third ❅ video;

[slightlyoblivious]

Hi, everyone. This is Yukiko Amagi, and I think this is starting to be a ritual with me, addressing the network towards the beginning of the month...

[She laughs at herself for a moment, but quickly regains her composure. She has something serious to say, after all, and she can't say it if she's laughing at herself.]

Anyway, that's beside the point. I know that since Jason's death, the revival process hasn't been running nearly as smoothly. There's no need to hide it; I don't think there's a one of us left here that hasn't seen a friend come back hurt. I know this is going to sound harsh, but we all need to realize that it's probably not going to get a lot better in the short time we have left.

There's no need to suffer in silence, if you've come back and you're still injured. I have healing magic and I'm sure others here also have it. If you're hurt, don't keep on being hurt. Come find one of us, and we'll patch you up as best we can. All right?

[She pauses, blinking for a second.]

...it sounds so strange to say the words 'Jason's death'. It doesn't quite feel real to me yet. Is that just me, or does anyone else feel that way?

[She clicks off the feed with that question.]

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[chainsawn]

...

Well, Ruana lied to us. Even if you did your best in the game, you didn't win anything. [ That's what annoys Urotsuki in the end - not even that she killed someone for nothing, but that she tried so hard and yet didn't get what she was promised. ]

I guess everyone knows that really sucks and it's why we're not partying.

[slightlyoblivious]

...yeah. She lied to us. I didn't know how far she'd gone with the lies, though.

Between that, people coming back still hurt, and the general shock of the whole thing, it's no wonder we're not throwing a party.

[chainsawn]

We should have a party later then. It's boring like this.

[ As if the stuff Yukiko just summed up is really "boring"... ]

[slightlyoblivious]

...maybe.

[There's a part of her that's saying we don't have time, but she hushes that up.]

Once we're all over the worst of the shock, at least. It might be the last chance we have to even throw a party.

[chainsawn]

I think I'm already over it. [ Of course Urotsuki would be - but whereas normally that kind of statement would just have been blank, there's something near rude or tactless about it this time. Like she really isn't even thinking of the fact other people might not be. ]

[slightlyoblivious]

That doesn't mean everyone else is. I don't think I'm quite over it.

[Yukiko's face is fairly even, but there's a slight snap to her tone of voice - she's not exactly irritated, but neither is she happy.]

[chainsawn]

[ Urotsuki doesn't seem too bothered by it. ]

So we have to wait for the party because of you?

[slightlyoblivious]

It's not just me. Look around. There are people still hurting because they're coming back wrong, people who are still in shock, people who just don't have it in them.

[She sighs, just a little.]

I'm not going to tell you not to throw a party if you feel like you need to, I'm just saying that the timing might not be the best.