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[alephbet]

I think I'd better say this before anything worse happens.

If you are particularly religious, particularly if you are Mesian, Christian, Jewish, or anyone else who would be offended talking to someone who had killed YHVH back home, please tell me in this post and then we can just not talk to each other and save ourselves a lot of trouble.

We're fighting the administrators, not each other.

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[technologic]

Hopefully.

Have you already gotten into an argument with someone about this?

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[evokingfool]

And when He comes back, won't He try to seek vengeance?

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[warriorscribe]

*For a long time, Enoch is silent. He lowers his head, trying to compose himself enough to say something, anything. But everything he can say is wrong somehow.

Eventually, he raises his head again and croaks out a request through a tight throat.*

Show yourself.

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[alephbet]

[He can't refuse that demand, and so when the video turns on, Aleph is meeting the camera's gaze with a calm expression.]

It's me.

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[alephbet]

I doubt I'm getting off scot-free for this. As for the world... He's always wrathful at the world...

[alephbet]

I'm not going to apologize to anyone for it, because it was right to do it.

[alephbet]

[Doesn't it seem like a subject like this shouldn't have smiley faces?]

At least one person has faith in me.

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[alephbet]

Yes. Ruler.

[fractus_animus]

You shouldn't, anyway. If they're offended by it they're either blind or they lived in a different reality. There's no much you can really do about it, is there? It's entirely on that person.

How many people can even say they managed to take on something like that, anyway?

[alephbet]

Not many. But even if I'm proud of my strength, that doesn't factor into this.

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[warriorscribe]

Aleph...

*It's a long moment before Enoch says anything again. Aleph had seemed so unassuming. A friendly man with an unusual name, a history of loss and a poor singer's ear.

And everything he could ask, how?, why? either needed no answer or had it already, his mouth closing before uttering each. Nothing he could say would change anything, would make him feel any better.

Can't condone it, can't condemn it. Can't dissociate (never can). Still feeling vaguely ill.*

I...

*He can only shake his head, slowly, as if it was too heavy.*

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[alephbet]

...Perhaps you'd better have a moment to yourself. I'll wait.

[hachitaro]

[There is never an inappropriate time for a smiley face.]

I'm sure there are others! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[alephbet]

Thank you very much.

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[technologic]

Oh.

I'll have to make sure to never mention you around her then.

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[alephbet]

Thank you, I appreciate it.

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[evokingfool]

If something happened to you, will there be anyone to stop him?

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[alephbet]

I have faith in my companions.

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[evokingfool]

[He smiles, even when Aleph can't see it.] They must be good companions.

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[alephbet]

They are. When we get out of this place, I'm going to return to them.

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[evokingfool]

You believe they're alive?

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[alephbet]

I do believe that.

[One of them is here. And where he goes, Aleph is sorely tempted to follow. Aside from Hiroko, there is no one alive that Aleph would rather fight beside.]

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[technologic]

It's nothing you need to thank me for.

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[alephbet]

You're going out of your way to save me trouble.

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[technologic]

But that's what you should do for others, right?