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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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I'll try to make sure that you don't get bored! Should I introduce you to everyone, or would that be strange?

We've been friends long enough, I think you could introduce me.

O-okay. *fidgets with one of her braids* I haven't told anybody that, um... that all of you know about me. That might be a problem.

You should tell them sooner rather than later. When you can choose the time.

Do you think so?

When everything is calm, yes.

I suppose it is bad to hide these kinds of things.

I can understand doing it for safety.

I don't know if Shirogane-san would be angry with me for telling. As for the other girls, Ichigo-san really just wants to appear normal, Zakuro-san is a little scary, Minto-san might be upset too, and Bu-ling would take it as an excuse to announce it to the world so that she could use her abilities during her act.

I can handle them.

They're nice people! *flails*

Nice people can be difficult.

Even so...

I promise not to be mean to them.

R-right, I should believe you.

I like to think I'm not a mean person by nature.

Of course you're not! I just worry!

Everything will be fine.

I know you're right, but I've failed them, even if it was kind of the community's fault.

That's not a failure.

It is. I was trying not to tell anyone.

Did you have to not tell anyone?

Nobody wants to be found out. Well, um, most of us don't.

I won't use it against you.

I really do trust you, Issei-san. Please don't doubt that.

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