[grandpa should you be walking considering you murdered someone...but they don't bring it up, following along behind him with their hands behind their back. that's a bit of a tricky question though.]
You may ask, though I'm unsure you'll like the answer. [...] It's difficult. There are complications in wanting the right answer and in not wanting the right answer to be the truth.
Mm. Of course, of course. [that answer is also easy,] I am also not in a particular rush to meet my end.
[shinobu would lose it]
... but if Aruji is free, then I may depart with little worry of my greatest goal. In the end, I am confident that we will meet with those who have left us again.
[he really would've killed anyway if he hadn't gotten possessed very funny]
Good. [that's all they care about in that regard, so they nod along with this. sure. makes sense. you kill to protect your hostage. that's how the game is played, and now jiji's aware he's not the only person who has felt that way or acted on it.]
Might I ask what makes you so confident that you'll see them? I'm aware it's occurred in other places, but...[but people are very much dead.]
[there is a smile that plays on his lips, both casual and assured]
We may speak on hints and theories. The cemetery, the excursions, legends and whispers. [all the things discussed today and then some]
However in the end, I am simply an individual who remembers and remains. I will meet the same people again and again, as many times as it takes. My belief is informed by tangible reality, but it is not rooted in it.
In a way, it is only stubbornness - but that is a privilege of the elderly.
...no offense, but you're right. It is a privilege. [but they don't say this unkindly, more like a fact than anything.]
I'm not totally sure how much you guys talked about today, or what was said, but if you really want to bring them back I doubt it's going to be easy and it may take way more than stubbornness. Whatever you plan may not even work at all. What will you do if you run out of time?
[there's just. a very long pause because, like, mood? not that gemini can actually say that but you know. mood.]
But that doesn't answer the question, Mikazuki. [no -san this time, as if maybe it'll help make this conversation a little more personal. they don't know how honorifics work, it's fine.] What did you do the first time then, and what would you do this time?
[the drop in honorific manages to get mikazuki to smile faintly and the wandering through the revolving door brings them to the sakura tree
he looks up at it, thoughtful]
I will adjust course as I see fit.
Time flows more like a big river. If something ultimately did not result in our success the first time, we try again. For the implication of 'first' and 'this' suggests that there is no such thing as 'only'.
So long as that is true, then there is more than enough room for someone such as myself to maneuver.
[the tree's nice. they're looking at it for a moment, because again, like, yes? can't disagree! they have literally done the same thing where they have reverted the flow of time to go back and fix a mistake and save lives that were lost.
it doesn't work like that here though, they think. and gemini shouldn't be thinking about these possibilities at all.]
...check out is soon. You remember what the contract said. I don't know how true that is in a place like this, especially with the terms you all agreed to. Or how much time may be dedicated to your attempts.
...it probably isn't totally safe, no, but simultaneously my department is customer complaints. Not having everyone here and having several dead friends on our hands sounds a lot like a complaint to me.
[so like. they have to be careful but also their own thoughts don't stray that far from jiji's.]
I am not one to complain often... [it strays a little too close to sharing his real feelings on anything at any given point in time but.
this one is luckily very obvious,]
And yet - you are correct. If there is anything to complain upon, it is this: the understanding that in the vast majority of prior experiences [aside from thots] all the departed are brought back to us by the end. Though there is often guidance on this process, even if that guidance is that all but one of us must be eliminated.
Here... there are some theories afloat on how to ensure everyone's safety - but this is the discordance between expectation and our current circumstances.
I don't think there's anything wrong with complaining. It's not doing anything about it that makes it more, uh, troublesome.
[but jiji understands.]
Without any predetermined guidance...what have you been thinking of doing? You've found a few things, I've heard. Have those provided you with any insight?
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You may ask, though I'm unsure you'll like the answer. [...] It's difficult. There are complications in wanting the right answer and in not wanting the right answer to be the truth.
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he follows along easily though]
Ha ha ha.
[ . . . ]
I would not have minded breaking, you know.
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Yeah, I know you wouldn't have. [and it's a resigned sort of sigh because...yes? they do know.] ...are you glad you didn't anyway though?
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[shinobu would lose it]
... but if Aruji is free, then I may depart with little worry of my greatest goal. In the end, I am confident that we will meet with those who have left us again.
[he really would've killed anyway if he hadn't gotten possessed very funny]
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Might I ask what makes you so confident that you'll see them? I'm aware it's occurred in other places, but...[but people are very much dead.]
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[there is a smile that plays on his lips, both casual and assured]
We may speak on hints and theories. The cemetery, the excursions, legends and whispers. [all the things discussed today and then some]
However in the end, I am simply an individual who remembers and remains. I will meet the same people again and again, as many times as it takes. My belief is informed by tangible reality, but it is not rooted in it.
In a way, it is only stubbornness - but that is a privilege of the elderly.
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I'm not totally sure how much you guys talked about today, or what was said, but if you really want to bring them back I doubt it's going to be easy and it may take way more than stubbornness. Whatever you plan may not even work at all. What will you do if you run out of time?
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[stop it, you shitty time-traveling sword]
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But that doesn't answer the question, Mikazuki. [no -san this time, as if maybe it'll help make this conversation a little more personal. they don't know how honorifics work, it's fine.] What did you do the first time then, and what would you do this time?
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he looks up at it, thoughtful]
I will adjust course as I see fit.
Time flows more like a big river. If something ultimately did not result in our success the first time, we try again. For the implication of 'first' and 'this' suggests that there is no such thing as 'only'.
So long as that is true, then there is more than enough room for someone such as myself to maneuver.
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it doesn't work like that here though, they think. and gemini shouldn't be thinking about these possibilities at all.]
...check out is soon. You remember what the contract said. I don't know how true that is in a place like this, especially with the terms you all agreed to. Or how much time may be dedicated to your attempts.
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but he's never so stubborn that he loses his amiability either, tilting his head]
... is it safe for you to worry so much over us, dear Gemini? Or is that simply the result of sentiment?
[and so it's impossible to entirely discard?
he just wants to know how much to truly engage in this conversation]
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...it probably isn't totally safe, no, but simultaneously my department is customer complaints. Not having everyone here and having several dead friends on our hands sounds a lot like a complaint to me.
[so like. they have to be careful but also their own thoughts don't stray that far from jiji's.]
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I am not one to complain often... [it strays a little too close to sharing his real feelings on anything at any given point in time but.
this one is luckily very obvious,]
And yet - you are correct. If there is anything to complain upon, it is this: the understanding that in the vast majority of prior experiences [aside from thots] all the departed are brought back to us by the end. Though there is often guidance on this process, even if that guidance is that all but one of us must be eliminated.
Here... there are some theories afloat on how to ensure everyone's safety - but this is the discordance between expectation and our current circumstances.
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[but jiji understands.]
Without any predetermined guidance...what have you been thinking of doing? You've found a few things, I've heard. Have those provided you with any insight?