HANSA

[chanteuser]

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[robopriest]

[>:O]

What was that for?!

[chanteuser]

Please take the potentially super-human sharks that could maybe bite through metal seriously, Hansa. I didn't see anything in the first aid room for fixing metal.

[robopriest]

I am taking it very seriously.

[he is not,]

[chanteuser]

Hansa.

[ :| ]

[robopriest]

What?

[He's grinning.]

[chanteuser]

...

[ this is the kind of exasperation you get that's laced with just enough softness to be nothing serious. but her concern is definitely genuine. ]

Just don't get your arm, or leg, bitten off. Please.

[robopriest]

I won't. This body is made of the best technology of the Church, after all.

[A beat.]

Plus, I have a chainsaw.

[chanteuser]

...








[ she just stares at him. ]

[robopriest]

[Just smiling.]

Its in my leg.

[chanteuser]

[





huh. ]

... Somehow I think I should feel more surprised by that.

[ there's a notable feeling like she just learned the inevitable. ]

[robopriest]

Haha.

[He just grins.]

I'm just full of surprises, some more surprising than others.

[chanteuser]

[ hm... ]

Some kind of blade? Other than a chainsaw.

[ is she just going to guess what's in his swiss-army-knife limbs? ]

[robopriest]

[A nod.]

Yes, I have blades in my arms. Sadly, they seem to be stuck...

[chanteuser]

Since you got here?

[ she leans slightly, like she's going to somehow be able to spy the hidden blades just by really looking at his arms. even through fabric. she's trying. ]

That sounds like it's on purpose. Is it the same for the chainsaw?

[robopriest]

[They sure just do look like regular arms.]

Yes. The chainsaw works, though. That's the only thing that does.

[chanteuser]

[ suggesting there's more weaponry hiding out somewhere in those 70% machinery. ]

... I would've thought they'd stop you from using all of them, honestly. [ let's be honest, the metal limbs are already a step up in terms of defending yourself compared to fleshy limbs. ]

[robopriest]

I guess they were nice with letting me have one...though its not the one I would've preferred. Ah, well. Beggars can't be choosers.

[chanteuser]

I'm almost afraid to ask, but which would you have preferred?

[robopriest]

The Black Keys - the blades, I mean, are more practical. But maybe the grenade launcher...

[chanteuser]

[



she just rests a hand against her forehead. ]

I see. [ hhhhhhhhffffffffffffffffffff. ]

[robopriest]

Come on, Alex, is it really that bad? I think its awesome, myself.

[Hehehehe.]

[chanteuser]

I'm just trying to figure out why the Church needs a grenade launcher. [ or a priest with robot parts with chainsaws in. ]

[robopriest]

Hm.

[His smile goes down, a settling feeling of seriousness coming on.]

There is a very good reason. The Church has its fights to have, especially against those who stand as a threat against humanity.

[chanteuser]

[ ... hm. ]

I figured what I think of when I hear "church" and what you're talking about when you talk about the church are probably a little different.

[robopriest]

Well, there are two sides of the Church. There is the nice side everyone knows of, with Sunday services, communion, and tossing kids in holy water for baptism. But there's a hidden side of it, and that side prides itself on eliminating heretical beings such as demons, evil spirits, and especially vampires.