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[vectorsnake]

Hmm...so you've pulled me from my research and from the many tasks I have yet to accomplish all for the sake of this game of yours?

Interesting.

And, just how long do you expect to keep a witch from her work? I'm a very busy woman, after all. My research on black blood is still incomplete, you've become almost as much of an annoyance as that arrogant sister of mine - and we all know what happened to her, do we not?

Come now, must I really take part in all this? ...very well, be it so. But I'm not responsible for the harm that befalls you because of this inconvenience.

Be prepared to find snakes in your bed this evening, my dear mun.

...although snakes are the least of your worries, aren't they?

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Here, have a shinigami who isn't Shinigami-sama.

[rotwood_reaper]

...excuse me, but heibon-kun wants me to ask you from what point in your research you've been taken. Presumably, your answer will at least make sense to him. [The figure in the black kimono bows.] I am Rukia Kuchiki, a shinigami of Court Guard Squad 13.

HA!! Love it!!

[vectorsnake]

[There is the slightest twitch of displeasure on Medusa's face. This girl is a Shinigami? Is she of some relation to the old Reaper? She certainly bears a certain resemblance to Death the Kid...so perhaps it's not out of the realm of possibilities. But this matter of Court Guard Squads? Meaning there are large groups of Shinigami? Medusa doesn't like that idea one bit! Still, she maintains a sweet smile - a witch is nothing if not a sublime actress.]

He does, does he? Last I can recall, I was waiting for Eruka Frog and Free to revive the Kishin - Professor Stein did stand against me, but the battle has yet to conclude, that I am aware of.

However, my mun has revealed some...disturbing facts about the outcome of that battle...

Regardless, I am far more interested in you, dear - do tell me more of these Court Guard Squads of yours!

*bows* I aim to perlease.

[rotwood_reaper]

That seems to have been enough for him, particularly as regards the battle. He's saying something about you being... "temporarily killed"? How is that even possible? Killed is killed, returned to the Cycle of Rebirth.

[...Rukia thinks anything called a kishin is probably better left unrevived, but she's not yet ready to offend this woman by saying that to her face.] Although I don't know any of the people you mentioned, so your world may not be mine. Do the names of Rangiku Matsumoto, Gin Ichimaru and Sajin Komamura mean any more to you than those of your assistants and opponent mean to me?

As to the 13 Court Guard Squads, our most important duty is to maintain the balance of souls between Gense, the world of the living, and the Soul Society, by ensuring the passage of souls through the Cycle of Rebirth. For the most part, we carry out this task in the world of the living, by performing konsô, soul burial, on the spirits of the dead, and, when necessary, by purifying those spirits that have become Hollows.

[vectorsnake]

[Medusa gives a small smile to the first question.]

Fascinating, isn't it? How convincingly I faked my own death? I am not thrilled at the idea of being killed to begin with, but it's all part of my plan, I'm certain of that.

[Her smile fades a bit as she furrows her brow over the names Rukia lists.]

No, these people are not familiar to me. From where do you hail; this Gense place you spoke of, the Soul Society, or someplace else entirely? And these souls you pass through this Cycle of Rebirth, do the weapons of your world not consume them to gain strength?

[A small smirk appears on her lips, and if one has keen enough eyes, they will spot the black and purple magic that flickers out of her mouth in the form of a snake's tongue.]

And what precisely is a "Hollow"?

[God help us all if she figures out some way to manufacture those...]

[rotwood_reaper]

You have a great deal in common with Aizen, it seems. A great many events that would have ended anyone else's plans were only temporary setbacks. Of course, he'd had a century to lay his schemes with only his immediate allies aware of them.

I'm told I was born in Gense, but I have no memories of it. I passed over to the Soul Society as an infant and grew to my present age there. In every meaningful sense, it is my home.

Hollows are souls whose hearts have become empty. [Rukia fetches her notebook and draws something reasonably similar to this or maybe this.] They eat other souls in an attempt to fill their inner void. I'm comfortably certain that any zanpakutô which could eat human souls would be destroyed along with the shinigami who wielded it.

[vectorsnake]

Aizen? I've never heard of such a person - but if he had a century to plan meticulously as I do, you're probably correct in that assessment.

[Medusa takes the notebook as Rukia brings it, and examines the drawings. She was expecting scientific diagrams and she got.......these. Slowly she hands them back with an unimpressed expression.]

I see........are all of them so...cutesy?

And Zanpakuto? Shall I assume that these are your weapons? If Shinigami wield them, they sound very similar to Death Scythes...

[She doesn't know how she feels about that...]