uccellodifuoco | 5th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Voice/Action Backdated to Monday's morning

[During the past two weeks, Smoker, resident of Community Building 1, room 27, got some company in the form of a small kid named Ikki. Said kid though, is now again his proper age and though he intentionally slacked on saying much during the past day once he woke up as his normal self, Ikki supposes that it's about time to... He doesn't know, but probably some thanks are in order, as well as getting his ass out of Smoker's place. He's not really sure where the other man is, mostly because Ikki himself has yet to exit the room he got while he was here, so he'll use the journal for a check-in. That's exactly for what it serves, right?]

Smoker, you around?

[There, no filter, because Giles didn't get to teach him that, which is logical as he was a frigging kid, and Ikki isn't really the kind to look for that unless it's heavily important.]

Exactly, how many people got the chance to revisit their kid years during the experiment?

[Just plain curiosity... And that he wants to know how many of the kids he met while he was one are now adults in size.

Later in the day Ikki will be wandering around the village, checking shops and looking at everyone that crosses paths with him. No intense stares or anything, just a normal casual glance which may become firmer if the face is familiar to him. For most this doesn't mean much, but until today Ikki hadn't really paid much attention to what was going on in the village unless it was under attack or there was some kind of emergency or danger. It's also the first time he's walking around without his Pandora box.

Sooner or later, he'll end at the bar once again, drinking yesterday wasn't enough for him apparently.]

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We would be fools if we didn't do that, anyway, specially with our history. Not to mention it would be poor to not be grateful for each victory when they come at such high prices.

[He doesn't expect to change the world or the universe. It'll be okay if at the very least they manage to hold the world together and safe until another generation of Saints comes to continue the fight. Just like the Gold Saints did, there will be a time in which it will be their role in the war to step down and let the youngest ones keep it up. However, that knowledge and disposition doesn't mean that Ikki is ready to give up or that he will stop one day to say that it's enough with what he has done. Neither will any of the others.

They don't expect to change the world and are ready to die for what they fight for. But they won't stop trying to change it nor will allow themselves to die.]

Still, it's hard to sit and relax in a place like this knowing that so much has to be done back at my world. I'm not really the type to sit and take it easy.

[That provokes a soft, sympathetic chuckle from her.]

Neither am I. My situation isn't as urgent, but I do need to be home to help with the town. That's a promise I need to keep.

Good for you, even if you need to return to your world it's better if there's no urgency to it.

[It may help make the stay here more bearable.]

I've heard that time supposedly stops back at our worlds, but I'm not trusting that too much. No when there's a God that controls time involved in some degree.

[Pause.]

I'm not sure how much I agree with it, either. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not...but I'm not going to believe it blindly. Unless or until we're sent back ourselves, we won't really know anyway.

We can't lower our guard and fall too much into complacency either way. This is a situation at which I would prefer to be wrong and the rumors being right but I can't afford to just agree. Even if it has happened to some as they claim, it doesn't mean it has to happen to everyone else.

5th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Voice/Action Backdated to Monday's morning

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