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SOBA

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CHARACTER NAME

Geto Suguru

CIVILIAN NAME

Zaru Soba

TEAM

Brimstone

HOUSING NUMBER

003

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Comments

[shadowban]

i used to try to jump sensei every chance i got. you should ask him about it sometime.

[ it was the quickest way megumi thought to train himself, because he always loses. there's a good reason why he was allowed to go on missions before he formally joined the school. ]

[gorb]

...

Is that what you find enriching?

[shadowban]

i like reading. i like animals.

i like to put people in their place when they think they can just go around bullying others. or i used to, anyway.

turns out the world's got too many bullies to deal with all the time.

[gorb]

Haha.

You're sadly right. But that doesn't mean you can't still pick your battles.

[shadowban]

did you, geto-san? not with sensei, but with everyone else.

[gorb]

I picked ones that couldn't be won. Isn't that how the story goes? But maybe I was a little like you then too. I just wanted the world to stop punching downwards. Just not in a way that was heroic.

[shadowban]

[ this is too familiar. ]

in another life, i might've turned out like you. isn't that scary? history repeating itself, entirely by accident.

[gorb]

I think we should be glad that you didn't. I don't think it would suit you.

[shadowban]

i wouldn't have lasted for very long.

yuji brought me back. he tried more than anyone else ever had. if i didn't have him, i don't know where i'd be.

[gorb]

I'm glad the two of you have each other. That's an important thing, you should protect it as long as you can.

[shadowban]

he's my best friend, and i love him.

...kind of like you and sensei.

[gorb]

( KIND OF. )

Ah, if only we had been that solid when we were your age.

[shadowban]

in both your defence, you didn't have an ancient demonic sorcerer puppeteering you two.

...just fushiguro-san, i suppose.

[gorb]

It might have ended the same way without him. The fault was in me.

[shadowban]

does it really matter whose fault it was, in the end?

it's not your fault that our society is messed up.

[gorb]

Maybe.

It hardly matters now.

[shadowban]

because you're both happy, or because you both died?

[gorb]

Both?

What's done is done. We only have here. Better to work hard at it now.

[shadowban]

wouldn't that be so depressing ? that we've suffered so much in life already, and it's all for nothing in the end.

[gorb]

It was depressing even when there was a future. I'm probably not the one you should ask that of.

( Considering how badly he probably needed sedating. )

[shadowban]

you say that because you failed.

[gorb]

Probably.

We'll never really know.

[shadowban]

...no, i guess we won't.

do you play sports, geto-san?

[gorb]

Not in a long time.

I used to like basketball. How about you?

[shadowban]

i've played some. it's not too fun playing against sensei after a while, since he always wins.

can we play?