changing and replacing this mask, show time;

[recrypt]

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[survivaltricks]

[WELL]

At least you didn't pick the kitchen.

[can you imagine. flying knives]

[recrypt]

[ i, a simple mauyn, really, really wanted to do the kitchen, but 45 is more reasonable than i am. ]

Who exactly do you take me for? Dazai?

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No. You're a lot more reasonable than him.

[hm. . . a thoughtful look crosses his expression]

Which is why I need to ask you something. Because there's a lot more I want to share with you, but. . . I need to know something first.

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Haha, how ominous.

Shoot.

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[listen. . . he only asks because--]

You're angry about Minako and Zenitsu, right? I am, too. It still. . . stings.

[she felt that from him during the emotion share. he was comforted by her own rage]

But if-- if allying with. . . the people or person who killed them would help bring them back, along with everyone else who died. . .

You'd do it. Right? For. . . the greater good?

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[ . . .

she laughs, honestly, a light but sharp noise. ]

I'm starting to think everyone got the wrong memories from me during that week if that has to be a question, which makes that even more irritating in retrospect.

I've been accused of being too much of a pragmatist, Akira. Never not enough of one. So, thanks for that; it's an interesting change of pace.

[ if only the dolls from her canon could see this now. ]

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[. . . a breathless laugh, and Akira feels himself relax, some of the tension oozing from his shoulders]

No. That's actually the answer I expected from you.

[because unlike [REDACTED] AKIRA HAS FAITH IN HER]

. . . okay. Then-- tomorrow.

[tomorrow?]

[recrypt]

[ damn just because she vibes with [redacted] and is a gun doesn't mean she has a twitchy trigger finger. she kept deadstaring at people about gun safety, didn't she? ]

... Tomorrow, huh.

[ right time for her to trip off the mountain and smash her core processor to bits or something before that happens then, whoops. ]

Well, if you're not going to explain that. What were you saying before about things making sense, hm?

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[SEE AKIRA BELIEVES IN HER??? HE ALWAYS HAS!!!! he knows she is reasonable!!!]

I can't explain anything else now, unfortunately.

[sheepish, and he lifts a hand to rub the back of his neck]

But everything will make sense tomorrow. Oh-- hang on.

[he digs into his pocket to pull out. . . a note!!]

[. . .]

[AND HE THROWS THAT NOTE AWAY BEFORE PULLING OUT ANOTHER ONE and handing it to her]

[recrypt]

[ glances in direction of the thrown away note. glances back down at the note given to her. glances back in the direction of the tossed note.

glances at akira.

raises eyebrow for like at least the third time in this conversation. ]

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. . . yes. I know.

The first note was stupid.

[he says]

[with a blank expression]

[trust him]

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We had plenty of stupid notes in the house and that stopped no one from sharing them.

[ melt not fish snake. does Stefano is horse. ]

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Do you really want to see it?

[he sounds a bit dubious]

[recrypt]

... I don't have brain cells to lose, and I can partition the memory later into less efficient storage if it's really that bad?

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[closes his eyes]

[. . .]

[fetches the note and hands it to her]

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[





......... ]

... decoy note, or something you tried that didn't quite pan out?

[survivaltricks]

Neither.

[in a deadpan]

Someone thinks they're funny.

[recrypt]

There are really only so many people a note like this can be from, Akira.