[ thank god the crack and vapor are fascinating because the rest of this conversation is eighteen levels of horror inducing. ]

You showing up with a dead body would've been kiiiind of awkward, but everyone kind of forgot Shirasu when he came out with Natsuo? Maybe it would've been fine. Except for the dead Stephie part.

[ he's very casual as he says this, a lot more interested in examining all angles of fane's wrist, frowning in thought. And then the face ripper thing. ]

... So you take faces. Okay. That is an interesting tool. I can't say I've ever seen anything like that.