week 4

[airlockedmods]

[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 think that's the very basis of kindness.

[He puts his head on his knees and breathes out.]

...Thanks for the blanket.

[everylittlesecret]

Huh... so I've been kind my entire life then? That's... not something I've ever considered.

[She shrugs.]

No problem. They keep sending them to me, so why not share? At this rate, with a few more, I can turn this room into a blanket fort.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Not a bad idea. Blanket forts are impenetrable. This is a fact, you can trust me. I'm a detective.

[everylittlesecret]

Oho? So the moment you left one, even you couldn't get back in?

[Are you... actually making her feel better?]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[...If he is, he's going to keep at it.]

You've figured it out. My one weakness: Soft, fluffy blankets. They're like Kryptonite to me.

[everylittlesecret]

[Junpei has a gift.]

Guess that means you're not leaving till someone takes the one covering you off. Unless you walk off with it.

[misanthropicprinciple]

You could always try bodily removing me and leaving me out in the hall. You know, like bulk trash.

[everylittlesecret]

You know I can lift you. That wouldn't be too hard to do.

[misanthropicprinciple]

We're like the same size.

[everylittlesecret]

So? Despite how I look, I can easily take anyone in a fight in this place. I hike, or hiked, back home, and part of that include weight and endurance training. I can lift you.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Prove it.

[> Accept CHALLENGE?]

[everylittlesecret]

[CHALLENGE ACCEPTED] You got it.

[Junpei. She's not kidding. Nari climbs off of the bed, moving so she was right beside Junpei. She kneels and has to flail with the blanket a bit before she can hook her arm under his legs, another supporting his back.] Ready?

[If not? Oh well. She didn't say how she'd lift you, so you are now being held bridal style as Nari stands up, Tenmeowji.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Eh--!

[The blanket falls away as she picks him up, so she gets a great view of one detective startled to be held as easily as a kitten.]

O--okay, okay, you win! Please put me down. This is embarrassing.

[everylittlesecret]

Good. [He'll be placed back down as gently as a kitten would to, because she's not a dick to cats.]

This is between you and me, okay? I don't want Nishitani getting an idea that he can be rougher with me.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He clears his throat and collects himself.]

Jesus. There was probably a less suggestive way to put that.

[Nari, no.]

But yeah, your secret's safe with me.

[everylittlesecret]

No, there really wasn't.... I'm pretty sure he's holding back with me on a lot of things just out of courtesy and the fact I can easily kill him in a number of different ways.

[Fun fact: They became friends because she described good ways to kill people with minimal effort.]

Thanks... I know I told him I'd learn to fight properly from him, but right now... I don't even want to leave my room.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Yeah. I understand that.

[He holds his silence a moment longer, then lets his chin drop a bit.]

I understand that, but--damn, I'm gonna sound like the biggest hypocrite in the world. [He sighs.] It's not... it doesn't help. To hole yourself up. Generally.

[everylittlesecret]

... I don't trust myself. Not right now. I could be triggered by the dumbest thing..... And I don't want to accidentally hurt someone. It's not safe. Not for anyone... So till I know I'm safe here, other than the murder each week, I'm not leaving.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[He rubs his arm uncertainly.]

...You still let me in.

[everylittlesecret]

Because I trust you. And it helps that I could kill you literally with every object in this room.

[misanthropicprinciple]

[SIGH.]

Okay, uncalled for. You all don't have to rub my relative suckiness in all the time.

[everylittlesecret]

I'm just being honest. If you wanna learn how to keep from being killed, you learn how to. That's...... My mom told me that. I didn't remember it till this memory.

[misanthropicprinciple]

We all... have different ways of keeping from getting killed.

[everylittlesecret]

True. The first thing I do when I go into a room now is to figure out if I can escape, or what I can use to fight with.

[misanthropicprinciple]

What might be a trap. What might be connected to something else. Where someone could hide a keyhole.