week 4

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[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm fine, I'm fine. Hahahaha.

[He kicks his feet as much as he can, suspended as he is in a safety bubble and laughing his head off. That was fucking terrifying and he feels alive.]

Gimme--hahaha--gimme a minute and I'll be good to go again. Whoo.

[everylittlesecret]

[That earns Junpei a grin.]

Good. I'm glad I could get you to enjoy yourself. I'll help you upstairs unless you wanna take the bubble off.

[misanthropicprinciple]

H--hang on, hang on. Down is one thing, up is another. Dunno how good you are at Katamari Damyouji.

[With some effort and wiggling and breathless laughter, Junpei manages to extract himself from the death orb, though he promptly sits down bonelessly on the floor.]

Heheheheh. Jesus, Nari. Have you tried that yet yourself?

[everylittlesecret]

Pretty decent, but sadly these death orbs won't pick things up as well as a katamari.

[She loves We Love Katamari the most out of all the titles.

With a snort, she shrugs.]

Only throwing myself against a wall. Haven't done the stairs thing yet.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I tell you, it's one way to feel alive. My heart's still pounding. Also, I don't think my legs work anymore.

[They do, or he wouldn't have been able to wiggle out. They are just temporarily jelly.]

Haven't felt a rush like that since--I don't know, probably since I went on that cult raid. Man, that was awesome.

[everylittlesecret]

Just don't fall asleep down here. If you need a literal jolt, I can provide.

[..........]

Cult raid.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[No, no more jolts. He filled his jolt quota within two seconds of appearing on screen in this hellhole.]

Hazard of the profession.

[Junpei, normal private detectives don't... go raid cults...]

[everylittlesecret]

[Good. Because she's not exactly mentally stable enough not to make it hurt like hell.]

Sounds more like something Indiana Jones would do to get an artifact back.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Indiana Jones is supposed to preserve the surrounding architecture, right? You know, if he were actually being good at his job.

[Okay. He's feeling solid enough to get back on his feet.]

No such restriction on private eyes.

[Is that right, Junpei???]

[everylittlesecret]

Hey, he's from an age before they went all hardcore on the rules and stuff. What's a few broken ruins?

[Just going to make sure to be ready if he falls.]

Really? Japan must be pretty different rules wise than America then.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He's fine.]

More like... what I do doesn't tend to endanger anything worth saving.

[...Sssso fine.]

[everylittlesecret]

Still sounds a tad reckless if you ask me. But hey. You haven't been arrested.

[misanthropicprinciple]

And that is exactly where I want the bar to be. Achievement unlocked: Not Technically Illegal.

[everylittlesecret]

That sounds like a good goal to have. I'd live life like that if I could.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm telling you, come work with me. It sucks and I hate it, but we could always use someone smart.

...Is what I would say, but actually I guess maybe it'd be better for me to go to your world. Do you remember being a librarian yet? Is it nice? Boring? I could go for boring.

[everylittlesecret]

[She shakes her head.]

No... but I remember why I might be taking applications for a home. I can't... exactly go back to mine. Becoming a librarian must have something to do with me being on the run.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...From who?

[He leans against the wall, but his gaze is direct and steady. Who hurt you, friend, he'll go kick their asses.]

[everylittlesecret]

Someone who hates me enough to have tried, and failed thanks to modern medicine, to kill me. I remember running into them again. I know it should be irrational to be afraid of someone in a wheelchair, but still... I-I mean she wasn't in a wheelchair the time she did attempt to kill me! That came... after.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Is she powerful? I mean... not like your powers, unless she does, in which case, yeah, like your powers. But there's every reason to be afraid of someone who has the capability and the will to hurt you, Nari.

[everylittlesecret]

Human. Completely and utterly human as far as I know. Freakishly strong for a girl that skinny, though... I don't know how she even survived. The shock of what happened should have killed her.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Frail-looking girls are often some of the most dangerous people on earth, with the right motivation.

[everylittlesecret]

She said 'Excuse me, can I ask you something?' and then just attacked when I turned around.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh, yeah. Definitely gotta be careful around the polite ones. You never know when they're just going to up and fucking stab you for no good reason.

[everylittlesecret]

So we should be careful around our cinnamon rolls?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Depends on the roll. Clarith and Arianna? Maybe not so much. Given how totally charming I find Rii-san, though, I wouldn't be surprised to find out she's some kind of extreme Machiavellian survivalist with a thing for astrophysics and throwing knives.

[A surprisingly reliable danger predictor: Junpei Tenmyouji's boner.]