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{{ OOC: Italics are Angel. Bold is Otonashi. All other lines are Yuri! }}

[ When the video flickers on, there's a battle in progress. Yuri's in her leader hat while Otonashi runs in the background, eyes narrowed. ]

Damn, she's tough..

[ She being the white-haired girl with red eyes who looks exactly like Angel. Despite that some people might know from talking to Yuri that Angel's not exactly an enemy anymore, she's definitely the enemy now and is raising two arms with blades crossed above her head. Yuri turns to Otonashi and raises her voice. ]

Plug your ears!

Guard Skill: Howling.

[ Yuri reaches behind her back and pulls out a knife from her shirt just as a strange blast resounds from Angel and a high pitched noise crackles into the speakers of anyone on the comm-- ]

Wh-What is that!? My ears--!

[ Otonashi covering his ears and doubling over. If the viewers at home are listening over the comm and don't have their ears covered or your volume really, really low, the sound might be at a strange frequency to give them an extreme headache or even knock them out. Fucking sound-based attacks, man, they'll fuck you up.

They don't seem to bother Yuri though, since she's charging Angel through these blasts that are strong enough to nearly knock Otonashi out and literally break apart rocks in the area, straight to the red-eyed Angel and stab her in the gut, causing her to collapse and the sound to stop. Yuri lets out a victorious laugh as she stands up straight. ]

You weren't.. knocked out?

[ Yuri holds up a hand to her ear playfully. ]

What's that? What did you say? [ She points to her left ear, a big smile on her face. ] I have plugs in my ears, so I can't hear you very well!

[ Angel starts struggling to get up again and Yuri's smirk turns less playful and more smug. ]

Give it up. If you prefer, I'll take care of your throat with my other knife. [ Yuri flips her other knife out, spinning it around her hand until it's up near her face with what looks like a really playful smile while Angel's grunts of pain and struggle still are apparent in the background. Yuri leans down, off camera. The camera remains on the desolate, blackened remains of whatever used to be there. (Guild, actually. Or it used to be.) Then it cuts off with a few more sounds of pained struggle. ]

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Hypothetical question: Someone killed me, then someone else destroyed my soul? Which person is worse?

[........]

...They're both... horrible. I should know a thing or two about that, I destroyed a soul once too.

[beatoriicheeeee....!]

Why are you asking such a thing?

Angel's in a coma. Chances are even if she wakes up, she won't be her anymore.

[....so that's how it is.]

Why wouldn't she be the same...?

I went into the system she uses to make her abilities and input a program to force the clones to go home. This was after there were already about ninety-nine or so.

To go home?

[...]

Ah- to the original body? I see.... and let me guess, they all have consciousness? Tch....

Otonashi said it wasn't my fault but I was the one who went and did it. The Afterlife isn't supposed to need hospitals.

...Yuri- you were supposed to protect that place, right?

That was probably the only way, don't beat yourself up over it.

It was the only way I could think of overnight.

[ She knows she's impatient-- she can't help but think that being more patient could've given her another way. ]

And that's fine.

Whatever happens you'll just have to accept it though and move on.

Does this count as murder if she doesn't wake up?

No Yuri, don't you dare start that. You did what was right, what you thought you had to do- you were merely looking out for everyone. If you start blaming yourself then that accomplishes nothing.

It doesn't have to accomplish anything, Battler.

Still, don't blame yourself over something like this. I know how easy it is to fall into self-hatred when you feel terrible about something.

[ Like she doesn't already hate herself for not being able to do anything to save her siblings. She can tell Battler's just going to keep telling her though so she nods and flippantly waves her hand. ]

Got it, got it. Don't beat myself up, it's not my fault, I couldn't have known there'd be so many.

[he hates being blown off like that, and he gets riled up at that.]

Don't. Don't you dare try and wave me off like what I'm saying is nothing.

I'm not supposed to get upset, I'm not allowed to get over it, what do you want?

...I never said you shouldn't be upset.

I said not to blame yourself. What's so wrong with hoping for the best though? Sometimes hope is all that we have.

You do remember that I'm dead right? Everyone here is, her included.

B...but that doesn't....

[she's right, dammit. He clicks his tongue, looking away from the camera.]

I'll be dead too, and yet you taught me to hold on to some hope that I'll get out of this alive. Why can't you trust me too?

Because your dying bit can be changed. Unless you've got magic that can go back in time and--

[ Yuri looks to the side for a moment. She's still not going to talk about that, she doesn't want to. But there is.. something. The fact that Battler seems to think there's some way to save her. The only thing she needs saving from.. she would disappear if that were to ever happen. She didn't want to let go of that and if she did, she didn't think she'd be able to even be with Battler now. ]

I'm dead no matter what I do, Battler. So is she. So is the rest of the SSS. I'd trust you in a heartbeat if there was anything to trust you on.

Everything I am is just right now. Time doesn't pass here. I never age, I'll never grow up. I can't stay in anyone else's world at risk of someone seeing me get nearly killed and just walk away from it like nothing happened. It's the whole reason I fight, because this is all I'll ever be and it's all I can be. If you don't accept that by now... [ Then what? ]

[What? What was she trying to say? Did she really regret all of this? It wasn't that simple to walk away from, they're both in far too deep right now. Battler narrows his eyes at her before he speaks.]

...I do accept that, don't you think for a second I don't realize that.

But I'm just... asking you to have a little more faith in Angel.

[ Yuri doesn't argue with what he says this time, but she does have one question. Because of the way that Otonashi looks at Kanade. It's not hard to tell, with the things they promised each other. The way he acts. ]

If someone had done that to me, what would you have done?

[What would he do? He would track that person down and they would wish they had never been born. His temper was far too great.]

...Don't make me answer that.

[that should be a good enough answer.]

Then don't tell me not to feel guilty for making a mistake.

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