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I guess you're not their personal preference? But even then they did admit that you had a "good-looking face"....

[It would take the jaws of hell to get Daichi back in the Taurus District to be honest.]

What if they're making a sequel?

Man... I mean, I guess the compliment's kind of... flattering? And they like my personality, which is kind of new?? [Seriously, he'd never heard of people thinking that his stumbling faux pas's and clumsy attitude was charming.] But if people didn't associate me with that stupid Junes thing before, they definitely are now...

And they are, and I'm pissed as hell about it.

[Hang on he has to chuckle a little that people liking Yosuke's personality is a new thing.] If this kind of stuff is news, the people around here are probably starved for new entertainment after being in a bubble for so long... so I guess I'd be surprised if no one had heard of the Junes Invasion, fiasco, heheh.

Think you could at least sue the author for royalties?

Man, you're probably right, being stuck in this city has probably messed with their heads a lot. [It would explain the insanity thing, and the fact that they view all of the visitors here as TV superheroes or some other silly form of entertaining 'saviors'.]

Probably not... I don't really think I can prove that it's me, people are just making the assumption, ugh. Even if I could, why would I bother with the hassle, I'd look like an asshole.

Just be glad they haven't made the weird twin connection that one demon made.

You think..? [Huh... now that he thinks about it, that kind of makes sense. In a weird, sad, insane way.] They do seem to be more extreme than normal people, so maybe it's some kind of weird psychological claustrophobia thing...?

[Man he didn't know shit about claustrophobia augh

The 'twin' comment however does make him double take, though. Augh augh]

G-Geez, scare a guy to death why don't you... I guess I'm lucky the character doesn't have any twins or lookalikes in the book. [~~Let's not think about the possibilities of a sequel.~~] Heh.. lemme know if you need a distraction, I guess.

I don't know if claustrophobia's the right word...? I mean I've heard stories of people who are isolated, especially in places with really freaky weather and stuff, who tend to act kind of off compared to other people. God knows how long these people have been stuck here like this with the rest of the world all wrecked up, it's probably why they're being so extreme.

[Seriously, this place was just weird... like a bunch of people trying to glue their faces into a permanent smile amidst the apocalypse.]

Also don't give me any ideas, I can totally drag you down with me. [He gives a wink though. He's just kidding, honest, he'd never do that.]

Well, I think this place has been around for at least ten years, right? It's long enough that no one really talks about what it was like before, at least... if there was a before.

[He needed to look up some more post-apocalyptic fiction, obviously.]

Hey, keep your doom to yourself! [He said with a scoff, though thankfully that hint of a chuckle probably meant he wasn't offended at all.]

Yeah but it should still come up, you'd think? I mean there's a whole world out there and everyone's trapped inside here...

[Yosuke just snickers at him and gives a shrug.]

I dunno, if you make me mad enough...

What if there isn't anything beyond the barrier? I mean, it's kind of hard to imagine, but... I've seen the world just kind of, be gone like that before. Maybe this is really all that's left...

[Augh. He. Really didn't want to think about that. Or about the Junes fangirls. When did this conversation turn sucky??]

Come on dude, even for your worst enemy that's just cruel!

[That seemed to be the only way the conversation could've gone if they were talking about how nuts the city people were, honestly. Yosuke kind of drops the Junes fangirls topic, though, and turns it back to Daichi's previous thought.]

... You've been in a situation like this before?

Uh...

[Well he was kind of hoping they could just stick to the fangirl topic, honestly.]

Yeah. Back home, my friends and I got caught up in an alien and demon invasion-- not even kidding! Demons were running around killing people, and these things called the Septentriones were trying to destroy the world.

We couldn't really leave the area because we had to focus on fighting the Septentriones, but... [He gets a bit more somber here, frowning and clearly a bit hesitant to continue.]

...it turns out, we couldn't even leave the country at all anyway. This thing called the Void was literally consuming the entire world. You looked past the barrier, and there was just this giant... black... emptiness. There was nothing there, like you might fall into some never-ending abyss just by taking a few steps forward...! By the time we knew it, that had already happened to the entire world. Everything was just...gone.

[He's sorry Daichi, but this is important... every piece to the puzzle helped just a little more.

Yosuke does feel really awful that he'd asked Daichi to talk about it though... because dealing with something like that, where literally everything you know is just swallowed up and gone, where you're literally left completely alone in the world...

He doesn't envy his 'twin' at all. The teen frowns and kind of looks away from the camera, biting his lower lip...]

Geeze... I'm sorry... [He pauses for a bit, not sure what else he really can even say to the whole situation...]

... Do you think that's what happened here...?

Mm... [It...seemed like Daichi was spacing out a bit there. He didn't like to think about it, but with all the time he himself had actually spent staring at the limits of the void in their downtime...

Well, he didn't like it, but it was hard not to think about it when it came up.]

--Huh. [Thankfully he seemed pretty quick to snap himself out of it as well, focusing back on the camera with a few blank blinks.]

Oh-- I dunno. I've been thinking that might be it, to be honest, but I can't really say for sure.

Hey, Daichi... Try not to worry about it too much, okay? Whatever happened here, it's already over and the city's been kept safe for years now. Besides, what are the odds of something like that happening twice, right? [Yosuke gives a bit of a reassuring grin, trying to lighten the mood some.] You gonna be alright?

Yeah-- Yeah, I don't think it'll happen again. It's possibly, but I think that was a thing with the Septentriones. And at least my friends and I know how to deal with it now. [Sorta.] And apparently the people here know how to too.

[It takes him a moment, but-- slowly but surely-- a careful smile comes back to his face. Not the most confident one, but it's certainly genuine.]

Yeah.. I'll be fine. Thanks.

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