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[She has to think about it a minute. Maybe where she met up with Minato?

That'd be ironic, she kind of wants to do it.]

How about by the Oubliette, and we can figure out where to go from there?

Edited 2016-07-05 21:50 (UTC)

That sounds good with me.

When would you like to meet?

We can meet whenever you've got some time. I'm not doing anything for the next couple days. Today? Tomorrow? I could get down there right now if you have time.

[ He shakes his head, quietly reaching out to take her other hand in his if she'll let him. ]

...It's okay. I think I needed to hear it. [ It definitely put quite a few things in perspective for him. ] ...And I know I'm not the best at telling people, so I'm telling you now...you're important to me too. I didn't really have friends before you and Junpei.

[She's not really in the mood to tell him no - she really is just sort of stuck being glad, so glad he doesn't think she hates him or wants to...

... Wants to leave her alone again.

So the other hand is a go. In fact, she's rather curious as to where this is going to go, and it ends in her look staying... soft. Very soft. Maybe he did need to hear it, but she could've brought it up with a little more tact. She can't argue, though, because he continues.

Hm. So now how to handle this-] That's funny, I never had any real close friends before Junpei, either. [They have the dumb but endearing Magician in common there, at least.] But I think... you've been the first person I can call a best friend, or anything like it. Ever. [But him saying she's important... she hopes it doesn't show on her face, the way her heart leaps and throbs and hurts at that revelation. She can't tell him there's more to it than that. Not yet... she hasn't accepted it for herself yet - this isn't a rank 10 revelation - but there's something there she needs to figure out how to articulate.

Maybe later. Maybe not until they get home. But it'll come some day.]

[ He lets out a soft huff. He does miss Junpei too. Giving the guy a hard time was pretty par for the course, but there were definitely things he would do with Junpei that he wouldn't with Yukari and vice versa. To think that a guy who was so prone to being a little bit of a social idiot would end up being one of his closer friends is strange to think about, but the entire situation is strange to think about, really. He wouldn't change the oddities of his friends for the world, though.

A best friend, huh? A part of him wants to say, "Don't worry, you and Mitsuru-senpai will work it out. You'll have people after I'm gone." Of course he doesn't. This Yukari...she's holding onto him. It's a dull hurt knowing that he's eventually going to betray this trust she's put in him, but he knows that...that she'll have people. She'll be okay.

She'll be okay. ]

I'd ask if that means I get a cool bracelet, but Kenji already beat you to it.

[Well, this is what she gets for being unceremoniously dumped into a world where she doesn't know anyone. It reminds her of when she was forced to move to Kyoto... and then when she returned to the Port Island area and had to tiptoe around everyone. She has a few too many trust issues to be forced to move around like this.

So of course she's holding on to the one friend she has.

It doesn't help that she's also sure she's in l-

... No, she'll discuss that later.]

Yeah? Mr. Popular over here. I guess I'll have to give you something else. Lemme think about it. [Is it her ass? It might be her ass.

Not literally.]

[ Once he's done with Minato, Shinjiro moves onto the next person on his extremely short list of two. Hi Yukari, please don't mind either the fact that a) the registered username is FUCK OFF, or b) the fact that the person this voice belongs to is supposed to be dead.

It's all fine. ]

Hey. Aigis told me you were here.

[HOLY SHIT IT'S A GHOST]

S-Shinjiro-senpai!?

[This is Yukari's Very Intelligent response]

[ Uuuughhhhh maybe he should have. Visited in person or something, why is this so hard. ]

Yeah, it's me. [ Ah crap, what if— ] Sorry if I woke you up.

[ Because that is clearly the crux of the problem here. ]

[ Her ass would be nice, but he'll understand if that's not on the docket right now. Honestly, he's just happy to have her around. It's simple and maybe a little less dramatic than it could be considering the circumstances, but...well, those circumstances also said he'd never see her again.

So it's plenty. ]

I could go for a necklace. I'm easy.

Yeah? I think a necklace might be doable. They took everything we had on us at home, so it's not like I can give you anything from there, even if it has sentimental value. [Like, say, a phone charm. That used to be her only friend for a while.

... Funny how that keeps happening to her.]

I'll figure it out.

Today works with me.

I can get there in about fifteen minutes, if that's all right.

Woke me...? N-no, that's alright. [There are slightly more important things going on here. Like, for instance, Dead Senpais coming back from the grave and contacting her.]

W-wha- how did- [Wait, none of that is the actual thing Yukari wants to say...]

Um, I mean... how are you? [Feeling particularly non-corporeal? No, more like 'feeling very alive']

Yeah, that'll work. I'll see you there. [Welp. Here comes Protag #2. Time to pack up and go.]

[ Well actually, he feels incredibly annoyed by all the fuss in this castle but he's hardly going to burden Yukari with his own problems. So he opts for the safe answer. ]

Fine. [ Ish. He kind of picked a fight with a butler yesterday but it's all good. ] They been treating you okay here?

[ Sentimental value. That's a new thing, isn't it? There wasn't a lot that Minato carried around with himself even back home, but objects that remind you of specific people...he gets it.

There's a pause as he slowly rubs his thumb over the back of her hand. ]

Guess that means I should get you something too.

[... Ugh, she's never escaping this. And she never really wants to. She glances down when his thumb moves and closes her eyes to fight the little blush that tinges her cheeks.]

Y-you don't have to. [To be perfectly honest, he doesn't. But... maybe it'd help.] I mean, I appreciate the thought either way. [It's the thought that counts or whatever. Well, at least in this situation, considering her usual propensity for expensive handbags back home and it being the fastest way to level her S. Link, but w/e. She's still just glad she... gets to keep having him around for now.

The idea of losing someone so close to her over something so stupid and preventable... hell, if you thought she was bad about the idea of it when he died to save the world, she's even more stubborn about it right now.] We'll figure something out. For now I'm just... relieved. This's enough of a gift, I think.

[Fine is not 'dead', so... that's an improvement over what she knows about his circumstances.

Ah... and he's still worried about people, in his own stubborn, quiet way. This is definitely Shinjiro-senpai. Amazingly, she feels a little relieved, even if curious how someone that's... definitely dead is still here, but then... she's also died here, so maybe it's not too farfetched.] Yeah, I guess. I mean, it's not perfect... there's been a huge political upheaval about some trains lately, and we're kind of the targets of it - all 'Heroes' I mean - and the Monday food menu is weird but... I guess we get free room and board, so it's nice?

[Going to a cabaret notwithstanding. That was an accident.] Y-... what, um, room are you in? [She'll... go with a safer question than keep bugging him about the whole being alive thing.]

[ Hey man, he's got no room to judge when it comes to personal interests and hobbies. That ain't his thing. And honestly, he's more relieve that they all seem to be doing alright, as far as he can see. ]

You don't mind the whole war thing goin' on?

[Well, there's an elephant in the room.] No, I definitely do, but... day-to-day life, I mean, isn't so bad. I'm not... really a soldier, though, so I don't usually do soldier-y stuff. I'm a King here, so... I just do support. I've yet to kill anyone, and I'm gonna keep it that way for as long as I can.

[ At the end of the day, it was stupid and preventable...on his side. He'd been caught up in the moment and hadn't considered her feelings--which is something he had taken for granted. Too much of his attitude that things wouldn't matter so much this time around because he didn't have anything to go back to...well, it's not exactly true. Now is what he has with her and with everyone else, so he has to treat it as something special. Not borrowed time as he keeps thinking, but an opportunity.

The blush on her cheeks isn't bad either. He offers a small smile in return. ]

Do you want to just walk for a bit?

[She's not expecting to look back up and find him smiling. It settles the blush in a little deeper, and she looks off to the side. Yeah, she's definitely not escaping him. If only he knew how many problems she had even after he was dead.] ... Yeah, l-let's do that. [Spending quality time? Sign her the fuck up.]

[ It's time for Protag Part 2, but Souji gets over to the Oubliette in fifteen minutes just as he said, waiting patiently at the tree. He's not nervous, no, he's fully prepared for whatever may happen, but he does place a hand on his hip as he thinks over what to say. When he sees Yukari, he will put up a hand to wave towards her. ]

[Yukari... Yukari's having a harder time of it. Not entirely unlike how she approached it with Minato, she sort of drags her feet. Then again, there's not quite as bad a sense of doom hanging over this potential conversation like there was before. She didn't come down on Souji quite as badly - twice, even - like she did to Minato.

... So this should, hopefully, be a little better.

She doesn't seem to be in entirely terrible spirits when she looks up to see him, and he waves, so she nods back.] H-hey. How's it going? [She stops a short distance from him, and laces her fingers together behind her back. Above them, the tree rustles as Argus alights on a branch. And stares down, almost unblinking, at Souji.]

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