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[unknownrival]

[Issei looks... alive, at least. He looks downcast, and when he speaks it's low and quiet. But he's alive.]

If there is anything worse than watching your body kill your best friend?

Don't tell me about it.

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[unknownrival]

If that's so then I have a hundred things to apologize to you for.

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[croibhristeoir]

I would vastly prefer that you didn't.

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[unknownrival]

Then please, don't apologize.

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[croibhristeoir]

...very well, I will try not to.

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[unknownrival]

Thank you.

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[croibhristeoir]

Are you going to be alright?

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[unknownrival]

Probably.

[action]

[croibhristeoir]

I'm glad to hear that, at least.

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[unknownrival]

What about you?

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[croibhristeoir]

...

[He just shook his head slightly, worn out and exhausted.]

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[unknownrival]

...I'll make you tea.

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[croibhristeoir]

...don't. Please, just...don't.

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[unknownrival]

What am I supposed to do, then?

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[croibhristeoir]

If I could answer that, this wouldn't be a problem.

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[unknownrival]

No, I suppose it wouldn't.

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[croibhristeoir]

...Your brother may mention something to you about me arriving home carrying a corpse.

[Speaking in an almost deadpan voice, Lancer moved his hand behind his back as if trying to conceal what he was holding.]

Try not to be too alarmed.

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[unknownrival]

[He's not.]

Who are they?

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[croibhristeoir]

...Mami Tomoe.

It could have been part of the virus, I can not yet say for certain.

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[unknownrival]

I dearly hope that it is.

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[croibhristeoir]

I don't know. I want to believe it is, but...were that the case, would this not have disappeared?

[Lancer finally moved his hand from behind his back to show Issei the Grief Seed he'd been holding.]

Perhaps it's lingered because I held on to it, or because that...really did happen.

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[unknownrival]

...I'm going to continue to believe it is, until I can be proven wrong.

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[croibhristeoir]

...

I could have saved her.

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[unknownrival]

How?

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[croibhristeoir]

When a magi like her falls to despair, they become one of the very witches they are dedicated to fighting. Had I only gotten there earlier or said the right things, I could have talked her out of it. I could have saved someone, but I failed.

That's all I ever do. Fail. All that remains of Mami is an empty shell and the leftover seed of a witch--that is my fault and my responsibility.

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[unknownrival]

[He really just has nothing to say to that. He's starting to wonder if he can ever convince Diarmuid that he's not a failure.]