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[neuralnet]

[ The question Haruto wants to ask is simple, but he doesn't want to risk the "Hideki Matsukawa" persona he's built up for himself. So, he posts using his other, anonymous communicator. ]

if you could help, but doing so would put yourself at risk, would you?

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[ryuji]

Uh... what the hell are you plannin' on doin'?

This way if anything goes wrong, and it probably will lbr, there's a record of how it happened

[neuralnet]

sorry, i meant danger to myself. not to anyone else aboard.

[ryuji]

Yeah okay that?

That definitely makes it worse

What are you doing to yourself

[neuralnet]

no physical harm will come to me if i act on this. at least, not resulting from the action in and of itself.

i meant more a loss of safety, the telling of a secret that has been carefully kept hidden.

[ryuji]

[This is all pretty convoluted, and he's not sure he's getting what's being said here. At first, he thought that something was endangering Anonymous-san, but now it seems more like... an identity issue? Ryuji's pretty bad at keeping secrets as it is, himself. Even if he has a pretty big one, too.]

If there's something you can do that'll help someone but blow your cover, isn't it better to blow your cover and deal with the consequences? I dunno, it makes sense kinda that way

[neuralnet]

that's what i'm attempting to figure out.

[ GOSH, if he told the whole story he would hardly be anonymous!! ]

so you think it's better to forgo a carefully constructed cover, if it means helping people?

[ryuji]

Absolutely

I'm probably more self-sacrificey than most other people though

I dunno. I can't sit around watching someone go through bad shit knowing that I can do something to make it better? Y'know? Even if it's going to give a part of me away that I'm not ready to share

[neuralnet]

what (on this station) would you classify as "bad shit?"

[ryuji]

You really gotta ask that? Paralysis, gettin' stuck in a door, wires in your cheek, people disappearing, hearing ghost noises. Take your pick, dude.

[He doesn't mention the whole death and rebirth thing either, considering... how much it's still freaking him out.]

[neuralnet]

and if it's none of that that i can actually help with? if it's just the more mundane day-to-day functioning?

[ryuji]

Then IDK man... you gotta make a list of pros and cons and see which one's more important to you

If it's a personal choice, it doesn't really matter too much what other people are tellin' ya, right?

[neuralnet]

no, maybe not. but it's still good to have outside advice.

[ryuji]

Hm... my outside advice is to look inside yourself and see what you feel

[neuralnet]

[ Haruto is far too polite, even under the guise of anonymity, to say how much bullshit that is. ]

thank you. i will take it under consideration.

[ryuji]

Np good luck man

[neuralnet]

👌

[ Do the station communicators have emojis? Or did he just send that mentally? iiam. ]