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[vermicompost]

I know what happened. Are you happy with yourselves? Doing things when you don't even know what you're doing, or why. Look what you did... there were people suffering, children crying. Do you know how much pain you caused? It isn't right. It isn't fair.

What gives you the right? You take other people's lives in your hands! Take their choices from them. Deciding whether we should live or die for us. Do you think that we want to die? I don't. While there's life, there still hope. We should keep on living, no matter what. We should always keep--

[After this brief speech, Kariya slumps, breathing heavily. His good eye widens, and the swollen veins in his face seem to pulse for a moment. The effort of speaking has obviously taken a lot out of him. The physical and mental shock of the worms returning has taken its toll on him. He looks as if he's having trouble standing upright at the terminal. A spasm of pain crosses his face. When he speaks again, his voice is weaker.]

I need a healer--is there someone who can help?

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[lightofhumanity]

I was not a part of causing the come out. However, I believe whoever caused this was fighting to free us from those who would take away our free will, despite the pain it would cause others and themselves.

..However, if you are in need of a healer, I can help. Where are you?

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[puppy_lancer]

...Are you okay, Kariya?

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[vermicompost]

They made our choices for us. And what happened? Did they win anything? They're going to be more cruel to us now. They're going to kill us. Was it worth it?

I'm in the dormitories... I don't know what floor. The second?

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[vermicompost]

Lancer...

No, it came back all at once.

[To have experienced freedom from pain, a clearing of his thoughts, and then to have all the agony and confusion come crashing back at once was jarring and overwhelming. It's hard to think. There's only one thing he's entirely sure of now:]

It hurts so much.

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[thiscloakisgreen]

[An audible noise chimes, the noise of something clicking on, almost painfully, as the screen turns on, half covered in static, revealing the metal face of Victor von Doom.]

How charming of you to insinuate a bastard out of a vague few yet then resort to begging for their aid.

[clumsyjesus]

Oh, no! What happened?!

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[vermicompost]

[Oh. It's Doom. Kariya frowns.]

I think they were wrong. Someone should say something.

[And he's going to. No matter what.]

They're not all the same people. The healers. If someone doesn't want to heal me, they don't have to.

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[puppy_lancer]

Damn. Sorry.

[He mutters. He knows most people are more comfortable with the glamour up, but Kariya was one of the few who had benefited from being cleared of the glamour.]

...My runes aren't strong enough. Sorry.

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[thiscloakisgreen]

It matters very little. Although one could suppose they could take the time to pity someone in your position.

[The screen flickers a bit. His hands seem to be at work on something else.] There's too much...forgiveness among the ranks of the commons here.

[vermicompost]

[It takes Kariya a moment to reply. How to explain the worms?] I'm sick.

It went away, but now it's all back. I don't--it's not even real.

[clumsyjesus]

What type of disease is it? I'm not sure any of my Lemon Gels would work and I can't cast healing spells like Professor Sage does.

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[vermicompost]

I can't think anymore--!

[It's beyond frustrating. Losing his mind seems all the more painful when just a brief time before, he was himself again.]

Why would they do this to me? It's all fake.

[vermicompost]

It's not a disease. It's--they're parasites. But not ordinary ones. They're magical.

[That's about as nice a way of describing Crest Worms as he can manage. He wraps his right arm around his body, as if trying to keep himself together.]

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[puppy_lancer]

I don't know. I guess it's the powers? Maybe they count your worms as powers?

[You yourself were all for keeping them a while back, Kariya.]

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[vermicompost]

I don't need anyone's pity.

[Kariya's angry, and Dr. Doom doesn't help him to feel any less so. He glares.]

We're equal here. Nobody here is a commoner. People should understand each other and help each other. That's the only way we're going to survive!

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[gamechamp]

[uncle]

[uncle no...]

go back 2 bed, gramps.
this is embarrassing.

[chevalier_mal_fet]

Master, please-- what has been done is done.

[Lancelot's voice is low and confidential.
Unbelievably, though he is at once overjoyed and furious at the return of his Powers and the taking of them, Lancelot feels no small amount of guilt over his Master's current state.

He had aided the Resistance, after all.
His Master had been a different man. Now that his Familiars have returned, the man is more unstable and inconsolable than before.]

You should not excite yourself so. I will find a Healer for you.

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[thiscloakisgreen]

Outstandingly ill-put, if somewhat correct.

[His eyes glitter green as they flicker ever so often to someplace else.] But I think that's far more of your own personal issue, and Doom need not lay his hands into the myriad works of others. But what, then, can you do when someone were to heal you of your cursed blight? What say the darkness from you is removed, and your torn body reacclimated to a fresh, undoubtedly fit young body? Your power will be gone.

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[lightofhumanity]

And are you so sure that they knew exactly that this would happen? Not all who are in a revolution or small groups know that what they do will harm others. And..they might feel that if they can win, it shall be worth it.

However, please wait there. I shall come and do what I can for you.

[After a few minutes, a boy with short white hair would come up the stairs to the second floor dormitory. When he saw and sensed Kariya, chaos would nod.]

Good afternoon. I am sorry for the wait.

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[vermicompost]

It's not a personal issue. It affects everyone here! I'm concerned, for everyone's sake.

[He pauses to catch his breath again.]

I'll still have--

[But he breaks off. Belatedly, he realizes he probably shouldn't mention Lancelot.]

They're not my power. They're someone else's. But they're not even real.

[vermicompost]

Don't tell me to be quiet.

[Kariya, that's not what Lancelot said...]

Someone had to say something, so I did it. It's already been done, but that doesn't make it right.

I'm--

[Usually, he would say he's fine, but the full weight of the pain after having been freed from it is too great, so he breaks off into an incoherent noise.]

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[vermicompost]

Maybe. I hate them.

[That was when he thought they were real, because he'd believed he needed them to fight in the War.]

I just want to get rid of them.

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[vermicompost]

Shinji... are you all right?

[His first concern is for Shinji, naturally.]

Someone had to say something. So I did. I'm tired of staying in bed. [He spits the next words, angrily, though his anger isn't for Shinji.] I'm tired of all this.

[gamechamp]

[No. So, he ignores that question.]

you're not doing anyone any favors.

[Which is perhaps a simpler and more straightforward reply than he would normally give.]

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[puppy_lancer]

I'm sure there's plenty of healers here who can do that. How about the people you usually see? Ishtar? Raphael?