[The girl is silent for a long, tense moment, her entire body shaking and shivering both from shock and the cold. Are you okay? The words feel almost like a cruel joke, like something only an idiot or Usagi might say, but after what she’d just heard? You’re weak, you know? Useless, nothing more than an unwanted tagalong. You were always the odd one out, the weirdo that was so much better than the rest of us. We tolerate you because you’re a good shot…but that’s all. Loser.
The statement had been so unlike her kind, cheerful, bubbly friend. The person she most often spent time with, the person who was in many ways her total opposite, but also her closest friend. That…hearing that from that voice, with that face? That stung more than anything she’d ever dealt with. More than illusions of the past, more than being faced with the visage of the man and monsters she’d so casually destroyed, more than thinking about her father. That just stung, and there was no way she was “okay” after that, in her own estimation.
But…Yosuke. She can sense his distress too, she’d felt how much that other boy had hurt him, and that more than anything pointed Rei to the conclusion that it was another glitch. Another CERES prank, designed to hurt more than have any use, and it’s that knowledge that keeps her from breaking down and sobbing. That’s the only thing though, and her answer is low…hushed…her words flooded with emotion.]
No. I’m…not okay. But I’ll get over it. [A pause as she collects herself] H-How about you?
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The statement had been so unlike her kind, cheerful, bubbly friend. The person she most often spent time with, the person who was in many ways her total opposite, but also her closest friend. That…hearing that from that voice, with that face? That stung more than anything she’d ever dealt with. More than illusions of the past, more than being faced with the visage of the man and monsters she’d so casually destroyed, more than thinking about her father. That just stung, and there was no way she was “okay” after that, in her own estimation.
But…Yosuke. She can sense his distress too, she’d felt how much that other boy had hurt him, and that more than anything pointed Rei to the conclusion that it was another glitch. Another CERES prank, designed to hurt more than have any use, and it’s that knowledge that keeps her from breaking down and sobbing. That’s the only thing though, and her answer is low…hushed…her words flooded with emotion.]
No. I’m…not okay. But I’ll get over it. [A pause as she collects herself] H-How about you?