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[foretasted]

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.]

Comments

[cw_suicide]

It does sound ridiculous. I don't have any reason to be leaving the Port Mafia.

[unless something really drastic changes between now and then--the thought of which has him frowning because he just can't even... begin to think of the idea.]

[2beautiful2live]

[wELP

Looks skyward and is actually quiet for a bit as he walks]

I can answer that. But you won't like it, and I'm probably not the best person to hear it from.

[cw_suicide]

... it doesn't matter. If it happens, it happens.

[though like. massively unsure that it will? where would he even have to go?]

[2beautiful2live]

It's more like, it happened.

To another version of you, who is living that life right now.

Your choice is different already. And if you leave, it'll be because of things that happen here.

[cw_suicide]

[... time travel is confusing, also hella existentialism in that, too.]

And you said the Mori-san here is from that alternate-me's time.

[2beautiful2live]

That's right. He'll be aah...

[turns to squint at Dazai]

Five years older than you're used to...? Around there.

[cw_suicide]

And who are you supposed to be, exactly?

[u keep saying impossible things. at least fork over your name.]

[2beautiful2live]

[I can't believe we finally have leveled up to i care about your name.

Grins]

Orga Itsuka.

It's nice to meet you, again.

[cw_suicide]

Don't recognize the name.

[and thus that's all he cares about it or you.]

[2beautiful2live]

I did say I was from Mars, and about a thousand years in the future.

[anyway probably about now they hit the barrier and find themselves walking back towards the town]

[cw_suicide]

[...

looks back in the direction they came from.

looks in front of himself.

...

turning around to try it again--

and is just walking back towards the town again.

...

crosses his arms, puzzling over this.]

[2beautiful2live]

[stands back to watch him, amused]

It'll be the same anywhere you try to leave town. Even if you fly.

[cw_suicide]

... it's not an ability.

[2beautiful2live]

No.

I don't think this place was created by humans, not even humans with powerful abilities.

[cw_suicide]

... so you're saying aliens did it.

[since you claim to be from space in the future]

[2beautiful2live]

I guess. Or gods. Or demons...?

[shrugs]

I haven't wondered about it much, honestly.


Anyway, it's nothing Mori could set up to trick you. You can believe that at least, now?

[cw_suicide]

...

[goes to try to walk out of here one more time

--nope, still end up facing toward the city again.

glares at the city.]

... fine, this does seem a bit beyond his scale.

[2beautiful2live]

So probably I wasn't also hired by him to trick you into lowering your guard?

[cw_suicide]

That's still a possibility completely. This doesn't correlate to that.

[2beautiful2live]

Really?

[man i like this guy

less and less all the time]

Fine, then. You know him better than me. What would convince you?

[cw_suicide]

... you said I'm important to you. Why is that?

[it won't necessarily prove anything but also Mori's never used that sort of tactic before?]

1/2

[2beautiful2live]

Ah...

[Orga's eyes widen like he is surprised by the question, and then frowns as he takes it Extremely Seriously.]

No one's ever asked like that, but I'll try to explain it.

Something that Dazai... and a few others have said, is that I make friends too easily. And I know for you, it's the type of thing you don't agree to lightly.

I don't, either. But the place I come from is poor, and the lucky kids are the ones who are able to sell their bodies to get a job, because at least then you can eat. To most of the universe, we're no different than trash, except for to the adults who figured out a way to wring a bit of profit out of that trash.

I've worked with people like that all my life, and it isn't hard when you look someone in the eye to know if they see you as less than a real human.

He's not that type of person, so I had no reason not be his friend.

[2beautiful2live]

[He says all of that with the most unbelievable sincerity, then relaxes a bit into something more abashed]

As for why I continued to bother him despite his complaints... I liked his company, he's an interesting person, I think he's attractive, and he was worrying about me for no real reason within a day of meeting him.

[cw_suicide]

[... well. that. seems to hit something somewhere, because he's now looking at Orga with the vaguest sense of curiosity.

though he still looks away and starts walking back to the city.]

For the record, since you seem to be confused on the matter, Dazai Osamu doesn't worry without reason.

[2beautiful2live]

[Back to being charmed.

Orga smiles then follows him.]

I suppose it is wasn't that there was no reason for the worry. I just don't really agree with how he handles it.

But the concern is still appreciated.