DAY 51 - [Action] | Some...route! 4th Wall!

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[It’s very, very cold.

Well, why wouldn’t it be? This route is practically covered in snow. Wait, where did the snow come from? The weather is just foggy, not snowing.]

Hee hoooo!

[But before anyone can ponder it for too long, snowballs are flying! It’s a snowball fight! And these strange snowmen are throwing them! (Which may be somewhat familiar looking to some people…)

Not that far from them, Atsuro can be seen playing, er, competing in the snowball fight with the Jack Frosts and hiding behind a tree. If he notices someone, he would call out to them before he throw a newly made snowball at his opponents.]

Hey! Get out of there, unless you want to get hit!

[Why is he playing along? Why not? At least the Jack Frosts aren't actively trying to kill people, and he can keep an eye on them.]

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[As a demon tamer, it's an important skill to keep an eye out on the battlefield. Even though Kazuya do the job most of the time, Atsuro would help out by watching his friends' backs and noting enemy weaknesses.

So when he looks out again, he sees a girl...throwing snowballs as well. But wait, the movements seems weird. Manipulating, maybe? Whatever it is, the Jack Frosts are getting hit by her attacks.

He snaps out of it when a stray snowball hit him. Okay, someone's getting it. Atsuro quickly makes a snowball and throws it out, flying past Korra and hitting a Jack Frost.]

Hee ho!?

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[Wait, what? That ... didn't come from one of those whatever they are and Korra is sure it's not from her either.

She shrugs at the question.]

Don't ask me, I didn't do it and I thought it's just you and me here.

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[They didn't notice. Either he can reveal his presence or be a secret, snowballing ninja.

...Yeah, okay, he'll be making and throwing another snowball. Watch out, Korra!]

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[Good, because what's the fun in revealing yourself? This is (friendly) war!

And Korra is not watching out for her back, while she's busy looking at those Jack Frosts and trying to figure out what they are. ...Which is impossible anyway because she's never seen them before, but sush.]

... [Thanks for that snowball.] Okay, that wasn't any of you... I think.

[But now she has a general direction of where to start looking, so the girl kicks the ground to create a huge wave of snow into his direction. Watch out, Atsuro, or well, it might miss you and hit something near you because she's really not completely sure where to go with that.]

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[Good news, he's behind a tree and it protected him!

Bad news, the wave of snow have enough force to shake the tree, causing some snow to fall from its branches and onto him.]

Wha--gah! Cold, cold!

[Look, he might be dressed for the cold. But suddenly, snow being dumped on him? Still cold!

A young man can be seen trying to dust off the snow from his body.]

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[Bingo! She smirks at him, all too cocky because that was easy. ...Or her skills are just too good and she loves showing them off, take your pick, man.]

I~ [and that's a very long I ] might help you if you tell me, who your friends are.

[because she's never seen these things before and she's not sure if they're suspicious or just having fun here.]

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[He looks over after he dust most of the snow off him, especially off his hat. It's a good thing the snow didn't knock out the hairclip on his hat.

And see Korra looking at him. Ehehe.]

Ahaha...well, those guys are Jack Frosts. They're snow demons or spirits. Generally playful if they're not killing people.

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[Hey if knocking out the hairclip would have been a bad thing, she'd just deal with it.]

So, they're like potentially evil spirits? [she's okay with that, considering how many spirits she's met but --] Killing people? Why do they do that?

[Like is there a trigger or something, because Korra is amazing at accidentally triggering spirits to attack her. Sometimes.

But hey, it's an answer so she's going to make weird hand movements again, just towards him this time. That snow from his clothes becomes a bubble in front of his face -- now, she could just throw it there, but she's not so evil. So instead she'll just let it slowly fall to the ground.]

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They're more tricksters and pranksters than evil, but they can potentially be evil.

[But as for the trigger.]

It depends on the demons, I think. Some just have fun killing people, others...like eating [Yeah, ew.] and there's some who killed their summoners just so they can roam around freely.

[He watches her hand movements, before his eyes moves over towards the floating snow in front of his face. And it falls.]

Some kind of ice magic?