After gathering enough wood he set it aside and took a seat, watching the medicine seller cook, lighting himself a cigarette as he did so.
“So a person has to regret what they done for a Mononoke to be created?” He confirmed. He knew had had a lot to learn about the world of the supernatural, but he hoped he would from Todd. He doubted he’d ever be able to kill or banish or whatever the medicine seller did to them, but at least recognizing what they were and how they came about was worth knowing he figured.
If it was regret that created and bound-what did he call it? Ayakashi?-into a mononoke, then he doubted Micah despite all his murdering had left any in his wake. Bastard ratted the whole gang out to Pinkertons, regret was something Arthur very much doubted the snake had ever felt in his life about anything. Dutch though...did he regret killing that girl in Blackwater? Or even the old woman he’d choked to death on Guarma? How many Mononokes had he left behind him?
Then Arthur realized, was it any of his business? Did it matter? He couldn’t go around fixing everything his former mentor had broken in his path. The medicine seller seemed in no hurry to find mononokes, hell unless he’d snuck out of the cabin to deal with some, then they’d gone all winter without hunting one down. So did that mean he just dealt with them as he encountered them, like at the Emerald Ranch bar?
Christ, he really knew nothing about what this man did didn’t he?
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“So a person has to regret what they done for a Mononoke to be created?” He confirmed. He knew had had a lot to learn about the world of the supernatural, but he hoped he would from Todd. He doubted he’d ever be able to kill or banish or whatever the medicine seller did to them, but at least recognizing what they were and how they came about was worth knowing he figured.
If it was regret that created and bound-what did he call it? Ayakashi?-into a mononoke, then he doubted Micah despite all his murdering had left any in his wake. Bastard ratted the whole gang out to Pinkertons, regret was something Arthur very much doubted the snake had ever felt in his life about anything. Dutch though...did he regret killing that girl in Blackwater? Or even the old woman he’d choked to death on Guarma? How many Mononokes had he left behind him?
Then Arthur realized, was it any of his business? Did it matter? He couldn’t go around fixing everything his former mentor had broken in his path. The medicine seller seemed in no hurry to find mononokes, hell unless he’d snuck out of the cabin to deal with some, then they’d gone all winter without hunting one down. So did that mean he just dealt with them as he encountered them, like at the Emerald Ranch bar?
Christ, he really knew nothing about what this man did didn’t he?