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WHAT in person
WHERE all over
WHEN 32nd day
NOTES it's a deage post

[it's a beautiful day!

by someone's standards!

which is to say, the entire town is darkly overcast and gloomy, and starting in the morning, there are scattered showers intermittently around the town. it's light enough that it isn't bothersome, barely noticeable, really, but you may find yourself feeling a bit different after you've past through one. like it's taken a few years off your life— quite literally.

or maybe it doesn't effect you at all! and you just want to go for a walk in the rain. you do you.]

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[... well. that about settles it.

this guy is someone he needs to get rid of one way or another. and fast.]

... you know Odasaku.

I told you, there's two versions of him here. One from a bit before you quit Port Mafia, and one from a ways after.

[... you are speaking such insanity, NOTHING YOU SAY MAKES ANY SENSE.]

... time travel?

[fucking really? he's not a child, for fuck's sake.]

This place is full of people from all different times and places.

Until two versions of Odasaku showed up, I didn't think it was possible to get the same person twice, but apparently it is.

[he shrugs]

I'm not from your planet at all. I was born on Mars, which, from your perspective, hasn't even been colonized, right?

[... okay. fucking bye now.

time to go see if Mori is around because that might at least collaborate some of what this guy's talking about.]

[I'm not sure what you have learned about this guy has let you think he'd just let you walk away.

Follows

Tho he like, stays out of punching range]

The thing I wanted to show you, if you walk to the edge of the town and try to leave, you can't go. It just turns you around again.

Stop following me.

[god, his hand is itching for a gun, really.]

Do you really think everything I'm saying is a lie? What would be the point of it?

You must think it's strange that you ended up a place like this with no memory of how you got here, right?

[spinning on his heel to glare up at this insanely tall asshole.]

Of course it's strange. It's strange that anyone could ever get the drop on me to drop me in an unfamiliar place with no knowledge of how that was managed. It's strange that I am unarmed and essentially defenseless in an unknown territory with unknown enemies and unknown abilities and effects that could cause me trouble.

It's very strange that there would be anyone here in this strange place at all who would know me outside of my reputation, let alone someone who seems to have some idea of it and would still bother to throw around words that have no meaning in a world where I built that reputation.

So tell me. What am I supposed to think of this person who insists on doing that in addition to following me around after I give very specific signs that were I armed, he'd be dead? Do you think I'm just being idle with my threats? Do you actually have any inkling as to who I am or is this some sort of ploy to try to get me to lower my defenses and fall into a false sense of security so you can take advantage?

Did Mori-san send you to test me? Or are you just some other thug looking to cause me trouble because it amuses you? Because unless you plan to kill me, I'm not interested in dealing with any plot you may have.

[Listens to all of this with a look of surprise that fades to a soft, abashed smile.

And when he's done he bows his head sincerely.]

Aa. Sorry.

In truth, I was excited to meet you.

I've heard a good amount about Dazai's past, and your reputation doesn't bother me, but I didn't think much about your feelings in this situation.

I'm not a threat to you, though I'm grateful you can't kill me while you're feeling so disoriented.

[. . . tmw you continue to glare at someone to cover the fact that literally no one reacts like this.

there's definitely something wrong with this guy.

no one can be this stupid.]

Aa, you should be.

I am, I am.

[Straightens and puts his hands in his pockets]

But, if you could also do me the favor of thinking about this from my situation.

Someone you care about is younger than you're used to them being, doesn't remember you at all, doesn't believe you say, and insists on acting recklessly.

What would you do?

That's an impossible scenario.

Aren't there people in your world who would consider humans with bizarre abilities to be impossible?

What was it, a little girl who fights with a giant syringe?

Honestly, to me that still sounds like a joke, but we're from pretty different places.

[someone somewhere has been talking too much...]

I mean to say, that scenario is impossible for me as it requires I care about someone.

...

I meant it when I said I'm not a threat, but on top of that you're not afraid of dying anyway, right? So walk with me a little bit.

I can at least prove to you that this place goes beyond even Mori's abilities. If you don't trust me, that's fine, but I don't like the idea of you thinking I'm here because of him.

... I think you are misunderstanding something.

If Mori-san is here, then I'll need to meet with him.

Aa, I don't think you can avoid it permanently. This isn't the sort of place that will allow it.

But you don't need to right this second, do you?

[... on the one hand, correct.

on the other hand, how much does he want to deal with Mori if Mori finds out about him shirking responsibility. hm.]

... I don't have any reason to follow along with you or even allow for you to follow me.

You're not even curious?

Give me a reason I should be.

I feel like pretty much everything I've said up until now counts.

Which can all be a lure a strange pervert in a strange place uses.

[I May Be Suicide But Even I Have Stranger Danger.]

Unless you're a murderer, in which case, I might consider it.

[Amused]

Oh, I've been killing all my life.

Where I'm from the most powerful army in the solar system wanted my head.

Oh, so you have no problem with killing?

[eyeing him almost expectantly. like... so are you gonna kill him or what because that would be kind of great?]