week six afterparty ★ i will expose this heart to you

[excavated]

Mixed feelings rang in the air at the end of the long, long trial - four people have been lost. But in their places, three people returned to their number, as living pieces to play the game once again. While the Witch of Misfortune had said that after this, there would no longer be any more murders, that didn't change the complicated emotions that was brought to the table.🗈

Now, the group was left to their own devices - with the two Witches having disappeared in dark fire and sakura petals along with Natsuno and Shadow no longer to be found along in the mansion. Now the question was this: what would they all do from here?

There was still hope. The execution that Nirrti had done was one that was gentler than the ones that had been committed by the pieces the past two weeks.

And while Tsubasa still held many uncertainties, given that he had done murdered for the sake of someone important to him, that did not change the determination that he had for everyone. Not just those that were alive. But those that had died as well. He wasn't simply going to let the sacrifices go in vain, or that he was brought back.

At the very least, he had to make up and own his mistakes.

Which is why, a little later on, people might find a letter slid under their doors, saying:

To the one who might read this:

There is still a lot to be done and a lot to be said, but there's only a little while longer until we can make it through. I believe that we'll be able to reach to her and change the future so that we will have a happy ending.

You don't need to speak to me if you wouldn't want to, but if you'd like to eat, food will be provided in the dining room if you'd like to not be alone. Nobody deserves that. As always, don't force yourself to come if you don't want to.

- Syaoran

And just as the letter says, food will be provided - while there does seem to be a lot of comfort foods, there are also tacos, along with tempura and inari sushi.

Comments

[incrediblystressedout]

I think I kind of get that? It's like...so, okay, there's a video game about me, right? And it's a video game you can lose despite the fact that everything else about it is identical to LucasArts games they just had to throw in one game over scenario.

Anyway, so, the fact that there's a game over means there's two endings: one where I get eaten, and one where I go to Alternia and meet Xefros like what happened in real life. The Joey that got eaten is still me, but she's a me that completely different things happened to after a certain point. But somewhere, that version of events is "real". I think. Sure would be nice if I could use my going-to-alternate-worlds power some more to check things like that.

So when you say "you share a soul", you mean it's a different you who experienced different things and therefore also isn't you.

Right?

[excavated]

[ He nods in response. ]

His entire life is very different from mine in almost every aspect. There's only a few things that are the same. That he met a 'Sakura' and that he's a descendant of Clow. He's from another world that isn't my own - an alternate one.

Which means that there's a potential for me to meet him at some point.

[incrediblystressedout]

I can't say the same thing about Hypothetical Monster Chow Joey, but I'm going to keep an open mind if I meet another "me" after all this. There's no rule that says there can't be an infinite number of Earths that are all really similar.

[excavated]

. . . yeah.

I've met a lot of people who look exactly alike in different worlds myself. [ And technically a clone of himself, too. ] And I know that it would be for the best to keep that open mind if you met another one of yourself.

[ Don't pull an Akira, Joey. ]