[Audio post/Locked to Alice and Suoh | Backdated to December 3rd]
[The D-Comm clicks on and for a moment there is silence on the other end. Then comes the sound of someone swallowing and taking in a deep breath.]Hey...Alice? Suoh? I...I wanted to tell you guys I'm sorry for what happened. I know I fucked up back there and I'm really sorry. I'm pretty sure you don't want to hear from me right now but I just wanted
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What the hell happened? Even I know, it's not like you to flip out like that. And why did I see you beating up my mother? I know it wasn't real now, because she isn't here, but some explanations would be nice.
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...That was a monster that when you look at it...looks just like your Mom. It even worked on Edaniel once. She looks like your Mom, sounds like her, smells like her...everything. Except one thing. She has buttons for eyes.
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[they exchange worried glances]
Suoh, did you... ?
[Suoh shakes his head]
I couldn't see much from where I was standing, unfortunately. But... some how I'm not all that surprised. Japanese lore is rife with tricksters that can change their appearance, and the incident with that poor Zashiki Warashi proves not even this place is safe from akuma.
I suppose not. Anyway... Paulo, why didn't you tell some one sooner? Why did you let it get this bad?
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[Paulo activates his video talk too. His ears are down and he sighs.]
You don't know the half of it. You know those scars I had when you first met me?
[He points to his ear and then to his neck.]
Got these Christmas Eve last year form her. Then I got the one on my tail on Mother's Day and now I have the ones on my back from at the dojo.
...She's also the reason I was living in the cave with Toothless for a while.
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[Alice nods in silent agreement]
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I guess...I didn't expect to make friends.
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She's right. You should have put your pride away and just said something. Even if you weren't expecting to make friends, you still did, and we would have helped you through whatever you were going through. I'm sure if Kazuma-kun hadn't lost his partner he'd be telling you the same thing.
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How am I supposed to bring up the fact that a monster that looks like my Mom keeps to kill me and kept poking at...at my buttons. It's not really easy to just come out and say.
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[Alice rolls her eyes a bit, deciding to leave the boys to argue this]
I need to get my meds...
Alright...
[Alice ducks out, leaving Suoh to continue his point.
You don't want to share your feelings, which is unfortunately a prideful and male thing to do. But this isn't just some case of getting bullied by an unruly classmate. You were driven to paranoia and living in a cave to the point where you'd rather lash out at your friends than admit there's a problem. That is pride!
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Fine! It's pride! I don't really want everyone to fucking know I had a monster that looked like my mom trying to kill me and every time I ran into her she made me wish she would just fucking do it alright?! I don't like sharing my mom never loved me and that that bitch kept poking at me about it! Alright?! You happy now?! [And he's crying. Just fucking great.]
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Paulo, listen to me. We're your friends. We trust you. You wouldn't even have to bring up the other things to us. If all you said was 'there's a monster attacking me', we would have done whatever it took to help you. If the rest of the information came later, so be it... but you shouldn't have let it get this bad. Never mind the studio, or even Alice's injuries, you got hurt, badly. We were worried about you. Even Kazuma was afraid there was something wrong with you that he couldn't help with.
Do you understand? None of us would have cared what the reasons were, so long as we could have helped you.
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[He's quiet for a while. And when he speaks his voice is a lot quieter now.]
I...I didn't know you cared...that much...
...I'm sorry...
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