I know there's no one else here but us, but... something about the manor just keeps giving me the creeps. Especially if the door's just going to automatically lock whenever someone walks in...?
[ how strange... ]
[ gosh. perhaps there are two, might this be a double whammy? either way, alex is straightening up and dusting herself down-- and absolutely not paying attention to the area around her, so her elbow is going to hit one of the bubbles and mobwillgetalittletreat. ]
... [ ah. well... honestly, that's... a memory that she doesn't find too bad. although explaining it, especially to someone as young as mob is... well. complicated. ]
I went through a bad situation. And it took me some time to recover from it. Technically, I still am, but it's much better now.
[ it's not like she can't gloss over the things that are maybe not so appropriate. ] There are a few people who knew what was happening back home so...
[ just something she got used to handling as best she could, as quietly as she could. ]
Hallucinating? [This is starting to sound like maybe something he shouldn't be prying into, but Alex did say it was okay.] So you were seeing things that weren't there?
Context for this is that Mob, his brother Ritsu, a blonde kid named Hanazawa, and Reigen are in some kind of evil villain headquarters (Claw) being attacked by adults in supervillain costumes attacking children with hyper-powered shonen bullshit - gravity manipulation, swords, creating body duplicates, summoning evil spirits.
The teens are all ESPers and are fighting back. Don’t worry about why Hanazawa’s hair is like that. Mob most successful, able to dodge most of their attacks, but he isn’t participating in the fighting, just jumping in to help defend where he can. The other two kids are fighting, but Ritsu is getting beat up pretty bad and Hanazawa is struggling to hold his own, and gets his tall hair cut into a better hairstyle by an anime sword.
Reigen does not really seem to be doing anything, except insisting that they’re getting out of here, and constantly needing to be saved from peril by the kids. He claims that he’d be able to help if they were facing evil spirits, not seeming to realize there are evil spirits there, right in front of them, which Mob instantly exorcises.
Things start to get out of control, and the kids are losing the fight. Mob’s friends and Reigen are yelling two conflicting instructions.
Reigen: We’re getting out of here! Don’t bother with them, Mob!
Hanezawa: Kageyama-kun! Use all of your powers! Just blow these guys away!
Mob seems frozen by indecision. It’s fairly obvious why. Hanazawa is fighting as hard as he can, with all of his strength, and still getting beaten. But Mob knows his own powers are stronger than Hanazawa’s. He could help his friend. On the other hand, Reigen is telling him not to, and Reigen is his master, and he truly doesn’t want to have to fight anyone. But. . . there seems to be good reason to doubt that Reigen can really help like he claims.
Reigen: Stop! Don’t fight back! I’m an adult, so I’ll deal with them! Mob, there’s no need for you to stoop to their level!
Ritsu: Nii-san’s the only one who stands a chance anymore!
The gravity powered enemy has started attacking Ritsu, who is struggling not to be sucked into a black hole. This seems to make up Mob’s mind for him. He turns towards the person attacking Ritsu, beginning to glow with power as he watches Ritsu struggle and be hurt. There’s no one but him who can help Ritsu. There’s no one else.
Shigeo: Ritsu. . . you’re right, I have to defeat them.
Reigen: No! Stop! Don’t fight back, Mob!
Shigeo: (ignoring this now, just focused on the fight) Ritsu’s hurt. . .
Hanazawa: (still fighting back) We have to fight power with power! At this rate, we’re all going to die!
Reigen: We just need to run away!
Hanazawa: There’s no way for us to run while we’re dealing with their attacks! Use the powers you used back then!
Mob’s stress levels are ticking upwards at this point. He knows if he fights, if he really uses his powers that way, he’ll probably seriously hurt someone, if not kill them. But he also knows Hanazawa and Ritsu might be right. Despite what Reigen is saying, running away doesn’t seem possible right now. And if they don’t win this fight, they really might be killed. Hanazawa has seen his full powers, what they can do. If Hanazawa thinks that’s needed, then. . .
Reigen: Calm down! Don’t go head to head against someone with murderous intent, Mob!
But the gravity user, their leader, the strongest one has come back, and is threatening them again. So he can’t hold back, can he? If he holds back, if he doesn’t use all of his power now. . . Mob looks like he’s despairing over this decision, but it also looks as though he’s come to one.
Shigeo: Ritsu. . . Hanazawa-kun. . . Master Reigen. . . I can’t let them all die. . . I have no choice. . . but to fight with all I’ve got!
As his stress and anger grows, the softness in Mob begins to disappear, replaced with something colder and angrier, as he prepares to release all of his negative feelings against these terrible people who have hurt his brother and his friends.
Shigeo: If I can protect them. . . I don’t care what happens to my opponents.
Just as he’s about to hit full power and release those feelings, Reigen is suddenly there. He slaps his hands across his cheeks, holding his face so he can stare him down directly. This seems to break the spell that came over him and the stress, and gets him to listen.
Reigen: Don’t do it, Mob. You’re the one who’s going to suffer in the end. When things go south, it’s okay to run away!
Mob seems to calm down after hearing this. He feels strongly in this moment that whatever else, he can trust Reigen. And somewhere in his mind he makes a connection between the two conflicting ideas he’s been absorbing.
(Part #2 0:22 - 3:14 But obviously you can skip the intro)
At that moment, the sword guy appears behind them, powerful cursed sword in hand, and slices Reigen directly across the back. He falls to the ground. He’s dead! Oh no! Mob is just. . . looking at this sword man.
Shigeo: Honestly, I don’t want to hurt anyone. But if I don’t, we’re going to get killed. That’s the feeling I got. I realized that I have to do it in order to protect everyone. That’s the kind of situation we’re in right now.
And yet. . . Master told me that it was okay to run away. So. . .
Reigen stands up! Oh, he’s not dead. He’s fine. He’s actually completely unharmed. Because in that moment where Reigen told him it was okay to run away, Mob made a connection. On the one hand, Hanazawa and Ritsu have been telling him that the person with the most power also has the responsibility to fight, so it felt like because he had those powers, he didn't have any choice at all. But Reigen has been telling him to run away, and leave these problems to him, the adult.
So isn’t it okay if, just for now, he runs away by giving Reigen his powers?
Reigen clearly doesn’t seem to realize at first what’s happening, and just assumes that all of these adult ESPers have just been using tricks and illusions the whole time. He snaps the sword in half, calling it a toy, and destroys an evil spirit thinking it’s a guy in a suit, effortlessly brushes away all their attacks, and calls them frauds. It’s funny but it’s long and I’m not going to describe it all.
Basically, the adult ESPers are all emotionally devastated by not only being beaten by Reigen but also made fun of this badly, and he’s utterly dismissive of all of them and their attitudes that their power or their sad backstory justifies their acting like supervillains and beating up middle school children.]
[ that's a lot to take in -- all of it, from the powers people seem to be using while fly over her head in terms of context or how they must be working, to the people involved, who they are and how all of them are connected.
even to what happens at the end, with the transfer of power and-- ]
Shigeo?
[ she's not really sure where to start. just... well...
what a lot of pressure for one person to have on their shoulders in that moment. ]
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Sorry, sorry!
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she lifts a hand and waves it. ]
No, it's okay. I should've been paying more attention.
[ ... wait ]
You were already in here?
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[He is truly impervious to spooky.]
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...
[ she can't really say anything to that, that was what she came here for. ]
I was thinking of doing that too. Did you find anything interesting?
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It's falling apart, but there's nothing useful.
[And oh! Is that a bubble floating by?]
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[ how strange... ]
[ gosh. perhaps there are two, might this be a double whammy? either way, alex is straightening up and dusting herself down-- and absolutely not paying attention to the area around her, so her elbow is going to hit one of the bubbles and mob will get a little treat. ]
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Benedetto-san? What happened?
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... [ ah. well... honestly, that's... a memory that she doesn't find too bad. although explaining it, especially to someone as young as mob is... well. complicated. ]
I went through a bad situation. And it took me some time to recover from it. Technically, I still am, but it's much better now.
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I'm sorry. Do. . . you want me to ask about it? I've been learning that sometimes it's good to talk about things like that.
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[ it's not like she can't gloss over the things that are maybe not so appropriate. ] There are a few people who knew what was happening back home so...
[ just something she got used to handling as best she could, as quietly as she could. ]
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[He can't exactly tell what she was going through, just that it was difficult.]
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I was starting to hallucinate. So I had to take my medication again.
It was worse, back then. Both in frequency and side effects.
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... That's sort of what you saw just then.
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[ ha ha... ]
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That's what I said, yes.
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[. . .
Pats her on the arm? He doesn't really know how to react to that.]
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Don’t worry about it Shigeo. It’s not something I’d want to tell you fully, but I am doing better than that memory suggests.
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[If she doesn't want to tell him, it's fine. Anyway. Here, another bubble pops, so have a cool memory. Sorry it's so long!!
(Part #1 at 17:33 to 20:20
Context for this is that Mob, his brother Ritsu, a blonde kid named Hanazawa, and Reigen are in some kind of evil villain headquarters (Claw) being attacked by adults in supervillain costumes attacking children with hyper-powered shonen bullshit - gravity manipulation, swords, creating body duplicates, summoning evil spirits.
The teens are all ESPers and are fighting back. Don’t worry about why Hanazawa’s hair is like that. Mob most successful, able to dodge most of their attacks, but he isn’t participating in the fighting, just jumping in to help defend where he can. The other two kids are fighting, but Ritsu is getting beat up pretty bad and Hanazawa is struggling to hold his own, and gets his tall hair cut into a better hairstyle by an anime sword.
Reigen does not really seem to be doing anything, except insisting that they’re getting out of here, and constantly needing to be saved from peril by the kids. He claims that he’d be able to help if they were facing evil spirits, not seeming to realize there are evil spirits there, right in front of them, which Mob instantly exorcises.
Things start to get out of control, and the kids are losing the fight. Mob’s friends and Reigen are yelling two conflicting instructions.
Mob seems frozen by indecision. It’s fairly obvious why. Hanazawa is fighting as hard as he can, with all of his strength, and still getting beaten. But Mob knows his own powers are stronger than Hanazawa’s. He could help his friend. On the other hand, Reigen is telling him not to, and Reigen is his master, and he truly doesn’t want to have to fight anyone. But. . . there seems to be good reason to doubt that Reigen can really help like he claims.
The gravity powered enemy has started attacking Ritsu, who is struggling not to be sucked into a black hole. This seems to make up Mob’s mind for him. He turns towards the person attacking Ritsu, beginning to glow with power as he watches Ritsu struggle and be hurt. There’s no one but him who can help Ritsu. There’s no one else.
Mob’s stress levels are ticking upwards at this point. He knows if he fights, if he really uses his powers that way, he’ll probably seriously hurt someone, if not kill them. But he also knows Hanazawa and Ritsu might be right. Despite what Reigen is saying, running away doesn’t seem possible right now. And if they don’t win this fight, they really might be killed. Hanazawa has seen his full powers, what they can do. If Hanazawa thinks that’s needed, then. . .
But the gravity user, their leader, the strongest one has come back, and is threatening them again. So he can’t hold back, can he? If he holds back, if he doesn’t use all of his power now. . . Mob looks like he’s despairing over this decision, but it also looks as though he’s come to one.
As his stress and anger grows, the softness in Mob begins to disappear, replaced with something colder and angrier, as he prepares to release all of his negative feelings against these terrible people who have hurt his brother and his friends.
Just as he’s about to hit full power and release those feelings, Reigen is suddenly there. He slaps his hands across his cheeks, holding his face so he can stare him down directly. This seems to break the spell that came over him and the stress, and gets him to listen.
Mob seems to calm down after hearing this. He feels strongly in this moment that whatever else, he can trust Reigen. And somewhere in his mind he makes a connection between the two conflicting ideas he’s been absorbing.
(Part #2 0:22 - 3:14 But obviously you can skip the intro)
At that moment, the sword guy appears behind them, powerful cursed sword in hand, and slices Reigen directly across the back. He falls to the ground. He’s dead! Oh no! Mob is just. . . looking at this sword man.
Reigen stands up! Oh, he’s not dead. He’s fine. He’s actually completely unharmed. Because in that moment where Reigen told him it was okay to run away, Mob made a connection. On the one hand, Hanazawa and Ritsu have been telling him that the person with the most power also has the responsibility to fight, so it felt like because he had those powers, he didn't have any choice at all. But Reigen has been telling him to run away, and leave these problems to him, the adult.
So isn’t it okay if, just for now, he runs away by giving Reigen his powers?
Reigen clearly doesn’t seem to realize at first what’s happening, and just assumes that all of these adult ESPers have just been using tricks and illusions the whole time. He snaps the sword in half, calling it a toy, and destroys an evil spirit thinking it’s a guy in a suit, effortlessly brushes away all their attacks, and calls them frauds. It’s funny but it’s long and I’m not going to describe it all.
Basically, the adult ESPers are all emotionally devastated by not only being beaten by Reigen but also made fun of this badly, and he’s utterly dismissive of all of them and their attitudes that their power or their sad backstory justifies their acting like supervillains and beating up middle school children.]
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even to what happens at the end, with the transfer of power and-- ]
Shigeo?
[ she's not really sure where to start. just... well...
what a lot of pressure for one person to have on their shoulders in that moment. ]
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Hmm.]
I. . . I don't remember that one.
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I could see it - the first part at least. We were fighting Claw, and Ritsu and Hanazawa-kun were getting hurt, and I couldn't decide what to. . .
[Ugh.]
But after that - I couldn't see any of it. Or maybe - I saw it, but it went away again.
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