Gray Reverse's Card story – Friends from long ago

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Gray: ~~~♪

Buddy: Woof! Woof!

Gray: Are you enjoying the stroll, Buddy? The weather is nice today, so walking down the beach is so pleasant...

Buddy: Woof, woof! Woof!

Gray: Hm? Aah... I also look like I'm enjoying myself...?
Ah, haha... the thing is, I had the whole day off yesterday, so Billy-kun and I went to play laser tag...
It's something we decided long time ago, so I've really been looking forward to it... And well...

Buddy: Woof!

Gray: Yes, I'm happy...
I didn't have high hopes when I got admitted into HELIOS, but...
I'm really happy... I was able to spend a day off like that... to have made a friend...
Anyway, you're really something, Buddy. Nothing gets past you...

Buddy: Arf ♪

Gray: Fufu, I guess it's because we've been friends from long ago...
Your presence was the only ray of light for me when I had a hard time back at the academy...
You stayed by my side all the time and comforted me even when I flunked the tryouts...

Buddy: Ye~lp, ye~lp ♪

Gray: Ahahah, that tickles... You're heavy, don't jump on me, Buddy.
The first time I saw you, you were a puppy, but you're all grown up now...
How nostalgic... I was the one who fed you with milk, gave you treats, you couldn't do anything otherwise...
But now, I feel like the things you teach and make me realize have increased. 

Thank you always for everything, Buddy... ♪

Buddy: Woof, woof!

Gray: ... Hey, I wonder how do I look in your eyes?
I've become the "hero" I've always wanted to be... Of course I'm still a novice, but I've experienced a lot of different things so far...
Have I become a bit more like a "hero"...?

Buddy: ......

Gray: Ah, haha... it was a sudden question and you don't know how to answer...?
I've been living apart from you... and I can only see you once in a while during strolls like this and yetー

Buddy?: 「Well, duh... but, ye look decently better, no?」

Gray: What...

Buddy?: 「Ye had the jitters when ye first entered, I was wondering if ye were really taking it seriously to be honest, but...
Right now... maybe yer a bit better.」

Gray: Bu... Buddy? Did you... just talk, Buddy...?



Jet: (You're an idiot or what? It was me.)

Gray: JET!!!??

Jet: (You freak out too much... If ya thought about it for a sec, you woulda realized.
You didn't forget about me because I haven't showed up lately, havencha?
That ain't good... Alright, I'll replace you the whole day tomorrow.)

Gray: Absolutely not! Tomorrow is not good at all!

Jet: (Tch, I know already... You really can't take a joke.
You're going out with Billy, right? For hashtag or hash browns, somethin' like that.)

Gray: ...? You mean laser tag?

Jet: (It's the same.)

Gray: But they're both wrong... Also, what's with the way Buddy spoke...?

Jet: (Hah? I forgot how he's supposed to speak. Thought I'd mess with you and winged it.)

Gray: ......

Jet: (Haaaah... For real though, I haven't been able to show up at all lately.
Gray, pick more quarrels with that filthy pig. If you do that, I'll come out and beat the shit out of him.)

Gray: I absolutely can't do th- that either...

Jet: (Tch... You're getting cheekier and cheekier. Talking back to me of all people.)

Gray: Uuuh......

Jet: (Don't pussy out on me now.
I'm different from that filthy pig. I won't do anything even if you talk back.
Anyway, you're still on pins and needles? How many years ago did you attend the Academy?)

Gray: I- I mean... I am trying to understand that things are different from how they were then...
In fact, I feel like the environment has changed for the better...

Jet: (Environment you say, but isn't that filthy pig in the wrong?
You still get carried away, but it's true that you shushed up... Compared to how you were back at the Academy, that is. )

Gray: ...... Yeah...
Anyway, Jet... I know this is out of the blue, but do you know my Academy days?
I'm sure at the time you still didn't exist...

Jet: (Yeah... Like I said before, I am part of you. I only know what you see, hear or feel.
But... I can imagine what you saw, heard and felt before I was even born.)

Gray: Eh...

Jet: (All the memories you can remember are kept in your mental world.
They're filed one by one and if you look at those you can learn what happened so far.)

Gray: D- Did you look at my memories... without permission...?

Jet: (What, you got a problem with that? Didn't I say I'm part of you?
I haven't looked through all of them, of course, but I check them to kill time. I have enough time to waste after all.
In fact, I know things that mutt doesn't.
Especially that your first love was an anime character, that you wet your bed till you were big enoughー)

Gray: Waaaahhhhh......!?

Jet: (Oi, shut up. You don't want to be reported as a freak at the beach, right?)

Gray: Gh...

Jet: (But well, tht's how things are. I can also peep into your memories as I please.
Kuku... it's so funny cuz it seems like I've got something on you. I'll come out once in a while to flap my guns about your dark past.
There are still a lot of files I haven't read, I should kill time by looking through thosー)

Gray: ...... Hey, Jet.

Jet: (Huuh?)

Gray: What you said earlier... about me looking decently better compared to how I was back at the Academy, was that true?

Jet: (Haah...?)

Gray: You said that pretending to be Buddy, but those were your words, right...?

Jet: (.......... I ain't said that.)

Gray: You did...!

Jet: (Did not.)

Gray: Uuuuh......

Jet: (Hah, this is getting annoyin'. Ask the rest to that mutt. See ya.)

Gray: Wai-... Jet?
Aah... I can't hear him anymore...

Buddy: Woof! Woof!

Gray: Buddy...
You're the only one who knows me well, after all.

Buddy: Arf! ♪