mykidisthebest

[why are YOU looking stressed its not your world]

It's not as bad as it sounds. Five years is more than enough time to get things done.

[ WHY DO YOU THINK, ASSHOLE ]

Right. [ it's absolutely as bad as it sounds ] Well. It's fine, you're gonna have a lot of help.

[ is he talking about Lethe's friends in high places or is he talking about sheep CR world intervention, who knows ]

[Lethe has casually decided to meddle in everyone else's worlds he can't throw stones]

I already have a lot of help back home, you know. And it really shouldn't be that hard. I just need to--

[immediately stops talking, awkwardly aware of how fast he cut himself off, and finishes his sentence very lamely]

...take care of a few easy tasks.

[ STARES INTO HIS VERY SOUL ]

... Is it the type of thing that'll get your world destroyed if you talk about it?

[SQUIRMS IN HIS SEAT]

Maybe not directly. But every possible follow up question would.

[ Does he do the right thing and stop asking

NO, OBVIOUSLY ]

What if you just do a hand signal or something when a question's too apocalyptic to answer?

[waves a hand]

It's fine if I just tell you directly that I can't say something. The world isn't shaking right now, see?

[gestures around them as if to confirm the world is indeed not shaking]

Pretty much everything I just told you shouldn't be shared with anyone from my world. The more people that know, the more the Transcendentals can interfere with the world. Which, as we've established, is bad. I was worried about it when I first got here, but it seems like talking about everything with people from other universes while in another world doesn't trigger anything.

[ Sir this is a dream ]

Then I can ask: what is it you need to do?

[furtively looks up at the sky like he expects the heavens to be torn asunder if he says too much,,,]

I...I'm helping the system administrators to save my world. To that end, I...just have to...collect...some people.

[ NERVOUSLY LOOKS UP WHEN HE LOOKS UP ]

[ idk man seems fine ]

Collect... people.

[it seems fine but he is still incredibly tense]

Yup! It's pretty easy, right? Making friends isn't a bad thing, and I've got five whole years to do it.

[ There's no fucking way it's just "making friends" dude ]

And they're critical to what you need to do?

[wow what if friendship is magic though?? what if friendship saves the world]

They are. But as far as I'm aware they don't need to do anything.

[ If that were true then Lethe would be loudly talking about it all the time.

Anyway he just looks vaguely -- uncomfortable? Disquieted, maybe. ]

I see.

[sinks into the couch cushions when there are no further questions, the faint air of embarrassment hanging over him at giving such a lame explanation]

It's easy, see? But it's not something anyone here can help with, so I just have to pick up where I left off when I get back home.

Something tells me it's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be.

...It really is that easy. "Please gather fifty S-Class Hunters."

I assume there's a catch. I just don't know what it is yet.

[ FIFTY?????? ]

Didn't you say S-Classes are the rarest kind?

Sure, but there are still way more than fifty in the world. There are billions of people on Earth. And the kids--the monsters count as long as they're S-Class too.

Lethe...

What?

[ Ugh ]

You can be all flippant and not-worried all you want, I'll worry for you.

There's nothing to be worried about. I have a plan. You should be focusing on your sisters before anything else.

I can manage both.

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