[ senri & ray are not okay ]

[usogi]

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[usogi]

.... I was too busy to leave her an offering this week.

If I try next week... do you think she'll talk to me like she did with Newt-san?

[selfimmolates]

Maybe. I tried and got no response, but it's not like we were really friends.

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

She gave me a kiss on the cheek.

[WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN]

[selfimmolates]

... I guess that's a good sign?

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

I'm gonna try to talk to her then...

Do you know Newt-san well?

[selfimmolates]

I see him in the lab a lot, but we're not really friends.

[does ray have, like, any friends.]

[usogi]

[senri is right here]

... can you change that....

[selfimmolates]

... You want me to suddenly start befriending him now? You do know who you're talking to, right?

[usogi]

So you're going to make me do it, huh....

[selfimmolates]

Why not? Everyone likes you.

Besides, I didn't make it a secret at the trial that I don't really trust Patience, so he's probably not going to be partial to me.

[usogi]

.... about that.

[he winces]

Mizuki-san doesn't trust me. I don't think that they're going to target me or anything, but Dizzy saying the thing about a good actor....

I'm going to keep trusting them, because it helps to have someone else smart that knows more of what we know but....

Just putting that on your radar.

[selfimmolates]

... Mizuki? Really? Aren't they part of your little makeshift family or whatever?

[usogi]

Mizuki-san's the one who cursed me with the Beauty command.

I thought I mentioned this....

[he tilts his head]

I'm gonna tell Sasuke too... and Bakaomi. Maybe Ishirin-san....

I don't want to get Mizuki-san in trouble but - [ . . . ] I don't think... it'd be really very good for anyone if anything happened to me.

[selfimmolates]

You did, but considering your penchant for stubbornness, I wouldn't have been surprised if you told me everything was peachy by now.

[internally gestures to their own situation]

I'll keep it in mind.

[usogi]

.... Mizuki-san doesn't trust people, I think.

[and senri hums softly]

Which is fine... I don't need them to trust me, just my information. I want to help as many people here as possible, but I'm sure that if I didn't, but still knew everything that I did.... it could go really bad.

If people don't believe in me, I'm sure I look suspicious.

[selfimmolates]

Which just makes me more convinced they're lying about their background...

[from one untrusting binch to another.]

You do look constantly suspicious, yes.

[usogi]

Probably... I don't know much about them either. I think Majima-san would know more.

[that said - ]

.... do I.....

[selfimmolates]

Yes. You're straightforward and emotional, but in a way that, if anyone looks closely, could seem like a front to cover what you're actually feeling or thinking.

People like me are obviously untrustworthy. People like you, as an enemy, would be a lot more problematic.

[usogi]

.... jeeze. Don't pull any punches.

[ . . . . ]

Well... I can't do anything but keep trying to help, for as long as I can.

[selfimmolates]

What? You should know that I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.

[considering, last week/early this week,]

Also, Madoka's worried about you, you know.

[usogi]

Huh?

Madopyon...? Why?

[selfimmolates]

... Because she cares, and it's an obviously rough time for you and Takaomi, and she knows and accepts that you're going to act strong in front of her anyway?

[usogi]

[he winces a little bit]

..... everyone should be worried more about Bakaomi than me.

[selfimmolates]

Think he's going to do anything rash?

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

I don't know.

But I'm.....

He needs more people to trust... I think a lot of people just - bother him about me.... and I don't want that....