idolpro | Ren's Ideal World Session 2

[Returning here after the photo room and looking around, mildly disoriented before they head over to Ren.]

Ren? We found something a little weird.

[She looks up when Kino arrives. She's also a little out of sorts herself, because of some of the things people are saying to her all the sudden today.]

Weird? Did something happen?

There was a room full of the photographs we keep in the dorms, but they're all scratched up.

[Showing Ren a number of them that SHOULD depict Ren with beloved members of pep, but...]

[She stares at the photos for a long moment, but doesn't touch them.]

I don't know.

[She reaches to take one, but then thinks better of it.]

[Sees that, and presses it into her hands.]

Here.

This one should have both of us in it, remember?

[She takes it, staring thoughtfully at the picture.]

It's like... it's like you were erased from the photo. Who would do that?

I was hoping you could tell me.

Is there someone who might want you to stay here and never return to pep?

pep?

[It sounds so foreign, because in her ideal world there is no pep pep or tokyo f. None of it.]

No. I don't think that someone would do that maliciously. I think maybe... just some of these photos were too painful to look at.

[For her, they would be. Which is why she hands them back to Kino.]

Yes, pep!pep!. The name of our unit - and the place where you met myself and Pink, among others. Rufous, Saffron, Cobalt, Glacies, Gladio, Senpai, Wednesday, Moxie...

Does it hurt you to remember them?

[Well, Alisaie and Alizarin are already in process of getting her to let go of her ideal world and have given her the bracelet with Cobalt's antler... so she just stands there holding it and shaking her head.]

Everyone left. It's- everyone keeps leaving.

...That's how it is, isn't it?

Do you regret meeting them?

No, but... the way pep is now... that's not what I want. They're not- I know it's not fair but, it feels like they're not who I want. I wanted everyone to come back, but even here it's impossible.

You're right. It is impossible.

But is it also impossible to ask those of us that are still here what you need so you can become comfortable again?

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