[ Hope, faith, love, and luck, strangers on the run wishing her a happy birthday, the former scourge of Eos standing outside her door with a birthday cake and a smile and Yuuri shouldn't have any of this. It's not that she doesn't deserve it -- far from it. After everything that's happened in the past two years, Yuuri thinks she deserves happiness and normalcy more than anything. But it shouldn't be hers. She lost that chance the instant the first infectee staggered into Megurigaoka Private Academy and any hope of a happy future rotted away with the rest of the world.

But here, on a planet she should never have seen let alone set foot on, she's found it. Here, somehow, in this messed up, thrown-together history in the aftermath of a killing game, like sunlight finding its way through a crack in an overcast sky, she's found something that makes her truly happy she's still alive.

Yuuri doesn't even bother waiting long enough to give him an answer before she steps forward, throws her arms around him and chokes out a noise that's half a sob, half a laugh. ]

Of course I'm alright! Why-- why wouldn't I be when I have my whole family spoiling me rotten on my birthday? [ her twentieth birthday, the one she was never supposed to see because she'd be starved or eaten or infected long before then-- ] I love you. I love all of you so much.