Mm... I probably won't go until tomorrow. [So yes and no, in response to his question.] I want to stop by Marine for a little while, before I go back to Kiyomitsu.
...That's what I'm hoping will happen. [it does feel dangerous, but itsuki's too used to hoping for the impossible by now] Percy-kun... The words everyone spoke to him -- they helped him.
[She said a lot of things that Yasusada doesn't think a non-sword/sword-adjacent person would understand, honestly, but he will try and summarize anyway.]
...That they couldn't be saved without a cost, mostly. That the convicted person would have to prove their right to live through blood.
[He'd assumed, at the time, that she'd meant Vax would have to die if Percy wanted to live. After what happened, he's shifted to thinking that maybe it's simply about the will, the desire to fight for survival--but it's hard to say, in this place with its utterly different rules.]
[Prove their right to live... For Itsuki, who lives in a world controlled by a singular organization bent on world peace, it seems like a foreign thing to understand.
Unfortunately, he thinks he understands the weight of it.]
That would be easier to swallow if At-chan was in control. [his voice is a little dry, when it comes to the prism....
when it comes to the residents, he likes them well enough. but trust? it's harder to manage, even now.]
But I think I get it. When it comes to this place... It's always been about balance, right?
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We do have a lot of injured...
[his emotions are more concerned than outright worried though, he knows yasu, this hunk of steel, is very tough]
Are you heading back to the apartments to wait then?
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[The sad apartment for sad people]
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[itsuki nods, though he looks a little pensive]
I really hope nothing else happens tomorrow...
[yams what if ur crispy and u have to fight a lisa frank creation :/]
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If we're lucky, Atsushi-kun and whoever he's with will be saved, just like Vax and Percy.
[It feels dangerous to hope for that, though.]
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...That's what I'm hoping will happen. [it does feel dangerous, but itsuki's too used to hoping for the impossible by now] Percy-kun... The words everyone spoke to him -- they helped him.
I'm hoping that tonight will help At-chan too.
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Do you think that's what it was? Everyone's support saved him?
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[there's a heaviness in his voice,]
Though why it did for Percy-kun, and it didn't for Marie-chan... Maybe it's because she picked execution.
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I talked to Steel-san about it, last week. I think it has to be combat.
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[this pc is so funny now wow]
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...That they couldn't be saved without a cost, mostly. That the convicted person would have to prove their right to live through blood.
[He'd assumed, at the time, that she'd meant Vax would have to die if Percy wanted to live. After what happened, he's shifted to thinking that maybe it's simply about the will, the desire to fight for survival--but it's hard to say, in this place with its utterly different rules.]
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Unfortunately, he thinks he understands the weight of it.]
That would be easier to swallow if At-chan was in control. [his voice is a little dry, when it comes to the prism....
when it comes to the residents, he likes them well enough. but trust? it's harder to manage, even now.]
But I think I get it. When it comes to this place... It's always been about balance, right?
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[An answer to his question, and agreement to all of the above, honestly. Even then, would it be easy to swallow? It's hard to say.]
Atsushi-kun has a strong spirit. But I don't know how much he'll want to fight, depending on who it is.
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Knowing him... and this place... It'll probably make him want to save them, in his own way.
[he doesn't think atsushi is prone to violence, not in the same way Percy and Marie were.]
So either way, he'll try his hardest to survive, I think.