a big ass mess.

[kiritin]

BUILDINGFRIENDSHIPS! ♪

@archer regrets entering the chat.

@lostsong yiffs the chat.

@emperor owns the building and the chat.

@glory trolls the chat.

@matriarch ships everyone in the chat.

@angel needs the chat to shut up.

@sen brought an alliance between building to the chat.

@atsushi is too pure for the chat.

@grandcypher needs to give the chat a thorough check-up.

@launcher should be banned from the chat.

@warum regrets the existence of the chat.

@revolutionary is seducing the chat as we speak.

@kaiserschmarrn hypocritically judges the chat.

@(america) wants to smoochy smooch the chat.

@ciao [flavor text] the chat.

@rom yells some sense into the chat.

@deadoralive tried to gamble away the chat once.

@(feather) [flavor text] the chat.

@(nero) [flavor text] the chat.

@ミリン [flavor text] the chat.

@shieldboy doesn't realize he's been talking to the chat-bot for weeks.

Comments

[kiritin]

I wouldn't call it perfect. As any other place, it has its flaws and qualities. If it were truly so perfect, it wouldn't require heroes to exist.

[ At Eichi's next messages, however, Arjuna stares. Deep, rotten, and it's a good thing, that he's alone. Somewhere, perhaps a dark alleyway, staring at the bright screen of his communication device. This boy is treading where he should not.

Part of him, small and dark, that doesn't go by Arjuna, almost, almost wishes to wrap his hands around Eichi's throat, and... ]

I'm confident in what I feel, and in their righteousness.

[ He isn't, at all. ]

I would rather if you did not make assumptions about me.

[finethanks]

A lack of proof doesn't mean that something isn't true, you know? Assumptions are natural. I'm certain you must assume some things about me.

But if you'd like to prove me wrong, then go ahead and tell me this: are you, perhaps, bearing any ill-feelings towards me now? Are you fit to be a hero by your own standards?

I'm curious to see where you go from here... Arjuna-san. ♪

[kiritin]

[ Eichi's words seem like a stab in the chest. Like this teenage boy has seen into the depths of his heart, and holds all his secrets hostage. It's excruciatingly. Suffocating. Disturbing. And it proves his words right.

But at the same time, this is something Arjuna has gotten used to a long, long time ago. ]

I have no reasons to bear ill-feelings towards you, Eichi Tenshouin.
And as I have told you, I am a hero. You are no enemy of mine for me to fight and defeat.
If I have given you reasons to believe otherwise, then I apologize.

[ Lies, one after another, down to his apology. But Arjuna will swallow those feelings, those thoughts, blame it all on the one who shoulders his sins. Because the hero Arjuna should never bear the hatred that births inside his heart. ]

[finethanks]

[Ahh, a much cleaner response. Well, it just means that Eichi will have to try harder. As much as he'd like to believe that heroes are something that exist in that way... as much as he wants to think it, he's never seen it for himself. So of course he wants to test it at every angle he can.

Of course he wants to be proven wrong.

But he doesn't think he will be.]

What a relief. It had seemed, for a moment, with your typing style, that I might have troubled you in some way... But I'd hate for that to be the case, you know?

After all... I believe we should all get along.

Thank you, hero.

[kiritin]

You are welcome.
Now if you'd excuse me, there's a thief that demands my attention.

[ And now he's bitter to the core!!! Thanks Eichi!!!! ]

[finethanks]

Now that you've been alerted... nothing more will be stolen under your watch, right? Save us, Arjuna-san. I'll reward you with a kiss, if you do.

Bye bye. ♪