[A new name, and a mask to go with it. There is no doubt whatsoever that this is Mitsuhide, of course. Even just focusing on the purely physical attributes it's as obvious as the sun is bright; the cascade of admittedly fine silvery hair, small but bright eyes and incredibly tall frame mark him as that man. That just leaves Xu Shu with one question he's not sure he's going to get an answer to and most definitely isn't going to ask directly; why? What's this all about?]
[Daud wanted Mitsuhide to stay away from Xu Shu. So Mitsuhide is... staying away from Xu Shu by acting as 'Tenkai' instead? This can't be a new persona, though, not judging by the way Mitsuhide is holding himself, the way he talks and the drastically different aura he possesses. It's something he's done before.]
[Xu Shu thinks about 'I would like to kill him,' those badly hidden words in the letter that he's not soon going to forget. The day that Mitsuhide tried to kill Daud would be the day Xu Shu would have no choice but to fight to protect his boss, something he does not wish to do where it can be avoided. His main weapon should be his mind. It should be the first thing he tries to do. Think through a problem, try to avoid that blood, even if it seems like he's just putting off an inevitability.]
Well met. [Just go along with it for now, he thinks, grasping his drink so tightly it almost burns and offering the smallest smile.] I am sorry if I look so bothered, but, umm... I have many things to worry about. It's something like my job to watch over people. To keep things calm. Not the easiest thing to do, and I am not the most talented of men, but I still have to try.
[There is only one Xu Shu. He was once Shan Fu, it's true, but those were just two different names to mark the two very different periods of his young life; Shan Fu might have jumped far too quickly to the 'fighting' option but he learned how badly that could go, and so, instead, he's Xu Shu. Who is, despite all of his instincts telling him to get away from this, talking calmly to the most dangerous man he's ever met.]
[Mother wasn't wrong when she called him foolish.]
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[A new name, and a mask to go with it. There is no doubt whatsoever that this is Mitsuhide, of course. Even just focusing on the purely physical attributes it's as obvious as the sun is bright; the cascade of admittedly fine silvery hair, small but bright eyes and incredibly tall frame mark him as that man. That just leaves Xu Shu with one question he's not sure he's going to get an answer to and most definitely isn't going to ask directly; why? What's this all about?]
[Daud wanted Mitsuhide to stay away from Xu Shu. So Mitsuhide is... staying away from Xu Shu by acting as 'Tenkai' instead? This can't be a new persona, though, not judging by the way Mitsuhide is holding himself, the way he talks and the drastically different aura he possesses. It's something he's done before.]
[Xu Shu thinks about 'I would like to kill him,' those badly hidden words in the letter that he's not soon going to forget. The day that Mitsuhide tried to kill Daud would be the day Xu Shu would have no choice but to fight to protect his boss, something he does not wish to do where it can be avoided. His main weapon should be his mind. It should be the first thing he tries to do. Think through a problem, try to avoid that blood, even if it seems like he's just putting off an inevitability.]
Well met. [Just go along with it for now, he thinks, grasping his drink so tightly it almost burns and offering the smallest smile.] I am sorry if I look so bothered, but, umm... I have many things to worry about. It's something like my job to watch over people. To keep things calm. Not the easiest thing to do, and I am not the most talented of men, but I still have to try.
[There is only one Xu Shu. He was once Shan Fu, it's true, but those were just two different names to mark the two very different periods of his young life; Shan Fu might have jumped far too quickly to the 'fighting' option but he learned how badly that could go, and so, instead, he's Xu Shu. Who is, despite all of his instincts telling him to get away from this, talking calmly to the most dangerous man he's ever met.]
[Mother wasn't wrong when she called him foolish.]