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[sympathyforme]

[There isn't much to see in the video, which makes it fairly obvious that it's one of those times the device came on without knowledge of the one carrying it.

Kira wouldn't have paid it any mind right now, anyway. The recording does show the ghoul of a Japanese men, middle-aged, tired looking. Kira can be heard hesitating, taking a deep breath.

Then there is movement, the sound of a sword being pulled and then it can be heard slicing through flesh. The ghoul falls over and then the perspective changes, as if Kira has knelt down next to him. It.

Only now does he think to check the device and he's not surprised to see it switched on.]

Typical.

[Just a mutter, quiet, perhaps to hide more feeling than he'd normally show. Than the feed is switched off.]

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[indecent_butterfly]

Hesitation when all by now know they are not real?

[Pathetic.]

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[sympathyforme]

Perhaps I'm a pacifist.

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[beyourarmy]

[He's been out there, of course, looking out for anyone that needs help. The second he noticed Kira, though, Setsuna stopped, wings folding behind him as he landed. It's only after the death of his "father" that Setsuna arrived.]

[Normally he might say something, but without even warning he approached Kira to gently lay a hand on his shoulder, instead.]

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[sympathyforme]

[He knows - of course - that it's Setsuna without looking.]

Surprisingly life-like. Living zombie, the old guy.

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[indecent_butterfly]

Human. Emotional.

Ridiculous.

[Just proves what ne told Setsuna; he's too weak.]

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[beyourarmy]

Yeah, well, good thing you took care of him. Better it was you, than anyone else.

[Setsuna goes for an all out hug after that.]

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[sympathyforme]

It's typically called 'bullshitting', actually.

Always nice talking to you.

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[indecent_butterfly]

One had not thought he was capable of lies. But it matters not. The truth is plain enough for those with eyes to see.

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[sympathyforme]

M-hm.

[He's not so sure about that.]

Whatever.

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[sympathyforme]

Too bad you were created blind.

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[beyourarmy]

[Lightly squeezes.] I can't imagine he wouldn't think that.

And I'm still not sure these things are the real thing, either. God didn't look completely like himself.

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[indecent_butterfly]

This One sees well enough to know you could never be as he said.

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[sympathyforme]

Interesting.

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[indecent_butterfly]

Not particularly.

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[sympathyforme]

They're not the real thing. Nothing here is.

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[beyourarmy]

I am.

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[sympathyforme]

Heh.

Yeah. You're right. Maybe you are.

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[beyourarmy]

[He tugs at Kira's arm.] Come on. Let's go get a drink. I'll pay.

Pretty sure the alcohol is real, too.

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[sympathyforme]

Not yet.

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[indecent_butterfly]

Do not presume. Unless you plan to prove otherwise?

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[sympathyforme]

Not if I can help it.

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[sympathyforme]

[He gets up and shrugs.]

Effective enough, at least.

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[beyourarmy]

Yeah, more effective than I'd like.

And maybe we can decide we've had enough of this bullshit and talk about taking the deities down?

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[indecent_butterfly]

So there is no potential after all. One was right.

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[sangreine]

[Saya's been dashing from place to place, quite literally, doing what she could with the meager culinary blades she found. Helping where she could, because it's what she felt she should do. No time to think about how she knows how to fight, or what she might have fought before, or how this all seems eerily familiar and her body knows what to do before she can think it.]

[The telltale sound of a blade rending flesh is enough to bring her running. She finds Kira kneeling beside the now-unmoving ghoul, and is reminded of the other day, the boy and the man with the cello case.]

You knew -- him? [She's not entirely sure how to reference them, but "it" feels out of place for a likeness of someone Kira might have cared about, if Saya's theory is correct.]