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Forty-Third Spool of Thread - [Voice/Action]

[There's the sudden sound of a bunch of boxes falling to the ground, contents spilling everywhere as the journal's camera points up to the ceiling. It shifts suddenly to focus on a particular pink-haired girl who was unceremoniously dumped into the back room of her shop on top of said boxes.]

Ugh...thanks for the warning, jerks. [She begins to untangle herself from the boxes of ribbons and fabrics, moving the journal closer to speak. For the most part, she seems pretty unharmed.]

Hey...so what day is it anyway? Here's hoping I wasn't gone too long, totally bad for business. [There's a slight beat, suddenly remembering something. You know, her housemate that was alone for like a week.] Haruhi, report. [She works her way out from under the pile of materials and the door to the back room swings open, allowing her to enter the main part of the shop.]

Neku...you better have made it back. That was pretty low of them, keeping us sort of together and then sending you back first. Besides, I was right in the middle of designing a n--

[There's a long pause suddenly as she really takes a look at the shop. She's staring at a row of dresser dummies, counting them in her head.]

All right, which one of you broke into my shop when I was gone?!

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I know a lot of things. [Because being cryptic about it makes it sound better.]

...that doesn't tell me anything!

It tells you everything you need to know!

The Game's not about murder, and I thought you of all people would know that! [...unless your name is Neku. Then of course it's all about murder but that's neither here nor there.]

Edited 2011-05-30 06:24 (UTC)

Then what does happen to the souls that lose? How is it not murder?

...look, I can't answer questions when I don't know what you do and don't know about the Game, okay? [Because yeah the way he made that sound, it kinda is murder...even though the ones playing are already dead.]

I know the shinigami on your world are hired guns whose job is to eliminate people who could have passed on to the afterlife. And stop calling it a damn game.

[This is a button Joshua pushes a lot. Does it show?]

No. They eliminate people who could have come back to life. A real life, not the afterlife. And I'm calling it a game because that's what it's called!

And that makes it okay? Some poor salaryman is afraid to die, so he needs to be destroyed because he wasn't ready to stop living? It's worse than murder.

...are we even on the same page? Everybody in the Game is already dead. If you win the Game, you can come back. If you don't, you just pass on. What's so hard to understand about that?

The part where losing souls are erased. What the hell kind of consolation prize is that?

What the hell kind of consolation prize is any kind of passing on?

You won't know until you try it. I'm told it's peaceful.

...it's not as peaceful as you'd think.

You wouldn't be here if you'd opted for it.

[Normally she wouldn't tell people this, but Hisoka's kind of a special case. He already knows about the game, knows about Josh, and he's a Shinigami. Can't go wrong there.]

I'm here because I won the Game.

So you won a free pass at reincarnation and get to spend it here. Apparently the Malnosso are fans of irony.

Wrong again. We got to go home first, and then those jerks pulled us here. There's a difference.

There's not much of one.

No. There is. Trust me.

Anyway why does it matter? You're probably not much better than they are anyway...you work in the same department.

Semantics.

My work is nothing like that bloodbath you associate with. That "game" is an insult to the circle of life.

And what makes your work so superior to whatever it is Joshua does with the Game?

Ours is a matter of fate. We don't toy around with people's lives. I work for Summons -- when people are supposed to die, we escort them to attend their judgment. We don't erase souls.

...so what, kind of like the boatmen of the Sanzu?

I am not a boatman. [And oh how much he hates you right now.]

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