[OPEN] The end of the storm

[watermemory]

Who ⬤ The team members and ANYONE!
What ⬤ The mission was a success! Time to face the music from friends and family.
When ⬤ Just after the tower expedition
Where ⬤ Outside Kaigo no Bou, probably moving around
Content Warnings ⬤ References to violence and horror imagery


All at once, the rains cease.

The damage remains, both to the city and to her inhabitants, but reality reasserts itself, and the ill wind that's blown through Jigoku-cho has—for now—come to an end.

Emergency services have borne away the injured, including the Daitengu and the freed Enma, leaving a gaggle of people emerging into the night.


[This is an OPEN IC MINGLE. Go forth and icly rubberneck or speculate or collect your friends back home to get some rest or yell at said friends for taking risks without telling them they were chosen for this mission out of some misguided attempt to get them to not worry. Who would do something so stupid, anyway.]

Comments

[watermemory]

Right, you're both with... [ He's tired. ] I'm not surprised, he's a good guy. I don't think I'd be here if not for him.

[ He falters at that - that last scramble at the top of the tower is going to be weighing on his mind for some time. In the silence, the sound of ambulance sirens (that probably have been careening through the streets this whole time) filters in. ]

Eh, are you sure you don't want a doctor to look at that?

[holeful]

Someone already looked at it! It's just pretty deep so it's still not fully scabbed over. So I'm keeping the bandage on so it doesn't get infected.
[He seems oddly unconcered.]

But that makes you and me brothers, you know! Cain also saved be during all this! He's the one who found me out in the rain, injured.
[Brothers by way of both being saved by Cain. Apparently???]

[watermemory]

[ Wellll... Minato should have expected that, after the man's cavalier attitude when asked about his head wound. But he concedes that he probably knows best, when it comes to his own injuries. Right? ]

...b-brothers? [ What does that even mean, sir. ] I-I guess you could see it that way... I'd rather not make a habit of needing to be rescued, myself...

[ Ah, what the heck. Minato pushes himself off the wall, reaching a hand down to pick up one end of the net of random supplies Fukuda has been dragging. Except for the watermelon, which rolls out with a sad, gross, wet noise. ] C'mon, I'll help you get this stuff to the medics, anyway. They might appreciate it.

[holeful]

[That's agreement as far as Fukuda is concerned. Minato is his brother now "he doesn't know Minato's name" it's fine.]

Yeah! But are you hurt yourself? I know the people who were the worst hurt got taken away, but the rest of you...