Dream pulls his shield up to block the hit. "That's what happens when you get in the middle of a fight. Tommy's a big man, he can take it." He jumps, hits Jingyan as he's coming down. It hurts. Jingyan's sparred before during his time here, has even been killed by Dream's axe before. This is different. It feels like getting hit by an axe would have felt where he came from.

Pain doesn't matter. "You could have pulled that blow at any time. You could have not hit the person not wearing armour."

He swings his sword. It feels sloppy. Probably is. Everything is just different enough to unbalance him.

"Jingyan-- Jingyan, please, he's going to fucking kill you, I'm fine--"

"Do not get in the way again. I do not want you to get hurt."

"Listen to Jingyan, Tommy. I don't want to have to hurt you again."

Dream's about as good as Meng Zhi at fighting; he'd win even if Jingyan wasn't at the disadvantage of being less familiar with how fighting works here. Jingyan is in fact very much at that disadvantage. He gets another hit in, and another.

"Stop deflecting your own actions."

He is not going to win. This is just a fact.

But you know what will happen if he drops his sword? He also will not win. And he has no reason to believe Dream would stop just if he surrendered.

Dream doesn't answer, this time. He's focusing on the fight.

Tommy's still begging them to stop when Jingyan dies.

Jingyan wakes up in L'Manberg with a new scar.

Jingyan has not properly died before (for the obvious reason.)

It's... an experience.

He takes a minute before stepping out of his house.

Everything seems normal in L'Manberg. Tubbo and Fundy are playing chess. Sapnap and Quackity are building something in El Rapids. People are laughing.

It's a bit jarring, compared to where he just was.

It sure is.

...in theory he should go try and retrieve the equipment he lost. In theory he should go check Tommy is okay. But Dream is likely still there, and he does not want to get in a loop.

--How is chat taking this?

<Technoblade> L
<Technoblade> if dream was fighting me i would just kill him instead
<Tubbo_> everything OK?

<bleedfierceforever> as well as it can be

<bleedfierceforever> and i will keep that in mind

He goes to up to Tubbo. He needs to speak with him about this, and not over the mysterious form of communication that everyone can read.

"--One second, Fundy. What's up, bossman?"

Time to lay things out efficiently, in order of priority. "Firstly: Tommy might be in trouble. Dream just hit him with an ax, with intent. You may want to go check on him as soon as possible.

Secondly: Ghostbur was last seen in Logstedshire, but the last person who say him was Dream, so I would take any claims of his safety with a grain of salt.

Thirdly: I think I may have just properly died."

"--Oh. Oh shit.

Are you okay, someone should have some regen around for pain relief if you need it--I need to go."

He yells "Fundy, Jingyan just lost a canon life, if he needs help it's your job to help him." and then he sprints towards the portal, jumping for added speed, and it's still not fast enough, Tommy's on his last life and Tubbo can't run fast enough.

"--I'm fine?" he says in the direction of Fundy. (He is visibly not, but in a way that mostly looks stunned, like it hasn't quite hit him yet.) "Should you go help Tubbo? Should I go help Tubbo? I still need to find Wilbur."

"We can try to find Wilbur later. I'll--ask Tubbo." Pause. "He says to start heading over but not to go through the portal to Logstedshire unless he gives the say-so. How'd you die?"

"I was hit by an axe. Repeatedly. That tends to be fatal."

"Yeah, okay, I was kind of asking for that one. What I mean is, how big's the scar? If it's big you probably want to get regen as soon as you can, Tubbo still can't move right from his second death and it's been two months. I mean, I know your scar's less big than his are because I can't see it, but still."

"It's thirty centimetres long or so. I have not had the chance to really look at it." Being focused on just having died and warning Tubbo and such like. It's on his chest and is axe wound sized. That's all he knows.

He experimentally rolls his shoulder on the injured side. It hurts, but his range of motion is still good. "It's not too bad."

"...Right. Well. Let's head towards Logstedshire, I guess. Do you have any armor here or only what you had on you?"

"I have some old iron equipment that is still in one piece."

"...Great. I think I might have enough diamonds for a chestplate and an axe." (Fundy, at least, has full enchanted netherite.) Time for some frantic running around, and then Jingyan can have iron armor with a diamond chestplate (or a netherite chestplate, if he takes the time to upgrade it), and then they can head off through the Nether.

Having more people there soon is probably better than having better equipped people, so he is in plain diamond. To the Nether portal to Logstedshire, with all speed!