Authors note: I stray into a third character POV here, I admit, because any plans I have for Pure Illusion at the moment, all of which I feel should happen after time has passed/later in the fic, so I've written a third POV to help some time pass in the fic a bit. Even though the next big Pure Illusion world I have in mind is based on/inspired by a video game (which I feel would be too good of a chance to pass up for my fic) I'm I wanna try and work out a few things or build up a thing or two before I can add it in... There might be a while between this update and the next few, just a fair warning now.
Yuyu
Cocona left two of us alone in the blue scale world. Half-expected sharks to come back out from hiding. Didn't. Admit, am a little disappointed. Was hoping I could pet one.
"We need to get moving..." Yayaka said. Sounded... annoyed. She pivoted and began to leave the town. I followed. Said I would help Yayaka.
"Have you eaten enough?" Need to ask.
"I'm fine," she grumbled. Didn't appear to want to talk. Was concerned, but would likely anger her if I continued to ask. I became silent. Yayaka activated the visor on her Flip Flap equipment. Looked around, scanning area. Saw a red dot blink on the screen when she looked near my direction. Tilted head to the side. Didn't ask out loud what it was, but Yayaka answered anyway.
"I saw a red dot blink up on here a while ago, and it led me to the town... We're standing on the other side of the town now, and the dot is still a distance away."
"Target destination?"
"I guess. Honestly, I have no idea where to go," she began to walk in the direction of the red dot. Deactivated visor. "But everything on our equipment before has shown up yellow. I've never seen red before..." Turned to me. "Did you or Hidaka mess with my visor?"
"Not touched it. Possible Hidaka did. More likely to have broken something in investigation."
"Tch... figures..." She muttered. "But still, the fact I saw something red instead of yellow, there has to be something there, right?"
Nodded, agreeing with her... But wondered. Had to know, "Why did you strand yourself here?"
Yayaka didn't answer for a while. Her mouth became tight line, not wanting to speak. Eventually, "Something to do with that red dot... I think."
"Not even sure why?"
Yayaka hunched over a little, as if a threatened animal. Began to shout. "I know why! I just-" cut herself off. Straightened herself, and took a deep breath. Spoke calmly. "I'll tell you later, I promise. I just... I don't want to say right now."
Yayaka looked troubled. Stressed. She activated her visor, tracking red blip, deactivated and began to walk in that direction.
"I should try and send a message to Toto, see if I can ask him if he can examine this red dot for me. Maybe he can pick up some data on it..." She turned to me. "I assume he'll be able to pick up data from my visor still?"
"Should be."
We stood still as Yayak relayed her message and sent it to Toto. Yayaka looked like she was about to talk again when her visor beeped twice. "Frag, that was fast..." she muttered. Clicked it to see Toto's response. "Toto said it'll take a day to examine." She frowned.
"One Flip Flap day?" Asked for clarification.
"That's what I'd guess... Time in Pure Illusion is different depending on the world you're in..." She turned her visor off and continued walking towards the destination she last saw the red dot. "We don't know what it is, and it might not be the best idea, but until we hear back from Toto, it's the only thing we really have to go on... so we're gonna try and find it..."
Travelled for a while, but eventually had to stop. Yayaka grew tired and needed to rest. I gave her a ration, which she grumpily accepted and ate. Good to see her eating. May dislike taste, but must be better than feeling hungry. Sometimes Yayaka returned from Pure Illusion looking sick or unwell. Didn't always pack enough food for her. Was mostly indifferent to her the times that happened in the past... Understood she was alive, but not aware she was alive... Like music. Knew I was alive before music, but not felt alive until hearing music. Knew Yayaka was human, alive and with emotion like Toto and I, but didn't think about it until she thanked us after the Iron Boys attack.
Before, was just sort of a job. Babysit Yayaka, keep her alive in Pure Illusion until all amorphous gathered, or Asclepius found new human who could go there. Didn't matter then if Yayaka died... Didn't matter to Asclepius at least... But after Iron Boys? Began to matter to me.
Yayaka is kind. She cares. Watched her as she ate. Didn't know how much she needed to eat... But am confident there's enough for a while here. Yayaka won't go hungry this time.
"The hell are you smiling at?" She asked, looking at my face. I'm smiling? Put hand to face. Was smiling. Face fell neutral. Yayaka finished eating. Had some water from her collapsible water bottle. She stood and activated visor again.
"The red dot's gone..." She said. Looked up and down. "Not above or below..."
"Another world?"
"Could be, but we'd need to wait for a random Hole to appear to take us there..."
"Can make a Hole." Took a device from a pocket on my armour. "Any coordinates?"
Yayaka blinked, putting a hand to her forehead. "... Man, I am dumb, I didn't even think about using those to get between worlds... Not that I know how to use them anyway..." She activated her visor again, "No coordinates... Just set it somewhere random." She said. Began to do as she ordered. Turned bands on device, aiming for random world. Was twisting when suddenly-
"Wait! Put that one back for a second," Yayaka said. Did so and looked at her. Saw red dot appear on her screen. She smirked. "I think we might know where to go after all. Yuyu, open a Hole to that world!"
I nodded and obeyed. Threw device to the ground. The metal case dissolved as the portal inside expanded. Yayaka held out a hand for me to take. Stared at it for a moment, suddenly feeling nervous, but reached out with real hand and took it.
Her hand was warm. Nice to hold.
"You ready?" She asked. I nodded.
Together, we jumped into an unknown world...
Toto
Cocona had noticed Yuyu's absence from the medical room, and quickly followed her, after a quick promise to Papika that she would be back soon. I didn't think it was strange Yuyu ran away. I've noticed she seems to have become fond of Yayaka lately, and she probably wants to find a way to help her somehow. It would be nice if that did happen. I would have stayed with Yayaka longer if I could, but I was in no condition to do that.
That, and I did promise Yayaka I'd go back to base if I got worse.
I knew the countdown above my head was counting down how many turns I had left to say, but it took Yayaka a little while to catch on. Yes, I may have pushed myself a little too hard, but if Yayaka wanted to stay in Pure Illusion alone, I couldn't exactly leave her in the middle of a battle with a dragon. I had to leave eventually though. After my transformation cut out, breathing was difficult. It felt like steel bands were restricting my chest, and getting tighter every turn I stayed there. I know I was cutting it fine with one turn left, but Yayaka needed as much help as she could get.
I hope she's okay.
Hidaka and Nyunyu spent quite a while examining the results from my scans. Hidaka mumbled and hummed to himself, but didn't reveal his thoughts. Nyunyu looked between the magenta-haired scientist and the results, likely trying to learn and copy. Well, if they did work out a solution to my situation, I would welcome it. The machine that heals me and Yuyu has a little blood remaining, but I felt it'd be a waste to use it all on me. I doubted it could reverse orgran crystalisation.
When Hidaka was certain I would no longer be in danger from lack of oxygen, he allowed me to finally sit up, and removed my external breathing equipment. It made no difference to me, being back on Earth. My chest no longer felt like it had metal bands constricting it, which was an improvement, but breathing was still difficult. If I raised a hand and pressed it over my chest, I could feel hard lumps inside.
I doubted I could go back to school again...
I looked down at the little green bear keychain in my hand. I never let go of it, since I took it out of my pocket in Pure Illusion. Ruri-chan... It would be nice if I could see her again one day, but I should have some time to recover, before I consider it. Needing to eat may not be a requirement for mine and Yuyu's existence, but that didn't stop it from making me feel queasy and nervous whenever I was around Ruri...
I couldn't stay with her for very long when Yayaka told me to go talk to her at the arcade. I recognised her voice instantly, when I heard her cheer for me on the dance machine. A sweet voice, one that belonged to someone who's laughter sounded like a small bell's chimes. When I stepped down, after finishing my dance, and she hugged me... It was one of many times it felt like my stomach was fluttering. My heart was beating quickly too, although that could have been from the dance machine. The most I could do was watch for a few minutes as she played a crane game and lost. I'd noticed she seemed determined to win a particular plush keychain from it: a pink whale.
I'd also observed from other claw machines around us that they all appeared to have a set number of attempts, before the claw's grip would be enough to actually win a prize. It was rigged.
Ruri was down to her last few yen, and she was debating having another try. I said she should try, when she handed me the coins and said 'you do it.' I blinked in surprise, and am quite sure if I could sweat, that Ruri would have felt my palms would have been wet when she placed the coins in them. I did as she asked, and successfully obtained the pink whale keychain, which she watched eagerly as the claw held it tightly and dropped it into the prize chute. She was ecstatic with her prize, and that had earned me another hug... But when she pulled away and examined her prize, she noticed a second had somehow gotten attached to it. Niether of us had noticed it, maybe someone had left it in the prize chute, but I was surprised when she handed me the little green bear. I said it was hers' because I won the whale for her, and the bear came with it, and gave her both. She handed me the green bear back. 'You can keep it,' she said, 'as a thank you for winning me the one I wanted!' The smile she gave me was bright enough to have lit up the darkest trench in the ocean.
I felt good about that... But my growing nerves had been getting the better of me. Ruri noticed I seemed anxious all of a sudden, and offered me usage of her phone to contact Yayaka so we could meet them again. She said she'd walk with me too, so I didn't feel alone...
Ruri's a kind girl, who accepted me and Yuyu to her school, and made us feel welcome right away. She introduced me to some of the others there, and I found it easy to become friends with them. Out of all of the elementry schools Asclepius sent us to, it's probably my favourite. I'd be sad when I had to leave it... It's a shame that time may have come sooner than originally planned.
I hope Yuyu will be okay there without me. She always seemed to struggle when it came to other people. Asclepius made her for combat, with an eye for weak points. Mostly physical weak points, but it didn't stop her from hitting the targets of mental weak points too. She didn't realise at first what she was doing, and ended up becoming a bully of sorts by mistake. She understood how she appeared to be acting after some time, but tended to avoid people, possibly afraid of the same thing happening again. Likewise, classmates didn't seem to like to approach her either. They wondered how I could be related to someone who was so cold, when I appeared to be nothing like that. I never quite knew how to react to those situations. I tried to keep Yuyu company at school when I could though. Being alone can't be a nice experience...
I looked at Papika with that thought. She was staring down at TT-392, who was looking up at her questioningly. Hidaka and Nyunyu had left the room a while ago, so it was just me, her, and the robot. TT-392 made some questioning whistles towards her, and Papika replied, but never more than one or two words. Eventually the robot left her alone, and wheeled out the room, probably to go and find Hidaka and Nyunyu. At that, Papika... seemed to retreat into herself. She hunched over a little further, and wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to seek comfort.
"Are you... okay?" I asked. It was difficult trying to talk. My body only seemed capable of holding enough breath for one or two words, before running out.
Papika showed no surprise at me talking to her. "I'm fine..." she mumbled. Her voice suggested she was anything but.
"Yayaka... told me... about the... attack." I said. "She blames... herself..."
Papika was silent.
"Do you... Want to... talk?" Might have been silly to ask. Silence from the pink-haired girl would suggest that wasn't the case at all, but I wanted to see how she was. I admit, I felt awkward. I've never had a chance to talk to Papika alone like this before. Although I've been with Flip Flap for a short while now, along with Yuyu, Nyunyu and Yayaka, she may not be comfortable talking to me about how she feels... if she's even comfortable talking about it at all.
Maybe when Asclepius created me, they intended me to be a support unit for combat only, but I think they unintentionally made it so I felt the need to try and support someone, regardless of the situation. I didn't know Papika well, but seeing her so… still, when she was usually energetic was worrying.
Although, if she had no wish to talk about it, I had no idea how I could help her with the situation. The must I could do otherwise, would be to distract her, which would be difficult to achieve in my current state. Breathing problems would make it hard to carry a conversation anyway, and I could do little else to help… However, as I looked to my side, I caught sight of my breathing equipment from Pure Illusion sitting on one of the tables nearby. Annoyingly, my interface on my new equipment was text-only, but it was enough to give me an idea for future communication without use of speech.
Standing up from the table was a little harder than I would have liked it to be. My limbs felt heavier than I remember, and it was a bit of a struggle to remain standing. I assume the dizzy feeling is from a struggle to take in oxygen from the air around me at least…
My mask wasn't too far away though, and it was easy to slip over my head. I removed the breathing tube from the skull mask and I pressed one of the teeth, to activate the visor.
It appeared that I had a message from Yayaka, sent a second ago from Pure Illusion. 'Hey Toto, I keep seeing a weird red dot on my visor. Do you think you could examine it?' and attached was a very long string of numbers and letters. I frowned as I looked at it. There was an awful lot of text to scroll through... possibly enough to fill a few novels... It was irritating. Before my head injury I probably could have read and registered it all in maybe a minute and have it deciphered in a just few more, but in my current condition, that wasn't possible. I feel that being in Pure Illusion so long, helping Yayaka fight the dragon, may have impacted my ability further. I couldn't put a hand to my head, and feel any hard lumps that would be beneath my skull, but it was possible the crystalisation process has spread to there, too. It was probably lucky my thoughts were still coherant.
I sent a quick reply to Yayaka saying I estimate it would take me one day to examine it and report my findings back, before pressing one of the teeth on my mask and activating a screen-projection program.
I may have complaints about the lack of graphics and details on my new equipment, but Hidaka and Yuyu had made sure it was still thought-controlled, which I was very grateful for. What I wanted to say to Papika appeared on the wall in front of us, almost as quickly as I could think the sentences.
"Would it be easier if I could talk to you like this?" I waved a hand in front of Papika's face, and pointed at the wall in front of us. Her face continued to hold an expression of looking sad, or lost, and upon seeing my message, a hint of confusion, but I noticed her focus remained on the question mark at the end of the sentence, more than the rest of the words themselves. She seemed to want to reply, but didn't know what I was asking. I am aware, much like Asclepius, that Flip Flap could probably have manipulated, or worked their way around forms to get Papika a place at Cocona and Yayaka's current school, so I began to wonder at that point, how well Papika could read. Maybe it could be considered mean to conduct this experiment out of curiosity, but I erased my current message, which was typed mostly in Kanji, and wrote another one entirely in Hirigana.
"I can write like this, if you can't read Kanji. Would it be easier for you to talk to me if I replied in writing?"
Papika remained silent, although she seemed to show understanding of what I said this time, rather than focusing on the fact I was asking a question, and not being able to work out what I was asking.
"Talking can help. It may not help right away, or may not help at all, but it can. If you think it might, and you can tell me, then I would like to ask you to try and speak to me about it."
Silence stretched out in the empty space between us. It surprised me when Papika finally spoke.
"It didn't hurt me, or do anything bad..." She said. "It might have done, but my scream seemed to scare it away..."
It didn't attack, but Papika still seemed bothered by the encounter. I would have thought that strange, but, "Did it look like someone we know?"
Papika remained still. Silent. But then she nodded, and started to speak. "Did you see it up close?"
"No," was all I typed. I could have gone into more detail, but I didn't know how familiar Papika was with technology, so I left her to speak.
"I've never seen eyes like that... Red, like fire, and burning with hate... And a twisted smile, that looked like the corners of its mouth were pulling away from the face... It looked like a demon..." She cowered a little as she spoke about it. "I know the real person would never hurt me, and I trust her with my life... But if you saw the shadow like I did..." Tears started to creep down her cheeks, and she curled into a ball, as if to try and hide her face. I couldn't blame her. I saw the shadowy person from a distance, and the readings my visor gave were enough to scare me too.
"You're brave... telling me... your story... Thank you…" I spoke out loud, partly because Papika was no longer looking at the wall to read, but mostly because I wanted her to hear the sincerity in my voice. "Must admit... didn't think... you'd tell... me..."
I didn't think Papika would say anything in her current state, but she did. "I didn't think I would either," she confessed. "I know we fought when you were a part of Asclepius, but things have changed since then. I don't know you very well, Toto, but you don't seem like a bad person... Besides, you're Cocona's brother." A small smile appeared on her face, through her tears, as she spoke about Cocona. I thought she'd stop speaking there, but she had something else to say, and she turned her blue eyes to meet my red as she spoke. "I think of you as family, too."
Her words were unexpected, but they made me smile.
Suddenly, there were footsteps rapidly approaching, and Cocona appeared in the doorway, out of breath.
"Papika!" She panted, approaching the pink-haired girl, before wrapping her gently in a hug. "I'm sorry I was gone so long! I'm here now…"
"Cocona!" Papika called her name, and returned the hug, with enthusiasm, and a warm smile. Cocona pulled away a moment later.
"You seem better..." Cocona said, sounding a little confused.
"I feel a little better," Papika said, "Toto helped me."
"Toto?" Cocona glanced at me quickly, still a little wide-eyed with worry over Papika, but the emotion seemed to grow a little again as she looked at me. "Are you sure you should be standing?"
"Unknown…" I said, before sitting down. I probably should have sat down earlier, but my concern about Papika erased any thoughts I had that told me that would have been a good idea. It felt good to sit again, though. Maybe I was pushing myself a little too much. Cocona seemed to relax a little.
"Yuyu and Yayaka both have a message for you," she said. "They wish you a speedy recovery from your sickness."
I smiled. I was about to ask a question, but Papika beat me to it.
"A message from Yayaka? And Yuyu?"
Cocona nodded, and pulled a note out of her skirt pocket, showing it to Papika. "Yayaka chose to stay in Pure Illusion on purpose. Yuyu got worried about her, because she didn't have any food, and wanted to go to Pure Illusion to give her some. I went with her, to make sure she got there safely, but she wanted to stay behind with Yayaka, so I came back alone."
I found it strange that the news made Papika grin, "I don't think that's the only reason Yuyu wanted to go to Pure Illusion." She wriggled on the spot with excitement, "I think she has a crush on Yayaka!"
Yuyu has a crush on Yayaka? Thinking about it, that could explain her recent fondness.
As if Cocona came to the same conclusion Papika did, she smiled too. "I think you're right about that," she said "Either way, it's good to know Yayaka isn't alone out there anymore." Cocona's face fell, "Yayaka had a message for you too, Papika. She said she's sorry she wasn't there to protect you, and she's sorry for how she treated you when she was a part of Asclepius." Cocona's voice seemed to shake a bit. "Yayaka also said she can understand if you hate her, and she means it when she says she's sorry."
The smile on Papika's face slowly began to die as Cocona passed on that message. The haunted look she had on her face returned, and she looked down at the ground. Cocona put her hands on Papika's shoulders and kissed the top of the pink-haired girl's head, in an attempt to comfort her. I admit, I felt upset hearing the message too. I regret to say I don't know much about Yayaka, despite working with her for so long, but even though Cocona was just delivering the message… it hurt to hear Yayaka's words, even if they weren't directed at me.
Cocona spoke hurriedly to Papika, as it trying to calm her down faster, "I told her that I don't think she's done anything wrong, but I'd pass the message on for her anyway."
If Papika heard Cocona say that, she didn't respond. Or not directly to that, Papika spoke again, but what she said was, "Yayaka…" and a couple of tears glinted in the light, as they fell from her face. Cocona wrapped her arms around Papika again, and held her until the pink-haired girl stopped crying. I felt a little awkward sitting there, but it was as if I wasn't in the room at all. They were with each other, and as far as they were concerned, no one else existed to them at that moment.
When Papika calmed down, Cocona pulled away, and offered her a little smile. Papika sniffed, but slowly managed to return it, which earned her a quick kiss from Cocona. It was then that they both seemed to remember I was still there. Cocona blushed, a little embarrassed, and coughed, before speaking to me.
"I'd like to go back to Pure Illusion and help Yayaka," she said. "Yuyu said she'd work on making some armour for me and Papika, like you and the others have, but I don't know if she's even begun to work on it."
"Will work… in her place…" I said.
"I… want to go with you, Cocona." Papika said, but her voice wavered badly. At first, I thought it was because she was still upset from crying, but as I watched the look that fell over her face, I realised it had nothing to do with that. Although the shadow in Pure Illusion hadn't attacked her outright, she seemed to be pretty shaken by the experience.
"Is that... wise?" I asked.
"Papika, are you sure you're okay to do something like that?"
I was half-expecting her to say 'of course!' and start preparing right away, but she didn't. Instead, she just sat there. Her words showed willlingness to help, but everything else suggested she wanted nothing more to do with Pure Illusion.
"I said I would be there for her if she needed me..." She turned to Cocona. "I'm scared to go back, but it sounds like she's hurting inside, and I want to help her." Papika's voice seemed to shake a little less with each word she spoke, determination trying to push through her fear. "Besides..." She continued, smiling now, "I made a promise I'd see lots of new worlds with you, didn't I?"
It wasn't long before Cocona was smiling at Papika's words. I, too, was smiling as I listened to her talking.
"Papika... You are-" I couldn't finish my sentence, even though I wanted to, as I launched into a coughing fit. My lungs were trying to expel the amorphous that had formed on them and inside them, but that was an impossiblity, and soon my chest began to hurt a lot. It was a little like I was trying to cough up barbed wire. Papika and Cocona both looked worried, and like they wanted to help me, but they didn't know how. Thankfully I gained control of my breathing shortly after, and clicked one of the teeth on my mask to activate the screen-projection feature again.
"Am fine. I promise. Papika, you are brave wanting to go back to Pure Illusion again. I admire you for that. Cocona, how did you and Yuyu get to Pure Illusion and find Yayaka so quickly?"
Cocona looked a little mystified at my new form of communication, but she replied after a second. "Yuyu ran to Asclepius' base to get some of their rations. She used the portal, so it would take her to the world Yayaka was in."
Asclepius tracker data entered into portal... Makes sense. It's fortunate that Yayaka gave the command to save the portal after all...
"If you can find a safe world, you can go to Pure Illusion with Papika. Try and build up courage and confidence again, in a safe environment."
At that point, Cocona pulled out a notebook from her skirt pocket and turned to a page, and handed it to me. "We can use this, can't we?"
I recognised Yuyu's handwriting... And when I recognised the coordinates for the world that Yuyu had remembered, I found myself amused. I remember Yayaka being fond of that world, and it appeared that Yuyu was too... Not that I could blame them. It was a nice place. If I ever got the chance to show Ruri Pure illusion, it would probably be the first world I would think of, to show her.
"Yes, you can use those to get to Pure Illusion. I can work the Asclepius portal for you."
Any enthusiasm about the idea Papika could muster seemed to fail, as she read the word 'Asclepius'. I thought it was an odd reaction, and it must have shown on my face, as Cocona explained quickly that Papika was Papikana from the old Asclepius experiments with Mimi, and had been reborn in Pure Illusion. It was a strange story, but it answered a lot of questions I would have had otherwise. When Cocona was finished, she took Papika's hand, and gave it a squeeze.
"I know it might be scary for you to go there again, but I'll be right there with you. We both want to help Yayaka, right?" She asked. Papika seemed uncertain for a moment, but slowly, the conflict of anxiety and determination on her face began to show the latter as the winner, and she returned Cocona's gaze.
"Yayaka's important to me! She might have said she wanted to fight alone in her note, but Pure Illusion's dangerous! We don't know how long she and Yuyu will be in there, or what they're doing, but if it's really bad, then they could die, and I don't want to lose them!"
Cocona gave the pink-haired girl a gentle, encouraging smile, and squeezed her hand again. "I feel the same way. I know it'll be difficult for you, but I'll stay by your side. If you want me to hold your hand the entire time, if it makes you feel safer, then I'll never let go!"
The smile beneath my mask was probably the largest one I've ever given. I found my admiration for the two girls growing. I didn't want to ruin the moment, but "Even if it's a safe world, it is best if your Flip Flap armour is completed, before you go to Pure Illusion., just in case something goes wrong. I will ask Hidaka for help."
"Hidaka!" Cocona called his name suddenly. "I had a message to give to him too!" She took her hand away from Papika's and gave the pink-haired girl a hug. "I'm sorry, Papika, I'll be back soon, but I promised Yuyu I'd give him a message too." She turned to me. "Do you know where he is?"
"One of his workshops. Unsure which one."
"Okay, thank you!" She left the room in a bit of a flurry to find him. Papika was smiling at the doorway Cocona had just gone through, for a little while.
"I should go with her," she said. "Hidaka has a lot of workshops, and Cocona might not know about all of them yet. Some of them are hard to find." I was a little startled when she approached me, instead of heading for the door, but it appeared she had something she wanted to tell me. "Thanks again for listening to me, Toto." She said, as she leaned in, to give me a hug. "You're a good brother."
With that, she left me alone in the medical room... Although I only remained there for a moment, as I needed to get moving as well. I wanted to get to work on examining the data Yayaka send me, and also to finish creation of Papika and Cocona's Pure Illusion gear, so I could help them achieve their goal quicker.
After all, Yayaka and Yuyu are important to me, too. I may not be able to assist them in Pure Illusion any more directly, but I can at least try my best to support and aid them all the way from Flip Flap.
Authors note: Sorry for the short chapter this time, and also for what I feel is another sudden ending. Is it odd to see things from Toto's POV? I feel like I had a few things I needed to establish would be going on back at Flip Flap, so I felt the need to add in a little peek as to what was going on there. Honestly, it might be the only time I even have Toto's POV in the fic... I say that, and yet I just thought of another point I may need to bring up... I shall save that for the future though!
I have it in my head (or in my fic at least) that Toto is the more sociable of the twins, and is better with people in general, what with being made as a support unit. He's developed speech better than his sister, and is better at socialising and understanding people, whereas Yuyu... isn't. I hope this makes sense and doesn't seem too out of place for people reading, that Toto is so vastly different in terms of POV.
Also, like I said before, these next few parts of my fic might take a while to work out, so it might be a while before they're posted. If you're still reading/have made it this far, I hope you're enjoying the story and thanks for reading!
