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"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

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[WAIT, WAIT, WHAT - ]

His trainer tried to eat him?!

I know right? Fucking sick. But I think he's from a place where they don't keep pets. Like...he thinks the only reason you keep animals is because they have to do something useful. Like if you had a dog, you'd use it for hunting. Hard to find a reason to keep a fish then, unless you wanna eat it later.

Well, given that Pokémon are more useful than animals back home overall, I'd think he would have found some use for it!

[Hell, he could probably use the fish for hunting if he were particularly determined. ~~SIE SIND DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DIE TRAINERS~~]

Don't think he saw them like that. But he just seemed really glad to give the Basculine away. He was OK about his other Pokemon though, it was just the fish that he didn't like. He wouldn't tell me why he wanted to give it away either.

...I'll have to see how it reacts to things, then. If it was his starter, some of them are a little strange sometimes, and not in a good way.

Really? Keisuke's been pretty cool so far, but maybe I just got lucky.

I'm sure you'll be able to fix'em Ishimaru. You're good at this leading thing.

You know, I don't think I've seen your starter, actually - what is it?

A fire monkey. I think it's ...Chimchar? But right now he's an Monferno. He's damn amazing in battle; he's fast and he hits hard, and he looks so fucking badass!

What's yours Ishimaru? Bet it's not as awesome as mine!

He started out as a Darumaka, but he's a Darmanitan now; I don't use him, as he's one of the ones I mentioned before - he's not very friendly, to put it nicely, and large enough to take me down easily if it got into his head to do so. I can't trust him very well, so I'm leaving him in the box for the time being.

You don't trust your own Pokemon?

Not really. I think there's something wrong with that one, due to something I can't discuss over the network.

Is it sick in the head? Maybe you should get it to the Pokemon Centre. Or maybe it just needs something like friendship shit. You know, show that you wanna be his buddy and get him to open up.

...you didn't try to eat it did you?

What?! Of course I didn't!

Yeah, you wouldn't do something like that. I just thought that maybe Pokemon get trust issues when you try to eat them.

I'd think most things would get trust issues if you tried to eat them, Kuwata-kun...

Did something happen to him before he got to you? Maybe someone else tried to cook him for lunch, and that made him mad at trainers.

I don't think anyone tried to eat him! But he was raised by people before I received him, and those people...likely weren't very good.

Poor guy. I kinda get how that feels; it's hard to trust people again after you've lived through shit.

[Well, this conversation got awkward, fast.]

Anyway, I don't think you should give up on your starter! But maybe you got to be less strict with him and try and win him over to you. Go out and do some fun stuff with him. Aoi likes swimming a lot, so sometimes I take her out and we go and have some fun at the river.

Aoi's my Buizel, so don't get any wrong ideas!

Well, I would hope that's the case; otherwise you'd get a reprimand for inappropriate behavior! But I'll do what I can; again, the full circumstances are something I'll have to explain to you in person sometime, I think.

[He hesitates once he's gotten all that down, hovering between saying something and not saying something; it's awkward, yes, but...]

And I think I have a better idea of what you're talking about now, with regards to the beginning of that; something...happened, to give me perspective. I'm surprised you're willing to keep in contact with us after all of that; I'm grateful for it, though.

Well duh. That's a no-brainer. It's not like I can cut off from you guys just like that. Even if I tried, I don't think you'd let me off the hook.

And it wasn't like I

[The sentence is left incomplete for awhile, before another reply pops up.]

Hey. Maybe this kinda thing should be talked over the phone? Plus I'm getting real tired of typing.

Ah...of course, Kuwata-kun! I wouldn't mind.

[And switching over to voice right now.]

Thanks.

So like I was saying I think...I can't really blame you guys. For doing what you did. I mean, don't get me wrong. Everytime I think about it I still get all mad as fuck, 'cause hello? I'm talkin' to the people who got me killed! Even now, when we're here and everything's supposed to be OK...I don't feel OK. Talking to you, hanging out with Hagakure...sometimes I just remember all the shit that went down. It just, just makes me so angry Ishimaru, you have no fucking clue how it feels like. Thinking that everyone wanted to see you dead.

...but I know that shit ain't right. What happened to us was fucking messed up. And it messed us all up. You, me, and everyone else.

Shit, I'm just rambling...look. I...know it's not you guys' fault. Even if I don't feel it. But I know it's a fucking fact, if that makes any sense?

[He'll respond with the same, of course. He can't say that it'll make it any easier - if anything, he's found he likes text, just because he can go over what's being said and actually see his responses before he gives them - but he'll oblige without complaint, anyway.]

...I don't know what it's like, no, not entirely. But I...

[He hesitates for a moment before just pushing on with it.]

I was killed for money. That was the motive that was presented, a large amount of money - something like ten billion yen, if I'm remembering what I was told correctly. From what I understand, I was specifically selected because I was an easy target, due to something that had happened earlier.

The person who was responsible for it is here, and I'd just gotten into an altercation with them before you arrived; I...think that's part of why our first conversation went so badly - many of the things that were said were out of line on my part. I was riled, but that isn't an excuse.

But I...think I understand what you mean, about knowing things but not feeling them. It's been like that for me in dealing with the person I've mentioned to you just now; I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to experience that toward everyone.

...I know who killed you, ok? I haven't spoken to her since the party but she's been nothin' but a real bitch to me. I dunno how you can talk to her without flippin' your shit Ishimaru, but what I don't get is why you're even tryin' in the first place.

[And that...that actually manages to settle him a bit; it's a relief, in some sick way, to know that Kuwata is already aware of the situation. Maybe he's just tired of trying to defend Celes, because when it comes down to it he can't shake the feeling that she doesn't deserve it; it's hard to say.

He's quiet for a long moment afterwards, though, picking at the fabric of his sleeves with his free hand before he realizes what he's doing and makes himself stop.]

...Why wouldn't I?

[The question is more subdued than usual, most of the forcefulness gone; it's somewhere between genuine and rhetorical, not demanding an answer but leaving a space for one anyway.]

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