AND THE PEOPLE WHO GAIN THE WORLD

[strangerpeople]

AND LOSE THEIR SǪ͞UL̨̡͢


[The time goes down to zero. Vyce's fists clenched.]

. . .You fools.

[He raises a hand, and suddenly, Lala lets out a gasp as she begins to grab at her throat. Green lines begin to glow from within her body as she starts to writhe, before falling to the ground into convulsions.]

For all of your claims and bravado, you still voted to condemn her! You claim to care, you claim she is innocent, you claim to want to take her place, but in the end it never mattered!

THIS is why I cannot trust anyone with my mission! THIS is why YOU would fail in MY shoes! THIS IS WHY I ALONE MUST--



[Suddenly, everyone is thrown to the side as something violently jostles the whole house, Vyce included. Immediately, Lala collapses to the floor, and the glowing lines disappear.]

WHAT THE-

[It actually felt like the house was rammed just then.]

Comments

[starswink]

That girl who showed up said she would take care of them! Our friends and families too. She has a space train.

[whatsmytalentagain]

Oh! [Oh, good. That's a relief!]

[starswink]

[it is, isn't it.]

I think I am going to have to get on that train. I mean... my video... it had Rika...

[oh. he's getting emotional.]

I-I thought she was dead. Or worse.

[touchsensors]

Oyo...

[space train!]

[starswink]

[space train!! He blinks away the small tears he's getting from this overwhelm of good and complicated news to give a big smile.]

Everyone will be in the same place! I bet it will be so nice...

[stopfen]

[Oh she knows what a train is. But uhh]

I think she'll have some trouble with mine. One of the people that had them was a fugitive, even I don't know where he is now.

[starswink]

I'm in the same boat. I haven't seen Rika in years... we all thought she was gone forever...

[one look at his face shows how much this has slowly ripped apart his heart over those years.]

But, the nanites have surveillance on them, we saw it. So tracking them down, how hard could it be now?

[stopfen]

I guess that's true and they might have found him by now.

[starswink]

I hope we can reunite with everyone we lost...

Attack on Titan spoilers

[stopfen]

...

[She doesn't respond to that. Instead she looks away. Because she didn't lose him, he just walked away from them all. Then killed a load of people, of children and now they're dealing with the fallout.]

have some mystic messenger spoilers then

[starswink]

[...well. That is still a loss in a way. He doesn't know why she looks so sad now, but it does remind him that... if Rika is alive then he has no idea why she skipped his graduation, faked her death, and never came back to help him even after he got kidnapped and tortured. Why she was dressed like that, too. His shoulders droop as his smile falls a little. Things have been going so well that it seemed like all would be right in the world, but the truth hurts sometimes.]

... when we do, I have a lot of questions that need answering.

[stopfen]

I hope there is an answer...

[And she shuffles. Because how does she say this?]

The...The last thing he said to me was- It was 'what am I to you?' And then he disappeared for months, without a word. And now...

[Well he's a fugitive. And at this point she's pulling her scarf up and hiding half her face. You can see nothing Yoosung. ]

[starswink]

... So you have no idea why he disappeared?

[Before becoming a fugitive, it just sounds like a bad break-up, but there's obviously so much more to the story. He doesn't really need to see her face to understand.]

It seems like he was really important to you. I don't know why such precious people think they can't even talk to us. It really does hurt a lot.

Did you have an answer to his question?

Attack on Titan spoilers again....

[stopfen]

[She's not going to look at him. But once she starts talking she can't stop, so many things she's wanted to know for months.]

We don't. The last time we saw him, we'd gone to a meeting... We'd snuck in, they wouldn't have let us in if they'd known who we are.

In the meeting they were talking about what they'd do with the island we lived on. They decided the only solution was to infiltrate it. Kill everyone. He walked out before the end of it.

...A few months later, we got a letter telling us he'd be at a festival. When we went to get him, we found... Bodies, a lot of them, children...

[Hey remember what her profile said? But she turns her head further away at the next question. He's not getting an answer to that one. Even he didn't.]

[nolongerasleep]

Same for me. One is my sister who has been asleep inside a giant monster to keep it asleep. It's not easy to get there, but the more immediate threat is that if she wakes up or dies, the monster will wake up.

[stopfen]

I don't think there'll be anything like that. But a war had just started.

[nolongerasleep]

Still a reason to be careful. We may want to warn them of potentially dangerous situations in our worlds.

[stopfen]

Ah, I don't have my gear so they'll need something. If we're this high up it should be okay though...