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[deathlessness]

[There will be a voice message here eventually...]

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[calling];

[lucycoded]

[ and gonna keep calling until you pick up ]

[deathlessness]

[All right, all right. He'll answer if only because he knows you won't stop.]

Persistent, aren't you?

[lucycoded]

[Good to know.]

I'll take that as a compliment, but don't get too carried away.

[deathlessness]

...Dare I ask what it is you want?

[lucycoded]

You have a debt to pay.

[deathlessness]

[There's a short silence before Urick responds, a little cagily.]

Not to you, I'm afraid.

[lucycoded]

No, not to me. But to Kazuhiko.

[deathlessness]

And Kazuhiko can ask whatever he wants of me. [Kazuhiko, not you.]

[lucycoded]

I am speaking on his behalf here.

[deathlessness]

I'd rather he speaks for himself, if you don't mind.

[lucycoded]

Are you going to tell him what you did? Instead of dancing your way out of it?

[deathlessness]

[Hesitation, a brief silence.]

...If that's what he wants. [He sounds almost resigned.]

[lucycoded]

It's what he deserve, don't you know?

[deathlessness]

...I suppose so. [Damn you, Shinji.]

[lucycoded]

Well I'm not going to let him out until you give me your word. I'm not letting you get out of this.

[deathlessness]

[Another, longer silence. Spend your whole life running away and hiding your head in the sand, and it gets a lot harder to face things when you were forced to.

When he speaks again, his tone is grim.]

You knew exactly what you were doing, didn't you? When you let me meet him. You're a sharp one.

[A beat.] You have my word.