Okay, this is the one I'm due for, isn't it?
"Expecting it." She blinked, which felt a little odd with the one eye sealed shut, and shook her head with a disbelieving smile. "You're that sure you're going to be killed tomorrow and you just shrug it off like a missed piece of homework."
"I committed myself to this a long time ago - from the very moment I accepted that all this was real, wasn't just some crazy dream, I was very aware that the odds of my surviving till the end were low. The stakes are too high, and there are too many ruthless people involved for a player like me, with no other resources, to have a really fighting chance. Granted, though, I was expecting to get it from SEARRS or Nagi." He said the last with a wry, self-deprecating little twist in his voice, and smirked.
She snorted. "You do know, don't you, that your buying it is going to cost Mai, too?"
"Yeah. But it's not my choice to make, is it? This world is a lot bigger than I am, than what I want or think or feel. Every person on this planet has hopes, dreams, fears, history just like you do. Even just imagining what a fraction of that really means... my heart's not hard enough to do anything else."
"Idiot," she said, and despite herself, there was a little bit of a smile in her voice.
Posting High: More Author's drug of choice.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
"Expecting it." She blinked, which felt a little odd with the one eye sealed shut, and shook her head with a disbelieving smile. "You're that sure you're going to be killed tomorrow and you just shrug it off like a missed piece of homework."
"I committed myself to this a long time ago - from the very moment I accepted that all this was real, wasn't just some crazy dream, I was very aware that the odds of my surviving till the end were low. The stakes are too high, and there are too many ruthless people involved for a player like me, with no other resources, to have a really fighting chance. Granted, though, I was expecting to get it from SEARRS or Nagi." He said the last with a wry, self-deprecating little twist in his voice, and smirked.
She snorted. "You do know, don't you, that your buying it is going to cost Mai, too?"
"Yeah. But it's not my choice to make, is it? This world is a lot bigger than I am, than what I want or think or feel. Every person on this planet has hopes, dreams, fears, history just like you do. Even just imagining what a fraction of that really means... my heart's not hard enough to do anything else."
"Idiot," she said, and despite herself, there was a little bit of a smile in her voice.
Posting High: More Author's drug of choice.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"