PC: Kyoko

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[ Humans can be afraid of what they don't understand. She decides this makes as much sense as anything else could. ]

Do you remember all those skills now?

I feel like every time I go out on a mission somebody's doing their best to add more to my memories. I had enough when it was just one life.

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[ the thought gets a noise of confirmation. yeah. they sure can. that was half the problem. ]

I remember...more of them than I thought I would. And more than I'd like. Definitely more than I'd like in some cases, but I'm going to guess if I don't do them often those will fade, too. [ he does not elaborate on what those might be. ] Do you still remember the memories you were given from your first mission?

[ also isn't this now twice that she and kazuki have gone on the same mission wait a minute. ]

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[The K-names have to stick together... maybe?

Kyoko isn't so nosy that she'll push into what those skills might be.]

I do. They're still clear. [That little apartment, the comfort of a home. Wolfwood and coffee. the unfortunate fate of her detective agency. Having to work at the game company. Falling off a building.

The next life. Perfect. Her agency thriving. Wolfwood as her partner. That little apartment. Wolfwood at the balcony and trying to rip a choice away from her. The feeling of cold metal in her hands. Clearer than I'd like.]

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[ he just...frowns. ]

...I'm sorry. That's even less fair than I thought. [ how does a person just fix that? ]

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I'll need to write them all down. Just to make sure which ones are really mine.

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That's actually not a bad idea. As long as you have somebody who can help you crosscheck the list. I don't know if I'd trust myself to fully remember everything about which is which right away.

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That's somewhat difficult to do.

[ My whole life doesn't come up that often. ]

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I mean it doesn't have to be everything-everything. Just like the most major important facts and the details to go with it.

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The looping adventure was so close to my real life.

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...oh, right. The whole digital thing, isn't it?

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It gave me my detective agency, free of any looming danger. [And also wolfwood.]

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Is that like...does that happen a lot? Constant looming danger.

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Not that often. It's just come to a tipping point recently.

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That doesn't exactly sound great, Kyoko. [ and he vaguely wonders if that's how she thinks she ended up here. ]

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We're working it out. Or... we were before I came here.

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...I've never really asked what was happening for you before this place. Was it that bad?

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It's the end of two worlds if we don't fix it quickly enough.

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Okay, well, that's bad. That's like. Really bad? How do you even fix that?

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We have a plan, don't worry.

[Time travel and some reality warping.]

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[ . . . ]

Is it a plan that will work for sure?

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Absolutely.

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[ he sort of just snorts about it. ]

Well. I don't know enough about it to disagree, so I will simply have to believe you.

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Hehe. That's right.

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[ easy enough, he thinks. ]

...do you know where you're staying tonight? It's Thursday. [ he mostly want to make sure she has plans to be with people before he ventures off so we can start to wrap this thread. ]

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Yes, I'll be at Milk & Cookies tonight.

[... She doesn't like sweets.]