It was quite common in my previous living arrangement. Social workers were switched out often, due to the intensity of the field. Don't you think that's interesting?
How stressful it must have been for them to deal with that environment. I can hardly imagine.
I suppose I wasn't considering social workers to be random strangers either, but I can see now where my error lies.
It's not surprising, though. There's a high turnover rate for a reason. It's a career that does nothing but put you front and center with the worst kinds of suffering a person can endure in our broken society, and despite everything, the system isn't actually built to support true change on an appreciable level. No matter how hard one tries to do right by their cases, it's more often than not thankless at best and impossible at worst.
It isn't a job that I could have done. I can say that with certainty.
Regardless - I'm sorry for making such a thoughtless remark.
It destroys most people, but you're far from normal and unburdened by barriers that stop most.
Everyone living there is aware of our situation. No one has false hope. No one thinks they'll end up achieving more than what's expected of an unwanted child.
You would achieve nothing on our behalf - the world is set up to be unjust and cruel.
But you would understand that. Accept it. Work with the means available to you and provide what you could without complaint. You aren't a person that would purvey a lie and you would listen.
I imagine we would see you in the kitchen instead of having to hound for scraps. It would be a pathetic sight.
[ A job like that might actually kill him, but– Akechi isn't wrong. Or at least, Maruki wants to believe that he isn't wrong.
Akechi calls him abnormal, useless, pathetic – but the compliment is in there, buried beneath all the weeds. So much of life with Akechi is like that. An untended garden that somehow still grows. ]
You know that I strive to be pathetic in everything that I do.
I might consider it. Does it pay better?
I'm joking, of course. I know that it doesn't.
The world that we're working toward won't have a need for such careers, but...
Well, it's good to know that there are options. Maybe. Thanks, Akechi.
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Unwanted children, for one.
It was quite common in my previous living arrangement. Social workers were switched out often, due to the intensity of the field. Don't you think that's interesting?
How stressful it must have been for them to deal with that environment. I can hardly imagine.
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I suppose I wasn't considering social workers to be random strangers either, but I can see now where my error lies.
It's not surprising, though. There's a high turnover rate for a reason. It's a career that does nothing but put you front and center with the worst kinds of suffering a person can endure in our broken society, and despite everything, the system isn't actually built to support true change on an appreciable level. No matter how hard one tries to do right by their cases, it's more often than not thankless at best and impossible at worst.
It isn't a job that I could have done. I can say that with certainty.
Regardless - I'm sorry for making such a thoughtless remark.
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Gross.
It is what it is. Maruki takes his small confessions of a life prior to this studio apartment to heart in a way Akechi can't fathom.
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Frankly, your job is thankless and irritating. Having to listen to the woes of teenagers all day is a pathetic excuse of a career.
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777 is having a sale today.
Meet me there this afternoon.
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And I will. Of course.
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A social worker.
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You don't mean that.
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It destroys most people, but you're far from normal and unburdened by barriers that stop most.
Everyone living there is aware of our situation. No one has false hope. No one thinks they'll end up achieving more than what's expected of an unwanted child.
You would achieve nothing on our behalf - the world is set up to be unjust and cruel.
But you would understand that. Accept it. Work with the means available to you and provide what you could without complaint. You aren't a person that would purvey a lie and you would listen.
I imagine we would see you in the kitchen instead of having to hound for scraps. It would be a pathetic sight.
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Akechi calls him abnormal, useless, pathetic – but the compliment is in there, buried beneath all the weeds. So much of life with Akechi is like that. An untended garden that somehow still grows. ]
You know that I strive to be pathetic in everything that I do.
I might consider it. Does it pay better?
I'm joking, of course. I know that it doesn't.
The world that we're working toward won't have a need for such careers, but...
Well, it's good to know that there are options. Maybe. Thanks, Akechi.
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I don't care what happens - if you succeed or fail, it's of no concern to me.
I'll see you at the konbini.
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It should be some concern to you if I fail. You'll have to consider getting a job. What a cruel, torturous reality...
See you there.