[video][kidnapping plot aftermath]

[hetried]

[Somebody definitely looks more shook up than usual; and those bandages looked a little much for someone that was supposed to be in a fake fight.]

O-- OK. I can get-- demon kidnapping, that's a-- job hazard. I guess. I-I can understand that!

B-But how come I'm the only one that ends up in an actual death match?! Y-You guys said not to worry, but I thought I was gonna d-die--!! Who the hell let--?!

[OK. Deep breaths Daichi, deep breaths.]

I-- Look, just-- stay away from that Sam guy! H-He's one of us, timid-looking guy, brown hair-- he's completely faking it! C-C-Completely! He's like some kind of monster!! I've never seen anything like it before! He wasn't faking anything, he was trying to kill me-- I-I think he seriously almost did!

Just-- stay away from him?! Alright?!

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[video]

[plunderbunny]

[Whoops okay here comes the mediator!]

All right, all right, let's try to calm down and not bring out the torches and pitchforks, shall we? Now, what exactly happened between the two of you?

[video]

[hetried]

[On the plus side, you couldn't pay him to go near a torch right now.]

I-I didn't mean to... [well, he hadn't meant to send Otoha after him, basically, but he was too freaked out about everything to keep it to himself.]

The tournaments-- with the demons? When we got kidnapped-- someone told us a rescue team was coming, so they told us to st-stall for as long as possible... basically fake the fights, right? I-I mean, we didn't really wanna fight each other...! But when we got in the ring, we were going at it for a bit, and then he started-- actually attacking-- not pulling his punches anymore, I mean! I-I guess one of my attacks made him angry, but I don't know why....

[video]

[plunderbunny]

You're... really afraid of him, aren't you?

[At first she thought this was just exaggeration, but the fear in Daichi's voice is palpable.]

[video]

[hetried]

[He's silent for a moment; it's not as if he had been trying to hide it, but something outright like this was...different. Somehow.]

Y...Yeah. [His tone was a lot more somber than hysterical, at least.]

I-- I've almost d-died before, but... this was somehow...

[Worse. Way worse.]