Pairing: Captain Exposition/Kuwabara (aka Ryuen/Sid) (aka that monk/the guy with the hair)
For the purpose of: Mild confusion.
Dedicated to: Telophase's recap.
Disclaimer: Has not owned, does not own, and will not own Death Trance etc.
The arch-bishop had not been able to tell Ryuen in which direction the man with the coffin had gone, so he wandered until he got the same eerie tingle in his spine he had gotten that day years before when a man had walked over to him in the street and said, "You know kid, we're short a monk." That had led to the facial tattoos.
This time the tingle proved warning of bandits equipped for serious bondage! Ryuen ran like a weenie, but failed to escape; instead he was cornered by a big muscular guy with a tan and a huge sword. The bandit with the eye patch shaped like an eye consulted with the big muscular guy, then stepped forward and spoke. "You coming from the East Temple, ain't cha? Hand over the coffin!" Ryuen was mildly confused; it was perfectly obvious that he was not carrying a coffin. He supposed it might be remotely plausible to someone of limited intelligence that the coffin might be cowering somewhere under his shapeless robes.
The man stepped back for another muttered exchange, then turned back to Ryuen. "So you deaf or something?"
Ryuen stood still, struck mute by confusion.
After another consultation, the eye eye patch bandit said. "Boy, it's your lucky day. Kill HIM!"
The other green-wrapped bandits stepped forward… Ryuen's vision hazed as his pitiful life flashed before his eyes... and then one of the bandits thudded to the forest floor with a rope around his neck! A boot planted itself on the bandit's chest and the other bandits stilled.
No--it wasn't just a boot--the boot was on a LEG! And the leg was attached to a blue-clad man with the puffiest, most beautiful brown hair Ryuen had ever seen.
"Looks like you need a hand," the man said, retrieving the rope of his whip and strapping it back to his belt. The bandits charged him en masse.
Ryuen watched, heart pounding, as the man drew a katana to cross blades with the man in front of him, and then produced a gun to shoot the men coming up behind him. It was like a symphony of gun- and sword-play. Ryuen sighed with longing as the man dispatched all the bandits but the one with the "eye" patch.
The eye patch bandit attempted to flee as the man posed beyond the corpse of the man with the huge sword.
"Where you going?" The man emphasized his query with a gunshot.
"N-nowhere?" asked the bandit.
The man grunted and jerked his chin in the direction of the open forest. Ryuen held his breath. Would this bandit be allowed to escape just retribution?
The man smiled, assembled a studded black bazooka, and fired it. The missile curved through the trees and blew up the bandit. Something landed next to Ryuen with a thud. He looked down; it was a leg.
The man with the hair remarked, "That's gonna leave a scar."
Ryuen realized that he had fallen in love.