p id="docs-internal-guid-3c680c3e-7fff-e0ba-fc62-a1993d742cf6" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Name?" The secretary raised her eyebrow in obvious disdain./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Reno, yo." The redhead slouched with his weight on one leg, shirt untucked and goggles pushed up on his forehead. He had no idea why the old lady seemed to have such a problem with him./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sighing, she tapped at her keyboard. "Do you have a last name?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno shrugged. "Don't know. Turks don't get one, I guess."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The elderly secretary visibly composed herself. "What name did you write on the…oh, never mind. I'll do a picture ID search." Reno smiled to himself. Annoying university faculty was so much /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"fun! /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Finally, she turned the computer screen towards him. "That is you, is it not?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno craned his head to bring the picture into focus. Spiky red hair, green eyes, odd markings on the cheeks, slightly malevolent expression… "Nope. Not me, yo."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Young man, I have no time for your mischief. Here," and the secretary shoved a key across the desk. "I suggest you stop trying to fool me and find your dorm room. Good day." She set about her work with a furious frown, pushing her plastic-rimmed glasses up on her craggy nose./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Got it, yo." Reno shuffled out of the carpeted office, then turned around and came back. "Sorry. Forgot something, yo." He extended his hand across the desk. "Pleasure to meet you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The secretary actually smiled as she reached up to shake Reno's hand. At least, until the static electricity he'd been building up on his way out made her hair stand up on end. "I'm good now, yo," said Reno as he exited for the second time./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- - - - - - - - - -/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Fifteen minutes later, Reno flopped onto the bed in his room, wrinkling his nose as he looked around. The gray carpet was stained in several places. A tiny kitchen was visible through a wooden sliding door, and another door opened onto a bathroom that could barely hold a toilet and a sink. Threadbare brown plaid curtains hung lopsidedly over a barred window. The two metal frame beds were crammed together against the wall in the living space, leaving just enough space for the closet door to open without hitting the well-used wooden desk in the corner./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Room, my fat aunt Winifred," said Reno. "This is a glorified prison cell. Henceforth," and he grinned, tossing the dictionary back into his bag, "it shall be known as…" His thoughts were interrupted as another student sauntered through the door./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""How about the World that Never Was? Or maybe Hollow Bastion."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I refuse to name this closet something that sounds like it's from a video game," said Reno. /span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The other student shrugged. "Your choice."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno, lying on his back, sat up suddenly and poked his finger towards the newcomer, who had deposited a cardboard box on the floor and begun pinning posters on the drab green walls. "Who said you could poke holes in my sardine can, yo?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Quite simply put, I have partial rights to this…living space," said the other student, not bothering to turn around. "I'm your roommate."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno gaped. "You're not serious, yo!"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Unfortunately, yes."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You can't be my roommate, yo. You're too weird."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""How so?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You're wearing some totally creepy black coat with the hood pulled down to your nose and carrying circle thingies that look dangerously pointy, yo. Oh, and you just set the carpet on fire."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His roommate looked down. "Oops." He stomped on the flames. "Sorry."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno glared at him. The other student decided it would be wise to exit if he wished to continue existing. The door shut behind him, and Reno was left blessedly alone. After a furtive glance into the hallway confirmed that there was no one around, the Turk knelt on the floor and pulled his battered suitcase out from under the bed. Unzipping it, he rummaged around in the main compartment until he found what he was after./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno placed the fuzzy purple elephant plushie reverently on top of the hard mattress, being careful to keep the stuffing from falling out. It gazed back at him with one button eye and one drawn on with marker./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Mr. Snufflebottom, I've got a problem, yo," he began. "Why…"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There came a noise from behind him. As Reno whipped around, his roommate appeared in a swirling dark cloud, dragging a black suitcase and a pink-flowered duffel bag. The cloud faded behind him as he stepped towards his bed. Quickly, Reno jumped onto the bed and placed himself strategically in front of Mr. Snufflebottom. "Nice bag, yo," he said sarcastically, indicating the duffel./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh, it's not mine," said his roommate, dumping the bag unceremoniously onto the bed. "I had to borrow one from Marluxia."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah," said Reno, leaning back against the headboard and hoping that his incriminating plushie psychologist was hidden from view. Abruptly, he sat upright again as he realized what had just happened. "Wait a minute, yo! Normal people don't pop into rooms without using a door!" He peered carefully at his roommate. "Who /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"are /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you, yo?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The other student threw back his hood, revealing spiky red hair, green eyes, odd markings on his cheeks, and a slightly sinister grin. "The name's Axel," he said. "Got it memorized?."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah, duh, um, well…" Reno, for once, couldn't think of anything to say./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm a Nobody," said Axel, as if that would explain everything. He turned his attention to the luggage sitting on his bed and began to empty their contents. First to emerge was a set of pink sheets, a feather pillow, and a coordinating rose-print quilt. "Also borrowed from Marluxia," said Axel./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno finally found his voice. "Aren't they a little…unmanly?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Axel shrugged. "I'm not the one who talks to purple elephants."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Gritting his teeth, Reno got off the bed, cradling Mr. Snufflebottom carefully in his arms. "I'm going for…a walk."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Suit yourself," came the reply./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno restrained himself from slamming the door and had not even gone two steps before a spear thunked into the wood behind him. Seconds later, an extremely long sword embedded itself on his other side. Reno dropped Mr. Snufflebottom and stood quivering between the two weapons, wondering how Rufus had ever managed to talk him into furthering his education. And then he began to hear voices./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I say you threw off my aim!"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Your aim? You don't have any concept of the word. Hence Xigbar's eye patch and Saix's forehead scar."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Those were accidents, I swear!"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah. Am I to take it that the numerous holes in the walls, the untimely death of three Organization members, and the kidnapping of small children without souls were also accidents, then?"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I can explain…"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please do."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno heard a crackling sound from behind him. When he got up the courage to turn around, Axel was standing there./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""All right," said the Nobody. "Very funny. Painting a bull's-eye on my door and then using it for target practice."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A black cloud and a swirling mirage of green appeared in front of Axel, who was now leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. Two figures shimmered into existence./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Merely a small act of revenge," said Sephiroth, striding up to the door and wrenching Masamune out of the wood. "Xaldin was quite angry when he discovered that you washed his coat with chlorine bleach."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Axel looked at Xaldin. "Yes, I could see why that might have been a little problem." The other Nobody's coat, instead of being intimidating black, was now a shade of pasty gray. Axel patted his hands in the air. "Now, now, Xaldin. There's no need to go on a stabbity rampage. Calm down…" He ducked as another spear went flying through the air./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno began to seriously consider moving to another universe./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Reno, yo." The redhead slouched with his weight on one leg, shirt untucked and goggles pushed up on his forehead. He had no idea why the old lady seemed to have such a problem with him./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Sighing, she tapped at her keyboard. "Do you have a last name?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno shrugged. "Don't know. Turks don't get one, I guess."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The elderly secretary visibly composed herself. "What name did you write on the…oh, never mind. I'll do a picture ID search." Reno smiled to himself. Annoying university faculty was so much /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"fun! /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Finally, she turned the computer screen towards him. "That is you, is it not?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno craned his head to bring the picture into focus. Spiky red hair, green eyes, odd markings on the cheeks, slightly malevolent expression… "Nope. Not me, yo."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Young man, I have no time for your mischief. Here," and the secretary shoved a key across the desk. "I suggest you stop trying to fool me and find your dorm room. Good day." She set about her work with a furious frown, pushing her plastic-rimmed glasses up on her craggy nose./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Got it, yo." Reno shuffled out of the carpeted office, then turned around and came back. "Sorry. Forgot something, yo." He extended his hand across the desk. "Pleasure to meet you."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The secretary actually smiled as she reached up to shake Reno's hand. At least, until the static electricity he'd been building up on his way out made her hair stand up on end. "I'm good now, yo," said Reno as he exited for the second time./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"- - - - - - - - - -/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Fifteen minutes later, Reno flopped onto the bed in his room, wrinkling his nose as he looked around. The gray carpet was stained in several places. A tiny kitchen was visible through a wooden sliding door, and another door opened onto a bathroom that could barely hold a toilet and a sink. Threadbare brown plaid curtains hung lopsidedly over a barred window. The two metal frame beds were crammed together against the wall in the living space, leaving just enough space for the closet door to open without hitting the well-used wooden desk in the corner./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Room, my fat aunt Winifred," said Reno. "This is a glorified prison cell. Henceforth," and he grinned, tossing the dictionary back into his bag, "it shall be known as…" His thoughts were interrupted as another student sauntered through the door./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""How about the World that Never Was? Or maybe Hollow Bastion."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I refuse to name this closet something that sounds like it's from a video game," said Reno. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The other student shrugged. "Your choice."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno, lying on his back, sat up suddenly and poked his finger towards the newcomer, who had deposited a cardboard box on the floor and begun pinning posters on the drab green walls. "Who said you could poke holes in my sardine can, yo?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Quite simply put, I have partial rights to this…living space," said the other student, not bothering to turn around. "I'm your roommate."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno gaped. "You're not serious, yo!"/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Unfortunately, yes."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You can't be my roommate, yo. You're too weird."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""How so?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""You're wearing some totally creepy black coat with the hood pulled down to your nose and carrying circle thingies that look dangerously pointy, yo. Oh, and you just set the carpet on fire."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"His roommate looked down. "Oops." He stomped on the flames. "Sorry."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno glared at him. The other student decided it would be wise to exit if he wished to continue existing. The door shut behind him, and Reno was left blessedly alone. After a furtive glance into the hallway confirmed that there was no one around, the Turk knelt on the floor and pulled his battered suitcase out from under the bed. Unzipping it, he rummaged around in the main compartment until he found what he was after./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno placed the fuzzy purple elephant plushie reverently on top of the hard mattress, being careful to keep the stuffing from falling out. It gazed back at him with one button eye and one drawn on with marker./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Mr. Snufflebottom, I've got a problem, yo," he began. "Why…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"There came a noise from behind him. As Reno whipped around, his roommate appeared in a swirling dark cloud, dragging a black suitcase and a pink-flowered duffel bag. The cloud faded behind him as he stepped towards his bed. Quickly, Reno jumped onto the bed and placed himself strategically in front of Mr. Snufflebottom. "Nice bag, yo," he said sarcastically, indicating the duffel./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Oh, it's not mine," said his roommate, dumping the bag unceremoniously onto the bed. "I had to borrow one from Marluxia."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah," said Reno, leaning back against the headboard and hoping that his incriminating plushie psychologist was hidden from view. Abruptly, he sat upright again as he realized what had just happened. "Wait a minute, yo! Normal people don't pop into rooms without using a door!" He peered carefully at his roommate. "Who /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"are /spanspan style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"you, yo?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"The other student threw back his hood, revealing spiky red hair, green eyes, odd markings on his cheeks, and a slightly sinister grin. "The name's Axel," he said. "Got it memorized?."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah, duh, um, well…" Reno, for once, couldn't think of anything to say./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'm a Nobody," said Axel, as if that would explain everything. He turned his attention to the luggage sitting on his bed and began to empty their contents. First to emerge was a set of pink sheets, a feather pillow, and a coordinating rose-print quilt. "Also borrowed from Marluxia," said Axel./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno finally found his voice. "Aren't they a little…unmanly?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Axel shrugged. "I'm not the one who talks to purple elephants."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Gritting his teeth, Reno got off the bed, cradling Mr. Snufflebottom carefully in his arms. "I'm going for…a walk."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Suit yourself," came the reply./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno restrained himself from slamming the door and had not even gone two steps before a spear thunked into the wood behind him. Seconds later, an extremely long sword embedded itself on his other side. Reno dropped Mr. Snufflebottom and stood quivering between the two weapons, wondering how Rufus had ever managed to talk him into furthering his education. And then he began to hear voices./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I say you threw off my aim!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Your aim? You don't have any concept of the word. Hence Xigbar's eye patch and Saix's forehead scar."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Those were accidents, I swear!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Ah. Am I to take it that the numerous holes in the walls, the untimely death of three Organization members, and the kidnapping of small children without souls were also accidents, then?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I can explain…"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Please do."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno heard a crackling sound from behind him. When he got up the courage to turn around, Axel was standing there./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""All right," said the Nobody. "Very funny. Painting a bull's-eye on my door and then using it for target practice."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"A black cloud and a swirling mirage of green appeared in front of Axel, who was now leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. Two figures shimmered into existence./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""Merely a small act of revenge," said Sephiroth, striding up to the door and wrenching Masamune out of the wood. "Xaldin was quite angry when he discovered that you washed his coat with chlorine bleach."/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Axel looked at Xaldin. "Yes, I could see why that might have been a little problem." The other Nobody's coat, instead of being intimidating black, was now a shade of pasty gray. Axel patted his hands in the air. "Now, now, Xaldin. There's no need to go on a stabbity rampage. Calm down…" He ducked as another spear went flying through the air./span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Reno began to seriously consider moving to another universe./span/p