aoex_dressing | AND NOW IT'S OLD MAN O'CLOCK

[ It's Yaozou's one day off.

All the boys are out. Renzou is with their young master off at school. Kinzou and Juuzou are with Mamushi on a small expedition to catch some unidentified minor demons making a fuss in a nearby village. His wife is with their remaining three children on a much-needed vacation, according to her, and Yaozou had been all too willing to volunteer himself to hold down the fort with Uwabami while they were all out.

Uwabami only just left after they'd had themselves a game of shougi and tea.

Yaozou had been inches away from settling himself down to do some much-needed weeding in his vegetable garden. Utter peace and quiet had been promised to him for at least another two days.

This. This is unacceptable.

He glances around the academy grounds with a stern eye, maintaining his composure. (Although there is a distinct twitch beneath his eye now. Buddha has it out for him. There is no other explanation than that. He must have been a murderer and a rapist and a child-killer in a past life, sent into this one purely to atone for those sons. ) ]

Demons, show yourselves!

[ Because if it's not a demon who did this to him, boy are they going to wish that they'd been born with the regenerative capabilities of one. Or possibly never born at all.

ooc note: Yaozou's taken from much prior to the Impure King incident because having him hobbling around on crutches, while badass like nothing else, seems a bit cumbersome. Also boils. ]

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*sure, why not. Here is a demon showing himself. --Oh hey, it's the Kyoto branch head, sup subordinate-of-ours*

You rang, Mr. Shima? *and have a smile and a bow*

~~*it's cool if you hit him with the shakujou, man, he can take it.*~~

[ Don't mind Yaozou making a somewhat unbecoming sound (read: yelp) of surprise as he stumbles back a half step. Mr. Branch Chief here tends to have that general effect on him. It's the shorts. They always leave Yaozou feeling somehow distinctly off-balance. ]

--L-Lord Pheles?

[ a.k.a. the last face he expects when abruptly abducted from his home and deposited in True Cross Academy grounds. Also the first face he expects to see, now that he gets to thinking about it. Dammit. ]

Is there some kind of emergency...?

*did you ever consider that maybe that's intentional, Yaozou. True meaning of the poofy pants: psychological warfare???

but yes it is probably fairly natural to see the Headmaster standing around in his own school, actually. Mephisto chuckles a bit as he reaches up to tap his chin, then gives a bit of a shrug.*

In a way, I suppose one could say so? But I haven't called you here for any emergency, Mr. Shima. Actually your being called here in the first place is the problem in itself. *pausing with a brief chuckle* --Well, one of them.

[ No, actually. In fact, Yaozou goes to extreme lengths to think about Mephisto's poofy pants as little as humanly possible.

And seeing that Mephisto isn't making a lick of sense, Yaozou straightens his posture and does his level best to scrape his composure back together. Even if the Japanese Branch Chief is a little on the, er, unconventional side, Yaozou is still representing Kyoto here and he's not about to bring shame to over ten generations of Buddhist-sect Exorcists. ]

Er-- Sorry, come again? I don't think I follow.

AND NOW IT'S OLD MAN O'CLOCK

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