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[The video snaps on to show Gon, at close range, with his eyes dark. He stares for barely an instant before the video blurs and refocuses on his cheek as he speaks into the receiver.]

This is how I talk to you, right? I don't know where you are yet, but I'm coming to find you right now. You'd better come out and fight me.

All I have to do is beat you, and this place can't last... right?

I'm gonna find you, and make you send me back, because I HAVE TO BE THERE RIGHT NOW--

[The PCD creaks as his hand tenses, and the feed dissolves into static.]

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[Video]

[exarmatio]

We can't. A few have tried before, and they have failed. It's impossible.

[Video]

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No.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

Yes. I'm sorry.

But, if it's any consolation, we at least know that time doesn't pass for us at home while we're here.

[Video]

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Time... doesn't pass...?

[Video]

[exarmatio]

No, it doesn't. I've had people from my world come here from well in my future, and they never even noticed I'd left. And if we leave and return here, we don't retain any memory of this place from the time before.

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Then, whenever I get out, it'll be the same time?

[He's calming down, little by little.]

[Video]

[exarmatio]

[He can tell. And that's good. That's what he's been trying to do.]

Yes. Nothing will have changed. This is sort of like a dream, in that sense, except it's very real.

[Video]

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[...It's going to take him a few minutes to process that.

Silence.]

[Video]

[exarmatio]

[Don't worry, Gon. Take all the time you need.]

[Video]

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But I have to go back.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

Someday, you will. But like I said, we can't leave of our own free will.

[Video]

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I'll find a way.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

With determination like that, I don't doubt that you'll be trying your best.

Is Killua coming to get you?

[Video]

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Yeah.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

Good.

I hope that we can meet in person soon. For now, please take care, alright? There isn't much that you can do right now, so there isn't a use in being upset if there isn't anything to take it out on.

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... [Honestly? Not having anything to take it out on really, really doesn't help--

But he can tell that there's no one threatening them right now, and that lack of ominous aura is going a long way towards unraveling his fury all on its own.

He makes a frustrated noise, plopping down crosslegged right where he is and slamming one fist into the surface of the street.]