Yes. Through all the hardship you suffered, you must have also understood the lives that you touched. The people who took comfort in your friendship and your strength.
Would you go back if there was more work to be done? Or would you wish to remain here in an honestly well-deserved retirement.
I have no intention of influencing you either way in your decision.
...I'm not really a fighter or anything. I happened to be there at the time, but - surely by now there's people more suited to it, right? People brave enough to wage that kind of battle.
Besides, I finally made it out. There's all kinds of stuff I get to do now. I mean, I get to spend time with everyone this way, right?
Izanagi doesn't seem to notice the sound, if that counts for anything. He just waves Zhongli's comment off.]
I'm sure the new sensitIVs can do exactly what I did, no problem. Everyone got a crash course in healing, so it's only natural we ended up used to it after a while.
[Upon looking at the phone, it becomes clear that it’s finished loading. However, the screen has a few other differences, too.]
Password: CHRYS
Open file?
YES/NO
[But even if they don’t make a selection, once they’ve had a chance to read the words on the screen, “yes” flashes and the screen changes once more. It seems to be an album file titled “Missing Element: Chrysanthemum” with various photos of Izanagi and another idol from LiliS. The contents are all mundane little snapshots of life - shopping at a department store, or even the black market, photos of cooking together, or relaxing side by side. And while Chrys’ expression tends to be more subdued, Izanagi’s clearly happy in every single one.]
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Poor Izanagi ]
But if there was one last battle to fight - would you rise up and heed the call?
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Would you go back if there was more work to be done? Or would you wish to remain here in an honestly well-deserved retirement.
I have no intention of influencing you either way in your decision.
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Besides, I finally made it out. There's all kinds of stuff I get to do now. I mean, I get to spend time with everyone this way, right?
[Zhongli's phone begins to beep.]
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But yes, I do agree that your options are much more varied now that you are no longer part of the production.
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Izanagi doesn't seem to notice the sound, if that counts for anything. He just waves Zhongli's comment off.]
I'm sure the new sensitIVs can do exactly what I did, no problem. Everyone got a crash course in healing, so it's only natural we ended up used to it after a while.
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Not exactly... or I guess, if I hadn't endured it, I wouldn't be able to live like this now.
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Will you excuse me for a moment...?
[ WHAT, PHONE? ]
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Okay.
[Upon looking at the phone, it becomes clear that it’s finished loading. However, the screen has a few other differences, too.]
Password: CHRYS
Open file?
YES/NO
[But even if they don’t make a selection, once they’ve had a chance to read the words on the screen, “yes” flashes and the screen changes once more. It seems to be an album file titled “Missing Element: Chrysanthemum” with various photos of Izanagi and another idol from LiliS. The contents are all mundane little snapshots of life - shopping at a department store, or even the black market, photos of cooking together, or relaxing side by side. And while Chrys’ expression tends to be more subdued, Izanagi’s clearly happy in every single one.]
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I believe some candid shots of you were leaked into a group chat I did not know I was in.
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[He just seems to be confused about this too.]
Wait, like... stalkery stuff, or...?
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Oh.
His expression falls.]
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It appears I was not meant to see these.
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Chrys... he was here too, wasn't he? Or...
[A small frown is forming on his already troubled face. Like he's starting to put it all together.]
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Unfortunately, Chrys was before his time (or right at the very beginning of it.) ]
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You saw this guy around the neighborhood, right?
[A little desperate, showing him his own phone.]
He's been living there too, right-?
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no. ]
I did not see anyone in the house but you.
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He's... he's supposed to be here, though. What...?
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Yeah... I should...?
[But... looking at it, he doesn't even seem to have a contacts list.]
What's going on here...?
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