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[innes_of_frelia]

What is this mockery? There are useless children quibbling about on every corner. Though, admittedly, their intelligence level has not significantly decreased from their older state

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[voiced]

[for_myworld]

I know they're not coming.

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[innes_of_frelia]

... For that, I am sorry.

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[for_myworld]

And, um...I like it here. I get to go outside and nobody tries to...um.

It's...it's okay if the big people don't want me. I have friends.

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[innes_of_frelia]

You are the type of child that everybody loves.

[innes_of_frelia]

Is that bad?

[innes_of_frelia]

What is your brother like?

[baby_bangbang]

*shows up in disguise as a fourtyish-looking man in office attire*

That's not true at all. I'm Tsuna's father, Rebosuke Sawada. Ciaossu.

[innes_of_frelia]

An abnormality that I cannot say was entirely unexpected, but surprising nevertheless. I had always presumed your son was born from the dirt, giving his basic education level.

[baby_bangbang]

Well, the boy is a bit slow. I had to spend a fortune on a world-class home tutor.

[innes_of_frelia]

I see. So it is your failure as a parent to capably teach the boy by yourself, so you rely on another. I should have expected as much.

*just conscious enough to use journal in church; handwriting's faint and kinda wavery*

[yournewoverlord]

My mom and dad will definitely come. The dimensional gatekeeper can send my dad and his vassals wherever he wants.

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[innes_of_frelia]

If they are not here by now, then there is little chance they will suddenly arrive to save you in the future. Who is to say that your dimensional gatekeeper holds any power in this world?

[yournewoverlord]

All she has to do is open the portal. Dad even takes it to Celestia sometimes, and demons aren't even supposed to be able to set foot there.

They just need to figure out where I am.

[innes_of_frelia]

You presume this is an easy task?

[elimines_light]

Lord Innes, the children are... confused enough as is. Please do not make this situation worse.

Had the same happened to you, would you have believed a stranger who told you that you have been spirited away to Elimine-knows-where, and that your parents are no longer around? Even if not for that, my lord, it does not make our job easier to stir up troubled reactions from the children.

If you understand that we have not the time to take care of this many children when we ourselves still have jobs to do, then please do not make this job harder.

[innes_of_frelia]

The children seem to be reacting just fine. It seems that it is the adults who have underestimated them. The children have already accepted their parent's disappearance as fact. It seems the only person we are babying--are the adults.

[elimines_light]

Perhaps that is true, but it seems the children are only calm because they believe that, wherever their parents are, they will come for them, no matter what, even if it may take them a long time. Should they truly believe that their parents will not come, under any circumstances... I fear to see the results.

[innes_of_frelia]

They will inevitably see that on their own, given enough time. It is worse to leave them in a sweetened lie, for they will have that much more to fall when they do indeed realize it. For that to happen, the results would be clearly catastrophic.