Appointment Post

[neverplaysfair]

Post for one-off threads with Joshua. Please include the date in the subject line.

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[neverplaysfair]

I've stopped expecting anything from this place.

[so_shik]

Maybe I should stop too before it gets to be too much of a pain.

[neverplaysfair]

How long have you been here?

[so_shik]

Two and a half years.

[neverplaysfair]

...

I see. [ How long did he have until she'd moved on from Shibuya? It was a race against time he didn't know if he could win. ] If there's hope for Neku, there's hope for all of us.

[ After all, when it was Sanae who'd gone, that may just as well have been him making his own way home. Not that Joshua believed that it was the case, but it was a possibility he'd been afraid of. ]

[so_shik]

...yeah, Neku was kind of the huge factor, wasn't he?

[neverplaysfair]

... He was. [ You have no idea, Shiki. ]

[so_shik]

Why him?

[neverplaysfair]

In the end, why any of us? Random chance.

[so_shik]

I thought you specifically chose him.

[neverplaysfair]

[ "Because he was the worst person in Shibuya." That would go over well. ]

Someone like him.

[so_shik]

If you could have used someone like him, then why him?

[neverplaysfair]

Random chance.

[so_shik]

I don't know if I believe that.

[neverplaysfair]

Well, what answer are you looking for?

[so_shik]

The absolute truth. I know you, you know all of the details.

[neverplaysfair]

That's not for you to know.

[so_shik]

And why not?

[neverplaysfair]

You chose a path which led you out of that world.

[so_shik]

But you told him the truth, didn't you?

[neverplaysfair]

What makes you so sure I did?

[so_shik]

You don't think Neku and I talk about things?

[neverplaysfair]

The absolute truth isn't for either of you to learn.

[so_shik]

So you lied to him, too?

[neverplaysfair]

I never once told him I was telling him everything.