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[foreverphantom]

shitpost tbd

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[foreverphantom]

[ shakes his head ] You wouldn't have.

[sharkgirl]

I could've, though. [she glances at him.] It could've been me, it's not like Ace wanted to either. Or Reigen.

[foreverphantom]

Yeah, but we know about the quota now--and our team is covered. There wouldn't have been a reason for you to do it.

Unless it was self-defense if Lillium came after you first. But nothing else pointed to you anyway.

[sharkgirl]

[she exhales slow, and then:]

Yeah. I guess so. [she digs into her hoodie pocket, pulling out her notebook just to have something to fiddle with.] Guess it's just weird.

[foreverphantom]

...weird?

[sharkgirl]

To not be automatically pointed at.

[foreverphantom]

...you've earned a lot of goodwill from everyone here.

[sharkgirl]

I don't get how.

[foreverphantom]

Well you've never done anything maliciously. Mischievous, yes, but not malicious.

And you're honest. Or at least, honest enough.

[sharkgirl]

That wasn't ever enough before.

[but.]

... This place doesn't feel real sometimes.

[foreverphantom]

[ based on the context of the rest of their convo... ] ...in a too good to be true kind of way?

Not counting the murders, of course.

[sharkgirl]

Yeah. The whole stupid, fucked up trial system aside, just...

[she adjusts ace's hat, almost like a nervous tic.]

... like a weird sort of afterlife. Like whoever it is that's in charge can't decide if I'm being punished or not.

[foreverphantom]

...yeah. Me too. It'd be a lot easier to feel and behave a certain way if only the universe would just settle on what it wanted to do with us.