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"Yeah, but I'm an alien so you don't have to think about it too hard."

[ To save Obikawa from Thinking. The great nemesis. ]

"It's like getting a limited edition rare, so keep it well, yeah? Do you feel weird though?"

[ Hien is aware that they just came out of the river, but like. Other weird things. ]

[Thanks he hates using his braincell so he'll just accept this answer.]

Haha, aliens really do work differently, huh? Space! [SPACE, MAN! They are twin stars from the two great unknowns: space and the deep fucking sea. He also perks up a little at the notion that he just got a limited edition rare...]

Yeah, sure! It'll stay here with me. [PATS STOMACH. And then:] Can't feel my toes!

[OR ANYTHING ELSE. This was not what he was asking but he doesn't know the river has effects yet.]

"... Toes...?"

[ He was thinking more along the lines of the new toys I gave you to play with, but what. Toes. Toes??? ]

"Like, you can't feel it? It's numb? Or..."

[ Hien has actually been going blind here and there, but he just accepted it as something that happens so he continues on as normal, but also because it coincides with him thinking that his ONE BLOCKADE FROM TURNING INTO A MONSTER FOREVER IS DEAD and his body fucks up for some time when his other selves die, so.

He looks down at Obikawa's feet. Are his feet still there, actually. I know they are, but Hien is double checking. ]

"Is it a side effect of you like... turning into a snake?"

[ SHEDDING INTENSIFIES ]

[imagine if i told you his feet are not in fact still there

they are but that would be funny. He just lifts a leggy up and pats it. HIEN CAN YOU STOP JUST ACCEPTING RANDOMLY GOING BLIND HERE AND THERE. He will address the other weirdness soon but being numb is funky as hell. He thought it was just coldness from the river at first, but the cold is gone and now there is just nothing.]

Whole leg's numb. Hands and face, too. It's never happened before, so I think it might be this place.

[Purgatory is just another godly domain...]

"Lemme see..."

[ He goes over to Obikawa and

pinches his cheek. Hard. ]

[His sense of feeling comes back just in time for this.]

Hey—!

[ oh okay

pinches harder and pulls ]

[WHY TEH HELL. He pulls to the other side and rolls away.]

You're lucky I don't feel like eating you twice.

"Unfortunately for you, I'd try eating you again..."

[ However. ]

"... except you're Tokinaga's friend. God. I fucked up."

[ Just fuckin lies down on his own back on the ground ]

I'd win again!

[DEBATABLE CONSIDERING HE DID NOT EVEN WIN THIS TIME. But he also leans over as Hien becomes one with the dirt...]

Did you promise him that you wouldn't eat anyone, too?

"No. I can't promise something like that. He looked happy while talking about you, so you're obviously special to him."

[ He doesn't mean it as a romantic way, but damn. ]

[Sometimes it's not platonic and not romantic but a secret third more eldritch and insane thing.

Either way, he is perhaps a little surprised because he's well aware of the fact that he makes Tokinaga's life harder in a lot of ways even if he's not exactly understanding of the emotions or the reasoning, but he also seems pleased to hear this. THAT'S HIS NEIGHBOR!! His silly lil blorbo who suffers every day...]

Yeah? [HeheHE!] But it's still fine. He'll probably just be mad at me for eating you after everything, even though you aren't human. I don't think he'll yell at you.

"I'm not worried about him yelling at me. He can yell at me all he wants... I'm just more worried about his mental state."

[ Mister empathy.... tokinaga must be protected. ]

[He is too good for this world... HE IS GENUINELY TOO GOOD.]

Yelling at you would probably make it worse. Any time I've seen him do something like that, he makes a face after like he wants to go curl up under a rock and die.

"It makes a lot more sense now about how he reacted when I ate the keys..."

[ Because his best friend was in there!! Or something!! Secret third thing.</small? ] "Empathy is great, but too much is..."

Oh, yeah. He probably didn't know what to do. His face was pretty funny!

[JUST GOING INTO SHOCK. He loves Tokinaga's fucking expressions my god. There's a curious little cant of his head at that, though.]

Too much is what?

"It burns you down fast."

[ my HTML!!!! ]

"You really are that kind of friend..."

[me looking at it being dead and cruelly tagging you back anyway

Anyway, he frowns a little at the first statement but he's also DISTRACTED BY THE SECOND.]

What kind of friend?

"The kind of friend that's annoying so you'd be gruff about it, but when they're gone, you can feel the emptiness very clearly and miss them."

[THE ENERGY OF JUST (POINTS AT SELF) MOI? Dahut's spirit is in here.]

You think? Mostly I just take his soy sauce.

[ dahut just going peekaboo ]

"That's not what he told me... and I doubt he was lying."

[ You take his exasperation and eat it. ]

[LE BAGUETTE HON HON oh my god im finally not fantasy french (ignores scaramouche)

He is a depression-eater despite also having depression.]

What'd he tell you?

[ grabs that grape and eats him ]

"Ask him yourself. I'm not gonna tell you."

[ He says this despite being fully aware that Tokinaga might not tell Obikawa. ]

[as is deserved]

Fine, fineee, if you're gonna make things a pain for me.

[There is a very high chance he's just gonna fuckin forget about this in all of the chaos that follows. But also:] Feels like there's a door there now that wasn't there before.

[The adhd of looping back around to a conversation point from a million years ago.]

"What door?"

[ The conversation point that Hien fuckin forgot. He can't even use Memory's powers as a memory aide because THEY'RE GONE. ]

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