[Audio/Text]

[prodigal_axe]

It's been over a week, so...

Anemone's gone.

[It's hard to say. He can't believe the words even as they're coming out of his mouth

Comments

1/3

[loyal_cube]

[What? There was no way-]

2/3

[loyal_cube]

[And yet, her frequency isn't working. How did she disappear without him realizing it?]

3/3

[loyal_cube]

[Cube just stares at Shinji's post like the air all around him and in his lungs was stopped in time.

It takes him a long while before he finds the breath to say anything.]

I... I hadn't thought she'd ever leave.

[prodigal_axe]

Yeah. Seemed like that.

[Abruptly he switches to text. Speaking out loud is just something he doesn't want to do right now.]

That's why I waited. Since it happened before, once.

[fierybluebird]

Sorry Shinji.

[prodigal_axe]

...

Ain't nothing can be done about it.

[fierybluebird]

I suppose. Still frustrating.

[prodigal_axe]

As hell. But it's just...

[Over and over and over and over.]

[video]

[gomugomunowin]

Eh? Was she a friend of Ace's?

[audio]

[prodigal_axe]

Yeah, that's right. She and Ace knew each other for a long time, over a year I guess.

[audio]

[gomugomunowin]

......dammit. [Even if he didn't know her, she was a friend of Ace's.

And Ace doesn't deserve to lose anymore friends.]

'm sorry.

[audio]

[prodigal_axe]

...ain't you that Luffy guy?

[Shinji thought he'd gone home, along with Sanji and a few others from that place.]

[audio]

[prodigal_axe]

...

That's... [What can he say, aside from quietly putting his face in both palms for a moment. Which of course the owner of that voice can't see.]

Tch. At least she'll be alright, back on that world of hers.

[audio]

[prodigal_axe]

Never is, but that's been the same here...

[And he's not sure what else to say. If he wasn't weighed down by all this, maybe he'd be grumpier or more evasive. He's not out to be sharing his feelings with anyone.

...but nothing seems to matter a damn at the moment.]

It's too bad anyone has to.