[ senri & ray are not okay ]

[usogi]

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[usogi]

[senri is in the dining hall actually, with a hot cup of tea

and he's contemplating the mysteries of life, but he'll put his mostly empty mug aside when Ray comes to join him]

... it's okay. I'll handle it.

[selfimmolates]

[he places one cup in front of senri, and the other to the side. he doesn't sit down, though.]

How are all of you holding up?

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.... I can't even say we've been worse, is the bad part.

[he'll take the cup though, giving a grateful nod of his head]

You won't sit with me?

[selfimmolates]

I'm fine with standing.

[...]

That bad, huh?

[usogi]

[ . . . ]

Yeah.

.... if someone's out there killing gods....

I don't know what I'm gonna do, or how I can try to protect the people I want to protect.

[selfimmolates]

[he's quiet for a moment.]

It's not your responsibility alone, no matter how much you might like the gods.

[usogi]

[ . . . and he frowns.]

... I promised Bambi....

But I might be made into a liar, even though I was trying to stop.

[selfimmolates]

... And this is why you don't make careless promises.

[usogi]

I d-didn't think it'd be a problem....

[but

now he's just sighing]

[selfimmolates]

And that's why I assume the worst case scenario.

[...]

It won't be your fault, any more than it'd be Ludger or Luke's fault that Fortune died. This system is set up to favour those who kill.

[usogi]

.... it just makes me really annoyed that Passhi left us with this.

[selfimmolates]

... I'm still wondering what her motivations were.

[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.