29 --^-@ [Voice]

[rose_rapture]

[Endrance's voice is trembling, and his quickly-eroding mental state is easy to hear.]

Why...why am I here?
This is not [The World]...
This is not Tokyo...

Is this real?
So many...
So many people...

They're not beautiful...they're real...
No! Go away!

I want to go home.

[The recording clicks off with a sob.]

Comments

[v]

[maneurism]

Way to pussy out of existence, kid.

[rose_rapture]

This is not an existence I chose.

[v]

[maneurism]

Yeah, well it's an existence you gotta suck the shit up and deal with.

[rose_rapture]

Why?
Do you think we're trapped here?

[v]

[maneurism]

Doesn't matter. We're here for now. Stop hiding.

[rose_rapture]

...
Haseo?

[maneurism]

[It doesn't sound like he even understands the word.] No. I'm Japanese.

[rose_rapture]

Of course you are.
So am I.

[maneurism]

...so it's just like Tokyo. What's there to whine about?

[rose_rapture]

I never wanted to go to Tokyo...until I met you.

[v]

[maneurism]

[His eyebrow has to be raised from his tone.] ...okay. God, you're a weird kid. ...look, it's not like it's permanent. And World's End is worse.

[rose_rapture]

Are you sure?
...not to me.