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[So having got back from the mission on the late 23rd, Masaomi allowed himself roughly a day to detox. He didn't even really go to do his training regime. He just went around town seeing who he could talk to and generally enjoying being back in this village. Because he does, well... like it, these days. (if you want to have your character run into him on the 24th that's cool)

But sometime on the 24th or today on the 25th, he goes to visit Mikado... and Mikado's not there. He tries the journal, and he's- gone.

Gone home, that is. Again. He stares in shock for a moment, wondering what he should feel like. He's surprised by how he can't really feel anything but a general moroseness. He's not violently enraged like last time. He's not even totally sad, really. Mikado might have been his best friend at home, but he feels so incredibly distanced from that home, that life, and that destiny, going into the future, that he knows he's going back to. What he's learned and fought with Mikado about doesn't make it any better. So on the 25th, Masaomi seeks out Anri to talk with her before going to see if there's anything neat in the item shop. He then goes back to his apartment, having found something neat (feel free to run into him during this too if you want)]

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Hey, Luceti. [Maaomi is now on the roof of his building. It's early evening, and he's propped the book up to see him sitting here in a chair. he has a flare gun in his hand and he's looking at the sky] It seems I'm the last man standing from Ikebukuro now. Weird how that works, huh?

[And then he points the flare gun straight up and shoots it - a flare into the night, like Men do (feel free to have your character action-react to a flare being shot up from the roof of C1 too). He then goes to cut off the recording

He then goes to send a message to MARS, in particular to CJ to try to summon him and haggle about a price on something]

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[It's later when he meanders back there. He was looking for Anri by now, really, to see if she's still around and then possibly to see if Mikado ended up leaving notes (he doubts it) like some people tend to. And as he struts back into the floor of the apartments, he hums to himself.]

Ho, Anri-chan.

Kida-kun..?

[ He's not the person she's expecting-- but that doesn't go to say that she's diappointed. He'll probably have an answer if she can't find Mikado. She waits for an accomplice - Mikado, hopefully - to appear from behind him.

But there's nothing. ]

Mikado-kun isn't with you..

[ It's a clear statement rather than a question. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't worried yet. ]

Nor is he with you! And here I hope he'd've asked you out by now! [He says this in a very flippant tone, getting right up next to her to loom over her shoulders. He's only slightly taller now than he was back home (two inches or less) but it still makes her seem even more tiny. Maybe it's the muscle mass he built up too]

[ The latter of what he says goes ignored for the most part, because she's much too concerned to turn away and deny anything. Her head lowers, though-- if it's possible, she's probably made herself look even smaller. ]

A-ah, um.. [ A pause. ] Did he move..?

[ Sorry, subject change. The romance subject can wait. ]

In a sense. [He tilts his head to the side and frowns. He goes out to pat her on the top of her head. She's so Small]

Back to Ikebukuro, that is.

..?!

[ There's a little noise - something like a gasp, maybe - in response, but there's not much more than that for quite a while. She honestly doesn't know what to say.

From what she knows (or what she remembers being told by everyone else), voluntary return is more or less impossible-- so to hear that is more than concerning. Masaomi's pat does little in consolation. ]

Then he's--.. [ A pause. She's gradually resigning to the fact that he's gone for good. ] .. how?

Magic? Shifting? Rebound? It's the way of this world, Anri-chan. None of us can control that.

[Another pat. For more himself than her, honestly]

.. I'm sorry.

[ Even if she's not really at fault, she still feels a need to apologize. Her head falls once again. ]

Why? You might have some globes, but I don't think you're quite this world.

[...He even cackles a little at his joke]

Um..

[ She understands that it was supposed to be funny-- or, a little, anyway.. but she doesn't get it. He's talking about the world map, right?

The fact that he's made a confusing joke doesn't help the fact she's feeling a little socially inept at the moment. Anri's not sure of what to say - again - but this time, it's moreso because of the person she's talking to than anything else. She doesn't want to say anything wrong.

So she'll go back to his joke. ]

What did you mean.. "globes"..?

[And right now, more than at any other point today, he feels the absence of Mikado. It's been literally years since him and Anri and Mikado were a trio as far as his memories go, and he hasn't seen Anri herself in a long time. ...Mikado would have been the one to catch that, the one to react.]

...Your breasts, Anri-chan.

[ Huh?

Oh.

The innocent glaze leaves her eyes once everything lines up, and her head falls yet again. It should be embarrassing.. but it's not. The fact that both of them are well aware of his absence overwhelms any capacity for abashment. And it hits him harder than it hits her, she notices.

There's another long while spent in silence. ]

...

[ Her eyes run over the ground as if she's to find something to say there. ]

He won't be coming back..?

Who knows? Last time, he came back in a few days. [Last time, I freaked out. His voice is oddly distant. He wonders, idly, if he should ask Anri to go do something with him. Lunch. A movie. anything other than standing in this hallway]

I don't understand.

[ Is that to say that this is only temporary? A holiday, maybe? It hasn't made any sense thus far, and nothing's made things any easier in regards to comprehending things.

Then again, she's never really gotten Luceti in general. ]

I'm.. sorry. I-- [ Her eyebrows start to knit at the bridge of her nose. She's doing all she can to make sure she doesn't make eye contact with him at this point. ]

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[...Alright, fine. His shoulders slump a bit, and he sighs]

Anri-chan, you've been here long enough to get this, right? No one controls if people are coming or going. They're here one minute, they can be gone the next. And then they could never come back or they could come back the next say.

[ She.. nods. It's only a matter of accepting it rather than understanding it, now. ]

.. so anyone could leave next.

[ Either him, or her, or anyone else. It's not really much of a question anymore. He's made everything crystal clear-- she just doesn't really want to take it in and accept it. ]

Eeeh, that's the long and the short of it, Anri-chan.

~♥THIRTY-EIGHT♥~

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