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[sub]Just outside of ”Starting location”, Priestella[/sub][/center]

Were the nerves getting to him after all? Though Yuuki thought that Ashton’s narration was just a little bit too dramatic for his liking, he could hardly protest about what the boy had said. The truth did have a place in this scenario, and if Ashton and Flame wanted to talk, then they could. He kept his own head down and his backpack strapped tight as he followed Aer and the group in silence, unwilling to get wholly involved in all this theorizing. Being transported to another fantasy land was something real, and he could even understand the conflict between knights, as keepers of order, and cultists, as creepy little shits that do creepy shitty stuff. But magic? And theorizing about it? Being cursed?

[color=baddab][i]“As a ferryman, it is just my job to move you around.”

“She must be in the mood for something strange to pick someone like you.”

“What I'd like to know is if you feel you're worthy of love? What makes you deserving of such a blessing?”[/i][/color]

Yuuki narrowed his eyes. The words pinged through his skull like diamond dust as he felt his heart beat against his rib cage again. Felt it beat too fast. Breathed deep. Set it to slow again, emptying it of trepidation and attachment.

[i]Remember where you came from.[/i]

[b]“I came from Earth,”[/b] he said slowly, grounding himself with facts, [b]“A place where we have science instead of magic to solve our problems, and where dozens of countries exist on six different continents, each one of them capable of communicating with the other.”[/b]

It slowed further, his pulse. His blue eyes were bright against the sunlight.

[b]“And there was no word chanted, only a grasping of our hand. As for what they think…I don’t think they did think all that much. It was more like…”[/b]

[i]The hands turned into claws, the voice dripped with simplistic malice.[/i]

[b]“…pettiness and envy. But huh, are cultists actually something that’s common in Priestella? Or is this ‘Mono’ working overtime because we showed up?”[/b]
[@BrokenPromise]