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audio; on the shadow train//backdated to the 19th!
[Audio]
[The (strategically chosen) audio feed comes in grainy, but the sound of unrestrained crying rings clear. The boy chokes; incomplete words stumble over themselves, dying just past his lips to make way for another agonized sob.]
H-he took my-- the only person w-who ever really loved-- who ever loved me... H-he killed m-my... my most precious p-person...
The other m-me killed her...
[He sniffles, the sound wet and gross.]
P-please don't let that... t-that thing have another chance to live... He's keeping himself alive by hurting others..! [The feed clicks off quickly, cutting off his last cry.]
[Introspective]
[It's a pain to act like this... But you've been revived from death, what? Twice now? I think it's my turn. You're not even fit to keep yourself alive.]
[The (strategically chosen) audio feed comes in grainy, but the sound of unrestrained crying rings clear. The boy chokes; incomplete words stumble over themselves, dying just past his lips to make way for another agonized sob.]
H-he took my-- the only person w-who ever really loved-- who ever loved me... H-he killed m-my... my most precious p-person...
The other m-me killed her...
[He sniffles, the sound wet and gross.]
P-please don't let that... t-that thing have another chance to live... He's keeping himself alive by hurting others..! [The feed clicks off quickly, cutting off his last cry.]
[Introspective]
[It's a pain to act like this... But you've been revived from death, what? Twice now? I think it's my turn. You're not even fit to keep yourself alive.]
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[That, from this twisted Otonashi, is sincere.]
You'll help me stop him, won't you? So that nobody else has to die..?
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[The second part gives her a pause, though.]
Just... who is it that did all of this...?
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[Also quite sincere.]
It was the other me... The worst version of me.
[Unfortunately, that might be the hitch in the plan. She's smarter than most of his friends that remain here: smart enough to keep prying like this.]
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The worst version... You mean like the Shadows that have been appearing?
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It's quite a dilemma, especially when he's so intimately aware of how powerful an ally Aoi can be.]
Yeah... that's what I mean. I don't want 'him' around.
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But... I thought Shadows have only started appearing. If that's the case, how could he have killed your sister...? Did she ever come here at some point?
[It just... seems like the sort of thing she ought to have known.]
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But for the smarter crowd--the type of people he wasn't used to anymore after being in an band of misfits so long--it wouldn't be so easy.]
No... No, she won't get a second chance like he has. Maybe I should have said 'we' killed her.
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What do you mean "we"?
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[He wants to scoff. Stop asking so many questions.]
What are you really asking? Are you... not going to help me?
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[...Even if there's so much more she wants to ask.]
I'll keep an eye out for another you.
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[He smiles on the other end, but is careful not to let that muddle his voice.]
If you see him, don't hesitate to tell me... I think if he's gone, I can finally be at peace with myself.
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[There's a short hesitation before she adds:]
Yuzuru... If you don't want to tell me about what happened, that's fine. [She doesn't want to push...] But... You know that if you need someone to talk to, I'd be happy to listen. Okay?
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[Was it... always that difficult for him? She hadn't even noticed.]
Then... I'll get going.
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[It's a simple acknowledgement before he cuts the feed.
That had actually... gone better than he expected. Convincing her that he should be the real one, though-- that's difficult.]