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[isdf]

HELLO

"Greetings. This is Kisaragi Yuma."

GOODBYE

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[isdf]

Given the choice, they were not answers I would have provided for myself.

[handfast]

But they were the right ones that got you out.

[ huh. what does that mean? ]

[isdf]

Indeed. Did you agree with yours?

[handfast]

[ thinks about what mafuyu told him ]

Yeah. I do like money. [ and he already has a cool title. ] I wonder how they picked the other choices.

[ some of them were.....kind of painful. ]

[isdf]

[Money . . . ]

You haven't asked them?

[handfast]

Who am I supposed to ask? Whoever's in charge of this place?

[ he leans back. sighs. ]

It's like those rocks all over again. They know way too much about us.

[isdf]

Are you referring to the mausoleum by the estate? It had quite the number of good things to say about you.

[handfast]

Of course it only had good things to say about me. There are only good things to say about me.

[ factually untrue but he is going to move on. ]

But the point is, it's like they know everything about us. [ a dismissive gesture with one hand. ] Even when we were trapped in there, all the people we saw were people important to us, right? Not just random strangers.

[isdf]

[If only he could go back to when he felt the same way . . . ]

. . . Indeed. I recognized some classified information as well.

[handfast]

[ hak looks over, frowning. ]

Like what?

[isdf]

[Yuma smiles.]

It's classified, so I can't tell you.

[handfast]

Don't you think I get a pass since I was there?

[ don't be such a stick in the mud, yuma. ]

What if it helps us find a way out of here?

[isdf]

[It's because Hak was there that he gets even less of a pass.]

It won't. I know that for certain.

[handfast]

And how do you know that?

[isdf]

[His smile is serene.]

No matter how much you ask, I won't tell you.

[handfast]

[ why is yuma such a ragebaiter ]

Have you considered this is why you have no friends?

[isdf]

[👶]

. . . Yes, I know.

[He doesn't need them. There's no time to want them, either.]

[handfast]

[ well, if yuma's fine enough to ragebait then he's probably (???) okay (?????). but even if he isn't okay, hak is not the one who is going to be able to help him with his troubles. ]

Then I'll just leave you alone here since you seem just fine.

[isdf]

[Alone is his natural state, so it's no skin off his nose. That's just the order of things.]

No, there's no need. You should get some rest, so I will go.

[He glances between Hak and the door, then smiles at the former.]

Well, then . . . until next time.