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Really? Since you clearly don't have a problem using his personal phone to contact me instead of contacting me with your own, then you can go ahead and scroll up through our chat history to see that people known as Tabibito, Tylorific, and Mithrun were also there. Those obviously aren't their real names, and I don't know what they are, so you'll have to ask your brother himself. Lucas.

And good, so you do know. That company is fishy as hell. Your brother's probably going to be out of commission for a while with lots of free time after this. Just make sure he doesn't spend too much time in the game.

I am using what means our family currently has to settle affairs so that, when my brother is awake, he does not have a hundred of you demanding answers from him that he cannot give while he should be in recovery. This also does not answer my question your role in this, nor why you in particular were with them.

How he spends his free time is not my concern, so long as he is not personally suffering for it. Given how large and influential CCCorp has become, I don't believe "fishy" is something that should be thrown around lightly.

[ It's at this point Hector pauses to laugh at himself. He sounds like a fucking nutcase, doesn't he?

Fine. All the more reason to handle this on his own. ]

Okay. lol.

[ Anyway. To his first point, which every word makes Hector more and more irritated: ]

I don't think you need to worry about "a hundred of us." And by "us" I mean the friends he's made through the beta. I live nearby and he invited me to his game. Thought I'd go to show my support. That's all.

Edited 2023-09-17 09:20 (UTC)

[A long, long pause.]

Your support is welcomed. It matches what he spoke to you about.

The beta is not the only group currently seeking answers here, Mr. Mehmet. My brother has already lost a good deal of privacy on this matter with how fast the footage is already spreading. If I let just anyone in, the amount of press that may very well come swarming in with them would affect more than just him. His brothers are already being called by complete strangers. We already have reporters on my property. If they learn you've seen him, they will treat all of you the same.

I cannot have that.

I have a family to protect. So I do not care how many of you there are, or how much you care. It could may as well be a million.

My brothers are more important than your collective feelings. Save those for when the boy can speak for himself again.

Edited 2023-09-17 14:34 (UTC)

[ Damn. If Hector had the magical power of reaching through a phone screen to strangle someone, he'd be using it now. He almost throws his phone into the woods instead, but exercises impeccable restraint, and doesn't.

His eyes just glaze over all this text... His thumbs lose the will to type. ]

Ok 👍

[oh ur one of THOSE people smh]

If he is coherent in the morning, visiting hours will be open tomorrow. If you wish to be allowed up, a full name will suffice for me to provide to security. No cameras permitted.

Until then, you will need to exercise some patience.

I'm not the person you should be talking to, then. I'm already back in Sequoia and won't have time to visit tomorrow.

Well wishes and a speedy recovery to him, though.

Then I will pass that along.

If there are any other concerns, send them through the university and we will address them in light of his recovery. UC of Berkeley will issue a statement in regards to his injury as soon as the surgeons have cleared information for public release.

Until then. Good evening.

[Lucas will not respond any further.]

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