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[Video - daydreams virus.]

[A scene that would not be out of place in Issei's temple normally. With a small smile, Issei pours tea for another man, lean and stern-looking even when there was nothing to be particularly stern with. He sits down across from him after being thanked and sips his own tea before speaking.]

You know... I always did want to introduce you to my friends. A number have come and gone over the years, so I can't reflect too much on them... ah, but considering the subject, I suppose that doesn't matter as much. Still, I don't want to get too caught up in missing everyone.

You would have liked Kasumi-nee best, I think. She came to stay with us for a time, and is as dear to me as a sister as you are as a brother. She's kind, and gentle, and I don't think that you could have found any fault with her. Perhaps even you two would have considered each other siblings by extension.

And besides her... Retasu, too. She's younger than me, still a student, but you would have been a good teacher for her. Perhaps, with the encouragement of someone like you who can always be believed, we could have helped her more. I'll do my best on my own. For that matter, I would have liked Karen to be in my class, even if we had to compete for the position of student council president. The school could only benefit.

Kaitou Kid, I imagine, you wouldn't have gotten along with well at all. Considering your history, I wonder...

I had my reasons for all of it. You should know that. [He seems completely calm, without any of the anger that might be assumed to come from someone with such harsh features.]

I do. And you should know that his reasons are as good as yours were, and his actions better. Well, maybe it's that I love him that would have driven you to dislike. [Issei chuckles quietly.] You are an elder brother after all. Hakuba would have been more on your good side, intelligent, composed, not drawn too much to rule-breaking. The less said about you and Tyki, I think, the better. And William, no, would I have mentioned Mag to you first?

I could really go on for days about all the people I, at some point or another, wanted you to meet. But in the end, that isn't what I want the most. I wouldn't care who you come to meet or what you think of them if I could have you alive again.

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It sounds like a very interesting place.

It's my home, first and foremost.

I suppose I think that way about mine, too.

I'm glad. It would be painful not to have a home, I think.

My world is a little different now from what it was before, but I think I don't really mind.

How so?

Tokyo is covered in trees and other plants now. They even had to reroute the trains.

I think I remember something about that. Not with much context, however.

Do you remember... *fidgets and looks away* Do you remember when the community posted the fight with Deep Buru? Or, um, part of it... *yeah, the part where you died*

That part, yes.

Everyone was dead. Everything was broken. After the four of us were gone, Ichigo-san was the only one left. She went up to try and fight him -- him and Quiche, I suppose, he must have still been there -- because she was the only one who could. The next thing I remember was that everyone was okay and everything was fine -- better than it was before.

The side effect of Mu Aqua is that it restores everything it's used on to its natural state. We'd used it before; even I'd used it when they filled the coast with red tide to try and kill off the fish so we wouldn't be able to survive much longer. Things are cleaner, better, and they grow where there was nothing before.

I'm glad you turned out alright.

I feel bad for letting it happen. I can't imagine what Ichigo-san was going through.

Don't feel bad for dying when you were trying your best not to. It's unproductive and it only hurts yourself.

But...

I really just want you to be happy.

But it must have hurt a lot more for her than if I'd been the one to do it! Although... I don't know if I could have. And that might be for the same reason.

I don't know the particulars... but dying hurts a fair bit.

The host body he engineered and took over was somebody who means a lot to her. She almost couldn't fight to begin with. Well, until Minto-san slapped her and yelled at her.

I see. I couldn't fight someone like that.

I don't think I could, either.

Hopefully, it won't come to that.

What do you mean?

If I had to save the city by fighting a friend, the city would be doomed.

I'm sorry.

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