[h2]Daisuke Miyamoto[/h2]

"No need. I ain't gotten it to work either."

[i]Let's take 'em down together.

Benkei.[/i]

Sitting still wasn't really in him, so he'd gotten up to pace the length of the room ages ago. Kimiko had it handled, so he didn't really bother speaking up either. There wasn't any question for him. If it had happened once, it could happen again. If he let it. They'd won a battle but the war was still going and he wasn't gonna turn away. 

He felt a massive hand on his shoulder again, even though he knew it wasn't really there.

"I dunno what to call it. That backup I mentioned, whatever they are, they're not normal either. We brought 'em here." [i]Persona[/i]. That was the word he'd heard, before the card appeared. Or maybe he hadn't heard it, maybe he'd just known it, but it wasn't something he'd learned by himself. "Persona's the word I'd pick. Don't really know what else to call a warrior almost twice my height. They're the reason we won. Kimiko's right, I'd be dead a dozen times over without it. But it ain't really an [i]it[/i], either."

The semi-reformed delinquent gripped his shirt by the collar and pulled it up over his head, letting the garment hang loosely from a finger while he turned to show his back. It was pretty clear what he meant, but he pointed at the spot he'd gotten stabbed anyway. Sasori'd made sure it got stitched up after the fight, but it still hurt like a bitch. The wound was pretty small on the surface, but a lot deeper than it looked. He'd gotten a good look at what caused it... When it hit Benkei.

"Ice spike from one of the 'bots. Didn't hit me, hit Benkei. But [i]I[/i] got stabbed." He turned to face the group again, giving a rolling shrug of his shoulders. Didn't need to freak Kazou out [i]too[/i] much, showing off the places he got hit. He did need to see, though. Not just for the explanation, but to understand it [i]was[/i] serious. "Not a genius, but seems to me that if Benkei getting hurt means [i]I[/i] do then there's more than a bit of me in him."

"But I haven't been able to do it again. And if the spooks take another shot, and we can't figure out how to bring 'em out... Well, I mean, I got some knuckledusters but that ain't gonna do much."

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