bondsofsuffering | Snow Heart Game

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[He hesitates for a moment, watching him, before-]

Hizumi?

That's riiiiiiight!

What's a lil fox like you want?

I was hoping to find a way to help Snow. Perhaps that means... helping you too?

Well, if you wanna see Snow, I've got the key right here.

[Fishing it out of an inner pocket of his coat and dangling a silver key between his fingers.]

[ . . . ! ]

I do want to. I would like that very much. But I do wish to speak with you, too.

[Tucking the key safely away again.]

Oh?

Do you know who I am...?

[Making a face.]

One of his lovers, right?

D-Do not make it sound weird...!

But, well... he is someone I have confessed my feelings to and vice versa. But I am more than just a "lover". I am his best friend and someone who cares profoundly for him, regardless of romantic interest or not. He is precious to me.

But I do know you, too, in a way that you may not know me.

Oh?

The individual at the heart of my visions met you once upon a time, in a place similar to the boat. And you, too, were someone considered as... an important friend, to him.

[At the very least. No matter how confusing or messy all of that was.]

Of course, I cannot claim you to be the same person. I've no real idea how all of this works. Alternative universes, perhaps? But he did experience those same memories.

And he hated every moment of it.

[He shakes his head.]

His past did hurt him. Tremendously so. Of course it did. In the time that I knew him, he was cynical, had a terrible personality, was depressed, and a defeatist, too.

Sounds like me alright!

That was not all there was to him, though. Hizumi-

[He reaches out to grasp a wrist if he can.]

I do not dislike the negative aspects of you. That hurt exists for a reason and was born from your struggles. From your literal blood, sweat, and tears. Whether your emotions were stunted or not, it was not enough to numb you from pain. That side of you is precious, too.

[Moving out of the way of that grasp.]

That's a matter of opinion, I'd say.

Perhaps so! But my opinion is the most important opinion to me. So aside from you and Snow, I do not care what anyone else thinks.

[Whether they find those qualities bad or irredeemable or whatever else.]

I realize that you do not love these qualities in yourself, though. Is that why we are here now?

We're here 'cause you need to get the silver key from me somehow.

I think we are here because you feel that if we do not crush you, then we cannot be together with Snow properly.

I mean, he's already plannin' to burn away my part of the story.

What do you mean...? Erase his memories of you, do you mean?

As far as I can tell, yeah. Erase all memory of me, and all the ways my existence impacts his.

I do not believe that is possible. I also don't think you deserve to be crushed. Because... I cannot help but find you precious, too, Hizumi. Even if it hurts.

[He can no longer separate the fact that he cares for Snow and that his vision self cares for him. Even without 'Tsukasa' in his mind, why can both realities not exist beside one another? That is what he had decided to reach toward.]

Both you and Snow are simply two parts of the same fragment. The same core. I truly believe that. There is no part of you that I would ever wish to discard.

Well, that's unfortunate, 'cause the only way you're gettin' this key is if you kill me for it.

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