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The Blessed Woodlands

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Umbra of Chaos:
Uria

Their bright eyes drank up the scene with great interest. They were all being thundery, and cold, and shadowy, and intimidating! It was all so much fun, Uria wanted to try it too. So they breathed in! They breathed in so much to look bigger but in the end they just had to deflate and exhale it all out a bit pathetically. "Aww. I wanted to try too. But I dunno why you're so mad. The people all got to make their choice, and I bet they're having tons of fun now! Don't you think so too?"

They were leaping up and down in their cradle, excitement pouring off of them and seemingly unaware of the tension.

YOLF:
Lubei

There were so many things he could say to these two, and he had barely met them. So much dishonesty, and so much outrage backed up in his throat, and he didn't know where to start, or if to start by agreeing. To Uria's flippant retort, however, his face flushed blue.

Lubei abruptly turned towards the child and sunk a foot into the ground with a resounding crash, causing ice floes to erupt in a mandala of anger. "Be silent! Don't sound so proud, what you did was not kindness! It wasn't even selfless, you careless brat. If you value your immature life at all, shrink behind me and let Lubei Sang speak."

He rumbled like a storm from his chest, and his blade jumped halfway out of the sheath with a blinding glare aimed at the knight.

"And to what authority must I surrender? Whose law do you project on an abandoned land, or do you merely feed your justice with the word for a claim? If you want my life, ask for it plainly." The menace only grew towards the crumbling man, the sigils on Lubei's forehead crackling with glacial wind. "As for you, a coward who did nothing to stop a disaster is little less guilty than a fool whose doubt allowed it to happen. What do you really want?"

Kotomine_Rin:
Lawrence

The ashen man frowned sadly. It didn't look disingenuine, for a moment he seemed shaken by his words. Or perhaps... regretful? In the meanwhile, the flame of hell cackled, as if overjoyed. "KHAHAHAHAHAHAH! He's got ya there pal! Oh wow, that was cold, are you just going to -squaaackaaaarghhh! Cheep cheep! Ch-"

He grabbed the nightmare's beak and shut it up with his bare hands. Despite that, he kept his composure looking up.

"A coward I am, and even worse than that, a weakling. Alas, I'd only ever fight something if I thought I'd be able to do it with my skin intact. Compared to someone brimming with life energy like yourself, my life and will are fickle as wind. Alone, you'd have crushed me with no resistance." He glared at both. "But avenging the fallen is much easier than saving them. Even someone like me could do that much, hm?"

But as the pale man bowed and winked, a surge of lightning erupted right in front of him like a cage. The hero's spirit  cracked east, south, and west, much like a cross, and nearly trampled his body with a ravaging storm of light.

Vanguard

"Be silent." Was the knight speaking to the child, the demon, or the man of ash? It wasn't clear. The only thing that could be confirmed was the intensity of the look he gave the two above.

"This isn't about law, but justice. I don't care about the details, go to a station or some mental hospital and seek help. If you think what you've done is a matter of law, you're already beyond help."

He took a decisive step forward, his cape now flowed like the storm behind him. His fist was closed like a vortex of force, begging for release.

"I do not want to take your life, or anyone else's... but you're dreaming if you think I'll let you pull off a stunt like that again. If you don't choose to do the right thing, then I guess its fine. If you don't, that's also fine. Because it's just a choice, right?"

He smiled sincerely at the two of them.

"But I don't think you'll have as much fun as the other ones."

Umbra of Chaos:
Uria

"Fun? Fighting sounds like a lotta fun too..." They rocked back and forth in the branches with a smile on their face. "I don't know why you're complaining now though! You said you don't want to kill anyone but you didn't try to save them either. You just left them until a monster went nom nom nom!" Uria pointed an accusatory, blackening finger at Vanguard with a grin on their face.

"Oh, I'm not a monster though! I just said that because that's what you want to fight. I'm Mother's savior! I helped them all when no one else did." They leaped off from the tree as their arms changed entirely. One turned into a massive black claw while the other glowed as a shining sword coalesced into its grip. "Lubei, you aren't being very good either though. You've been through this before over and over again! Listen to your bird!" They let out a wet cough as darkness spilled out to cover the ground. Scales, feathers, claws, all these demonic things bubbled up from the vomit. They were all scorched by heavenly flame.

"When you have to fight you have to fight! Their justice or yours. Gods or demons! Because if you don't you'll die, and the only thing after that... is punishment."

YOLF:
Lubei

Lubei Sang shut his eyes as if he was blinded, and pushed the sabre back down with a forceful shove, hiding the blade from sight. When he deigned the group with his gaze again, pained images teemed behind it. His feathered judge was ever-faithful, but rang with urgency. "To pay for your actions is inevitable, but not every conflict must shed blood. Remember why you cling to life. Think carefully on what you're meant to do!"

To others, it might have appeared as if a skirmish was being fought inside the demon, surrounded on all sides by companies bearing each their own standard. Cracks opened on the sinner king from within.

"Enough, Uria. You gave them no choice but your own convenience. And this not a matter of justice, but what must be done and the cost of it." Lubei growled and swept his arm in a silent command towards the other two. A white wall spurted into being with a glacial groan, and he adressed them from the other side of it.

"There are things I need to verify here. Until I can, I won't forfeit."

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