Part 191: 12/23/09

12/23/09

You ever have one of those days where you just feel awful? Well I’m having one, and it’s worse because it means we’ve got to leave that poor person in Tartarus a bit longer.



By the time I scraped myself out of bed Aki and Ken were both gone out somewhere.



I thought you were gonna go visit your mother’s grave…
Oh, hi, Sanada-san…
Is this where you should be?
Well, I was planning to…
But when I thought about what I was gonna say to her, it just didn’t feel right.
There are things I still need to do before I talk to her again.
Yeah, same here.
I don’t have anything I need to tell Shinji right now.
…I have my own stuff to deal with.
An undefeatable enemy, huh? Gosh, I wonder what it’s like.
…You got me.
But, it doesn’t matter… because I’ve made up my mind.
I’m gonna look it straight in the eyes.
…Straight in the eyes…
I like the sound of that. You can count me in, too!
Yeah.

I don’t think they left together, but I guess they both ended up at the same place.



Simply think of it as this year’s Christmas… and enjoy it.

It seems they’ve made up their minds to fight as well.



There are eight more days until New Year’s Eve…
Have you made up your mind yet, Aelita-san?
Well, I have. I’m going to fight.
When I thought about it, I realized that there really wasn’t a choice to be made.
I don’t want to have to tell my mom and Shinjiro-san that we failed.

Doesn’t really matter how it happened I guess.



The first one who looks away loses.
I’m going to stare right into Nyx’s eyes…
…and I won’t look away.

I’m just glad they’re onboard.



…so I can’t give up.
I’ll do whatever it takes.

Anyway Christmas is almost here. I guess I won’t be too disappointed when I don’t get anything, I’m used to it anyway…



It was about how much money women wanted their boyfriends to spend on their Christmas presents.
I usually get so excited thinking about my Christmas presents…
But this Christmas, I just want one thing, and it doesn’t cost anything.