uruha / turboheaven

[chrysanths]

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[chrysanths]

[ There's a bit of silence as he tries to study Uruha's expression. He doesn't think he's good at it, but he offers a gentle hand on the shoulder. ]

[kumeyuri]

[thanks adolphe... you're trying...

uruha's surprised at the gesture but doesn't seem unappreciative of it, at least.]

... I'm fine. It was just nostalgic to see it again.

[chrysanths]

[ All he can do is try!! To various degree of satisfaction in his results!! ]

Yeah? It would be nice if they were good memories.

[ He hopes it wasn't too painful to remember and withdraws his hand. However, this does make Adolphe curious about what his own present box would have. Since Uruha opened his and it didn't seem to be anything dangerous, he goes to get his own. He doesn't open it just yet. ]

[kumeyuri]

They were. [a soft smile] He was a very good friend.

[watches adolphe...]

[chrysanths]

[ He nods. A good friend is worth its weight. Adolphe looks down at the box and opens it. Similarly to Uruha, there is a photo of several people: a girl with short blond hair, Yves, Lucas, Adolphe, and a woman in something like nun attire. They look happy, or decently content.

...

He quietly breathes out. ]

Where did they even get this... cameras are extremely rare where I come from. It's not like here where you can freely take pictures with these... phones.

[kumeyuri]

[nosily peers]

... Your friends back home? [a pause] Magic, probably?

[chrysanths]

Magic is the answer for everything, isn't it?

[ sheer insanity just waved off with magic. Battler Ushiromiya would throw a fit. ]

You already know Yves and Lucas. The girl with the blond hair is Ceres. She's... like a sister to me.

[ Anyway, he points to the woman in nun attire next. ]

This one is Mother. She runs the orphanage.

[ She looks 21 though. ]

[kumeyuri]

[the apparent age in itself doesn't surprise uruha too much, going by what he's heard from lucas, but also, he has to clarify—]

She's... not your biological mother, right?

[chrysanths]

She isn't.

[ He says with absolute confidence. ]

But she raised me and Ceres since we were young along with other children at the orphanage, and always insisted that we call her "Mother". I never had a problem with it.

[kumeyuri]

... Well, it does sound like she really is your mother in all but blood, so that makes sense.

[chrysanths]

[ Adolphe's image momentarily changes into a void again, but instead of pure black, there's a moving image of an ocean as if it is projected upon him. It seems to convey some sort of vast emptiness. ]

Mm. I owe her a great deal too.

[kumeyuri]

[this is so concerning. hello?]

... Do you plan on returning to life, if you pass the trial?

[chrysanths]

... I'm not sure.

[ He frowns. ]

It's a little complicated right now.

[kumeyuri]

[he blinks.]

Complicated?

[chrysanths]

There are a number of things I have to think about, but the place I come from has a weird notion about life and death.

[ He thinks Uruha knows since he doesn't seen surprised about Mother looking young. ]

[kumeyuri]

... With the curse and Relivers? Lucas mentioned it to me.

[chrysanths]

... Yeah. I was very noticeably dead, so to return would mean I would probably get captured for experiments. There's nowhere to run.

[ Needless to say, he really doesn't want that. ]

[kumeyuri]

[hmmm]

It might be okay. When I asked the angels, they said that it would be more like you never died in the first place? Though you might want to ask them, with the details of your own situation.

[chrysanths]

[ Immediately: ]

Then I'll stay dead.

[ ....

Okay let him explain ]

If it erases the event that got me killed in the first place, then I can't do that.

[kumeyuri]

[...]

You chose to sacrifice yourself, or something like that?

[chrysanths]

[ There's a bit of silence, since Adolphe takes his sweet time to figure out how to word it. ]

... Yeah.

[ His voice is quieter than usual as he looks back down at the photo. ]

If I didn't, then Yves wouldn't have made it. If anyone had to save my sister, it was him.

[kumeyuri]

[a pause, and then a slow nod. he can understand adolphe's choices.]

... You trust him a lot, huh?

[and adolphe clearly loves his sister a lot but that should be a given.]

[chrysanths]

I do.

[ He quietly breathes out. ]

I entrusted my sister to him. That's why I fought for his chance to continue.

[ He was so fuckin devastated to see Yves here because that meant HE DIED ]

[kumeyuri]

[NOOOO ADOLPHE RIP]

... Then, I hope you can see him make it through.

[this trial, at least.]

[chrysanths]

I do. I really do. I feel the same about Lucas... He also went on with Yves.

[ There's a complicated expression on his face for a moment. ]

But both of them remember a completely different set of events, including how I died.

So it's, complicated.