? ]

People like us only know hate, so at least I can take pleasure in that.

[underwhelms]

Why wouldn't you have a choice? [ The intricacies of fate/ mechanics are lost on him. ] You know your old world was destroyed, right?

[ And whatever shackles or obligations it carried were too. ]

[lahaine]

Geh! Did you hit every branch on the stupid tree on the way down?! [ That didn't answer his question. ]

Unlike humans, what I am carries through any world, any timeline. Understand?

[ Besides, she spent way too long building up notoriety to have the throne actually acknowledge her. She wouldn't want to undo that. ]

[underwhelms]

Like it's in your DNA? Seems kind of weird, but it feels like anything is possible here.

[ Well... anyway. They can start talking about him now. ]

Did you know that I'm sick?

[lahaine]

And you think I should care?

[ Okay, she might have cared a little...

Even if he was sort of annoying and she would never admit anything like this, she could come to appreciate someone who tried so hard to aggressively befriend her despite her everything.

She had a funny way of showing it though. ]

[underwhelms]

Don't you? Since you worked so hard to get information on the cure?

[ He can't even tell what part of this he believes, and what part of it he's saying just to tease her. Maybe she doesn't care about him specifically, but he'd find it hard to believe that she could be indifferent to an entire city suffering from disease. ]

[lahaine]

[ How dare he think he better than she actually is! (or at least the reputation she was trying to uphold). Choking on her words a bit she would grip the phone in her hands while grimacing. ] Ta gueule! I-I didn't even work that hard! [ She hissed out. ]

If you're so sick, shouldn't you be doing something to help that? Like being quiet?!

[underwhelms]

No. Being quiet and resting all the time doesn't really help my mental health that much. It's so boring.

[ He's actually smiling now. ]

But things like talking to you improve my mood.

[lahaine]

[ What was with this disgusting charm that was sort of working on her? A huff. ]

Geh. Disgusting. I didn't ask you to get all sentimental.

[underwhelms]

You asked me why I wasn't being quiet, so I told you. [ Don't be so tsun... ] Thanks for all your help!

[lahaine]

Geh! Don't thank me! [ Her annoyed tone was yelled into the receiver before she slammed it down, effectively hanging up on him.

Someone was embarrassed. ]