I just want a bit part in your life

The video turns on when a pillow hits it. Young Issei and Eisuke are laughing and throwing pillows at each other. Eisuke seems to be winning their impromptu pillow fight.

Finally, the storm of pillows dies down. Issei leans back on one and asks his new friend, "Eisuke?"

"Yeah?" Eisuke asks, blinking.

"What do you think of girls?" Issei wonders aloud.

Eisuke closes his eyes, deep in thought. "Girls are... mysterious."

"So they are," Issei agrees. "So they are."

[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.]

Hiwatari, go back to school. It's important, your family connections won't get you everything in life.

In other reaction-related news, my boyfriend doesn't think I'm a tramp, and his and my opinions are frankly the only ones that are actually relevant in this matter. ...Though the amount of people coming out of the woodwork to support me was refreshing.

The camera opens on Issei's empty bedroom, facing the door. Nothing unusual to note here, nope.

Nothing unusual to note, that is, until Issei flings the door open and practically prances into the room. He skips, he does a little twirl at the end, he radiates joy in every possible way.

Then, very carefully, he takes something out of his pocket; a flower. Issei stares at it in a manner that can only be described as lovingly, before holding it close to his chest with a blissful expression. He sets the flower inside of a vase on a shelf, and keeps his blissful expression until the feed ends.

[Video]
[For a few seconds, Issei just sits in front of the camera, wearing his normal clothes and with his normal eye color. He waves, and then shuts the camera off.]
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Thank you very much for the rescue. Everyone, I'm all right now, and the rest of the affected people are going to be fine. I know, because I'm going to help save them. (I won't budge on this, so don't try to dissuade me.)

As for what I said and did... well, call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer regular therapy to the supernatural kind. So if you want to ask, I'll do my best to answer. ...That person is me, technically, but more than a little seems to have been lost in translation.

[Failed private, easily hackable]
I looked like a tramp. Forget looking like one, I acted like one! And I - with - if I didn't have people to rescue I'd spend the rest of the day in purifying myself! No, I'd spend the entire week doing it, just to be certain I was rid of the unclean influences!

Am I supposed to return Nakamori's undergarments to her now...? I don't have any use for them myself. But I've never been in such a situation before! I don't know how to deal with this!

((Okay! I don't know how other people are handling this, but I'm going to say that all posts made on the 15th (including Haruto's last one) are before Issei's rescue, and all posts made after that are after the rescue. It's easier for me to keep track of, and I'd be remiss in not letting his boyfriend have a good panic post. Also, holy crap guys, did you see how many comments were on there? I love all of you for making Shadow!Issei so fun to play~))

He's fine.

Thank you for your concern, everyone.

((Issei's being vague on purpose, but he's talking about Haruto, who's recovering from the stabbing.))