Hot springs, hot springs ♪

[arcanaxxii]

Who: arcanaxxii, liketofu, and all their CR that wants to come (family and friends alike)!
What: Girls'(?) night out. Plural!
When: September OCTOBER 15th to September OCTOBER 20th or so. :'|
Where: See title!
Summary: With Souji's departure amongst other things, it's time to blow some steam with a couple relaxed nights out of the village~
Rating: PG-13 at most

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MEET UP

[arcanaxxii]

[Around the teleporter that leads toward the hot springs!]

[breaks_destiny]

Pff, don't give the Malnosso that much credit, we have pretty awesome people locked here. People who are here only because of mere bad luck or something, I doubt most of them would be captured by the Malnosso under normal circumstances after all.

[It's part of why he does believe that the Malnosso aren't the ones taking them to that world, locking them? Yes. Experimenting on them? Of course. Using them as cannon fodder? It's not as if they see the villagers as anything else. But taking them from their worlds and later returning them randomly... That just doesn't fit. The knowledge that outside the barrier people would have their powers at full strength also makes it hard to imagine they being unable to defend themselves from the Malnosso and their droids outside there.]

[He smiles as she leans against him. No, he doesn't mind it, it's Minato's sister after all, if it was another girl he could mind it, but then again Keiichi isn't shy to physical contact so it's all fine

[arcanaxxii]

When you look at mine and Nii-Nii's situation, it just gets all the more complicated. [Her tongue clicks in contemplation, as her eye lids slowly droop. However, the sudden change in atmosphere is more than enough to reverse this, her body jolting upright in reaction.]

. . . [Minako goes silent, taking a few steps to face Keiichi in the eye. She tries to get words to form, but she just isn't sure what to say since she was already treading on dangerous grounds.]

[So very carefully and in a quiet tone:] Do you have someone you like?

[breaks_destiny]

[It gets complicated, indeed. But they aren't the only ones like that, if he thinks about it like that, the times Rena was there... She wasn't from his same world, but from dead ends. The was once in which he thought she could be from his same world but he never confirmed it... She was gone before he could.

He thinks for a moment at Minako's question. Someone he likes. He actually has to think about it, it's only then when faces and names come to mind. There's Rena, of course, he had been in love with her, hadn't he? Not just in this life but in many others... There was Mion as well, as insensible as he was at times, if he ever stopped considering her as a "guy" then he probably would have been able to fall in love with her. It wasn't just girls from Hinamizawa, though, there was Haruhi and even Ami, even outside of the experiments he had for some time kind of liked her as he got to know her. But... No, those things didn't hold on anymore.]

I've several girls that I like but... Not in that way anymore. So no, I don't have anyone,

where'd this notif go :| so sorry ;;

[arcanaxxii]

Ah, it's nothing really. I think I misread something along the line.

[. . .]

Mm! Let's say I was pretty curious, since there's a whole lot I don't know about you yet, Keiichi-kun.

;; /huuugs

[breaks_destiny]

[Keiichi smiles a bit.]

That's true. I'm sorry, I know so much of you but you don't know much of me. I suppose the very least I can do is answer any questions you want to pose to try to fix that.

/tackles

[arcanaxxii]

No, no! I should be the one to say sorry. The one to say thank you, too, for humouring me. I guess... I'm not sure how much you know about me though, but if you have any questions too, I'll try my best to answer them.

[Keiichi gets the biggest smile she can muster.]

[breaks_destiny]

Truth is I don't know much about you. But given Minato's situation and yours... I know a lot in general. About what happened on Earth, about the velvet room, about shadows and personas.

[The whole story, but only from Minato's point of view.]

But that's just from what Minato has told me. You may be twins and have similar stories but I'm sure some things must have been different from you. One has just to look at you to know it. I suppose I would like to learn about those differences and such, know about you properly.

It still seems unfair that I know so much and you know so little.

[Though he told her about the syndrome and Bernkastel and what happened back in Hinamizawa so they aren't so unbalanced.]

[arcanaxxii]

I've never actually spoken to him about it directly, but I'm sure there's not much that could've changed. We started and ended at the same points, after all. Mostly... What should change is the people we get to know, but when talking about the main plot, there's no way it could've differed.

What do you know, anyway? Maybe I could fill you in on my version of the timeline as you go. We still have another hour before the others start showing up, after all. I'll definitely be sure to ask my share of questions after all this is done too, because Keiichi-kun is someone I definitely want to get to know better.

[breaks_destiny]

[Keiichi makes a face at her first comment.]

Don't talk about a main plot, you make it sound like a videogame. I don't like the idea of you two being just videogame characters even for a metaphor.

[Anyway, what he knows of the timeline?]

Well, I know that you lost your parents and Minato at age six, in a car accident that was actually caused by the Dark Hour when Aigis fought Death, a Shadow that had escaped. And that was sealed in you... Or Minato in his reality's version. After that... Minato spent his years passed from one relative to another as no one seemed to want to take care of him for real... Did that happen to you too?

[One thing is clear, he's well informed.]

[arcanaxxii]

[She wasn't sure of any other way to describe it, but she appreciates the thought. How surreal their last year was back in Iwatodai, if she didn't experience it herself it'd seem like a plot out of a fiction.]

Sounds about right. [a small smile.] I take it he's told you all about SEES, then? I think that's the only difference between our stories, really; that I was the one who took over the leader position instead of him.

[She can tell; it's nice have someone out of the loop who knows things. In a way... It makes her feel a lot better.]

[breaks_destiny]

What SEES was, why was it formed and what you did... How you were fooled as well, yes, he told me. I suppose the major difference would be how you guys dealt with things... I mean... I doubt the way you treated people was the same as Minato does, it just doesn't add.

... You choose to fight too, right? When you were given the option of fighting even if it may serve for nothing or just wait for the end.

[He's not sure if him knowing it all would make her feel better or not. It still feels awkward for him. Because technically he knows almost all of her, while she doesn't know that much.]

[arcanaxxii]

[Well, like she said before. He knew the main plot, but she doubted he'd know the side stories here and there. If he knew the latter, now that would've made her feel odd.]

I probably didn't handle it as well as he did at first, but... There was only one sensible option to take. I mean -- it's better to try and not succeed, than to not try at all isn't it? [She couldn't leave her friends to that fate; it wasn't right. She had to do something. She had to.]

[breaks_destiny]

[Keiichi smiles a bit and nods.]

Yes... I would have done the same, then again I'm just bad at accepting things as being predetermined and such.

[arcanaxxii]

... I hated it. I hated being the determining factor in everything, honestly. And as leader, I couldn't exactly show that weakness of mine, could I? But -- you have to do what you have to do. It was either sacrificing the world or not.

[breaks_destiny]

[He snorts lightly.]

You know... There are many guys and girls out there who dream their whole lives with being special, being the determining factor in something no one else can be so. As if being that key piece is something great and awesome. But when you're there, it's not really that awesome and even if you don't want it, it's there. It's a bit ironic.

... I don't think anyone on their right mind would have chosen to sacrifice the world, though. We are selfish like that, at one moment we with death for anything and everything but if death actually comes for us when we call it, we just back down and want to go on living no matter what.