Welcome to the Program

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Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]

Comments

[le_mat]

You're not alone there. I shouldn't be here either...

[He looks down at his PIP, and the profiles. He looks at them, back at Karamatsu, down and up again, obviously comparing something]

Matsuno Karamatsu?

[He has SLIGHTLY thicker eyebrows then his twin]

[karappo]

[Ah, yep, he's seen that look before...though he's actually pleased that Akira got him right on his first try. Not that Karamatsu's hard to point out once you start talking to him.]

The one and only~

[He quickly flips from the rules back to the profiles himself. He's glad for the change of topic...let's just not talk about those right now.]

And you are...Kurusu Akira, I assume?

[le_mat]

It'd be worrying if I wasn't.

[karappo]

Well then, Kurusu-san...I assume you also have no real memories of how you woke up in this place, if your experience is at all similar to mine.

[le_mat]

None, no... I wasn't in the best state, so passing out wouldn't have been impossible but-

... I was under pretty heavy guard. Not easy to steal.

[His team had a big elaborate plan for that. if some third party could just pick him up it was almost insulting]

[karappo]

Really?

[He says that not with the air of someone bothered, but someone impressed.]

...did you do something illegal?

[le_mat]

[Is it suddenly warm in here? He tugs at the collar of his jumpsuit]

I... don't get along with law enforcement sometimes.

[karappo]

Oh...that is alright. Neither do I.

[Don't act like you're a criminal??]

[le_mat]

[Akira just kinda... blinks at him.

...he doesn't look like much of a thug...]

[karappo]

[He's not. He's really not. He just wants to be cool too...]

...S-so, ah...I suppose we are both just as clueless about all that's happening currently as the other, mm? It cannot be helped...perhaps someone with answers will be showing themselves shortly.

[le_mat]

I'm guessing at that meet up in an hour. The whole thing is hinky as hell, but we don't really have a choice.

[he pauses, then smiles rather airily]

Also you should tell me about your run ins with the law later. I bet it's pretty exciting.

[His tone is, oddly, not mocking. Maybe a little teasing. Mostly like there's a secret that Karamatau may or may not be in on]

[karappo]

Ah-?

[Oh. Right. His...many illegal exploits...]

O-of course, more than exciting! Riveting even! I will make sure to tell you everything!

[He says as he keeps digging that hole deeper.]

[le_mat]

[that enigmatic smile just grows]

I wonder if they could top some of mine. Like the time I jumped out a third story glass window to escape guards at a casino.

[karappo]

Eeeehh!? You really did that?

[That's pretty impressive. And it sounds exciting, too...Karamatsu's stolen before? But nobody really cared...even the stuff they ended up stealing wasn't all that great...]

[le_mat]

[He did, though the circumstances were... not exactly as he was saying. Context was key. Still...

His composure breaks and his grin loses that edge, becoming playful]

Matsuno-san, I'm teasing you. I was arrested, but it was on false charges.

[karappo]

..oh.

[WELL. Karamatsu's face very suddenly flushes a bright red, going all the way to his ears.]

I...suppose it is rather telling that I would find it completely reasonable for you to have done something like that, Kurusu-san.