[voice] Is ♞ even on the network's character map III: ..is it safe to look?

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[Forward dated to the 13th.]

[The recording begins with dead air for a few tense seconds, before a young girl's voice picks up.]</sub>

..so the network's stopped streaming all of that stuff now. If I'd gotten on and it was still happening, I don't know what I'd do. _{[Ignoring that she'd seen some people that were in the labyrinth out and walking about the tower again herself, but that had been a very.. fuzzy week for her.]}

--That's not the point of this, though. Um. Roxas, did I faint or something, the other day? And...



...Madoka. Are you really here? I'm.. if you are, I'm sorry for saying that you were just a dream...! _{Please, please really be here.}

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[disbear]

Hint? Are you asking for a hint? Hm, how do I put this... well, okay. Let's talk about despair. What do people do when they're in despair?

[beknightedheroine]

...Despair?

_{[A few days ago, she might have rambled to him at length about her thoughts on despair and how it balances out with people's happiness. As she is now, though... that kind of thing seems silly.]}

They mope around a lot and need to be cheered up by other people, I guess.

I forgot to mention. He sounds like the exact equivalent of Winnie the Pooh.

[disbear]

Sometimes... a monster comes out.

..beautiful

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[She's built up a weirdness filter after three months in this tower, but the voice of something sounding like a cartoon mascot talking about despair and monsters... it's a bit upsetting. Sayaka takes a noticeable pause before responding this time.]

If being sad is enough to make someone a monster.. they probably had that monster hiding in them anyway.</sub>

[disbear]

Students these days are too soft. They hardly even try to pick themselves back up. Test scores are very telling of that. When they fall too deep into despair, they don't know how to climb back up. And that's when the monster takes over. The Monster of Despair.

[beknightedheroine]

Students and test scores...

_{[S'cuse her, that gets her right off the subject of DIS PEAR.]}

...ughh, are you one'a those teachers who talks in a really patronizing voice? Kids hate that, you know.

[disbear]

What do you call the monster inside you?

[No, no. Can't have the topic changing so easily like that.]

[beknightedheroine]

_{[Well that was... pointed. She grimaces, not that it can be seen through voice only.]}

..Hey, here's the joke, teach. What if I don't HAVE any monster in me? That messes up your theory, right?

[disbear]

Upupupu. We all have a monster inside of us. It's always there, waiting to be let out, waiting to be noticed. The key that unlocks that monster is despair. Ultimate despair. Despair of never knowing you can bear yourself to live another day.

[beknightedheroine]

<sub>[If she knew she was talking to a bear, that pun would have thrown Sayaka off entirely.

..as it is she just thinks Monobear's some aggravating schoolteacher-type who's approaching a midlife crisis or something.]</sub>

..yeah, well. I'm someone who fights against despair. Consider me the deadbolt on the door.

[disbear]

Are you winning?

[Oh. You certainly weren't, Sayaka. And that's what delights him.]

[beknightedheroine]

As long as I keep fighting, I am.

_{[And with her soul gem restored to a cleaner state, she genuinely still believes that.]}

[disbear]

What happens if you give up? Do you know, miss?