019 ❖ Occam's Razor

[noluckduck]

[Phone]

[The news have spread. Everybody in town is a copy - a phony. She remembers arguing with that one kid - Pokey, was it? - months ago; he had his theories, and she shot them down.

She was always afraid he'd be right.

Maybe she should have just stopped hanging on to hope once it turned out the town was a simulation. If the town's fake, so are they.

Maybe it's silly to come to the phone at a time like this--

But it feels like it's what she has to do.]


So we're all fakes. People called it, I guess.

[A pause that lasts a little too long.]

What's the point now? What the hell are we - [she groans] - fighting for?

Comments

[noluckduck]

Oh. [Welp, here's a subject Clover isn't sure how to talk about.]

Does he like ya back, or...?

[imoutos]

.. I don't know.. [ She never got to ask him while he was here, and then he got droned, and.. well, that made things a lot more difficult. But he has a girlfriend either way, so maybe it's for the best that she never asked. ]

I.. I wanted t-to ask him, b.. but now I'll n-never see him..

[noluckduck]

...

So I guess you've got somethin' to fight for and all, don't ya?

[imoutos]

[ To fight for? She didn't view it that way to begin with, so the response just gets a curious silence from her at first. ]

But.. w-we can't go back, right..? We're not.. real.

[noluckduck]

... Yeah. Right.

But what if your dude comes back?

[imoutos]

... Huh?

Y.. you think he'll s-stop being a drone? B-but.. not a l-lot of people have had that happening l-lately, right? I thought they maybe s-stopped undroning people..

[noluckduck]

... I guess. But maybe not. I mean, who the fuck even knows anymore?

But see, that's why ya should probably keep goin'.

[imoutos]

K.. keep going so I can m-maybe see Koyomi onii-chan again.. even if it's t-this difficult?

[noluckduck]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm sayin'.