Emotionless as always.

[alwaysbeloved]

Your desire for me to be kind to Soubi and Nisei has been noted, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to reject that notion outright. They do not expect kindness out of me and, frankly, it wouldn't further any of my goals.

Surely you can understand that?

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[in_loveless_memory]

[Your fighter? But that wasn't a good answer.]

....

[Uck... he can't.]

[alwaysbeloved]

Ritsuka, he is marked with my name.

[in_loveless_memory]

He is not you.

[alwaysbeloved]

It would be strange if he was me. He is my Fighter.

I saw the reserve! <3 <3 <3

[in_loveless_memory]

You can't pick your fighter but that doesn't mean you have to like them. [Bloodless was a perfect example.]

:D Yay! <3 <3 <3

[alwaysbeloved]

What purpose would it serve for me to not like him? I don't like to fight.

Eeee <3 super excited!

[in_loveless_memory]

I don't understand why we have to fight anyways. No one has even bothered to tell me why we are forced to do battles beyond what someone tells us.

Bb bro, Seimei will be coming to mess up your life forever, so sorry about that. ;-;

[alwaysbeloved]

That's a dangerous question. Life seems like a battle anyway, doesn't it? You have to make your strikes count.

Nonsense, he'll love it. :D

[in_loveless_memory]

But people are getting hurt in this, lives are being tampered with, you are being hunted? And for what? Because some organization tells people to!

Seimei is one messed up kitty.

[alwaysbeloved]

They are hunting me because of my unspeakable crime. You spoke to her, didn't you? That was because of me. I ordered it.

But a wonderful older brother... sorta

[in_loveless_memory]

It wouldn't have happened if you weren't part of that society in the first place. If... if that whole stupid organization was not around. It's awful but... [His ears flatten. It was horrible. But if Nisei wasn't a fighter, if sacrifices and this stupid fighting idea didn't exist then... He rubbed his face.]

He loves with all he has at least. His love is just poisonous.

[alwaysbeloved]

I didn't choose to be marked. I did choose to be in Septimal Moon. I don't like blindly following orders. I wanted to be in the thick of it since I had been chosen.

[He reveals his name on the back of his hand.]

You and I are opposites. We keep the world of Fighters and Sacrifices in order.

Well, all his love is given to Ritsuka.

[in_loveless_memory]

Who decides any of this? [He sighed, his shoulders slumped.]

I don't want to be Loveless. I don't... I don't want either of us to be in this.

All his twisted love.

[alwaysbeloved]

If I knew that, I would kill them. [He says that in the same tone one would use to say they're going to the park.]

Without love, you have less standing in your way.

[in_loveless_memory]

[Ritsuka can't even say he'd stop Seimei, if it had meant none of this would have happened at all.]

I don't want to be Loveless.

[alwaysbeloved]

Would you rather be Beloved?

[in_loveless_memory]

Beloved suits you. But to be loveless, to not be loved and not to love... I don't want that.

[alwaysbeloved]

So you are going to let your name rule you? You are going to let it control everything?

[in_loveless_memory]

I don't even want it in the first place. Being Loveless... being a Sacrifice... [It doesn't make him special.] I was fine before my name, so why need it at all? What has it gotten me except headaches? [And heartbreak?]

[alwaysbeloved]

[A small smile follows Ritsuka's words.]

So you understand the truth. It isn't easy for anyone. Someone should change it.

[in_loveless_memory]

I think the whole system should be destroyed. [What did it matter if he had a Fighter? The Loveless Fighter hadn't been in his life for years now and Soubi had left. Natsuo and Youji would still like him even without his being a sacrifice.]

[alwaysbeloved]

How should that be done? Through murder? [His viewpoint is interesting. Seimei wonders how far Ritsuka will go.]

[in_loveless_memory]

What! No! No... no one needs to die! People... People don't even know what they're fighting for! Septimal Moon just tells them to do it!

[alwaysbeloved]

Is it because of Septimal Moon or someone else? Does it go higher than them?

[in_loveless_memory]

Does it? [He honestly doesn't know.]