Hizumi "every bad breakup song" Mizushiro (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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compnetwork2013-12-16 10:23 pm
bondsofsuffering) wrote in compnetwork2013-12-16 10:23 pm
Eleventh Curse (?)
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You know, I've been thinking...
[Well. This is out of the blue. He continues to speak, his voice especially light and easy today.]
Hinoto-Ri isn't such a bad place, when you get right down to it. It gives a lot of opportunities you might not have had before - if you were sick, you're healthy. If you were dead, you're alive. You can do pretty much whatever you want! Philemon himself said we won't remember anything that happens here once we return to our worlds. We're technically here to save the people of Hinoto-Ri, but even if you don't do anything, there aren't any real repercussions. You'll still have a roof over your head whether you help or not.
That's a lot more than most people get.
I like it here! Sure, things could always go wrong - but that's fine. I've finally got a shot at living, not having to worry about getting sick or killed... It's about time I embraced that!
[There's a pause, but it's not hard to get the sense that he's got a satisfied grin on the other side of the feed despite the heaviness of those words.]
Ah-- Also, before I forget. Apparently there's another me going around. If you spot him, try and message me, will ya? He's probably harmless, but I think we should probably have a talk.
You know, I've been thinking...
[Well. This is out of the blue. He continues to speak, his voice especially light and easy today.]
Hinoto-Ri isn't such a bad place, when you get right down to it. It gives a lot of opportunities you might not have had before - if you were sick, you're healthy. If you were dead, you're alive. You can do pretty much whatever you want! Philemon himself said we won't remember anything that happens here once we return to our worlds. We're technically here to save the people of Hinoto-Ri, but even if you don't do anything, there aren't any real repercussions. You'll still have a roof over your head whether you help or not.
That's a lot more than most people get.
I like it here! Sure, things could always go wrong - but that's fine. I've finally got a shot at living, not having to worry about getting sick or killed... It's about time I embraced that!
[There's a pause, but it's not hard to get the sense that he's got a satisfied grin on the other side of the feed despite the heaviness of those words.]
Ah-- Also, before I forget. Apparently there's another me going around. If you spot him, try and message me, will ya? He's probably harmless, but I think we should probably have a talk.
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[It's... pretty jarring, how cheerfully he talks about all of this.]
That's exactly why Hinoto-Ri is so great, though! I'm not sick, and I definitely won't be killed--
I can do whatever I want!
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[Hizumi had pretty much told them straight out what was wrong with him, but it takes a slight leap of logic for Atsuro to arrive at his next statement.]
That time we passed each other in the streets and you looked... upset. More out of it than I've ever seen you before. Was that because of this?
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But if that's true, Hizumi... can't you leave here, instead? If you really have nothing to lose like you say...
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[Wait. What?]
Who cares if I become a Devil? If my survival depends on trampling others' lives, I'll take it! Everyone should have a chance to live out their lives... So why shouldn't I get that chance, too?
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[Awkward pause.]
Uh. Run that last bit by me again. ...Or, maybe, that whole thing. Or why don't you rewind and start again from like, the very beginning?
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I was born to become the Devil. Normally, it wouldn't happen because I'd grow sick and die before I became of age. But, because that isn't happening here, I'm free to grow up nice and old, and I'll have alllll that time to work at bringing down humanity!
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[Atsuro sounds vaguely disbelieving.]
That's impossible. We've faced everything from hell, already - heck, we've faced Lucifer. You're telling me Lucifer from your world is... you?
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You're not tall enough.
You need more wings, too.
And probably horns somewhere and a bad superiority complex.
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That's no good, though! It would be too obvious.
This is more of an inside job, y'know? It's no good if you grow up with everyone hating and despising you for being different. They'll just be too happy to try to stop your plans and kill you!
That's why you have to look like them. Talk like them. Act like them. They'll get attached to you, and even if you do reveal yourself, they won't even believe it right away.
I mean, even though I'm telling you all of this now, you still can't believe it, right? It just sounds too ridiculous. It goes against everything you know about me!
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Just to decide if I'm actually believing you or not, you know.
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I'm not really interested in killing people. But if I'm going to live, I don't want people breathing down my neck, trying to keep me contained or anything, either. I've had enough of that, too.
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So...
Let's get things straight here, then. You're supposed to be the Antichrist or something, and God is stopping you by making you sick so you die before that happens.
But since this isn't your world, it's not like you being here would do anything.
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Well-- if it's the right one, at least. Things get kind of confusing when you've got two Gods running around.
[As a matter of fact...]
There were two Devils, too, but one of the Gods already... ah, 'took care' of the other one. That's probably why the second God and I came out sickly - having unnatural forces like us around doesn't do the world any good, and doubles definitely shouldn't be necessary.
Even the world itself rejects my existence.
But this world doesn't seem to mind if there's a Devil like me around. Even if letting me live just means another threat to humanity-- this world is much kinder than that one.
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And you're sure you're not just reading this out of some sort of weird light novel to try and get us all riled up? Because I'm pretty sure this is like that one thing about Jesus and the Buddha and stuff living in the 21st Century.
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You're the one that got the note. You figured it out, even if I tried to pretend everything was okay. Lucky me you didn't pry too much! I guess catching a cold after everything was said and done turned out to be helpful after all!
Back then, I figured that was my only option. But I was totally wrong!
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[There is a few moments of stunned silence in response to that.]
You... you were trying to kill yourself that time? I... Is this serious? No way I would have guessed that. I thought you were just planning to do something... dangerous.
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Slicing your arm open from wrist to shoulder is pretty dangerous.
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[Atsuro suddenly looks more serious than he has all conversation, gods and demons notwithstanding.]
Whatever you're going on about, killing yourself can't be the answer. ...But I guess there's no point talking about that with you.
Where's Hizumi? The real Hizumi?
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What gave it away?
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But you'd rather deal with a Hizumi who doesn't want to die, right? So you shouldn't mind if I remove that other one, right?
I promise I'll live. No matter what it takes!
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Killing people is just a side effect of the whole, y'know. Living thing.
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