I could put a catchphrase here but I refuse!!!

[shadower]

Don't you have something better to do than bother me? I get it, you're bored, but I was doing pretty great over here. Life's good, everything's quiet, and the sky looks amazing today. You could try going for a walk and enjoying some of that, too.

You know. Instead of tossing me into a world haunted by soul-devouring ghost things.

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[shadower]

[A weary sigh. This guy is seriously high-strung.]

It's just chakra.

[jurisimpudent]

...It's what?

[shadower]

Chakra. You know, the thing that makes you live.

[jurisimpudent]

...That did not feel like a series of red blood cells carrying vital nutrients and oxygen.

[shadower]

Because it's chakra, not red blood cells.

[jurisimpudent]

So you believe in such idiotic, superstitious mumbo-jumbo?

[shadower]

What do you mean "believe in"?

[jurisimpudent]

"Believe in." To hold faith in. Is the definition of the phrase ambiguous?

[shadower]

This isn't a belief thing.

[jurisimpudent]

...Regardless. Kindly try not to shock me again.

[shadower]

I was diagnosing you.

[jurisimpudent]

You were grabbing at me and discharging static electricity into my skin.

[shadower]

Don't you know anything?

[jurisimpudent]

Of course I do! I know a great many things.

[shadower]

[Running a hand over his forehead.]

Okay... Okay, I'm sorry. Maybe you're just from a place where they haven't discovered the most... basic... stuff. About life. And that's not your fault.

[jurisimpudent]

Of course we know "the most basic stuff." I should say in return that it is not your fault that you come from a place that's clearly superstitious and backwards, but it is your fault that you decide to be so smug about your idiocy.

[shadower]

It's not superstition. It's a thing that exists and I can prove it.

[jurisimpudent]

Then do so.

[shadower]

[Alright, he puts his hands together in what looks like a mudra...]

[jurisimpudent]

[Edgeworth tenses, ready to defend himself if need be.]

[shadower]

[Nothing happens at first. Seemingly. But their shadows are now connected and Edgeworth's frozen in that stance. And when Shikamaru pulls his hands apart and raises his arms up, Edgeworth is forced to do the same.]

[jurisimpudent]

What -

[His face pales with terror. At once he begins struggling fiercely, wildly, trying hard to tear away from that control, even past the point of reason.]

[shadower]

[He can feel that, even if it accomplishes nothing physically.]

Whoa, hey, calm down or you'll hurt yourself when I release you.

[jurisimpudent]

Let - Stop it! Whatever you're doing -

[Shikamaru's warning only leads him to redouble his efforts.]

[shadower]

I promise I'll stop the second you stop fighting it, okay? Just breathe.