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[Miki has only been here for day, and yesterday night's events have left her happier than she could have imagined. But...she suppose she owes someone and apology for her behavior the night before.

Maybe it's the lack of a good night's sleep and she'd not using the camera and post function on the watch clearly, or maybe simply because she's not that great with computers in the first place, but what was supposed to be a private post is unfortunately sent publicly. Regardless, it is a small video of Miki looking like she didn't get that much sleep and she's looking at the watch's camera like it's a small cursed object.]

Hey uh. Arisato. I mean Minato. M-Minato Arisato yeah that sounds better..

Look when you watch this? Just wanted to say I'm sorry 'bout yesterday. I didn't know about the different world things and I just thought you were the Minato from my world.

He was the leader of Strega. That's why I did the...I'm watching you sign. [She says, tihnking 'I still don't trust you that much anyway.']

So uh. I'll stop that. I'm sure you're a nice guy and not an idiot.

[She pouts, trying to think of what else to say and just shrugs.]

Have a good day.

[End video feed.]

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...okay he was in Strega. Before you get too angry, he never killed anyone, nor was he allowed to come when they did hits. Minato assured me that, once.

[For some reason that seems important--WAIT why is she DEFENDING STREGA?!

...she really needs a coffee.]

...I'm not angry. It's not your fault, Miki-chan.

[she's just... frustrated. Confused. Worried.

Afraid for the brother she's never even met. The brother who technically isn't even hers, but it's hard to think of it that way.] ...And Minato?

W-well. They did with what they had. Apparently he killed only people that really deserved it, criminals that got away scoot free from the law...but still...ARGH! No! I should not be saying that.

[Even if they deserved it, it still didn't make it right...she'd learned all about that herself with Shinjiro's death...Takaya's death, even if it wasn't at her hands, had left her only with an empty feeling and not much else.]

He...

Tch.

Despite that, we all teamed up and...he's the one who...saved us.

[You have no idea how hard it is for her to say this. But she has a feeling Minako needs to hear it.]

[No, she agrees with Miki. Even if they deserved it, it didn't make it 'right.' Even with as angry and sad as she'd been, she hadn't brought herself to finish off Takaya, after all. She can't imagine her brother being any different... being a murderer. But his kind spirit, the need to help others she can already tell he has despite their short time together here... maybe that had been warped just enough to make him capable. Enough injustices can twist a person, and one accident can change an entire life.

...But this is too painful to keep considering. So she stops, instead focusing on Miki's words.]

...With the seal, you mean.

[That just slips out quietly, her mood too contemplative to realize that Miki may not even understand what that was. She'd only even mentioned the full story of what she'd done to Shinjiro while she was here, after all, and the events of their own Promised Day were probably just as chaotic. But then...]

...You said before that Death was with both of them. What happened to Minami?

[Huh...]

She was with us at older student's graduation. We weren't sure how come we knew each other at first, or why we wanted to listen in...but then when Mitsuru started her speech, we all remembered...

...we ran up and found Minato on the roof. Minami and him had talked about what they'd been doing after the fall. I think, he was glad to see all of us. Chidori, Jin and Ken were there too...

[Unfortunately for you, despite having bouts of stupidity, Miki is not stupid either.]

But what exactly do you mean by the seal?

Edited 2012-10-01 06:10 (UTC)

So she's all right.

[That is said with far more relief than Miki probably expected. Even though she'd only learned of Minami's existence three minutes ago, the fact that a family member of hers - even one that was never born, that she's never met - is alive and well somewhere, surrounded by friends who care about her... that's amazing. And she can imagine that the other Minato probably thought so too. She'd give anything to have allowed her own brother that same freedom... to take on the Seal herself and let him live.

...Wait.]

[this is an incredibly awkward time for this topic. But now that she's messed up she can't backtrack. Forge ahead, Minako...]

It's what was needed to stop Nyx. She's not destroyed, you know... Ryoji was right about that. What I - What your Minato must have done is use the power of the Universe... um, the energy from the user's friendships, and everyone's desire to live... to seal off Nyx from being touched by human thoughts again. That way, she'll never come back.

Edited 2012-10-01 06:26 (UTC)

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So wait...Nyx wasn't defeated? All of that and we just gave her a timeout...

[It's her turn to look depressed and she idly rubs the ring hanging on her necklace.]

So wait. You and Minato...you both...

[...You both sacrificed yourselves? Without a sister or a brother to save, they willingly extinguished their own lights for the sake of everyone else. The power of the Universe...she can't quite understand it well, but it's a final sacrifice worthy of any Sentai Show. For some reason she can't help but feel a few tears running down her cheeks and she looks at Minako with a bittersweet smile.]

Tch. I bet you just wanted to see my brother again, didn't you?

Edited 2012-10-01 07:31 (UTC)

[The ring is a bit too small in the video feed for Minako to become suspicious of just yet. But despite her appreciating the empathy Miki is showing now... the last statement just confuses her.]

Your brother? Nothing happened to Akihiko-senpai... He was just fine.

[Seriously, on top of the Strega business had something happened to Aki, too? She doesn't know how much more of this she can handle...]

[She frowns at that.]

Oh no, no I actually meant Shinji...

[Oh wait. That is...another point she should have brought up.]

O-oh...actually about that. Um...I guess you weren't the only one the universe decided to screw up in regards to your sibling. [She looks over to where Akihiko is sleeping, smiling before looking back at her, the smile fadeing quickly as she continues.] My brother, the other one...he died saving me from the orphanage. I'm...glad to know he lived in your world.

[...to be honest, as much as she'd dreaded it, when she actually says it it doesn't surprise her. Akihiko would do that. He'd sounded so regretful about what happened to his sister, it doesn't surprise her at all that in one of these butterfly-effect worlds that are appearing, he'd actually managed to do what he'd wanted.

...She wonders how he's feeling right now. But that's a question that will have to wait.]

He told me about you... Or well, Akihiko-senpai in my timeline did. The one you've met here is from Minato's. ...But you probably already know that. [What are their lives now, seriously.] Either way, he really loves you. And so does Shinjiro-senpai. ...But you know that already, too.

[Yeah, considering he's still sleeping right now. It was almost amazing, really.]

Y-yeah. I love the both of them to, even if both of them are idiots. We...talked for most of the night. I was explained pretty much everything.

[She quietly walks off from both of the sleeping boys before looking over to make sure neither of them where listening and whispers to her with one hand on the side of her mouth.]

Although between you and me, I was expecting my brother to be a bit taller.

[she has to laugh. To her, Akihiko is already pretty tall, but it must not be as much a difference to Miki who is already extremely tall for a girl.]

To be honest... I expected the same from Minato. At least yours actually is tall. [Minato is just embarrassingly average. It doesn't matter that she is, too.]

Edited 2012-10-01 09:23 (UTC)

[Minako doesn't answer until after the mysterious voice quiets down. It really decides to pick inconvenient moments, sometimes. Although she is happy to hear that Miki is warming to her, it's hard to concentrate on apparently being teased when a bodiless person is talking to her.]

'Me and Shinji,' what? Did he tell you something?

[This is pretty much as far from a denial as you can get, but she still wants to know what he said about her, or whether Miki figured it out on her own.]

Him telling me something like that? Naaah.

It's just once you lived with a grump like that for most of your life, you can easily pick up a few clues. Like the fact, he never liked festivals. If he was there, someone had to have dragged him there and he had to be okay with it.

I think he was getting ready to make an escape even before you showed up.

[She could read the warning signs, too. He'd buy her another thing of food and then suggest that they needed to get the goldfish into a tank before it died of stress. Then he'd probably try and find some way to slip back to his room after a visit to the pet shop, which may or may not have succeeded.]

Edited 2012-10-01 17:53 (UTC)

Heheheh. I wish I could say that I'm shocked...but I'm not.

[She shakes her head.]

Idiot.

[Well, we know where she learned that one...]

I'm really not, either.

...Although... the funny thing is, one of the first times I met him was at a festival. And he got hit with a geta then, too. Although it was my fault that time.

[Oh my gods, this is tantalizing info. Miki is nearly on the edge of her seat on girl gossip, especially since it involves one of her brothers.]

Maybe that's why he's avoiding festivals for the most part...too many UFG's.

[Unidentified Flying Getas.]

[she laughs.] Maybe so! It could get dangerous if he hung around too long.

But he's such a great way to stop the booth men from trying to sell their stuff to you! One look at him looming in the background, and they just turn the other way...

They won't try to gouge their prices, either. ....Of course, they're also too intimidated to give you free stuff just for looking cute. [why no she's never tried to use her attitude to her advantage with male shopkeepers....]

[Miki's persona is Helen of Troy, Minako. Of course she's done something similar to get good prices.]

Heheh. Well not even Shinji can be perfect, after all.

I suppose not. But that wouldn't be any fun, either.

[The fact that he's difficult is part of what makes him special.

But then her expression softens again.] Hey, Miki-chan... Can you tell me about Minami?

[She's been trying to stay nonchalant, but... in the end, she's just intensely curious about the Arisato she's never met.]

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