momming | Catch-all; Mandricardo

[Oh.]

[Oh no.]

[He can't help it. His eyes also start watering with tears.]

[He feels guilty.]

You shouldn't apologize. I just...I just want you to keep goin'.

[ She also feels guilty!! MANDRICARDO, DON'T CRY!! ]

I don't know... what else I can do, for everyone. I-- don't really want to leave you.

[ She's just. Emotional. ]

I-I don't know what I can do, either.

[He's wiping at his eyes, but the tears keep coming.]

Wang Lu...he's here, and now he's gone, and I...I want to wake up from this dream, Otome. And I don't...want you to have to suffer through it.

... This-- all of this is too cruel. [ Rather softly, as she beckons him closer. ]

I'll... try to see this through, properly. More than anything... I really want people to be okay. To get to go home, to get to be with whoever they want.

[He does, after a moment, moving to sit next to her. He's still crying.]

Yeah. I really agree with that. People have loved ones, where they come from. So do you. And I...would do everything in my power to make that happen.

[...]

All my loved ones are here. I have nothing to return back to.

[ She just gingerly reaches out with the sleeve of her doctor coat to dab at his eyes. ]

... You don't have anyone at all? Anything?

[ She is so concerned?? ]

[He almost makes as if to pull away, but reconsiders, because he doesn't want to seem rude.]

Why would I? I'm practically like the demons you summon on your phone. When I die, I just go back into storage. Its not like I have a life, outside of summoning.

[ He's a good boy. ]

... Is it such a guarantee that you'll die, if you return? What if you go somewhere else?

I can't go anywhere else. Unless someone or something gives me the mana to stay in this world, I'll disappear.

We're not like...completely physical beings. And even if I return, and I'm summoned again...all my memories of this place will be gone.

... I see. So if someone were to give you enough mana to reliably sustain you, you could go somewhere else and keep your memories? Hypothetically.

...

[He looks...crushed.]

Wang Lu said that in his world, there was artifacts and stuff that could provide magical energy. [...] I think he wanted to find a way to make me stick around. So yeah. Maybe that would be possible.

... I wonder if it's possible, actually. If they could bring us all to one world from different ones, then...

[ Hm. ]

Maybe.

[But for now...]

We just have to focus on tomorrow, right?

... Right.

[ With a bit of sorrow, but also conviction. ]

I'm sure we'll find the truth.

Catch-all; Mandricardo

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me unable to tag this last night THROUGH MY TEARS

GODDDDD

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