#ruinouspath

"Hey, man, you better be careful. There's some real scary shit going down."

“Curious about that?” Megumi looks at the other Composer. He had no shame about what he’d done. His plan had failed, but it had also been a part of the path that had led to Shibuya’s true redemption in the eyes of its’ Composer. So, he smiles at the question and cants his head to the side.

“He was suffering. I wasn’t blind to it, but I wasn’t able to reach out to him as I liked. He would have rejected it... Shibuya’s Composer was so alone that I don’t think he could have fathomed anyone trying to sincerely reach out to him at the time.”

Megumi also thought that, much like himself, the Composer had decided to wipe his hands of the society that had always let him down. It was simpler to just... no longer be human. To be above human needs. Of course, Megumi no longer felt this way entirely. The Composer wasn’t the only one who’d changed watching the progress of Neku Sakuraba.

Of course... Megumi hadn’t changed his mind up until the end, when Neku had showed him just how much power he got from trusting his partners... To this day, he’d never seen a psych quite like that one.

“So... if the Composer could not avail himself to be among humanity, I thought I could just tweak things a little. I thought that I could bring humanity to the Composer. I could control them and keep them from falling into their worst habits and... Perhaps it would help.”

“It’s good to see you, Composer.” Megumi greets him, bowing in respect. He straightens up quickly and continues, “I have something that I’d like to speak with you about regarding getting your Players to strengthen their bonds with each other.”

miscellaneous prompts   /   accepting

❝ Uh-oh... Am I becoming predictable? I’d better up my game, stat. ❞ The day Hazuki’s able to anticipate Joshua’s moves is the day Joshua slingshots himself into the sun. Besides, it’s his responsibility to ensure his cute little kohai never gets bored--not when there’s so many lessons still to teach. (Until the novelty of Hazuki wears off, of course, and Joshua bores of him, but hopefully that’s a long ways off.)

❝ every day. ❞

this wasn't a question he was expecting from mikagi, but it still cut deep because it was what it was. pretending. playing a part. he was an actor invested in a character. hanekoma sanae was just a 'character' he was playing even if he had nearly forgotten it. had immersed himself so deeply into being this person that for a little bit, the higher plane was in the back of his thoughts instead of in the forefront.

❝  i like to think m'..... gettin' th' hang of it. I've learned a lot from my composer over the decades but, i do slip up. ❞ like right now. he wasn't breathing. he didn't have to breathe around mikagi but it was playing through those habits that made it all the more obvious that this was just a bit part. that being hanekoma was important but he was still someone more.

it was moonlighting as a human, except he was out in the sunlight most the time.

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