[ it's no pants time ]

[powerisyours]

[ continued from here ]

Anything Shan Shan wants.

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[ridestherider]

I can't say. I don't know. Taking it a little at a time and not getting carried away just seems like it'd be less painful when you left, because you will. You have a reason to have to go home eventually.

I just ... I can't do what happened before a second time.

[powerisyours]

... I could say the same thing to you, honestly. And before you say it, you do have reasons. A handful, at least.

[ridestherider]

They don't need me. They do need you where you're from.

[powerisyours]

Your family's there, too. He needs you.

[ridestherider]

He probably doesn't even know I'm gone.

[powerisyours]

Neither do mine.

[ridestherider]

I'll probably be here forever. You'll go home, because you're essential. It'll be you.

[powerisyours]

And who's going to punch Tsukasa in the face and keep him from destroying worlds again?

[ridestherider]

Yuusuke, I guess.

[powerisyours]

Don't sell yourself short, Shan Shan.

[ridestherider]

Somebody else does that for me.

[powerisyours]

You know exactly who and what you are. That's more than many people know, and that in and of itself is power. Don't let idiots take it away from you.

[ridestherider]

That's very easy for you to say.

[powerisyours]

Is it, though?

[ridestherider]

We're on opposite ends of the spectrum.

[powerisyours]

I hate to sound like a parrot, but that's easy for you to say.

[ridestherider]

You're essential, I'm nonessential. People always listen to you, nobody ever listens to me. You hate it, I'd give a kidney to get that kind of respect.

[powerisyours]

People don't always listen to me. In fact, sometimes they outright disobey, go behind my back, and betray my trust in them entirely for their own selfish reasons.

[ridestherider]

But only sometimes.

[powerisyours]

It isn't all sunshine and roses, either way. It's too much pressure for one person to handle.

[ridestherider]

We're never gonna agree about this either, are we?

[powerisyours]

[ nestling his chin into the crook of her neck ]

I don't know. I think I'm overrated.

[ridestherider]

I don't.

[powerisyours]

I also think you're the best thing since sliced bread, but you don't.

[ridestherider]

Because I'm not.