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Does anyone know why people lose their memories when they lose their network access?

Uh. Kara's forgotten everything. I was out pouring snow on the fires, and then... yeah. Our dog's gone, too, but I guess it's because she got him from Retrospec. Most of my friends forgot, too. It feels pretty lonely around now, but... anyway, just letting you guys know.

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Against some supervillain trying to take over the world? That seems like the sort of thing Supergirl might get into.

Probably.

["Supergirl," not "you." She can't blame Mr. Tsushima of all people for that, not after they talked it over. But it still makes her shrink into herself a little.]

I think we all might be, right now.

[Shuji will never consider the two of them one and the same, but he can at least acknowledge that Lina can become like Supergirl if she wants. That's something.]

Please no, I'd be a terrible superhero.

I mean, so would I. Lina Ellis, total screwup. But if I -- sh -- I can do it, anyone can. People make mistakes, they just get better. "Believe in your super self." Right, Mr. Tsushima?

I don't think you're a screwup.

[So the premise of this is faulty to begin with. Lina is a good person.]

...thanks. I think you can do it, too.

Thank you very much.

-and seriously, I've told you you can call me Shuji, it's fine?

It's awkward!

It's more awkward when you call me by my last name! Literally no one else does, I always think you're talking to my father or something!

Sorry... I just thought it was polite, plus you're way older.

...I'm still in my twenties... I'm not old yet...

[thanks for the crisis]

I thought it was respectful!

That means I have to start being respectable and I'm not ready for that!

[he is not ready to Adult, he is not okay with knowing some of his friends who own businesses and stuff are younger than him. save him.]

I don't get how you're not respectable and mature and stuff, though.

I'm pretty sure I've never been any of that?

You went to university. You're super popular. You wrote a whole entire book.

[His first instinct is to argue that none of that actually counts because reasons, but he's at least self-aware enough to know that isn't behavior he should model in front of Lina.]

...I guess? If you say it like that?

[???]

No, seriously! You do lots of things. I kind of... don't.

You're surviving school. That's more than hell enough already even without Retrospec.

You've got that right. I thought most people were all "you'll get over it."

Those people clearly have forgotten what it was like to be in school.

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