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[text, March 18]
[Prussia doesn't understand why he's on Team Delight, but that doesn't mean he's not going to help out. He wanted to do this plan, contest or no contest, so he might as well not wait on it any longer.]

okay, listen up losers

so many of you i've met here have been sad and mopey and jumpy like scared little mice. and i mean I GET IT, i've been here for like a month now and i've fought monsters and heard the stories and it all sucks. but seeing so many of you like this is just depressing okay, and it got me thinking

[That phase, coming from him, is never good.]

if i can get you guys exercising, in shape, and better at self defense, you'd all be better off. you'll feel better physically and mentally, and be able to handle yourself better in dangerous situations. look i have been through some shit in my lifetime but you don't see me moping! i'm still out there every day with a sword fighting monsters or exercising cuz if i just sit around in my apartment and stare at the walls, waiting for bad shit to happen to me, i'd be depressed and scared too. well i'm not so trust me! JOIN ME!!

[A bit hypocritical seeing as he's spent the last few decades lazing around in his brother's place playing video games and being depressed, but hey. Hadriel has given the defunct nation a renewed sense of purpose.]

meet at 7AM outside the spire apartments. dress for exercise cuz we're gonna stretch and do some jogging and maybe some grappling training?? let's see where the morning takes us. also i'm available for weapons training cuz i know how to use pretty much everything in the armory cuz i'm ~awesome~ like that. i can prove it too cuz i get it done son

[action, March 19]
[And true to his word, Prussia will be outside the next morning waiting to see if anyone heeded the call. He'll be very pleased that anyone shows up, but will give a discerning eye to them trying to size them up.]

Okay! You think you're ready for this?

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[Ow. That was unexpected. He jabs at the wall with his sword, not sure if it'll manage to get rid of it or not. It's also hard to see, but he sure can feel it. How big exactly was this thing?

As Yukari goes to retrieve his sword, Prussia runs along the wall, judging its distance around him by dragging his sword along it. As soon as he finds an end, he'll immediately rush Yukari. But if it circles him 360-degrees, then he'll attempt to get through it by stopping to hack at it.]

Whatever. I'll power through all your cheap tricks!

The wall remains solid against the sword strikes and Yukari smirks in amusement at Gilbert. However, the wall is pretty short, and Gilbert should be able to find the end of it in short order and Yukari slides Ayamachi into its sheathe.

As he charges Yukari, he just swiftly dances out of the way, cartwheeling and twirling about swing after swing with relative ease.]

Cheap, you say? Are you jealous, Gilbert-chan?

[He says it smoothly, lilting his voice in amusement. This is fun! Gilbert should just loosen up. Yukari raises his hand up toward the swinging blade and creates just a small patch of his Colourless Aura this time to deflect the attack.]

Do tell me how my tricks are cheap, I have humoured all of your rules thus far. Or do you mean to attack only those who are defenseless? [Yukari tsks at Gilbert.</small.]

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[Fights are normally tons of fun for Prussia, but this one was infuriating. Partly because of Yukari's powers coming out of the woodwork, and partly because they're causing Prussia to lose.]

Shut up! You know what I mean. I'm not jealous of cheap tactics like this.

[He's totally jealous and if he was able to, would also be using powers left and right if he had them.

What he does have is ridiculous strength, though. If Yukari can block with those shield and so lithely get out of the way, then disarming is pointless. Time to get him off of his feet. Foregoing a sword attack this time, he tries to rush behind Yukari to deliver a vicious low kick, attempting to get him off his feet.]

[The hit successfully lands and Yukari falls toward the ground, although he hardly seems fazed by it, having a delighted smirk on his face.]

Well, now. I suppose this will be the part where I must apologise.

[A crackle between his fingertips suddenly becomes a massive bolt of Electricity, aimed right for Gilbert. This time, he's not holding back. If that bolt strikes, he expects to see some real damage. If it misses, it might leave a small crater where it landed.]

[Prussia was about come down with his sword on Yukari, but has only enough time to leap out of the way of the bolt. It narrowly misses him, and he stares at the smoking hole it's left behind with horror for a moment. He can't keep doing this. It's not like when he was younger. If something like that hit him, he'd be dead.

He throws his sword down in anger, but he doesn't call for mercy or back off. He stands his ground.]

Are you trying to kill me? Wasn't think a sparring match?!

Oh, you would have come back from the dead, fully intact. [Yukari gently, gracefully, picks himself up off the ground, dusting his coat off as one would after sitting in the sand at a picnic.] Granted, it might have been a few days, but you would have come back, good as new, in Hope's Temple. Besides, you met my expectations by dodging it. If I were trying to kill you, I would have sent it out in a massive wave instead of just one targeted area.

[He chuckles, as though all of this should have been perfectly obvious.]

You're so grumpy, Gilbert-chan. What seems to be the problem? Not having fun?

[Yukari's totally taunting him at this point.]

Because you're using all those... fancy tricks. [He's not used to this sort of fight. He has nothing to defend against crazy super powers, and it's hard to form a plan of attack against someone who could theoretically do anything. This wasn't fun. This was embarrassing.]

I don't fly or shoot lightning or breathe fire like some people do here. Guess I'll just have to get by on my hundreds of years of experience.

[He may be feeling sour, but he can still fit some bragging in there.]

[Yukari lets out a delighted, airy laugh, obviously amused at what Gilbert has said.]

Well, I could conform if it would make you feel better. I'm certainly amused and confident either way.

[He chuckles just as airily as the laugh before as he presses a couple of fingers to his own lips in thought.]

Though tell me, Gilbert-chan, how do you plan to form a coup if you cannot defeat even my antics? Or.... Are you giving up on your plan? I must say, I'm rather disappointed if that's the case.

[Your bragging attempt just failed, Gilbert. Yukari's going to call out your shit.]

Of course not! I don't give up. [DEBATABLE.] All this means is I need to change my tactics. Besides, we're on the same side here! Stop acting like you're trying to take me down! Unless you like the gods and wanna stick around this hell cave forever.

[More than anything, Yukari's teasing attitude was the thing riling Prussia up the most.]

Hmm, I am on your side, but not for the reasons you seem to be believing. I do want to see the Gods overthrown. But do you truly think that will pave the pathway to going home? From beings that have powers you don't? You honestly think that you can achieve something they couldn't in triggering the very door that dragged us here?

[He seems to be gracefully dancing around the point, his voice still lilted, but more thoughtful.]

I am more than happy to aide you in overpowering the Gods, Gilbert-chan. I'll even allow you to have the position of King. But I have no intention of leaving this world. And if you seek to do as they do, to forcibly return everyone to their homeworlds, then we will assuredly become enemies. Not that I mind if I have to fight, or even destroy, you.

[He crackles Electricity acrost his fingertips, to remind Gilbert of what he would be up against, giving a defiant smirk.]

Don't take it personally, of course. I just happen to rather enjoy it here much, much more than my homeworld.

...You want to stay here. You enjoy it.

[Prussia has to repeat Yukari's statements to let them sink in. He found this a little hard to believe, but a little self reflection would put this into perspective for him. After all, didn't he have more freedom now than he did back home, even while being trapped in a hell cave?]

I'm not going to force anyone to do something they don't want to do. I don't care if you wanna stay here. That's your deluded choice to make, not mine.

Delightful. I'm glad we can agree to disagree. Then you can look forward to my continued services as a fellow mercenary.

So, do tell me, how will you change your tactics to gain the upper hand on the deities?

Give me some time! Revolutions never happened overnight, y'know.

If brawn won't do, brains will. They'll have to be outsmarted! I'm sure they're not telling us all of the truth, so we'll have to get it all out of them somehow. Some of them are probably easier than others to coerce. First, though, I'll have to gain their trust.

[He really hadn't thought this far ahead, but it seemed to be making sense as he spoke it.]

Ah, I recommend Fear-chan, if you're looking to bribe information off of someone. He deals in trades of phobia, as I'm certain you might have guessed. But he is reliable and more cooperative than most of the others, by my personal experience. I would say avoid Hope-chan for information at almost any cost for this endeavour. If he's alerted beforehand, surely you will fail.

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Pffft -pets Gilbert-

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Man, I really broke that HTML. o-o

i do that all the time

Lol, thank you for being so tolerant of it.

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