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[coming to find elysium...]

[ SWEET LUCIEN 🥺 Do you want something relevant to this week's maze or something else entirely? ]

[EITHER WORKS he is coming to check up on elysium after all that even though he knows stinky elysium will dodge feelings]

[ STOP the shard reveal has given him character development (?) just try him

Anyway, let's go to the Hello Kitty Temple which I absolutely won't remember to type by its legally distinct name. He's peering at omamori. ]

[carefully approaches...]

Elysium?

Lucien! [ Waves him over eagerly again. ] Look, look. They have just the thing that made me think of you. What's with your timing? Are you omniscient?

[ Holds out the omamori like it's a prize

It's one that wards off…… death? In this world, punk rock Hello Kitty exists. ]

[looks at the omamori, blinking.]

... I'm not sure what this is? Why did it make you think of me?

Back where I'm from, charms like these trace their origins to Higashi. You're meant to hang them up in your home or keep one on your person as a protective talisman, depending on what's written on it.

Obviously, how effective they actually are is up for debate, but they're a way of showing that you're thinking of someone all the same. This one's supposed to keep you from dying. A pretty lofty promise for a bit of fabric, don't you think? But maybe it'll work if it's something that comes from here.

[ OKAY.

press x to doubt. Also, the fine print probably says something heinous like prevents death by soup. ]

[OKAY.]

... Well, I am grateful you were thinking of me.

[a little Uncertain about how elysium associates dying with him for some reason, but. now he is kind of curious, albeit not for himself but for anastasia even if she's not here.]

I have this one for myself.

[ It is one of a knock-off Badtzmaru very tenderly holding his… hair? He also holds it up very proudly.

'No more hair-related stressors'…… ]

I see that losing your hair was quite a traumatic experience for you.

[ He places his hands square on Lucien's shoulders. ]

Someone cursed me to believe baldness was the pinnacle of beauty. I was seconds away from shaving off my entire head with my own hands.

[ He says this it with the gravity that it's the worst thing that's happened to him here. ]

[blinks.]

Oh. I believe I did hear you ranting about that yesterday.

[me looking through threads to see what happened while I was away rip to elysium.]

Right! Someone has it out for me in quite the unusual and specific way.

[ thinly veiled murder vibes in how he squeezes Lucien's shoulder. ]

—Anyway! What brings you here? I was going to deliver yours to you until you saved me the trouble.

[ he has like

way too many fuckin omamori stashed in an outside pocket on his bag that it's starting to overflow. ]

[ELYSIUM?]

... Do you need help with your deliveries? [glances at the pocket.] I see you've gathered quite a few.

However, I came to see how you were doing.

If you're joining me in this venture, then we should double up on our offerings. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about showing how you feel?

[ I was about to type out Christmas is coming two weeks early but then I looked at an actual calendar and it's NEXT WEEK okay. They're making Christmas come a week earlier, even if they don't know that. ]

Well. I'm obviously not pleased about what happened the other day. But… what can I do about it, right? Purgatory's going to keep doing its own thing. All I can do is work within the confines it's set for us and do what I can.

[ by

worrying over everyone else! yeah! ]

I wish for their safety and happiness, and for them to achieve their goals in this place?

[a little caught off-guard by the question, but just says what comes to mind as elysium requests...

also stop that.]

... He mentioned that according to you, he forgot a country, although he didn't seem to believe you.

Okay, but who do you wish those specific things for more? Say, do you wish for Tokinaga's safety more, or his happiness? I hear it's not a great idea to dilute their power. But two should be fine.

[ he's really just pulling things out of his ass ]

And wow. Talk about cutting straight to the point. [ He says it lightly, but it is something to consider how much people have been asking him about Thorns. Really makes you wonder just how overbearing you've been. ] I don't think it's so much about forgetting an entire country as it is about his ambition, though. If it were just our home country, a lot of the other pieces wouldn't add up.

If I had to choose between the two... I would wish for happiness over safety.

[believes elysium is an expert on this because why wouldn't he!!]

I apologize if I am overstepping my bounds. [...] That would make sense. Either way, I assumed that for it to be some sort of consequence, it would have been something very dear to him.

For everyone? No specific wish for anyone in particular?

[ The omamori… they manifest your thoughts into existence… oooOoooOoo. ]

And no, you aren't. I was just amused. What are secrets between denizens of a place that doesn't care for them anyway? [ Laying everything out objectively? Easy! ] … I'll leave it to him to tell you what Iberia means to him, if he ever chooses to, but it wouldn't be an understatement to say that it's what's driven him this far, yeah. He was pretty banged up when he got here.

I thought we were speaking of Tokinaga?

[why are you doing this to him.]

I see. Hopefully, he recovers his memories soon enough, then. Do you think it to be a consequence of what happened to him, or from the river?

We were talking about Tokinaga, but now we're talking about everyone else. Can't let anyone feel left out, you know? New people included I'm not so sure about that weird guy I still gotta meet, though…

[ tmw your first impression of Obikawa was in a maze run with the guy they were just talking about as a boss monster. Awkward. Anyway, this is what happens when you get yourself involved with extroverts. You get pulled into their shenanigans. ]

Without a doubt, the loss is from the river. I practically threw him in there after we left the bar.

"Weird guy"?

[dealing with extroverts... this is a new experience for lucien...]

That would explain it. I was confused on why his memories were still affected, when previous groups regained their senses upon returning.

Obikawa. I think Tokinaga knows him.

[ Ahem. ]

I take it you had a good chat with him, then?

Ah, yes, he's Tokinaga's friend. I had the chance to meet him.

[a light nod]

I don't know what would define a "good chat", but he told me about what happened.

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