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[Rei is in a hall of the Temple of Heaven, which is, miraculously, still fairly intact. Why, you ask? Because a few of the citizens of Adstringendum helped keep the entirely wooden building together -- and Rei, who is wiping a bloody blade clean on her sleeve, focuses on the PCD to address exactly that
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[It's a remarkably subdued Usagi. She almost looks ready to say more, but in the end she leaves it at that.]
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But even if that isn't the way, so many worlds meet here. It seems like it must be possible to do something. [Possibly; but the needed elements from said worlds might very well not be here all together.]
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[It's almost cold, but it's a fact. It wasn't, before Rei helped Nathaniel, but it is now.]
What happens in their world is their own timeline, their own fate. The only reason why we know about it is because we were dragged here in the first place.
[Maybe the more Rei repeats it, the easier it will be to swallow. Because she's spent months trying to figure out a way to fix the various worlds and this was pretty much the be all end all solution. And it failed.]
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What makes you think that I don't know that, Usagi?
[It's quiet, but desperate, Hino Rei backed into a corner that caused her to do something so dangerously reckless in the first place.]
I have been here for a year and a half -- of constant murder, and bloodshed, and chaos, and I have seen people come to this world and leave it just to die, I know what is at stake for the people who live here. I know what happens when people go home to die. And I know what will happen those girls when they come back. They're cursed. There is nothing that will save them short of returning to their world and defeating whatever put them in that position in the first place and we can't do that because we are trapped here and the only hope that we had of doing that was inside that stupid city and I tried to make it work and I ( ... )
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She doesn't know what to say, and for a long time, she says nothing. Then, as always, incapable of putting it elsewhere, she takes the blame on herself.]
I'm sorry, Rei-chan. [It comes out quiet, as she stifles the tears that could make Rei angrier.]
I'm sorry I wasn't here with you for all of that. I'm sorry it made you think you had to do this alone. And I'm sorry I wasn't any use even when I was there.
I'm sorry.
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The problem isn't so much that Rei felt as if she had to do this alone. It's that she knew she had to. There was no loneliness in her decision, no isolation, no dislike -- it was that Usagi could not handle the reality that is Adstringendum and Rei had to fix it. That was her job, as a friend, and as a senshi -- to protect Usagi. And if she could fix Adstringendum, she could do that -- fix the murder and bloodshed and people going home because Usagi could not handle the harsh reality that this world was horrible and it was not their own and that was it.
Lashing out at Usagi certainly isn't going to help. But there's nothing else to be said. She can't take it back -- because what Rei said was true. The world is broken. It cannot be fixed. That was the end of that story.
She slumps against the wall slightly, exhaling shakily, not looking at the PCD anymore.]
It's --
[She sucks ( ... )
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But when it comes to helping Rei... She feels more and more that she isn't quite sure what to do. An enemy, she can face and fight. A friend, she wants to be able to soothe and comfort.]
I think you should. [And this, for once, is not laziness speaking.] We have a lot we need to do right now, but you need to take care of yourself and rest, too.
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