❀ nero turner

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[Nods]

Do you have the jewels and stuff from the underwater place? I'll take a ring or somethin'.

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Is that how everyone got money? From stealing...?

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Or they took a job.

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Nero did both.]

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(It has been exactly one day and Tsurumaru is already surviving off of other people again.)

... Is this your job?

(HE THOUGHT NERO WAS JUST DOING IT FOR FUN?)

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[... Tsuru... You are So Spoiled.]

Yeah. This is my job.

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(Sometimes you are just more valuable than money itself ok?)

Is it fun?

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Yeah? I mean, did somethin' like this back home too.

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To have a job doing something you enjoy.... how lucky.

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...

You've never had a job, huh?

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Before I was summoned, I only ever had to be beautiful and sharp.

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[He's still beautiful.]

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(Thank you, Nero. He knows.)

And after I was summoned, there are days where I work but other days, they make me pick weeds and take care of horses.

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Gardenin' is soothing.

[horses he knows nothing about.]

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It's dirty.

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Maybe ya wear too much white?

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It suits me. Don't I look like a crane like this?

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You seem to enjoy it.

Don't they come in other colors too?

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(On cue, Kiku shifts form! She goes from a cute, adorable little magpie to a red-crowned crane. )

These are the only colors.

(Mostly white, a little bit of black, a bright red crown. Likewise, Tsurumaru is always dressed in white! His gloves and little accessories are black. The only thing he's missing is..... the red.)

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... Does the red come from blood?

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... Usually.

(...)

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... What else is it?

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(He's just going to reach over to give Kiku some scritches. She preens in his arms as he does,)

The crane has a red crown on its head. Before, I thought the only way I could truly resemble the crane was to be stained red with blood in battle.

But when I return like that, everyone worries.

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'Course they would, if they care about ya. 's scary to see somebody hurt that bad.

1/2

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(...)

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It's natural for spirits like us. We were, after all, meant to fight.