Rider War Take Two

[of_many_treasures]

Nobody panic. I got this.

Oh and um, it spilled over into Rainbow Hills. Yayoi took one for the team. Don't worry, she'll get better. Once Fresh Oranges goes and kills Tsukasa. I looked it up. There's not a thing that can go wrong with this. Rider Wars happen. It just happened to take out the fangirl this time.

Until then, I'm going to hang around Rainbow Hills and try not to let Happy beat me up for Yayoi exploding under a intercepted Rider Kick.

Done at Lightspeed.

Yeah um I'll call you later. I need to go harass Tsukasa and a dead woman first.

Comments

[icantbelievethis]

That can't be true.

[of_many_treasures]

It's frustrating, but it happens.

[icantbelievethis]

I never used to care about anything but how my own life would turn out! But I got to where I am caring! About my friends and about the world!

There's no way you can survive by not caring!

[of_many_treasures]

Who said anything about not caring.

[icantbelievethis]

Didn't you?

[of_many_treasures]

Listen to me. Decade is the destroyer of worlds. He has to meet his own end. Not by my hands. Doesn't mean I can't deal with him dying.

[icantbelievethis]

I don't understand any of that.

[of_many_treasures]

It means I can't stop his death, I can't stop my own feelings getting in the way. I need to distance myself or I risk losing everything.

[icantbelievethis]

So... you don't want this guy to die after all, even though you two are always getting in fights, but he's secretly evil or at least supposed to die and you can't stop it?

[of_many_treasures]

Got it in one.

[icantbelievethis]

...Sounds like you always have a lot to deal with.

[of_many_treasures]

If I kill him myself, the world doesn't get reset. If Natsumi fails to kill him, everyone remains dead. If someone decides to kill him other than me, who knows what that will do with the timeline.

And I've already reset the timeline once. I can't afford mistakes this round. Even if it meant Yayoi getting in the middle of the Rider War.

[icantbelievethis]

Then why did you say everything would be fine?

[of_many_treasures]

Because I'm trying to delude myself.

Do you realize what happens when the... person you... will do something like this? to destroy the world for the sake of ending his own life?

[icantbelievethis]

Even he's trying to die?

[of_many_treasures]

It's not something I can interfere in... or else I risk screwing up everything. Even if it means deluding myself that it'll be all right.

[icantbelievethis]

...I think I know how that feels, a little, even if it was more other people keeping me out.

[of_many_treasures]

My hands are tied. It frustrates me so much. What's worse is that there's a very small wiggle room in which I can act. And that's to protect Natsumi when she finishes him off.

[icantbelievethis]

...Maybe it will be okay. I mean, there's always hope, right?

[of_many_treasures]

With any luck. I'm trying not to have a nervous breakdown in the process.

[icantbelievethis]

...Sorry. This is way screwed up.

[of_many_treasures]

I know it is. What can I say? Rider business be fucked.

[icantbelievethis]

It can't always be like that, can it?

[of_many_treasures]

I think ours is one of the pinnacles of weirdness. Just don't make me recount AR-M Black and Black RX. That timeline is completely weird.

[icantbelievethis]

Weird bad...?