hotel: aikawa

[shaft]

our lizard...!!

Comments

[decaptych]

Bad boy? That's bad middle-aged man to you, sir. Are you a bad boy?

[shaft]

I guess that depends on who you ask? I don't think so.

[decaptych]

A... good boy?

[shaft]

Are you calling me a good boy?

[decaptych]

If you wanna be!

[shaft]

[ ... ]

In any case, I think you need to confess a sin sightly more severe.

[decaptych]

Wait, seriously?! How is that any less than yours?!

[shaft]

I don't make the rules...

[decaptych]

I don't have worse crimes.

[ We don't perceive his murder(s?). ]

[shaft]

It can be a regret.

[ he actually doesn't know if that's true ]

[decaptych]

...

A regret, huh?

It's kinda asking for a lot.

[shaft]

How so?

[decaptych]

Isn't it? That's a pretty personal question to ask.

[shaft]

... I guess you're right. But these places don't tend to be very respectful of boundaries.

[decaptych]

Gonna give me an example to work off again?

[shaft]

"I killed someone and don't know how to live with myself."

[decaptych]

[ The icon with it really makes it. ]

...

Same.

[shaft]

... It sucks.

[decaptych]

Yeah. It does.

[shaft]

[ silence ]





So, can you get out?

[decaptych]

From the hellhole that is the weight of my apparent sins or the box?

I guess I'm kinda stuck in both.

[shaft]

[ he snorts

even though that's kind of alarming ]

I'm afraid I'm out of suggestions. Maybe I should console you?

[decaptych]

Are you sure you're not the one that needs consolation? There, there...

[shaft]

Why are you consoling me?

[decaptych]

You said the sad stuff first. Do you think I need it?