brandishes a knife

[sageguidance]

aki hiding in the gy like

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[illomened]

Hearing how everyone kept getting shooed out... I think that would have made me a bit antsy, to be honest.

[He likes Doing Things too much. BUT ANYWAY he'll start to set up some tea yeehaw.]

[sageguidance]

Hah! I can only imagine, considering how much time you spent within the kitchen. Over here, however, it was not necessary for us to cook our own meals.

[illomened]

I suppose those on this side did have a few other things to busy themselves with... Much more than we did on ours, anyway.

[sageguidance]

Quite so. I know I would have had little reason to ever step foot within the kitchens, myself, though... I suppose if we had the same sort of service within the manor, I still might not have done so...

[illomened]

If we had the same service in the manor, I would have bullied them out.

[THAT'S HIS KITCHEN!!!! He is so attached to it after two months!! Though not as attached as he is to the early deadzos unfortunately.

Anyway, with the kettle whistlin', he'll pull things aside to start brewing tea. Something nice and floral!]

[sageguidance]

[ yaaay his favorite ]

Ha ha, that might have been difficult, given who the waiters here were! Ah, but surely you would have found a way...

Well, I am not unhappy about it. Your cooking was fantastic, and I dare say I picked up on a thing or two myself!

[illomened]

Exactly so! You can go home and show everyone your wonderful new skills. Your sister will really enjoy the cake that you can make now, you know?

[HIS CHOCOLATE CAKE!! Now that he'll actually be able to enjoy it with her... unless we surprise badend tomorrow which would frankly be hilarious. THE LAWYERS WIN]

[sageguidance]

[ imagine if we died by lawyers ]

... She'll probably wonder what I could have possibly been doing all this time to have been able to learn how...

[illomened]

[i would love that personally i think it's hilarious]

You just happened to run into people with a taste for the culinary arts... in a strange stroke of happenstance that has nothing to do with interuniversal kidnappings...?

[sageguidance]

[ he sighs, in that "haha lmao" sense. ]

Given our past experiences, an "interuniversal kidnapping" would be far more believable.

[illomened]

[Just giving Alphinaud a quiet look...]

...You've truly been through a lot, haven't you.

[sageguidance]

Such is the life of a Scion, but you've had no less an adventurous life, no?

[illomened]

[OPENS HIS MOUTH.

Closes his mouth.]

"Accidental multiuniversal traveler" is certainly not something I ever thought I would be able to call myself, and yet...

[sageguidance]

And yet, 'twould appear you're one now. Or, shall I say, you have been one, for this is not the first it's happened to you, much like the rest of us.

[illomened]

[THEY'VE ALL BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH. Souji's soul is withering.]

Yes... Though I haven't been home once since I started this string of venturing and as such I would very much like for it to stop.

[sageguidance]

You—you haven't?

[illomened]

[GIRL HELP. He just laughs, briefly and kind of sheepishly since he forgot he hasn't mentioned it to many people...]

Ah - no, I haven't... My time at the castle just ended before I was held at the camp, and I had only just left there before ending up here.

[sageguidance]

[ ....... ]

This is your third of these... in a row.

[illomened]

[SURPRISE!!]

Well... I was asleep for seven weeks in the second one, so I don't know if I should count it - but by number, yes. I'd say it's been a little over half a year now?

[He's so full of existential exhaustion even if his body is so energetic! But he just laughs a little and simply says:]

I've never really had fair fortune.

[sageguidance]

Twelve above, that's—I scarce have the words! After this, you'd best head straight on home.

[illomened]

Trust me, you and I hope for the same!

[smashcut to me bringing him to crau3

Though, this actually leads him to a bit of a sobering train of thought and he's quiet for a moment.]

--You're heading back home as well, right?

[To the CURSED POINT IN TIME that he's meant to return to...]

[sageguidance]

[ TO THAT CURSED POINT IN TIME ]

... Aye, that I am. 'Tis a place far from home, really—but there is work to be finished there.

[illomened]

[Honestly he's also going home to die so it's not like he doesn't get it, but he still looks unhappy regardless.]

So many here are going from one type of difficult work to another, and it really doesn't seem like a fair thing. I'm certain you will be able to finish your work, but...I wish that there was something I could do for you.

[sageguidance]

[ he shakes his head ]

You've done enough—pray, you need not worry for my sake any longer. You have a home to return to, remember?

[illomened]

[this is extra funny now that you know that souji knows he's about to have to fight swords to the death

But he just offers a little flicker of a smile, a bit melancholy in nature.]

I can return to home and still fuss over you a bit, you know. I'm very good at multitasking.