VII - What about everything [audio]

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[The feed clicks on as Jotaro starts to say something, but is cut off by a coughing fit. Ugh. That does not sound very nice. Next time don't spend an event week smoking when you actually quit over a decade ago.

He doesn't quite have his breath back by the time he does talk, a cold, flat two words.]

Stop apologizing.

[That will be all, ladies

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[mere_shopkeeper]

Ah, I'm sorry, Jotaro-san...

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[istoppedtime]

...

[Okay that hit home.]

Why d'you choose me to bother?

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[mere_shopkeeper]

Events happened~! Made us do things we don't wish to do, think things that we don't wish to think. When they're over, we wish to forget them, to dismiss our actions during them with a wave of the hand, blame the Animus and leave it at that.

[He smiles slightly. This event, the family event... He's talking about both.]

But it's not so simple, forgetting things that we've been through, felt and done. Everyone deals with it differently.

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[istoppedtime]

And that's how you deal?

[He closes his eyes for a moment and sighs; maybe in sympathy, maybe simply in exasperation.]

They're a violation. These events.

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[mere_shopkeeper]

Perhaps~

[One bothers one siblings, right? And apologizing is how others deal.]

The Animus enjoys toying with us. All we can do is to go along with it~

[And keep one's eyes open for opportunities to overturn the balance.]

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[istoppedtime]

[oh, Urahara, your insistence in going head against his brick wall is almost endearing. Too bad he's practically never in the mood to appreciate it.]

That isn't all we can do. And you know it.

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[mere_shopkeeper]

[Good thing everyone says he has a hard head then!]

Oh~? Then what do you suggest, Jotaro-kun?

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[istoppedtime]

Huh. Wonder if Kurotsuchi'd let you in on the project.

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[mere_shopkeeper]

Oh~? Which one?

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We've been trying to see if there's any detectable direct influence of the Animus on our brains.

... well, my brain.

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[mere_shopkeeper]

[Ah, so that was what that project was about. Annoying Mayuri into letting him see his research is so much more productive when he learns of the point of the research later.]

And how has that gone?

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No results yet.

[He doesn't mind admitting it. Science takes time to do right, that's sort of one of its defining characteristics.]

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[mere_shopkeeper]

A pity, but not unexpected

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[istoppedtime]

Haven't been at it for long. Science takes time.