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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 * CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>**I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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[Shun isn't sure what the Kid is trying to say there, so he'll just refrain from commenting. Discussing Akaba with his kid brother isn't going to lead anywhere anyway.]

He isn't an ally either.

[And in order to advance the Lancer's goal, one of them would have to take him down in the next round or two.]

You are unsuited for the tournament and any other kind of battlefield. Especially if you are just fighting to make yourself useful.

[A child shouldn't have that kind of attitude, not towards fighting, not towards anything. He shouldn't be thinking about how to make himself useful.]

Being useful means making a difference doesn't it?

I can't make things better if I don't fight.

[It's what he decided at least. The idea of fighting. If he has a chance later, he doesn't intend to run this time!]

It doesn't.

[Especially if the Kid is looking to be useful for his brother.]

It's not on you to make things better.

I want to though.

[And at least at home, he didn't want things very often.]

If you want something you have to show it.

You can't falter. [That's what Jack said after all, and he was pretty sure there was some merit in that.]

[And now Shun gets to groan to himself, because he doesn't actually disagree. Not with those later statements.

Still.]

It's not your battle to fight.

Why?

[Because he really can't see how it isn't.]

Because you are just a kid.

[And kids don't belong on the battlefield.]

Why does that make it different though?

That's not up for debate.

[It makes a difference because Shun says it makes a difference.

(Because Reira is a reminder of everything that Shun used to fight to protect, that he still fights to protect when hate and rage don't curl so deep that all he can think is to stomp his enemy into ground.)]

Does that mean you don't know?

It means, you wouldn't get it if I explained.

[...And possibly that explaining would force Shun to admit things that he doesn't particularly want to talk about.]

How do you know?

Because I know, Brat.

[Didn't he just say that this isn't up for discussion?]

[Shun seems to be getting annoyed about this, and Reira is not exactly blind to that either.

He is still frowning at the screen though. Well. At least you can't frown at him right now then.]

Then I am going to work hard to fight until you can answer.

It doesn't make sense otherwise.

[Shun stifles a groan as he just shuts down his laptop at this; it's pointless to argue any further at this point, not when the Kid won't get his point. Not given that Akaba had hand in trimming him to follow orders, considers him vital to fight against Academia for some reason.

He doesn't know how to stop that. He doesn't know how to protect a child that doesn't know how to be one.]

...Dammit.

[Well, no answer means he agrees, as far as Reira is concerned. So he just sighs, and nods determinedly. There they are then.]

[Continues from here]

[Well. That about explained every single thing that had bothered him about Akaba Reiji's attitude towards his brother... or should he say 'brother'. After all... the Kid is really little more than a tool to him.

He swallows down horror and fury for one last question, one that he doesn't really want to ask, but... he needs to make the last of pieces fit.]

Your experiences with the battlefield… was that before or after the Akabas took you in?

[If he were no longer a fairy, perhaps he would be more hesitant to answer this. It is a mix of honesty and perceived obviousness that prompts him to as it is.

After all, when else could it have been?] Before.

Why?

[Shun shakes as he processes what he's hearing, hands pulling away from the laptop as claws start to push out of his skin. The idea that the Akaba's had trained their own son and brother for war had been bad enough... the fact that they had taken a war-traumatized child in only to train and send back into the madness of the battlefield is in some ways almost worse.

He just shuts the laptop down without answering, exhaling deeply. He needs to think for a while.]

Last I checked wendigos don't get wings

[So why are you asking about falling with them, Kid?]

I asked Tikbalang for them

They're bird ones though, I didn't think faerie ones would work

[…Why would you ask for wings, Shun wonders. But fine.]

Falling with wings is very different. You can't roll over your back without pulling feathers.

[Or worse.]

If you can't roll how do you do it then?

Preferably, you don't fall in first place. It depends on the scenario otherwise.

Getting thrown falling.

[He's no stranger to the fact that he is small and easily tossed.]

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