[He doesn't want to help. Not because he is unhelpful or wishes ill on anyone, but because the more he hears other people talk about this app, and the more he talks about it himself, the more he starts to wonder if this is the kind of thing he wants to get tangled up in. The app can't be a problem if it's never used, right? It can't target him if he doesn't let it. And maybe, if he ignores it long enough, it will go away?
Alright...that's probably wishful thinking. Even Kouyuki realizes that. But it doesn't make him any more willing to want to invite problems into his life. He's got a good thing going for himself. He's got good grades, he's popular, and a star athlete. Getting wrapped up in some...conspiracy. Or whatever. Seems like the sort of thing that'd set him back two steps for every one he took forward.
But can he really say no to helping when he's been asked as directly as this app allows?]
Shirou Fubuki:I don't think I can promise anything, but I can try.
[Like some sort of afterthought, Kouyuki adds afterwards...]
Shirou Fubuki:Did you feel strange, too?
[Because that's totally the kind of question someone who wants to remain uninvolved should be asking. And yet...the temptation to ask seemed impossible to resist, his desire to know manifesting in less careful ways than those of his chat room companion.]
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Alright...that's probably wishful thinking. Even Kouyuki realizes that. But it doesn't make him any more willing to want to invite problems into his life. He's got a good thing going for himself. He's got good grades, he's popular, and a star athlete. Getting wrapped up in some...conspiracy. Or whatever. Seems like the sort of thing that'd set him back two steps for every one he took forward.
But can he really say no to helping when he's been asked as directly as this app allows?]
Shirou Fubuki: I don't think I can promise anything, but I can try.
[Like some sort of afterthought, Kouyuki adds afterwards...]
Shirou Fubuki: Did you feel strange, too?
[Because that's totally the kind of question someone who wants to remain uninvolved should be asking. And yet...the temptation to ask seemed impossible to resist, his desire to know manifesting in less careful ways than those of his chat room companion.]