They seem likely, though I think after we talked, the former seems a bit more likely than the latter there.

[ Yuri will just go ahead and lean against the piano. It's big enough anyway not to shift suddenly underneath his weight. ]

... Yeah. What made you ask?

[ That probably might have spelled out how Yuri thought things might've happened for him but he's going to assume everyone else did too! Maybe? Probably. ]

[ He almost says, "Probably not Kyrie.", but he swallows that. He doesn't want to talk about her right now. ]

You don't?

That's what it is, yeah.

[ ... There really is no way around it.

But now that Yuri has come this far... ]

Well, there's no reason to bother with them anymore, so I guess I'll be tossing them into the incinerator or making a bonfire in the middle of the foyer later tonight.

Wow, so you made some too, huh?

[ ... ]

Not surprised, actually. I think most of us have, especially after we came to know other people pretty well. Just in case, it'd be considered a final 'goodbye' we wouldn't have had the chance to say if something had happened to us.

But we both know that's no longer an option now. It's just a matter of how soon we're going to be able to turn the tables on the bastard.

[ Because he expects to be 'soon', but the when is still up there. ]

Huh.

[ It sounds rather nice...albeit melancholy. ]

Are you saying you weren't sure if you were going to act or not?

You did.

[ Yuri knows that the bond with her is different with those who passed than his, but it's been obvious to everyone how great the pain she felt was. Sayaka had referred to Elda as her mother, and that was something he wouldn't forget. He watched the agitation seep in through her mannerisms and ... well. ]

You did pretty well against her, even against all that crap that had happened, by the way. I have n't seen many people manage to get it together after losing someone, even for a little bit, to manage something like that.

[ Yuri is just a straightforward kind of guy, honestly. ]

Well, I'm glad you did do what you had to do. [ He almost says something else here, different from the rest of what he is going to say, but he thinks better of it. ] I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks so.

We will.

[ ...Well... ]

Seeing as we have meetings on Tuesday that's probably a good idea to come together as always to see if we've figured anything out new, and well, our plans to keep anyone really from killing. Just in case.

[ He heard Elda spout out some things during the whole ... Kyrie dilemma but there probably needs to be something more concrete to be done with that. ]

You mean, sometime Monday evening or something?

[ Hm... ]

You will, huh? Then I guess I have nothing to fear.

[ He'll smile slightly there, hah. ]

Well, I'm sure we're gonna obviously all make it so that happens.

[ So, for what it's worth, he is serious about that. ]

I think we can just leave it all to Tuesday, then. If we need to meet up again or something, I'm sure that's what can happen later on depending on how things go.

[ So, like, he supposes for the most part they are playing it by ear, which is how Yuri likes it anyway. He is not really the most organized person. ]

Me? Squander my time?

When have you known me to do nothing but sit around and twiddle my thumbs?

[ Yuri almost smiles at that, but not quite. Been a long day. ]