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round 5

the truth is, everyone wishes to be saved.

The execution has come and passed with the death of two more Agents. However time moves on without cease and so must the living. There are no celebrations, only the silence that grows heavier and heavier with every day and the feeling that something is pleased with what it has done.

There are two more days before the new week arrives: what will you do?

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I trust you more than anyone else here. If someone has to be picked to relay a message out of this house, you're the one who I would trust to do it.

I had to agree to his nonsense to even have a chance at arguing that.

Which only puts more of a target on my back!

In the first place, I don't think we have any chance of getting out of here alive. In the second place, me over Gilgamesh or Seteth?

One, we do have a chance. We just have to wait for the right moment to use that chance.

[He sounds. So sure of that.]

Two: Seteth just had his family member die and is not in the right mind to do anything useful. I won't argue with you about Gilgamesh, though.

What chance?

[not even bothering with point two because actually yeah, u right.]

Ango, with your own experience, you know how fucking sideways this whole thing has gone since minute one.

I do know, it's an absolute shitshow. Just...trust me when I say we have a chance, alright?

I touched something here, and I saw something important. Something that will make the difference in the end. I can't explain further than that, so you have to trust me.

Edited 2020-05-03 01:11 (UTC)

[there's a long moment of silence...]

Don't.

... don't just say that because you think it's what I want or need to hear.

[in fact, it sounds? really painful???]

I'm not just saying it to placate you! It's the truth!

[He's sounding a little frustrated now.]

[there's a clear waver. probably people who don't really know Dazai so well wouldn't be able to see it but it's the torn sort of wanting to trust Ango and being burnt by that but also the fact that he has ZERO hope or belief of things ending well that's completely unrelated to what Ango's saying in the first place.]

... you're right you shouldn't talk about it out loud.

[he looks at the walls around them with distant eyes, like he's expecting to catch sight of whatever entity is behind the miasma.]

Either way... I'll be surprised if I survive this next week. A few people seemed really... against whatever I tried to say or do, so...

[and popularity contests are now in vogue. ha.]

[He does calm down when he hears Dazai say that, and the anxious look changes to a sad one.

He really wishes he could explain. But he Can't. Not when the walls have eyes. It's a secret Ango has to keep to himself.]

More people like than dislike you, you'll be alright for a bit longer.

...Dazai-kun. It seems like there's a bit of a lead time on when new ghosts show up. If something happens to me, there's something you need to do immediately.

[seems skeptical about this but then there's Plotting tones, so he refocuses.]

... what's that?

You need to warn everyone.

I know secrets about most of the people here. Secrets none of them have breathed to anyone.

You need to warn them. If I die, all that information is going to be compromised.

[... ah.

that's true, isn't it.

it wasn't something he was thinking about--not immediately, anyway, because Ango knows how to be lowkey and keep himself from being noticed.

... but then the trial...]

Really... why'd you have to go and stick your neck out like that...

I guess I can't help it, can I? It's how I am.

[He'll just hope that nobody decides to take him out, so he can make it to the end and not spill the beans on everyone here.]

The one upside is that our 'chance' won't be compromised, because I only know of its existence. I don't know how to set things in motion to make it happen.