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T. Junpei ([personal profile] misanthropicprinciple) wrote in [community profile] theairlock 2017-06-19 08:19 pm (UTC)

[He nods.]

The lower decks were flooding, too. ...I've never seen Titanic, but it looked like that. Turn of the 20th century British ocean liner. Her sister ship, actually. The Gigantic.

[One more rinse-and-drain for the rice, then he puts the appropriate amount of water in and sets it to cook. When he's done, he folds his arms, looking at the cooker instead of at Yuuri.]

At the climax, those of us alive were--we were locked in a trash incinerator bigger than a classroom. We had to solve the puzzle before we burned.

[He doesn't say it sharply or with that bitter matter-of-factness he can muster in a bad mood, but distantly, like he has to go back there to remember the facts. He catches himself. Closes his eyes. Shakes his head.]

So I... I can't give up now. And I can't just let anyone else give up, either.

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