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[unknownrival]

[Picture of a phone goes here]

You've reached Ryudo Issei. I can't pick up the phone right now for one reason or another, but if you leave a message, I'll be sure to get back to you as soon as possible.

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[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

How long have you known?

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about?

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Don't play stupid, it doesn't suit you. How long have you known that Alexander is gone?

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

A little less than a week.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

And you didn't find it pertinent to, perhaps, mention it when you found out?

[Instead of, you know, letting him find out when he went to see if Rider would help him with that Shadow business and found out that his phone number was disconnected.]

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Do you think I knew how to bring it up to someone who already hated me for trying to steal him? I'm not trying to get in between you two - I thought you would have found out yourself much earlier.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

I don't hate you, whatever my Shadow may have lead you to believe. I know that you weren't trying to get between he and I.

I... wasn't sure if he was really gone, for the first day or two.

[More like holding out on the stupid hope that he might still be around.]

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Neither was I. If there was a chance that I was wrong, I'd have liked to hold onto it.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

...

[So did he, Issei. So did he.]

He's gone. There's nothing to hold on to.

[Well, Waver at least had practice in losing the things he cared about. This was hardly the first time.]

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's quite right.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

And what do you mean by that?

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

We're vassals of the king whether or not the king is here.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Yes, we are. I am well aware of that, Ryudo. But we cannot serve a man who isn't here. We cannot obey a man who isn't here. We cannot hold onto him. We can only move on and live by the things he taught us.

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I'm not denying that.

[...Awkward.]

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't really do this sort of thing.]

...Good.

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Did you need something else?

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

No.

Re: [audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Please stay well, then.

[audio]

[profcharisma.livejournal.com]

Yourself, as well.

[Click.]

[audio]

[croibhristeoir]

[You know how Lancer doesn't really get angry? Oh, he'd acknowledge that he's angry since he's accepted his Shadow. But actually seem like it? No. He'd been careful to keep his anger in check since his death in the fourth war.]

[Until now. Because boy does he ever sound pissed.]

Issei. Sometime in the near future I may well disappear for a short time. Don't panic, and don't let Arturia know that anything is wrong.

[Today on Learning How Anger Works 101: Misery Leads To Anger Leads To Stupid Thoughts.]

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

W-what's going on?

[audio]

[croibhristeoir]

Nothing. I was merely giving you fair warning in the event such a thing should happen.

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Then what made you think such a warning was necessary?

[audio]

[croibhristeoir]

...At the moment, nothing is happening. I was speaking only for a hypothetical situation.

[audio]

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Hypothetically, why would you not want Saber to know that you were gone?