2nd Hope (Video)

[despairing_hope]

[Nagito who normally smiled as much as he could when talking to everyone was rather troubled looking. He held the paper in his hands and sighed heavily before addressing the camera.]

This... this is suppose to be something to root for? This vigilante....

[However, the person from before had already spoken up. Even the paper deemed that person pointless. So who was the other person mentioned who commit those atrocities? Could they be one and the same? Had he missed something?]

All I read was something despair inducing. Who would consider something like that any good at all? I can't believe in this person's hope, they are more a bringer of despair.

[To go so far... it was inhuman. It was like a monster.]

However, I will give one thing to this person, surely such actions and such despicable means will entice Hope among the people as they come together against him. It's the only acceptable way to tolerate this.

[He pauses a moment and laughs cheerlessly to himself.]

Ah... and I thought perhaps this place would be different. I thought perhaps this place was lighter. I thought maybe....

Now, I suppose, it's just about waiting to see what the outcome turns out to be. Please don't disappoint me. I've been disappointed enough lately.

[Private to Ibuki]

[He wasn't really sure how to do this, not the physical part of sending the message, but the facing her after the last time they saw each other. Not that she was his first choice for this, but she was the only one around, and the only one he knew exactly where she stood. So with a reluctance he sent her a message.]

Mioda san, have you read the paper? I want to investigate a little about what it wrote about. Surely you don't like what it described either.

[I'm sorry that I upset you.... No. He didn't really feel sorry and he wasn't going to say it even if he did. He would just have to hope that she had enough time to be willing to talk to him again.]

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[despairing_hope]

That's a kind sentiment.

[ But it felt a little hollow. But that was to be expected. He was quite sure this person wasn't on the same wavelength. ]

What do you think of this situation?

[02crusnikabel]

I'm not sure. I've been in Everglade on an assignment to comfort the people. I am at the limit of what I can do, if not more. I'm a priest, you see, and just like yourself, I gave advice, I guide, and I tried to lead their hearts to peace and love. Many people felt God abandoned them because of these attacks.

And well, I've been made fun of, as many accused me of hypocrisy and many people told me that prayers don't solve anything and neither they can restore the back to life. That's okay. [He shrugs, feeling tired from the chaos.]

[despairing_hope]

[He listened quietly, he wouldn't say he gave anyone advice. If anything he was just waiting to see what happened and consider what actions he could do to provide the best result. To see who's hope was strongest. It was obviously not the killers, but who of the residents would show true potential? It was a great question to consider.]

Prayers don't solve anything. Thoughts don't do anything. One has to take an action. Sitting around and praying is just standing to the side.

Also, what side would you say you fall under? Are you for their hope? Or for your own? Right now there are a lot of different perspectives and a lot of different desires.

[02crusnikabel]

[You're a pretty passive kid, who tend to stay on the side until you decide which side is the strongest. Doesn't make you weak. Just indecisive.]

I am more for their hope, and teaching love and tolerance as a pathway to peace, as that is the more right way to win people's hearts. Not many agree with me. I'll try to defend my stand. Change doesn't happened in a single day, thought.

[despairing_hope]

[ More waiting to see who was more desperate. Hope always favored the weak, those who are losing always fight harder for hope. ]

I admire your dedication then. I agree discussing and coming to understand one another is best, living peacefully would be the favored outcome.

Yet... it's the hardest to achieve.

[02crusnikabel]

[The kid has a strange way of talking...but that's all right. He seems more analytical of the situation than most.]

So, you would rather stand by and just watch for now? I think that's all right.

[despairing_hope]

I don't mind being involved in discussion either. But, I don't know how much trash like me can contribute.

[ And if something happened that would prompt him to feel a need to take action, he would. Hopefully nothing would prompt h8m, it was always better the less Nagito was involved in something. ]

[02crusnikabel]

I don't think you're trash. I just think you're young and choose not to take a side. And I think that's okay. It's the politics that is trash.

Anyway, is there anything you like besides politics?

[despairing_hope]

[What a nice sentiment, though it doesn't change his ideas. He knew what he was, but others didn't have to understand it.]

I wouldn't say I like politics, I just want to see a world full of Hope. As for things I like, there's plenty, books, movies, music, clothes, seeing new sights, the list could go on.

[02crusnikabel]

[Hope. Dreams. Love. Very sentimental and ephemeral feelings. You want to see who has the most of it, and it's usually those crushed by despair and those who can't see the future.

But Abel smiled anyway.]

Well, there you go. You have several interests. You're still interesting.

[despairing_hope]

Even if I have interests it doesn't make me interesting. The only thing worth anything is my luck, and that's a rather low tier talent.

[He loved hope more than anything, and he was more than willing to foster despair to allow a greater more powerful hope to shine through.]