Oh, it's okay! I'm sure the way out will show up eventually. It did for everywhere else I've ended up.
If it's dangerous out there, I gotta do something about it. The person doing all this stuff outside in the real world used me to do it. So even if I didn't mean it, doesn't that mean I should keep trying to get out to fix it? I'm sure there's a part of Davis-san still hanging on, waiting to be saved, too. And who knows who else is hurt?
[It feels like an argument to Wolfram's dream itself, rather than to anyone inside it. To let her back into the collective unconscious so she can keep searching for a way to help.
That said...]
English, English... I slept through that class a lot in school, but I know 「cute」 is "cute!" And 「girlfriend」... "girl friend," right? Really? That's so nice! You're a cute friend too!
( Yuuri looks pretty relieved at the first thing she says, and nods along lightly to the rest, though eyes growing concerned again once she mentions things like "fix it" and her friend... He can at least tell she's continued to be genuine in what she says, though, and that it probably isn't aimed at him or Wolfram-- )
{ and then she says That }
( if it was possible for Yuuri's face to cycle through more reactions right now... )
Edited ({Murata gleefully in the distance} *Congratulations*, Shibuya!! You just received your first REAL COMPLIMENT from a girl since almost 10~ years ago's back when we were on Earth again!!! Whatever happened to that girl you met then anyway???) 2026-01-03 14:35 (UTC)
-- U--UM!! WELL it's true it combines those words in English but...!!
( she has it all wROOOOOOONG!!!! )
I-It means more like [ mumble mumble ] { " Kanojo " } ( ... ) { " K-kOIbito??... .. " }
Edited ({Yuuri} @ {Murata} "I am nOT *ASKING HER* FOR A PHOTO OF HER PANTIES FOR yOUUU!!1!1!" {Novels/Short Stories Reference} /o\ /o\) 2026-01-03 14:45 (UTC)
( ...andsuddenly the air around them seems to almost ripple.... )
... H-Huh??
( the light is still pulsating in overall calmed waves, rising and falling in a sort of rhythm, but now rippling just a little bit around them )
... Wolf?? --
WOLF, you're NOT laughing at me ARE YOU--????!!
( WOLFRAM, YOU'RE SO ONE TO ""TALK""!!!! )
Edited ({Murata snickering elsewhere Too} But that took you SO LONG!! I was starting to think you had forgotten about that~!! {+Subtle Fix}) 2026-01-03 15:39 (UTC)
-- O-OI!! If you're awake enough to laugh at me you're awake enough to WAKE UP!!!!! So wake up--!!
{ " I'm NOT awake. " }
You ARE if you can "sAY"--!!
{ " No, I MEAN it. I'm not awake. " }
... What do you mean--??
{ " My body feels like I just did my training for the warall over again and it's like a weight on my eyes. " }
... That bad?? ?
Edited ({Yuuri} THE 3DS WENT OBSOLETE A LONG TIME AGO!!! If anything you owe me a brand new SWITCH 2 if I "get that" now!! WITH THE GAME ON!!!) 2026-01-03 15:10 (UTC)
( The pulsating light seems to stop and come to a rest for a moment before... )
{ " ... .. Even in MY dreams you continue to chase other women, you 「 henachoko. 」" }
... What ?? ( and here Yuuri just sounds confuse-- )
... Wolf?? ? ( ... )
-- wAIT, DON'Tgo back tosLEEP--
{ but then sUDDENLY... } ( another certain memoryPINGS Yuuri... )
Edited ({Murata} I mean I COULD just buy a Switch 2 for you. But I think it's way funnier this way so-- {Don't you think you deserve that photo by now, Shibuya?!??}) 2026-01-03 15:20 (UTC)
... when I slapped... and he couldn't wake up then too...
( ... Wolf HAD woken up right after that back then, right?? Right??-- )
Edited ({Yuuri} YOU were the one who wanted the photo nOT ME!!!! {Murata} Didn't that entire conversation began because you were embarrassed your previous loves were all similar to Wolfram??? {Yuuri} NO its because you pretended to be ~concerned~ for me--!!) 2026-01-03 15:29 (UTC)
... -Oh!! Don't worry about what I just said there, it's just something that happened by accident a long time ago--!!
( okay now Yuuri is flailing out a bit for real, waving arms slightly-- )
-- But it's a kind of custom in Wolf's world sO...!!
( Now that the idea is in Yuuri's mind, he's afraid to ask. Can she even physically touch him...?? ? )
{ Initially he had the feeling if she had tried to hug him back then, she would have just phased through... }
Edited ({Murata} Shibuya, that wasn't "pretend". But it WAS strange that your previous ""crushes"" were all similar to Wolfram even *before* you met him.) 2026-01-03 15:35 (UTC)
[Rinku tilts her head and blinks. But as Yuuri talks to (yells at) the Wolfram she can't see or hear, she worries and moves closer.]
It's okay. The way out's gotta show up soon. And hm... It sounds like he can't wake up because of magic, right? Because it's dangerous? Then that means if everything gets fixed, then you guys won't have to worry about anything.
( regardless if "someone{s}" else was Involved or Not... )
... It's almost definitely because of something really dangerous. I don't know what exactly but...
Edited ({that is too because Wolf emphasized Healing with her most initially, &its also decently strong but to seal Wolfs FIRE MAGIC...}) 2026-01-03 17:01 (UTC)
But if this is his head, then he is here. So I'm sure you can do it if it let's me out. And I'll keep you in mind and do everything I can for you guys!
But... it kinda sounds like you have something I can do too. I'll do my best! What is it?
At the time I first heard that... I viewed myself as still just a human too.
I had lived my entire life as a human, and grew up with such modern-day Earth views... I completely, fully, one-hundred-percent believed I was HUMAN...
So basically... what happened oncewas....
I screwed up. Royally. In the worst way possible.
I dragged Wolf into everything accidentally too... He might've not have had any part in this at all otherwise....
... I was a foreigner from a strange, modern world and a country he had never heard of...
... I waltzed into his homeland like I owned the place and made a lot of really false assumptions about how he and his kindlived because I kept comparing them to the society I came from...
... Of course Wolf was going to be angry with someone like me. But I didn't know at the time.
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Oh, it's okay! I'm sure the way out will show up eventually. It did for everywhere else I've ended up.
If it's dangerous out there, I gotta do something about it. The person doing all this stuff outside in the real world used me to do it. So even if I didn't mean it, doesn't that mean I should keep trying to get out to fix it? I'm sure there's a part of Davis-san still hanging on, waiting to be saved, too. And who knows who else is hurt?
[It feels like an argument to Wolfram's dream itself, rather than to anyone inside it. To let her back into the collective unconscious so she can keep searching for a way to help.
That said...]
English, English... I slept through that class a lot in school, but I know 「cute」 is "cute!" And 「girlfriend」... "girl friend," right? Really? That's so nice! You're a cute friend too!
[Why is she like this.]
1/? {see the 'bAM' react from before--}
though eyes growing concerned again once she mentions things like "fix it" and her friend...
He can at least tell she's continued to be genuine in what she says, though, and that it probably isn't aimed at him or Wolfram-- )
{ and then she says That }
( if it was possible for Yuuri's face to cycle through more reactions right now... )
2/? Digging His Own Grave Too Possibly
-- U--UM!! WELL it's true it combines those words in English but...!!
I-It means more like [ mumble mumble ] { " Kanojo " } ( ... ) { " K-kOIbito??... .. " }
3/?
... H-Huh??
( the light is still pulsating in overall calmed waves, rising and falling in a sort of rhythm, but now rippling just a little bit around them )
... Wolf?? --
WOLF, you're NOT laughing at me ARE YOU--????!!
( WOLFRAM, YOU'RE SO ONE TO ""TALK""!!!! )
4/?
( ... )
{ " You're just stupid. " }
( and Yuuri facefaults further in "response"-- )
Who're YOU Calling--
5/?
-- O-OI!! If you're awake enough to laugh at me you're awake enough to WAKE UP!!!!! So wake up--!!
You ARE if you can "sAY"--!!
... What do you mean--??
the warall over again and it's like a weight on my eyes. " }... That bad?? ?
6/?
... What ?? ( and here Yuuri just sounds confuse-- )
... Wolf?? ? ( ... )
-- wAIT, DON'T go back to sLEEP--
{ but then sUDDENLY... } ( another certain memory PINGS Yuuri... )
7/?
... Like that time...
... when I slapped... and he couldn't wake up then too...
( ... Wolf HAD woken up right after that back then, right?? Right??-- )
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... -Oh!! Don't worry about what I just said there, it's just something that happened by accident a long time ago--!!
( okay now Yuuri is flailing out a bit for real, waving arms slightly-- )
-- But it's a kind of custom in Wolf's world sO...!!
( Now that the idea is in Yuuri's mind, he's afraid to ask. Can she even physically touch him...?? ? )
{ Initially he had the feeling if she had tried to hug him back then, she would have just phased through... }
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It's okay. The way out's gotta show up soon. And hm... It sounds like he can't wake up because of magic, right? Because it's dangerous? Then that means if everything gets fixed, then you guys won't have to worry about anything.
1/? Wait for It
{ ... he can't hear Wolf. But it's almost like Wolf's trying to say... }
[ " She shouldn't have to try to fix everything on her own. " ]
... ... .. .
There might be....
2/?
-- I think it'll probably still only work for you ( and NOT.... ""Yuuri"" ) But...
3/?
... Like you said, it might be 'that'... some kind of magic that's temporarily sealing Wolf's own and keeping him from...
( " Waking Up " )
4/?
... And, yeah. If it was that...
( regardless if "someone{s}" else was Involved or Not... )
... It's almost definitely because of something really dangerous. I don't know what exactly but...
5/?
T-The last time something like this happened Wolf told me...
That there might be "a chance"... If I replicated the custom of his world and...
... -- But that time, we were both there!! And this time...
... It's only me in here....
{ Distressed Look!!! }
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... A-And, well... it's kind of a really specific custom....
( Yuuri's hands suddenly come together to twist about in anxiety just a bit-- )
... Because it's a marriage proposal custom ....
-- ... So if you don't want to try that at all, I don't blame you--!!
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But if this is his head, then he is here. So I'm sure you can do it if it let's me out. And I'll keep you in mind and do everything I can for you guys!
But... it kinda sounds like you have something I can do too. I'll do my best! What is it?
1/? /o\ /o\ \o\ \o/ /o/
{ She's... right. Wolf HAD been "responding" to them both... but Wolf was still in a deep sleep state too and... }
[ It didn't look like Wolf was going to teleport in here anytime soon... ]
... Well, see... he might be able to "feel" us but... It kind of involves... physical movement.
( ... )
What I said before... about slapping?
It's that.
2/?
That kind of stuff doesn't happen there the same way. They can go their entire lives without being something like slapped even once...
... So when they are...
... It's considered a very old classical form of proposing marriage but it's still taken just as seriously even in the time after I arrived there.
3/?
" If a noble strikes the other on the left cheek with the palm of their hand, it's a request for marriage. "
... I know you're a human but...
4/?
I had lived my entire life as a human, and grew up with such modern-day Earth views...
I completely, fully, one-hundred-percent believed I was HUMAN...
So basically... what happened once was....
I screwed up. Royally. In the worst way possible.
I dragged Wolf into everything accidentally too... He might've not have had any part in this at all otherwise....
... Because I was an idiot and I slapped him.
5/?
... I was a foreigner from a strange, modern world and a country he had never heard of...
... I waltzed into his homeland like I owned the place and made a lot of really false assumptions about how he and his kind lived because I kept comparing them to the society I came from...
... Of course Wolf was going to be angry with someone like me. But I didn't know at the time.
I didn't know about that custom...
6/?
... And I said I'd never take it back.
He said something really bad about my mother... because he was making assumptions about humans too...
... so when I did that, it was out of anger.
It's not supposed to be in anger but...
7/?
" ... And if the one who was struck shows their right cheek, then they've accepted the request. "
Wolf 'accepted my request' back then but... it all only happened because of that...
8/?
... I almost destroyed Wolf's reputation permanently because I waited so long to move something like a "wedding" forward.
Even now, the intentions behind that "marriage of convenience" weren't... real...
... Because the real "SHIBUYA YUURI" is a coward.
( Pained smile ) With a really ugly side (
or many) that he doesn't show to anyone, not even Wolf.So if Shinou was saying things about me back there... some of it... was probably based in truth...
-- ... even if I can't be one hundred percent sure what he said. ... So not all of it but...
9/?
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1/? {Hold on-}
2/?
3/? Wait for It
4/? {In case it can ever become possible during future plots/events again hahaa....}
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1/? Wait for It~
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