[he's too sober for this question, actually. he buys himself some time by drinking the water.]
It's no grand, big thing like some others have. I just want to live again. I was moving in with some friends, and I'd finally gotten back in contact with my mom after not knowing where she was for years. I'm not ready to just give that up yet.
[His smile is faint and bittersweet. About Kuranosuke’s circumstance, that is. It seems too rude to ask how Kuranosuke got here if that was the case, so he doesn’t.
Again, he sits back down, but won’t look at Kuranosuke directly.]
[look i'm canonblind as fuck here i'm assuming he's actually satan or something since your canon is called devilman crybaby and he's been crying everywhere]
...well, if you win that drinking game, you wanna come back with me? I could introduce you to my friends.
I'm not gonna get to know you any better if you stay here and hell and I head back to Tokyo!
[kuranosuke shrugs.]
Tokyo's a big city. If it turns out we don't get along after we get out of here, you can just do your own thing. But there's no reason why any of us should just have to languish in hell for all eternity. Honestly, I think there was some kind of paperwork screwup. Soldier Boy was a child murdering dickhead, but we're not all that bad.
[Hearing this stuns him into an awkward silence. Yikes. He looks away over the bar, wondering now if that is why Kuranosuke had been so loud and so bold.]
I don’t think that’s true, [he finally says, gentle.] No, I know that isn’t true because I know the things I’ve done. Most of us probably deserve to be here.
A lot of people didn’t even really care Hunter was dead at the start. What he did wasn’t right, but… most of the people feeling proud of calling Bucky a monster have probably done something just as bad to get here. If Bucky is a murdering dickhead, so am I.
So don’t let someone being nice or on your side fool you, okay?
He looks at Kuranosuke for a moment, then looks away.]
Sorta. But the demons weren't the only problem. The humans got scared, so they started attacking each other. Because when demons possess humans, they look like them. It's hard to tell who is a demon and who isn't until they lose control.
[that awkward moment when literal hell is better than your average daily life. yikes.
kuranosuke does not seem to know what to say to that at first.]
...I think you deserve a chance to live in a world that isn't literal hell or hell on Earth, though. Isn't that the point of second chances? To give you a chance for something better than what you got the first time around?
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[he's too sober for this question, actually. he buys himself some time by drinking the water.]
It's no grand, big thing like some others have. I just want to live again. I was moving in with some friends, and I'd finally gotten back in contact with my mom after not knowing where she was for years. I'm not ready to just give that up yet.
What about you?
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[His smile is faint and bittersweet. About Kuranosuke’s circumstance, that is. It seems too rude to ask how Kuranosuke got here if that was the case, so he doesn’t.
Again, he sits back down, but won’t look at Kuranosuke directly.]
I don’t know if I want to go back actually.
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[kuranosuke looks startled]
But you're way too nice to just be stuck in hell forever! Frankly, I don't even get how you ended up here at all.
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Thanks, but… there just isn’t anything for me to go back to.
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...well, if you win that drinking game, you wanna come back with me? I could introduce you to my friends.
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LOOK. He does not expect this answer out if literally anyone here except maybe Ryo, so it startles him enough to get him to glance up.]
You don’t even know me… What if I’m not the person you think I am?
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[kuranosuke shrugs.]
Tokyo's a big city. If it turns out we don't get along after we get out of here, you can just do your own thing. But there's no reason why any of us should just have to languish in hell for all eternity. Honestly, I think there was some kind of paperwork screwup. Soldier Boy was a child murdering dickhead, but we're not all that bad.
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I don’t think that’s true, [he finally says, gentle.] No, I know that isn’t true because I know the things I’ve done. Most of us probably deserve to be here.
A lot of people didn’t even really care Hunter was dead at the start. What he did wasn’t right, but… most of the people feeling proud of calling Bucky a monster have probably done something just as bad to get here. If Bucky is a murdering dickhead, so am I.
So don’t let someone being nice or on your side fool you, okay?
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He fidgets a lil.]
I won't hurt you.
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[...]
Are you... also a soldier or something?
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No... nothing like that. I'm just a high school student. Was... a high school student.
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[something other than, like, dying??]
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...
[He kind of glances around them with his eyes briefly.]
...There were demons back home.
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[so he's from one of those worlds, huh...]
Did they do something to you...?
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He looks at Kuranosuke for a moment, then looks away.]
Sorta. But the demons weren't the only problem. The humans got scared, so they started attacking each other. Because when demons possess humans, they look like them. It's hard to tell who is a demon and who isn't until they lose control.
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...sounds like that must've been a really difficult situation to be in.
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kuranosuke does not seem to know what to say to that at first.]
...I think you deserve a chance to live in a world that isn't literal hell or hell on Earth, though. Isn't that the point of second chances? To give you a chance for something better than what you got the first time around?
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You’re sweet, but Ryo would have to come with me, and Ryo… I don’t think we should be in someone else’s world.
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I... don't want what was wrong with my world to come into yours.
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[me just sitting here like no i bet he's the fucking devil francy WOULD app literal satan to hell]
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No, no. They didn't. He's okay. I just don't want anything bad to happen to your world. I don't want demons to be there.
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