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"Oh, now that's interesting!" Takeshi said, laughing. "He told you his name was what? Hans? Such an adorably generic childhood nickname. Well, his real identity has a little more bite to it. As for poor Rinkou... sacrifices had to be made. That dose was too strong. This one should be perfect."

"I've been preparing for this fight for months," explained Takeshi. "You didn't know, ma chere, but this man is dangerous. I had to find a way to weaken him before I faced such a legendary opponent, but the battle had to look real."

"No worse than he's been poisoning himself for the last..." Takeshi squinted, sizing up Faust and estimating the amount of time he'd been a drug abuser, "Seven or eight years. I just added a little extra kick to the heroin... it makes it extremely difficult to think straight, and actually even takes existing psychoses and amplifies them. So, if you suffer from mild schizophrenia, you'll be experiencing full-blown paranoid delusions about now. Right, 'Hans' Faust?"

Faust glared, oversouling in a moment's time. He'd been careless. The only thing for it was to fight as best he could, regardless of which chemicals had made their way into his body.

"You have got to be kidding me," Takeshi said. "That's your oversoul? I really did kill your brain, Faust..."

"No joke. She's my oversoul, and she'll trounce whatever you have. This is Eliza, my wife."

"My officiant told me that you were strange, but I'd never guessed that strange! This will be over very quickly," Takeshi promised.

Faust braced himself, waiting for Takeshi to attack first.

"It takes courage to make a first move!" Takeshi called. "You want to see what I'm made of, so you're waiting for me to reveal my weakness? So naive. Let me teach you the bravery it takes to make the first move." Takeshi moved quickly; Faust was barely able to block the saber attack. He was able to clearly see Takeshi's spirit. "Al Capone? Mein Gott... not bad..."

((lol, he smuggled him.))

"He's terribly witty, even if he isn't a world class fighter. But, seeing as you're using the corpse of a nurse that you slept with, hopefully while she was alive, I guess the competition doesn't exactly scream 'threatening,' " Takeshi smirked.

"She was my wife!" Faust snarled, his temper rising. "How DARE you..."

Hitting Takeshi with a powerful burst of mana, Faust made it clear that he wasn't going to be underestimated, or mocked.

"You Germans!" Takeshi taunted, despite his fear. "So morbidly obsessed with the macabre. Tell me, what does it feel like to make love to a dead woman? Pardon me if you have no experience with the living to compare it with..."

"You French... don't know when you've gone too far," Faust said, his oversoul stabbing Takeshi in the ribs.

((lol, poor Netsubo's going to get some pretty warped concepts of European cultures, then! )) rofl

"Behind you," Takeshi grinned, gripping the scalpel in his chest and wrenching it out. Faust turned just in time to get hit in the head with a crow bar. Dropping like a stone, he still managed to retain a hold on his oversoul, which continued to pound at Takeshi's ghost.