ｆｏｕｒｔｈ ｗａｌｌ。ａｃｔｉｏｎ。

[repudiate]

[ People. People everywhere all of a sudden. And Ange doesn't know the cause for it, nor does she particularly feel like thinking about it right now, so she does what she does best.

Being anti-social.

Ange is mostly planning on finding some quiet place where she doesn't have to stay inside all day yet doesn't have to face the crowds either, but obviously it isn't really working with so many people all over the village all of a sudden. So the chance is big that rather than avoiding the crowd, she'll only run into people more and more as time goes on. Maybe there's even some familiar faces. Or familiar trollfaces, considering the kind of people Ange knows. ]

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[repudiate]

Not.. her Keiichi? [ Forgive her if she's sitting down too now, okay. All of this is a little thought-intense, after all. She can understand the first part, after all, she's sure there are plenty of 'Anges' who haven't been to Luceti and have never met Keiichi, but the latter.. ]

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[promotedpawn]

I sacrificed myself in order to get to the path that would lead me to you, to the people I wanted to be with the most and help the most. In a world where there are no barriers between worlds because I can cross them even more easily than you can switch channels in a television. That meant giving up many things, my life, my human condition, my world,... My name.

[He shifts a little before he continues, still not looking at her.]

Back then, for what I was about to gain, the power to reach to all of you, to help you all for real and be able to fulfill all my goals... I thought it was a small price, I still think so. But it seems you don't agree.

I can see it in her eyes and hear it in her voice. She doesn't see Keiichi when she looks at me, she sees a monster, a witch, that simply wears Keiichi's face. My voice can't seem to reach her when we talk, the only time it reached her was when I told her who I am now. I won't be surprised if soon she starts to reject and deny me directly.

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[repudiate]

[ There's a pause from Ange after he finishes. She glances at him, but he's not looking at her all the same, so after a moment she too looks away, as if she's thinking about it. All in all, even though she's definitely not unfazed she still does seem relatively calm for now. Maybe because it's easier to view it from some objective point of view, to keep a distance from it, since she definitely is not that Ange, and the Keiichi sitting next to her is not the one she said 'I love you' to - this one never even got to hear that in Luceti. ]

... I'm sorry. [ Even if it's not her place to apologize for actions that aren't exactly hers. But still some part of her feels like she should, since obviously something like that would have hurt him, right..? ]

I can't claim to exactly understand her, since.. even if we're both 'Ange', we're different. But to me, you're still Keiichi. [ even if he gave up his name, or even if he became a wizard or even if some things about his attitude changed.. when he was standing behind her earlier, that was practically the same as she knew him. ] That 'me'.. She's probably scared. If she was taken from Luceti.. well, if I would be taken from Luceti right now, I'd be upset too, so I can understand. She's probably scared, or sad because she feels like her near-happiness was taken from her, or mad at herself for not being able to say it earlier. ... Probably all of it. So much that she's completely taken up by it and she can't see it the way I do as easily.

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[promotedpawn]

Minato said the same thing. He even kept calling me Keiichi, I don't really mind it, if it's the people from here, I almost prefer it that way.

[Then again it's easy to be accepting and all when their real Keiichi is sleeping in his bedroom peacefully. They can just remind themselves of that and then it won't matter who this other man is. It's not the same person.]

She refuses to listen to me. And I'm not kind or patient enough to keep swallowing it all on my own.

[After all he has no one to talk to. No one to whom he can truly open and who would understand. Ange could but she's too busy being the only one suffering to see what she's doing.]

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[repudiate]

You'd rather have me call you by your new name?

[ He said 'almost' prefer, after all. And asking that gives her the time to think about the rest, since it's difficult to say anything when she has to guess to the complete situation, when she has to try and think of what 'she' would think and feel in that situation, since she was never forced to leave, even if they're the same person. ]

If only you could reach an understanding.. then it'd be okay, wouldn't it? If she would be able to listen to you, and you would be able to tell her anything instead of having to keep it in by yourself.. [ She idly plays with the one-winged eagle ring on her finger as she talks and tries to think. It's sort of strange to think about it, and maybe she's thinking about it a little too distantly instead about another 'Ange', but.. ]

I guess there's not much I can do or say, but.. I know one thing, even if it will probably just sound very selfish. [ Now she looks to her side, at him. ] Just like I said I need Keiichi with me to be happy.. You are the only chance she has at being able to become happy too. [ ... ] She just needs to be able to realise that as well.