02 ❀ it's almost february

[admiringly]

i know that a lot of crazy things happened in the city this month but can you believe valentine's day is in a little over two weeks?
do any of you have special plans? do you have someone you like? admire? have a crush on?
are you going to give your friends chocolate or cards?
are you lucky and dating someone that makes you so so happy?
if you're comfortable with it will you please tell me about them all?
tell me about the people in your life!
tell me about love!
tell me how love's changed things for you!
i want to hear about the good things that are happening in your life!

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[admiringly]

would you escort me if i asked?
it's not like you chose for the memories to play so i hope it ended ok for you and whoever you were with
did you want to be friends with your teammates in your memories?

[compendiem]

If you trust me to escort you, I don't mind.
I don't know. We weren't getting along, but an efficient team should be able to manage at least that. Maybe all I saw were the rough spots, and things got better.

[admiringly]

i do trust you
i know you're honest when it counts
and that's probably true! i'm sure you'll get memories where you work things out
especially if you were working hard to accomplish something!

[compendiem]

You assume my honesty very easily... At least trust my experience or something more substantial.
It doesn't matter anymore, but we'll see.

[admiringly]

well you were pretty honest with me when i was a glitter disaster
i don't know what your experience is? tell me what it is!
i'll believe you
and why doesn't it matter? shouldn't it matter?

[compendiem]

Hm. Experience going into the subway. Finding my way. Getting through relatively safely. That sort of thing.
It doesn't matter because what's done is done. It has nothing to do with me.

[admiringly]

i trust that too! since you're here to tell me about it
well i guess you're right about that since the world in our memories isn't the world we're in right now
do you think the you in your memories is someone very different from you?

[compendiem]

Too, huh.
I think we're similar people. He feels a lot more strongly than I do, but everything he says and does, I can see myself doing. What about you?

[admiringly]

is that bad? i don't think it's bad to trust you
hmm i think i feel about the same
there are some key things that are different but i think i'd react to a lot of things the same way
except she likes someone a lot and i'm not sure why she does

[compendiem]

It's not bad. Just weird to be trusted from the start to lose it later, than to not be trusted and earn it in the future.
I think he had those sorts of feelings too. Affection.

[ he refuses to say the L word ]

Maybe it'll take more memories of the person to learn why.

[admiringly]

[ like and love will only lead to good things, minato.... ]

??
it'll take a lot for you to lose my trust i think?
if don't have bad intentions that's what matters to me
and that's great! i'm glad he liked the people he was working with
that's great!

yeah! most of my memories so far are him being really weird or odd but
i'm sure she wouldn't have bad taste in guys!!

[compendiem]

...Well, I don't plan to lose it on purpose.
He liked people, but not really the ones he was working with. Girls, and stuff.

[ Five of them. At one time. ]

I hear weird a lot... But as long as he's not a bad person, weird and odd aren't bad things. It's the sort of stuff that catches people's eyes, right? Makes them stand out. You pay more attention to a person, and that attention becomes interest.

[admiringly]

[ and now we know why bad end minato is the worst FIVE GIRLS..... ]

that means you'll be fine!
i believe in you
and there's nothing wrong with liking girls and stuff?
i think there are worse things

but yeah you're right!
that's a really good way to think about it
see minato if the you in your memories is how you're like here think your team definitely worked things out!
and it could be i thought one way about him and then it turned out he wasn't like that and learning the truth made me see him in a different light!
but also i described the person i liked to him and he said, "what's so good about that guy?"
and i think i was talking about him? i don't know for sure

[compendiem]

[ And he systematically breaks all their hearts one by one without maxing social links ]

Like murder?

The me here is better at talking to one person than running an efficient team, so I don't think those things correlate. I can sort of understand how that guy feels, though. It's hard to look at yourself and see what's there to like. And sometimes when people describe what they like about you, those are the things you actually dislike.

[admiringly]

[ this is why the world ends ]

yeah murder is up there
wanting and seeking to hurt people is wrong
but... circumstances matter
reasons do matter

[ She found out Yato chopped off some man's hands and she still likes him, so that's something to mull over. ]

hmmm that is difficult to accept
is it that bad if people like things that you hate?
i don't think you have to like those things too but it can give you a different perspective?
i think if you can talk to people one on one that's still good
do you have to lead a team right now?
if it's something you want to do i think it's something you can work on with other people?
like you don't have to do it on your own but you can talk about it with others
but only if that's what you want to do!

[compendiem]

Murder wasn't something you were supposed to take seriously... But I guess there are times where you have to do it.

It's not bad. Was just trying to put myself in his shoes. Trying to understand people, which I'm evidently not great at.
There's no reason to have a team. Nothing I need to do. Can't see myself having one either, since I'm used to just being by myself.

[admiringly]

sorry i couldn't tell that you were joking!

that sounds a little lonely
aren't you lonely?
i know you think of people so even if you can't understand them at first i do know you are trying
understanding someone isn't a one-sided thing since i don't think you can always know what someone is thinking
you need that other person to try too

[compendiem]

I mean. It's still a serious thing.

I'm not lonely. Keeping busy guarantees that, so does sleeping when I have the free time, etc. Too many people just gets really hard to manage when I can barely keep up with just one. There's nothing I can do about other people trying, so there's not really a point in thinking about it.

[admiringly]

[ That sounds really lonely to Chiyo still, but if that's how he wants to live and the way he thinks is best, she's not going to push him about it. ]

i don't know if i could live like that but if that's how you want to live i can't say anything about it
i hope you keep your important people close

[compendiem]

Yeah. I'm not going to do that to my important people. I don't want to smother them.

[admiringly]

keeping people close isn't smothering them?
it's caring about them

[compendiem]

Caring feels like smothering sometimes. Like I'm constantly being watched.

[admiringly]

does it really? maybe you can find a happy medium if you talk with whoever feels like they're smothering you?
i get that some people get really overprotective and it can be annoying but knowing someone cares that much makes it tolerable(?)

[compendiem]

You kind of feel smothering.

1/2

[admiringly]

[ y i k e s

she can't do anything about this probably? she's trying her best. ]