二十一 (Voice Post, Japanese)

[onikui_tengu]

I was able to remember... I could feel it.

A... yuurei. You couldn't have been alive anymore. Why were you here...? I knew your name, and you...

Ugh! It still... hurts.

[A long pause, and then a deep sigh. His voice is quiet, as though very tired.]

We can't go back anymore, can we?

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Sorata-kun, you shouldn't have said anything. Now I'll have to take your advice after all.

I will need that time off, and you will have to rely on yourselves for awhile. It may only be a day, or more, but you will be the first to know either way, Shinjiro. I'm...

[...]

I never thought that I would be staring up at the same ceiling again so soon.

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Those were... memories. A ghost of the past.

I heard you, Kantarou... barely. How were you... able to know her name?

While I am here like this, I will listen. But if anyone else comes to me, I don't want you to shut them out. He will...

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What were you made to suffer all alone? I...

...Such a curse, it wasn't something that I would have wanted for you, Testament. You didn't need to see... [He falls quiet, at a loss for words.]

You're... the only one that can touch me now. I can't... stomach the thought of anyone else-... [He shudders, and a minute or two passes until he speaks again. His voice weak and frail just like on that day.]

If you can... a filthy creature like me...

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Comments

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

You have every right to be shocked.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

So what words of wisdom did I impart unto you?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

...That taking the night off won't kill me every once in awhile.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Oh. That's all...?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Yes. Why?

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

I was hoping I said something real smart that impressed you all the way through to your heart and you vowed then and there to change and improve and follow my advice... and so on.

But instead, it's just common sense. You didn't need me to say it at all.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

[Have some soft chuckling for your trouble, Sorata.]

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Heh.

But more seriously, I take days off all the time, whenever I feel like it, so it really shouldn't be a revelation that you can do it, too.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that it's not just because you feel like slacking off every once in awhile?

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

I hate slacking off.

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Then I've been beaten to a punch this time.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

Oh. Should I have responded differently to allow you to make your point?

[onikui-haruka.livejournal.com]

Just... stop talking, Sorata-kun.

[shockinglycool.livejournal.com]

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