[So it's really different timelines again, as so often... Hijikata smiles faintly to himself for a moment before answering Regis' question.]
Yeah. Once it happens to you it's a lot more likely to happen again when another world needs help, I think. This is my third time already.
[Cawing sounds in the middle distance draw his attention - a flock of white birds in the sky.]
Ugh, it's those. They aren't coming for us, so let's go to them. We've got to take them out. Actually you can leave them to me; I can't be blinded.
[It doesn't help that the damn birds are more or less impervious to the cold (though not to water, to his knowledge). He feels that Regis is better off saving his strength for enemies his own summer powers will be useless against.]
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Yeah. Once it happens to you it's a lot more likely to happen again when another world needs help, I think. This is my third time already.
[Cawing sounds in the middle distance draw his attention - a flock of white birds in the sky.]
Ugh, it's those. They aren't coming for us, so let's go to them. We've got to take them out. Actually you can leave them to me; I can't be blinded.
[It doesn't help that the damn birds are more or less impervious to the cold (though not to water, to his knowledge). He feels that Regis is better off saving his strength for enemies his own summer powers will be useless against.]