[ MY NOTIFS

he goes on for a good while; by the end of it, he's panting and sweating, though he clearly isn't fatigued, or even roughed up all that much. he wipes some blood off the side of his mouth (it's hard to tell if it's his own or that of the simulated thugs)...

and only then does he realize there's someone else with him. it's almost like a switch is flipped as his demeanor shifts to the much more familiar friendly, somewhat doofy ichiban. though... you know. still bloodied and standing over smashed up thugs. ]

Oh...shit. Uh, hi, Todo-chan. [ beat ] Matsuno-san.

[ ah. raises his hand slightly in a half-wave. ]

Whichever, it doesn't really matter to me. [ ... ] Though it might be better not to call me the same thing you called the other me.

Heh... Katie was the opposite. She didn't want to call me anything different than, well, my name.

Well, I think you're just kind of you no matter what timeline you're in. I'm not sure how much I'm like the one you know, though, so... you know, it might be better to think of us as different people.

[ but then tomorrow he will literally be that other version of himself, thanks au week ]

Nah, I get it. If you want a fresh start, I can roll with that.