regarding goats

[happyhalloween]

Is Mr Kenzaki gonna still wrestle a goat? Because Beato has lots of goats! Well, I think maybe she can only have one or two at a time out, but that's okay, I think Mr. Kenzaki only needs to wrestle one goat!

Beato, if you're gonna summon a goat for Mr Kenzaki to fight, you should summon Goat-kun! He's the most legendary of all your goats! And I bet he'd have fun!

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Private

[uzoda]

You know?

Was it Tachibana that told you? [He cannot imagine Hajime ever spilling that much to Kinji.] Told you the whole sad story? You see why we're all upset?

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

Not all at once, but I got the whole picture by now. [All those little references build up.] Dunno if y'all've spoken t'him yet, but he ain't too proud a' how Galen handled all that neither.

Private

[uzoda]

We've talked. We're... we're fine. There's nothing to hold against each other. It wasn't us.

[He'll say it over and over again until it starts sounding true. It hasn't started to sound true yet, though.]

It's just that... do you know how close it came to ending like that? To just sealing Hajime?

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

[He'd ask if this is a conversation Kenzaki really wants recorded on the network, but Kinji's pretty sure the guy needs it out of his system.]

Pretty damn close, 'ccordin' t'Tachibana. 'cept he could never bring himself t'do it. Hajime was too human.

Private

[uzoda]

[He already has next to no dignity left at this point. He can throw away the rest of it. He needs to vent.]

Yeah. And it took forever for Tachibana to see him as 'too human'. I've always believed that things were meant to turn out how they did, that they couldn't turn out some other way, that we were always better than the worst of ourselves... and then there's this.

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

'This' still ain't the worst 'f all y'all. It's y'all dealin' with the fallout someone with yer face done set up. You ain't Therion, Hajime's damn well ashamed t'have be stuck playin' Karis an' there ain't no way in hell Tachibana'd have the stomach t'decapitate someone of his own accord.

Private

[uzoda]

...it helps to hear someone else say that. Thanks.

[There is something akin to a sigh coming through the network.]

Therion's still an awful lot like me. Maybe a me that didn't... didn't care about anything but what he wanted.

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

Yeah? Well that sure ain't the you I'm talkin' to right now. Yer carin' so much it's hurtin' y'all just t'think about it.

Private

[uzoda]

Aah, geez... I'm not...

[That's a surge of embarrassment, there.]

I don't want to be... selfish, about what I want. I can't be. Therion was pretty selfish, even when he thought he was being selfless, and it's... ugh, it's hard to explain!

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

Naw, I get it. Anythin' altruistic he tried doin' was only cos the result was gonna work in his favour. Not cos it was just the right thing t'do. Right?

Private

[uzoda]

More or less. Mostly. He didn't go walk up and try to be a god because he thought he'd be great at it, he did it because it was for Karis...

It's easier to do that kind of thing when it's for someone else, maybe.

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

Yeah. That ain't surprisin' t'hear from y'all.

It ain't a bad thing t'be selfish. Sometimes y'don't wanna share things. 's'just human.

[...shit.]

I-I mean...!

Private

[uzoda]

[That just provokes a surprised laugh.]

Hey, just because I'm not human doesn't mean I'm not....

It's not that big a deal, the Undead thing, is what I mean to say.

Private

[ninjayeehaw]

[His own laugh is a quiet huff, both embarrassed and relieved.]

I'll keep that in mind. Ain't like we don't got bigger thinks t'worry 'bout.

Like how yer gonna go against that goat.