o12 [Written]

[ahappylie]

It would seem that everyone has been getting letters? I'm seeing all sorts of buzz over this - over who this Tyr person is, over whether or not it's a trap or our only option to be free. So many people are talking about staying, but I have a question.

Who is going to go?




[Filtered to Shinpachi Nagakura | pretty much hackable since he fails]

Nagakura-san? Have you received one as well? What do you think? A chance to go home or a trap?

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[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Winter in Edo was fairly bad, too, but I usually just ate warm things instead.

I'm impressed, Alfons-kun. I didn't think someone so young would be able to drink so early.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Well, it was more of a necessity really. Beer was cheap enough to drink regularly as opposed to getting a better heating system back at home.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Oh~ I see.

Is firewood and such expensive then, in your time?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Very much so.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

So the future has many problems too, then... That's interesting. We always thought things would get easier and cheaper in the future.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Maybe even further than ours, as we were suffering from the effects of a war.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...it seems that so many of us are from war.

I wonder if there will ever be days of peace again.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It seems like a common theme, don't you think?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

A common if unfortunate one.
[He sits back in his chair and looks around the cafe, lost in thought for a few moments.]
...It was nice for a bit. To experience days like these.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you want to return? [Because that reaction wasn't exactly very common.]

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

I must. My friends are standing on the battlefield without me. The person most important to me is unprotected while I am here. My men are waiting for me to give them orders.

...No one will tell me what the future brings, but I have a feeling I already know. And I must follow it through to the end.

[He smiles faintly and touches his side where his sword should have been.]
I wish to be with them, until the end.

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

... [Why the hell can't Alfons bring himself to stop them, he wondered. Really, this was the second person willing to return to his own possible demise.]

You've made up your mind then?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

If I don't attempt to return home, it will be a failure of the Code.
[He lowers his hands into his lap and drops his gaze to the table.]
If Nagakura-san goes, then I would be abandoning him. I can't not go, Alfons-kun.

...
[He seems like he was going to say something else and then decided against it.]

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

... What is it?

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all.

Did you ever finish your rocket?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

Here? Well, not really. We accidentally set it off indoors so...

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Set it off indoors?

...

What happened? Did your room turn all black?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

... We flooded the apartment.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[He tried not to laugh. For all of a minute, but now he's giggling a little.]
Well, at least it was a good surprise?

Are you going to make another?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't call it good, considering Winry had been in the shower when the pipes were hit.

Not any time soon, I'm afraid. The weather's not very ideal, nor do I have the right facility in this cold.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

...[And now he's just laughing outright.] That must have been quite the surprise for her!

Well, you can try again when the weather turns to spring, hm?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

It was. I'm glad it wasn't as bad as it could've been.

Perhaps, though I'd rather start planning now as to how I'm going to build new ones with the limited amount of materials we do have. I already lost most of it due to the water.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Could you have sent the entire house to visit the rabbits on the moon?

Oh, that's a good idea. The winter is a great time to start plans for spring.

...will it be hard to replace the materials?

[nicht-ein-traum.livejournal.com]

I don't think there are rabbits on the moon, Okita.

It's also a good time to spend with friends, I suppose. I sort of miss the university back home.

[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

Of course there are. You can see the shape of one pounding mochi when the moon is full.

Yes, it is. We used to roast fruit and sweet potatoes in the yard when it got cold. What sort of things did you do at home during the winter?