RYUKI

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[ shhhh.

she's wrapping herself in a blanket too. ]

I'm coping.

[unsync]

[ Is your blanket attached to his ma'am. ]

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We got it wrong...

[ Even though Ryuki didn't even vote for Hans it's still we. ]

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[ well it is now. ]

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Yeah, we did.

[ neither did she, but what a mood. ]

[unsync]

[ Cool, cuddle pile, which I wrote as puddle, which is correct anyways. ]

So an innocent man is going to get executed...?

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[ cuddle puddle. she is absolutely just going to lean on him. ]

... it sounds like Hans isn't going to go down without a fight, but he shouldn't have to be up there at all. And someone shouldn't have to risk themselves alongside him.

[unsync]

So another innocent person might get hurt because they're forced to execute a person who didn't actually do anything?

[ Hans does stuff all of the time, but like. It wasn't murder. For now. ]

This is just... it's so out of hand.

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It's a mess. I don't know what their goal is here, other than just making things worse for us.

[unsync]

[ Curling up in these blankets. He misses his stupid thousand count duvet but this will do. ]

Why is this happening? Why are we being toyed with? Why is everyone getting wrapped up in this...?

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[ yeah sorry goat didn't spring for egyptian cotton. ]

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I don't know. I'm so sick of saying that.

[unsync]

What did I study all those years for if I can't do anything in the end?

[ All those years is like. At max five years because he's a clod who graduated early but still. ]

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Hey.

[ HEY. ]

No one gets everything right all the time — it’s impossible. You know it’s impossible! This is a situation where the only people meant to win are the ones hiding away in some fancy building, toying with us just because they can.

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That's not an excuse I can make when people are dying for it, Tama!

[ Sulking. If he wasn't already half-sunk into blankets in the dorms he'd rather go out and just drink right now. ]

That's not something I can just write off as a mistake!

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[ how many times can she say “I know”. she won’t because i refuse to keep saying that, she just bumps her head on his shoulder instead. ]

This is nothing like what we’re used to. How things should be with an investigation — but it’s not just you investigating out there, Ryuki. This is on me as much as you, as much as any of us.

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There’s got to be a way of being less …. whatever we were today. Scattered?

[unsync]

[ The fact that he's probably not going to get better on the mental front as time goes on is also promising. ]

None of them are actual police, Tama, this is... this is my job. Catching criminals is the one thing I'm good for.

We're just... playing their game at this rate... pointing fingers at each other. Getting the wrong person.

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[ yeah gee, fancy that. ]

It’s my job too, you know. And my track record isn’t exactly looking stellar.

How can anyone expect a case investigation, interrogations and motives/timelines of death to be completed in nine hours? Even when we’ve been right, it’s felt so wrong coming to that conclusion.

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I don’t know how we stop it though. The only “out of place” thing we’ve found has been that note in the bento box last week. It doesn’t… tell us who’s doing this, who made that rule change that’s led to this.

[unsync]

You're my AI-Ball. If you don't solve something, it's because I don't.

[ The unrealistic deadlines are... honestly probably also getting to him. It's giving him the same level of distress as 'solve the HB case in three days'. ]

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I’m not a program you put instructions into to make me go, Ryuki. You know I do what I want.

[ rude. ] We’re a team, if you’re failing I’m failing. We do things together.

[ we love unrealistic deadlines in this house (we don’t) ]

[unsync]

[ Wow let him continue to believe Tama can never do any wrong ever and everything is always his fault. He's the one who takes direct orders from Boss... and folds like a wet rag under her. ]

You're only limited by whether I can move and an internet connection.

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[ tbf boss is hot, tama would do what she asks without question if she got to snuggle in her boobs again. within reason. ]

And you’re limited by your fleshy body and things like did you eat a good breakfast? Get enough sleep? My responsibility is getting you information and I couldn’t even do that today — you asked me a question, and I couldn’t properly answer it because I’m not working at my usual capacity here.

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Why are you so quick to try and defend me for the same things you’re beating yourself up over, Ryuki?

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[ She's going to make you lick her boot Tama. ]

I can work through breakfast. You can't work through a nonexistent signal.

[ Maybe him not eating breakfast is just him not TRYING HARD ENOUGH TAMA!! You can't just try for some wifi. ]

You're an AI that was created for the purpose of assisting ABIS and the Psyncs. I'm just human, I don't have... special talents, or a calculator brain. I don't have X-ray or thermal or night vision, not without you.

You've never held me back, Tama.

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Ryuki, you’ve just told me I can’t work through a non-existent signal in one breath, and then told me all the things that need that signal that mean I can’t help you without one. I’m as good as I can be in the moment — and yeah, when I’m good I’m phenomenal, but I still have my limits.

No AI-ball is going to be perfect and flaw free every given second. You know there were limitations because of the server issues ABIS had in the past, and that was nothing to do with you. And here? I can’t even do any of the things you just mentioned.

But, we’re partners. If we’re failing, we fail together. If we’re doing incredibly, that’s teamwork.

[ she’s looping her arm with his. ]

You’re incredible. You’re just… so hard on yourself all of the time. You were the one who graduated early and made it into ABIS under your own talents, you know. Mizuki’s a great investigator, but she does have nepotism on her side. [ love you ‘zuki. ]

[unsync]

[ To be fair he doesn't need a signal to x-ray, he just needs Tama. ]

When there's a system with the server, that's not your fault.

[ It's like when God salts you and you're just a snail. ]

Mizuki's talented... in her own way. Also, she's got that weird super-strength.

[ So she wins by default. Both of them. ]

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[ she is going to put him the pear wiggler and wiggle him until some self love and confidence falls out. ]

Are you saying I'm wrong?

[ are you IGNORING HER ADVICE? ]

Of course she is, but so are you. Boss wouldn't have given you the time of day if she didn't see something in you.

[ she is like. grabbing his sleeve now. shake shake. c'mon. she can argue about this forever if she has to. ]

[unsync]

[ It is a very high bar. ]

Let's be real Tama. If she could've sacked me, I would've been gone a long time ago.

[ Is this real or his self-confidence talking? Yes. It's complicated but by all means he failed the three-day limit. He's still here by Tama's grace. ]

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You're not though. You're still here.

[ ok yeah, your very expensive ai-ball threatening to go on strike or delete her own data probably does put you at a pause but-- ]

Just. Try? Try and see yourself the way I see you, just for once. Please?