text; un: tengennohana

[ryototsukai]

i'm already 1m yen in debt?!

i just started in debt to Tenko-hime?!

i mean i did spend a ton of money on food and drinks and lovely women and cute boys and stuff but

somehow i thought it would all work out?

how am i supposed to handle this?!?!

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[kaientai]

But what's that got to do with someone else picking up your tab?

[ryototsukai]

i didnt mean they'd pick up the tab! that'd just make me feel worse!

but you know like

they'd take care of it, because they're amazing like that.

[kaientai]

Well, sure. But we're all in the same boat here right now — just a bunch of nobodies without any influence. I don't think there's anyone who can just take care of things in any case.

[ryototsukai]

don't underestimate Ritsuka-kun! i'm sure if anyone could make sense of this place, it's them!

[kaientai]

Have you seen them then? I hadn't realised they were here.

[ nothing like the thought of an innocent protagonist potentially out there in hell somewhere all alone to stress you out a little. if he hadn't seen them at konoha early in the night, then that means one of the other factions... ]

In the meantime, you should look out for yourself too, you know? You're probably going to have a hard time here if you don't.

[ryototsukai]

[ ... ]

no. i haven't seen or heard from them at all.

and i don't want you to think i'm using that as an excuse to sit around, either. i'm just.

[ Look. He's from Chaldea. He'll get it. ]

i'm worried.

[kaientai]

Wait. Where do you think you are right now?

[ it's still weird having to clarify this with people. it occurs to him that all of this really could just look like a singularity, in which case... hm. ]

[ryototsukai]

eh? how do you mean?

this place is Jigoku, right? the realm of Hell?

[kaientai]

Right, exactly. Just making sure, seeing as how Singularities popped up all the time and could be anything and that's how it sounded.

[ryototsukai]

well this could still be that. or a Lostbelt. or any other sorts of world. we don't really have a means of knowing until we've figured more out about what's going on, especially if Ritsuka-kun isn't around.

[kaientai]

It's at least somewhere where the rules of magic are different from what we know. And there's probably not going to be one catch-all solution.

[ like certain magic cups at the middle of everyone's problems. ]

So you'd better start saving!

[ryototsukai]

the debt is to the clan itself, at least. so they're just taking a cut of all my paychecks.