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[To Jan Valentine. 90% unhackable. The syllables are slurred due to damaged anatomy.]

Celebration's canceled; I won't be at the Northern Lights for 'bout a week... A 'lil skirmish got me weathering unpleasant injuries... The flesh is fucking weak.

I gotta proposition for you. I'll tell ya when I got my health.

[To Teddie. 90% unhackable.]There's

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[massenmord]

He cared none for personal aesthetics, his primary goal was to preserve the integrity of what remained of his profile. Furthermore he thought his bandaged condition to be more becoming than his face, and he was not even consciously cynical in that sentiment.

It was surreal to inspect this animated caricature as it attend to him. The thing resembled a conglomerate mascot. Toshiya titled his head under the subtle pressure of the soft paws and genuinely smiled. The expression left him with Teddie's question. "I ain't goin'," he said, chewing a scratched lip. Logic dictated his enemy was there that very moment. "I'll pull through this, a fuckin' breeze."

A metallic glint passed the corner of his vision. Toshi focused. It was the light reflecting off the metal track encircling the bear's head. How could it have escaped his attention before? Was this a counterpart of his outfit, or was the thing called Teddie a farce? His skepticism bet on the latter.

Toshiya stared, stared harder, then suddenly lunged, knocking the bear to the floor as the dust exploded about them. Liar, fucking liar. His hands shifted angrily to remove his head. "Take it off!"

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The head was stuck on, and Teddie's sound of surprise was cut off as the wind was knocked from his lungs.

He was dazed for a few minutes, and it took a moment to register that Toshi was trying to pull his head off. With surprising strength, Teddie pulled himself away.

"Geez Toshi! What was that for? That hurt! You shouldn't be jumping around like that and I don't have Kamui here so I can't heal you!"

The bear mascot was frowning, trying to look as stern as possible. He didn't like when people tried pulling his head off like that. It was pretty painful.

"If you're not gonna go to the doctors then you should be trying to get better, not trying to play leap-bear!"

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His palm boosted him off the floor as the bear wormed from his grasp and Toshiya stumbled forward, his ill-directed momentum stopped by a wall. He breathed hard, relying on the support of the wall while he collected his bearings. It was a tedious job in his condition, his limbs protested his every command.

"......." He paid a narrowed glance to the strict facade of his assistance. "I'm not playin'," he rebuked in a sharp whisper and reluctantly trudged to deposit himself heavily back on the stairs. "You're the one that likes games... Take off that ridiculous costume..."

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"It's not a costume!" Teddie sounded genuinely offended by this. More than that, Toshiya looked in worse shape than just the cuts on his face.

"I can show you the inside when you're better. Right now you look like you're gonna keel over any second."

There was definite worry there.

"Is there somewhere you can rest? I can help you get there."

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"Alright... alright," Toshi repeated, raising a palm while trying to temper his irritation at the clear predicament of Teddie's exterior not being a costume and concurrently harboring something inside. This was not news a logical man could process easily or accept and Toshiya strongly believed in comprehension.

"Shit, ya don't need to mother me." His fingers lifted to brush into his black dyed hair to leave it as equally disheveled when they parted from his skull and a lightly wavering index finger indicated to Teddie. "Listen: I ain't goin' to the apartments, I'm not like those people... I'll survive right here..."

He scoured his memories of what little Teddie divulged on his person. The term "shadow" stood out among the trivialities. "The best thing ya can do... is offer me knowledge. In this life... the encounters fate orchestrated for me, a lot of 'em haven't been too good. You're not an obstacle in my path... who are ya?"

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He was about to protest, but in a way he could understand Toshiya's predicament; being part of one world and separate from another.

"I don't really know what I am. Most of my memories from before Sensei and the others came into my world are beary hazy but I'm pretty sure I'm a shadow. That's all there was in my world after all. Fog and shadows."

He plops down in a cloud of dust, looking down at his blue paws.

"Naoto thinks that how people grow shadows over their lives, the reverse happened for me. I'm a shadow that grew a personality."

Teddie looked up and beamed at Toshiya.

"But you look like a normal human to me! Well, right now you look like a mummy, but with the bandages off, I'm pretty sure you're a human!"

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By cross reference and interpretation he understood the bear fairy well, perhaps even more thoroughly than Teddie might suspect. His weathered appearance and Osaka dialect diminished his intellect in the eyes of the impressionable, when his mental capacity and plethora of knowledge were his foremost tools and weapons.

The hollow eyes silently looked at the bear who was pensively looking at himself. The action, Toshi thought, implied uncertainty in Teddie's place in the world and the mirthful expression the creature adorned thereafter did not mask his inmost cinders of anxiety from Toshi's shrewd perception.

"Hah..." he snickered and dropped one eyelid. "You've done enough. I... appreciate it. Now if you ain't going to show me the inside, ya can leave. I'll sleep or whatever."

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Teddie stood anxiously, worried about leaving Toshiya alone in case something happened and he really did need a doctor. But he also knew that arguing might send the man flying at him again and he didn't look in any condition for horseplay.

"I-if you're sure Toshi. I'll come by again! Just let me know if you need anything."

He gave a small salute, looking as serious as a bearsuit could.

"Doctor Teddie is always on duty!"