backdated to 6/29- Losing more than a bet

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Jun Kurosu shax@applenet.net
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We've all noticed names that vanish from the app, right? Those who don't make it to the end of the countdown. That can happen to those of us who have, too. It's more extensive than simply leaving the chatroom, though.

I can confirm that Marchosias 29, also known as Okuyasu Nijimura, is, for lack of more descriptive words, gone. Completely gone.

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Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

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Yes, twins. It's been close to a week. Every sign of him is gone and no one without the app seems to remember his existence at all.

It's almost ironic...for reasons I'd rather not disclose in public.

You're using the plural. Who else has disappeared?

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

Someone said a person named Mako has vanished. I know that my friend Sion is no longer anywhere. He played violin and we composed music together. He helped me during that last event.

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

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Does anyone who doesn't use the app remember your friend?

I know there are more names that have disappeared from the app. I wonder if we can confirm how gone their offline counterparts are...

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

No. They don't. Suddenly there's talk of a new RA moving in on that floor, as though my friend had never been there.

I can only imagine what you must feel like about your brother. I have only known you since I got this application, but I will try to help you to the best of my ability.

Jun Kurosu ⚔ Shax

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Exactly the same, then. Luci has informed me they're stil alive, at least...just elsewhere.

I'll be alright. If there's one thing I'm used to, it's losing family.

Alucard ⚔ Marchosias

[draculabackwards]

[That is such a profoundly frank and sad statement. It makes Alucard realize that although he might be unique in the world for how he is, he is not so unique in the world for how he suffers.]

Is that what happened to you where you came from?

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Yes.

[He considers elaborating, considers saying something more than quiet confirmation, but he doesn't. Maya's death, for real this time, still feels very recent and raw. And the full story is entirely too personal to share publicly. Even admitting that his existence as he is now shouldn't be would be saying too much.]

[draculabackwards]

[It is difficult to convey emotion through mere words, but leaving things here? Alucard cannot do that.]

I am sorry for the losses you have suffered.

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[What can he say to that? That it's nothing less than he deserves? That it never really happened anyway? None of that would be appropriate. It's another barb in his heart, to just accept this, but there's no other response that treats the other fairly. And it isn't that he isn't grateful.]

Thank you. Though I am, as I said, used to it. Solitude suits me.

[If the universe won't just let him have never been, he can try for the next best thing.]