[right][color=0076a3][h3][b]Ryuuichi[/b][/h3][/color]Bjyerlfal City || Camphor’s Lab: Reception Area || Time: Morning [/right][hr] [quote=Another One?] [color=d77457]‘You took this job, despite being unable to see?’[/color][/quote] Another set of approaching footsteps followed by another voice, once again, makes Ryuuichi slightly flinch in his seat once again. Just how many people were coming up to him? Normally, this would make him wonder if he is the one actually being talked too, but Ryuuichi can't deny those particular words. Yet the addition of this new, louder voice makes his fist clench a bit more as he felt his present migraine worsen. [quote] [color=d77457][s]‘Niiice.[/s] Surviving, despite the circumstances [s]thrust upon you. Making the most of it. I respect it, my dude!’[/s][/color][/quote] Ryuuichi doesn't even get much time to contemplate or try to consider everything this high energy individual says before yet another person shows up. [quote=The Fourth Person?] [color=d77457]‘Um.[/color] [color=e7bd51]I am Victor Gallagher. Where are you from, and have you see-[/color] [color=d77457][i]er,[/i][/color] [color=e7bd51]heard of anything cool happening around there lately?’[/color] [/quote] This fourth person sounds very close to the third person, yet Ryuuichi hadn't even heard them approach at all. The sudden fourth, strange voice makes him visibly jump up a bit as his head turns in that direction. It sounds almost like two people are talking over one another. Already he had forgotten what that third person said earlier. Something about [color=0076a3]surviving[/color]? Ruminating over those words, Ryuuichi's hand can't help but clench a bit more around the extendable cane. [color=0076a3][i]The only thing he can do[/i][/color], yet in this situation he is wondering if he can even do that. That word goes off in his head again. Survive. Despite the people looking at and talking to him, that word makes him retreat into his head as his hand moves from that cane up to the center of his chest, clenching at something there. The hand isn't over his heart, so it's unclear why or what he is grasping at other than his jacket. A motion that is easily noticeable to the three standing around him, yet Ryuuichi doesn't consider that. [color=0076a3][i]"Why... how... did I even... do that... survive."[/i][/color] He clenches more tightly at that spot on his jacket. His head lowers more as his hand more tightly clenches the left side of his head. The migraine piles on more pain like the rocks of that day. By this point he misses whatever it is that the gentler of the four voices around him said to the one who commented on him being blind. [color=0076a3][i]"Why... do--"[/i][/color] He finds in his hands suddenly an object. Glass. Cool to the touch due to the cool liquid in it. It's this sensation that pulls him out of his head, yet he returns to reality only to be confused. How or when had he put his hands out? Who put this cup in his hands? [i]To those outside of Ryuuichi's head, upon Yuu offering the cup of water to Ryuuichi he had just put out his hands in a very stiff manner towards Yuu, allowing the purple haired boy to easily put the cup into those outstretched hands. He had put out his hands right as the words about the water were being said to him.[/i] [quote=Lina][color=steelblue]"--My name's Lina, and its good to meet you."[/color][/quote] The sudden introduction returns him to reality as he flinches slightly, almost making the water spill from the cup in the process. Thankfully, nothing spills out. With his hands on the cup, and no longer rubbing his head, he only feels worse. Carefully, as if handling an egg, his slightly shaking hands place the cup between his legs to temporarily hold it. He reaches into his jacket pocket and, from within, removes what seems to be a small pill bottle. One hand holds it while the other traces over its lid. Carefully opening it, he reaches inside and feels at the tablets within before pulling out four as they sit in his open palm. The thumb of that hand traces carefully over each one resting in its palm to confirm how many are there. Words from his doctor spoke during his last appointment play in his mind. [quote=Recollection of Doctor Feldman] [color=fff79a][i]"You need to take it properly, or else I--"[/i][/color][/quote] A surge of pain cuts the words off as his hand holding the tablets trembles a bit while his hand holding the pill bottle clenches tightly around it. Ryuuichi doesn't want to take them, yet he has to. He is more afraid of failing this job than he is of feeling whatever those non-existent lights are. So after putting the pills into his mouth and then closing the bottle; returning it to his jacket pocket allows him to gently retrieve the cup of water and chug down its contents. A few coughs escape from him as a result of drinking down the water way too fast. [color=0076a3]"S... S-Sorry for... making you do that... for me"[/color] sputters Ryuuichi softly in his still slightly raspy voice in reference to being brought the water. He continues to hold the cup now, not sure where to put it or what to do with it. Despite both the water and the medicine, his voice still doesn't really sound all that good. He tries to now remember what everyone said before to reply. So another long silence passes. [color=0076a3]"I-I'm... Ryuuichi. I'm f-from... here and I can't really er... see... anything"[/color] he begins, stumbling over his words as he tries to remember what was said by all of these people. He remembers, that Victor person asking him about where he is from and if he had seen anything cool, yet he had perhaps [i]forgotten the part where Victor corrected himself[/i]. [color=0076a3]"It's... nice to umm... meet you... four"[/color] he adds to finish off this, in his opinion, disaster of a self introduction. Ryuuichi doesn't really remember if that third person had mentioned their name and is too afraid of asking recklessly for a name that he should have been paying attention to. The same with the second person who mentioned the water. So he decides to just mention all four of these people who have congregated around him. Thanks to the water and medicine, he already is looking a little better. His breathing has become a bit steadier now and he is no longer rubbing his head. He is still holding the empty cup though in both hands quite carefully, making sure it stays steadily held. He still is quite pale though, but that is more or less due to his natural complexion than anything. [hr] [center][img]https://i.ibb.co/YBppy2Ty/Kashima-Ryuuichi-card-2026-07-03-T14-52-11-003-Z.png[/img][/center] [center][hider=Detailed Info] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5665007][img]https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/c7b61914d849.png[/img][/url] [center][b][color=0076a3]Ryuuichi Kashima[/color][/b][/center] [u]Pokémon[/u] N/A [u]Money[/u] 000.001.000P [u]Camper Bag[/u] [hider=Medicines] [quote]Potion [x1] [/quote] [/hider] [hider=Key Items] [quote]White Collapsible Cane First Aid Kit Pain Medication Camping Kit Thrift Store Clothes x5[/quote] [/hider] [u]Interactions [/u] Yuu | [@Savo] Lina | [@Crusader Lord] ??? & Victor | [@PlatinumSkink] [u]Mentions [/u] None [u]Others Present [/u] Everyone [u]Updates[/u] The Appointment | Words from the Doctor Added [/hider][/center]