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[abu]

Hello! You've reached Izumida Touichirou but I'm not here right now, sorry~!

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[abu]

How can you be so sure, though? You're here and you're safe now and you don't know what'll happen if you go back again.

[Liiiiight petting of the turtle's shell. It'd be like patting her back if she was human, that should be all right.]

[bubblings]

Cuz shigur3 sa1d she'd b3 the sacr1fice. [ She hides her little head in his shirt. ]

[abu]

[He gasps a little at that. Who says something like that to a little girl!?]

Well, Shigure's not here and you are. Maybe in the meantime you and Yukihina-san can come up with some other alternative, but even if you can't I don't believe that's going to happen.

[bubblings]

[ Hiyori's brother and best friend says that, that's who. ] B-but Hiy0ri didn'7 rememb3r th1s plac3 when sh3 w-w3nt home, wh@7 if s-she doesn't rememb3r next t1me either? [ She's fourteen years old, she doesn't have all the answers. Especially not when someone she loves so much tells her to die. ]

[abu]

[Get better friends, tiny turtle girl.]

Maybe you can find a way to remember, like... maybe at night, write something on the back of your hand to remind you. Then if you get taken away in the night again, you'll have it there and you can remember.

[He doesn't expect her to have any answers, but he also very much doesn't want her to die or to be so frightened that she's going to. Hiyori-san is too young to be so scared.]

[bubblings]

[ He's not as bad as he sounds. He's going to save her, but she doesn't know that yet. It's not like he planned on saving her though. ] D0 U think th@t will w0rk? Hiy0ri can tr-try...

[abu]

[She seems like she's calming down a little but, well. That may not last, because he can't help but be honest with her.]

I haven't been back home yet so I'm not sure, but if you were gone from here then you must still have the same body there, so anything you do here will probably go with you. So I think it's a good idea.

[bubblings]

E-even th0ugh Hiy0ri was in h3r un1form again wh3n she c@me there but she wa5 wearing pajama5 here...? [ She's so confused about what to feel right now, but yes, she's a little bit calmer. ]

[abu]

[He hadn't thought about that but... hmm. He still doesn't want to lie.]

Well, you change clothes here and you're still in the same body, right? It's probably something like that. These are your Holly Heights pajamas so they had to stay here, but if the writing is on your skin then it can't stay behind.

[At least, this is what he'd do.]

[bubblings]

M-m@ybe, but h0w d0es sh3 kn0w when sh3 sh0uld writ3 on herself?

[abu]

You could just do it every night, since this happened when you were sleeping. Maybe write something different, like the date, so you know what day you left here.

[bubblings]

Ok-0kay, sh3'll tr-try.

[abu]

Good. [Izumida touches her shell again lightly, but she seems much calmer.]

And I know I don't have any special powers and I've certainly never killed anyone, but if there's anything I can do to help, Hiyori-san, I will.

[Possibly against all good sense, Izumida's developed a bit of a soft spot for Hiyori-san, especially when she's Lost. It's not his fault. She's a tiny turtle with little ribbons.]

[bubblings]

U c@n't h-help b3cause Hiy0ri is fr0m a different w0rld than U. [ She tries to wipe her tears with her legs, but it doesn't go so well. At least the crying has almost stopped now. ]

[abu]

[Well, that's certainly blunt. He can at least try to dry her face off a little, and he does.]

We're both in this world now, though, and that's more what I meant.

[bubblings]

Th3n what c@n U do? [ He really has calmed her down a lot though, so he's helped. ]