breaks_destiny | 025th Shattering * Audio / Written

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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".]

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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.

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[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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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.

Okay. Well, what have you "maybe" observed?

['Frankly, I am a little annoyed, I guess, and with the feeling that there's still a few dozen pairs of shoes waiting to be dropped. That said, I didn't think it was anything anyone else would notice.']

Haruhi not knowing what to do with you and you... Well, it's hard to tell since I don't really know you, but you certainly breaking a record regarding not being a happy camper even taking into account you arrived here just two months ago. In general it seems fine, but... As they say, just because the water's surface is quiet it doesn't mean the depths of the river aren't flowing wildly.

['...Actually, even I don't know if he's right there. How would I know if I'm more irascible than usual?']

Maybe.

You think she doesn't know what to do with me?

['It's always been clear in the past. Menial labor and the occasional baffling moment where I have to save the day.

...Okay, maybe it hasn't always been clear what I am to her and what she is to me. In fact, if I'm being honest, he's probably right. But why would it be so hard for her? What don't I know about here? There's clearly something.']

Why do you think that is?

I think so. I mean, sure she knows how to order menial labors and what else, but as a person... As "Kyon" as she insists to call you, and she's very adamant about that, it may not be very clear.

The reason should be obvious though. I bet you have think it as well, I didn't think so when I first arrived here but... After that the knowledge settled in somehow, as horrible as it is. Forgive for the use of the nickname, [Was that Koromaru barking? Yes it was.], but to put it simply: you're not "her Kyon", neither is she "your Haruhi". However, both of you come from a "Kyon" and a "Haruhi" that both knew and were.

And if that's not enough the Brigade just adds to it.

...That's as it may be. I've never thought of there being such a thing as "my Haruhi." Haruhi is Haruhi any way you slice it.

['That is to say, in terms of evidence, in every alternate world I've been in, Haruhi has been exactly the same. Even when her powers were stolen. Even when the world split in two. Haruhi is an unchanging constant, albeit in that she's a constant vortex of change.']

And as for me, I doubt I've changed all that much.

['...Did I? Could four months have done all of that? Haven't these last months been simply solidifying patterns put in place earlier?']

Although you're right about the Brigade.

I know that and I agree with you but it doesn't work with her. Even if you haven't changed just for knowing more or less than her you're different from the one she expects. And she thinks of herself in the same terms, or rather fears people will think like that and make a difference.

Well, the Brigade was a given. It's different even for us, who have been here to see the change and reasons for it. For you it must be like a cultural shock or something.

Well, you could say as much for anyone who hadn't seen each other in a while.

['Not that I really have an argument to put up against that. It's true. I just don't like it. On the other hand, Haruhi Principle #1:']

Though you're right. What it really is doesn't matter as long as she thinks it's that way.

[He purposefully gives a somewhat disdainful shrug to the last part.]

Right. As far as I'm concerned, it wasn't the Brigade as soon as the rest of us weren't here.

It's one of the problems when dealing with her, for good or bad. But you don't need me to tell you that.

[There's a bit of a pause at the last comment... Could it really be that?]

Oh... I see how it is.

[No, that wasn't a smile in his tone, you're just imagining things.]

['Maebara has just leveled up to .6 Koizumis, and damn him for it. Starting to have an urge to punch him in the face.']

Really? Because your tone is leading me to suspect you've suddenly done quite the opposite.

Hmm, I think I have a clear idea of how it is, though. It's nothing bad, after all, if that's how things are then it's probably for the better when thinking about it objectively.

[Because subjectively and looking at the small picture it depends on the point of view. But when looking at the big picture and from the point of view of their world... It's probably for the better indeed.]

I have no idea what you're trying to say, Maebara, but I can tell that whatever you're thinking is wildly unsubstantiated.

It's substantiated by your own words, [Someone must be playing with the journals because it gets static here for a second.], so unless you lied to me... Anyway, even if that's how things are I think you should be careful with Haruhi, more than normally I mean.

I repeat. I don't know what you mean, and I don't know what being careful is supposed to signify, either. You sound exactly like Koizumi, he can't say anything straight either.

I can't say I've met him. Are you sure he can't say anything straight or is it that you don't want to think of it?

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