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Y'know, I could live with either of these outcomes.

[Yu may be calm, confident, and just a little smart-assed externally, but internally he's more than a little unnerved. Talking to Adachi after everything always leaves his skin crawling.]

My point exactly. If I end up anywhere with you or your little friends I'll be tossed out of there before I can finish saying my name.

It's not like you haven't done anything to deserve it.

Oh no, I have. I didn't expect my promise to play nice from now on to be taken very seriously either, so thanks for confirming that for me.

I think everyone deserves a chance to make things right, but ... well, I'm skeptical, you're really gonna take that chance. Truth is, I'd like to believe you, but I need to see more than just talk. It's not hard to just say anything.

[Can you blame him for being a little cautious?]

[He can't, no, but he can't resist an opportunity to run his mouth either.]

So the best way for me to prove myself "reformed" is to be kept from doing anything at all. No wonder you're the leader of the justice brigade.

[Yu actually chuckles slightly.]

It does sound a little contradictory when you put it that way. I guess that's a little of the bitterness talking.

[He knows a thing or two about bitterness, no biggie.]

Well, rest assured that nothing screwy's gonna be my doing, wherever I end up. Having you lot on my case once was enough.

[Hmmm.

This girl is staring at you like she knows who you are, like that's totally freaking weird and also like she thinks your face is made of tiny aliens. Yeah, it's confusing, but in her defense there's a good background for this and it's.

Really confusing.]

So you're the one...

[There's about five different ways she could end that sentence but none of them come out.]

[Getting looked at like a tiny alien colony by a girl is never a good sign. A girl he's never met, no less, 'cause you don't look like anybody he'd ever seen in Inaba.

He can't imagine he was important enough for the press to plaster his face everywhere like they had done for Namatame, but...maybe she just had a memory for faces.]

I'm a lot of things, you're gonna have to be a little more specific.

Edited (nitpicking) 2013-12-07 11:27 (UTC)

[Well, she doesn't exactly recognize him either, but she's been told things by the mun, and she recognized the name from that information...

She shakes herself. Coherency, it's important. Right. She fixes her stance and straightens her face, but she can't help that her hands are balled into fists.]

You're the one who was meant to kill those people. The one he... switched places with...

[Not quite there, yet.]

I have a [slight hesitation] friend. He's from an "alternate universe" where he traded roles with you.

[It's not that she blames you for the suffering she's been through, or he's been through. But you are a great target for all of her very confused very hurt feelings about it.]

[He is indeed a good target for angry feelings, yes. And he'd look a little less surprised by them if the circumstances weren't so...unusual. He hasn't exactly dealt with alternate universes yet, so this is a new one.

Interesting.]

Really, now? Give my condolences to the chump saddled with my life, then.

[Surprise reflects onto her face for a moment, to be quickly replaced by suspicion. He seems... honest, and genuinely shocked and genuinely sorry. But Seito was a good liar, a very good liar, and she was not looking to be someone else's sucker any time soon.

She leans in a bit closer, trying to get a good look at his face, hands on her hips.]

You really are sorry, aren't you?

[If he is, that's very interesting.]

[He instinctively leans back when she leans in, giving his own suspicious look that's quickly broken when she speaks.

That's. Quite a leap to make, from what he was getting from her only a moment ago. Not entirely inaccurate, but a leap nonetheless. A sense of regret had been beaten into him at first, more sorry about getting caught than anything. Those bitches still deserved it, and the world was still a piece of shit he didn't want any part in.

But then there was a gesture from someone he hadn't meant to hurt along the way. A helping hand when everyone else was shoving him down into the dirt.

It made him think. At the very least, there were some good things in this world. Things worth treasuring helping however he could. Even if it barely constituted a handful...it was something. Something worth trying to change for.]

For what it's worth...? Yeah. I am.

[There was still something there on his face, in his eyes, that she didn't like and didn't trust. She couldn't be sure how much of that was her feelings and biases getting in the way of her reading him, but her instincts were strong about it. He was not lying, not completely, but he still wasn't someone she can really trust. There's more to the story.

There's a lot there that she can't see. But there's definitely something like regret there, in his eyes.

Seito's eyes never express anything but sadness...]

Well, it's worth at least something, even if it's only confusing me more.

[Good call not trusting him just yet. Hell, he wouldn't even trust himself at this point, still having way too much to figure out about everything. Including himself.

This is all kind of uncomfortable to be pondering and talking about in front of a complete stranger, though. Even if she happens to know some schmuck with luck as bad as his.]

Speaking of confused, who are you, exactly?

Oh, sorry. Guess I should have some manners.

[Even if you're a creep.]

Minako Arisato, persona-user and wild card.

[With a small consideration, she offers her hand to shake. No harm telling him here, really. Fourth walls being transparent and all that.]

Well, whose fault would it be. I mean, really.

[YOUR FAULT BECAUSE I HATE YOU.]

It'd be the fault of whoever chases me out. I never said I planned on doing anything other than just being there.

Nothing's ever your responsiblity, huh? Whatever.

Were you even listening? What am I saying, of course you weren't.

Distrust me all you want, that's fine. But as long as I'm behaving can't I get a little peace and quiet?

You don't deserve any peace and quiet. Behaving is what you're supposed to do, dude.

So it's gonna be shit whether I behave or not. Great. Nice to know you're here to deliver justice.

Can you hear that, in the distance?

It's a symphony of the tiniest violins.

All playing for you.

[Oh fuck off frog boy.]

Anything more productive you could be doing than reminding me just how deep the pile of shit I'm in is? Trust me, I'm aware.

I can think of a million things more worth my time than talking to you.

[but his mun is forcing him. damn you, woman.]

Who's chasing you out, anyway? Maybe you should go somewhere where people don't already know what a piece of crap you are.

That's what I wanted, but it doesn't look like I'm gonna get that lucky. Anywhere she's considering already has a handful of your little gang there.

Well, that's probably a good thing, too. We can keep an eye on you.

...

Or maybe you'll finally learn that other people aren't as selfish as you.

[His voice is oddly gentle for such a potentially-scathing statement.]

["Potentially" nothing, if the look on his face is any indication.]

So you're saying you wouldn't run me out at the first opportunity? Yeah, right.

[a sigh, and almost a slight smile?]

I'm a dumbass, remember?

...Heh. That's right, you are. Guess I shouldn't have expected any different.

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augh I apologize for my schedule

omg dont even worry about it

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aggressively tackles every adachi

I'd say I didn't love it but that would be a giant lie

i have a lot of feelings about these two

Hey Hanamura it's pretty boring out here isn't it

yeah lets not talk about how we're almost the same kind of person

No no, let's discuss this let's discuss it in great detail

long whining noise

shhh shhhhhhh it's okay bb I get you

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It was very tempting to tag with my own Adachi journal, BUT--

Oh man, either/or is 100% a-ok by me

I figure Sooj is more suited to call him out on his shit. :V

True, very true