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My hero.

[ ... yeah, Rion sounds tired. But is also grateful, which is why she nudges her shoulder against his in thanks before she takes that melon slice and bites into it. ]

[Yeah, Kou just snorts at that.]

Gotta keep our strength up or something like that. Right? We don't have as many ingredients on hand as we usually do.

Kinda hard to get ginger and flour and eggs right now, anyway.

But this melon's growing on me. [ though the difference between she'd first tried it and now is definitely a stark reminder of how quickly things had gone downhill here. ]

How're you holding up, Kou-kun?

Kinda miss 'em, though. Especially the solar eggs.

[Weirdass shit from the Eclipse that they could cook with...]

I'm hanging in there, though. Could really use Mitsuki-senpai right about now though.

[She'd have this shit on lockdown immediately, right?]

Right...? I was just thinking that she's kind of a pro for getting a situation under control.

[ and instead, it's them. ]

[... Seriously.]

We're not really that good at this. But... hey, it's better than nothing.

Yeah, I think so too. We're still able to help.

... But I can't believe it's come to this.

[... You know. That's. Yeah.]

It's... kind of startling that it all happened so fast, you know? I don't know anything about revolutions, but...

[... It's A Lot.]

The chances that we would be right here for this seems kinda coincidental.

I don't think it was entirely coincidental. Astoria-san said that she could tell when a world was in trouble-- and I think when she sent us, it was already on the brink of it. We just had some time to get established first, even when there were already signs.

It's definitely not coincidental, but I think it means we can expect the worlds we end up with to...be like this more often than not.

[You know: immediately a mess]

We're gonna have to get used to this fast.

I'd like to think we've got that ability to adapt. We'll just have to kick it into gear a little.

[ Or... a lot. ]

[A lot...]

Yeah...

The biggest thing is figuring out what we can do without our Soul Devices. We got a little too used to having them when we needed them.

Maybe we could find you a weapon that's close enough? Without the fire.

[...]

Maybe for any of the others, but ours are kinda...

[Weird.

They have the weirdest weapons of the entire squad.]

... I mean, at least I can still fly?

[ but her wings don't fire lasers. Shame. ]

Just not the rest. Like the lasers and the razor sharp feathers and things.

[So like.

All of the weapons bits.]

And the lightning bolts... I really miss it, honestly.

[ Fights were so much easier. ]

[Oh my god.]

Yeah, I miss your lightning too.

[Honestly!!]

It'd be nice to be able to just have you sweep some people away with a tornado right about now.