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[Issei is shaking with the force of his sobs. He's obviously been crying for a while.

Eventually, the sobs slow down enough for him to get some words out in between them.]

That wasn't me. The person who hospitalized my father and brother, who drove the other monks to attack each other, who spoke to you all so cruelly - that wasn't me. I could never do such a thing to my family!

Why, wh-why did this happen? What did I possibly do to deserve anyone's ire enough for them to do this? Why did I fail my family and let this happen?! I should have resisted, I should have...

Father... R-Reikan-nii...

[And he bursts into a fresh wave of tears.]

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[stripping.livejournal.com]

No one is more relieved than me.

Ryudo Issei. It's nice to meet you, Yabuki.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

I can imagine.

You too, Ryudo. Who was that before, if you don't mind me asking? He seemed... kinda creepy, not gonna lie.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Mukuro Rokudo. He is very creepy, but telling him that is what got me into this situation.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

O-oh. Yikes.

At least you and your family are alright - ...ah, relatively speaking, anyway.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

It's all relative. At least... it could be worse.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

Outside of that, anyway - ... you alright yourself?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I'm fine. I wasn't harmed during the process, so I'm fine.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

That's good, at least.

And it seems there's a lot of people here that were worried. Myself included, of course. If you ever need to talk to someone, I'm usually willing to listen.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I-it's very kind of you, to do so.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

No problem - I like helping people out.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

So do I. It's nice to be on the receiving end of that, I suppose.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

I like to think so.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

So what do you do for a living?

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

Right now? Just an average high-school student, actually. Still trying to figure out where I wanna go for college - if I wanna go, anyway.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I see. It's my personal belief that most people should go, but I didn't go, so that invalidates my opinion somewhat.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

You never know what life's gonna throw at you.

I dunno. Hopefully I'll still be able to keep in contact with Kyo-san and Saisyu-sensei if I go.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

It's always a pleasure to keep in touch with your friends. I hope you do.

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

I should! Unless Kyo-san decides to leave again without telling anyone where he's going...

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Does that happen often?

[battlememo.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately. But... hopefully, now that he's married, he shouldn't do it so often without Yuki-chan getting mad at him.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Women are good motivating factors for not disappearing suddenly.