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[samsa]

Hello! I'm not around at the moment, but if you leave a message I'll get back to you!

[Beep!]

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[samsa]

...you mean like with this, or traveling? ...or something else?

[preybeforemeals]

Generally speaking.

There's self-deprecation and there's not doing things to defeat that which causes it; I'm unfortunately familiar with how much you do the former, it's the latter that concerns me.

[samsa]

I don't know. I hadn't noticed.

[There's a pause before he sends anything else, a bit lengthier than the rest have been.]

Things have been really good here, so far. A lot better than I'd been used to. But sometimes it feels like maybe it's all too good to be true.

I guess I just don't want to do anything that might mess that up.

[He's got something of a track record for messing things up, or making bad decisions that ultimately mess things up.]

[preybeforemeals]

...I see.

[And he doesn't, not really.]

If the local criminal organization hasn't found a way to utterly break the world yet, somehow I doubt we're going to.

[samsa]

[He wants to say "you'd be surprised", but ultimately doesn't. But now he doesn't really know what to say.]

I guess. From what I've heard, they're not usually very good at that sort of thing, anyway.

[preybeforemeals]

Well, I can say with some certainty that we're not, either.

[...okay banjou-san kind of is but he is an outlier who shouldn't be considered]

[samsa]

[Well okay we won't argue with that.]

Mm...I guess the only difference is that they're actually trying to break it.

[preybeforemeals]

What are you concerned is going to happen, then?

[samsa]

Anything could happen. Weirder stuff has happened before, like the weekend and the dreams. It's predictable now, but who's to say it won't be one day?

[...]

I don't know, Tsukiyama-san. It's a dumb thing to worry about.

[preybeforemeals]

...As such, wouldn't it be prudent to actually be prepared for that?

[samsa]

...yeah. I guess so.