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[adsum]

My arm or my soul?

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

[commences]

You mentioned both, so tell me about them respectively.

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

[adsum]

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Yes to both.

[commences]

Then to remove your soul, you'd have to die... but you'd have to get rid of the tree, first, right?

( talking about his arm, he's going to hold his prosthetic hand out... give left arm, rokkun. )

[adsum]

Not necessarily.

[ ?? he reaches out to hold Komaeda's prosthetic, but reluctantly, because he'd rather hold the other ]

[commences]

( he'll hold it for a moment, but then he'll push back the sleeve because he wants to look at his tallies. )

Isn't that where all the deceased go, or do some unlucky ones happen to be kicked out the cycle of rebirth?

( hums softly, to call it unlucky... he thinks over subaru's words, and sighs. though, not like something is bothering him, no, not to the point he needs rokkun to ask him what's on his mind. )

To be kicked out Samsara, where do you go after that...

[adsum]

[ There's a whole bunch of tallies. Skin looks a bit raw compared to last time, but nothing actively bleeding, and if Rokkun is annoyed at Komaeda doing what he wants, it doesn't show; after hitting a certain point, the number of tallies become meaningless, at least visually. ]

I think you have it backwards...

[ ...fine, he'll take the hint ]

Thinking about freeing everybody by burning down the tree? Or do you have another plan?

[commences]

( oh, he took it which is good enough because the technicalities doesn't matter, as long as the idea is proposed, then ideas can be formed. his fingers brush over the marks. )

Oh, do I... you seem to have a better understanding than me. Correct me anytime.

( he doesn't mind, really. )

Your own plan is to slaughter, but they'll just go to the tree... the obvious choice would be getting rid of it, but the Gardener will kill if he learns. ( probably. ) That... and it seems too easy. Signing one's life away is an idea.

[adsum]

[ He makes a face like he wishes Komaeda wouldn't call it slaughter, but it's slaughter. ]

He can't get me if I'm graduating and am out of here. What's signing your life away even supposed to do?

[commences]

( it's mindless slaughter, but komaeda doesn't say it like it's a bad thing... )

I understand, you're going to graduate, but... ( hmm, he leaves that alone. ) You've signed a contract before, do you know of any others?

[adsum]

Besides the other president's? No. There's usually some sort of privacy clause that's only void when you're dead.

[ Want to know Maya's or Keigo's contracts? Kill them. ]

[commences]

( komaeda looks to rokkun as if he's obviously fucking with him, considering komaeda already killed one contract holder. )

...Huh.

( but... )

Say I signed my life away when I die, but if I don't die... naturally to the contracts standards... would I be free?

[adsum]

[ Yeah and now Maya knows her contract ]

Uhh... That depends on the contract holder, I guess? Who are you making contracts with?

[commences]

...The same person you did.

( whoever is giving contracts around here, but komaeda doesn't add a name to that person because he doesn't know. he doesn't make it seem that way, though. )

[adsum]

You want to become president?

[ Doesn't offer a name either, but that's the flavor of contract he had, same as Maya. Keigo, not so much ]

[commences]

Maybe staff... maybe president...

( he walks away, hands moving here and there as he speaks before he shrugs. )

I'll take any contract. Which one should I try for?

[adsum]

[ ...

No, Komaeda would say no to that one. ]

Well, what do you want out of the contract?

[commences]

( death, but he can't say that.

hm... )

Hope!

( obvious answer, but he's staring at rokkun like what else is there? )

[adsum]

[ hm ]

And why would you need a contract for hope?

[commences]

Because everyone needs to be involved, a contract governs the entire school.

( that means he can reach people that he couldn't before, and he'll count on his fingers. )

The Vice Principal, your father, anyone and everyone who lacks hope can be erased.

[adsum]

Can you force hope on people like that?

[ Like "you're going to be hopeful whether you like it or not"
He thinks of his dad and... the guy's a dick, but he wouldn't call the man hopeless. He always felt like the opposite: he knew exactly what he was doing and was doing what he loved and seemed... happy. Which makes everything so much worse. ]

[commences]

...No. Hope is special, and no contract could give a person that properly. Hope is by the person, not because it's forced.

( even if komaeda says it like a force, like he wants to drown everyone in it, that's not how it works. the hope that he loves is more romantic, those that can't fin strength from it will use it accordingly, and create more hope along the way. it's a bright light that covers everyone in its warmth, and komaeda hugs himself in thought as he thinks about it. hope can get under one's skin, become that feeling that tingles beneath the flesh and keeps them warm for a moment, and disappears, but it's always there whether they feel it or not. )

...I just wanted to say it to see how you'd take it. If it was something that could happen because of a contract, to learn the extent of it...

[adsum]

Maybe, with the right contract, but it wouldn't be real.

[ There's probably ways to make another person feel hopeful, the same way morphine gives him euphoria and makes him feel invincible if he can make it out of bed. But it's not real, it doesn't last. ]

You wouldn't accept that sort of hope, so if that's all you're looking for in a contract, don't bother making one.

[commences]

...It'd be a replica with no meaning, contracts are tedious to deal with when you can just do it yourself.

( but that doesn't answer any of his lingering questions, nothing that says how to break them or what to do. yet, he's thinking of a world with forced hope, and there's only one manmade hope that he loves. as he looks at rokkun, he couldn't imagine him with a fake hope either, especially one he had to accept without making it himself. it just makes komaeda's skin crawl. )

Who gave you yours?

[adsum]

The principal...? I didn't meet with anybody; it was just a form I sent to the office.

[ Principal's gone now, though. Maybe someday I'll pick up that plot thread again but it's not important rn ]