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I remember. That was something important that you desperately wanted your beloved companions to know.

You've kept me safe by telling me this. You know that, don't you?

you are correct stop i was using the act of protecting you from an active threat as my standard for keeping you safe stop however as i can trust you to use information appropriately i can be reasonably certain that by providing you with this information you are able to protect yourself stop i am grateful that you are willing to participate in the process of keeping you safe as it is something that i would struggle to achieve alone stop newline aside from what i want to tell you about him i feel i should state that the things that you have almost certainly put together by now represent the limit of my own knowledge stop i worked under my beautiful friend dio brando for several months and then against him for one and a half months at which point he killed me stop i have no recollection of the time i spent working under him and thus while i am not unwilling to tell you more i am unable to

I understand. That's a frightening feeling, isn't it? To know that you existed through a particular time, but have no recollection of anything you did during that period. It robs you of a piece of yourself.

When you asked me before, what foods I have a preference toward. That was, fortunately, a question I was able to answer. And I'm skilled both in masking my thoughts and in extrapolating conclusions from sparse available facts.

But there are things you could ask me that even now I would have to guess to answer. There was a time when I had to guess at my own name, because I didn't know it.

I'm sorry that happened to you. But selfishly, I'm glad someone else understands some small fraction of how I felt because that happened to me.

in truth i have never considered the experience to be a loss of identity stop i am fortunate to have only ever been made to forget periods of time rather than anything more personal stop however i believe i understand at least in part stop may i ask a question i recognise that you will answer in the affirmative but my question is personal and it seems only right to warn you and allow you the opportunity to say no stop

You're very considerate to ask, Hierophant-kun. I appreciate that you did.

Go ahead and ask.

is it unkind of me to ask you to be so many people who are not you questionmark if much of yourself has already been taken from you it seems that it might be cruel to dilute what remains stop

I suppose I don't think of it as diluting the remains. I think of it more as...

If each of those people stands in a spotlight, it creates shadows between them for the real me to stand in. Does that make sense?

oh

[ ...well that's an uncharacteristically short message. ]

you are my good friend whose name i do not really need to know comma the stand of bottle and seiko and luna and sakura stop

I'm...the Stand of them?

You mean, the hidden part of me that most people don't see?

you are the personification of their desire and ability to create change and set the world right stop just as they are your desire and ability to exist in the world which you have set right stop observed from a higher dimension perhaps you would be parts of a single greater being as points observed in one dimension are to a line in two or a shadow in two dimensions is to a being in three stop is this correct

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...I suppose that's true, yes. I would also compare them to suits of armor — freestanding things on their own, with shapes and forms and distinguishable qualities that afford them some form of individuality.

But they don't move unless I'm standing inside them.

i recognise that this is a moment of vulnerability and i am glad that you trust me with this information stop please interpret the following attempt to communicate laughter as a gesture of genuine fondness and delight and not as one of disdain stop the item that shares those properties and occurs to me most readily is not a suit of armour but instead the costume of a mascot and this thought beings me joy stop ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha stop

[Oh, Hierophant. Who could ever think you were being disdainful.]

Well. It sounds like you've also solved the problem of what to do to make sure I can see you when you visit.

We'll find you a mascot costume to inhabit.

oh exclamation point to emphasize a moment of epiphany i had not considered this as a possibility but you are correct stop a mascot costume would allow me to be visible without appearing too unnerving stop

It would also make you soft, for the purposes of hugging.

exclamation point to emphasize a moment of epiphany

this consideration is accurate so far as my own observations of mascots are concerned stop when mascots are hugged the interaction appears to be appreciated by all parties stop

conspiratorial lowering of my voice in a figurative sense because this dialogue is occurring in the written word and therefore cannot be raised or lowered in volume stop

Your hugs are very nice even without the help of a mascot costume, Hierophant-kun.

i recognise that you are mocking me but i also recognise that it is with fondness and even if i had objections to this open brackets i do not close brackets it would be unreasonable of me considering my recent communication of laughter in response to the characterisation of the outer facets of your identity as objects stop i apologise stop i wish to respond to your compliment and indicate that i enjoy the process of hugging however i suspect that you would prefer a response communicating my opinions on the process of hugging you specifically and this response would require active thought from my good friend noriaki kakyoin and active thought on his part would interfere with my ability to communicate with you stop

That wasn't mocking. It was imitation, yes, but in the sense that one friend might imitate another's voice to tease them.

...Oh. Does he not know we're talking?

he is aware that i am speaking to you stop my task was to ask about food to ensure that i would not alarm you or present you with something inappropriate stop at present i am currently acting somewhat autonomously as none of the discussion so far has required the active creation of new thought stop my good friend noriaki kakyoin has existing beliefs regarding monsters comma geometry metaphors comma and mascot costumes but not regarding whether i ought to receive hugs stop

That's fascinating. So you have access to a sort of shared unconscious from which you can draw concepts, but you can't generate new ones independently without Kakyoin-kun's help.

...

That means you didn't have to ask for his help to tell me you loved me.

this is correct stop i am sure it has occured to you that my method of communicating using the network is somewhat lacking and this is due to the fact that my good friend noriaki kakyoin who has not used me to communicate using these devices so frequently yet that it is an automatic process stop however as the following information seems to be important in order to make it more readable i will send it as a separate message

the information regarding your importance to me has previously been considered and processed and thus is accessible to me without conscious thought on the part of my good friend noriaki kakyoin stop i hope that it will remain so as this information is particularly precious to me stop

Is it possible to accidentally draw his notice, without intending to?

For example, if you were told something unusual or surprising, would the very act of hearing it suffice to put the matter in front of him for consideration, whether you intended it to or not?

it would be impossible to do this without my choosing to make him aware stop he would become aware of the information but unless he was actively considering it this would not draw his attention stop the appropriate comparison would be placing a book onto its spot on a well organised bookshelf stop the information is present and its presence is not hidden in any way but without a reason to observe more closely or seek it out it would go unnoticed stop earlier in our conversation he was observing more closely to become aware of your food preferences stop at present i believe he is sorting through recipes for mille hyphen feuille

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