week 1

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Week 1

[After the reveal of their handsome and well-dressed but stern-looking Overseer on Sunday, the Champions were left to their own devices in investigating the mall to their hearts' content. At around 10 pm every night the lights in all the shops will go down and the sturdy metal grates over the doors of the restaurants will go down. The stores will remain unlocked, though.

On Monday morning, a buzzing alarm chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot. There's also a pop-up message waiting for them: a notice announcing Xander will be holding office hours

Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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Comments

[imnotfat]

I'll be the judge of that.

[Well there goes the cordiality]

[scourgingstars]

That's what you think.

[oh so we're playing politics now are we]

Because I find it none of your concern.

[imnotfat]

[Why can't people be cooperative, nobody can work in these conditions, etc. Another bunch of complaints Togami makes in his head]

Am I really expected to think two people from the same place and time, who also know each other well enough to know about each other's traits, got kidnapped and brought to this game just by coincidence, for no reason at all?

[Yep, he's convinced there must be some deeper reason]

[burninglight]

And am I expected to be convinced that I have any reason to come forth with such information? What of yourself and that girl? What's your connection?

[imnotfat]

Of course you're expected to be forthcoming.

[Especially to Byakuya Togami. He deserves aaaall your information. He picks up a similar phone to the first one he had taken, seemingly unafraid of answering without any objections]

She has quite the ill-advised crush on me, much to my chagrin. Besides the fact we were schoolmates years ago and therefore we were in the same killing game before, there's only one reason I can think for her to bringing her and me:

We're leverage against each other. The masterminds must be counting on we being here to spark something that could end with someone dying.

[Well, maybe he isn't wrong. Of course Fukawa and Syo would freak out, to say the least, if anything happened to Togami. Whether Togami would take retaliatory action if anything happened to Fukawa, well...we'll cross that bridge when we get there]

Whether you and Noctis are friends or enemies doesn't matter. What matters is what kind of obligations you have towards him, and what the masterminds think will happen from having you two in the same place.

[scourgingstars]

I have no obligations towards him or any other. It is not my concern what becomes of a single one of you here, especially Noctis. And before you claim not to believe me, do note that I care not for your skepticism or paranoia. He can’t be used against me and that’s all ghere is to it.

[imnotfat]

[Togami smirks unpleasantly, this time not bothering to hide it]

Is that so? We'll see about that.

[Togami has realized some memories are gone. If things are just like he thinks they are, the masterminds will find a way. He almost wants to see how they manage to use Ardyn and Noctis against each other and against them. Almost.

Togami takes the cellphones he claimed]

If you're not going to cooperate, then I have no more time to waste with you.

[Without even a farewell, he turns around and leaves. Well then! That was...it could have gone worse as far as first impressions go]