….

Siramay: yeah, this isn't working take a 5! TAKE A 5

At that he stretches the area, so Makoto and Junko are far apart from each other as time slows down

Siramay: …sooo

How do you feel?

Makoto: I'm trapped in a simulation trapped in a time loop my greatest enemy is alive as an ai, and she just confessed she loves me… what do you think?

Siramay: I think… I don't know, do you?

Makoto: NO!

Siramay: it's ok to not feel ok Makoto…

Makoto: I know…

Siramay: it's also ok if you feel conflicted

Makoto: why would I feel conflicted?

Siramay: well, she was your friend once

Makoto: …

Siramay: you said yourself you'd say what you did about Kyoko in that timeline you'd say to all your friends
she was your friend once you had good times I know you did
and even if a person where to find out there friend was a bad person it's understandable that they still might remember and think fondly of good times and I don't know about others but I would never think less of someone for that it's human as long as you know who they are now is bad you can still think whatever you wish about the past

Makoto: you say that but… was any of it true?

Siramay: … hey Makoto, so you got all your memories back from the future foundation, right?

Makoto: yeah why?

Siramay: do you remember…. Second year of class, after the hopes peak tragedy around 6 months in, you met a girl with red hair called Ryoko Otonashi,
you eventually realized it was Junko with memory problems

Makoto: yeah, I remember that

Siramay: good cause, HOW DID YOU ONLY JUST THEN REALIZE SHE HAD MEMORY PROBLEMS

Girl completely changes her looks, they way she acts, suffers for six months to the point hopes peak wanted to expel her was living in the same dorms constantly forgetting and only till then did you realize

"Oh, wait you might be the person who's constantly forgetting"

Like you share the same classes man!

Makoto: I'm sorry I didn't know! You know how she is, I just thought she was being weird!

Siramay: it's that kind of thinking why people end up giving into their vices and committing crime! Take accountability!

Makoto: HEY! She didn't have to do crime don't pin it on me!

Siramay: I'm not I'm not! I just… I remember when she's about to leave you both look each other in the eye… you want to go after her, but Mukuro stops you… I just think

If you actually did go after her… maybe things could have been different…

Makoto: what are you trying to say?

Siramay: you remember how she acted right? Weird, a little nervous and a cheerful disposition but an underlying sadness…

That was all her. she forgot herself and thus truly acted on how her nature truly was… she even started to use her old name again…

If she didn't have any truth to the goodness you saw in class, she could have acted otherwise… but there is good in there, under all that hardness and darkness… of course its suppressed now but not forgotten.

Makoto: what happened to her?

Siramay: what didn't happen to her?
… look I know I'm all one for explaining and blabbing I know and could go on about the events of her life story… but right now, I feel its rude to dump someone's trauma for them… if the time is right, they can tell you themselves. But for now, all that matters is it happened, and now they did all of this, would you really do anything different if you knew their story?

Makoto: of course!

Siramay: ?

Makoto: no not just that, even before that I still wanted to believe in her and hope she can find joy in life without suffering if I can help do that, I would do whatever I could to, you know that! But I saw the outside I saw what she did to the world I heard what everyone said about her and I wont lie it's awful and miserable and it be so easy to just say she's a heartless faceless monster and be done with it, but I cant stop thinking about the past, and now you tell me all this, and you think I wouldn't do my all, no in fact with everything you told me it makes me feel now more then ever if there Is something, someway, somehow to change things and help her be the person

she is deep down
id do it in a heartbeat!

Siramay: you truly are amazing…

5 MINUTE BREAK OVER

Junko: So, Makoto have you decided I'm starting to get bored.

Makoto: Junko stops doing this I know it doesn't make you happy!

Junko: what are you talking about… so naive, super naive hopelessly naive of course despair makes me happy, its why I'm alive, it's what I live for despair is me and I am despair nothing more…

Makoto: that's not true! What about the past? All those good times we had, that red headed girl I saw all those years ago

Junko: the past nothing more…

Makoto: what?

Junko: it means nothing to me now and neither it to you, let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That's the only way to become what you are meant to be.

Makoto: that's a lie! You talk about killing the past and yourself but you're still letting those things haunt you and control your life! You don't have to do that stop this now I can find a way to get you out of here safely just don't do this

Junko: don't start with all that! It's not your job to help me and I don't want to be helped!

Makoto: I'm not saying this because of a job or syndrome I just want to see you happy like I know you can be! Stop doing this to yourself… stop hurting yourself…

Junko: you already know my offer…

Makoto: and you know mine

Junko: well! It looks like we're at an impasse again! Oh well we only have all the time in the world for one of us to change our minds… so lets just enjoy this moment and stare into each other's eyes…

And with that they reached an impasse looking at each other's eyes with they're main goal in their heart and while the conclusion was the same at that moment, a hope was born

[JUNKO]
Join despair's side boy
You're not happy in that hope filled world
I can show you more
Like how to choke out people without Force
Follow me
We'll rule together and find ourselves
Makin' Stark Peace
Just let the past die and free yourself

[MAKOTO]
Tell me something, muse
(siramay:?)
Is Junko someone I should refuse
Or could she be turned
Is redemption something to be earned
I've been trained
Out in the foundation
I find myself
Looking for truth
But all I see is the ghost of you…

I'm out of hopes peak
I'm a CenterPoint too
I'll never join despair's side
Please don't betray us
Just give me your trust
Ryoko or Junko then?

[BOTH]
Junko, Junko, Ju-un-ko
Ryoko, Ryoko, Ry-o-o-o-ko
Junko, Junko, Ju-un-ko
Ryoko or Junko then?

[MAKOTO]
Epic hope vocalizing

I'm out of hopes peak!
I'm a CenterPoint too
I'll never join despair's side
Please don't betray us
Just give me your trust
Ryoko or Junko then?

[BOTH]
Junko, Junko, Ju-un-ko
Ryoko or Junko then?