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Droopy Eyes. [ wait. no one here knows who that is. ] Jae-ha. That guy I told you about before.

[ now hien can know about his one true (cursed) love.... ]

[ Imagine if I said he was still cursed about jaeha

Thankfully he is not. Hien does look slightly amused though. ]

"That guy again? Oh... was I like his concubine or something."

[ He makes a Face but also lmao ]

[ HELLLLLLP it's hak's turn to make a Face about that. ]

Gross. I hope not. Even if he'd probably like that. [ ugh!!!! ] You guys were just friends. And my friends too. We all gambled together.

[ his isekai backstory... ]

"Sounds pretty normal... and I don't die this time."

[ nice. But also suspicious. ]

"Then what got you all roughed up?"

[ how much does he want to say....... ]

Some guy Yuma knows. [ sure. that's safe enough. ] His commander? He made us play a messed up game of chess.

[ Oh. Hien pauses for a bit about Yuma's commander, but then he makes a Worse Face. ]

"What the fuck is it with strategists and being obsessed with chess and making everything thematic about it??"

[ He fuckin hates chess... he's the kind of guy who would flip the board over and leave. And eat the pieces too ig ]

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[ hien you should have been there to eat the pieces. actually, wait, that probably would have also been bad. ]

Beats me. But the pieces were people we knew and whenever one got knocked off the board they—

[ well. he probably doesn't have to say it to make it clear what happened. ]

[ Hien just thinks THIS is the one he didn't die in?? Pieces? It might as well be Piece Wars at this point and that just makes him sigh so bad. ]

"Everything about that is terrible."

You're telling me. [ a frustrated groan. ] Can't one of these be nice for once?

[ no ]

"From my experiences, these are never nice."

[ Experiences? Yeah, he was in the middle of a cyoa before coming to purgatory, actually. He hates these expeditions yall go on so bad because they sound so much like the ones he's been on. ]

[ hien....you suffer so much.... ]

Someone out there should make a nice one instead of being sick and twisted.

"... Maybe I would, but I don't have the power to do that. Even then... I don't want it to be like one of those happy illusion things that people will want to live in forever. We have enough conflicts about those."

It could just be a normal day.

[ but he sighs, leaning back. ideally they wouldn't be kidnapped and taken anywhere but the odds of that are low. ]

There's nothing else but to keep finding a way out of this place.

"Don't work too hard. I feel like the answer will show itself eventually... hopefully when you're not an old man by then."

[ ... ]

"What is your idea of a normal day?"

You seriously think we'll be here that long?

[ please no, that sounds awful. but he'll take the (welcome) subject change, closing his eyes for a moment to think. surprisingly, it's not a hard question to answer. ]

Yoon's cooking dinner. Droopy Eyes is trying to hit on the princess again. Shin-ah's probably off finding more acorns for Ao. Zeno and Kija are being weird. We're traveling like we always do. Nothing weird has happened.

[ a normal day aka his picture of home. ]

"Would you be beating up Droopy Eyes?"

[ lol ]

"... It sounds like a family."

Only if he tries to hit on the princess.

[ .... ]

Yeah. The Wind Tribe will always be my family but so are these guys. I don't want anything to happen to them.

"Is the person who adopted you part of the Wind Tribe?"

[ He feels like that would make sense. ]

Yeah, the old man. Mun-deok. He gave me his [ sur ] name even though I was just another orphaned kid.

[ there's the usual exasperation in his voice, along with fondness. ]

I renounced it and the Wind Tribe when I left but they'll still always be my family.

[ Hien nods. ]

"I get it. My mentor gave me my name too, and I guess I felt pretty orphaned at the time."

[ hak glances over ]

What was your mentor like?

"My mentor... he's kind. A little goofy. Dorky. Though, I should mention that this is after he went through self-rehabilitation of tens of thousands of years after being a world destroying dickbag for a few thousand years."

[

okay. there was a lot going on in that sentence. ]

What made him quit being a world destroying dickbag?

"Empathy."

[ lmao ]

"... And getting his ass handed to him by a stronger guy and doomed to be living in that destroyed world forever might do some things."

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[ ... ]

Seems like a pretty miserable fate.

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