disingenuous | sei catchall

[ she doesn't sigh (although she wants to), but she at least looks as calm as ever when she responds. ]

I will be fine.

[ despite everything. ]

...is it one of those things hwere it was a problem at the time that it happened but something that's occurred since has cleared it up...?

[a beat.]

Because this place really does like to show those things to people. It was like that in the hotel too.

[ she tilts her head. hotel.... rupert has told her about school but not the hotel. ]

It sounds like you've experienced this kind of scenario a lot. You've more or less grasped it.

Memories out-of-context can be the worst offenders.

They really can. Last time, it kept showing people memories where I lost my leg... not only do I have it back already, but apparently it made them think I was somebody else? Why is limb loss so common in these things? It's the worst!

It's a trauma that stays with you that you can't ignore, but how does losing a leg in a memory make someone think you're someone else?

[ doesn't know sei was an npc. ]

Ah, well... the last place I was in was very much like this one - full of people who had been involved in experiences like this already. [she rubs at the back of her neck.] I and a few others were in a similar position as our hosts here. So, with my face covered, they didn't precisely know it was me, and well... they knew someone in their prior experiences who had suffered the same sort of limb loss...

[she winces a little.]

And I really wasn't in any position to correct them.

[and because work kicked my ass so hard this week and we're running out of time bam memshare]

[ okay. roxana can tell they are in love with each other, but that's not her business.

she shakes her head. ]

I hope you did better in correcting your assistant vice captain. I don't think he understood anything.

[they are so stupid. so fucking stupid. this canon will be the death of me why does it only get a translation once a year.]

He is really so, so, so clumsy when it comes to anything other than wielding his katana.

[and she is big mad about it.]

[ the way roxana knows about okita, at least by name, because of her sword cr, but she won't let that show.

she understands, though, because she does know swords. ]

I hope choosing all six of them ended up mortifying him.

That's the infuriating thing! It didn't! He was able to rationalize it as one of his troop duties, since the order came from Vice-Captain Hijikata, so he ended up not batting so much as an eyelash about it once he chose them.

[sei was the one in hell after all of that.]

...but he didn't end up sleeping with them either. [...] Aaah, why am I talking about this?! It's probably of no interest to you! I'm sorry, Roxana-san.

[ she does not care about their romance, that's true, but she knows how to play a part. ]

You can't help when this place invades your privacy. Did he learn anything from interacting with any of them?

Did he understand you or women more?

He got so drunk he fell asleep in the end.

[honestly she is so done with men.]

It was probably for the best. As you've said, he likely doesn't see much other than how to use his sword, and the effort to make him look anywhere else...

[ is it worth it? ]

Okita-sensei wouldn't be Okita-sensei if he acted any other way. Captain Kondo and swordplay are the two most important things in the world to him. Vice-Captain Hijikata is up there as well, as annoying as it is to admit it.

[so. yeah. if he was the type of man who easily returned her feelings and just got it, she probably wouldn't like him as much as she does.]

Frustrating as it can be sometimes, I know exactly how he is. So... [she might get mad and yell at him from time to time, but like. that's life.] ...anyway. I am sorry you had to see that. It was a bit ridiculous.

You didn't make it happen. Don't stress it too much. At least it wasn't something that was even more invasive.

[ small fortunes, right? ]

Small fortunes for sure. I'll look forward to next week when something different starts happening.

[but then it will turn out that they get perma memshare. oopsie.]

[ that's fine. they don't know it yet. ]

It can't be that much worse than this week.

[AND THEN THEY EXPLODE IN WEEK 4.]

I really struggle to think of any effect that was worse than this back in the hotel... So yeah, it definitely can't get worse than this.

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