Unfliltered

[nicotinized]

[Toshi's mental voice sounds a little anxious - he's trying to hide it, but he has no idea when he is, just that finally there are other people around and some of them look familiar]

Hey, what did I miss? Is Souji still here?

[there's a pause, and then he sounds a little calmer, and a little embarrassed]

I got stuck in some weird patch of liminal space where time was all fucked up - watch didn't work right or anything.

Comments

[truthvalue]

I'm still sorry. I know I wasn't myself, but ... well, I wanted you to know.

And I will. Not just for that.

[fridgeninja]

In that case, I should probably apologize for some of the things we said to each other, too.

[truthvalue]

I don't think you need to. I was much worse to you. I'm sorry for that, too.

[fridgeninja]

It's understandable. We had a history.

[truthvalue]

It's still ...

I feel bad.

[fridgeninja]

I think we all do.

[truthvalue]

Even you? For what? You were an angel - I'm sure you didn't do anything too bad.

[fridgeninja]

Narukamki-sama agreed with the angels about what was right and what was wrong.

I'm not sure I agree with him about everything.

[truthvalue]

I guess that makes sense ...

Do you want to talk about it? [He doesn't to push, but he's curious.]

[fridgeninja]

If it wouldn't bother you.

[truthvalue]

It wouldn't.

[fridgeninja]

Well... to start with, it didn't seem quite like any one religion, but except that there was some kind of Celestial Bureaucracy, it was a pretty Western Hell.

[truthvalue]

I noticed that too.

[fridgeninja]

And it's a little hard for me not to be Shinto.

[truthvalue]

That's understandable.

So it was the actual being an angel that was weird for you?

[fridgeninja]

That was part of it. But... mm. It's pretty grim to think of everyone ending up like that. Even Yomi... it isn't a place that's made to be cruel. And no matter what those people did, I think most of them could have found peace if they were permitted to.

[truthvalue]

That's a good point. I guess I hadn't thought that far into it yet. [Too wrapped up in his own issues.] Everyone was pretty miserable there.

[fridgeninja]

Even Narukami wasn't that happy.

[truthvalue]

He wasn't?

[fridgeninja]

No. He was better off than most people, but everything that happened there weighed on him.

[truthvalue]

I didn't know that.

I guess ... Kingpin thought Narukami had everything, since he'd been on the winning side of the war. That nothing bothered him.

[fridgeninja]

He was living comfortably, but he wasn't at peace.

[nicotinized]

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[truthvalue]

I -

He didn't know that.

He was pretty selfish.

[fridgeninja]

He felt like his family had given up on him.

Narukami wasn't very good at listening to him.