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[pancakeboy]

[Text him! Or do whatever, I'm not the police, and neither is he, thank God. Just specify if you want the more-fun-but-less-stable pre-11/20 guy or the grumpy third semester/postcanon guy. Pancake only for VRDR guys please, he's not third semester yet]

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[pancakeboy]

[Meanwhile, he can't help sighing.]

It's kind of you to offer out of consideration for Crow. However, I'm aware of the bug, and I'm not sure how much more damage it can do. On top of that, hacking is not my area of expertise, and I don't know what you might do, even if I watched.

You say you don't know why your counterpart would attack my phone?

[cybermask]

Well code is fairly easy to understand.

[It took her several months.]

I assume, you were either: dumb, an asshole, doing a stupid plan, about to get yourself hurt, about to hurt someone else, someone who needs extensive amounts of help, someone who can't keep their selves focused, or someone who's going after our father without backup.

did I get it?

[pancakeboy]

As are a magician's tricks. A great deal can be done in plain sight, as your counterpart taught me, and as I know from experience.

[A bit of honesty there. The rest of it, though...]

You missed something rather key. [Like him killing her mother.] You should ask around, before you offer to help me.

Your brother sounds charming. [—ly true to life.]

[cybermask]

Is this another 'I killed your mom you should fear me, oh ho ho I'm so dangerous'? Cause if it it, frankly get your head out of your ass and grow up. It doesn't bother me, it's apparently more common than i thought. Unless you want me to flay you like a fish too?

[pancakeboy]

Would you do it if I asked?

[She knows. She knows. In fact, everything she's said confirms Crow's suspicion, that this Futaba is more like him than not...

Weird question, though. He doesn't really want to be flayed like a fish, he just feels he probably deserves it.]

[cybermask]

I mean, you didn't. So I don't know. You also seem too prideful to ask for help. I don't think you'd ever ask me.

If you wanna ask now, that's fine.

[pancakeboy]

Prideful? That's a horrible, if accurate, thing to say.

Do you mind if I ask you something else, Futaba Akechi-san?

[cybermask]

Go ahead. and drop the san, feels weird from any version of you.

[pancakeboy]

Is "Oracle" more accurate? Or do you go by something else?

[cybermask]

[Oracle, what could that mean? Wait wasn't that-]

Glitch. That's mine.

[pancakeboy]

Glitch? Really?

[He can't help the smirk that creeps onto his face.]

Then may I call you that?

[cybermask]

It's cause I'm the glitch that keeps appearing in Shito's bank account and social medias.

[at least she was happy overhearing him so frustrated at the bank because of it.]

I don't know why, but sure you can call me Glitch.

[pancakeboy]

I'll have to remember that one.

[Somehow he always ends up speaking more respectfully of their father than that. But perhaps he should break that habit, rather than spend the rest of his life a fucking moron.]

Very well, Glitch. I suppose we've arrived on the topic either way. Is it correct that you work for our father?

[cybermask]

Working for is strange. I take care of some threats to keep the ones against us at bay. But I'm also the biggest pain in his ass.

If he wasn't threatening Goro I would have taken care of him long ago, but I also want him to suffer for everything he's ever done. He deserves a slow death in fear for when I last pull my knife.

[he wasn't worth the cost of a bullet.]

[pancakeboy]

I see.

[She just... said all of that. The half-drawn picture in his head swerves a little, as parts of it flash into colour. unnerving and so very relatable.]

And your mother? From what you said, she's not in the picture? Or is she?

[cybermask]

She's dead. A guy beat Goro to her, he got curious found out about me, something something here we are.

I did say 'too' when i made the flay fish comment.

[pancakeboy]

I suppose I thought you meant as well as fixing my phone.

This would have been with the knife you mentioned?

[A water with great depths, Glitch is turning out to be.]

[cybermask]

Knives are close and personal. You get to tell them the last thing they'll ever hear, only for their ears. But I have plenty of them. I'm not against guns either, just don't prefer them.

Why would I fix your phone then murder you?

[pancakeboy]

Off the top of my head? Perhaps you wanted to get me into a quiet place where I could then be safely murdered.

[The question pressed against the veins in his neck, like the edge of a blade, a question he feels makes a significant difference, is whether she's speaking of Shadows or of people in the real world.]

Perhaps that sounds a little paranoid, but paranoia has a way of keeping us alive.

[cybermask]

( ; ω ; ) You wound me, that's no fun.

[For a goro he seemed not well thought.]

I can 100% say that is not the plan.

[pancakeboy]

It's you wounding me that has me concerned. With that knife of yours.

[Not that he doesn't see the temptation. Not that it hasn't threatened to drive him mad, sometimes. He asks something else, though, with Oracle still on his mind.]

Did you really skin him alive? The man who killed your mother.

[cybermask]

I'll go unarmed, you can search me.

[Unarmed physically, she still had the sos button.]

And maybe I did.

[It was messy, he wasn't quite alive for what she wanted to put him through so she didn't do everything, hit hit artery too early.]

[pancakeboy]

Maybe, as in you're trying to get a rise out me with tall stories?

[He doesn't really think that, but he doesn't have much patience with games.]

[cybermask]

maybe as in I hit the artery too soon. ( ; ω ; )

[pancakeboy]

[A voice echoes in his head, as a shot flies wide from his shaking hand. Please don't hurt my daughter! Maybe he should have.]

Shit. Talking to you is like talking to my worst nightmares.

[In fact, maybe he should be watching his back a lot more.]