Tenth Strike | Video/Action for Cherrygrove

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[As the feed clicks on-- Viewers are greeted with a clean looking room, almost like that out of a hospital. That might be because it might as well be - he's in the Cherrygrove Pokemon Center. In fact, Shinji is currently lying in a bed, recovering from a certain self inflicted stab wound he got a few days ago, and looking a lot more solemn than

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[aaand someone's knocking on the door awkwardly. after a small silence, there's a voice:]

. . . Shinjiro-san.

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[... well, it could be worse. it could be junpei kicking the door in. he glances away from the door now, sighing.]

Yeah?

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[he has to deal with very guilty looking robot now. or it could be her AND junpei kicking down the door...]

Um.

Are you all right?

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[... o-o lord. ... the horrorrrrr aigis don't let him corrupt youuu]

I'm still breathing, aren't I?

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... Yes.

[she's still at the door... looming there awkwardly. too late]

I... am glad that you are.

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[he'll turn back to the door then, since she's not coming in and all.]

Tch. You don't have any reason to be.

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. . . I am coming in.

[haha just trolling. she's doing so right now, bro. still looking a bit unsure. she pauses at seeing him on the bed, trying her best to keep her expression level.]

There is no need to say that.

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-- Tch!

[promptly... not glaring at her, but-- dammit, he's not even sure how to look at her like this. he can't exactly have his aura of I AM DANGEROUS IN MY DANGEROUS COAT LOOK AWAY FROM ME AND BE SCARED AND DO NOT COME CLOSE if he's... in a fucking gown and bed like this.]

Same could be said for you.

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[she's just going to take his not-glaring. it's strange seeing the normally tough shinjiro like this--but... it's better than what he is in her present. and she's relieved for that, though the guilt is still there.]

That is untrue.

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Like you would know.

[and he... doesn't even mean this in the "oh she's a robot she can't feel" sense - he honestly never got to think that much about it since he wasn't there long enough to know her that well. She's talking, walking, and emoting, good enough for him. He just means it more in the "Have you ever killed someone no you haven't" sense.]

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[but she's done things she's guilty about--and shinjiro's guilt she can understand. he wasn't there when she truly began to feel, but now that he is, his past death and his almost-death is weighing at her.]

. . . I have also done something that. . . [she looks down at the floor, for a moment, and then looks back up.] There are people who care. And... people that would be hurt if you were to...

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[that she has, that she has-- not that he really... knows any of that, though.]

... Yeah, I know. Just like there were people I hurt. Just like...

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. . .

[she steps into the room, this time, shutting the door behind her.]

You... do not need to die to atone.

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... Tch. [he looks away]

"A life for a life." It's a pretty even trade, ain't it?

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And in the end... everyone is unhappy.

[she's still right in front of the door--but her eyes never leave shinjiro's form.]

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... Can you say what happened didn't do any good for you guys? None at all?

[looking at her-- almost sincerely. dammit dammit dammit.]