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[monochromaticdays]

Unm...

Are you alive? Please say you are. I've been kinda afraid to ask, but...

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[phantomsoldier]

Of course I am.

It'd take more than a guy pressing on my organs and probably breaking something important to kill me.

[monochromaticdays]

Oh, good. That's a relief.

I know you had said to run, but... I still felt bad about it after I calmed down.

[phantomsoldier]

Nah, getting you out of there was more important at the time. Next time I'll have more tricks up my sleeve.

Thanks for feeling guilty at least.

[monochromaticdays]

Hnmnf... I don't really know if tricks will work, but... thanks for thinking about it, all the same.

Sorry for the delay in contacting you again, though. I actually, uh...

Took a few days' trip back home, after this happened.

[phantomsoldier]

Yeah? Where's home for you?

[monochromaticdays]

Hokkaido. I went there by train.

[phantomsoldier]

Nice! I'm glad.

Did... did the feeling follow you? I'm sorry I couldn't do more to help.

[monochromaticdays]

It followed me to the train station, but after that, it was gone.

To be replaced with anxiety about talking to my grandmother and asking her what's going on.

[phantomsoldier]

O-oh.

Did you get... answers?

[monochromaticdays]

Maybe not answers I wanted to hear, but I can confirm that he's here on my grandmother's orders.

And that I... guess he really is my uncle.

She did apologize for him tailing me so long, though. Something about him having "always been shy as a kid".

[phantomsoldier]

... Shy, huh?

What're you... gonna do about it?

[monochromaticdays]

She says that she expected me to have been there by now, but basically...

If I don't feel like things are 100% under control by the time I graduate at the end of September, then I'll be going to the other school for a while, whether I like it or not. For my own sake.