TRIAL 6 - DEATH OF AZ, MIU SUMIKO, AND CAMERON RAIDER - YUUKA'S EXECUTION - MASTERMIND TRIAL
Ping pong pang pong~
The final bell rang, calling all of the students back into Oval Castle for the final trial. As you enter do you notice that like always, the background is off. The atmosphere is far more heavier than any other trial. This time it looks like you're in a factory of sorts. Of course you don't pay attention to this at all and just focus on getting this trial done.
It's the last one, and after a week you've gathered enough evidence and have an idea in mind about just who the mastermind could be. It's been a long eleven weeks. And who would have thought that just eleven weeks ago you thought you'd be entering one of the greatest schools in all of Japan!
Now you've just been a pawn in the despair game.
The monotouned bear sits upon the usual throne of his. This was the same bear that had started it all--but was also the one that Candy had called out on for 'actin weird'. Just what was going on?!
[UPUPUPU. SO THIS IS EVERYONE LEFT HUH? AHHH WHAT A SHAME THAT SO MANY OF YOU ARE STILL ALIVE!]
[THOUGH YOU ALL KNOW IF YOU STILL GUESS THIS ONE WRONG THAT YOU'RE ALL DEAD! SAME RULES STILL APPLY]
OH AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIAL CIRCLE IS A PLATE OF POTATO KNISHES
WITH A LITTLE CARD SAYING "FOR HOTARU"
Haruko: So... I understand someone left puns near the bodies.
Eirik nodded. "Yup. And I've got them all right here."
Emi/Mitsuo is carrying a bloody axe. "The mastermind abducted them from their rooms and killed them, then punned about it..."
Sour Candy: "Puns? What were they?"
Ray: "Mm?"
Eirik passes them around the room.
Phoebe: "Bad"
Satine: "What a amusing person. Except I don't really feel like laughing. They'll pay for taking her away."
Candy laughs at each of the puns because she is a nerd.
Ray: "Well this ain't appropriate."
Mitsuo Kodaira: This is why they're standing next to Satine. They appreciate her.
Eirik nodded. "You ready to nail this asshole to the wall?"
Satine: "Hell yeah I am!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: "… Can we do worse...?"
Imasaru: The dog is just eating his peaches thank u ray
Eirik has his spear. "After we nail them to the wall. They'll still be breathing."
Ray: Good dog.
Haruko: When I overheard that, I immediately returned to my room to try and find anything that might have the clown's handwriting on it.
Akifumi: Loud sniffling of robot child can be heard. Wow.
Haruko: Unfortunately, that didn't pan out.
Ray: "Wowie, ya guys sure are... prepared for this."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "Oh. I like that plan, then."
Eirik nodded. "Hey, speaking of handwriting. Can I have those puns back a minute?"
Haruko: As you might infer from that, I was hoping to determine if this was a case of murder-suicide on behalf of the clown.
Imasaru: "Everyone got to investigate aside from us...Candy thought...I'd just mess everything up." He mumbles to Ray
Phoebe Casella: "The clown didn't do it."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "The mastermind obviously killed them." They swing their axe around to make their point.
Haruko: Can you prove it wasn't the clown?
Phoebe Casella: "Right, we found the murder weapon that presumably killed AZ in their secret room under the teacups ride."
Ray: "Cameron died around the same time, didn't they?"
"Yeah. Within the minute," Eirik reported.
Ray: "So it'd kinda be hard to kill while being killed at the same time."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "They all died in the same minute."
"Plus, I found some things that would suggest it wasn't just another student who did it," Eirik remarked.
Mitsuo Kodaira: "… Or so the report says."
Haruko: How do you know it was the killer who hid the weapon?
Eirik: "We don't have access to chloroform or cyanide, do we?"
Haruko: Perhaps the mastermind came by and cleaned up the scene afterwards.
Emi: "There was a trail of… of blood, leading from the cafe to the teacups..."
Phoebe Casella: "Okay, but then how did they all die within the same minute"
Akifumi: "M...Maybe t-they planned this f-for awhile?"
Sour Candy: "Prob'ly"
Ray: "Something very unfortunate?"
Emi: "Alternatively… the mastermind controls our IDs. What's to stop them from lying?"
Phoebe Casella: "Right."
Imasaru: "So you're saying....the times could all just be wrong?"
Eirik nodded. "That is true. Especially if they were just grabbing for an advantage."
Emi: "Yes. Either way, we know the same person abducted them from their rooms and killed them."
Ray: "Then why'd they leave all the other stuff? I didn't investigate much but I saw a lotta things happening."
"Someone with access to chloroform and cyanide," Eirik added.
Haruko: Chloroform?
Haruko: Who had chloroform used on them?
"Yup." Eirik pulled out the bottle. "In AZ's room."
Haruko: Judging by the... facial expression... they were conscious upon decapitation.
Phoebe Casella: "Eir body could have just been set up that way."
Emi: "Aye… nothing to stop the mastermind from tampering."
Haruko just kind of shudders and tries not to gag at that idea.
Haruko: Okay, well... the last victim was poisoned, yes?
Imasaru: "Uhm..." Chewing on the peach nervously was the canine still quite hesitant to speak. Due to not investigating too much, he had noted a few things. "If I may uhm, interject."
"Found that in her room." Eirik pulls out the bottle.
Eirik: "Go for it."
Imasaru: "Since we're on the topic of AZ's head, did anyone take note of the plate it was on?"
Phoebe Casella: "No."
“Wasn't it missing from the cabinet in the maid cafe?" Eirik wondered aloud.
"I think I saw someone looking in there, so maybe." Eirik sighed.
Haruko: Why is the plate important?
Imasaru: "It uhm..."Eats some more of the peach before finishing it. "It just seemed like worthy evidence?"
Imasaru: "It's alright if it's not."
Phoebe Casella: "It's just a plate from the cafe, right?"
Eirik: "Perhaps it was a message?"
"Catch." Ray throws a part of peach over to Imasaru. Good boy.
Imasaru: "Perha-- A-Ah...Thank you." Small nod to Ray.
Sour Candy: "A message? What kinda message?"
Eirik: "...that, I don't know. I was just throwing out ideas."
Haruko: Speaking of plates, has no one noticed the one in the middle of the room right now?
Sour Candy: "It seems..uh..wha's the word...plauible?" Close enough.
Haruko: What does that card say?
Emi: "No, we have. Another monument to this Hotaru person."
Haruko: Does anyone know who that is?
Ray: "There was something like this before, right?"
Eirik: "Do you remember the portraits in the maid cafe?"
Emi: "Yes, in the secret room that originally stored the bodies."
Eirik: "She was the one with hearts all over the glass. At least that's what we've come up with."
Emi: "The teacup ride has a shrine to her-- but it's knocked over and the candles are unlit. Also, Crystal-san said the voice in her head mentioned Hotaru to her before she was executed."
Haruko: Voice in her head?
Eirik: "That was the week with the voices."
Haruko: Yes, but... I thought they only told us things we knew already.
Eirik: "It was after she killed Greg, if I remember."
Eirik: "She said it started egging her on. Mentioned Hotaru."
Emi: "After praising her over and over, the voice told her stories of her past life. She didn't know… but apparently she'd killed in that life, too. It was also saying some stuff about a girl named Hotaru, which she found strange, since she knew no one by that name."
Haruko: Past life?
Emi: "… I believe… our memories may have been taken from us."
Haruko: What?!
Eirik: "...that's what I was thinking too."
Haruko: Memories of what? Of this Hotaru person?
Emi: "None of us remember waking up in the classroom, or those photographs of us being taken. That talk about a 'past life'…"
Eirik: "So that 'past life' is just our missing memories."
Candy let out a snort. "What proof do ya have o' that besides some small things. I still believe we're on drugs 'r somethin'."
Emi: "Alternatively, we're all high and in a shared hallucination or fever dream." They sound as deadpan as ever saying this.
Imasaru: "If they were taken away...that'd explain alot of the voices that we heard in the past few weeks"
Phoebe Casella: "I'm not sure which sounds worse."
Ray: "Oh."
Eirik: "And having a hallucination is one thing, but who has ever heard of a shared one?"
Eirik: "Anyone have any evidence to the contrary of memory loss?"
Candy raised her arm. "Some kids I used ta hang around said they had one o' those once. I never experienced it and they could be lyin' but still."
Phoebe Casella: "Memory loss, sounds more realistic I would think."
Eirik: "Anecdotal evidence doesn't fly in court, sorry." You are really getting into this, Eirik. The drummer gripped his spear.
Haruko: ...We won't get anywhere talking about this. We have to figure out these murders.
Eirik: "...right. The murders."
Haruko: Did anyone find the poison?
Eirik raises his hand.
Haruko: Where was it?
Eirik: "In Miu's room." He hands the bottle to Haruko after walking over.
Haruko: In plain view?
Emi: "The mastermind didn't even bother cleaning up the blood trail." They would know these things.
Haruko: Would it have been planted there after the fact? Because if not, that would mean she died of poisoning despite clearly being able to see a bottle of cyanide left in her room.
Ray: "It's almost like they want us to figure it out, ya know?"
Eirik: "Like I said earlier, I think they're making it obvious they did it and banking on us not knowing their identity."
Emi: "We have to figure out who they are now. Or… well, we die. It's the best-case scenario for them."
Eirik: "So we're all in agreement that the mastermind is the guilty party here?"
Haruko: Here's the issue. With this new evidence, the only one of the three victims who we can be certain was killed by a third party is AZ.
Phoebe Casella: "Alright, then can you show me where the cyanide is stored in this theme park?"
Eirik: "There is a ton of evidence to indicate a struggle in eir room, so there's no doubt someone targeted em specifically," Eirik stated. "Plus, ey have had eir own room since the first trial."
Emi: "There was a slight trail of blood outside Miu's room. As well as slight signs of a struggle, as evidenced by the red hair strands."
Haruko: If Miu had the poison clearly in her room, she could have taken it intentionally. And I measured, Cameron was definitely standing on one of the chairs before it was removed.
Phoebe Casella: "Or, it was set up like that. The mastermind poisoned Miu in her room, and left the bottle there. Then moved her body."
Eirik: "In the end, Cameron is the only one remotely debatable."
Ray: "Couldn't ya account for the height of stuff with a chair too?"
Haruko: That's exactly what I said.
Haruko: I checked. The heights match up. Cameron was standing on a chair.
Emi: "I don't think that with two others abducted and dying at 6:35 A.M. in the nightmare cafe, that Cameron's death was a mistake, or suicide."
Emi: "Also, creepy notes. And the axe found in the mastermind's little corpse party."
Eirik: "Yup. There was a pun for each of them."
Haruko: Someone left stupid puns next to dead bodies! Who else besides an evil clown would do that?!
Imasaru: "Maybe the mastermind...?"
Eirik: "The mastermind?"
Phoebe Casella: "I don't think there's any point in arguing about the murders, they were clearly made to not be figured out. What matters most is figuring out the Mastermind."
Emi: "If you don't stop speaking nonsense and interfering with our investigation, I will decapitate you." Absolutely serious tone.
Sour Candy: "Maybe people who like puns?" She shrugged.
Ray: "Cameron wasn't evil, I think!"
Ray: "Ahh... I think we should also avoid killing anyone else."
Satine: "Watch it Emi, they may suspect you."
Phoebe Casella: "I agree with Mitsuo. Please be quiet."
Eirik: "They didn't strike me as malicious either," Eirik remarked. "But let's get on task."
Haruko: How are we supposed to figure out who the mastermind is if we can't solve the murders?
Haruko: I'm only bringing up possibilities.
Phoebe Casella: "We have other evidence besides the bodies."
Phoebe Casella: "Like well...Different bodies."
Emi is literally holding a bloody axe now they will decapitate a motherfucker. "… Originally thirty-four, now thirty-three bodies."
Haruko: One vanished?
Eirik: "Exactly. We've been investigating for at least a week."
Ray is definitely not in favor of Emi decapitating a motherfucker
Emi: "Yes. Either Uta Akamatsu or Yuuka Himura's body disappeared. The first was never there to begin with."
Eirik: "And we were shooed out of that room before we could identify all the corpses."
Imasaru: "That must mean one of them is the mastermind..."
Eirik: "Then when it opened up, the corpses were in a pile with other corpses."
Emi: "Which I now realise was an illegal move on Monobear's part."
Emi: "Monobear-san must be getting desperate."
Haruko: Why didn't anyone bring that up before?
[EXCUSE]
Haruko: It would have been helpful to know that the culprit was narrowed down to two people, neither of whom we were suspecting!
Emi: "The supervising teacher may not interfere with the activities of the students unless a rule is broken."
Emi: "No rule was broken, or we would already have been dead the moment we set foot in that place."
Phoebe Casella: "We would have known who it was a while ago if the bear hadn't broken it's own rules. That's pretty sad."
Emi: "If you're not the supervising teacher, you had no right to kill Uta or Yuuka, and our ID cards have not been updated."
[A-AH...THAT'S--]
Emi: "You can't even play by the rules of your own game and you expect us to..."
Phoebe Casella: "Anyway, Mitsuo tell everyone what you found while investigating Uta."
Eirik: "Yeah. You and Candy looked around for that trapdoor, right?"
Sour Candy: "Yeah."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Right. Yes. Investigation. They /got this/. "Uta Akamatsu was crushed to death by three pianos outside of the castle for 'snooping'-- going into a forbidden place, as evidenced by a locked door. We never saw the body. I checked the scene of the execution for any trapdoors or ought that could have been used to preserve their life instead of crushing them, but nothing was found."
Haruko: I can't believe we went for most of an hour without anyone bringing this up. This is the most inefficient discussion I've ever been a part of!
Emi: "Decapitation or silence."
Sour Candy: "When we looked 'round this room the other day, I found that the trap door pink lady fell through was covered up. Wasn' able to pry it open."
Emi: "Different flooring has been used to replace it."
Eirik Storstrand: "Which is suspicious in itself."
Emi: "In her case, however, there was /decidedly/ a trap door, and we never saw her body."
Emi: "Nor do we have conclusive proof of what happened to her."
Haruko: So you began the trial knowing exactly who the mastermind was. Open with that next time!
Satine: "Chill. They had to explain themselves."
Phoebe Casella: "You know, if we three come in here and say 'this is the mastermind and why', doesn't that sound pretty suspicious?"
Emi's grip tightens on the axe. What did they just say.
Emi: "The last time I did that, no one believed me that Orochi-san was the killer."
Emi: "Incidentally, he was the killer."
Phoebe Casella: "Exactly, the best way is to explain it as it goes."
Haruko: Quit with your empty threats. We all know you're not going to kill me in the middle of a trial.
Ray: "It was a reasonable lead up, really!"
Phoebe Casella: "They might."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Phoebe would know. They had a fucking knife to her throat.
Phoebe Casella: "Anyway, if we could please continue to what Eirik and I found."
Ray: "Whether ya think that they would or not, I'd rather not provoke them, ya know?"
Haruko: Yes, go on.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Listening intensifies.
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. It's pretty compelling stuff. We found it in Yuuka and Shima's room."
Phoebe Casella: "Shima wasn't there, so we were able to rip the room apart without much of a hassle."
Eirik Storstrand: "I stripped Yuuka's bed and found this journal." He holds it up so everyone could see. "The writer seems to be Yuuka's mother."
Haruko: What does it say?
Phoebe Casella: "It's pretty messed up, her mother talks about Yuuka's mental illness, her playing with roadkill and all those lovely things. I think it also implies she killed another child."
Eirik Storstrand: "The entries were centered around the writer more or less conveying fear of her own daughter. The name was scribbled out, but considering Yuuka had it..."
Eirik Storstrand: "And does anyone remember what she was like during the third trial?"
Haruko: That's... rather damning evidence...
Ray: "I just remember her being... really unhappy."
Satine: "I knew that bitch was wack."
Emi: "Yuuka-san told me during the insecurities motive that she was bipolar-- two girls in the same body, she put it. She was crying and pulling her hair and begging for the 'other girl' not to come out."
Eirik Storstrand: "So we think the 'other girl' was seen during the third investigation."
Imasaru: "I...had mentioned to Yuuka that we were two in the same for that slight reason?"
Emi: "The next time I saw her, she tried to get me to help her saw Daniel's arm off."
Imasaru: "But it's not important.."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Well you were both horrible to Daniel's body.
Haruko: So, with all this evidence pointing towards Yuuka Himura being the mastermind... is there anything to the contrary?
Satine: "As much as I can believe it, we need to be careful. If we aren't right, we're all screwed."
Eirik Storstrand: "Anyway, we figure Yuuka hid Uta's body to give herself some wiggle room and lend some doubt to her identity as the mastermind."
Emi: "Because we did talk quite openly about the three potential candidates."
Sour Candy: "Weren' the plates in the maid cafe painted real nice too? Didn' she like. Paint ceramics 'r somethin'?"
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah... Yeah she did."
Emi: "Ceramics Artist."
Haruko: So, what now? Are we all convinced it's her?
Eirik Storstrand: "I wanna look at something before we proceed..."
Phoebe Casella: "I'm not sure actually...Do we vote?"
Emi: "Yes, Eirik-san?"
[UPUPUPU. DOES THIS MEAN YOU'RE ALL READY TO VOTE ON WHO YOU THINK IT IS?]
Eirik then proceeds to take the 'sacrifice' note from Hotaru's portrait out of his pocket to compare to the pun notes. Does the handwriting match?
[Yes they do.]
Sour Candy: "Should we...vote now...?
Ray: "I think."
Eirik Storstrand: "This was just a confirmation that the mastermind is behind the murders. I'm just being sure."
Satine: "if you guys are certain, I sure am. Let's pop this bitch!"
Akifumi: "S..So v-v-vulgar..."
Mitsuo Kodaira: They head back over to their podium with the buttons to press, then hit one before immediately returning to Satine's side.
Eirik presses his button solemnly, gripping his spear.
Satine: As she waited for the conclusion, Satine slipped a protective arm around Emi. As if she was protecting family.
Mitsuo Kodaira: E-eh…? They're startled, but… lean into her. Still clutching the axe.
Imasaru: http://dangan-refrain.tumblr.com/post/103334756035/nice-guess-the-mastermind-appears
Haruko: I suppose you're the "other girl", then.
Satine began to laugh. it was more hallow, but still held that wildness to it, like how she would laugh when this entire thing started.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Satine, you're still holding them, right? Because they're fighting against her grip, knife out in their hand. They are ready to /murder her/. Yuuka, that is.
Imasaru: Oops. Fresh out of peaches.
Satine: She slinked her arms around them. "Now, I know it's tempting but don't...We must stand strong."
Eirik gripped the spear tightly, helmet still on and glaring forward. "Where the hell's my cape?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: "I'm going-- kill--" Their voice isn't exactly sane right now.
Yuuka: "UPUPUPUPU!"
Yuuka: "The looks on your faces are absolutely adorable~!"
Yuuka: She kicks her legs, laughing to herself again.
Ray makes his way over to Emi. Just in case.
Candy makes that >:O face.
Imasaru: Low dog growling
Yuuka: >:O
Eirik Storstrand: "I asked where my cape was. I want an answer." Surprisingly, his voice is the definition of calm.
Yuuka: "Huh? Do you think I'll give a shit about that piece of cloth?"
Haruko: Now what? This means you die, doesn't it, mastermind?
Haruko: Or are you breaking your own rules again?
Yuuka: "No way!"
Eirik Storstrand: "It was there when we left. It was gone when I came back."
Sour Candy: "Knowin' her, she will."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Yes. They're fighting against Satine's grip to get at Yuuka and murder the shit out of her. Let them go they will kill-
Satine: She tighted the grip. "It's gonna be over soon. It's gonna be over soon..." She kept murmurring to Emi, hoping it'll calm them down.
Yuuka: "Kyahahaha! I'll break all the rules I want!"
Phoebe Casella: Phoebe crosses her arms and glares at Yuuka. "Right, so what happens now?"
Yuuka: "I'm the MASTERMIND."
Eirik Storstrand: "Good for you."
Yuuka: "I made this little game."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "Let me go! I'm going to-- I'll kill her!"
Haruko: So what? Are you going to kill us all for learning your secret?
Yuuka: "I can bend the rules however I want."
Yuuka: "Huh. I could."
Satine: "I won't let you die! Not for Nami! She's watching over us right now, and she's worried sick that she's about to lose her cherished Emi! So stop it...Stop it...You need to live for us..."
Yuuka: "But I'll hold that off for now!"
Phoebe Casella: "Or we could let Mitsuo go and they'll kill her."
Ray: "Or we can get answers before that stuff happens?"
Yuuka: "Ah. Don't think of attacking me."
Yuuka: "I have protection."
Yuuka: "And the key to get~ out~"
Mitsuo Kodaira: If you think they're anything but suicidally homicidal right now you are wrong.
There didn't seem to be much anger left in Eirik. His nose was wrinkled. He was biting down on his lip. All that there was on his face was bitter disgust. "How about you do us a favor and explain everything then?"
Akifumi: "M-M-Mitsuo-- c-calm down!"
Satine is using all her strength.
Phoebe is now worried that Satine won't be enough to hold them back and goes and stands by Emi too.
Yuuka just laughs again. Holy shit this is amazing.
Ray: "Satine do you need help?"
Yuuka: "The looks on your faces are driving me insane!"
Satine: "T-Thanks." She grimaced. "Whatever you do, don't let him out of your grip."
Akifumi: "W-Wh-Why does sh...she keep laughing..U-uuu..sc-scary.."
Satine: "yeah, if you don't mind..." Wow, Satine was being nice now.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Snarling computer nerd is… at least not hitting people with the axe? Yet? Though they've nearly stabbed Ray while flailing.
Ray holds onto Emi, though they don't seem very phased by the dangers of doing so.
Eirik Storstrand: "...I don't know, but she better hope I have shitty aim." He was still gripping his spear.
Yuuka: "Eew."
[The commotion in the room is broken by the sounds of something exploding outside.]
Yuuka: "EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW."
Imasaru: Quietly, he slinks over beside Candy, who is next to Yuuka
Yuuka: "Don't mention that disgusting word."
Yuuka: "-?!"
[The explosions become a little louder.]
Eirik Storstrand: "How mature," the drummer remarked. "What word?"
Yuuka: "Shit-"
Haruko ducks and cowers in place.
Ray: "What?"
Eirik still has his spear at the ready.
Phoebe Casella: "!?"
Candy raises an eyebrow and raises her hand. "CAN I GO SEE WHAT THAT NOISE IS."
Ray: "Please do."
Imasaru lets out a low growl, reaching out to grasp onto Candy's arm.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Explosions…? They don't care. Explosions aren't murdering Yuuka. She needs to die. Now, preferably.
Akifumi: "U-UUuuu...i-its re-really loud..."
Imasaru: "Go."
Yuuka is keeping a close eye on the axe girl.
Eirik Storstrand: "You need backup?" Eirik is brandishing his spear.
Satine: "Emi no!" Satine would not give up. "I'll die before losing you. I said this before and I'll say it again."
Candy runs out of the room, dragging Imasaru with her. What the fuck is that exploding noise.
Yuuka: "You are all leaving so soon?"
Yuuka: "What a shame!'
Mitsuo Kodaira: They continue to not be a girl. Not right now, anyway. "Fucking-- kill--"
Haruko: She's activated some kind of self-destruct switch! We're all dead!
Yuuka: May have fucked up the pronouns in the heat of the moment. Gomen
Phoebe helps Satine and Ray hold Mitsuo back.
Eirik Storstrand: "We've had enough of your bullshit." Again, it was all disappointment and utter disgust. "Weeks too much."
Yuuka: "Awww!"
Yuuka: "But I thought you liked me Eirik!"
Yuuka: "What a shame! I thought we were friends."
Yuuka: Grins.
Mitsuo Kodaira: A quarter of the cast is now restraining them. Bloody brilliant.
Sour Candy: http://dangan-refrain.tumblr.com/post/103335534895/after-hearing-the-explosions-and-candy-dragging
Eirik Storstrand: "The irony of that coming out of your mouth is incredible."
Eirik Storstrand: "I shoulda killed you when you asked me to."
Yuuka: "Tch."
Yuuka: "If you had done that, I would have killed you first."
Satine: "W-What's going on?!" Satine heard people shouting, but she didn't dare to lose focus on Emi.
Mitsuo Kodaira: "…" They stop flailing, if only because they're not sure which people to kill now.
Akifumi: "M...More people! O-Ohhh...O-Oh goodness..."
Phoebe Casella: Phoebe quickly looked over her shoulder at the new people in the courtroom. "Wha-"
Ray: "....Were those explosions really necessary?"
Yui: "Yup!"
Faye: "It's all about dramatic effect, right?!"
Emi: "Who are you and why are you not dead."
"Except you aren't much without the robots," Eirik remarked. There was a little bit of snark now.
Masato: Ahem. Let's make this quick, shall we? We have a third-rate derivative to depose.
Eirik Storstrand: "Who the hell are these guys?"
Emi: "… You're from the pictures!"
Yuuka: "I don't remember allowing uninvited guests into my game."
Eirik is still gripping his spear too. He really likes that thing.
Phoebe Casella: "Ah! They are!"
Yui: "I don't remember giving you permission to mess up our plan!"
Tiamo: Sorry doll, but we're here to crash this party!~
Faye: "Eh? You have photos of us?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: They decide that these people must be for killing too, but that Yuuka is prioritised, so goes back to trying to get away from their captors to murder the shit out of-- well, anyone.
Yuuka: "It's my plan now you idiots!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...oh yeah. I didn't look at those pictures too close, besides that one of that Hotaru..."
Satine latches on. Never lettin go better than Rose to Jack.
Yuuka: "You don't think that the wonderful work of the almightly Hotaru-sama would simply stop?"
Ray is still trying to help hold them back because wow having them brandish an axe in this situation is really not an ideal right now.
Eirik Storstrand: "So wait a second. We still don't know who in hell this Hotaru is."
Candy: "Um, yeah, 'scuse me but uh. We still don' know who this Hotaru is."
Yuuka suddenly stands up.
Mitsuo Kodaira: They have an axe and a knife and are powered by fury. There are six targets here. "She was in the… last game, no? Presumably as the evil one..."
Masato: You didn't think this plebian came up with this on her own, did you?
Yuuka: "Well of course not! I wouldn't want you to be stealing my work!"
Yuuka: "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me-?!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...someone mind explaining who Hotaru is before I start using this thing?"
Yuuka: "Oh right, we should get rid of that."
Ray: "Someone please!"
Satine: SHINEDOWN
Eirik Storstrand: Keep in mind, Eirik is brandishing a spear and wearing a viking helmet.
Yuuka snaps her fingers and points to Eirik.
Yuuka: "Doggie, can you do me a super nice favor?"
Imasaru: --????
Masato: Chinatsu Hotaru is the true mastermind behind this plot. Before her death, she pulled the exact same stunt as this one.
Tiamo: Oh just the mastermind from OUR mutal killing, no need to worry she's history
Imasaru: Just kinda eyes Yuuka
Akifumi: "D-Dog?!" loud whimpering noises from Akifumi.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Oh huh. They have viking chest armour on. The killing-urge people are doing great here.
Satine: "Sounds llike you guys need better help."
Eirik Storstrand: Phoebe is the only one who abandoned hers. Where oh where is the cape?
Phoebe Casella: Phoebe is a disgrace
Mitsuo Kodaira: Phoebe also has the least cool weapon.
Eirik Storstrand: Yes
Yuuka: "Fetch!"
Masato: Now, apparently, this hack has chosen to hijack our organization's plan in order to create a derivative, unoriginal repeat of Hotaru's overly complex and uninspired scheme.
Eirik tightened his grip. "Try it."
Imasaru: "F...etch?"
Masato punctuates this by pointing his cane at Yuuka.
Emi: "Quick question-- you five. Are you the good guys?"
Yuuka: "Unoriginal? Have you seen your outfits?"
Faye: "T-These are designer!"
Yui gasps. How dare.
Eirik rolls his eyes. "Alright, let's get down to the point." He points his spear at the strangers. "Introduce yourselves."
Masato: As a matter of fact, yes. We are the "good guys". Unlike you lot.
Ray: "What do ya mean?"
Akifumi: "...W-Wait...W-We're n-not good? I-I.."
Emi: "Great. Eirik, who needs to die?"
Yuuka begins to laugh again.
Yuuka: "YOU ALL NEED TO DIE."
Yui perks up. "Oh right!!! We didn't introduce ourselves!!!" She strikes a pose. "Yui Maki, former SHSL Mangaka!"
Satine: "What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Notice none of the remainders, besides the pink bitch, killed."
Phoebe Casella: "Rude, we've been working hard to keep everyone alive. And we haven't killed anyone yet either. So we're pretty okay I think."
Emi: "I can get behind that plan as long as you do too!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: Struggling intensifies.
Masato: My name is Masato Sakamoto. Super High School Level Critic. Haven't you figured out who you are yet? Has she not told you?
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. I haven't killed anyone, and I had a spear in my room this entire time."
Ray: "Uhh... no?"
Faye: "Aha, that isn't very nice Miss Yuuka!"
Satine: "I'll never let go, Emi!" *Rose voice*
Tiamo: "oooh right. introductions. Tiamo Mutilator, former SHSL Crime Artist~"
Faye: "Ah! My name is Faye Blanc , and I'm a Super High School Level Harpist!"
Tiamo: "...oh and Elyse Brooks, former SHSL Animator, other personality and all."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "… why. Why won't you let me…" Crazy SHSLs. From pictures. Who might be the good guys, but they're the bad guys, who the fuck is anyone they should just start murdering.
Eirik Storstrand: "...so that's who people kept voting for."
Kyouki Anrui: I'm Kyouki Anrui, former Super High School Level Assassin."
Masato: And as for the lot of you... each and every one of you is Super High School Level Despair!
Ray: "Desp...air?"
Haruko: What?!
Emi: "… No, I'm a computer technician."
Phoebe Casella: "What is that supposed to mean?"
Yuuka: "He's right!"
Ray: "What do you mean by that?"
Masato: Your memories.
Emi: "Ray is literally the opposite of despair."
Eirik stared at Masato. "I'm a drummer. Don't know where you get that."
Yuuka: "You are all part of Hotaru-sama's wonderful team!"
Satine: "I'll let you kill if all hope seems lost. But we may have a chance..."
Yui sighs. "Every single one of you helped Miss Hotaru."
Yuuka: She throws her arms out and laughs.
Emi: "All hope is--" Wait. What. Blink.
Satine: "...I don't know what you're talking about. How can we help someone we never knew?"
Yuuka: "Hotaru-sama is the ultimate despair! And I am her most loyal follower!"
Eirik shook his head. He wasn't having it.
Emi: "Memory loss. Past lives. Crystal was a killer..."
Masato: After Hotaru's death, we captured as many of her minions in the outside world as possible. We then proceeded to wipe your memories.
Yuuka: "Those five awful people stole your memories!"
Emi: "Minions?!" That's the word they're offended by.
Yuuka: "Thankfully! I managed to get mine back!"
Phoebe shook her head, no no. "That can't be right, I collect dolls."
Yui gasps again, more dramatic this time. "Awful?"
Akifumi: "M...Me...Mories...? L-Like t-the sm-small ones I-I got o-of Sh-Shi shi!!”
Ray: "Wha-? I'm confused! I just deliver mail."
Eirik Storstrand: "Minions? You're kidding, right?"
Yuuka: "Upupupu..! Yes! You five are all awful digusting people!"
Emi: "Hey. Fakey good guys. Are you Usami's?"
Satine: "heh. I'm just a good luck charm..."
Yuuka: "Stealing our memories of the most precious Hotaru-sama! Trying to 'fix' us was a waste of your time!"
Masato: Usami was Maka's idea.
Mitsuo Kodaira: Is Usami still in the room btw? Or have all Monomis been disabled?
Yui: "MA-KI. Get it right."
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. She disappeared after that bear showed up. She told us to have fun or something."
Faye: "Usami was a really cute idea, wasn't she? I helped design her!"
Tiamo: "Shortcake I think we have bigger problems on our hands right now"
Emi: "… Okay. You're Usami's." Those people are /not/ for killing, then.
Yui stomps her feet. "Yeah. She was suuuuupppoooosed to make you better people!"
Satine: "We can giggle over plush animal designs later. So who's getting us out of here!?"
Eirik Storstrand: "...I don't think I'm a bad guy though?"
Yuuka: "Uh, No one!"
Yuuka: "I should just kill you all here!"
Eirik Storstrand: "There's no way I was involved in any of this."
Ray: "I'm so confused."
Emi: "Yuuka-jukeisha has the key. If we kill her, she stops having the key."
Satine: "Shut up, you cotton candy spun witch."
Masato: Of course you don't think that! We removed your memories!
Yuuka: "Says the bitch."
Satine: "Wait, but she may be tricking us again."
Emi: "If you think you should kill us… what's stopping you, Jukeisha?"
From the wall in which Monobear was thrown, his body begins to stir...
Haruko screams and cowers again.
Candy/Yui: http://dangan-refrain.tumblr.com/post/103336746880/monobear-seemed-to-shake-and-stir-a-bit-in-his
Eirik Storstrand: "..." Eirik just stares.
Yuuka: "H-Hotaru-sama?!"
Yuuka: Holy shit, she's blushing like a school girl in love.
Ray is just. ????????????
Mitsuo Kodaira: … That thing is not a robot it also needs to die.
Imasaru: Just yeah. Dog noises.
Eirik Storstrand: "...you. From the picture."
Candy glares. "I knew somethin' was off 'bout that bear..."
Masato: She... she's alive..?
Tiamo: "...WELL FUCK ME AND CALL ME WRONG. Actually that doesn't sound too bad...."
Faye: "Eh..?!"
Hotaru: "Hi~hi Yuuka-chaaaaaaaaaan!" Monobear waved happily at the crowd, mainly towards Yuuka.
Faye: "Tiamo -- swear words!"
Kyouki Anrui: Damn... I thought I heard the last of you once you were excuted.
Ray: "Is there a swear jar anywhere?"
Tiamo: "Ah sorry, doll"
Yui slaps Tiamo on the arm.
Yuuka: "Hotaru-sama!!!!!!!!!" Yuuka waves back just as energetically.
Satine: "This is like some sick soap opera."
Hotaru: "I'm technically alive, yes! I'm just stuck in... This stupid bear body, yeah?"
Eirik Storstrand: "I kinda thought she was dead..."
Phoebe has the worst headache right now, what's even going on.
Eirik Storstrand: "What the hell?"
Emi: "Is she a robot…?"
Akifumi: "U-Uuu...l-like a robot?"
Hotaru: "W-What!? N-No! Not a robot! An AI! Nothing like a robot!"
Akifumi: "D...Darn.."
Phoebe Casella: "I think that's like a robot."
Mitsuo Kodaira: … Wide eyes. "You can make AI?!"
Emi: "It's nothing like a robot!"
Yuuka rushes over and, picks up the AI, and then sprints back to the throne. Places Hotaru on it.
Hotarubear huffed, jumping up from where she was standing and pointed towards the crowd. "HEY! I said I'm not a robot!"
Eirik Storstrand: "Robots and AIs are different, right?"
Yuuka: "Hotaru-sama, I minded your spot for you!"
Emi: "Robots are solely hardware, AIs are solely software."
Phoebe Casella: "Robots are well...Robots right? You're here so you can't just be software."
Emi: "A robot without an AI is only a machine, but an AI lends it sentience."
Faye: "It's... It's still all really confusing."
Eirik Storstrand: "So an AI in a robot?"
Akifumi: "U-Uuuu...Is..i-is it bad i-i wanted a robot..?
Masato: Is this how you managed to take control?
Emi: "Yes. The part that is Hotaru is an AI, the body is a robot."
Hotarubear is also picked up, positioning herself onto the throne. "Now then. It seems I underestimated a lot of you, and so did Yuuka-chan! But she did manage to get a large amount of your friends dead!"
Yuuka flashes a peace sign. Nice!
Phoebe Casella: "I don't get it, if we apparently worked for you why kill us?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: They're suddenly okay with this because it's an AI. AIs make everything better.
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. I don't get it either..."
Yuuka: That's easy!"
Hotaru: "Buuuuut! Plot twist!" Hotaru laughed a bit. "You guys all worked for me before, yeah yeah? Yuuka-chan, explain it to them!"
Hotaru tell them yuuka-chan
Yuuka: "Once you stopped being followers of Hotaru-sama, you all became irrelevant! Why should I work with people who don't understand despair anymore? So it's simple, I decided to re-educate you -- in the same way the wonderful Hotaru-sama did! MUTUAL KILLING!"
Emi: "Why did we stop following her, if we began in the first place?"
Hotaru: "Baaaaasica---" Hotaru spotted the potato knishes in the center of the circle, quickly dashing off of the throne and barreling down onto them, sitting happily next to her beloved knishes. "Aww, Yuuka-chan, you shouldn't have! Ahem... Right."
Haruko: B-but... but...
Ray: "Well that isn't nice!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: She's an AI. That sounds like a pretty good reason to do whatever she says. They're onboard with this.
Hotaru: "Why don't you ask Misters and Misses 'Ruin My Plans' over there?" She pointed to the survivors.
Yui sticks her tongue out at Hotarubear.
Yuuka: "YOU GUYS BROKE MY BEAUTIFUL RING OF DEATH!"
Hotarubear throws a potato knish at Yui.
Faye: "Um. Didn't we technically build this place?"
Yui: >: OOOOOOOO
Yuuka: >: OOOOOOOOO
Masato: You did. If I had been in my right mind, this place would be far less tacky.
"Yes, you built this place... You also re-programmed my beloved followers to be all disgustingly hopey-wopey like the rest of you!" Hotarubear made a 'bleh' voice.
Yuuka: "It was a perfect place for killing others. Thank you!"
Emi: "Wait, we got reprogrammed?"
Emi: "… I don't… think that word means what you think it means. Alternatively, we're in the Matrix."
Akifumi: "A-Are you sure I-I wa-was a follower...I-I do-don't r-really l-like this...th-hing" akifumi don't b e fucking rude.
Yuuka: "Unfortunately so."
Hotaru: "Hmmm, reprogrammed, whatever the word is. Something like that."
Masato: We had to alter your memories. It was the only way to help you.
Yui: "All of you, every single one, even the dead, were followers, sadly."
Faye: "It was super sad to see you all like that!"
Emi: "I'm liking Hotaru a lot better than I am you, so I can see why." Sentient AI vs memory-stealing bitches. Easy choice.
Masato: You weren't even compelling villains. Hardly any motivation.
Ray is very confused.
Yuuka: "Upupupu! Emi-san I knew you'd be on MY side!"
Yuuka: "Maybe I won't kill you."
Yuuka is gonna kill u
Emi: "… are you an AI, too?"
Hotaru: "You're not in the matrix though, this is the real life!" Monobear stood up, holding a potato knish up to the air. "And they're really all dead, too! You guys were great too, wonderful vessels of despair to conquer the ones who refused to give you the respect in life you DESERVED!"
Imasaru: Yeah, the dog is in the same boat Ray. But he's growling to protect Candy
Akifumi: "M-Mitsuo-san...P-Please don't."
Tiamo: "Hmm yes love the potato pastry loving mastermind who ruined everything more than the people who are trying to make your lives better....yep. that's really reasonable.”
Masato: We have records of how many people you were each responsible for the death of.
Very distressed Ray noises.
Emi: "Ah… we killed people…?" Blink. Blink. Blink. "Did we at least do it well?"
Masato: It varied.
Yuuka: "Despairingly well!"
Yes, yes you did!" Hotarubear laughed a bit.
Yuuka: "It was some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life!"
Hotaru: "You should see the pictures, they're in the records too!"
Akifumi: "W-Wait...I-I killed s-someone-- O-Oh..I-I feel sick..."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Oh. Good. They did well. They are pleased.
Phoebe Casella: "I haven't killed anyone!"
Yuuka then sits on the throne and laughs again.
Imasaru: "She's....right though. About killing."
Ray: "I wouldn't do anything like that!"
Tiamo: "I'm sorry honey suckle...but you all did. Now do you see why we wanted to erase those memories?!"
Satine: "Heh....I don't believe this. I'm sure you're nothing short of bullshit. But yeah...I'm trash. I have been since I could remember. Makes sense I'd kill. I bet I had fun too."
Yuuka: "You five really are so stupid."
Yui: >: I "No more of that 'I wouldn't do that' stuff! You can't erase your previous actions. Only memories."
Faye: "Hey! Don't throw insults around like that!"
Emi: "To be fair, our memories have been erased, so we have no knowledge of our past actions or selves. Mm… What violations those were."
Kyouki Anrui: You all did murder people even if you do not remember. And might I say the combined totals of all the people you killed rival that of my own.
Ray: "Did you think about what would happen if they came back, though? That's.."
Hotaru: "Believe it! Believe it all, Ray-chan! You've all committed so many sins to the point it'd fill an entire Arc!" Monobear stood up onto Cameron's podium, knocking his picture down. "Lemme see here..."
Faye: "Whoa!"
Masato: Which one of you is Hayashi, by the way? You were responsible, in tandem with others, for some of the most remarkably creative attacks on highly populated urban centers of all. Nine out of ten.
Yui runs over and picks up the picture.
Haruko: Why would you even tell me that?!
Yuuka: "Hey! Don't interfere!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...can I ask one of you guys a question?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Sure sure~!"
Eirik Storstrand: "Not you..."
Yui: "Hm?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Hmph."
Faye: "OF course!"
Masato: To any of us, or one in particular?
Kyouki Anrui: Of course. All question will be answered,
Eirik Storstrand: "...any of you." The drummer finally seemed to be slackening his grip on his spear.
Masato: Go ahead, then.
Yuuka is keeping an eye on the spear.
Eirik Storstrand: "...do you guys know what happened to my brother? Did I do anything?"
Eirik Storstrand: "Or my rabbit."
Yuuka: "He's dead."
Yuuka: She grins.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Ah-ah? Your brother, Eirik? He diiiiieeed!"
Yuuka: "The little bunny is super dead too!"
Masato: Unfortunately, many of you targeted your own families before anyone else.
Yuuka laughs to herself.
Hotarubear started laughing a bit. "Got 'im good too, I have to admit!"
Emi scoffs. "I can see why..."
Yuuka: "Oh, speaking of families."
Eirik Storstrand: "..." Well, this seems to be the most emotion he's shown the entire time.
Satine: "I don't really have a family. So Good riddence."
Yuuka: "You didnt even get the diary owner right!"
Yuuka: She throws her head back and laughs even more, kicking her legs.
Faye: "Diary?"
Phoebe Casella: "D-Diana..." Phoebe seems pretty broken now.
Eirik holds up the diary.
Mitsuo Kodaira: They give up on murder for now and just turn to hug Satine back.
Masato: Presumably a piece of evidence she planted for them.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Yuuka-chan's little diary, yeah yeah!"
Faye: "Ooh. Right!"
Satine only smiled, giving a hug in return. "Ironically...The only one I love now is in my arms.."
Mitsuo Kodaira: Blink-- wait. Wait. Is that them. They're so confused but Satine is the centre of their world, so, hugs.
Hotarubear continuously threw the potato knishes at the survivors, particularly Natsu (even though he's not here)
Faye catches them, and eats one. Riding a helicopter is hungry work.
Akifumi: "...Potato...Knishes?"
What did Ray do as SHSL Despair? Ray Hoshino did nothing wrong.
Faye: "Oh! These are really nice! Who made them?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "They're the greatest things alive, here, try one!" She passed a few to her fellow 'followers' as well.
Emi: "… Do you have… files on all of us? That we'd be allowed to see?"
Eirik Storstrand: "To be fair, we did our best for the context..." Eirik's face seemed to have returned to some semblance of calm.
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. I wanna know..."
Yuuka: "If you can find them!"
Yuuka: "I'm sure you'll have fun reading ashes."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Hmmm, they probably do. Maybe if Yuuka-chan didn't hide them well enough."
Ray: "I just... wanna know what happened."
Yuuka: "Eh? Are you doubting my wonderful hiding efforts Hotaru-sama?!"
Yuuka: "I'll do better next time!"
Hotarubear stood back up, stopping her pelting of potato knishes. "Okay, you wana know what happened, Ray-chan?"
Eirik Storstrand: "...I don't blame her. You couldn't even properly hide your identity."
Just in case, Satine gripped Emi tighter again. "I really fucking hope there IS no next time!"
Masato: We can explain all of your crimes once we've gotten you out of here.
Eirik Storstrand: There's the bitterness again. Keep tabs on that, Eirik. He tightens the grip on his spear.
Ray: "What?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: Okay. More hugs. They can deal with that, and are very carefully not accidentally injuring her.
Yuuka: "When did I ever say I was letting you all out of here?"
Yuuka: She narrows her eyes, looking down at everyone.
"Baaaasically, those little RATS over there killed me, they EXECUTED me, to be more specific! Then they decided to strip your freedom of being able to show the world your true colors and forcing you into this! Me and Yuuka-chan here happily allowed ourselves to bring your memories back, so we could all live happily ever after! Even so, they killed the one who was trying to help you all this entire time, even if it did slightly involve a bit of death of friends! But it was all in the act of despair~!" Hotarubear stood back down, laughing a bit.
Faye: "But we beat you fair and square! Hope is stronger than your despair Hotaru!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...please tell me this one gets an execution too."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Shut! Shut up shut up, harp lady!"
Faye: "Harp lady?"
Ray: "True... colors?"
Yui sighs. She reaaaaally wishes Natsu were here.
Emi: "Hm." They're considering things. "Fakey good guys, how do you plan to get us out of here, and what will you do with us?"
Tiamo: "Hotaru. You killed people and we outted you fair and square cha know! We were just playing by YOUR rules!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "You killed people too, Tiamo-chan. Don't forget that."
Phoebe Casella: "Wh"
Faye: "She kind of has a point.."
Eirik Storstrand: "We didn't do half bad with figuring this one out either." He points to Yuuka with his spear.
Phoebe Casella: "I thought you people were the good guys???"
Tiamo: "Ah...true true. But it wasn't during your game now was it?"
Yui: "Ehh...W-Well, he's better now, trust me!!"
Masato: Yes, and as you so HELPFULLY reminded me in our last encounter, Hotaru, I've killed as well. But neither of us are nearly as bad as you, and you know it!
Satine: "Shouldn't we just be happy he isn't killing US right now?"
Emi: "Fakey good guys? Plan? Do you have one?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Games don't happen in real life either, Tiamo-chan!"
Yuuka: "You don't plan on using that now, do you?"
Hotaru: "Mhhmmm... You did kill, Masato-chan, I'm surprised you still have your little head wrapped around that thought."
Eirik Storstrand: "I'm not using it, am I?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Now then, Yuuka-chan's the mastermind, you've figured that out. But who was truly the ones who wanted you all here like this in the first place? Guess wisely!"
Haruko: It... it was them. These new people.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Ding-ding-ding! Right you are, Haruko-chan!"
Faye: "I don't think-"
Emi: "Yes, they're Usami's, so they must have trapped and violated us to our cores…"
Kyouki Anrui: Hotaru? Do you truly believe that everyone would want to revert to the sadistic killers they once were just to destroy the world?
Yuuka: "Um. Were you not listening earlier?"
Eirik Storstrand: "...can I ask something else?"
Yui just looks around the room, starting to panic. Shit this isn't going the way it was supposed to.
Emi: "… Are we supposed to trust the fakey good guys? At least Hotaru-sama was honest about wanting us all to die and fall in despair." Sentient AIs = sama. Fact.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Sadistic killers isn't quite the way to put it, Kyoki-chan... Think of it more like 'liberators'!"
Yuuka: "They aren't important anymore. I'm the only true follower of Hotaru-sama now."
Eirik Storstrand: "Hey!"
Eirik Storstrand: "I've got a question."
Yuuka: "What."
Chinatsu Hotaru: Hotarubear shot her head towards Eirik. "Enough questions, please!!"
Masato: It was for your own good! Do you want to end up like that plebeian Himura?!
Eirik Storstrand: "I want you to answer." He jabbed his spear toward Yuuka and Hotaru. "And you." Toward the newcomers.
Satine: "But remember Emi, they still started this! Do you really think we should stay here? With these fucking loonies? No. Maybe the good guys are another trap. But I rather take a chance than stay here and waste away, remember who died..."
Hotarubear moved over to Yuukaback on the throne, sitting herself into her lap. "Fine, Eirik-chan."
Faye: "I'll answer any questions you have as best I can!"
Emi: "I just want to kill Yuuka." And not the AI. They like the AI.
Yuuka: wow fuck u
Chinatsu Hotaru: <3
Eirik Storstrand: "Why exactly did they put us here?" He jabbed his spear toward Yuuka. "You first."
Satine: "If we don't get the chance to kill Yuuka, and just leave, I'm taking you with me. We're leaving and living, together."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Eaaasy, watch where you're pointing that thing!"
Imasaru: Growls at the spear pointed at Yuuka
Eirik Storstrand: "Just using it to gesture. Problems?"
Yuuka: "Upupupu~ It's totally cute how you feign ignorance!"
Emi: "… Suboptimal, but…" They rest their head against her. "Acceptable."
Yuuka: "Weren't you paying attention before? I don't want to repeat their disgusting plan."
Yuuka: She narrows her eyes.
Yuuka: "And if you point that thing at me again, I'm going to have to act upon it."
Eirik Storstrand: "Kinda hard to hear with everyone yelling."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Aaaalright, I'll answer for Yuuka-chan." Hotarubear huffed.
Masato likes this guy. He knows how to emphasize a statement.
Satine: *still playing ORAS. HAHA*
Yuuka: "Ah, what a rare chance to hear Hotaru-sama say her scheme!"
Yuuka: Dokis hard.
Yui is crying on the inside.
Faye: "Um... Don't we have spare keys?"
Yuuka: "Stole them."
"Baaasically, me and Yuuka-chan here put you two in here to stop those rats from making you end up the way I did! They've put you into here to make you portray life like they do: eternally-happy and blissful and you can ALWAYS rely on others to be there for your and you can ALWAYS face the impossible! They're also the ones who decided to wipe your memories of the great things you've done to this place in order to prove people that you're NOT sticks in the stand. That you're NOT just some blank face behind a special talent that got you into a fancy school in the first place! Me and Yuuka-chan wanted you all to be happy, and be able to let you all show who you truly are, instead of being placed in a fake world of hope and 'specialness.' Hotarubear took a breath, munching down onto a potato knish. "Does that answer it, Eirik-chan?"
Satine: "Ah yes..Nothing says true love like death."
Emi: "… It worked for Romeo and Juliet."
Phoebe Casella: "How come Yuuka remembered, though?"
Eirik Storstrand: "...from your perspective." He grips his spear. "Now you guys." He jabs it toward Yui and the others.
Masato: Hotaru broke your minds. She turned you into brutal psychopaths. Every attempt to reach you as humans failed miserably.
Masato: If we hadn't wiped your memories, you would just have kept up your wanton killing.
Masato: It was either that, or have you executed for your crimes.
Yuuka: "Which actually happened to some of you!"
Yuuka: "It was sooooo beautiful!"
Yui: "Shut UP Yuuka."
Yuuka: "Did you get to see all those wonderful despair-inducing executions Hotaru-sama?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Sadly, I didn't. You didn't program me right into this bear body!"
Yuuka: "Why should I have to listen to a disgustingly happy-go-lucky person?"
Masato: We tried to save you. It took drastic measures, but we did what had to be done.
Yui's bout to kill a woman.
Masato: ...if your issue is her general peppiness, I'll say it for her. Shut up, Himura.
Eirik Storstrand: "...can we kill her yet?" We will never know whether he really wanted to see her dead or he just didn't wanna see her like this anymore.
Faye: "Hey! There is nothing wrong with being happy!"
Kyouki's in the same boat as Yui.
Emi: "Happy… Yes. Let's kill her."
Chinatsu Hotaru: Kyoki's always in that boat. She's the captain of that boat.
Yuuka smiles. "Of course! Go ahead and kill MISS happy go lucky for me!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...I wasn't talking about her."
Yuuka: "Hah?"
Yuuka: "Didn't I warn you?"
Eirik Storstrand: "I never said I was gonna do it."
Emi: "I can't. Yet." There are three people on them.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Awww, at least spare Yuuka-chan? I can take another go at the ol'---"
Eirik Storstrand: His spear was still held upright too. Not pointing at anything but the ceiling.
Chinatsu Hotaru: ".... Ghh..ghh.....hhh..." Hotarubear stood silent for a moment.
Eirik was comfortable within the set regulations.
Masato: The last time we went through this, Hotaru had us vote one last time, before willingly sending herself to be executed. Considering that Himura's work is entirely derivative, I expect she intends for the end to be the same.
Yuuka: "Hotaru-sama?"
Yuuka: "H-Hotaru-sama?!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...N...Nothing..."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "It's... Nothing..."
Mitsuo Kodaira: AI… AI no... Worried face. "Is it some sort of technical error? I could be of assistance, perhaps."
Yuuka: "Do you honestly think I'm going to trust you?"
Eirik Storstrand: "...that AI helped send Nami to her death. Do you really wanna?"
Emi: "… AI…" Their voice is so plaintive right now. They can literally not help but love AIs. It's a problem.
Emi: "I… don't want it to hurt..."
Eirik Storstrand: "It didn't feel the same about Nami."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...G-Ghh... It's nothing, go back to talking."
Yuuka: "Alright then!"
Emi: "It was programmed that way. A copy of a despairing being…"
Yuuka: "Since you oh, oh so, want to see me dead... We need to do this fairly!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: They cannot not love AIs they want to hug it. Yuuka on the other hand.
Haruko: Another vote?
Ray: "Remember what subjected her to all of that pain though."
Emi: "Yes-- Yuuka."
Yuuka smiles and smacks down a button on the arm of the chair, causing five of the pictures at podiums to fall down below. Goodbye stands.
Ray: "And Hotaru made Yuuka, in a way."
Yuuka: She then points to the five surviors. "Please follow the rules and take a stand!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: Conflicted computer nerd noises.
Yui groans and walks over to a stand.
Masato: If that's what we have to do to finish this once and for all...
Faye... does the thing.
Masato takes a stand.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...D-Don't... Want..." Hotarubear shook a bit. Good job, you said the magic word.
Faye: "Aha, it's like the old days!"
Eirik has since gone quiet. The look on his face isn't quite readable, though his blond brows are significantly narrowed. He was still gripping his spear tightly
Faye: "I hope no one dies though, that wouldn't be nice.."
Yui: "I don't think this is something to remini...feel nostalgic about."
Faye: "It's something we did though, right?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...B-But... Yuuka-chan... You'll... End up like... If they go through..." Hotarubear slowly stood up, hopping from the throne. "... Eh? W-Wait, I made you like that, Yuuka-chan."
Yuuka: "Huh?"
Kyouki is reluctant to take the stand once more, but does so anyway. "Yes, but remember how many lives were taken when we took the stand? And that included--" she stopped right there as she looked at the picture of her dead boyfriend.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Ah, Yuuka-chan... My only friend... You'll be willing to join me in the afterlife, yes...?"
Yuuka smiles at Hotarubear. "Of course Hotaru-sama! I'll follow you anywhere!"
Masato: Lovely sentiment. Shame who it's coming from. Four out of ten.
Yui: "Masato, now is not the time."
Faye: "I don't think I understand what is going on.."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Ahaha! Great! Then I can help equally both of our sides, yes? You'll just /love/ to see what the truth is like, Yuuka-chan!"
Faye: "Oh wait! Isn't this that yuri dessert you talked about once?!"
Hotarubear jumped back up onto the throne, immediately pushing out the vote button.
Yui starts sweating over Faye's question.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Vooooooooooooote! Vote who you wish to be executed!" nope no trial i got an idea for a bad end
Yui: "A-Alright um. We should. Vote, yeah? We should uh...vote Hotaru!"
Yui: "Let's...vote Hotaru because we wouldn't be needing to do this if it weren't for her!"
Emi: "… What are we voting for her as?"
] Chinatsu Hotaru: "R-Rude..."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "As... As myself, of course... I'm on that list too..."
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah. What exactly are our options?"
Yui: "Murderer! Obviously."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Elyse-ue... Yuuka-chan... And myself..."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Those are your options..."
Eirik Storstrand: "...I still don't know who Elyse is."
Faye: "Elyse didn't do anything wrong?"
Phoebe Casella: "Who. Is. Elyse."
Yui: "Wh, Why is Elyse on the list?"
Emi: "Didn't we convict Elyse already...?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Ah? It's a glitch. He's always on the voting lists for some reason."
Yui: "That's my fuckin' husband he didn't do anything wrong!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "I could... Never fix it."
Eirik Storstrand: "Didn't Elyse tie with Crystal?"
Tiamo: "Oi! Oi! I already told cha all, Elyse is the host of this body!"
Masato: Why exactly do Himura and Hotaru have to be different options?
Yui: "I..I don't know?"
Emi: "Because Hotaru-sama technically has not shown herself before now, so could not have murdered those three?" Also because AIs can do no wrong in their mind.
Eirik Storstrand: "Can we end this, get rid of that, and destroy the AI later?"
Yui: "You don't know that! She could've worked behind the scenes!"
Emi: "Hey-- hey, no destroying the AI!"
VOTE CONFIRMATION: HOTARU CHINATSU
Yuuka: "You fucking idiots."
Candy/Yui: http://dangan-refrain.tumblr.com/post/103341919640/bad-end-nobody-wins
Try Aɢαιɴ?: Y / N
Haruko/Masato: Y
Phoebe Casella: Y
Chinatsu Hotaru: M
Chinatsu Hotaru: maybe
Yuuka/Faye: Y
Yuuka/Faye: MAYBE
Eirik Storstrand: Y
Satine: Y
-RESTART-
Yui: "You don't know that! She could've worked behind the scenes!"
Phoebe Casella: "But it's a monobear?"
Eirik Storstrand: "Actually..."
Eirik Storstrand: "I have some proof that may lend to the contrary."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Ah?"
Eirik once again takes out the puns and the 'sacrifice' note.
Eirik Storstrand: "Look at the handwriting."
Haruko: Is there really some evidence we've ignored all the way until now?
Eirik Storstrand: "Guess who didn't know about Hotaru before now. We saw that."
Eirik Storstrand: "And these notes were left by the bodies, which match the note found behind Hotaru's portrait. As far as handwriting."
Emi: "Or she wouldn't have made so many shrines to her. She certainly did this by herself…"
Yuuka: "Why wouldn't I have a shine or several for Hotaru-sama?"
Emi: "If she were alive, you wouldn't need to. Not ones that seemed like she was dead."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "... You did have a lot of things made for me, Yuuka-chan."
Haruko: Well, if you were a sane person...
Eirik Storstrand: "Point being, there's some decent proof that we should vote for it."
Yuuka: "Eh? You guys haven't even explained the murders yet! Handwriting isn't enough proof!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Yuuka-chan... Is right... Y-You haven't talked about the murders at all.."
Phoebe Casella: "What should it matter? We know it was Yuuka."
Shima: "..."
Haruko: Why should we have to explain it? You're the one who killed them, after all.
Eirik Storstrand: "Well we didn't have access to cyanide or chloroform in the general park."
Yuuka: "Well then, since you are all being so unfair, I'll kill you all!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "... You don't care about your friends, then?"
Eirik Storstrand: "I just gave you the evidence."
"How… childish." Can they murder her yet please.
Eirik Storstrand: "You weren't listening."
Yuuka: "They stopped being my 'friends' the moment they forgot about you Hotaru-sama!"
Phoebe Casella: "We gave plenty of evidence that it could be nobody but the mastermind at the beginning."
Yuuka: "I thought they all knew that already!"
Satine: "Wait, Emi. we're gonna make it."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Ah, if you insist... I don't mind. I'm sure I'll enjoy the company in the afterlife."
Mitsuo Kodaira: They do not want 'waiting' they want to kill. However they're still hugging Satine. Killing is… problematic.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "If you guys are quite keen on finishing this once and for all..."
Masato: I suggest we let them make their decision themselves.
Emi: "Indeed, we discussed these murders thoroughly, and already had a vote on it."
Yuuka: "Well, I wasn't around. It doesn't count."
Yuuka: Pouts.
Eirik Storstrand: "Want me to lay it out again?"
Shima: She raised a brow while carefully listening.
Eirik Storstrand: "And I still haven't found out what you did with my cape."
Yuuka: "It's dead."
Eirik Storstrand: "It wasn't living in the first place."
Shima: "...She probably burned it, dude."
Yuuka: She laughs.
Yui clears her throat, then climbs up on the podium. Yui no. "Alright um, sorry about what I said before! I'm not great with trials but uh. Here's how voting is going to work!" She points at Yuuka. "If you vote for her, you will end up not getting out alive! I think...Something like that! But!!!" She points at Tiamo. "If you vote for him, or Elyse, you will live and we'll take you outta here! Is that clear?"
Yuuka: "Really, you guys should all totally give u-"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "She... She explained it good enough..."
Emi: "… Can we have more clarification on those options? Is this still a majority vote, or one of those unanimous things? Is it literally a choice between live or die, or...?"
Yuuka: "How you think you're going to get out alive without the key?"
Eirik Storstrand: "So wait. I thought we had to pick the killer."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "Ah.. It's a majority vote, Emi-chan."
Yuuka: "Upupupu... she's lying to you! If you stay here, I'll happily re-educate you on the ways of Despair! I'll show you all how wonderful it is once again!"
Phoebe Casella: "I'm so lost.."
Imasaru: Just growls
Yui: "Look, that's what they WANT you to think! It's not killer at all. You're picking a side!"
Eirik Storstrand: "Yeah, I'm kinda lost too. Aren't we supposed to vote for the killer?"
Yuuka: "Tch."
Hotaru: "...."
Satine: "If we'll be free, I'll listen to the new people. Like hell we can trust this hotaru-whatever. They already ruined us."
Phoebe Casella: "Picking...Sides?"
Yuuka: "Do you all really want to follow a bunch of strangers out of this place? Uppupu... wouldn't you rather trust each other and myself? I'll help you get out, eventually of course!"
Satine: "You're gonna listen to me, aren't you Emi?"
Yui: "We have helicopters!"
Yuuka: "Hotaru-sama and myself will bring back your memories! You don't have to follow this peppy bitch's words!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...I don't know about you guys, but I'm not trusting..." He wrinkles his nose. "...that."
Faye: "S-Swear!"
Satine: "Bitch, after what we've been through, I better OWN the fucking helicopter after this!"
Haruko: I don't even trust these so-called "friends" I've known the whole time I've been here..!
Yui holds up her middle finger to Yuuka.
Emi: "AI," they say very simply to Satine.
Yuuka flips off Yui in return. Two can play this game.
Eirik Storstrand: "...point being, I trust that the least." Again, 'that' meaning Yuuka.
Emi: "I… Which option ends with Yuuka dead?"
Hotarubear holds up her middle paw at Yui.
Satine: "I know you love AIs but they aren't worth your life, or mine."
Shima: "...?"
Yui flips Hotaru off too.
Chinatsu Hotaru: "... Hm."
Haruko: Like hell I'm picking anyone's side here...
Yuuka: "Well, you should definitely pick mine!"
Eirik Storstrand: "Well, who's gonna take me outta here quicker?"
Yui: "Our side kills Yuuka!"
Satine: "Does that sound good enough, Emi?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: Not worth their life??? Satine is speaking nonsense. Not worth… oh. Satine dying. They… are not fond of Satine dying. "Yes. If you won't let me kill her, and you will also live, we may as well vote for the ones who violated our minds and corrupted us to our very cores."
Yuuka: "If you choose hope, I'm afraid you have a horrible future ahead of you!"
Emi: "… If we vote hope, you die. That's a wonderful future." They literally don't care what else happens.
Yuuka: "How rude!"
Yuuka: "I... I t-thought we were f-friends Emi-san..."
Satine: "Sorry cotton candy hoe, they love me more."
Eirik Storstrand: "I'm with Emi."
Yui fidgeted, obviously worried. "Wh-What are the results?"
Emi: "I've been trying to kill you for an entire trial now..."
Imasaru: "I appologize."Low growly dog voice
Chinatsu Hotaru: "... Elyse-ue. He won the votes."
Eirik Storstrand: "...maybe if you hadn't turned into a sick-in-the-mind murderer, you'd have friends."
Yuuka: "HAH."
Chinatsu Hotaru: "... Ah... Y-Yuuka-chan..."
Yuuka: "I'm so glad you've all decided to join my side!"
Masato: Lovely. It seems no one can resist voting for Brooks.
Yuuka: "Hmm?"
Chinatsu Hotaru: "...Yuuka-chan... That... That means you're going to..."
Faye: "I.. I don't think this is right.."
Eirik Storstrand: "...he did tie with the culprit during the third trial."
Masato: ...and you didn't even know who he was?
At that Yui couldn't help but laugh. Yui no don't laugh at your husband.
Eirik Storstrand: "Yup."
Masato: I'm not even going to ask why.
Eirik Storstrand: "...never said it was me."
Emi: "He was convicted for… for… the… the fourth."
Yuuka: "..."
Eirik points the spear in her direction. Haha fuk u
Yui: "Th-That means you get executed, right Himura?"
Satine: Spin her around on it and go "this is a story all about how my life got flip, turned, upside down"
Yuuka: "Upupu.. what a shame... I suppose that's right."
Yuuka: "But I guess I can do something meaningful in my final moments!"
Yuuka then stands up, and marches right towards Eirik.
Hotarubear is knocked down to the side from being on Yuuka's lap.
Masato: That would be a first. You've done nothing meaningful this entire time.
Emi is just watching to see if she dies already.
Eirik is currently grasping his spear. The height difference is hilarious.
Satine keeps the arm around them.
Chinatsu Hotaru: ... The bear quickly escapes from the scene, and out of the trial room.
Mitsuo Kodaira: !!! The AI is gone. Okay… good… run, AI, run. Be free… They do hug Satine though. Yes good.
Yuuka: Once she gets close enough, she lifts her leg AND FUCKING KICKS THAT SPEAR RIGHT OUT HIS HANDS.
Yuuka: I advise u all to fucking duck
Mitsuo Kodaira: No ducking. Just blocking with an axe.
Eirik shrugs. "You know that's a costume prop, right?"
Haruko does lots of ducking. It is her specialty.
Yuuka: She smiles.
Eirik Storstrand: "And it isn't actually pointy."
Yuuka: "Well, it's a super shame Hotaru-sama left the room!"
Eirik's foot, nonetheless, is now resting on the spear. It is his.
Yuuka then grabs Eirik's shoulders, tugs him down, and... gives him a kiss, probably bites his lip. There is blood. Gross.
Yuuka: "You'll do just fine!"
Chinatsu Hotaru: Ew, hetero.
Yui is just. Glaring at Yuuka.
Eirik wrinkles his nose at the contact. His lip was bleeding, but whatever. He wears fake fangs. He's done worse on his own.
Yuuka: "Alright! Alright! Bye bye!"
Yuuka: "Goodbye rotting in hell you fuckers."
Masato: Before you go.
Yuuka: She flips them all off before then proudly marching to her death.
Yuuka: Not even gonna listen to ur shitty score.
Eirik is still silent. Like at least ask first. Rude.
Masato: I'd just like you to know that I've decided to break the rules just this once. Your final score will be my very first zero out of ten.
Candy/Yui: http://dangan-refrain.tumblr.com/post/103344137205/the-mastermind-yuuka-himura-has-been-found-guilty
Satine just smirks, happy some retribution is finally happening
Mitsuo Kodaira: They watch her die so very avidly.
Haruko: Can... can we finally leave?
Emi: "Leave the bear alone!"
[Then suddenly, a spotlight appears from the ceiling.
And then, a little stage descends with a small key on it.
There it is... the ticket to freedom.]
Masato: Needlessly theatrical. Pretentious.
Yui: "Hey, we came in with explosions."
Masato: Yes, well, that was a dramatically appropriate moment.
Yui: "Ohhh! Speaking of the explosions. We should probably tell you what they were for!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...Hm?"
Faye Blanc: "Ah, I'll get the key!"
Faye rushes over and picks up the key from the little stage.
Yui: She does an idol pose and nearly falls over on her podium bc she's still standing there. "We got rid of the night sky thing!"
Yui: "It's actually very bright outside right now, so be careful when leaving the castle."
Phoebe Casella: "Y-You brought down that dome?"
Yui: "Yuuup! We exploded the whole thing!"
Masato: It was the only way we could get in.
Emi: "… Where exactly are we, and how was a fully-functioning AI creased-- you made at least Usami, so don't give me that-- and what was the 'magical stick'?"
Satine grabbed Emi's hand. "Well come on, ladies and gents! We won! Let's go fucking drink or something!"
Faye Blanc: "You're all underage-!"
Satine: "Lady, I appreciate you saving us, but live a little."
Faye Blanc: PLease for the love of god follow the law
Yui: "Save your questions until we get back to the mainland, you're all on an island right now!"
Satine: "Does the helicopter have a mini bar?"
Emi puts the knife back in their pocket before she can take their hand! Then does squeeze her hand back.
Masato: We'll answer any questions later. For now, I'm convinced you're reformed, so there's no reason for this facility to remain operable.
Faye Blanc: "Are we going to blow it up too?"
Emi is actually still not convinced they shouldn't keep trying to kill people.
Yui: "..I dunno what Masato just said, but the helicopters do not have minibars."
Eirik Storstrand: "So where do we go once we get outta here? I assume our families..."
Masato: Yes. We can't risk any backups of Hotaru being left behind.
Faye Blanc: "Oh oh! I'll drive one this time!"
Eirik Storstrand: "...for some reason I don't think that chick should drive."
Faye Blanc: Certified helicopter pilot.
Faye Blanc: "Hey, I've had lessons..!"
Masato: And, if any of you are interested, I suspect we may have a place for you in our organization...
Yui: "We need to find where the bear ran off to..."
Kyouki Anrui: I'll go look for it if you need me to.
Eirik Storstrand: "...well, I figure I don't have anywhere else to go."
Emi: "Let the bear go!" No do not hurt it they still have an axe. They are going to attack.
Yui: "Please do, Kyoki!"
Satine: "Come on Emi, I know you still want more vengeance. But we got it. It's time for me to keep that promise I made to you. Still wanna move in with me?"
Faye Blanc: "Oh, should we let them get personal stuff before leaving? I know I'd hate to leave my harp behind!"
Mitsuo Kodaira: God dammit Satine they're trying to focus on murder and saving an AI here. Don't you go being cute at them. It's far too effective of a distraction. "Uh…" Slow nodding. Yes.
Yui nods. "Yeah, they should probably do that."
Masato: Yes, if any of you have personal belongings you'd rather we not blow up, recover them before you come to the helicopter.
Eirik runs off to his room to get that story book he brought (and his drumsticks).
Mitsuo Kodaira: They're dealing. "… Fakey fake good guys, do you have further copies of Usami?"
Eirik Storstrand: He also stops by the trial room again and who knows if it's Yuuka's hat he takes. But he seems to take something. I don't know.
Phoebe leaves the trial room immedietly, she needs to get her dolls.
Mitsuo Kodaira: They grab things from two separate rooms and then are ready to go. Stiiill clinging to Satine.
Satine: "Heh...You guys wanna hear a funny story?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: "Sure."
Eirik Storstrand: "I'm game..."
Satine: "Do you know why I'm SHSL good luck?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: A shake of their head.
Eirik Storstrand: "I assume it was a lottery?"
Satine: "I'm good luck alright...And yes, I did win that lottery. But no..I'm good luck...For other people. If you stick around me long enough, small, good things will happen to you."
Satine: "That's why....I don't like people. All they cared about was what my talent could do for them."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "… am I allowed to stay with you nonetheless?" They don't care about luck. She's Satine.
Satine: "But this is the first time, my own luck prevailed. I saved my life...." She turned to Emi, smiling. "Yes, Always."
"You stuck it out with us, and I think that's kinda badass. If it means anything." Eirik shrugged. "...sorry for threatening to jump you."
Mitsuo Kodaira: "… thank you. For everything." Wow is that an actual smile. They didn't know they could still make that expression. They squeeze her hand. "If you touch her, I have to kill you," they inform Eirik.
Satine: She just waved it off. "It's cool. I should know I'm kind of a bitch. But if it means anything, I think you're all alright."
By this time, Eirik was also holding his spear again. "Nah, it was out of line, heat of the moment. Emotions were running high. We had had two stressful weeks."
Satine: "How about we just put it all under us? Start anew. I think this entire situation makes us like family...In some weird, sick way."
To be honest, Candy is just kinda, staring into nothing right now. She hasn't been responsive since being told most of them had turned on their family first.
"I wasn't doing my best," Eirik admitted. "If anything, I can pass the time with this." he held up the book he retrieved from his room, Norse mythology. All in Norwegian
Satine: '"You alright, blueberry?"
Mitsuo Kodaira: Blink. Blink. Blink. They're… going to cling to Satine all the more for that, actually.
Sour Candy: No response.
Satine: Once again, arm over them like a sibling
