Forty-second rebirth [Video]

...nice day, isn't it?

[It's not, really. Yuca is staring absently out the window, somehow deep in thought.]

Spring is coming soon. I want to plant more flowers with Rain- show him how. He'd like that, I think.

[He takes a deep breath, seemingly- not there. To those who don't know him extremely well, he just looks sleepy, or like he's just thinking about the flowers he's going to plant. But Yuca is rattled, uneasy, unsure. And what could possibly leave one as old as the world itself this shaken?]

Oh. Happy new year, I suppose.

[As an afterthought. Yuca glances toward the screen for a moment, before reaching over toward the PCD, and-]

[Filtered to Kurotsuchi || Unhackable]

Something is wrong. I might need your help- but you'd probably get a good study out of it too. Maybe? [He bites his lip.] I don't know-

[Filtered to Lucifer || Unhackable]

[He swallows hard and forces a look of indifference on his face and it's good- he's had years and years and years to practice.]

...why you, then, instead of Him? I don't recall ever asking for your help.

[But of course, he'd take it if it gave him what he wanted.]