week six afterparty ★ i will expose this heart to you

[excavated]

Mixed feelings rang in the air at the end of the long, long trial - four people have been lost. But in their places, three people returned to their number, as living pieces to play the game once again. While the Witch of Misfortune had said that after this, there would no longer be any more murders, that didn't change the complicated emotions that was brought to the table.🗈

Now, the group was left to their own devices - with the two Witches having disappeared in dark fire and sakura petals along with Natsuno and Shadow no longer to be found along in the mansion. Now the question was this: what would they all do from here?

There was still hope. The execution that Nirrti had done was one that was gentler than the ones that had been committed by the pieces the past two weeks.

And while Tsubasa still held many uncertainties, given that he had done murdered for the sake of someone important to him, that did not change the determination that he had for everyone. Not just those that were alive. But those that had died as well. He wasn't simply going to let the sacrifices go in vain, or that he was brought back.

At the very least, he had to make up and own his mistakes.

Which is why, a little later on, people might find a letter slid under their doors, saying:

To the one who might read this:

There is still a lot to be done and a lot to be said, but there's only a little while longer until we can make it through. I believe that we'll be able to reach to her and change the future so that we will have a happy ending.

You don't need to speak to me if you wouldn't want to, but if you'd like to eat, food will be provided in the dining room if you'd like to not be alone. Nobody deserves that. As always, don't force yourself to come if you don't want to.

- Syaoran

And just as the letter says, food will be provided - while there does seem to be a lot of comfort foods, there are also tacos, along with tempura and inari sushi.

Comments

[oceanicbutterfly]

Aiba-san.

[The awkwardness is a little different on her end, but honestly? She can deal with it.]

Thank you for before.

[goldenmaniac]

A-ah... don't thank me. We should have... done more to stop it from happening at all.

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm as much to blame for that as anyone else.

[She sips her tea.]

Did you ever work out who it really was?

[goldenmaniac]

Bullshit, no you're not.

... and apparently, it was Emi.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...so it was really that simple, then.

I suppose you're right, though. I'm not as much to blame as her, or Anon-san, or Furudo-san.

[goldenmaniac]

She had us fooled for a long while, though a lot of us started to suspect it eventually.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Even I didn't want to accuse her, and I was the other leading suspect.

...I suppose that was just another aspect of not knowing each other well, though.

[goldenmaniac]

None of us knew what we are doing. But that's not an excuse. All of us owe you much more than an apology.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...okay you know what, she thinks? Enough of this.]

None of you ever tell anyone that I cried, and we'll call it even.

[goldenmaniac]

[Blinkblink.

That... makes him laugh]

Okay? Sure??

[oceanicbutterfly]

I mean it. If I hear one word from anyone at the Foundation...

[It's impossible to determine how serious she is.]