The Last Supper - Pep!Pep! & Heart Soldier Senshi

[idolpro]

[ The elevator lets you out into a private room: from the decor, it is doubtlessly an enclave of the restaurant you saw earlier on screen.

Your phones have filled with a rather sizable rule list. ]

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[we_meet_again]

I think all of us are, aren't we?

[dragonheartedgirl]

I think you think you are. But neither you nor Sunset have been through a game like this before--the kind that rips you apart, or forces you to rip others apart. You don't know what it's like--how bad it feels. Hurricane and I have been through this before though. We've killed people, and been killed. So if anyone should go, it's someone who understands what they're in for--someone who isn't still clean. [ and yeah if she can spare you and king and sunset for another round. then yea. ]

[we_meet_again]

Isn't that the same argument that Sunshine is making? That he should go to spare the rest of us pain?

Isn't this the same argument you, yourself, shot down?

[dragonheartedgirl]

It's different. I'm not wounded--so I won't die.

[we_meet_again]

No, you could still die. And even if you don't, it means you killed someone else. Either way, the cost to protect us is one life.

[He looks ...so sad]

I don't want Sunshine to go. I don't want you to go, either. I don't want any of us to go. But it's not fair to say that it's okay for you and not for him if your reasons are the same.

[I mean, you can't even argue that he's "still clean" any more, either.]

[dragonheartedgirl]

I've been prepared for a long time, longer than even here, to sacrifice lives to protect my family. If you say that you won't accept my offer, then Sunshine can go back into the running. But you have to understand--my win or my loss, there's a great deal of chance to it. But Sunshine is wounded if he goes again, the probability of him dying is almost a solid certainty. If you can live with that, then I'll stand down in honor of our teams' mutual cooperation--but you have to understand that's what you're suggesting is okay to do.

[we_meet_again]

[He looks pained.]

I already told you: I don't want Sunshine to go. If he goes out, he'll almost certainly die, and I don't want that. I don't. It was bad enough watching the first time. I h-- [he swallows] I hate it.

But I'm also not the boss of him. What right do I have to tell him what he is and allowed to do with his own life? No more right than I have to tell you what to do with yours. Or you have to tell me to do with mine.

If this is what he really wants, I don't feel right denying him his agency, even if I disagree with him so much I want to lock him in a closet until the match is over.