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BAD END=DEAD END - 430PM PST

[ The bar is unit-colored with light unit paraphernalia, although it's all just for show. Fortunately, comfort isn't part of the unit aesthetic this time—all seats are cushioned, whether the booth seats or the bar stools, comfy and lush. Idols can sit anywhere they like, it seems.

There's alcohol available, but everything else is locked behind the wall-cabinet. . . the recipe book is also available to peruse at one's leisure.

Ah—the door opens, and a fuzzy sort of shade steps in. It looks like idols will be serving the Damned, today. . . ? ]

RECIPE BOOK

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[ getting up. stompy feet. this is the WORST. ]

[ pause ]

...Oh also, Sakura-kun, why are you making stuff up? You're the one who caught your friend for us to eat in the game—did you forget? And when you train and stuff it's really fun to watch you?? And you don't get mad at me for talking at you a lot even though you like quiet stuff???

She's got a point. You brought us a whole fucking heart and everything.

...That isn't something to praise.

You don't gotta like it, but you can't say it wasn't useful.

...Tch. Not useful enough.

Well, what would useful enough have even been in that context??

Not failing to live.

Aw, c'mon. Basically everyone was fucking nuts by the end of the game. Even if you'd lived past the first round, it would've only been a matter of time.

...Anyway, I don't think any of us really give a shit. You fought when you didn't have to, I think that's basically enough for all of us.

Tch. And what have I done besides that?

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[ turning to him next ]

—And YOU!!!
You wielded me and everything! But you like knives best?

[ she sounds. heartbroken? how could he. ]

[holding the recipe book between them like a shield]

Look, I'm just not a fucking swords guy, okay?

But we were so powerful.

[Sakura knocked him out in like, 3 moves,]

I mean, I don't fucking mind swords, I just don't use them, mostly.

[ she bounces back like. instantly. ]

OH!!!
That makes sense! Knives are like that, you know. They're always talking about how their wielders don't need anyone else.

And how they're so much sharper—which is obviously not true; that's just dumb and mean. And how they're fancier? And how you're no good because you're not covered in a bunch of jewels even though who even CARES about jewels. Right?

[ ..........this may have been a grudge started by one specific knife. ]

[oh gods he is so relieved]

Oh yeah, who gives a shit about jewels. That sounds like a shitty fucking knife to me. Wouldn't get within ten feet of that sucker.

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[don't remind him about Venti. though not like he can or will forget or forgive himself for that.]

...that isn't enough.

That doesn't make sense, though.
"That isn't enough" is the kind of thing you say when you're measuring.

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...You're not the kind who would hear the Song of Hell, huh, Sakura-kun.

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...no.

I mean, it's not like a song you can hear. Since you're a... I think it's called "Beasts," when you're not a Noble?

But that's okay! [ brightly ]
I'll just explain it to you.

It's the Song for loving. And you gotta pay attention now 'cause the next part is really important.

[makes a quiet noise of acknowledgment. he's...listening, anyway.]

When you love—like, really really love?
That's saying to the Lie—the Lie's the world, also; sorry, I should have said before— that's saying to the Lie that yes, you should keep existing.

Because the world's really special, right? So you gotta love all of it. And that means the worst things too! —Or the stuff that everyone else thinks is the worst. The things that need love the most, because they're painful or sad.

When you Sing for Hell, you say: no one ever, ever has to be alone. There's not such thing as good enough, because there's no measuring stuff. Measuring is for the kinds who reject stuff. And in BAD END, we'll never, ever reject you.

...Okay?

...do what you wish.

But that isn't something I can do myself.

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[ ...oh and also the Agave cabinet pops open. ]

—Oh!! This is the sweet stuff, right?

[ we interrupt this broadcast for her to go scampering after Customer Number 1 ]

We almost forgot this!!! [ just. upends the entire bottle into the cup ]
Okay thanksIhopeyoulikeitbye!

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