[pawn reunion]

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[it's day 2 in Idys's dimension. wake up, pawns]

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[telepathetically]

[wakes up]

[SITS THE FUCK UP WHERE ARE KINGS?????]

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[wakes up a little more peacefully, but looks over startled when Yuki moves]

[and then sits up slowly, staring]

[it's you.]

[telepathetically]

[freezes]






[and realizes]

[i'm dead]

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[you are?]

[and then, realizing with a stab of regret and guilt: I guess we're in the same place, so he would have to be]

...Where are... What-- Kazuki?

[telepathetically]

Haruki...

[he trails off, still processing that, not ready to verbalize that, but. telepathy. haruki stabbed him.]

Kazuki is— Kazuki was on his way.

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[no.......]

[puts his head in his hands, his mind just swirling with thoughts and panic and self-hate: I failed, we failed, I couldn't even help Shirakawa protect him, who else will protect him? the knight doesn't have the experience, he can't win like that, it was all for nothing--]

...Sorry... I... sorry.

[telepathetically]

[stares at him, tearimg up. Kanzaki-san can't help they're all fighting, they don't know it's pointless already, what's going to happen, what happened,

I never made it back to Kazuki]

I'm— I'm sorry, I tried.

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It's not your fault.

[if I hadn't gotten the Bishop killed--]

[telepathetically]

...He didn't die.

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[just, tired confusion-- he definitely died??]

[telepathetically]

He's not dead. I saw him.

[he was with Kazuki]

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...Kazuki must have been successful, then. Learning whatever that person was trying to show him. Still-- the other King wouldn't have... if Kazuki hadn't had to go there...

[telepathetically]

It's not your fault... Aren't you the one that paid the most for that?

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[no.]

[not going to argue about it, though]

...Do you think this is-- real?

[telepathetically]

[curling up with his chin and arms on his knees]

Real... Isn't it just another game?

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...If it's not dangerous here, then maybe--

[Kazuki could...]

[telepathetically]

He wouldn't.

[not by himself]

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We didn't get a choice. And-- it sounds like-- no one will, eventually.

[there has to be a way to see him again]

[telepathetically]

[puts his head down, guilt and grief looming up in a sudden wave]

[we're dead. if kazuki comes, will he be dead? did haruki get to die? did they stop di[e]ce? —why would you bring the one who failed everyone to save anything again?]

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...You got further than I did.

[telepathetically]

[i didn't]

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You did. And you-- made him happy, at least. He was so... when he thought that you...

[telepathetically]

...

He knew?

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[shakes his head]

He only found out-- right at the end, when we were trying to rescue Saiguuji-san. And then that-- person-- the person who took us to that room-- told him that you were alive. But he really... when he thought you were gone, he was... You were important to him.

[telepathetically]

[...

STARTS TEARING UP AGAIN]