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[ THE SECRET REVEALED. he just turns and makes an oddly familiar unimpressed face at rin ]

No worse than the rest of us.

What?

Okay... What's your name?

[ slowly blinks at him like rin is the one who's lost it ]

Shen Qingqiu......... ?

... And what're you doing here?

[ squints at rin like ]

Looking at the fish........?

[ ... don't look at him like he's crazy you're the one who's different ]

Alone?

[ RIn ARE YOU ASKING HIM OUT? ]

...............Yes?

You don't have any friends...?

[ NO HE'S WONDERING WHY HE'S A LOSER ]

[ help ]

I have plenty.....!

[ this is so mean to sqq considering how many pcs i've started in the aquarium alone ]

Like, from the people here?

[ i'm losing my whole ass ]

No, just the ghosts in the walls. Of course, the people here! I'm not that much of a shut in!

I'm just checking how much you know! You look different...

[ pointedly ]

Maybe that's the whole reason I was here by myself.

So... You want me to leave?

[ massages the bridge of his nose ]

You're already here, I'm not going to tell you to fuck off.

Geez, thanks. [ wanders over to look at some fishes ] It is pretty peaceful here. You'd never see an aquarium without a crowd back home.

Reasons I've been hiding out in here.

[ and it being nice and dark but shh ]

Can't be sad when you've got a whole collection of sea creatures to stare at.

[ okay ]

Are you sad about something...?

[ simply Looks at him ]

Would you be prepared to see a dead mans face in the mirror? [ pauses ] Actually, don't answer that.

[ HUH? ]

You're dead?

[ rubs his face wearily ]

I had to get isekai'd somehow. Death just happened to be my route.

Oh. So you're just... living in the new world? Or trying to get back?

Living in it. Surviving by my fingertips. Whatever you want to call trying to reach the end of the story.

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