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[For a few seconds, Issei just sits in front of the camera, wearing his normal clothes and with his normal eye color. He waves, and then shuts the camera off.]
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Thank you very much for the rescue. Everyone, I'm all right now, and the rest of the affected people are going to be fine. I know, because I'm going to help save them. (I won't budge on this, so don't try to dissuade me.)

As for what I said and did... well, call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer regular therapy to the supernatural kind. So if you want to ask, I'll do my best to answer. ...That person is me, technically, but more than a little seems to have been lost in translation.

[Failed private, easily hackable]
I looked like a tramp. Forget looking like one, I acted like one! And I - with - if I didn't have people to rescue I'd spend the rest of the day in purifying myself! No, I'd spend the entire week doing it, just to be certain I was rid of the unclean influences!

Am I supposed to return Nakamori's undergarments to her now...? I don't have any use for them myself. But I've never been in such a situation before! I don't know how to deal with this!

((Okay! I don't know how other people are handling this, but I'm going to say that all posts made on the 15th (including Haruto's last one) are before Issei's rescue, and all posts made after that are after the rescue. It's easier for me to keep track of, and I'd be remiss in not letting his boyfriend have a good panic post. Also, holy crap guys, did you see how many comments were on there? I love all of you for making Shadow!Issei so fun to play~))

Comments

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Only slightly, and only with a concrete "yes." Not that classical artwork or illustrations from the Kama Sutra, which is really just an instruction manual, count as pornography.

He shows such restraint, it's actually rather cute~

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That's better than just... what you do.

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Follow my impulses, you mean? Instead of planning everything out so far that I can predict exactly what you'll say ten comments from now? How deeply you'll breathe next?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

...How would you ever figure out what I would say in ten comments?

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

By directing the conversation in such a way that I make you say what I want, of course. It's all manipulation.

...now I'm going to start counting comments.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Suppose I ignore you?

Oh boy. ^^; From Issei's last comment? Or from Kurama's "ten comments from now?"

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Then I would have purposefully maneuvered you to a place where I wanted you to ignore me.

From "ten comments from now", I was thinking. So this is #5?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You think too highly of yourself.

Works for me! #6

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

It's how I survived, manipulating everyone to do as I wanted or needed of them. It's how I control every battle I engage in, in order to defeat my opponent.

#7

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's useful in battle, but I'm not fond of it in a social context.

#8

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Survival ranks above the social niceties. One has to do what one must when one's mother decides that her son isn't worth the air he breathes and certainly not worthy of being in her sight.

#9... um, wait, this isn't going to work out?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry to hear that, but it doesn't excuse continuing to do it.

...Not really, no. Pretend this one #9 then?

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, perhaps not. It all really depends on which world's standards you measure by, doesn't it?

All right, then.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You're reminding me of someone.

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Exactly~

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You have no idea of who, do you?

...Mun has a vauge idea? Shinji from Issei's canon?

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Of course I do. I do my research.

I was going with Kotomine, actually. Manipulative bastard who's all 'values are subjective, la'.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You'd say that even if you didn't know.

*TV Tropes him* Ah ha~ I see!

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Kotomine, yes?

Yep!

[stripping.livejournal.com]

...okay, you're good.

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Why thank you, Issei~!

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Do you have to tilde at me?

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Of course! I so rarely get to use it, so I'm going to take advantage while I can~

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I would personally feel better if you did not.

[ravagers-rose.livejournal.com]

Why? It's just a punctuation mark~

[Yes, now he's doing it on purpose]