grimgrimwar | Dual Post

OOC: This post is backdated to take place during the media lockdown and the journal section is filtered so only people on the network can see it. This is basically the last open post I'm gonna make with Alex before I tie up all of her plot threads and she leaves the story for a while, so if you have any stuff left you wanna do with her before that, let me know. If you have any event threads you'd like to do with her in this post, lemme know where she needs to be.

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Journal:

They're telling me if I cooperate with them on the stuff that happened with the Barians, I'll get a pass for the stuff I did as a Number Hunter. They're sayin' they'll give me a ticket back to America too.

...the robots aren't chasing me around anymore. My accounts got unfrozen, but they took my passport, so I can't just bolt. Guess they only want me to get the hell outta here after I answer their questions.

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...guess that's that then, huh.

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Event:

[Alex is on the island that was a part of the Barian World. She's observing the various fallen weapons that are strewn about, occasionally lightly putting a hand on one or picking it up for a couple minutes. She seems to be lost in thought.

She can also be elsewhere, if need be.]

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...I don't know if I can get you to trust me. I get the hesitation, believe me, I've seen the bad side enough times.

But I'm going to try. This is... what I'm supposed to be doing, now that I'm back. I should be protecting people. That's what I'm here for.

Even I can't make you trust all authority, I can show you I have the strength to protect them, worst comes to worst.

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Come on. We're the same age. You've been doing what you're doing for like. Three years. Tops. You have a degree in card games. You don't think people who have been politicking their whole lives can give you or me or Juudai the run around if they want to?

[She shakes her head.]

I'm not playing into it, at all.

They can charge me with what they want. I want to stay here. And make sure nobody interferes with the Barians.

Edited 2016-05-20 01:10 (UTC)

Mmm.

What exactly are you going to do, if people interfere?

Stop them. Whatever that entails.

You know I can't let you do that.

[He sighs.]

If you take that up, you'll bee causing a bigger disaster for everyone involved. We're on thin enough ice as-is.

I made a promise to Scythe. If I just turn my back and go back home now and leave the Barians to fend for themselves, it'd be easy for everybody yeah, but then that promise wouldn't mean anything.

[She shrugs.]

Besides, you've never been able to stop me from doing anything, even when we were friends.

Edited 2016-05-20 03:46 (UTC)

I'm not trying to disrespect your promise, I'm saying the Barians will have support. Help from Juudai and I. And maybe politicians can run rings around us, but we're in tooo much of a precarious spot to throw us under the bus. As long as they can't go around us, they have to work with us.

[ He grits his teeth, his fists clenching. ]

Alex, you know I don't want to do this. I'm trying to put this behind us.

I haven't seen anything to suggest either of you are strong enough to do that.

Maybe I was unfair before, fine. But you wanna know the facts? While the rest of us were fighting to save the Barians?

Juudai was here, doing nothing and you were healing up from the last time someone outclassed you to hell and back.

Edited 2016-05-20 04:21 (UTC)

[ He's silent, for a long, long time. ]

...Then I'll prove it to you. I'll prove I didn't come back just to get shown up again.

[ He reaches into his pocket, pulling out his deck. ]

Name your terms. If I win, you agree to the deal. You accept the trade of information to be cleared of all charges. You get your passport back, and you go home.

Edited 2016-05-20 04:26 (UTC)

...

[She lets out a sigh through her nose.]

You're not gonna surprise me by pulling a Number out of nowhere this time.

And I have Scythe's power, and Galaxy-Eyes' true form.

This isn't gonna go the way you want it. I told you before, there's no "reaching me" through a duel.

Edited 2016-05-20 04:34 (UTC)

I don't want to reach you. I want you out of my life. I want you out of the city I'm trying to build.

[ He takes a step forward. ]

I want you to find somewhere you can be happy. Far, far away from me and anyone I care about.

Edited 2016-05-20 05:05 (UTC)

...

[She sighs.]

Not in the Sanctum. Outside.

[She walks past Onni, away from the scattered weapons.]

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