shockshot | IC voicemail for Masaki Kurosaki

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IC voicemail for Masaki Kurosaki

Hi there! I'm Masaki Kurosaki. I'm a little busy at the moment-I might be sleeping or something! But leave a message, and I'll get back to you!

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Ryuuken was never really... he doesn't like to speak about personal things, like my mother. Especially after she passed. I knew... my grandfather, Soken, told me that Quincy used to have arranged marriages. I guess I always assumed he didn't mean....

[a pause.]

...Were you close with her? [but he can guess she wasn't. Not if she was the help.]

No, he wouldn't talk about it. It...it's very complicated. All of it. I didn't know her as well as I should have, but she loved your father.

[Did Ryuuken love her? Maybe not as much. But she is not getting into that.]

Did he...tell you why they used to have them? Arranged marriages?

[that he knew. Looking back, he could remember that much about his mother. He could never quite figure out why. She was always so gentle, so warm and loving. ...So much what Ryuuken wasn't.]

The same reason any culture would, I assume. To protect bloodlines, or wealth.

More or less. Your father and I are Echt Quincy, pure blooded. It's more then just...elitism.

For example...are you able to use blut yet?

...Use what?

Blut Vene, Blut Arterie. You know. When you're drawing reishi directly into your blood vessels.

[You can do that?]

I've never heard of that technique before.

You're...you can't be serious.

I'm sorry. Sensei never mentioned it before he was killed, and Ryuuken never taught me Quincy techniques. What I know, I learned through my Sensei or on my own. It isn't as though there were any other Quincies left to teach me.

No, no. I'm just surprised you never learned.

But, we can change that. I was born with it, Ryuu-chan too, but I can teach you how to use it.

Honestly, I'm lucky I know what I do. Ryuuken forbade teaching me Quincy techniques.

[but Soken wasn't gonna have none of that, thank goodness]

...If I can regain my abilities in this place. Then yes, thank you. I would enjoy that.

Remind me to scold him if I ever see him here.

[She's just going to sigh. Ryuuken, she is going to blister your ears.If she ever gets the chance that is.]

...I'm sure you can. If you want to. In the meantime, I can fill you in on the theory.

...Please don't say that.

[please don't make him consider the possibility of his father in a city of sex.]

If you wouldn't mind.

Sorry. It's a big if. And likely will never happen.

[So she likes to think. Otherwise it'd be...so complicated.]

It gives me all sorts of reasons to see you, so I don't mind at all.