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[It's Marco's voice, but somehow with a darker tint to it. And it looks like his hair's been dyed black? That's not the strangest change though. The tattoo on his chest is completely removed. There's a rough scar where it used to be though, it's not bleeding, but it's clearly still healing.]

Can you believe the arrogance of those fools? First they drag me away, then they removed my father's mark, and gave me a mockery of it. [Oh yeah. He's deadpan, but it doesn't take a lot of knowing Marco to recognize that he is thoroughly pissed off. More angry than he's ever openly shown in Luceti for that matter.] But the joke's on them, oh yes. [His eyes glitter darkly, burning blue for a second, as they might have done before.] Just because my healing is slowed here doesn't make me any less a phoenix. They can remove my tattoos and piercings but that's a simple thing to restore.

Watch and learn fools. Watch and learn.

[LUCKILY the next part is filtered away from kids ten and under, though no doubt many adults would have preferred not to see it either.]

[Marco props the book up on the edge of the fountain, and leans back to lowers his neck into the water and uses a knife to carve an old school manji symbol in it, line by line. Those familiar with the nazi swastika and not the manji symbol might confuse it for that. Marco doesn't make a sound however, but his blood is clearly revolting against the treatment, blue flames trying to battle the water, and the most they can do is hold back the damage. As he finishes, Marco smirks, grabs a bottle of blue ink from a broken pen and pulls out of the water to throw the ink into it. At that he lets out a feral sound, something like a loud crow's caw, and he shakes off the rest of the ink with a smirk, the skin already still stitching over his chest and trying to cover his neck, but hitting a barrier where it's inked.]

[He fiddles with the journal again to turn off the filter and grins.]

There. I don't know about you, but I feel better already! Now who wants to get on my good side and help me find some earrings?

[[ooc: Marco's returned from Mallynap in "evil" mode! He'll have black hair, be a lot more emo/depressed/dark, and comments will come from

evilfierybluebird and

fieryblackbird respectively!]]

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How did you become friends once upon a time?

Hmmm...

[Yoh actually considers how to answer to that, or even if he should answer. At the end he answers, talking in an cheerful tone and with a wide smile, quickly but clearly without letting his words stumble against each other but not letting Marco time to think them over as he says them.]

Most of differences came from the fact that he couldn't see spirits and was disrespectful with them, not to mention that he was always acting like a bully and gave my best friend a beating just for being in a place they had decided to claim theirs even if it was a graveyard and thus a public area. So they all solved quickly when the spirit of an ancient murderer and thief possessed him and attacked me to take revenge against my own companion spirit who had killed him in the past. We saved Ryu and he became able to see spirits and understand me better just as I was able to understand him better as well, then he just trained to become a shaman and accompanied me to help me win the Shaman Fight and become the Shaman King which is basically God in our world.

[And that's all. Kudos to you if you could catch anything, Marco. Extra kudos if you actually believe him, because he's not expecting you to.]

Oh, I see. [Yeah, no he just takes it all in stride. Makes sense to him.]

Are there various types of spirits, just as with this place?

[Yoh's answer takes a bit to arrive, not too long but it's not immediate. When he speaks he sounds amused and optimistic as always.]

Well, every living being that dies becomes a spirit, some go to the Great Spirit but many remain on the human realm. So yes, there's various types of spirits, but there are far more than in here.

What kind are you?

[Presumptuous, what?]

I don't know, I've not died yet.

[He means kind of spirit, right?]

I suppose I'll just be a human spirit, I don't think I can just go and turn into a fairy or something like that all of a sudden when I die.

Oh? You give off the impression of a different kind entirely, but perhaps I am too used to the otherworldly.

I do? What kind do I seem to be?

[He spreads his hands with a shrug.]

Wise beyond your years and too jaded for one so young.

[Heh, Marco is good. It has been a long while since he felt close to be exposed with anyone that wasn't Anna or Hao with their ability to read mind and hearts. Still a feeling is just a feeling, it's not as if he really is exposed and even if he was what Marco seems to have picked up is far from being something worth to worry about.

And so he meets the answer with a cheerful and amused laugh, as if Marco had just shared the best joke ever.]

I don't think that counts as a type of spirit, Marco-san.

No? I suppose being a phoenix does not either, lad, but it is why I have lived so long and have the experienced I do.

I think being a phoenix counts though. Except that I don't really think that is possible, that's the whole point of phoenixes, right? They keep living even when they die they just resurrect again.

[A pause.]

It must be painful, I'm sorry.

[His eyes narrow.]

Quite.

[He gets the feeling that the kid knows exactly what he's doing, which would mean he said that on purpose to try to make Marco back off. Very well then, Marco would back off.]

[But he gives an evil glittering grin in any case.]

Living is pain, you see, but perhaps that merely goes hand in hand with consciousness of existence.

[The times when Yoh says something without a purpose are actually very few even if many don't really notice it behind his smiles and calm attitude. His own smile doesn't waver at Marco's answer, it remains in place, calm and serene as he replied in an equal tone.]

I guess it is both pain and a pain. No one really asks to be born, yet we are all thrown to it whether we like it or not and have to endure it. It's natural that it will end being pain and a pain if you're stuck with it for who knows how long with no chance to stop it. That's definitively something no one on their right mind would want to experience.

[He wants to, though. Unlike many shamans he isn't stupid enough, nor has been lied enough, to believe that there isn't a great price in exchange of becoming the Shaman King, the new God. Though his chances for it have never really been that big and he's aware of it now at long last.]

Though if spirits exist it doesn't really matter in the end if it's all tied to consciousness of existence as you say, spirits are conscious as well even if no longer "alive", aren't they?

Aye, but isn't that also a pain?

Do you want to listen to a story?

[The tone is cheerful and calm at the same time, upbeat as if the conversation had been totally different so far.]

Aye, always. [This is certainly true though. He loves stories.]

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