The Third Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[Well, it's probably a good sign that each Champion still awakes in their own bed, and not in a completely random dimension. Or a bad sign, depending on how you look at it.

Still, there doesn't seem to be much amiss on the main floor of the space station... Except for a kind of cloying smell that very faintly lingers in the air around the teleporter.

(There is no body in the cafeteria, but it is a surprise place that will help us out later.)

>Investigate?]

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[le_mat]

[He moves without thinking almost. Half instinct from months of fighting in the Metaverse, half a frantic knowledge that if he let's this go, Zombina would never forgive him.

Akira is, if nothing else, fast. Hope you like being grabbed buddy. Maybe even headlocked without Akira even giving the slightest warning]

No.

[quadjumps]

Get off of me!

[ it's a good thing yuri does not know how to get out of a headlock or a grab, not one with the strength that akira has.

it should be noted that his hand is still on the knife, but he makes no move to take it out.

at least...not yet. ]

[le_mat]

Drop it, and I will. Don't make me bend your wrist.

[quadjumps]

You think she wanted this?!

[ guess who doesn't know about the note... ]

[le_mat]

What she wanted doesn't matter right now! I'm not sending you right down with her! You think she'd want that?!

[quadjumps]

[ softly: ]

I'm not going to kill anyone. I just want them to suffer.

[le_mat]

I get it. Trust me, I get it. I wanna wrap my hands around their fucking neck and make them beg for that damn airlock.

But we're not Petuu. We're not.

[quadjumps]

[ it's that second part that gets him to pause. ]

...What do you mean?

[le_mat]

We're not torturers. We're not monsters. And I'm not gonna stand by and let you make yourself one either. You're better then that.

[quadjumps]

[ ....

congratulations, akira! yuri is no longer holding onto the knife. ]

[le_mat]

[Akira lets him go, and kicks the knife away]

Goddamn it...

[quadjumps]

Let me go.

[ he's looking at the knife, but he at least seems...defeated? ]

[le_mat]

... okay.

[He steps back, a lot of his own fire back down to smothered embers.]

[quadjumps]

[ he's going to go and pick up the knife. slowly, so akira doesn't think he's doing anything. ]

She taught me how to defend myself with this. I'm holding on to it.

[le_mat]

'Kay. But promise me Yuri, you won't do anything crazy...

[It's less a demand and more a plea.]