[ Akechi can slash at the hands if he wants, and for a moment perhaps they disappear, but he is more likely to be striking his own flesh and the flesh of others to achieve that momentary reprieve. Each time one of the illusionary hands is slashed it bursts into water. Very effectively ensuring that they are getting soaked through their clothing the more it happens.
Those talisman aren't water proof. The first time Rolo had been very lucky that his was intact after being submerged at the beginning. Alas, the prolonged exposure to the water makes the ink fade more and more until finally the hands can sense them. Both Shinji and Rolo will begin to feel the sensation of the hallucinations trying to tear at their wounds now too. It's not real... It's not real... Surely it's not real?
For them all, with the more infectious miasma that gets in the more they will feel that their body has already passed on to the afterlife. The physical body is feeling more and more foreign; the soul desires deliverance from that fleshy mortal prison. As if in direct response to Minato's verbal attempt to devise a way to survive this the hands renew their efforts tenfold on him. One gently grasps him at the jaw. A show of desperation to coax him to give up and accept this fate.
After Shinji takes the plunge all the sounds of the chaos around him lessen drastically in volume. From that gashed open wound on his leg he'll feel the infection crawling through the opening, under the skin, and taking hold.
But ahead of him he'll see it. The spleen floats suspended in the water. Not yet in reach but reachable if he guns for it. ]
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Those talisman aren't water proof. The first time Rolo had been very lucky that his was intact after being submerged at the beginning. Alas, the prolonged exposure to the water makes the ink fade more and more until finally the hands can sense them. Both Shinji and Rolo will begin to feel the sensation of the hallucinations trying to tear at their wounds now too. It's not real... It's not real... Surely it's not real?
For them all, with the more infectious miasma that gets in the more they will feel that their body has already passed on to the afterlife. The physical body is feeling more and more foreign; the soul desires deliverance from that fleshy mortal prison. As if in direct response to Minato's verbal attempt to devise a way to survive this the hands renew their efforts tenfold on him. One gently grasps him at the jaw. A show of desperation to coax him to give up and accept this fate.
After Shinji takes the plunge all the sounds of the chaos around him lessen drastically in volume. From that gashed open wound on his leg he'll feel the infection crawling through the opening, under the skin, and taking hold.
But ahead of him he'll see it. The spleen floats suspended in the water. Not yet in reach but reachable if he guns for it. ]