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He doesn't even follow up with a question... Well, Rokkun can provide an answer all the same ]
Yes
13. Should I start over?
[ me googling fte "An FTE is the hours worked by one employee on a full-time basis. The concept is used to convert the hours worked by several part-time employees into the hours worked by full-time employees." and going ??? and then i went oh ]
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STOPP NOT ME LAUGHING PLEASEEE maybe that's what his special free time event should be turned into. )
yeah
go back to 1
i don't want to stop talking to you
( he knows what rokkun meant, but he's also trying to be cute?? is this how you be cute??? komaeda's trying. )
for your question
i want to remember what it is that i missed, starting over is one, but my memory...
14. am i really that unlucky that i can't understand what we shared in the past?
( go back to 1! )
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No
Maybe it's better this way. But starting over feels like giving up, when my hope is that you'll remember
[ It's a lost cause, though, with Komaeda's dementia. But maybe that's why he's so persistent, when he was resistant to Rika's initial advances, because being with Komaeda is impossible and his affections won't be returned. In a way, there's safety in impossibility. ]
1. If you could remember everything, would you really want to?
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you'll have to live with me and my faults
( to be punished for his illness, he didn't think rokkun was that sort of person — perhaps this was a mistake at the start. komaeda's visibly sick, the other would have known if they've been together since childhood, though komaeda's diagnosis came around in his teen years, but still... who knows, maybe it's a different story than what rokkun knows. )
i can't deny what i don't know. so yes
2. did we apply to this school together?
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No
I enrolled first, and met you after
3. Would you have applied, knowing what you do now?
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?
( what he does now... you mean... not solve mysteries? )
4. in full detail... what do i do now?
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That's a good question ]
?
5. What do you do now?
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6. what do you do now?
( let him flip a page in their handy, dandy schoolbook. )
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What does he do? Nothing as grand as """helping hope""" ]
I am collecting
7. Are you happy?
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8. tell me about your family so you can catch my memory up to speed, what are they like?
( does that sound familiar? hope it does, rokkun said it to him once. )
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Normal as can be. Parent, grandparents, a younger brother and younger sister in the same house.
9. What was your dog like?
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you have a lively home, i guess that's nice.
you have to tell me before or after he was flattened, i can tell you about both
10. does your family know who i am?
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No
11. Tell me about both?
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he was big... i was young at the time maybe five, but he was big and i think he loved me the most. as for when he was hit by the car.. there was a lot of blood that day
( thinking about it, that still kind of stings... he loved his dog a lot, and even when he was near death, that was the first thing he thought of. it's a shame he can't even think of people he'd want to see if he dies... )
12. do you regret meeting me
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Anyways, there's a growing frown on his face, and he'd made sure to keep his head down and eyes on the paper as he waits for the question, but he can't help but steal a glance at Komaeda before looking back down to write. ]
I'm not
I don't
13. Do you regret meeting me?
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rokkun
( he writes only his name before leaning up properly, turning in his chair to face the other, komaeda opens his arms... like he's asking for a hug. how does that answer if he regrets meeting him? it probably doesn't, but it is random of all things he could do at this moment. )
...
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Rokkun turns in his seat after Komaeda does, mirroring the gesture with some confusion, except with his arms not quite so outstretched and more reaching forward so he can give the hug instead of rec—-
"Arata-kun! Komaeda-kun!" The teacher has had ENOUGH of their shit. "If you're not going to pay attention to the lecture, go stand outside in the hall until class is over. Go on! Leave!" ]
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he grabs the textbook accordingly, along with the notebook with all their questions and answers inside, and he picks them up to press against his chest as he raises from his seat. he extends his prosthetic first, gripping rokkun's hand to help him, and he'll release as soon as he's up too.
cruel, sending them out there with the psychotic imps... guess that's where they're going. :) )
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What if that's why, when they're out the door, he isn't able to pull away in time when he feels a sharp pain in his leg, an invisible psychotic imp launching itself at him and tearing a chunk out of his thigh, blood spraying across the floor and the walls as the school collapses in on itself and transforms. ]
https://i.imgur.com/BPeK0FT.png
punished for having people near him because he's just that lucky, is what he thinks when he turns his head to look back to speak to him. instead, it's the color red mixed with the smell of blood that stands out before the school shifts into that dilapidated hell they're all accustomed to. komaeda's mind blanks out for a moment, frozen in place until he blinks right after — the fingers that held rokkun's hand twitch as he turns on his heel, taking a step back, but keeping his eyes on...
what? what will he see? rokkun's shadow? him? holds my head, not my hurt comfort meme. )
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He sees Shadow Rokkun... All black, featureless, hands that pass through one another because in this state, neither can touch one another. He doesn't leave, though, standing in front of Komaeda, head bowed, hands raised in front of his navel and staring down at them.
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this is a reminder that he shouldn't have gotten involved, he should have just kept his distance, he shouldn't have done anything. he's used to do this so he doesn't need to care, shouldn't care, but he can't stop his legs from running away from the incident — but that's because he's running to the bathroom right next to this classroom, and he's going to hit the glass with his prosthetic so he can come out of there, because he's not wasting any time. he ain't even supposed to be running, but you know, once he's back in the real world he's going to run to rokkun?
ROKKUN, HE'S HERE, HE'LL CARRY YOU. )
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The ground tips.
Komaeda finds himself back inside void Yogen. ]
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the ruckus outside is probably audible from the seat by the door of 3-B, which i'm saying amami sits in now because that makes it easier for him to excuse himself in the middle of class to check things out.
not that he'll get to see much once he steps into the hallway and the red in his peripheral catches his eye, turning his gaze to see a nauseating wound as the hallways crumble into uncanny versions of themselves. still, what he does see is important, because he's going to be seeing it again when the colours register in his mind, and he sees the silhouette of komaeda booking it down the hallway (again), and thanks to rika, he doesn't actually need to go anywhere to break his mirror shard, blinking back into awareness in front of the bloody scene. )
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Guess what's going to happen!! ]
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