>>25201095https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmzlWYOuPPo"D-Dio!?" Pharos utters, face to face with his partner in crime holding the aura back with all his might. "Y-You stayed.." he mumbles, before quickly regaining his senses and joining him in suppressing the blast. "N-No.. Why would you do such a thing!? Why did you not leave with the child?!"
"Gaaaaahhhhhh, you doddering codger!" Dio retorts with a hiss. "Did you really think for a fucking second that I was going to abandon you here of all places? What kind of friend do you take me for?!"
"I-I... I was merely—"
"We've only just reunited.. We spent what may as well been a lifetime and a half in that other world searching for each other. I turned the region upside-down, I checked every nook and cranny, but we always kept missing each other.. I tried to focus on our investigation.. but it was agonizing, every second of it.. I was lost deep down.. There were even times.. when I thought you had.."
Silence.
"Hrmm... Thought I had..?"
"Ne-Never mind! Shit, don't look at me like that! Like this isn't already hard enough to get off my chest!"
