[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

[foundationmods]

Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[cw_suicide]

It's all very ugly, isn't it? And people don't like ugly things.

So naturally, ugliness but a rejection of said ugliness.

And therefore, a neutral state in which nothing actually occurs.

It's not so uncommon.

[dereban]

... Ahh, that's what you meant.

Well - it's true. I'm not going to say that you're 'wrong', since we've spoken on this, but... maybe it's not 'right', either.

[She just kicks the snow in no particular direction, mulling it over.]

Something does have to happen, but -

I suppose it doesn't have to be 'this'.

[cw_suicide]

Mm, and the areas in which it is "wrong" aren't really the ones which play to my strengths. But my strengths do lie in being able to point out something ugly, call it for what it is, and then take on the ire as needed.

... if Solomon or others want to be angry with me for it, I don't mind it.

But it isn't something we can just ignore or keep quiet on. That will only lead to even worse disaster.

[a pause]

Or I guess if my speaking up about it brings about the disaster anyway, we all know who brought it forward in the first place. I also don't mind that so much.

[dereban]

That's why we have each other to lean on. Obviously everyone has things they're not strong at.

I can't even be entirely mad because I don't entirely disagree about how bad it is.

[And as someone who sees the worst things in situations, she'd be a hypocrite for doing so.

But as for those last words... she's lobbing another snowball at him.]

1/2

[cw_suicide]

[direct hit and he falls back against the other snow mounds.]

[cw_suicide]

... Inaba-chan...

[whiiiiine]

[dereban]

Being honest doesn't mean you should be thrown under the proverbial bus to simply get run over, Dazai.

[cw_suicide]

Honesty's never my strong suit in any case.

[or it is but it cuts real deep]

[dereban]

Yes, yes, we know you're sometimes a lying liar that lies.

[She's only being half-serious, here.]

[cw_suicide]

It's a much better way to go about things!

[for him, personally]

[dereban]

That sort of thing feels comfortable for you, doesn't it?

[cw_suicide]

It's the same for a lot of people, isn't it?

Lying is how everyone gets by with the ugliness.

[dereban]

Hmm, is it now?

I didn't know that!

[cw_suicide]

I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, of course~

[dereban]

[...]

Am I allowed to use a person as an example?

[cw_suicide]

[... why does this feel like a trap.]

Haa? What person?

[dereban]

Yoshi.

[cw_suicide]

... that's cheating.

[dereban]

You said 'everyone', and Yoshi is a part of 'everyone', so therefore, he counts and I win.

[cw_suicide]

Yoshi-kun is an outlier. And thus the exception which proves the rule!

[dereban]

. . . my point still stands, though.

But now you make me want to face the ugliness head on instead of hiding it.

[Is she a little spiteful?

Maybe.]

[cw_suicide]

By all means, if you dare.

[dereban]

Fine.

Honesty starting now. With exceptions, of course.

[cw_suicide]

Isn't that always the way of it?

[dereban]

There's a difference between 'lying to protect yourself' and 'lying to hide the ugliness of things', Dazai.

So.

Yeah.