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[bellyshirt]

"How does this stupid thing work? Ugh, I hate this kind of stuff. Is it recordin--"

[beep.]

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sometime shortly after the alert goes out on august 24th--? | video

[fullmoonfortune]

[Ryoji will honestly keep trying until he can get a hold of Luke --

He has a lot of questions to ask, and he's not sure if he wants to hear the answers to them all.

He has faith that maybe this is a misunderstanding, though. There's no way Luke would do something like that. He was a pretty nice guy, and they were Eeveebuddies. Although Orihime-chan was destined to evolve into Umbreon any night now.]

Luke-kun!

works for me! also this is going to hurt....

[bellyshirt]

[Luke picks up after maybe the fourth try, and his breath is shallow, like he's been running. Maybe from the police.]

Ryoji...? No you too.

poor babies

[fullmoonfortune]

Are you okay?

[Yes, him too. But not for yelling. Never for yelling.]

I heard about the lighthouse... Was that really you?

[bellyshirt]

No, I'm not. It's just--[A beat, then, a bit more breathless:]--yeah. He tricked me, Ryoji.

[fullmoonfortune]

[...He doesn't know what to say. After all, he had been tricking people too --

He still was, right?

-- No, this is Luke's problem, not his.

But he still doesn't know what to say.]

I'm sorry. You really didn't know anything like that was going to happen? [He pauses.] There's a warrant out for your arrest.

[bellyshirt]

I know, okay?! I know, that's why I'm out here and not--and not back there, and...

[A shaky breath. He's not used to dealing with stuff on his own, incidentally.]

What do I do?

[fullmoonfortune]

I don't know. I guess the only thing you can do is run... [He heard from Rangiku the police tend to stay on your tail for a while. And it doesn't really seem like they're willing to listen to a story.]

Luke-kun, what happened, exactly?

[bellyshirt]

He told me...that it was a battery. [Luke takes a shaky breath.] I just...I believed him. He acted so--so nice.

[fullmoonfortune]

Not everyone who's nice is trustworthy. [...Wow that hurts a lot to say. He tucks his chin further into his scarf. Safety blanket.] Did you ask what the battery was for?

[bellyshirt]

He told me it would make the lighthouse, you know...brighter!

And I thought he meant it literally.

[fullmoonfortune]

Isn't the lighthouse powered by a Pokémon though?

[He remembered reading about it.]

[bellyshirt]

Well, it wasn't up there when I went. [Thank goodness...]

It's out of a job now, though.

[fullmoonfortune]

Thank goodness... [...] Who's 'he,' Luke-kun?

[bellyshirt]

Dr. Kato. He's a scientist for Team Rocket.

[fullmoonfortune]

[They sound like a bad time.] ... Has this Team Rocket done anything else destructive lately?

[bellyshirt]

Not that I know of, but maybe. They're bad news.

[fullmoonfortune]

[...]

Then why would you listen to someone from it?