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I'm... I think I'm okay?

[He tips his head a bit while he thinks about it.]

It's complicated, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it right now, but I talked with him quite a bit today. He was going to rush off into a potentially dangerous situation and even though I could have let him go and possibly get killed, I didn't feel right letting that happen.

[...]

So instead I went with him and watched him exorcise one of those leylines, which we then traced back to something that can best be described as "literally Cthulhu", which is about when we decided neither of us were going to deal with that today.

[...Wait, wait, what?]

...You thought you found Alexei today, so you went out with him to...watch him exorcise the ground, I suppose, and somewhere along the line you believe you found an elder god.

[that was kind of wild from start to finish, jaeger.]

Yes, that's exactly what happened.

[If he looked more smug about it, this could definitely be a joke, but unfortunately...]

The elder god's apparently taken up residence in the center of the city, and all those leylines lead directly to it. I'm not sure what it's doing with them, but it can't be good.

[...do you want to help him fight an elder god?]

Well, if nothing else, I'm going to want to see this for myself.

[He's definitely going.]

Give me some time to prepare and we can go out tonight.

Sounds good! I figured you'd be interested!

[...]

As for Alexei... Well, I'll figure out how I feel about that later. For now I'd much rather fight!

[Throwing down with Cthulhu definitely sounds better than thinking about Alexei, hell yeah.]

[That...]

...Regardless of how you decide you feel about it, it was good of you to not let him die today.

I think so too. I'm sure he would have backed off had he run into that on his own anyway, but the idea of sending someone out into a dangerous situation like that just doesn't seem right to me.

[Maybe he'd feel different if Alexei had his memories, but even then he's honestly not sure. Arthur was perfectly nice, if a little weird.]

Understandably so. I admittedly don't know if I could have done the same, but on the other hand, I'd hope Chris would keep me from doing anything terribly stupid if he were in your position.

Was he similar to how you remembered him...?

I'm sure he would.

[And don't worry, he probably won't let you do anything too dumb. Maybe.]

Honestly, the only thing that was really the same was his face... Personality-wise he's nothing like Alexei. He's the sort of person who really wants to help, and he seems to have problems with self-esteem... But he's practical, aside from the fact that he thought an exorcism might actually be worth a shot in the first place. Somehow that did actually work on the leylines, though? I'm still in shock from that.

That's...odd, but then, I wasn't really anything like my past life, either...

[...Ohhh, that's going to be bad when he starts getting memories, isn't it.]

I'm surprised the exorcism seemed to work, however. I would say that things like that don't usually, but I just realized that I'm not entirely sure.

[We generally don't even try things like that, do we?]

Perhaps he'll turn out to be useful.

Ja, precisely. It's still very confusing...

[That's going to suck so much?? Damn. He feels bad for Arthur...]

That's what I'm thinking. As far as I'm aware, no one's tried anything like that before. So perhaps his talents will end up being useful somehow! I doubt he could exorcise something like the elder god, but who knows.

...You said you didn't try, correct?

[He sincerely hopes you didn't?]

He didn't! Once we got a look at it, we decided it'd be best for us to leave it alone.

Good.

[Like, he doesn't know what exactly you were doing with the leylines, but he can't imagine that throwing holy water on Cthulhu or something would have gone over well?]

I'll get ready, then. I imagine weaponry will be required?

Ja, absolutely. Obviously I didn't attempt to fight it on my own, so I'm not entirely sure how easy this will be, but if anyone can take it down, it's you.

[He has complete faith in that, of course!]

...Do you think so...

[What the hell does he do with this.]

Of course I do! But naturally I'll be there to back you up, in case you need any assistance. I wouldn't dream of letting you go alone!

I think you're putting a bit too much faith in me. But I'll know once I see it.

[It gets him to laugh, anyway.]

Go get ready and we'll see how it goes, ja?

Of course.

[He'll go do that, then; it takes him a while to decide between the kevlar and the leather, though eventually he goes for the latter - better to be in something that he can move in that won't snag, even if it doesn't provide as much protection. He doesn't know if Kevlar would stand up against a god or not, anyway, if that's what this thing is.

Either way, he'll come back downstairs, dressed and armed to the teeth as usual; he's about as ready as he'll ever be.]

Let's go find your elder god, shall we?

[Look at his husband, he's so attractive...]

Shouldn't be too difficult, I doubt it has moved much since we left it!

[C'mon, let's go!]

[Yes, well, it's highly unlikely that he'll be able to just...punch this thing into submission, so the attractiveness shouldn't be too alarming on your radar there.

That said, yes, let's go.]

...We could drive into the city proper, but it might be better to leave the car here.

[Especially if this fight could end up fucking up his car? Because no.

...Do you want him to just pick you up, is what he's asking.]

Ja, we wouldn't want it to wreck your car!

[He nods a bit at that, though.]

I'm ready to go whenever you are!

[You are absolutely picking him up, come on!!]

[Why is he not surprised...

Okay, though - up you go, come on. It's not a strain on him at all to carry Jaeger for any length of time, and it isn't like he doesn't cover distance like this regularly; it's just something that he doesn't really do all that often in combination. He can't say he doesn't like it, though, and he can get there more quickly than the cars can given speed laws - to the center of town we go, he supposes.]

[It's a lot of fun, he's absolutely here for letting Wesker carry him like this! It won't last forever of course, but it's fun while it lasts!]

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