Impromptu friendship

"Well I assumed not an intelligent one since you're using it" He jokes.

"Oh is that how it is?" Toshiro asked with a chuckle

"I kid , you managed to trick that frog , I'd have just cut it down " He replies as he rubs his hands together to generate some warmth.

"Well I couldn't blow it it up so..." he shruged and tore off some fish for take

"Well it was covered in water , you could have electrocuted it , and cooked toad isn't bad" He replies with a smirk.

"I could have but where's the fun in that?" he asked

"We could've eaten a giant talking frog , how is that not fun?" He replies with a laugh as he pulls out a small skin of sake and begins to gulp some down.

"not a huge fan of killing unlesss I have to" Came the Tentai and suspected murderer's reply

"Said the suspected serial killer" He replies with a smirk as he chomps down on his part of the fish "You know...I hear the county over has been taken by a madman , kills Yogore by the hundreds ,and not just them either"

"The empress is... a kind woman... but she is sheltered, lives in a gilded cage" Toshiro cassually gave away a state secret likke it were the wheather, what were they going to ddo sentance him to double execution?

Take's head snaps back to him as his eyes narrow , the loyalty to the emperor that is near instinctual , embedded deep in the back of his mind by years of training springing into action . "How dare you say such a thing?" He replies harshly .

"When was the last time you were in the Empress's court?" Toshiro asked him curiously "I was there last week, I tried to stop her sister's murder, what have you been up to?"

"The last time was years ago , yet still this does not excuse your words they almost amount to treason" He replies firmly .

"The treason has been committed by the shogun, and the Empress's court they work together to blind her so they have free reign, you think you are defending her? No it's people like you who let this continue. How can it be corrected if no one will speak the truth?" Toshiro asked him bluntly, he was stubborn and bitter, and he knew the truth.

His eyes narrow more "Explain...now" He replies , voice slowing to a rather intimidating chill "Normally I'd strike you down for insulting my great uncle in such a way , but my gut's telling me not to so"

"Your great uncle is the shogun I take it? Well he's been ruling the empire, and keeping the empress in the dark on current events, the tentai support him because his ideals are more in line with theirs, and sas any fool knows the loyalty of nobilility is treacherous" The tentai said ready to meet the warrior with a spell should he try anything

Take scowls "Well that's rather insulting if I'm being honest" He replies , though his expression remains skeptical , brows drawn together , lips in a flat unconvinced line .

"Well sometimes the truth hurts. My father was in on it too." Toshiro said looking pained as he said that

"So you did kill him?" He replies as he scratches his chin a bit.

"I told you I killed someone but I didn't kill the empress's sister." Toshiro said to him "That was an oni."

Take has dozed off.

Toshiro shakes his head

(Timeskip?)

(yes)

(wasn't asking u)