Week 5

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[As with the weeks before, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to something resembling normalcy with shocking efficiency. The second floor rest area and Adventure Zone Death Orb Room are spotless again, the demon glitter has been vacuumed, the deflated orbs have been replaced. It's like none of it ever happened, like three more friends aren't dead and stored away in the guest house morgue.

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 activity for week 4, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[myocordial]

Further memories might resolve the situation. Or they may complicate things even more.

[He's... not really optimistic.]

All I know is that, at the moment, conquering anything has taken a backseat to killing Banno.

[...You know. His creator, the guy he just... explained he already killed.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Yeah, that's a little weird.]

The guy you already killed?

[myocordial]

Yes.

As it turns out, he took steps to save himself before I killed him. Uploading his consciousness elsewhere. Technically speaking, he's more AI than human now.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Ah. Yeah, people are always finding new and more infuriating ways to cheat death.

[myocordial]

Hm, indeed. His old partner did much the same.

[So. Heart has personally killed all of two people in his life and both of them just came back to life anyway.]

It's no matter. If I haven't already done it and just don't remember it yet, I will stop at nothing to end his life. [His voice actually goes... awfully cold at that. There's a lot of resentment here.] Over and over again, if that's what it takes.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...You remind me of someone. A lot.

[A woman who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals.]

Don't worry, Heart. I'm not gonna get in the way of your revenge, and if you're an enemy of humanity, I've got a strong feeling it isn't my humanity.

[On account of he does not live in the Kamen Rider universe. Alas.]

The more we can work together, the better chance we each have of getting out. That hasn't changed in the last four weeks, despite everything.

[myocordial]

[He chuckles lightly.]

Thank you, I suppose, though I can assure you it wouldn't matter if you did intend to get in my way. You wouldn't be capable of stopping me. [As far as he is concerned, there's no force in the universe that can stop him from killing Banno.] And I'm quite certain of that as well. I don't think anyone here, at least certainly not those ahead of me in time, could be from the same place as me. It's simply impossible.

[It's odd, really, that it's a statement that seems confident in theory. And yet he seems just... slightly uncertain.]

True, cooperation is the key to all of this. That will never be an issue on my end. I can promise you that.

[misanthropicprinciple]

No problems here, then. Though seriously. You could at least, like... pretend I pose a threat. Sometimes. Just, you know. A relatively normal guy's gonna get a complex around here, I swear.

[jUNPEI you're an esper.]

[myocordial]

Oh, I certainly don't mean to insult your pride. Would you like a go at me? You could prove yourself a valid threat then.

[come at him junpei]

[misanthropicprinciple]

--I'm injured.

[Yeah, because that'd make a difference.]

[myocordial]

And I'm sure that's the only thing standing in the way, of course.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hey. If I wanted to fight you, I totally would. I don't, and I'd get my ass kicked, but I'd do it.

[myocordial]

Of course.

Well, it hardly says anything about you, of course. I'm reasonably confident no one here could defeat me.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Even all of us together?

[He's more curious than anything else.]

[myocordial]

If I had access to my proper powers, there would be no doubt about it. As it is now... hm...

[Yes, he just immediately starts to consider this. He looks over the room for a moment, at all those still alive.]

Possibly. Most of you, certainly. But I can't say I have much experience fighting this amount of people at once without access to all my powers. It would be... an interesting challenge.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, count me out, I think. But it'd be damn cool to see. I know you could at least get Nishitani to go at you.

[myocordial]

Well, of course. I have already fought him once before.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Was it fun?

[myocordial]

Any fight is enjoyable on some level.

Though I find it much more fun when I'm fighting someone who can give me a proper challenge. Ordinary humans just don't compare. Well, no offense meant to anyone here, of course...

[misanthropicprinciple]

None taken. I mean, I'm sure I'd feel the same way if we had some kind of Rubik's cube challenge here or something.

[Y'all don't even know his puzzle creds.]