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[ Actually, that time she just started yelling because natto is gross don't get it near her. Clearly Hinata is underestimating her distaste of natto.

Yuri seemed to calm down once he stopped trying to share it with her, ending up setting her unopened fruit cup up with his natto on the desk and keeping the coffee on the floor next to her as she laid down on it, keeping her head near Hinata. ]

I'll stay then.

[ Yuri hesitates for a moment, then decides to add in something. After all, she knows what it's like to be scared of the people around you disappearing. ]

If they're gone it means they're in a better place, Hinata. No matter how scared you get or how much it hurts, you have to remember that or you'll put everyone in danger.

[ That's what happened to Yuri right before the shadows first appeared, after all. ]

[He watches as she moves to lay down, shifting a little to give her the room to do so. The can of coffee was cold against his fingers, prompting him to take a sip of it before setting it down beside him.]

[Her words catch him off guard, that practiced facade of joviality cracking, not even trying to fake it as his face went a little pale. He let her finish, quiet for another moment before he finally spoke, his voice trembling faintly.] ...The people that have been disappearing... I was close to all of them.

[He turns his head off to the side, avoiding meeting her eyes directly.] I-I just... want to know why.

I ask myself that every time I lose someone, Hinata. There's no reason why. If anyone has those answers, it'd be God.

[ That's always been a huge portion of her reason for going after him in the first place. Because He was the only one who could possibly know, who could possibly have done something besides her and He didn't.

Suddenly, Yuri reached over and hit the side of his leg. As though to jump-start him. ]

Remember when you promised me forever ago that you weren't going to leave me alone? I'm going to promise the same.

[Her words strike a chord with him, glancing briefly down at her face. That's right... she was already her when he arrived the first time. Had she known and lost people before he arrived? He'd never really thought to ask, so swept up in the excitement of creating the SSS. Sometimes he forgot that they hadn't had each other the whole time. He'd always had her... twice he'd arrived and she was there with all the answers.]

[When she smacked his leg, he did indeed startle, looking down at her wide-eyed. He'd always thought that her staying until the end was self-evident. She wouldn't leave unless everyone did, but hearing her say it aloud... He swallowed a lump of emotion in his throat, shifting to lay on the floor, facing the other way from her so they weren't laying next to one another. He lay on his back, looking up at the ceiling, his head next to hers. After taking a second to compose himself, he lifted a hand, holding his balled-up fist out to her for a promissory fistbump.]

...Until the end, right, Yurippe? [He sounded slightly choked up, but all things considered, he was keeping up a pretty good front.]

[ Yuri stared at his fist for a moment from where she was. Even as he laid down, she had stayed where she was with a little smile on her face. He sounded like he might've started crying if she told him he could, but instead, she reached her hand up to bump his fist above their heads. ]

Until the end.

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