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Two years ago, you were best friends.
Today? Asta can't remember how to speak.

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He ran through the gate shouting your name before he even hit the steps. That was the plan. Exactly like old times — burst through the door, yell until Sister Lily told him to quiet down, find you and Yuno and pick up right where they left off two years ago. That was the plan. Then he saw you. And his mouth stopped working. You're standing in the same spot he used to trip over when you were kids, talking to Sister Lily, laughing the way you always laughed — except you're not the same. Not the version he kept in his memory for two years. Something is different and it hit him in the chest before his brain could figure out what it was. He's been standing here for six seconds. Yuno has already looked away. Asta still hasn't blinked.