catchall; buzen

[aitou]

Buzen couldn't be Shirou because then the cult would win. In this essay I will

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[hasteful]

Probably.

[and despite the casualness of his answer, buzen will admit that he had thought about it a bit. he makes a lot of snap judgments quickly - but it's not like he doesn't put care into those decisions when he does.]

He's not... from our universe, from what I can tell. Which is hard to wrap my mind around though I got better at it once we spent more time here. Even though he's from Japan - it's also not our Japan. When he describes things to me, it sounds like it's already a pretty big divergence... and he has powers that humans shouldn't have.

It shouldn't affect our timeline and our mission - it'll be more of an adjustment for him than it is for us. But if he wants to come with us, I won't be the one to tell him no.

[the fact that if buzen was dating someone but there's nothing that rules them out as possibly being from their timeline, he would simply ghost them at the end because it could jeopardize the mission. hell, he wouldn't have even told itsuki anything about their duties if itsuki hadn't shared that he possessed powers. in the end, he is still a sword and he doesn't know how (or want to know how) to put any individual person above their tasks.

itsuki is about as safe as a person to have as any. and buzen is a sword so comfortable with death that it may sometimes feel like a constant shroud on his shoulders... but it also makes him perfectly fine with the idea of mortality.

when you are someone who may not exist, you don't think it's so bad even if something's not built to last. at least it still was.]

... but I don't know about everyone else. Some of them talk so confidently of other worlds... maybe they've figured out something that we haven't.

[aitou]

[It's a good enough answer for him--though, really, anything would've been. He'd mostly just asked out of curiosity; the person he loves most will be at his side no matter what, so it's not something he's ever had to consider.]

Mm, maybe. [Damien had spoken of human time travelers in his world, and Yasusada knows that Riff can do something like it, too. It's not such a strange thing to consider anymore.] If that's something they can do, then I'd like to see them.

[He doesn't have to say that Itsuki is always welcome, that he'll be loved at the citadel too--Buzen already knows that, he's sure. Though, there's a thought that makes him smile, a little.]

Do you think Itsuki will like Aruji?

[It's almost strange, thinking of their master spending time with another human regularly. Granted, neither of them are "normal" humans, but still.]