[ fourth wall continuations ]

[powerisyours]

Before captcha this time |D

Comments

[crestsmile]

If it helps anything . . . I want to stay.

[powerisyours]

Unfortunately, you can't. Even I know that.

[crestsmile]

I know.

[ but he wishes things were different ]

[powerisyours]

It's enough that you've come now. And I suppose if I wanted to see your face, I could just as easily go find Guan Yu in the Silver Dimension.

[ and break about fifty of my own rules in the process, ignoring the fact the guy probably hates me ]

[crestsmile]

You wouldn't do that.

[powerisyours]

I wouldn't. And I doubt he'd want anything to do with me, anyway. He may have your face, but he's not you.

[crestsmile]

I don't know about that, but you're right about that last part.

[powerisyours]

I took someone important away from him. It wouldn't surprise me, as the ones who are here don't want anything to do with me, either.

[crestsmile]

What do you mean?

[powerisyours]

To which part?

[crestsmile]

All parts.

[powerisyours]

Some things happened after . . .

[ you died. ]

Xiu ended up in the Silver Dimension. He made friends there. At least, until I forced him to come back.

[crestsmile]

By the rules and laws, he's not allowed to stay there permanently.

[powerisyours]

He went behind my back to take Ding Xiao Yu and the others on a vacation. They injured his alternate there. They made the decision to leave him in his alternate's place while he was healing. It all went even more downhill after that. Lying, trying to pretend to be in places he wasn't, hiding from me, disobeying orders, all of that. There was a girl, too.

[crestsmile]

. . . a betrayal, then.

[powerisyours]

In a nutshell. To some extent, what he did was a help in being able to figure out what the real problem there was, but at the same time . . . I still can't quite find it to forgive him.

[crestsmile]

I don't blame you for that.

[powerisyours]

It isn't right of me.

[crestsmile]

The rules are there for a reason, Xiao Wu.

[powerisyours]

I know. I set them myself. But what good are they if the one person who's supposed to follow them to the letter won't?

[crestsmile]

You have your duty, that's all.

[powerisyours]

I know. It's just . . . It makes me wonder who I really can trust. If I should just keep doing everything on my own.

[crestsmile]

That's something you'll have to find out on your own.

[powerisyours]

I know. I shouldn't be saying these things. I shouldn't be acting so weak. You raised me better than that.

[crestsmile]

I raised you to be you, Xiao Wu.