KAGACHI;

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Wow. [Thanks? But alright...he rotates the knife and moves in for a stab? There's confidence behind it but also ahhhh???? It also means he's stumbling just a little off-course.]

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[ahhhhh is bad, junpei :/

which is to say he sidesteps and then sweeps his leg out in an attempt to trip junpei. but also uh grab junpei's wrist too in the process, since if junpei does trip, kagachi doesn't want him to fall onto the knife, whoops.]

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[LOOK!!! Kagachi's leg swings but at least he's dodging that to stay on his own two feet, bouncing back a little with the knife in his hand.]

Tripping me was not part of the deal. [Except there's a pause as his gaze goes just past Kagachi, eyes widening a little.] ...huh?

[He shakes his off, excuse him...it seems that tucked out of the way and hidden until this moment there was a golden revolver. We're doing this, and then he can try to stab Kagachi again ig.]

[preceptive]

Your enemy isn't going to play fair either.

[for a moment i was like DID JUNPEI SECRETLY HAVE A SECOND GUN ON HIM?? before i realized memshare]

Something wrong?

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Okay yeah but my enemy's probably not going to be offering to teach me. [Stop arguing, Junpei. Also god I wish, but no, he's just going and fishing out this gun and glancing at it.]

You tell me. This is--[He doesn't get a chance to say what it is because the gun crumbles in his hand and there's a barrier up, suddenly shoving Kagachi into a wall of one of Junpei's memories up to 12:40:46. Have fun, cw for a depiction of some violence against women in theory.]

[preceptive]

[...

um.

what the fuck did he just see.]

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[...hah. Haaaaaaah. He still has his hand formed in a loose grip around an invisible gun, plus the knife in his hand and he's going to stare into the abyss quietly.]

That wasn't what it looked like. [Other than he definitely beat the shit out of Carlos so like. That's fine. At least he wasn't bullshitting when he said he could punch!!]

[preceptive]

... I got that feeling, because otherwise I'd be very impressed at your and Carlos's show of friendship here.

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[He makes a face.] He didn't exactly tell us what he was doing before he pulled that trick. Guess he wanted to make it look as realistic as possible.

...we were being watched while we were in the bomb shelter. So his brilliant idea included pulling us out of sight of the cameras and making it look like a fight.

[preceptive]

... Kind of a drastic plan, but clever. Did it work?

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Yes and no. We managed to stop our bracelets from injecting us and erasing our memories, but we found out it didn't matter when the guy watching us knew what we were doing the entire time and let us think we were getting away with it.

[So. That sucked.]

[preceptive]

[... ah. yeah, he knows the feeling.]

Sounds frustrating.

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An understatement. [But it's fine. Sometimes you just deal.

The barrier's still up though and he approaches with the knife, poking at it to see if it'll shatter.] Why's this thing still up?

[preceptive]

Good question.

[and the answer is because it's time for round two (cw: suicide imagery), up to 1:23:30. fun.]

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[The barrier begins to break down and Junpei's giving Kagachi a semi-bewildered look. It's not that he doesn't understand (except he sort of doesn't) and for a moment he's stewing over his options.]

...that wasn't the only timeline, was it?

[preceptive]

[ha... ha...]

Well, I don't necessarily understand all of it, but no, it wasn't.

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So you got a do-over at least? Who...was that?

[preceptive]

I'm not sure I'd call it a do-over, but I did prevent that future from happening, yes.

Who was who? The woman?

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Yeah, the woman. I was a little distracted. [By Kagachi working on stabbing himself! He guesses!] What was that all about?

[preceptive]

[hm.]

... That was my sister.

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Tense family dynamics then. [Yikes.] ...when you told me you worked with souls, I don't think I really thought yours would be split like that.

[preceptive]

... That definitely isn't normal.

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[Well neither are multiple timelines but it's fine.]

Am I allowed to ask about it, or do you wanna skip it and go back to me trying not to stab myself?

[preceptive]

I've told you about reincarnation, right?

[maybe?? he's lost track of who he's mentioned it to.]

The gist of it is that my past self had a... complicated life, and his internal conflict caused his soul to split into two after his death. I was born as half a soul.

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You did, yeah. [But that...] Seems complicated. And you, as yourself, had to find the other half of your soul and weren't having much luck, I'm guessing? I didn't know souls could split like that.