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[pheasantboy]

[God, he sounds so... pleasant.]

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Akira Kurusu. thedevilinyourdetails
Goro Akechi. fogbornphantom
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[pheasantboy]

I don't understand it either. But if your therapist is the same as the one my Ren has described...

Then again, perhaps Dove's world is an outlier. Or perhaps there are many such people in my own world, and we just can't perceive them. How would we know?

[midnightmaiden]

My world is... different.

My therapist is powerful, but he's stuck working for someone awful, and he's had to do some terrible things he never wanted to.

He wants to make people happy, and he wants to make the world a better place. I just can't understand why he'd

But I guess the worlds can be pretty different. Crow-senpai is really different from Magpie-san. You're all pretty different from each other, too.

I don't think that's bad, though.

But when I think about what happened to your Ren-senpai, and how I could've stopped it if I was there...

[pheasantboy]

How could you have stopped it? Even Crow couldn't stop it. If anyone should have stopped it...

[Oh yes, he knows whose fault it was.]

I won't hear of you blaming yourself, Yoshizawa-san.

[midnightmaiden]

I have a special power.

I can stop... people like the one who hurt your Ren-senpai. Make it so they won't attack anyone.

It's what I did when we rescued you.

[pheasantboy]

Did you really?

It was the same person, wasn't it.

[Perhaps not as much of a jump as it seems; after all, people are not getting eaten every day.]

[midnightmaiden]

Yeah.

He tried to kill you. Makoto-san— not Niijima-senpai, but someone else—got attacked, too, and I had to step in and stop them both from tearing each other apart.

If I hadn't done anything, he would've tried to kill you. The last time I spoke to him down there, he was really angry, and I think he hates what you stand for.

But I don't. And I don't hate your Ren-senpai, either.

You both deserve to be happy.

[pheasantboy]

Crow called him a "counterpart". [And Sparrow has signally failed to retain what that means.] Someone violent, and dangerous. A killer.

I don't understand why someone such as that isn't stopped. Why allow someone so dangerous to continue to exist, to attack others?

[midnightmaiden]

Because if he dies, so will you.

...It's probably what he wants, but none of us want that for you.

[pheasantboy]

[And Sparrow doesn't reply; he still can't retain the idea of his own Shadow. Perhaps it's a kindness.]

[midnightmaiden]

Shoot! I think I triggered another episode.

I'm sorry.

I looked at the network. It seems like there might be some way to help you break that connection and replace it with something new.

[pheasantboy]

Yes, that was all a little public, wasn't it.

I know I should ask about it.

[midnightmaiden]

Only if you're ready for it.

I know it's a lot to think about.

Sometimes I even wonder if they're right about me. I don't want them to be, but still...