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Second Rose: Not wishing for anyone [Written]

Am I the only one who wouldn't want anyone from home to be here?

Besides the cold, it isn't exactly a vacation here. With this place being so unpredictable, I'd rather have those I know back home in familiar territory.

[He's trying his best to keep his handwriting from getting too shaky.]

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Likewise. I'm sure they can manage without me. [After all, he only recently joined them, and they seemed to have done well without his presence before.] It's still not clear how things work back at home while I'm here.

[Like would anyone be searching for him.]

I don't think anyone knows, though that is a good question. Knowing that could help relieve some people of the hurry and stress for returning.

[No one would look for Ikki, but he worries that without his help Athena and Shun would be in danger. Hopefully Shiryu and Hyoga will be able to arrive there quickly.]

Maybe it's a question to ask, whenever we get the chance. [It's really hard to tell when they'll get the chance to ask since Scurvy Dog tends to be unpredictable and overall grumpy.]

Yes, but I wouldn't waste my time asking Dog. Assuming it ever appears again.

I'd rather try than immediately close off all our possible options.

Even knowing that so far all the useful questions Dog got asked were given vague or "I don't know" answers?

Even then. We may catch a break.

You're pretty optimistic. Then again who knows if we will see Dog again, after the battle at Isla Empieza and everything else they may be done with us.

I have my days.

True. No doubt some consequence will come for us for what we've done.

It's nothing new anyway. We have been getting consequences even before we did anything, at least now they have good reasons to put us all in the same sack.

It'll still be an inconvenience, in any case. I'm not worried about us. It's others that we should be concerned about.

You mean the other crews? Let them handle themselves.

If someone needs help, I'm not going to just stand around without helping.

So you plan to jump on the Nav the moment someone screams over the journals or something?

Now it sounds like I'm some secret superhero.

Not so secret. This conversation is open after all.

[The other part, though, could be true.]

If someone were to take all this to heart, then it's their own fault for believing something this silly.

[It could be, depending on whom one asks.]

You would be surprised by how silly the people here can be. Or not, were you around when someone asked if there was a Candy Mountain or about magazines to Dog?

...candy mountain?

Candy Mountain. Not sure if it's supposed to be a mountain made of candy or a mountain where candy grow.

I don't see why it can't be both, but yes, it's a ridiculous question.

Maybe it is both. But that's not the point, it was the first question made to Dog when he gave us the first chance to ask things. Because things like how to get home and the like aren't more important.

I guess everyone has their own priorities.

You say that as if it serves as an excuse to forgive them making that question before anything else.

Who said anything about forgiving them?