[ at some point during the day or night (who knows what time is anymore when you time travel and are sequestered in some alt dimension or time?), lambda will pull rang aside and lead him away from the rest.
she pushes him down onto a sofa and then tries to settle onto his lap. ]
Rang takes a moment to wonder if he should let this happen, and hilariously even though they've been intimate in different ways -- this embarrasses him, for some reason? He lets her settle and then slips a hand under her knees and another against her back and just
[ this is stupid. he's stupid. she's still endeared. if he can't handle her on his lap after all they've done, she presses herself against his side and winds her arms around him.
it was about trapping him more than anything even if she truly does want to sit on his lap. ]
I could think of something better, but that's not the point. Was your deal with Imugi the one where you can't disobey or you die?
[LAMBDA!!! this is kitten behavior and it's kind of cute, rang just shifts her so she's back at his side, smiling while he does it. he's just tempting god (real) now]
You tell me first. Or do spirits like you have free rein when you're summoned?
[ he really is tempting god. it's not like she can't be more forceful and pin him. she lets him have his way for now after she listens to his question. ]
Heroic Spirits are summoned by someone. [ she's technically not a heroic spirit, but she isn't going to explain the entire spirit or servant system to him. ] That's their Master, and the summoning results in a contract. In return for the magical energy to sustain their spiritual form in the world of humans, the spirit will work with whoever summoned them, if they want to stay.
It's not like there aren't stories where Servants kill their Masters, but they usually forfeit their right to experience life again. And a Master has Command Spells they can use on their Servant.
[he's not meeting her gaze, looking far off as if thinking about something]
That's up to him, as the person who saved my life. He'll let me go once he thinks I've paid him back.
[he doesn't mention that it's been centuries since he was saved, and that hae-ryong has been using him since then. that to him, a fox's life is valuable currency, and apparently outweighs all the little tasks that rang's had to do for most of his life. and that rang only thinks of this as a contract because thinking of what it really is will just weigh him down with despair, a desperate attempt to gain some agency in what he has, which is nothing.]
[ he already told her it's been 600 years, after she kissed him the first time. the wheels in her head turn, and she doesn't like what she's processing or the conclusion she's forming. it makes her livid, the unevenness of this so-called contract.
if it's been 600 years and it's a human, how is this human still alive? what horrible magic is he doing for this? ]
If he dies, will you be set free?
[ to her credit, she says that quite neutrally despite how much she's decided she hates this human man that has basically had rang as an indentured servant for 600 years. ]
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she pushes him down onto a sofa and then tries to settle onto his lap. ]
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Rang takes a moment to wonder if he should let this happen, and hilariously even though they've been intimate in different ways -- this embarrasses him, for some reason? He lets her settle and then slips a hand under her knees and another against her back and just
picks her up, so he's carrying her,]
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she winds her arms around his neck, surprised that he's picking her up. hello? ]
What are you doing?
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instead he's a stupid fcking tsundere so he just leans down and places her on the couch, and then sits next to her.]
This is better.
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it was about trapping him more than anything even if she truly does want to sit on his lap. ]
I could think of something better, but that's not the point. Was your deal with Imugi the one where you can't disobey or you die?
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speaking of stupidity.... Rang is silent at the question, then]
Why do you want to know?
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she frowns. ]
I already told you I wanted to know all of you.
[ lambda is so unlucky she's asking him today instead of the next day when all the effects are back. ]
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rang sighs and leans back onto the seat, probably bringing lambda with him since she's attached,]
We're just business partners. I want what he wants.
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Is that so? Then who is it that you're contracted to that you can't disobey?
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You tell me first. Or do spirits like you have free rein when you're summoned?
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Heroic Spirits are summoned by someone. [ she's technically not a heroic spirit, but she isn't going to explain the entire spirit or servant system to him. ] That's their Master, and the summoning results in a contract. In return for the magical energy to sustain their spiritual form in the world of humans, the spirit will work with whoever summoned them, if they want to stay.
It's not like there aren't stories where Servants kill their Masters, but they usually forfeit their right to experience life again. And a Master has Command Spells they can use on their Servant.
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So your existence is tied to theirs. Do you have a Master right now?
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[do you like ritsuka lambda]
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[ it's very neutral. she neither dislikes nor likes ritsuka much. ]
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at least lambda doesn't dislike her, though he doesn't like the idea of her being under a contract in the first place.]
Hae-ryong's the same. He's seriously annoying, but there are worse humans out there to be bound to.
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she tilts her head to get a better look at him. ]
Hae-ryong is the one you can't disobey? What will fulfill your contract to him?
[ she thinks the ramifications of his contract are worse than hers because she doesn't have to obey ritsuka all the time. ]
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That's up to him, as the person who saved my life. He'll let me go once he thinks I've paid him back.
[he doesn't mention that it's been centuries since he was saved, and that hae-ryong has been using him since then. that to him, a fox's life is valuable currency, and apparently outweighs all the little tasks that rang's had to do for most of his life. and that rang only thinks of this as a contract because thinking of what it really is will just weigh him down with despair, a desperate attempt to gain some agency in what he has, which is nothing.]
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if it's been 600 years and it's a human, how is this human still alive? what horrible magic is he doing for this? ]
If he dies, will you be set free?
[ to her credit, she says that quite neutrally despite how much she's decided she hates this human man that has basically had rang as an indentured servant for 600 years. ]