[ Silver...

He wonders, honestly, if Silver's heart can handle it. More than anyone else so far, he thinks this. So he's perhaps a little less theatrical than he was with the others, because his face does briefly flash to pensive. But then he smirks, and leaps down, crouching so that he's definitely looking up at him as he spreads wide the two cards between both hands. Ace of Hearts. And Ace of Clubs. With TRUTH written on both ]

Then this'll be a game to challenge both of our hearts.

[ No. Not it is not - but tat's not really te point of this game. Masaomi slips the Ace of Hearts into his breast pocket, pressing his hand over it so as to give himself strength. And in much the same movement, he offers Silver the Ace of Clubs. ]

We'll take turns asking each other Truth or Truth - and it'll be responded to with the spirit of Absolute Truth. And we'll go up until one of our hearts can no longer bear it.

And here I was going to offer you the first shot. [ Asking him the first question, to strike first. But he nods all the same, and confirms, ] Are you sure?

[ It's partially that there was one deck he had on hand and did this on the fly. But the other reason is because he's wishing them luck. He's putting his existence on the line here and putting it in his breast pocket to reflect that. But the other party gets the lucky charm there. The clover. The clubs. It's a lame symbolism, but it pleases him. They're both vulnerable, but he doesn't intend to surrender no matter what. ]

[ Does he go serious? He's gone serious until now to show his resolve, but for Silver... For Silver there's a less pressing thing which has always been on his mind. So while he has Absolute Truth: ]

So Silver, were you in love with Gold?

[ Blink ]

Oh, his mom? Is his mom cool?

So you loved her for your stomach, I see! I see, I see! That's pretty cute, Silver!

[ "You can tell exactly why Gold is how he is..."

He wonders what Silver means by that, but when he thinks about it, he can also see it. A somewhat spoiled boy who was always surrounded by love. That... would explain how Gold got to be how he was. He wonders, honestly, if who Yori Kida is reflects on him. But he can ponder that later - he's got more to ask Silver about that, but he bows all the same, motioning for him to ask his first ]

I will go home. [ He says that quickly. He cannot deny himself that - he... he deserves to discover that future, or rather the "Masaomi Kida" of Tokyo does, and he cannot allow himself to hold that person back ] And when "I" do, well, I'll be right back in the grand city of Tokyo. Specifically, I'll be in Ikebukuro... I've told you about both of those, right? If I didn't, I've deprived you, and trade you the story of it for the story of Gold's mom in more details.

[ He exhales, and explains the rest of this with hand motions ]

I'll be going back to Raira, and I'll live out the daily life I've been living with my good friend Mikado, and the girl we're in a love triangle with, Anri-chan. Considering what was going on, there'll probably be a few more slasher incidents, and that'll come to some head call the "Slasher Night." [ He licks his lips... now going into the vague notions of the future he knows from them. He's forcing himself to say this. He's forcing himself to speak the Truth. To bear his heart ]

And someday after that... something will happen to make us at ends. And I'll betray them - I'll leave them, and I'm really not sure why. I only knows bits and pieces of that future.

[ And Masaomi... perks up. He grins and reaches out to - Silver's taller than him. Put a hand on his shoulder ]

You got it! Ikebukuro's a city within a city - it's a part of Tokyo, the the capitol of my fair nation and a city of over ten million people. So picture the biggest forest you can picture, and it feels like that, just it's all man-made. Well, there's a park or two... but that's the city as a whole. As for the 'buro-

Well, it's a font of entertainment, alight in a way that makes it dazzle no matter what time of day it is. We've got a lot of foreigners, a lot of shop, and big ol' malls like Sunshine City. It's a paradise, if you're heading to the right places, and you're not going into the shadows... because man, does it have shadows. There's a darkness that sleeps in the city, but if you're on the straight and narrow, no one's going to find it.

But more than that... it's big enough to be invisible in, but small enough to have our local legends. Maybe you want to run across the Black Bike, our very own headless rider. Maybe you want to see a monster of a man called Shizuo Heiwajima, or the legendary Russia Sushi that a lot of the locals hang at. Rumors fly at the speed of sound, and if you keep your eyes open, you can feel like you know everything, even if you don't know everyone.

That's the romantic vision you can have of Ikebukuro.

Well, this and that. I'll be honest and say that Ikebukuro never feels as strange as here or anywhere else, despite everything.

[ And it's true. Even i na world with headless fairies and whatever else might exist because of that... there's no way that it'll ever feel as strange as, say, the world of Pokémon ]

But that big, huh... [ So Gold's a rich kid. You know, he doesn't know why that surprises him, the affect the guy had probably could only have come from someone who had everything to begin with. But somehow, it does still blindside him. Does that mean that in some sense, Gold was a poser when they hung out and did stuff? It's a pity he'll probably never get resolution on that. But to be so full probably explains how he can be so full.

And why Silver would benefit from him.

Hah. Masaomi's smile is briefly warm and a little nostalgic, allowing himself to bask in his vision of Silver's memory. It lasts a long moment... before he snaps his fingers ]