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[gorb]

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[gorb]

( This kid. )

Now if only you could summon a cat so the girls will stop asking.

[shadowban]

...i have a tiger? they're a big cat.

[ and also he has to exorcise it first, which... work in progress! ]

[gorb]

Unfortunately not cuddle sized.

[shadowban]

they can be cuddled if we try hard enough. the dogs can be.

[ the dogs sit on you, megumi. ]

[gorb]

One day you'll be smothered.

[shadowban]

i'll happily accept my fate.

[gorb]

Your family won't be happy.

Probably neither will the dogs.

[shadowban]

[ dangerously— ]

if i die won't the dogs also be released back into the... wherever shikigami come from?

i would be freeing them from indentured servitude.

[gorb]

( This kid.

Maybe he should ask Shoko for that therapist number she keeps trying to palm off on him. )

There's probably no biscuits in the void.

[shadowban]

[ ...this is true. ]

i also wouldn't be around to give them biscuits. would they remember me when the next ten shadows user is born?

[gorb]

I don't know.

But you're fond of them, aren't you? Why are you so eager to cast them aside?

[shadowban]

i don't want to cast them aside. that's not
you know that isn't what i mean when
geto-san.

[ this is distressing. even the idea of causing his dogs to think he doesn't want them — it stresses him out. ]

why would you say this?

[gorb]

( Carefully -. )

Because sometimes I think you place too little importance on yourself. I'm not trying to be cruel, Megumi. I just want you to know that your absence would be felt. Not just by your shikigami.

How would you feel if it were one of us? If I started talking about it so blithely? Wouldn't it worry you? Or Tsumiki? Nanako? Mimiko? Satoru? Our family would not simply stumble without you. It would be a wound we'd never heal from. That's why we want you to be careful. Not because it makes your missions less precise, but because we love you.