[pawn reunion]

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

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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?

[supersensitive]

[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]

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...I'm sorry I...

[took that away from you? took you away from him]

...Sorry.

[telepathetically]

I'm— not, I'm not mad...

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[not an actual question, just a thought that flashes through his mind:]

[why aren't you?]

[but he shakes his head, not actually wanting to get into it]

We-- listen. If we... do this thing, that They're asking us to do. We can... go get him, right? They brought us back, so-- it has to be possible. And then-- you and Kazuki can be happy, somewhere else, somewhere other than di[e]ce.

[that's the way we have to think about it, that's the only way to think about it]

[telepathetically]

[sniffles]


[.....nods...]

He d-deserves that much... at least.

[supersensitive]

We can do it. It should be easy, next to di[e]ce. We can--

[make up for it]

[telepathetically]

[nods...]

W-we can try.

[what else do we have to do]

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[yeah.]

...Do you want me to...

[move out??]

[telepathetically]

...




I'm not kicking you out, I don't even know where we ARE!?

[is this our room? are these our beds now????]

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[I mean, I can live anywhere, it's fine]

Just-- you don't have to... [put up with me] I can find somewhere else.

[telepathetically]

I'm not staying by myself when I don't know where we are EITHER.

[supersensitive]

Well-- okay.

...Do you want to check it out?