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Hello, everyone! As you've probably noticed, we've been having a few problems - I mentioned earlier that something got knocked out of balance, and we had to recalibrate, but in a few days we should be able to drop the emergency measures. Please be aware that there is an incoming storm, class four. General orders for that kind of thing are to report to management for any known threats and follow instructions, but so far what's known is "that might be a little annoying" and "hope it isn't". Theoretically it'll probably be related to the holiday, I think, because a large group of souls focused through the needle of a pin on one thing can sort of shape a thing around them.

That's sort of a really inaccurate way to put it on the technical side of things, but I think it's the easiest way to understand it! At any rate, we'll know more once we're in the thick of things. Please take care as usual; resources aren't exactly what some of you seem to think they are, and we had to expend rather more than usual in the past month or so to keep things with a few of you steady.

Joanne Wiseman
Technician 2nd class
Retr

spec Incorporated

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Oh no, it's really no trouble! I'm glad to help.

You're apart of this app too, so please let me know if there's anything I can do.

Things do get a little... strange, sometimes.

You can come to me with your troubles if you have them.
And I will do what I can for you.
That sounds like I am doing more than what you are doing, but that's not true.
What I'm asking is ultimately selfish and self-serving.
You can think about your answer.
Please don't just agree to it, but truly think about it.

Now, what was that about aliens?

Oh... I admit, I don't know how offering me assistance could be selfish...

But I will think about it, that I can promise.

And the aliens thing is... strange. Some people here don't believe it. But according to the ghosts and the people running this app, we have the souls of people who existed on other worlds, and we's slowly regaining the memories and abilities of our past lives.

Allow me to explain so you when you are thinking you do not make a mistake in your decision by being misinformed by me.

I am saying that I am showing a self-important attitude. There will come a time when no one will be able to help you with your problem, not even yourself. Yet I am asking you to think of me like I can help you. In short, it could very well be wasting your time in asking anyone for help, but I am asking if you will waste your time on the belief I COULD.

It is selfish as an adult to believe that I should be privvy to all your problems and so I will reword and say, please think of me to help you from time to time. That is the "anything" you can let me do for you. Because in the end, I cannot do much except be a responsible adult now and again.

It is asking you to allow me not to be useless. And while it may benefit you, it may also, as I said, waste your time in coming to find I can do nothing but comfort and not offer solutions. Comforting is good and I am not speaking poorly about it since I am offering food in these trying times, but comfort shouldn't be all a person gives another.

So that is why I ask you to think on it and decide what is best for you versus what would make me content.

Edited 2018-02-02 20:40 (UTC)

And so what you are saying is that the aliens are us. Interesting.

[Ah... yes, when broken down in such a way, Sakura can see where the threads of selfishness might be present. Even still, she can't find fault with hoping to be singled out in someone's thoughts, if only so you can help them in some way.

After all, she's. much the same. in hoping to be more to people than just useless. It's how she's felt for much of her life, and so...]

I understand. As I said, I can at least promise to think about your offer and make my decision from there. But regardless of if it's selfish or not, I still appreciate that you would make the offer in the first place.

... But yes, supposedly we're aliens. I don't know if I believe that, but I have had strange things happen to me since coming onto the app.

Well, I accept your appreciation, then.

Like memories?

Yes, like the memories.

[ He hums. Kei has a lot of feelings about these memories that he has been hearing about, but he decides that he'll attempt to help his senpai's daughter out. Though, he doesn't know what sort of memories that she has been having, he decides to cover all bases. ]

Have they been difficult for you?

[...]

They tend to be difficult for everyone, I'm afraid. A lot of us seemed to have had unpleasant lives in the past.

If you believe that, of course. It could just be mass delusions for all we know.

But it isn't the past, Sakura.

Forgive me for saying so, but I have memories of my past and they lead me to be who I am now. The memories that you are having now, you did not live through them, did you? If something is difficult, you can always decide to discard it. I may be speaking flippantly as someone who has not received any memories, but do we not do that with the memories we had before? Did we not decide that we need not hold onto something because it no longer had meaning or value to us?

So, as unfortunate as what has been remembered, do know that you always have the choice to destroy it.

[-- You think she hasn't tried--

No. She isn't going down that hole right now. It was hard enough with Mateus, and she almost lost a friend in that emotional crossfire. She promised herself she'd be stronger.]

I'm not sure how to discard them.

They're very invasive.

Then, the problem might be something else...

Do you want to discard them? Or do you want to master them?

[Another long pause on her end, filled with words and backspaces, weakly trying to craft her words into something honest but socially acceptable]

Either is fine.

[So long as the pain stops, she isn't picky.]

Well.
Think on which one you want.
Because I'll help with either.
That'll be something else for you to think on, then, Sakura.
Because these memories, if you want, are part of you and are you.
Or they aren't.
Once you decide, I will do all I can for you.
Because in the end, I wish for you to be happy.
That is a promise I made to myself as soon as I came to know you.

You're very kind, Shigaraki-san.

I'm lucky to have met you.

Thank you.
I've never had someone say that they felt lucky to have met me.
So thank you.
I feel the same way.

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