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"You have to go?" Now he looked up. "Why?"
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"I kinda ditched my job to get here," Raez explains. "Before our arrival, Wiley thought there might have been something wrong going on on Rai's end, so that's why we came here in the first place. Now I should get back to my job."
"The worst might not be here yet, though," Rai points out. "That would undermine why you came here in the first place."
"Even more the reason why I should leave now." Raez offers a devilish smirk. "That makes it so I came here to help and then left but...unfortunately, the ordeal wasn't over, but I tried, didn't I?"
Rai scoffs. "What a great friend you are."
"I know, right?" Raez resumes some semblance of seriousness. "Seriously, though, I think y'all should be somewhat fine at least."
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Dion left his chopsticks in his food.
"You can't just leave! If we have to run again, who's going to carry me? I can't possibly run fast enough!"
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"Yeah, well, maybe Rai will?" Raez offers. "He's way more responsible than Wiley and I are. He'll make a way that'll work. He also runs faster, like you saw before."
"I likely would need to have at least one gun in my hand," Rai points out. "That makes it less ample for holding Dion to work out well."
"Then, maybe you leave the shooting to Wiles."
Rai takes a full moment to process that statement before his head makes a jerking motion. It seems even he can't process the suggestion fully. "Excuse me?"
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"I don't think I would trust him with anything."
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"You'd be surprised how well he shoots when luck is on his side."
"Raez, I rarely implore you to do anything--" Rai starts.
"I'm joking," the pirate interrupts. "I doubt you'll have to shoot here. But if you do...well, then me being around would just get in your way. That would override any advantage me being here would give you."
Rai's shoulders slant down a few degrees, then he squares them. "Hmm, I think you're right about that. It would be quite disadvantageous if we were to get caught down here anyways."
"Close quarters," Raez says almost as if echoing something Rai said, which he didn't. But Rai nods.
"Just leave as soon as you can," Raez advises. "You might have to get out at a more inconvenient location compared to usual, but you can't backtrack right now."
"You can't backtrack either," Rai points out.
"True. I'll probably take a similar route as you in the end. You know, I'd take Wiley with me, but you do kind of need him right now, don't you?"
The cyber agent pauses, his light brown eyes flickering as he thinks. "Yes," he says, though that doesn't appear to be what he was thinking about.
"I'll stay here for a bit just to work it out," Raez decides, settling down a bit. "Because of time, I can't do that for a long time, but it's unwise to leave without having figured this out, right? So, Dion, you follow on all this?"
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"Uh-huh." There was a brief pause between Dion's reply and an actual nod from him. At least he seemed to understand a bit. "Just... go ahead, I guess." He gave a half shrug before returning his gaze to his food.
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"How to say it? Tactically, me staying here makes no sense," Raez explains with a thoughtful look in his eyes. "See, going with what you said before, if the robots come down here, we really don't have many places to run. So, the last alternatives would come down to more sci-fi methods to get out of here. Before those methods, if it comes to fighting, then I don't specialize in close-range fighting. In fact, you know, none of us do. In any case, said sci-fi methods would be more efficient if there's one less person to account for. Also, if I die because I chose to stray from the group, then shame on me. There's not really much of a loss."
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"Then be careful and don't die." Dion scooped some rice into his mouth after speaking.
To be honest, he didn't feel he had much to contribute to the conversation.
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"Awww, that's sweet. Thank you," Raez says with a slight head tilt.
Rai just raises an eyebrow at that. "Don't die as well from my end. Please."
"Aww, that's--" the pirate starts.
"Please no, cut that, it's fine," Rai mutters, resuming his attention to his food. "Just finish your egg rolls."
Raez, who hasn't eaten more than two so far, just looks down at what is basically still a full container of egg rolls.
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Dion made no comment, instead choosing to focus on his struggle with the chopsticks.
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"Alright, that's 'bout it, yeah?" Raez asks, for once sounding somewhat like a pirate, though still there's something off about the way he speaks and the "pirate" label. "See you two then. Good luck with figuring everything out. Surely all the spontaneous danger means it's not as complicated as it seems."
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"Bwye," Dion muttered through a mouthful of rice.
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Raez disappears.
Yayy, one less character to POV!
"Guess he didn't want to wait for me to say 'Bye,'" Rai concludes with a smirk, then he just eats his own stuff again. He glances at the egg rolls Raez abandoned.
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"So now what?"
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"We eat and wait for Wiley," Rai answers.
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Dion leaned forward in his chair and continued eating.
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"No other questions?" Rai slightly raises an eyebrow.
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"What else can I ask," Dion mumbled right after swallowing some rice, "if anyways I can't do anything about the situation."
He lifted his head, though the rest of his body was still hunched over.
"Actually... how long is that guy going to take finishing whatever he's doing?"
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"I have no idea. It'll definitely take longer if he forgets the situation and gets distracted by a game or something, though," the cyber agent ponders thoughtfully.
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Dion made a sulky face and once again lowered his gaze. "Ugh."
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"Ugh?" Rai asks, kind of like a tease and also kind of like a genuine question.
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He gave a one-shoulder shrug. "Uhuh."
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"I'll just leave that at that and not ask," he decides, and true to his word, he resumes eating. Once in a while his gaze does flicker around; as if randomly, a reminder of their purple hue from earlier returns. It's like the more one thinks about the color, the more striking it feels like it was, yet confirmation cannot be taken about its nature.
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Dion kept his focus on his food. Not that there was a lot left, but he wanted to finish it.
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"Alright, done," Rai says, standing up. He's not actually done, though; there's like three quarters of the container left.
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"You're not close to finishing. Aren't you hungry?"
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Rai shakes his head. "That was way more than enough." He pauses before adding, smirking, "That extra bit was for hibernation."
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"Hibernation?" Dion squinted a tad before shrugging. "Well, whatever."
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Rai nods, then starts packing the leftovers back into the plastic bag.