Ivan doesn't even

[sponsorigami]

Mun-san, I've had my friends become zombies who tried to kill me, and then I had to cremate them and other friends, so that Kernos can't use them like that ever again, and I've given up on keeping a secret identity and hiding that I'm a shapeshifter. I got killed by an explosion, and sometime soon in the game, I'm going to die by my own hand if that event version is picked. And I've already had to remove vines from my body.

A-and now you're telling me that what I've been using to start fires... has been my origami?!

That's-- Am I ever going to fold a thousand cranes without them being destroyed before I get there? I-I'm not sure if I see how recent events have helped me like you say they have...

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[goodjumper]

This is how muns have fun. Just keep going. Better to be stuck in a hard game than have no place to be at all.

[sponsorigami]

I guess so, but... I don't understand any of this anymore.

[i_am_not_cute]

[Where does she even start with that mess?]

You've been keeping origami cranes with you in the game this whole time?

[...yes. This is clearly the most pressing question.]

[sponsorigami]

I've been folding them there with the paper I find. I used my actual origami paper a while ago.

[i_am_not_cute]

...if I were there, I'd be helping you fold more cranes.

[sponsorigami]

I... I know you would, and you'd be eating all the onigiri I made too. Even if they were just the salted ones.

[i_am_not_cute]

[O ye of little faith.]

I wouldn't eat all of it! I'd definitely leave some for you.

[sponsorigami]

Okay, so I get the small one.

[He's teasing]

[i_am_not_cute]

[With anyone else, the teasing might've gone a little over Pao-Lin's head. Since this is Ivan, though...]

You'll get lots of small ones!

[sponsorigami]

I probably should make more small ones then.

[i_am_not_cute]

[Nodnod.]

It'd be easier and quicker, so you could make more. I'd help out with that, too!

[sponsorigami]

Maybe there will be enough for both of us.

[i_am_not_cute]

There'd be enough for all of the Heroes! [She hums.] If I had my memories from Luceti, I could make other stuff, too, since I've been learning how to cook...

[sponsorigami]

And if we met at a different spot other than the island we could have more ingredients for them, and I could try making sushi or at least have miso soup again.

[i_am_not_cute]

[She smiles at the lighter mood. She wants to ask about the other stuff Ivan mentioned in the entry, but...]

I wish there were more places that had more of the Heroes. There's only Mr. Tiger and Mr. Barnaby in Luceti, though we just got a Karina reserve. But I know Camp, erm, Eff You Die has me, you, Mr. Tiger, Mr. Barnaby, Keith, and even Mr. Petrov.

[sponsorigami]

In some ways... isn't that a good thing? More Heroes are around to protect Stern Bild instead of being stuck in another world. I mean, as much as I want to see the others... I wouldn't want them where I'm at.... Again.

[i_am_not_cute]

Hmm...well, I don't know how it works in your game, but in Luceti...apparently time stops back in someone's world whenever they get taken, or something like that. Or...not "stops", I guess, since people can come from different points in their world's history. [It still makes very little sense to her even after over half a year in the game.] But basically what it means is that no one back home notices that we're gone. If anyone gets sent home, they're returned to the same point in time that they were taken from, and they don't remember ever being in Luceti.

[sponsorigami]

Tiger-san and Barnaby-san didn't seem to notice us missing, but they never went "back," so I...

... I don't know either.

[How does crazy kidnapping from worlds and times work?]

[i_am_not_cute]

[Seriously. This shit is bananas. Dipped in chocolate and peanuts.]

This roleplaying stuff sure is weird, huh?

[sponsorigami]

[Let's throw some ice cream and a cherry on top while we're at it]

Really weird. Even not being in a game would still be confusing because there's even another me in the "headspace"!

[i_am_not_cute]

Seriously. I think my mun has at least two other versions of me in her headspace, and she's thinking of creating a younger version of me, too.

[sponsorigami]

That many? You can make your own Hero team.

[i_am_not_cute]

Well, one of...um...me...wouldn't want to be a Hero. She's like Jake -- she thinks that non-NEXTs are pathetic and Heroes are stupid for trying to protect them. My mun likes to refer to her as "Ouro-Lin".

[airysky]

Origami...

[You have it rough, rival/friend.]

[sponsorigami]

[He has no idea. Those friends he laid to rest? Pao-Lin and Barnaby-san are amongst them. Tiger-san is currently MIA.]

Sky High-san, I-I'm still trying to do what I can and not give up, but Kernos isn't making it easy.