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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, NAGITO KOMAEDA. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 004.28.777.00 *** MrBrightside has joined 004.28.777.00 <MrBrightside> Hello there! This is Komaeda. <MrBrightside> I'm grateful that you want to talk to me.

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[For all the success Diavolo has gained throughout this interaction, just by being a decent and good guy, he'll find that direct praise seems to put an awkward air between them. Komaeda stiffens, just a bit, as he continues to stack boxes in silence. He isn't sure what to make of such kind words, or how genuine they might be. Something like this is only natural, he thinks, when you want to honor a friend's memory.

He did it for a year and a half at Insert Coin, and he's doing it again, as if it were nothing. Mukuro, too, minded the Kit-Tea-Kat cafe in Lila's absence, who only ever took it over from Regulus.]

I don't think it's admirable. [Komaeda interjects, with his words firm but his tone passive, and without looking in the other's direction.] In Ryslig, that's just what happens. People come and go, and what they leave behind is taken care of by others...

When you have friends, or people you love, it's only obvious you'll want to hold onto what was important to them. In case they come back, or... if they never come back.

[Either way, it's something that feels necessary. It's nothing admirable, nothing so chivalrous. It's just what you do.]

I'm sure if one of your friends left Ryslig, Diavolo-kun, you would want to hold onto their things too. It's like... a physical memory of them. It's just sentimentality.