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[decrypter]

And here I thought we simply weren't allowed to go in. No one wants yet another death on their hands.

[they have enough of that without the forest to contend with. still, she wants to press just a touch more.]

Is that where you go, when you're not here? Hidden in the forest?

[adsum]

[ He hates some parts of remembering. He hates other people not remembering. He hates the memories coming back in daydreams and nightmares. He hates that there's so much to remember because he could never find a way out, every year just another mark of his failing. He hates how easy it is and how much easier it becomes with each passing year to look back at his failures and want to give up and stop fooling himself with something that'll never happen. Just him going down the checklist of everything he can think of, and at the very very bottom is asking for help.

He sighs, leaning forward slightly, into the touch, and then backs off completely. ]

It's not wrong. I know I've been unfair— never told you anything, never talked about myself, never expected you to return any of my affections because ...it doesn't matter. [ you wouldn't remember ] There's always next year. And now there's not. But I want to be able to prove myself, just the once.

[adsum]

[ where is his pda, grabby hands for his pda ]

[adsum]

You know what unagi is, right?

[adsum]

Am I pushing you into the pond?

[ Is this the date experience, catering to her need to shove him ]

[commences]

eel, that's what you want, right?

( recipe??? dish??? anyway, he'll make it happen. )

it goes in sushi.

[commences]

Ah, ah... ah!

( what are they looking for? stop that... )

Where are your manners?

[crystallomancy]

You CAN, but you'll have to jump in after or wait for me to disconnect you from the sySTEM. After some tesTING, it seems this is one of the ways we can leave SHINSEKAI once it's activaTED.

( but yes she can shove him. maya enrichment. )

...I've made the necessary preparations just in case ( and because he's been playing in his own VR world from time to time to figure it out ) so it ought to WORK.

( ... )

Though if I'm hoNEST, I'd rather not get SHOVED. Let's just jump in togeTHER.

[adsum]

[ He pauses, seeming to think on it for a moment. ]

Truthfully, I do not know. I have lived, and sinned, enough that if my life must be extinguished then I will not fight it. At the same time, I wish to watch over my students as long as I am able to... and when the time comes that I am no longer able to, I expect to become naught but the essence of the forest from which I was originally given form.

[adsum]

Yes
But you know you have to cook it, right?
It's not just raw eel

[ please, he's seen Komaeda's cooking, he needs to cover all his bases because he'd have spent a month in the hospital he doesn't want to go back here again ]

[crystallomancy]

( ... )

I was just thinkING, if you wanted to move ON, I'd like to help YOU. You've helped me quite a lot with my thoughts--it would be only fair for me to assist you in reTURN. Dead or ghost or otherWISE, no one deserves to stay trapped in a plane of existence for too LONG.

[adsum]

My arm or my soul?

[ both are valid options, so he needs to ask ]

[adsum]

[ ... ]

Sakasaki. How is it that you can develop an entire virtual world, but the exit is through a pond and not a door?

[ "after some testing" are exits not programmed into this thing and the beta testers just have to wander around until they accidentally stumble upon a way out? reminds her of Yogen ]

[commences]

i'll make sure it's cooked.

( now whether it will be right is up to god. )

should i ask akehoshi-kun...? he seems excited in that field... yashiro-san...

( just say you hate komaeda's cooking. )

[commences]

You mentioned both, so tell me about them respectively.

( valid options, yes... only rokkun knows the answers. )

[commences]

If things were different, I do wish I hadn't ruined your life.

( even now it feels like there's something between them, but that's the wall the other has built for himself — he has too much pride, but komaeda has that too. he does everything alone, wouldn't want to involve anyone into anything that he does — affections or not. he walks a pretty lonely path, and it feels like his father was right, rokkun doesn't really need komaeda because it's a path he'll walk on his own. why does it make him sad, just a little to hear those words echo in his head and guess that he was right. )

Stephanie said it a lot, that you treat me horribly, and if you cared... you wouldn't be this way. Whatever narration you play for yourself against me, I don't mind... it's just that... next year is gone from us, you're leaving, and I won't be here either.

( he thinks on his words, he already knows he'll forget again, and if he's lucky he won't forget, he'll just properly be dead. living like this, suffering because he's unable to love truly and completely, to know how much he's not wanted in the world, and then to have a talent like this make every next day terrifying; it'd be better that way. ) I want you to believe in me more... if you don't trust anyone else... can't you do so for me, and talk to me... I like talking to you too, I've always wanted to see you prove yourself... but that doesn't mean you have to keep secrets...

( maybe he's saying too much, maybe he shouldn't care, but he laughs it off after, and he smiles softly... that's an expression his face is used to. he'll shift a bit, wrapping his arms around rokkun's neck like he wants to keep him in place, and he leans down to rest his head on top of his own. ) Tell me everything about yourself, about us, how you want to prove yourself... I want to be a good fiancé, after all. Making sure you aren't alone, is the start...

( because komaeda's been alone, he knows what it's like to be lonely... they can be lonelytogether.mp3 )

[crystallomancy]

( ...he can't help it: he laughs, covering his mouth to quiet it to a snicker. )

It's-- it's more fun that WAY. ( a tender reminder he is only a seventeen year old boy. ) We can go to town and find a log-out spot THERE, don't worRY. No drownings for either of US.

[starrypoint]

[... ignored...

but at least it's easy to follow along; subaru's writing them off to the side, scrawl quick but legible, and when rokuro starts talking about floating ribs he draws a pair of them with wings.]

How come they don't connect to anything? Did they used to or something like that? Also, how painful is it to break a rib?

[adsum]

[ It's kind of complicated when he also doesn't want another death on his hands but also he's hungry ]

That is where I return to, but not to hide. The forest is my home.

[ He is the dangerous thing in the forest ]

[adsum]

[ More fun for seventeen year old boys, maybe, yeah!! Unadventurous, Maya stands and looks about for signs of a town. ]

How large is this place? I can think of more than one person who would be tempted to "live" their lives here instead of the school.

[ Akki-senpai comes to mind. Which is dangerous, in her opinion, in a similar way the exchange trip was dangerous, or the elevator, because it is nothing more than an escape. ]

[crystallomancy]

( How large is this... Hold on. Also, she can see the lights of a town off in the distance to the north, on the corner of a delta it'd seem--thankfully, it also seems like it's on their side of the river. )

From what I've been able to recall working on and what I've SEEN? ...Somewhere between 30 and 50 zones--that IS, different areas you can travel TO. Each zone varies in SIZE, so it's a little difficult to calculate how long it'd take to go from one end of one to the oTHER, but this one is seems to be just a simple plain grassLAND. It shouldn't take too LONG.

( ...

He knows she's stood up, so he'll do the same--wishing he hadn't come in actually, because he definitely can't walk and look at the same time. Should he just listen for her movement, or should he hold onto something...? Choices. )

[adsum]

[ ...

makes a mental note to grab white-out later to correct that, because there are definitely kids stupid enough to look at Subaru's skeleton and think it's anatomically correct ]

The extra flexibility, since it's only connected on one side, lets your ribs can expand when you breathe in and out. Like this.

[ Rokkun, because Aratas are not shy about touching people, turns to place his hands on either side of Subaru's ribcage to demonstrate where to touch. ]

Also it depends on how bad you break a rib, but it's after the fact that's worse: it'll hurt every time you breathe, or cough, or laugh, or, god forbid, sneeze. And you have to just sit around and do nothing for over a month and it's so boring.

[starrypoint]

[, oh subaru is thinking thoughts and they are not good ones, he's biting his lip to keep from grinning too mischievously. very interesting.]

I'm gonna have to scold my friend for moving around so much later~.

[even though most of that. was subaru's fault. anyway.]

Personal experience?

[adsum]

[ What is there to hold onto? Let's see if your practice's paid off, Natsume... At least grassland isn't terribly difficult terrain to traverse, and Maya continues the conversation as she makes her way towards the town. ]

And they're all connected, so that crossing the boundary of one leads into another?

[adsum]

[ how instead of empathy, Subaru's first thought is "how can i make this worse" ]

Yeah. Typical sports injury.

[ sometimes you get elbowed really hard in the ribs during a """soccer""" match and puncture a lung but you have to keep going until the end of the game because you need to stay on the field if you want to take revenge, it was worth it ]