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[siriusly]

Hello, this is Manabu Yuuki. I didn't catch your call, sorry. But, ah, you can leave a message if you want to! I should be able to get back. Oh, but if it's urgent, you should probably leave me a text message! Or send a message with urgent in the subject, just so I know to stop what I'm doing and respond. That'll probably work best. Otherwise, uh... Well, that's all. Thank you.

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[siriusly]

...

[oh. THIS again.

exasperated:] Even if you do believe in all that, [LIKE A MORON!!!] I’m going to ask that you prioritize a son over your own complexes! I think it matters a little more!

[hellrisen02]

[Only slightly annoyed] It's safer for him.

[Or it was. Great how that went.]

[Sigh]

Keepin' him safe is my priority, now. Above anything else I've started here.

...Just didn't expect to have to maneuver around this.

[Pause] Hey, I meant to ask. About that moon base thing- whaddaya think of it? [What an abrupt change of topic lalala]

[siriusly]

[UGH THEN AT LEAST TELL HIM THAT!!!!!! MAXWELLS!!!!!!!!!


still irritable:]

It’s too sudden. This much? After so long with so little activity?

It’s probably going to go south.

[hellrisen02]

[Duo's relationship with his son or the moon base???]

[huehue]

Looking at the history of space innovation in this world, that was what I thought. Why now? Their focus against Russian technological advancement hasn't taken this focus in decades, really.

And after that casting call for the imPort show in space, or whatever... It's too convenient.

...

I'm going to start preparing.

[siriusly]

For the sake of whoever goes up there expecting fun... yeah. It’d be a good idea to have someone with space faring knowledge out there to countermeasure.

[grumbly:] I’d try to go myself, but...

[hellrisen02]

Mmn.

[Although Duo was certainly thinking a different kind of countermeasure from Manabu, but... now he's not sure he should tell him about it.]

...How's probation? And... the general reaction? [From the natives, his friends... His work.]

[It was really a shame.]

[siriusly]

Hh, uh. I guess it’s fine. I don’t know what the usual is here, but so far so good, I guess. It’s a lot of outside work, which is fine, but... [hhhhhhhhhh]

But I’m still waiting to hear if I’ll be allowed back into the academy.

[hellrisen02]

Public works? ...Sounds right.

...

Good luck, man. Really. Considering what the stakes were at the time, I'm honestly-- usually I don't agree with imPort punishments in this place, but.

[Sigh.]

[siriusly]

[what is WITH people and this whole 'hey imPort u shouldn't have to do time for that crime' thing. is Manabu taking crazy pills or what.]

...But it was still someone's life. Someone...who doesn't have the chance to come back. And if I don't get held accountable to the same standards as everyone else here, what business would I have on the force?

[hellrisen02]

[Duo pauses thoughtfully.] I know we all got a screwed-up sense of who's "okay" to kill in this place, and all, but the truth is no one should be coming back period.

...Anyway, wasn't it in self-defense? Y'never told me the full on how it happened, exactly.

[siriusly]

Mmh. Right...

[hhh.]

That part, particularly...he was beating on Jacob. He had a gun. I got there in time and told him to stand down.

The next thing I know, he's behind me, and the barrel is pressed against the back of my head...

[hellrisen02]

...That sure sounds like self-defense to me, kiddo. You can't tell me that was your first kill, either. You're military.

[There's a pause, then quietly, as gently as you can] Are you doubting yourself because you weren't sure it was the right thing to do, or just because you had to take a life?

[siriusly]

I'm not-! I mean...

...I don't doubt I did the right thing. I wasn't going to let Jacob die, and I've got a lot to live for, too.

[...]

...But all the same... I'm one more imPort who's killed a natural-born citizen. Have I helped make things worse simply by doing what's right?