Notes – For the gx_100. Set after season three, probably post-GX.

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"We are the Dark Heroes, that alone should be simple enough to understand," Edo said, in a voice that sounded calm in his mind. Though he felt anything but calm right now.

"No, it doesn't make any sense," Fubuki stubbornly insisted, "Saying someone's dark means that their motives are corrupt, but saying someone's a hero means that they save others. You can't do that if you're dark. I think what you're referring to is an antihero, you know?"

"No I do not know!" Edo snapped, before going back to his faux impression of a neutral mind, "Anti means against. If we were against heroes we'd be trying to stop them."

"But that's how the saying goes," Fubuki replied.

Growling a little, Edo retorted, "The saying is stupid then. My version makes much more sense. It means that we are dark, yes; people who do things that others may object to. But we are also heroes, people who save others."

"So why don't you just tell people that?" asked Fubuki.

"Because it takes too long to say!" Edo shot, "By the time I've finished explaining it the situation would have probably gotten too bad for Hell Kaiser and myself to save anyone."

A pause for thought.

Then, "But saying that you're Dark Heroes is still not strictly true."

"It's a metaphor Tenjoin. A metaphor! Have you never heard the concept before?" Edo went on, not sure how much more of this he could take.

"I know what they are, but people will understand you more if you say things that are literal. You know, so instead of saying you're the Dark Heroes you should say, 'We're the people who generally act in a way that you might object to but we're going to save you anyway,'" instructed Fubuki.

"How… just ihow/i do you put up with this?" Edo asked, turning away from Fubuki but motioning in his general direction, as he instead looked over at Hell Kaiser Ryo. The other had been reading in the corner and trying very hard to ignore both of them.

Looking up at the two, Ryo answered, "Conversations with Fubuki are a test of character. He makes you talk about issues that you'd never considered before, and you'll feel drained when you're finished, but you'll come out of it a stronger person."

"I want out of it now," insisted Edo, moving further away from Fubuki as if the boy had some sort of disease.

A small smile of amusement played about Ryo's lips as he watched the two of them. Edo's plea for help was soon left behind as Fubuki went on to talk about how he would not let Edo go until he understood how metaphors should be applied to life and Edo couldn't stop himself from arguing with this. Soon Ryo was forgotten once more, as the debate grew more ludicrous.

Though Ryo did not go straight back to his book. He watched them for a while. In truth they both annoyed him slightly, but he did not resent them. They had chosen him, not the other way around, and time had tested their loyalty. So he accepted them both, no matter how annoying they might be.

He had a feeling though, that the debate of the Dark Heroes would not be dropped anytime soon.