[ VOICE ]

[barebacking]

[Sound of the communicator being set down. He decides to reach out to Urick. Yes, it can still be heard since he is speaking aloud -- doubly ensuring that he is heard.]

I haven't pushed you at all to talk to me. I haven't done anything to tie you to me. And yet, and yet, you still won't talk truly talk to me. Why do you use such cold tones? I just

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[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

...it kind of is, yes.

[video]

[barebacking]

I'm so glad that you agree with me.

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

But...what happens if you can't see them again? How would someone keep going after that?

[video]

[barebacking]

All we have are our memories, our feelings, our pain, if we die, what will happen to them? Who will remember what it is that we experienced saved our loved one? If I cannot see him ever again, I would carry the burden until I fall eternally.

You carry on, because to give up and leave things as they are, it would be like saying the love that spurred you on before was not worth it.

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

...yeah. Yeah, you're absolutely right.

[video]

[barebacking]

Were you doubting your own love?

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

I...no. Not quite. More like I was doubting myself.

[video]

[barebacking]

Doubting yourself, how?

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

I didn't really...I didn't know if I could keep going like he wanted me to.

[video]

[barebacking]

A moment's weakness isn't anything to be sad about, you know.

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

...I miss him.

[video]

[barebacking]

Yes.

The pain that wells up in one's chest when they are away from the ones they love is a sorrowful one, but you can learn to feed off that agony which love brings to be born into a much stronger person.

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

It never gets any easier, though.

[video]

[barebacking]

No, it doesn't.

[video]

[otaku_mk_ii]

I...wish it would.

[video]

[barebacking]

... you are ... Liquid's friend, right?