saturations | AUDIENCE FOR: kumon hyodo

We do. Some more than others, but we do. Good company.

That's good. I dunno how long you guys have been here, but being alone for years and years and not getting along sounds terrible.

Or maybe it's hard not to get along with people when you've been with them alone for a long time?

Mmmph.... Maybe?

[There's like 20 something guys in Mankai so they're never really alone but Juza and Banri don't get along.]

Maybe we just got lucky, then.

Being lucky's good, right?

[they shrug.]

I don't know. No one gets lucky or unlucky all the time. It comes back around.

Hmm... I can't tell if ending up in the prism is unlucky or not.

That's something you'll have to decide for yourself, I think.

[a rumble of laughter.]

Maybe it's a little of both. There's things you leave behind any time you make a change, but there's new things to gain, too.

Things we leave behind? Kind of like... growing up?

That's one example of it. But it's most of what life is, isn't it? Losing some things, gaining other things.

... Yeah...

Do you ever regret leaving something behind?

[they consider it, taking their time as always.]

I'm sure I have. That feels right. But the past has a way of fading away here. Not so important anymore.

[H...hm...]

I don't think I want to forget my past though...

No one said you had to forget it?

[they sound confused.]

Just less important after a while.

Oh.

[He definitely misunderstood that a little but he nods.]

That sounds like it comes with time.

Yeah. A little bit of time, and something that's lost isn't painful anymore, just a piece of your history.

Lost something recently?

It's hard to say if I really lost something... but I had to quit the baseball club recently.

T...Thanks to that, I got to start acting. And I got to meet people I could trust and rely on. And I'm really grateful to all of them! I am.

So there's a loss, but also a gain. And maybe with time, you won't feel as though you lost the baseball club. You'll feel as though you were once part of it, and by feeling that way you'll have it back.

Hmm... That's a nice way to look at it.

[Unsure if that's really going to be how he feels in a few years... but he doesn't know the future, right?

He continues grinding it all together.]

[yes, he can finish that and put it in the pot! he will have an antidote to lab monster lovin' juice.]

Is this good?

Very good. This is going to help out a lot.

[the impression of a smile.]

Thanks for coming by. You come over any time, and we can talk some more.

'kay.

[Smiles back.]

It's really easy to talk to you.

You're not so hard to talk to yourself. But I'm always here if you need a friendly ear.

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