breaks_destiny | 025th Shattering * Audio / Written

New year, new life. Isn't that what people say? I suppose in general we can say life is the same for us here, right? But that's how it usually goes, not everyone changes countries, kingdoms or whatever there is in your world, each year, do they? It's in the smaller details where things change and new ones come to us.

We're still starting, but does anyone have something new already? Or plan to get something new during this year? I myself have got a girlfriend, the beautiful Ushiromiya Ange, sorry guys but she's out of the market now!

[And he's laughing like an idiot. Really it's not hard to see he's very happy with that. Any more immature and he would be doing a dance going "girlfriend, girlfriend, Ange's now my girlfriend".]

[Filtered to the Hughes family | 100% Unhackable]

So... Who wants to go to have dinner at the Seventh Heaven one of those days? Or have a sandwich based dinner, I can do those.

[Filtered to girls | 100% Unhackable]

[There's a quick but decently done portrait of Minato in the page now. Under it appears a written message.]

Good-looking young man, single and without any compromise. Very intelligent and resourceful, knows the worth of listening to others and puts it in practice often. Likes to sleep, take pictures, listen to music and hang around the village. Has been around here for three years or so. Good friend of his friends. Looking for more friends, specially females. For more references you can ask about Arisato Minato to: Minako, Shiki, Haruhi and Keiichi.

Interested people can ring directly to Arisato Minato's journal.

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I suppose plain simple "romantic" is more than enough if one wants that. But it's not as if life is full of romantic things everywhere, a couple doesn't survive like that.

You know a lot of about couples, Maebara?

No, but I've seen my parents and many married adults. Dinners under the light of candles don't show up much with those. Heck I have seen married and loving couples act in a way that you can't tell they are married until they say so. I suppose each person has their own way of loving and showing it.

[But the majority don't seem fans, or having time, for romantic things at all.]

So, it's on to the loving stage already, huh?

['Try it on for size. "I love you." Yeah, whatever. Maebara, you're crazy.']

You're probably right about all that.

I suppose so. If you want to fragment a relationship into stages.

...Fragment it? Well, it's just what it is. I assume relationships go through stages like anything else.

I won't deny there's bond to be some progress through it. But stages? Do you give stages to your friendships as well?

['Sure. For example, ours is currently in the stage of ".25 Koizumis of annoying."']

It's not like I think about it, but I guess they exist.

I see. I can't say I agree but I get what you mean.

...Right. Okay, then.

['Meanwhile, I guess I'll continue to contemplate how nature allowed someone to add Taniguchi and Koizumi and end up with this guy.']

[He was going to leave it at that but... Raising a private filter now.]

So... You were the first member of the Brigade, right? Aside from Haruhi herself.

['...Uh-oh. This sounds like one of those conversations is coming up.']

Yeah.

So it can be said that you're like the co-founder of the Brigade, right?

[Without telling Haruhi, of course, we all know how she is.]

['Of course, Haruhi wouldn't say something like that. Not that I want that title, either. It might land me in legal responsibility.']

Not that I had anything to do with controlling what ensued, but I guess so, yeah.

As if Haruhi would let anyone but her control anything about the Brigade.

[He sighs and pauses for a moment, thinking.]

Between you and me, though you really have no need to answer even if it would be appreciated. Why didn't you take the chance when she offered you to not get involved in a Brigade so different from the one you were in from scratch?

['......Good question.']

...Because, I guess, better to have this version of her around than nothing at all.

['...And further, I guess some would say, that's because I trusted her. To not be fundamentally different. Or, if she was, to be better. In some ways that seems to have been a correct assumption to make, though in terms of distance... well, she's still far more distant than she 'should' be, so to speak.

But... Is any of that something I should tell Maebara?

Eh. He's smart enough to guess it if he wants.']

So you think if you hadn't joined this Brigade, she would have ignored you or broken ties with you or whatever? Is that the Haruhi you expected to meet here?

['...Despite that "you don't have to answer", this is starting to sound like an interrogation, Maebara.']

Well, yeah, she might have taken it personally. At least, I thought it would certainly have caused a stir.

['And that would've been dangerous. Or... like I said. So I thought.']

[He's free to stop answering at any moment. Keiichi insisted on how it would be appreciated aka better if he answered but no obligation indeed. He will let the matter of Haruhi taking it personally sit for a second.]

And what about you?

What about me?

Yeah, of course it'd be weird to have a group calling itself the SOS Brigade running around that I wasn't in.

Weird, huh. And... Are you sure you staying in the Brigade isn't causing a stir anyway? To her or to yourself?

Guess I'm not sure, no. But I don't have any reason to leave, either.

So, why are you asking?

I'm just worried that in your attempt to not upset Haruhi and make your time here weirder, things just get worse. For both of you two.

[Though mainly for Haruhi, truth to be told.]

...Have you noticed something that would lead you to suspect that things are wrong, somehow?

Other than the mere outline of the situation? Maybe. But maybe they aren't so much wrong as just awkward and weird, which isn't bad, but can get bad if not handled carefully.

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