video; @unchained

[hedonistic]

[There video opens to a beautiful scene of a sunset at the Fishing District, sky painted in magnificent pinks and oranges that reflect against the pristine ice. A few moments later, a young man's voice accompanies it, tinged with the telltale slurring of someone who's rather drunk.]

Hey, question.

[A pause hangs in the air for a minute, almost long enough that one might wonder if he's gotten distracted or forgotten.]

Did you like your life, before the Storm? [. . .] If the Natha gave you a chance to go back, would any of you stay here?

[Kagari doesn't miss Japan. He doesn't feel homesick. He misses his friends, sure, but he's had more in the past nine months than he did in the twenty-one years before it. But he's starting to feel like the only one.]

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[kikoku]

.....
[God damnit, he's right.]

Well-
[QUICK, FIND AN EXCUSE. COME ON, LAW.]

It doesn't matter right now, anyway. We can't go to the station. --Also, I don't want to hear that judgemental tone from a guy drunkenly rambling at the entire network.

[hedonistic]

[Kagari makes a noise that could be described as the audio equivalent of a shrug.]

You're the one who decided to talk to the drunk guy rambling on the network.

[the judgment gonna continue, sorry bro]

[kikoku]

That-
[He'd thought it would work out fine. Drunk people usually don't have the wherewithal to judge his bad choices too heavily. Clearly he made a mistake but like hell is he going to admit that.]

That's not the point. I'm saying you're clearly not making better decisions than me.

[hedonistic]

[Unfortunately for Law, Kagari is an unusually contrary person, even when drunk.]

And yet, I know where my friends are and you don't.

[kikoku]

[Arguably there are worse kinds of drunk to be. This kind is pretty annoying, though.]
I have a general idea that's exactly as useful as yours is.
[Again, assuming that the Natha have them on the station.

WAIT, HOLD ON, WE NEED TO MAKE ONE THING CLEAR.]
Also, I said my crew. Not friends.

[hedonistic]

[Excuse Kagari, he's just going to laugh like an asshole.]

Keep on telling yourself that, buddy.

[kikoku]

[The one downside of a conversation over the network: he can't be properly threatening.]

I'm telling you because you clearly don't understand the difference between captaining a pirate crew and having friends.

Also, I'm not your buddy. My name is Law.
[There's a joke here about a pirate being named that, probably.]

[hedonistic]

[In fairness to Law, Kagari immediately picked a fight with the biggest and toughest member of his division on literally his first day there.]

Sure there is, buddy. One of those things doesn't make people want to throw their goals away for you, cool ironic pirate name or not.

[did he just squish a joke and a compliment into one. m a y b e.]

[kikoku]

[Nice job sticking to prison rules, Kagari. Anyway;]

I-
[Law has so many objections he doesn't know where to START.]
It's not ironic that's just what my name is. Being a pirate has nothing to do with it.
[Get the easy one out of the way.]

Secondly, you're misconstruing what I said. They're dedicated to the crew, not me specifically.
[Law, even you can't be deep enough in friend-denial to believe that.]

[hedonistic]

[Is he gonna asshole-laugh again? He's gonna asshole laugh again.]

Damn, that's some intense rules-lawyering [get it, LAWyering] you got goin' on there, dude.

But you're part of that crew, so the logic kinda falls apart pretty fast.