17th Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Voice / Written

[uccellodifuoco]

[Filtered against Kotomi | Unhackable 10%]

[One day he will be able to do proper filters. Today is not that day.]

Question for whoever isn't bored out of their bodies by this place. What kind of things do you do to not be bored? I mean, do you go to hang out at any place in specific or something? Specially when going with someone, assuming you don't spend every time just in each others' houses.

I assume dinner out is a good idea but I'm pretty sure there has to be something else to do in this prison.

[Yes, this is a request for ideas for a date. Hopefully he has worded it in a subtle enough way that no one will notice it. Bwahaha, behold his master plan.]

Don't bother suggesting the library, that one doesn't count.

[Filtered to Rin | Unhackable 10% | Written]

Rin,

Sorry for not answering your last letter in such a long time. I've spent most of the last month doing missions in an attempt to not drive myself nuts. Anyway I have a question for you: with whom does one have to talk to make a reservation or something where you work?

- Ikki

[Filtered to Kotomi | Unhackable 10%]

[This comes later in the day, actually at night. It's earlier than when he usually contacts her to wish her good night, but he knows that.]

Did you go to sleep already, Kotomi-chan?

Comments

[divinacommedia]

Oho! I'll have to try that, yes!

Of course I did.... I was pretty free to do what I wanted, I come from a rich family and everything- but I had left my family for about six years. I got into an argument with my father after all. Only recently I had come back and then I was... thrown into a game with witches...

[uccellodifuoco]

[He would laugh if he was the type of guy to do it. Some of the parts of the story just sound familiar even if they are clearly different anyway, it's a bit amusing.]

That explains it, you actually know how to enjoy those things even if you didn't do it before... Sounds like you shouldn't have bothered with returning to your family too.

[That's all he's going to comment on that matter though, he's not the type to pry by himself.]

[divinacommedia]

Baahh... the old man came and got down on his hands and knees, begging me to come back to the family and apologizing to me.

I couldn't stand seeing him so pathetic, so I gave him another chance.

[uccellodifuoco]

You should have let him beg all he wanted.

[You're too forgiving, man.]

[divinacommedia]

It was pretty pathetic! I just decided to forgive him.... he was my dad after all.

[uccellodifuoco]

So what? A jerk is a jerk regardless if he's your father or not. And some things are just plain unforgivable. If what he did angered you enough to keep you away from the rest of your family for six years I don't think him being pathetic would be enough to make up for it.

[Ikki snorts.]

Whatever. But looking back you really shouldn't have forgiven him, it sounds as if it would have saved you many problems.

[divinacommedia]

[Wow... this guy is right but.... even so...]

I made my choice though, I wanted to forgive him- I wanted to come back to the family. I had been away for six years and I had no where else to go, I gave them another chance.

Don't get me wrong, I love them all, but sometimes my dad is just... he's a pain in the ass.

[uccellodifuoco]

What, you couldn't return unless you had forgiven him?

[No, he doesn't see the issue of still hating or not forgiving your father's guts yet be civil and such with the rest of your family.]

From the way you talk it's as if he's the only one who wronged you anyway. Unless the rest of the family defended his actions I don't see how you could get angry with them as a whole.

[divinacommedia]

Well he did wrong me.... I guess. Right after my mom died he remarried right away- I don't think she was even in the ground yet. I was pretty mad at him so I left the family for a while.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki snorts.]

At least he had the decency of marrying. Could have been worse.

[His tone is sarcastic, though, as if he doubts it really counts as a comfort or a "it's not that bad".]

And you decided to give him another chance just because he looked pathetic for... What, a few minutes?

[divinacommedia]

H...hey.... he's still family, right? I was mad at him but- it was after six years and well... I had no where else to go after my grandparents died.

[uccellodifuoco]

Hn, if it had been me I would have just gone my own way and get myself a place to "go to" and I wouldn't have forgiven him no matter how pathetic he turned. Though maybe it's just the orphan mentality.