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At the lack of a real response, Jude inched closer to the red head. She could've just been ignoring his question, but he had a bad feeling about that cough. The student frowned as he observed her pained expression and placed a hand on her shoulder to force her body more upright.

"A-Are you...?" He began before quickly coming to his own conclusions. He had a choking girl on his hands and he needed to act fast.

Swiftly moving to stand behind her, he spoke a quick word of assurance. "Give me a minute, okay? I'm a doctor." In training. Well, he knew how to help, so that had to be good enough.

Without waiting for a forced answer, he wrapped his arms below her chest and pulled up and in with practiced strength. With a few tries, he hoped to dislodge whatever she was choking on fast.

It’s not like she had really meant to run into him, that’s just how fate wanted things to be. After all, what says interesting first meeting more than bumping right into each other? A lot of things really considering how cliché that actually is, but let’s not get into that.

Now let’s recap, just after Nora bumped into this kid she tried swallowing her pancake whole.

That wasn’t the best decision she could make.

”..a-ah..*cough*” Jude, you might want to help her out here.

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An embarrassed smile appeared on Jude's lips as he shied away from the whole insect topic. Though she seemed a bit upset he turned down her idea, he knew she wouldn't take it to heart. "That's right," he nodded in reply. "I'll be more careful. It would be pretty bad news to get amnesia again." Sure, he already lost most of his artes anyway, but he also knew forgetting something or someone could result in some pretty serious consequences.

At the mention of cars and the other strange machines, Jude began to tug at his bangs in thought. "Yeah, it's amazing what kind of devices they have here." Trains, cars, and everything is between had been incredibly foreign to him when he first arrived. While he didn't study engineering, he wouldn't have minded learning how all these were invented. "I suppose this technology was developed due to the lack of spirits or mana in this city. I wonder if our world would've been the same if our people's mana lobes never developed." At least that was the reason for Elympios' technology, so he could only theorize it was the same here.

But when Milla brought up Elympios, the medical student could only tilt his head in confusion. "Wha... Huh? The future?" He stared at the Spirit, not quite processing her words. "That's... interesting. I mean..." He trailed off, not sure how to continue. She was right there with him after all. If she had gone missing any time before that, he definitely would have noticed. But... with all the impossible things these scientists could pull off...

He shook his head before the thought kept confused him too much. He had no reason to believe Milla would joke around about something like that. "Well... I guess I can see that happening. Sorry, I guess I shouldn't talk about it much then, huh?" That's the storybook protocol, right? You can't talk about the future to people from the past! ...Or something like that.

The details of future and past interacting aside, the teen couldn't help but crack a smile at Milla's love of food. "Pfft... I see. Food again, huh?" However weird the setting, it seemed she wouldn't be shy about finding a good meal 

"Well, glad to see you're enjoying the food here at least. Find a favorite dish yet?"

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"What the...?" Jude blinked, hearing what could have been a child's battle cry ringing through the air. With a quick look around, he found a ginger-haired teen running around energetically. She looked like she was having fun, but it didn't seem like something he should pay attention to.

...But if he was right, it looked like she was headed right for him... But, she could see him, right? Surely she wasn't going to crash right into him, right?

Well, not all his theories could be right he discovered as she crashed straight into him without giving him time to react. After being pushed a few steps back, he recovered just as fast as she had.

"Are... Are you alright?" He stammered, still trying to understand if that was an accident or not.

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"DUNANANANANANANA-NORAAAAAAA~!"

In the most anime-style ever, Nora was running with a pancake in her mouth until she ran straight into some person she didn’t know.

"WHoooaaaa!!" and so she stumbled backward, but quickly swallowed her pancake whole so that it would stay safe.

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A light laugh left his lips as Milla trailed off into an odd tangent. After all their travels, even Jude wasn't too sure how serious she was being went off like this. Still, it never failed to raise his mood whether he was the butt of the joke or not. 

"I... don't think I want to become like a giant beetle," he replied calmly, all too used to Milla's eccentric thoughts. "I think I'm better off sticking to healing artes."

Shifting himself to hide his hands behind his back, Jude smiled slightly as he responded. "Oh, I've been holding up pretty alright. I haven't gotten myself wrapped up in too much trouble yet." He knew he had a penchant for running headfirst into danger, but all things considered, he's been playing it safe comparing to before. "Though this place does have its... surprises." A brief memory of the strange glitches he encountered flashed in his mind, but he quickly pushed those aside.

"Though are you going to be okay without the Four Great Spirits again? I know you can handle yourself, but it still seems difficult to lose them." He tilted his head in thought. He couldn't imagine Milla staying stagnant very long if she still had their power, but she was pretty... uncoordinated following the first time she lost them. She seemed well enough now, but Jude couldn't help but thinking about it.

Crossing his arms, he continued on. "Flattering is one way to put it... It's amazing how they even pulled it off. The technology here seems to be far more advanced than anything on Reize Maxia or Elympios." Jude hadn't considered the details of how or why he was brought over since he first arrived, but he had to nod in agreement. "Yeah, looks like we can only hope they let us go, but it doesn't seem like they're planning on ending this experiment soon."

"Anyway, I think I've been here for a few months." He counted three months out on his fingers before shrugging lightly. "I never really thought about it, but it seems like a long time, huh?"

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[Man, I was going to get up and active after exam week today.]

[I guess I can hold off on posting my drafts until they fix it up. Or something.]

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Amber eyes widened as he finally recognized the figure before him. "M-Milla...!" he cried, quickly straightening up his posture. If he wasn't blushing before, his face was surely on fire now. After not seeing her for so long, this was the last kind of embarrassing reunion he wanted with the Lord of Spirits. All the same, a sheepish smile appear on his lips as she joked around.

"I don't think I'm hardheaded enough to dent metal," he chuckled softly before muttering to himself. "Besides, I think I need the healing arte more here..."  Unfortunately, meeting Milla wasn't a sudden cure for his migraine, though it certainly brightened his day. Though the more he thought about it... Why was she here?

With a small shake of his head, Jude quickly switched topics. "Uh, but anyway..." He took a few cautious steps closer, almost as if she'd vanish again if he overstepped some boundary. He stopped himself from reaching out to check if she was real and just offered her the sincerest smile he could.

"You're really here! I almost can't believe it..." 

Forgetting all the circumstances that would involve her return to human form, Jude was just so happy to see her in person once more that he barely knew what to say. How was he even supposed to start when there was so much to cover. After a short moment's hesitation, all he could manage was,

"It's great to see you again."

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Gripping his head, Jude stepped out of his apartment building into the dirty city air. Lately an illness had been getting him down and he thought breathing in some fresh air would do his headache some good. But unfortunately, fresh air in the Second District is hard to come by.

Regardless, he pushed himself to keep walking up and out into Hive City to no particular destination. Cooping himself up in his room to rest has done nothing but net him an extra case of cabin fever and with a lack of any healing artes, he would've have to get out to get some medicine at some point. 

At a sluggish pace, he walked towards the train station. "Man, how long have I been like this?" He sighed as he stared down at the cracked pavement. His muddled mind told him it may or may not have been a month or so, but, hey, fevers make you think strange things. While contemplating all those thoughts, Jude failed to see he was approaching something until his forehead crashed into it.

"OW! Sheesh, what--" The metallic sound from the impact still rang in his ears as he looked up at the perpetrator. A pole. He ran right into a pole. A+ honors medical student strutting his stuff. Rubbing his forehead, he tried to calm down the whole new pain his mind was feeling when he noticed someone staring right at him.

With a bright red hue staining his cheeks, he meekly apologized for causing a scene. "Oh! Erm... S-sorry about that." 

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Hearing her quiet voice, Jude perked up a little. He stared into her half-lidded eyes with concern. As glad that he was that she woke up, it was clear her condition was worsening quickly. He had seen it happen before, but this time he didn't have any of the materials to even start a real treatment. All the same, he didn't want to appear too desperate.

"Thank g̛͏▀̷͜▌̷͟ḑness," he spoke before cracking a small smile. "You're aw█ke..." He pursed his lips as she asked about his own health before questioning her own. But he shook his head in response and attempted to joke around as usual.

"And you c▄ll me a worrier," he gave an empty laugh. "I'm compl̢̐̄ͦͥͤ̀͝ē̸̛̈ͭ͑̚͟t̷̡̍ȩ̂̇͗͒́ͨͯ͂͝l̊̀̓ͮͮy̵̒͌ͭ̇̾͑ ͧ̈́̈͢͝f̶̨̀͂̒͋iͭͪͬ͂͛̃̚ņͨ̎͗ͫ̽̈̚e. It's you I'm worried about." He pressed his hand more firmly on her wounds. Even with the applied pressure, he knew his artes just weren't working quickly enough. His Healer might as well just have been a sad excuse for a bandaid.

He grit his teeth as the feeling of helplessness took over his calmer senses. He just didn't have the time to do what he needed to do and everything now was just glorified stalling. "I'm sor͟ry ̵it͏ t̸ook me̴ so long to get back," he sighed regretfully, "I nev̶e͏r͟ ̨s͞hould've l—ft your side." He should've risked the fight with Pit, maybe things would be different.

Slipping one of his hands down to her own, Jude grasped at her fingers. Gently, he squeezed them, hoping she would return the action. 

"You're gonna be o̢҉̷k̶̡̛à̡͞y̷̢̡͢, L̵e͏i҉̢͜a͜͝. Just don't fall asleep and I'll g̶̀͞e͜t̶͢ y͜o̶u out of here." As much as he wanted to tell the truth, he felt like a liar. Like a dirty coward lying to their best friend just to make themselves feel better. Like a sinner asking for a miracle.

"...Can you stay awake a litt̴̼͇̻̙͟͜͡l҉̴̴̭̰̝̫̰̤̱͔͉͙̟͙̟̦̯e̷͙̫̪͍̳̱ ̷̖̜̙̪̫̙͍̦̹̤̖͕̹̝͕̱̰̳̘́͠͠ļ̸͉̩̘̥̫̣̜̜̳̩̀͠ǫ̧̙̺̲̙̟̹̰̤̗̭͖͈̗͖͕͞ǹ̨̡̧̩̼̥̗͖̠͈͍͔̦̻̬̩̪͚̟͝g̛̫͖͚̲̝̭̺͖͚͍̺̗ͅę̶̸̼̠̭͍͇͓̰̩̣̰̕ͅŕ҉̸͙͉͚̜̲͎͖̮ ̠͓̹̳͙͚̲̻̞̗̙̯͍͡ͅf̴͏̹̦̮͇̭̜̼ͅo̷̰̥͔̳͉̱̹̻̦̟͕̻͓̕̕͘͠r̷̻̘̜͘͞ ̵̧̺̫̳̲͖̻͉̙͚̙̞̲̭͡͠m̶̷̢̡̳̲͙̝̟͈̣̞̼̖͢e̷͔͔̙̪̖͚̙͕͇̯̟̙̥̹̼͘͢͟͢?"

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Her body laid still on the cold hard ground as all the strength the brunette had in her began to slowly drain from her body just as her blood continued to stain her clothes. She could feel herself growing colder and colder, only to wish there was a source of warmth to save her from this chill. However, such things didn’t matter. She knew that, especially after that direct hit. It was a shame that things turned out like this, that she wasn’t able to help Pit and bring Jude to safety. That she wasn’t able to make sure to fix what currently mattered to her, no matter how hard she tried.

Slight regrets, but it couldn’t be helped. If only she had brought her staff along, maybe she would have a higher chance in saving herself and assisting Pit. Her mind continued to slowly process such thoughts; eyes resting as she felt her consciousness drift away, even when the soulless body came and took what would have ruined him.

The idea of fighting back, to keep the ring with her, repeated in her mind, however she didn’t have the strength to do so. Though, seeing that Pit’s body was still up and moving filled the brunette with fear. Did he also kill Jude? Was her attempt in saving him had gone to waste? Maybe it would’ve been better…if she had just avoided him.

The thoughts vanished, however, after a couple of minutes had passed when the body disappeared. Hearing footsteps rush up to her side, a source of warmth wrapped itself around her. At first, she couldn’t tell who it was. Possibly someone she knew prior to this chaos had found her, but her hopes were soon answered when she heard Jude’s voice. Holding her in his arms, Leia struggled to speak.

“…….—ḑ̞̟̙̖̤̖͈͡e̸͚̼͕̠̺̥͖͕." her voice was weaker than she had thought it would be. A sure sign that she didn’t have much longer to live. Fighting for the last bit of life in her, half-lit green eyes slowly opened midway, her vision frightened her. Being unable to see the honor student, but she didn’t want to show such an expression to him. “ █▀d̸̵̶̕͢e͏͝…that is you…ri̵̸̊̄̈́̿̓͛̔͒̀͜g͒ͣ͒͒͏̕͏͘h̷̏̋̈́͋̀t?”

“You’re…o͝͞ḱ̨́͢▁ỳ̴̝͙̼̤͢.̸͡͏̫̣̻͓̤̭͕͎͍̟̣̜̘̦͇̞̯̕͠.̴̕҉̖̥̦̬̱̯̹̫͍̬̪̲̙͈̞̤̩̻̣͘.̢̣͉̜̮̭̝͉̱̩͉̱̭̣͙̺̞͟͠aren’t you…?" she continued to force herself to speak, despite how tired she felt. “H▖ didn’t…▙░ŗ̶͟͡t̷̨͘͢͠ ̧͞͞y̡͏o̸̢͞u…did he?" Steadily, she raised her head, wanting to smile at him. Only able to give him a weak one, but a smile was a smile, and it was the best that she could conjure with what energy she had left in her. 

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"Hopefully. You really weren't kidding about what kind of place this is."

"...Yeah... I know." Being willing to die for him more than once really hammers that lesson in. "Thank you. For everything, Leia."

"Uh, hey Jude! So you're doing better now, right? I'm just dropping by the check up on you. A-Also, I, uh, came to give you this...!" have a kiss on the cheek, okay that's all you get.

You know, after a nice, painful long still unfinished series of events that occurred recently, Jude liked to relax and talk to Leia, but

"Huh…?" He slowly blinked as he felt her lips on his cheek.

"…L-Leia! What was that about?!" Are bi-monthly kisses going to be a thing that he would have to get used to— 

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"A pick me up, huh?" He chuckled softly. "Thanks. Maybe I needed it."

"I think I'll do fine. I'm just a little... tired out from it all."

"Uh, hey Jude! So you're doing better now, right? I'm just dropping by the check up on you. A-Also, I, uh, came to give you this...!" have a kiss on the cheek, okay that's all you get.

You know, after a nice, painful long still unfinished series of events that occurred recently, Jude liked to relax and talk to Leia, but

"Huh…?" He slowly blinked as he felt her lips on his cheek.

"…L-Leia! What was that about?!" Are bi-monthly kisses going to be a thing that he would have to get used to— 

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"Uh, hey Jude! So you're doing better now, right? I'm just dropping by the check up on you. A-Also, I, uh, came to give you this...!" have a kiss on the cheek, okay that's all you get.

You know, after a nice, painful long still unfinished series of events that occurred recently, Jude liked to relax and talk to Leia, but

"Huh...?" He slowly blinked as he felt her lips on his cheek.

"...L-Leia! What was that about?!" Are bi-monthly kisses going to be a thing that he would have to get used to— 

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So Jude tell me. How do you just go back to a normal life after essentially dethroning god, fighting a mad king who wished to control all of space and time just to destroy a world he barely knew until a few days before he took advantage of your handy work only to abuse god's power, AND THEN return home to find out that your father isn't even from the same world as you???

"Uh, wow… You really summed up our journey in a nutshell, huh? It sounds crazy when you put it like that…"

"Sure, all of that was overwhelming at the time, but I had my friends there with me. And even after we all went our separate ways, we never lost touch."

"Besides, my work isn’t done. We were still running on borrowed time, so I couldn’t afford to sit around just because the main threat is over. I’d make Milla’s effort completely useless if I just reminisced all the time."

"Besides it’s not like my life’s really back to normal…”

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Does judy got that booty?

"Judy...? I don't think I know anyone with that name but—"

"I'm... sure she must have one?"

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Milla chose Gaius over you. What will you do with your promise to support her now?

"Milla's fully capable of making her own choices. If she no longer thinks I'm the right person to be by her side..."

"...Then I'll just have to learn to support her from a distance, wouldn't I?

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How does it feel to fail Leia twice?

"I know already..."

"I... I haven't gotten stronger at all, have I? I really haven't learned anything. She's saved me countless times already, but I..." internal sobbing intensifies

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With the right makeover, you'd be a lovely girl!

"...Huh?! You've got to be kidding me!"

Though with those pigtails, Jude...

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Tell my muse things s/he doesn't want to hear.