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[socloverit]

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[socloverit]

I—I don't know! Literally anything else?! Even that! That's fine! You're welcome! [does she mean that, is she sincere, she might be]

Did you consider maybe a, "hey, Clover, sorry for dropping off the face of the planet for a year"?! "Hey, Clover, here's what I've been up to the past year that I dropped off the face of the planet"?! How about, "hey, Clover, hope it wasn't too stressful for all that time you and everyone else might have thought I was dead"?!

[sudokidoki]

[ There's a sizable pause on his end of the line. ]

...sorry.

[ a bit hard to tell if it's wholly sincere or not, but his tone isn't sarcastic, at least

An awful joke about actually being dead that comes to mind, but for once, he holds his tongue. ]

I've just...been busy. [ REALLY, NOW ]

[socloverit]

[Okay, so the apology gets her to go silent for a few moments, even if she can't actually discern how much he really means it right away. Not sarcastic is an improvement? She guesses??? Why is that an improvement, why is Junpei that way.

Anyway that peace and quiet is pretty nice for the brief span of time it lasts.]

BUSY?! [goddamn it] You're gonna just leave it at "busy"?! That's way more than busy!

[sudokidoki]

[ again holding the phone a foot away from his ear. clover why. ]

That's the gist of it! [ ...

He doesn't really want to explain the whole story, but then, the angry pink attack chihuahua is probably going to rip his leg off if he keeps giving half-truths and partial statements.

Fuck.

"I'm a private detective now and went through another death game and also pls you and your brother RSVP to my not-murderwedding next year"?? nah. nah. ]

...I found Akane.

[ NAILED IT 2: SON OF NAILED IT ]

[socloverit]

[what, just his leg?? Clover doesn't half-ass anything. she goes for the throat.

Except no, he manages to shut her up for another few seconds while she processes that. a murderwedding invitation might have gone over better quite frankly.]

...You found Akane.

[killin' it. she sounds kind of dumbfounded, but she's speaking at a normal person volume. incredible.]

...Good...job? [Not sarcastic, just confused? Very confused. The kind of confused that is requesting more details don't make it turn into a demand]

a million years later

[sudokidoki]

[ another pause ]

I've been working with Seven, at his detective agency. It took a while, but we found her when she signed up for a program at the Mars Mission Test Site.

[ he's half tempted to ask if Clover remembers anything about Radical-6, but then, this esper stuff is still fucking confusing even after 390730573 timeline jumps. maybe later. for now, he leaves it at that and waits. ]

HALF A MILLION YEARS LATER,

[socloverit]

You found Seven?

[Seven told her they couldn't find Junpei, and she doesn't think Seven lied to her, but if he found him after the fact then why did no one think to tell her she's gonna kick Seven's ass, too]

That's. Um. [is there a nice way to say this.] Really unsubtle of her.

[NOPE, TACTLESS AS ALWAYS

But really—Akane disappears off the face of the earth, too, works so hard to stay in hiding and signs up for a space mission ostentatiously enough to be found just like that. Why would she make it that easy?]