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Uhhh

Yk what not the worst I've seen but maybe get that shit checked out, I mean Yuri knows a doctor so surely you can just uhh magic it away idfk

"This is definitely the worst I'VE seen! How did you get holes?!?! And where is your flesh, why is it just empty?!"

Kasimir huffed, pulling the gloves painstakingly back on. He refused to answer, not even sparing a glance at Yuri. "ANSWER ME!" Yuri demanded, giving his father a harsh push. Basically all of his fathers bones cracked at the sudden movement.

"You want a piece of me so bad, boy? Fine, you take one of mine and I take one of yours...."

He tried to reach for Yuri.

"..."

Yuri couildn't help but wonder what was happening to his father.

YOU'RE WHAT?! JESUS MAN I THOUGHT YOU WERE LIKE 70-ISH. DAMNNN.

"Tch. What are you getting at? This hardly matters." Kasimir muttered, averting his gaze.

"This isn't about me." He added bitterly.

"Show me your hands." Yuri demanded. He was the one that got into kasimir's face this time, jabbing his finger into his fathers chest.

Kasimir scoffed, having to hunch so he could even look down at Yuri, his gaze unwavering. "What does this have to do with anything?" he finally challenged."

"You can just show me if you have nothing to hide, right?

"...Fine."

Kasimir presented yuriw ith his hands.

"Gloves off!" Yuri demanded. Kasimir rolled his eyes, pulling at his gloves.

"What the-" Yuri's breath caught in his throat, his mouth falling open.

*warning for Body Horror and Trypophobia*

Hey Kasimir you ancient bastard how you doing and be nicer to Yuri he's had a rough day

"It's indeed been a rough day...Yet this boy is doing alchemy, it's like he is challenging that bastard...."

He got heated, so heated that he slammed his fist on the night table. It was eerily quiet, his rasping for breath sounded forced and painful.

"Yuri, you know he has it out for you! The demons will get you if you keep going like this!" he got way too close to Yuri, his eyes glowing in the darkness of the fog he was eminating, staring at his son with wide, shaky eyes.

"I know! I learned from last time, i promise! But you don't understand! My life might be in danger!"

"What else is new..." Kasimir challenged, tilting his head. It was followed by an awful crack.

"Dad....why do you look worse?"

"I do not. Maybe you are just going blind? Maybe you are stabbing your big hamster eyes out with tiny little needles? Or maybe you are hallucinating from the DARK MAGIC you are actively using!"

Yuri frowned, questioning: "Dad...how old are you?"

"..."

Kasimir didn't respond for a second, looking down at the ground as he pondered his answer. It almost seemed like he forgot himself, but finally he responded: "39."

"Are you kidding me?!" Yuri exclaimed, still trying to get free from Kasimir's grasp.

“GET AWAY FROM ME!” Yuri threw a pillow at Kasimir, scooting away from the bed as best as possible while still being half asleep. He coughed against the fog, his back hitting the door.

“Yuri, why were you doing alchemy?” Kasimir crawled over the bed and towards Yuri like a spider, his gangly limbs carrying him surprisingly easy. Yuri bounced off the wall, making some more distance again: “I had no choice! I have to defend myself somehow!”

“By doing his old experiments you will only bring him closer to you!” Kasimir scolded, finally grabbing Yuri by the shoulders and lifting him into the air with scary ease.

Kasimir was a scrawny old man, his clothes threatening to fall off his bony frame, yet his long fingers still managed to dig into Yuri.

“D-Dad, please- I know what I’m doing...why did you come all the way out here?”

“Yuri...why do you insist on this arrogance?! You’re basically challenging the demons to take you in your sleep and torture you for the rest of your existence!”

“Dad....how do you look even worse than last time? You look like you’re 70!” Yuri suddenly exclaimed, cutting the current conversation off.”

Yuri had been sleeping for a while, recovering from losing so much energy. It had been an exhausting day in general, not just with Colin’s disappearance, but also him being targeted by a malicious Kisaragi ai yet again. It wasn’t anything he wasn’t used to, yet he feared that one day he wouldn’t make it out with some injuries and trauma....

He slowly awoke, feeling a presence near him. He cracked an eye open, attempting to adjust to what he was seeing, the blurred images finally coming together to reveal....

“Yuri...”

Yuri’s scream was probably loud enough that the entire city heard it. He got startled so badly he rolled out of bed, getting entangled in the sheets at his father simply staring at him so ominously while leaning over tje bedside.

“JESUS CHRIST, PaPA! Open a window- you-” he coughed, attempting to cover his mouth with his hand. “You get- smoke- everwhere! I- I can’t breathe!”

Kasimir Kagarin tilted his head, very slowly, then turned to the window and cracked it open, observing his son with wide eyes.

#yuri answers #phara answers

“N-Nailed it-” Yuri rasped, effectively falling over after losing that much energy ata once.

It took a few seconds for him to snap out of it, holding his head with a groan. His eyes widened, marveling at the homunculus he created.

“.....Where?” she seemed confused, taking in her surroundings.

She was magnificent. Massive in height with incredible strength. And completely made out of metal, too! Yuri had no doubt that she would do well in protecting him!

She noticed him, deciding to walk over to him and help him up to his feet. Every step she took either shook the earth or left little dents and breaks in the boards.

“You alright, tiny man?”

“I’m f-fine. Just...tired. I created you and it took a lot of energy!” he chuckled good-heartedly, giving the girl a friendly pat on the shoulder. She was cold and the sound echoed through the room.

“You’re my old man?!” she exclaimed, seemingly happy. “What’s my name?!?!”

Yuri hummed, then declared: “hmm....your name is Phara!”

“I LIKE IT!” she roared in approval, giving Yuri a pat on the back. It was strong enough to push him to the ground again.

“Let’s go upstairs....I’m tired.” he suggested, getting picked up by Phara again.

I guess we...Wood have to see how this goes

"....FIne. Good one." he admitted reluctantly, sighing to himself. "Maybe I should build in a laughing track if I survive all of this."

He hummed, glancing at the different materials he had. He had vials of blood and water, bars of gold and metal and quite a lot of wood and clay.

He nodded, ultimately grabbing the metal: "I'll just use three of those. This is the strongest material."

He placed 3 bars in the circle, taking a bit of his own blood with a syringe. He dripped it into the alchemy circle until it glowed brightly, ready for the ritual.

Yuri took a deep breath and began, mumbling in a foreign language. His eyes slip close. A bright light illuminates the room.

Is this full metal alchemist?/j

"Maybe. Depends on how well this shit show will go!" Yuri commented casually, explaining.

"It's actually not so complicated. A hommunculus is made of different material, depending on what you offer the circle, you will get a different homunculus. For example, if you offer it only wood, you will get a tree! Of course, it also needs some blood to bound the hommunculus to you, a bit like accepting it as your own."

Yuri chuckled. "i know it sounds insane. But it works! I'm almost done with my preparations, then I will show you. I simply have to decide what materials to use..."

Yuuriii....whatcha doing

"Well, uh- it's a bit of a long story. Don't tell the foundation, you hear me? Zip it!" he made a motion like he was zipping his mouth shut, then revealed his notebook to you.

It was full of manic ramblings and the drawings of a madman, the ink scrawled across entire pages and depicting strange creatures.

"You see, my ancestor. He was a pretty bad guy. But he was also a great alchemist. I found his old studies and discovered a way to replicate te hommunculi he used to make in his time.

"I- uh-...I guess I just figured a homunculus would be a great way to protect myself with their supernatural strength. It didn't go well the last time, but that was only because I made too many. I know better now. I shall try to make a big and strong one that can protect me..."

He went back to mumbling, checking if he drew the circle right.

“It’s all how I left it...I suppose that’s a good thing...” he muttered to himself, descending down the stairs into his workspace.

Papers were scatteres all over his desk and some suspicious contents could be seen in jars that were placed in bookshelves. In the middle of the wooden floor an intricate circle in red paint was drawn.

“It’ll be fine. I just have to be careful....”

He placed a few candles outside of the circle, then sat down at his desk, beginning to sketch out some different things.

“Argh, dammnit...what should I do? What CAN I do?...How can I protect myself?” Yuri threw his backpack on his bed, beginning to unpack it. He still had the gun he stole from tsurugi some time ago, but he already used that against the ai. He had worked on it so it would function more as a smoke bomb, but the ai would expect. The laptop could always be used to smash into someone, but he knew there was no point. He had nothing.

He inhaled sharply, rubbing at his eyes. He felt so tired...

His head slowly turned to his study. He had used it for only a little while. But after that incident he had kept it locked ever sicne....

“...Maybe it’s time to change that.”

You're not a monster, Yuri, you'll never be, You're an incredible human being, a kind and sweet person. Trust me, you are not a monster.

"No, that's not true, this is a complete disaster. I'M a disaster! Some people become an ultimate because they're good at it! What do I get?! Generation-long despair that that can physically and mentally alter you as a person. Life is so fucking unfair. Everything, always, has been a complete fucking disaster." He looked up, emphasizing. "This is the third time a Kisaragi ai is making me trouble. Third. Time."

Give yourself a minute to unwind Yuri, it's okay. Things happen, people make mistakes and sometimes we do things that hurt others when we don't mean to. Just breathe and take a second to calm down. Please.

"Haha...thank you...this almost feels like old times..."

Thankfully he made it to his place rather quickly, slamming the door shut and locking all the windows. He was alone. All of his friends were out travelling or doing their jobs...it made him realize just how big the house was when he was all alone.

"I didn't want their last memory of me to be such a poor one...this might be the last time we ever see each other again and I pull this! I probably stressed them out too, this is all my fault..."

He barricared the door with the couch, gasping for air as it threatened to get out of control again.

Yuri! You're back?!

"I...think so...honestly, that lab sample Syobai took was completely pointless, it's so easy to get rid of..." he sniffled, burying his face in his hands as he continued weeping like a widower.

"Fuck, I blew it, everyone saw me, they're gonna hate me, they're gonna see I'm a monster..." he exhaled shakily, getting up to his feet again.

"Now they definitely won't help me...or want to see me...I'm gonna go home...and prepare, I guess." His pace was a lot slower now, his head hung low.

#yuri answers #was no ask but it counts

Yuri kept running, the occasional sniffle coming from him. He heaved and panted, stumbling over his own feet with just how fast he was running. He didn’t stop until the hotel the foundation was resting in was completely out of his line of sight.

Once he was far enough away he hid in a nearby alleyway. He slammed his back against the wall, panting frantically. His hands were in his hair, eyes wide, sliding down the wall. Finally, he rested his head and arms on his knees, weeping.

“I’m going to die, I’m going to die, I’m going to die....oh...” he reached up to his eyes, wiping under them experimentally and staring down at his tears in surprise.

“Oh...I forgot, of course. This stuff washes away with water...”

It was too bright, too loud, too much...He screamed at the sky, his tears flowing like a waterfall.

Someone was staring at the people inside the hotel room through the window, his eyes wide and scanning the entire room. This seemed to be the right room, finally, he was getting tired of climbing.

Yuri tapped at the glass, similar to how he did at the hospital. Seemed like despite this entire situation he showed up to repair Ag. He also didn't go through the door again, hopefully this wouldn't become a recurring theme...

(@the-ultimate-spaceboy)

The small group in the hotel room were acting pretty calm before yuri showed up out the window, Midori was the first to notice staring for a solid minute trying to figure out if she was actually seeing him or if she was just seeing things because of the remaining memory of the whole m!a incident. But no he really was there, and thats when she spoke up.

"Guuys, yuri's heere."

"He is?"

Midori pointed at the window and minako walked up next to her, kisa quickly following minako.

"What the hell happened to him!?"

"That doesn't matter!"

Kisa was not worried like the others, he was just relieved to see his friend relatively unharmed. He quickly rushed to the window and opened it, excited to see yuri again.

"Yuri you came!! I was really worried something happened i'm so glad your okay!!"

@the-ultimate-spaceboy

Upon Kisa approaching the window so hastily, he froze up for a moment, mistaking him for someone else. Someone more malicious. He growled, actually growled, deeply from his throat, sounding more like an actual animal for a moment and leaned so far back from the window, he almost fell.

Upon realizing that it actually wasn’t Ogag, but Kisa instead, he calmed slightly, finally climbing through the window and inside. “Oh, it’s just you.” He exclaimed, shaking out his injured hand once again. It didn’t seem like he would explain why he climbed through the window instead of knocking on the door anytime soon. Or explain the eyes and what might’ve happened on his way to the foundation.

“Good day everyone. I’m afraid I do not have the time for idle chit-chat. Where is Ag? I cannot stay long.” his fists balled, exhaling deeply. Rei and Tsurugi were undoubtedly looking for him, despite him telling them not to, but they were stubborn like that.

Kisa looked at yuri with concern, he frowned upon noticing yuri growling at him and actively seeming hostile up until he seemed to calm down. Even then though he still stayed close to yuri, not really showing much reaction to yuri's obvious changes.

"Of course its me, i've still been here since you came last time!"

Kisa quickly noticed yuri's injured hand(s) and looked at yuri with ignorant worry. "Yuri are your hands okay, they look really bad.."

The others weren't as chatty. Minako and Midori had backed away not used to dealing with these kinds of situations, they just kept despairs in check, never delt with them. Shiina however quickly got to business, she recognized what was up with yuri right away, and she knew that being professional was the best bet here.

"Right, he's right here. Theres a video in his program that's blocking parts of his code and making him reneact behavior, you remember I mentioned that on the call right?"

She asked to try and see how much he could remember in this state, the odd curiosity of yuri's despair side intrigued her so might as well experiment a bit. But this was still mostly business, so she walked over to ag's monitor and tapped the side of the screen, she vividly remember how yuri was partly blind in this state, so sound might be helpful here.

“Oh, I assure you, I am in good health. I’ve had worse.” Yuri assured, giving Kisa a not so friendly pat on the shoulder. In fact, it was so loud it echoed across the room and undoubtedly would have hurt if he wasn’t a robot.

What a joke, this was already getting way too loud. He had to get out of here before any of them called Rei or Tsurugi.

“Oh yeah! I remember! Is that really what happened? It sounds so stupid, Hahaha!” laughing may not have been the best reaction for the information he received, yet it rang loud and clear. Maybe it was for the better that Yuri was here in this state, at least he didn’t have to fret.

“No, seriously. It is stupid. Cause this is nothing but a power trip done for the sake of pettiness. It looks like someone is really mad that its little toy evolved a will of their own and tries to get away from it. I can take care of it. BUT....”

He turned his head, fixating who he thought was Shiina, fixing her with a malicious grin.

“I’ll take care of this. Monocrow isn’t here, so it’s going to be a little slower, but I can make it work. I can copy the malicious video and most of the code on my throwaway laptop. There’ll probably still be some remains, but I can also add a bit of code to counter it, no big deal. But in return.....I want a favour. Deal?” He stretched his injured hand out for a shake, his spread grin unwavering.

Kisa didn't seem to respond to the action, though he did turn his head to look at yuri with a small blank expression what exactly that meant no one could really tell. Midori looked at yuri with bewilderment shocked at the action in kisa's stead. "Hey, b-be gentle!!" And in a blink kisa proceeded to go back to his usual smiling self, speaking to midori in a reassuring voice. "Its fine, I want a new body anyways so any damage done is no harm to me."

Minako tried to be professional and carry the conversation with shiina, someone had to keep her from doing or saying something stupid. She looked to ag's screen and then looked at yuri with a mild look of suspicion.

"That so? And what exactly is that favor?"

Shiina intervened, not really seeming in the mood to deal with minako, she shook yuri's hand and replied strictly.

"As long as ag is fixed and safe I don't care, do what you need to."

"A new body? What for? You’re already at the peak of progress, what else could you need? That smack wasn’t even that hard, shouldn’t even put a dent in your body, anyway.” Yuri inquired. Kisa probably just wanted an updated Avatar or something, but making such a body took quite a bit of time and money.

“Or what, you don’t want to bear a resemblance to the worst living creature in the world right now anymore?” Yuri had probably the worst possible relationship to ogag. The fact that it and Kisa resmembled each other had never been a problem for him, but in his current state? He couldn’t deny that he was paranoid beyond belief.

“Hah, that’s so silly.” he suddenly exclaimed, chuckling along like he had almost nothing to worry about. “I’m not gonna ask for something NOW in my current position, that would be lunacy! Naturally, I will wait. And whatever I ask for, you will do, or there will be consequences. It may be day, weeks, months or even years in the future, but....I will return, eventually. So...what do you say?”

“Splendid. Pleasure doing business with ya!” His laugh was a rumble as he went to take a look at Ag. It was a lot harder than it had to be with his current condition. He could neither look at the sprite properly nor at the keys.

“Ugh, this sucks.” He muttered to himself, beginning to wipe at his eyes every five seconds just so he could see something.

“What a joke.” he muttered to himself, studying Ag’s sprite at first, then the code. He had to try real hard not to laugh at what he was now seeing. He knew if despair wasn’t clouding his mind he would be shocked, sad, upset, angry, all of it at the same time. But right now?

It was filling him with the very despair he was currently craving.

"Well its like you said yuri, I don't want to look like this forever...It just doesn't fit....It feels weird." Kisa answered looking down feeling...A odd sense of nostalgia. He was quick to shake it off and continue. "Plus theres lots of stuff i'm hoping could be added, like a chest cavity so i can carry things! Ooo and maybe some way for me to taste things!"

Minako could only look in concern while midori just quited down and watched. Shiina was the only one talking now and she seemed pretty set on getting this done no matter what the so called favor was.

"Yeah yeah, just fix ag."

Shiina just watched yuri work, watching as he probably had to witness the hellish thing the original ai had put into ag's code. Minako looked at shiina with concern while midori and kisa looked at yuri worryingly.

"...So yeah, that's what I meant."

“You can be very demanding, but I guess I see what you are getting at.” Yuri simply shrugged. He didn’t really care, it wasn’t his time, money or patience used to build a body after all. As long as Kisa wouldn’t get even more annoying. “Hah, if you get to taste things I could finally give you a taste, you are really missing out.” he gestures towards his eyes, letting the implications hang in the air.

“What the?” Yuri mumbled, still loud enough to be heard, his eyebrows furrowed as he read through the code. It was such a mess, but what he was seeing was hard to trump.

“Wow, this is...” even he didn’t know what to say, the steady clacking of the keyboard interrupted in his shock. A new wave of goo covered his eyes, getting more dense by the second as his own despair intensified. Maybe it took a despair to fix this.

His eyes roamed for a second. Then he hit the table with his fist. hard. He exhaled, pardoning himself: “Apologies. I just...had to calm myself quickly.”

he continued his work, the clacking of the keyboard picking back up again.

Kisa tilted his head, for a moment he processed what yuri had meant and once he did...He pretty much replied instantly. "Maybe, we'd have to see.."

Shiina watched yuri intently not reacting to his reactions, minako however was quick to speak up and voice her concern.

"Is it that bad?"

Midori chimed in as well, watching yuri's eyes with curiosity and surprise.

"W-What's wrong...? Are you having trouble with something...?"

„Is it that bad? IS IT?! Yes, of course it is. It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life, makes me want to claw my eyes out with my bare. Fingernails and throw up on the fucking carpet. I’ve looked pure horror in the eye, but this? It gets pretty closed. I’m almost impressed.“

Yuri’s Voice was nothing more than hiss by the end, dragging his hand down his face and leaving small red scratch marks in their wake. Not enough to bleed, though it seemed pretty close.

„You guys are lucky. You are so blissfully unaware of this horror. This despair. I’m going to have to bash my head against the wall and even then it wouldn’t be enough.“

He clung to the table with one of his hands, his breathing growing slightly ragged. Keep control. Don’t lose it now. His eyes were practically overflowing with goo, wiping them away was proving very difficult.

If Yuri in despair was struggling this much….

He procured an usb Stick, putting it into the machine as he struggled to keep working.

His gaze fixed on Midori for a second, taking in a deep breath of air: „This…I’m just struggling a little, is all. It’s much worse than what I expected, seems like this lovely piece of shit saved the worst for ag specifically. Even now I want to just claw my eyes out.“

He seemed to consider it for a moment, looking at his hand, before turning back. He typed almost maniacally on the keyboard, painstakingly removing the bad code.

"Oi kid I get it, but watch your face or you'll cause some permanent damage."

Minako was quick to tell yuri in her own way to be careful with his nails, as a former mother of a very preppy kid she's probably well aware how dangerous and vital it is to take care of the face...

Kisa watched yuri concerningly, he could easily tell yuri was struggling with whatever he was seeing...He wish he could help...Midori tried to respond casually despite being quite nervous at the moment.

"Oh...That sounds awful, are you going to be okay after seeing that?"

"And please don't hurt yourself, especially don't claw out your eyes!"

“I’M trying, will you stop doting?! I need to focus. If I accidentally remove the wrong code I could really mess something up.” He scolded, hitting his hand on the desk again. Minako was right, he had to be careful with what he was doing. But a little bit of pain seemed to do it. It seemed to help him, grouning him iback into reality, so he could go back to work.

“Will I be alright? Hmmm....I don’t know actually. Maybe. Maybe not. Consider yourself lucky you don’t know what’s in the video!”

He did some more typing, transferring the bad code into his usb stick and installing his backdoor before he announced: “Alright, i think I removed the worst. He should wake up from....whatever that is any minute now. Maybe I’m too soft, I could never come up with something so evil.“

He snickered to himself, singing: “And allll it took was a little bit more of my sanityyyyy.”

"Sorry, go on."

Minako went quiet after that though a small part of her wanted to berate him for telling her/Midori off, but he probably didn't need anymore stress so she controlled herself enough to just be silent. Midori shifted herself a bit not really sure how she was feeling herself at the moment, she could only identify worry the other emotions she was feeling she couldn't describe. She continued speaking.

"I hope you will, you really deserve a break after all this."

Shiina spoke up once more as soon as yuri announced he was done moving up to ag's screen and looking at yuri.

"Finally thank you...Seriously how could something I programmed turn out so awful..."

Shiina was careful to whisper that sentence, she did not want to piss yuri off in this state especially after he saw whatever that video had in it.

"...Mr Kagarin I was still asleep at the time, but kisa told me about you two's conversation earlier today, would you still like that safe house? It can be arranged quite fast."

“I’m glad we have an agreement. Once all of this is over....I actually don’t know what I will do, it depends on how I feel that day, but once I get a break it will be grand!” he clapped his hands as if to announc himself.

“Though...a person like me doesn’t seem to catch a break a lot, hm? It just seems to run in my blood at this point!”

“Hmm...” he seemed to consider Shiina’s offer for a secon, ultimately shaking his head. He decided: “No, I don’t think I am in need of it anymore. It‘d only deny the inevitable anyway.”

He blew a strand of hair out of his face, explaining: “Let’s be real here. We know what we’re dealing with. If it wants to take me, it could do that any time it wanted to, no matter what I did or where I was.”

He didn’t seem to have the fighting spirit he had back when he talked to Kisa anymore. Maybe he had accepted his fate, maybe it was the despair or hopelessness talking, but he found himself tired. Tired of all of these things happpening to him.

“I...should probably on my way, now. I shall...ask for my favour if I survive all of this.” he announced, though didn’t move to leave just yet.

"It definitely seems that way...I'm sure you'll get a break one of these days yuri, It's not like you'll have to deal with all that despair stuff forever right?"

Midori tried to reassure yuri with her words, but it was something to think about, how much longer would yuri have to deal with all that stuff? .....Ryutaro did tell midori about his encounters during that incident....Surely yuri will be fine though right? He's handled it so far.

Shiina avoided eye contact looking at ag's screen again as yuri spoke, she answered firmly, at the very least she could try to convince yuri to hide somewhere they could check on him at.

"Are you sure? Even if that's the case we would at least know where you are, and we could save you quicker if we knew you know. Yes a kidnapping is most likely inevitable, but you've always escaped those haven't you? You wouldn't be here if you hadn't dealt with so much worse."

Shiina herself didn't know why she insisted on it, or why she was giving yuri a mild speech, Maybe it was simply because she knew yuri's gone through enough to know he could be saved every time, who knows. She quickly went back to talking business.

"I'll keep my end of the deal, you can go if that's what you-"

Shiina was interrupted by ag's screen turning on and loading, kisa seemingly got excited and ran next to her watching the screen in suspense.

".....Eh?"

Ag was back! he looked understandably confused though, looking at shiina and kisa with mild confusion on his face.

“.....yeah....eventually...” Midori’s words got him to think. Would he have to deal with these horrors for the rest of his life? His breath shuddered, a chill running down his spine.

“....,maybe.” he added quietly, not so sure he would ever get a rest at the current rate. It’s been a long few years....

“I’ll be honest with you Shiina....I am very tired. And you never know which kidnapping will be my last...but at this rate, I’d rather have it sooner than later. I don’t want to tell myself it will get better eventually anymore...”

His voice and words were heavy, averting his eyes. It’s been a long few years, and at this point it seemed almost more enticing to not be found and for that to finally be it.

“Y’know, it would be a lot of trouble gone for you guys too. so it seems like the best possible solution for everyone.” he shrugged listlessly.

Thankfully, Ag’s awakening stopped the awkward atmosphere. He too went to join Kisa, even if he couldn’t see anything.

“Wakey wakey, Puppet Baby!” he exclaimed almost smugly, chuckling to himself. He propped himself up on his elbox, resting his hand on his cheek.

“You always mean trouble, don’t you? You’re lucky I have a knack with robotics or it would’ve been a while to wake up up again. Even if it was kinda funny.”

He snickered again, parts of his usual despair self definitely shining through.

"Yeah, it'll go away eventually you just gotta hope for the future! That's what I did when I was sick for all those years, and look at me now i'm doing pretty good!" Midori was oblivious to yuri's hopelessness, seemingly just encouraging him to keep going until then, would there even be a then though with all the stuff he's going through? well its like midori said maybe he just had to hope, but that was probably hard to do at the moment.

Shiina was about to respond but was interrupted by ag, he seemed to be looking around confused as hell on what happened to him and how much time passed. He looked at yuri when he started to speak to him, quickly getting a annoyed glare on his face.

"Okay what the hell happened this time? Why do you have goop in your eyes now of all times?"

Ag was clearly not going to tolerate any insults at the moment, kisa on the other hand was just excited his brother was back to normal.

"AG WE WERE SUPER WORRIED!! Are you okay do you remember anything??"

Shiina silently bonked kisa on the head to get him to quiet down.

“I....suppose hope simply has favourites then. What a joke. How unfair is it that I have to wait for something good to happen for years but just a little bit of despair is enough for all this shit to happen.”

Yuri shrugged half-heartedly, letting the implications run in the air. He was very tired and at the point where it felt like things would never improve.

...Maybe hope really does have favourites and Yuri wasn’t one of them. It seemed likelier by the day, at least.

“Wow.” Yuri threw his hands up in an outrage. “This really takes the cake, doesn’t it? I made my way all the way here after being threatened by YOUR jealous ex to fix your puppet state and THIS is the thanks I get?! What an outrage, what a riot! Why did I even bother?!” Yuri spat, very obviously offended.

"Mmm well...What's that quote again? Despair is contagious? Its really easy to be put into despair, I am much better yeah but I still do get sick sometimes, I've been severely ill for a long time, I only really got better a few years ago. So...I guess take my story as advice?"

"Despair will always be there, but if you hope for the best when it finally starts getting better...All that hoping really pays off. And of course the bad times won't ever fully go away...But the same goes with the good you know?"

Midori stopped herself from continuing nervously quieting her voice. "Ah sorry I rambled a bit..But i'm sure you get what I mean."

Meanwhile ag rolled his eyes, clearly not grateful for the help. He seemed more angry about yuri's attitude than worried though he was mildly, the anger just majorly showed more.

"What the hell are you even talking about!? If you didn't actually want to come here than why bother!"

Ag processed yuri's words a bit more...Puppet?.....Ex? He thought about it more and once he finished...Ag's anger turned into rage.

"My fucking what!? DON'T YOU EVER CALL THAT ASSHOLE THAT, I want nothing to do with that bitch! And...I AM NO PUPPET WATCH YOUR DAMN TOUNGE KAGARIN."

Shiina, Minako, and Kisa could only watch the argument in pure worry, ag just woke up and he was already stirring a fight...

“Yeah...I guess that rings true.” Yuri didn‘t question what he should do if the issue was hereditary. It seemed like stupid advice, but maybe some truth rang with it. He sighed, running a hand through the fluff of hair.

“Thank you, I guess. It’s quite inspiring. You actually remind me of one of my friends, you know? You two would prolly get along.”

“WHAT WAS THAT?!” He interrupted his talk with Midory, grabbing the screen and pulling it closer to himself, yelling: “I went through a lot of fucking trouble to get over here and fix your sorry ss back up and this is all you can say to me?! You can’t even bring a fucking thank you past your sorry lips?! I can’t believe I went through the trouble of seeing the video for you ungrateful screensaver!”

He dropped the screen quite harshly, thankfully nothing broke. He slammed his fist on the table once again, then held on to the edge of the screen, preparing his other hand to hit the glass.

"I-Its no problem, i'd like to meet them sometime maybe after this-"

Midori quieted immediately watching ag and yuri argue along with the others, Ag couldn't necessarily be blamed for his anger he just woke up after blacking out for who knows how long, but still ag did tend to go overboard...So ag being typical ag, only worsened.

"Why would i thank you!? I don't even know why you're here! I was just talking one minute, blacked out the next, and then i wake up to you looking like this! How do you expect me to react!?"

Ag adjusted himself turning his back against the screen trying to get himself to calm down..and failing.

"I don't even know what the hell's going on right now, and you aren't helping."