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Mochi: My team doesn't decide what I do.
Mochi: If they'll get upset about it, it's their problem.
Mochi: It's my final request. I guess it should be outside this time.

_: Send me the location.

[And he's going to use the meantime to figure out who the heck is 'Yuki'?]

[ he decides on the POND OF FRIENDSHIP for the location, sending it to him once he's there, and then just waiting ]

[He arrives shortly after. He looks a little worse for wear than when they met last, but that is due to learning about all your taboos in one go.

He doesn't say anything. He arrived. That should be good enough.]

Now can you tell me why you pretended to be me.

You could have saved us both a trip and just asked the guy with the blindfold.

Gojo doesn't know you, unless you told him, he can't know.

I thought you were going to say it out loud, and they we both could have a laugh on how ridiculous his interpretation sounded.

I was waiting for you.

Gojo likes to think he's always right.

And why were you waiting for me?

[He sighs.]

Embarrassingly, I killed you when I lost control of my emotions. I regretted it the moment after it happened.

So I was waiting for you to revive.

Edited 2023-03-10 20:19 (UTC)

You didn't need to wait for me in Snail.

Will you kill me again if I go back to what we discussed?

I thought that is where you were going to revive. I will admit, I didn't make the best decisions. I was panicking. I assume revivals would take a lot longer, so I'd make a little appearance to buy me some time.

Besides, staying in Snail was the better option. Even if that wasn't the reason why I stayed, had I left they would have gone to Cricket. Better to handle it there.

No. The same won't work twice, and I don't think your team or mine would be very forgiving if it happened twice.

... Mm.

When people die they reappear in the same place you arrived in. But people return with a voice in their head, demanding a violent act. I lost control of myself after reviving, so had I met you I would have likely tried to kill you.

I meant what I said. But I know why you can't trust it.

My emotions would not have betrayed me if I didn't believe at least a sliver of what you said. But you are right, I can't trust that type of hope again. I swore I never would.

You're setting yourself up for betrayal as well. These new friends of yours will discard you eventually. And violently. And I'm going to enjoy watching it.

And if they do, will you be there for me - will you pick up the pieces?

[The question clearly catches him off guard.]

Wow. You really are making me want to stab you again. I could almost applaud.

[Because the answer was 'yes'.]

Who else could I fully trust but myself? And if whatever I have that passes as a heart gets broken again, you can tell me "I told you so".

You could just skip all those steps and take my offer. You are just causing yourself more suffering.

Even if they don't betray me they'll still die and leave me behind. So no matter what you're right, it's just going to be painful.

... But for now, I still want to take whatever joy I can.

Do you like the people on your team?

[He makes a motion he will get back to that question in the moment.]

Do I get to call you mine? If the pieces are mine to pick up. You are the wind. I won't cage you.

[ SO MANY PEOPLE CALLING HIM HIS LATELY ... oh, but he likes that. That's dangerous ]

Even the wind cannot blow on forever. Whether you cage me or not, the freedom I earned for myself is still only temporary.

There are other people that are calling me "theirs", you know.

Insignificant mortals. Specks like grain, so small and meaningless in the epochs of time. They don't even know what the word means.

If you so wish me for me to pick up the pieces, make a vow to me.

For now, you can be my Herald, free as you are. And when your wanderings are at an end, I will give you a supreme gnosis, and you can be my equal.

[ ... oh. This really is tempting, and he feels like he's just a step away from sliding backwards ]

I don't need a Gnosis anymore. Some things are just never meant to be, and for me, that's something I have to give up on.

Does it feel lonely to have no one on par with you?

Edited 2023-03-10 21:13 (UTC)

"Who else could I fully trust but myself?"

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