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[fourlevels]

"Hi! This is Viktor Nikiforov!
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[looseleaves]

Hopefully it would never happen...!
Well, since I'll usually be on the back lines, it'll be better if no one's feeling scared, right?
I can keep everyone feeling pumped...

[fourlevels]

Yes! That would be a great use for it, keeping everyone' spirits up!

[looseleaves]

That's what I'm going to try to do...!
I'll need to be a bit better at performing solo first, though.
Ah, but that's not important! If you don't have any control over your powers, couldn't that hurt you?

[fourlevels]

I don't see how my powers could hurt me

well, except for the healing one because I take on other people's harms

[looseleaves]

That healing one is the worrying one...
But what if your Eros power hit someone dangerous?
I don't want to think about it...

[fourlevels]

Someone dangerous?

[looseleaves]

Yes, someone dangerous.
I can't think of someone, but...
It doesn't scare you?

[fourlevels]

A little bit? But I do have other powers that would help me get away too if they were really dangerous

[looseleaves]

Other powers aside from your healing one?

[fourlevels]

Yes! I can skate to get away, even on air!

[looseleaves]

Ah, I think Yuri-san told me about this power, too!
Mmm, it's very fitting.
I guess I was a little worried for nothing...
But I wonder, could our powers be cancelled out by each other?

[fourlevels]

You mean my Eros and yours? ... I don't know! That's a good question

[looseleaves]

My non-Eros... please don't say "my Eros and yours", it makes it sound like I have the same power...

[fourlevels]

Well no, but you know what I meant~

[looseleaves]

Mm, I do.
Maybe we could try it one day if you feel like it!
But I guess it's a little presumptuous to ask for help on it...
Yuri-san said to go to you about how to help others with my powers, and it has helped!
But now I feel a little like I should help you too...
But I don't know what you want to do here, either. So it feels out of line.
Do you have a goal here, Viktor-san?

[fourlevels]

Not presumptuous, really! I don't mind it at all.
Goals? ... Not really? But then planning for a future here is always going to be a little difficult since we don't know how long we'll end up staying here. I suppose we could treat it like we'll be here for years and once we leave we forget about it anyway but ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[looseleaves]

Ah, that's true...
I've just been planning as if I'll be here for years because it's the worst case.
Besides, it feels a little fun to let everything go and do something I'd never let myself do at home!
Though maybe since you've been so successful at home, it's not as appealing.

[fourlevels]

Oh, no, that's not the case at all. I've had a great time here.

[looseleaves]

Mm, really?
What's it been like...?
I've heard a lot of bad stories...

[fourlevels]

Well, I mean besides the crazy stuff that happens? All the good bits have been good. But even some of the bad bits were better than a lot of years I had at home.

[looseleaves]

It was that bad at home...?
Ah, I'm sorry, that's inappropriate to ask. I'm a little surprised...
I expected something like that from someone who had superpowers or something...
Hearing you say it feels somehow more personal.

[fourlevels]

I don't mind talking about it, but it's nothing like super villains or anything! Our world is pretty normal in that regard. I just meant that in the years before I arrived here, I had pretty bad depression. It was only a few months before coming here that I was able to come out of it.

[looseleaves]

Ah...
I kind of understand.
When my unit failed our very first concert... seeing that empty audience, I really didn't think there was any use in living.
In this case, our supervillains are kind of our heads, in a way?
Like when they say you're your own worst critic.
I'm glad you were able to pull out of it, Viktor-san.

[fourlevels]

[ Oh. Oh no. Viktor had thought their careers sounded similar in perspective, but he hadn't thought it would give them the same feelings. Well, maybe not the exact same, but negative all the same. ]

... Were you able to?

[looseleaves]

[ There's a long pause. It feels wrong to lie here... ]

I'm not sure.
But it's okay. I keep pretty busy, so I don't have to think about it much.