sixth investigation

[airlockedmods]

[It's Friday again but as of today it has been a full two weeks since someone has lost their life. The mansion is quiet, almost peaceful.

But we all know peace can only last so long in the Fantasy Sweet.]

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[serrata]

... Just one more. I can handle just one more.

[ One more execution. One more death. One more friend forever beyond their reach. ]

And then once it's done, we make all this stop. I don't know how yet. But I know we can do it.

[ If she'd been saying it to herself then it would've sounded full of false bravado. But when she's saying it in tandem with Junpei then it feels solid. Real. Like a promise she has no intention of breaking. ]

We've made it this far, haven't we? I know we can make it the rest of the way. Right to the end.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Right through the end. All the way to the other side.

[He pulls back just enough to see her face. To look her in the eyes, his odd red to her stunning olive, and to imagine for a moment...]

When you get out... and you see the sun again, for the first time in your life...

[Resolve sharpens his eyes. His heart beats, and he knows he can't give up. Not while he and Yuuri--not while each of them are of the same mind.

And if they aren't there yet, together, they can make the impossible happen.]

I want to be there when you see it. What's on the other side of that last locked door.

[serrata]

[ It's almost instinctive now for her to reach up and touch his face -- without even having to think about it, she carefully cups his face in her hand, brushing her thumb over his cheek in a gesture so familiar it feels almost like muscle memory by now. She's tired -- both of them are so tired. But she gives him a smile and there's a tiny spark in her eyes. Not a flame quite yet. But eventually. ]

I wouldn't want it any other way. I want to walk through it with you.