WAH you two are wonderful!!! i'm aiming to app next round for sure!

[ We won, by the way. Delivered just so perfectly blasé, like he isn't just delivering news to Ryoji that threatens to rewrite the very nature of his understanding of humanity. Ryoji's knowledge is, as it stands now, incomplete, so much of that vast omnipotence slumbering with Nyx until the Promised Day, but even so...can it really be true?

He draws to a stop on the grass, a breeze tickling his cheek, eyes widening, jaw going slack as Minato steps forward and gives a soccer ball a little kick.

Just like that, humanity will keep moving forward, forging their own fate, away from that which was drawn by the Wheel of Fortune.

It takes him a moment to find his voice again, his lips moving soundlessly, before at last, he manages, with a gusty laugh: ]

You really did made it to spring...

[ ...He wants to ask how, needs to know how, but at the same time...

He's selfish, too, and that's an answer he isn't sure he's ready to face. ]

...I've...I've never been so glad, to be wrong.