breaks_destiny | 009th Shattering * Audio

[Filtered to: Minato, Minako Arisato, Hanyuu, Ami, Hughes, Elicia, Winry, Adell, Patchouli, Bernkastel, SOS Brigade members, Shiki, Neku, Grell. || Unhackable ~~70%~~ 100%]

[Actually the Arisatos and Hanyuu are a bit of an overkill to add to that filter since they should know already but just in case...]

Just a small heads up to the lot of you, not that it has happened that I can remember but... I won't be answering to any call through the journals unless it's filtered as high as you can.

Which means that, Elicia, you tell your dad beforehand if you want to call me for something.

[A pause.]

Actually if any of you have problems with filters or something just call for Souji instead, I'll answer if it's any of you calling.

[That sounded casual enough, right? Let's hope no one goes into too much of a question mode as to why he suddenly wants to be so secretive with the journals.]

[Filtered to Ami || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Are you free to meet up and talk? [The library would sound good but he can almost imagine Takano there looking for information so... And the medical center at the battledome is as out of the question as anything that is related to medicine.] Does the lake sound all right with you?

[Filtered to Hughes || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Hughes-san, where could we meet to talk? Alone if possible as I told you.

[Hopefully it won't be a place where Keiichi can imagine Takano around easily. Though maybe he's just being a bit paranoid.]

[Filtered to Adell || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

Oi, Adell, I think I heard around that you knew about one of those groups, Blue Rogues, I think? Can I ask you a few questions?

[Filtered to the Malnosso || ~~70%~~ 100% Unhackable]

I... I'm not entirely sure how to do this... Can I talk with... Catherine, I think it was?

[Sincerely he has not much hope, he has been out of things for a while and who knows if that guy hasn't been changed or whatever. But he won't lose anything for trying, right?]

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One doesn't have to the perpetrator in order to have skeletons, darling.

[But he'll leave it at that. Keiichi doesn't seem to be in a divulging mood.]

And yes, thank you for your concern, but this lady has a few tricks up her sleeves. You needn't worry for me.

...

Although it's cute when you do.

[Keiichi just hums. Still the expression of a skeleton in his closet sounds as if he's trying to hide something. Well, he's trying to hide himself, kind of, but it's not the same. A skeleton from his closet would be his little adventure with a compressed air gun and children, which it's not that he wants to hide either but he sees no point in bringing that up at any given moment.]

Anyway it's just temporal, but as little as that time may be I need it. I promise I'll let you know as soon as that's settled.

[There's also the fact that a part of him doesn't want Takano to learn about his friends here, but it's not a risk high enough to warrant something dramatic from him.

He smiles as he hears him confirm that he has a few tricks up his sleeves.]

I'm glad to hear that. Still I can't help to worry, I don't want the people I appreciate to be hurt, much less because of something that should be just my own problem.

[The last comment earns a small blush.]

W-Well, whatever. If you need help you know you can call me, right? I may not be that strong or anything but I will do my best. Even if you don't need me to worry about you.

As you wish, darling. I wouldn't want to make your life more difficult than it already is.

[Or, really, he would, but he can't. Damn being good.]

But do know that your friends are there to be relied upon, hm? And I am certain you are plenty strong, Kei~ichi. If only you were a bit older, I wouldn't mind being protected by you.

[He knows it Grell, and for good or bad he trusts you as a friend. But for now he can't think of anything you could help him with and he doesn't want to worry you without need, thus he won't be talking, for now.]

I know, Grell-san.

But until I'm older enough to protect you, I suppose I'll have to content myself with fighting besides you if you need me and to avoid you little problems because of me, right?

.... [Nfu, how cute. Protect him.]

I suppose. You truly are a unique child, Keiichi.

Nah, I'm pretty average and mediocre. But thank you for the compliment... It was a compliment, right?

[What, it can be used as an insult too. Being unique doesn't have to be a good thing.]

Never underestimate the power hidden within the everyday man.

And yes. I get ever so tired of the boring people.

That sounds like a big truth. But I'm not sure how that hidden power may change the fact that someone is average and mediocre.

[Don't like boring people, uhm?]

Then I'm glad that you find me interesting enough to not get tired of me yet. Though maybe I should take this as a hint and be more mysterious or something with you, wouldn't want you to get tired of me too quickly, right?

Perhaps one day you will understand, dear Keiichi. For now, you shouldn't dwell upon it.

Nfu, if only you were older. Don't worry, Keiichi. I don't think I could ever grow tired of you.

[For the moment, the apparent power of being able to break through fate doesn't seem that great to him. Of course it's great that they were able to save Rika, and since coming here he came to understand more and more of what she meant at some times. But still... Really, anyone with enough determination can do that, right? At least that's how he sees it.]

Yeah, there are many things about which is no good to dwell on them until the proper time comes, if it ever does.

[You know, maybe if he counted the worlds they have been through he would be far older. Then again those don't really count given that he barely remembers them and those which he remembers are pretty vague.]

That's good, Grell-san. I really enjoy to hear about you and your company after all, and I prefer it when the other part thinks in similar terms regarding that.

The time of reckoning comes for all people, whether they are ready or not. [Unexpected creeper tone is there and gone in two seconds.] But that is neither here nor there.

Oh, you shan't be rid of me that easily. Not when there are so few here I actually like.

Oh, God, you have no idea how right you're in that.

[Or maybe he does, but from Keiichi's point of view it's unlikely. He misses the creeper tone completely, but he talked with an experienced tone. Specially since Haruki told him how the dreams were actually real worlds he had gone through... It was as if his memory activated more with knowing that.

He chuckles at the last part.]

You sure know how to make a man feel special.

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