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[departing]

Everyone---[Oh no. Not this public speaking thing again. Shu's nervous. He hopes he doesn't make a fool out of himself in front of all these people.] I'd like to know something.

I thought that maybe someone here might know the answer. Is it, normal to meet someone from your own world but....they don't have the same memories as you?

Inori.

Inori remembers something different. She says I protected the school with Ayase, but it doesn't make sense. I don't think she's lying either, so. She wouldn't do something ...like that.

[At least he thinks so. Segai's words manage to bestow a sense of insecurity on him.

Beware of those who tell you to believe in yourself, Shu. Inori might very well wish to use you and removing anyone who might take away that control through this manipulation.

Is it really alright to believe in her and the Funeral Parlor? He doubts them for a minute.]

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For those of you who just arrived, I guess.

Please, be careful. I don't want to see any of you get hurt here. There's a hospital in the Sigyn district and... [Wait, he's in no position to be telling them what to do. Stop right there, Shu.]

That's about it.

[What on earth did he just say to everyone?]

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[departing]

Well, yes.

You're calling your friends bitches, so I thought you would.

[playerkills]

A-Ange is not my friend! [ that's the tsun talking ]

[departing]

Maybe you should try being her friend then.

I mean.

The same way you asked me to be your friend.

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[pratentious]

...Perhaps that's precisely why. Strengthening this world as well as strengthening yourself. An opportunity of sorts.

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[orphean]

I don't think they are, it's just a situation that's difficult. I'm sure there's reasons for why they're doing it.

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[departing]

They couldn't have expected us to suddenly agree with that.

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[departing]

What kind of reasons would they have?

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[darkbreak]

Who knows. But don't worry about it too much. Whatever happens, happens. We can take it.

...Or we can hope that they'll get bored of us and this saving the worlds thing is just some lame excuse and cover story.

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[entreats]

... Don't apologize. There's nothing to be done about it either way. [ and it was for a good reason - so Battler could keep on fighting. So he could come home. ]

I can't say I'm all that upset about it.

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[pratentious]

No, and they should not have. There is much about this realm that is unjust.

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[orphean]

I'm not sure yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't there, either.

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[struckout]

... If there are more than a handful or so of people who have experienced it... they haven't made the information public.

[ Or at least in a way that Lightning would take notice of; it's not like she has the time to stalk through everything that gets said on the network. And obviously, she hasn't actually asked, so... ]

[survived]

Nezumi and two of his mice are here with me. I think it would be lonely to be brought to a place like this and have nobody that understands you, so I'm fortunate that they're here.

Do you understand that feeling too?

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[satisfies]

Something like that.

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[deadcenter]

Hah! He gets hurt all the time, don't worry about it Shu.

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[departing]

I don't want to rely on the God's power that much.

It's useful, but what if they take it away? Or if something happens?

...

A cover story? That's crazy.

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[departing]

Even so I...

[Can't accept it that easily. Her world sounds outright crazy.


Except Battler went off and married a witch. Sorry, Ange. Maybe next time.]

You're here now, aren't you?

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[darkbreak]

If they take it away, they may give us back what we lost arriving here. Or we just survive, on our own terms.

[One challenging eyebrow raise.] ...Got a better idea?

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[departing]

It's just sudden and ...a lot of us want to know why.

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[departing]

It's probably...not our faults we don't know much, I think.

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[departing]

It would benefit us, but we can't expect them to answer right away.

I...just don't get why the gods wouldn't tell us this information before hand.

I mean. They told us everything else.

[playerkills]

... Hmph. Ange and Shu are different.

[departing]

You seriously have two mice?

[Consider him shocked.]

I guess so. I mean. Inori's the one who's been by my side this whole time.

Even back home. It's the same for you, right?

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[departing]

What do you even use it for?

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[departing]

All the time...??

That makes me worry more. Was he from the prison too?