[Tsukiyama thinks about that a moment, trying to pin down a fruit that would fit the metaphor.]
A plum, maybe? [Plums could basically be dark enough to be considered black, for 'blackmail'--plus their pits contained cyanide. Not that this metaphor really made sense without an explanation.]
I'm in the middle of blackmailing him into a truce. But not in a particularly sinister way?
When I talked with him, he mentioned his co-workers threatening to make him part of the stock at the butchers' instead of an employee.So, since self preservation seemed to be his highest priority, I...ah.
I started telling my customers to ask for him, should they visit...and to treat him well. Because he was a friend.[You know his customers. The ones he was bragging to you about before; about how he only had to do host duties if one of the particularly dangerous or difficult to deal with spirits visits. Because he had done the research to know how not to offend or upset them, or accidentally offer up his soul...and everyone else was afraid of them...Ahaha...ha...
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Date: 2016-07-30 08:33 am (UTC)A plum, maybe? [Plums could basically be dark enough to be considered black, for 'blackmail'--plus their pits contained cyanide. Not that this metaphor really made sense without an explanation.]
I'm in the middle of blackmailing him into a truce. But not in a particularly sinister way?
When I talked with him, he mentioned his co-workers threatening to make him part of the stock at the butchers' instead of an employee.So, since self preservation seemed to be his highest priority, I...ah.
I started telling my customers to ask for him, should they visit...and to treat him well. Because he was a friend.[You know his customers. The ones he was bragging to you about before; about how he only had to do host duties if one of the particularly dangerous or difficult to deal with spirits visits. Because he had done the research to know how not to offend or upset them, or accidentally offer up his soul...and everyone else was afraid of them...Ahaha...ha...
Yeah, those customers.
Please don't be mad.]