[continue + 2] week 1 || act: investigate

[foundationmods]

[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

Friday comes, and there is no angry captain waking you up, no crowd of people.

But there is still, undeniably...

a feeling of foreboding.

You know what this is.

One of your own...has perished.

At the hands of one of you.]

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[cw_suicide]

[this kind of smile.]

Hitoka doesn't want me to see the body until she has an idea of what it's like.

[dereban]

[That's definitely sending loud alarm bells in her head of "that's extremely bad, Dazai!!"

She does just give him a look that show more of that concern than a few moments prior, when it was just simply the tone of her voice.]

You worried?

[There are... a lot of subtleties in that question. Many layers that those two words speak, if he picks up on it.]

[cw_suicide]

We talked it over. So I have confidence in how she wants to go about it.

[this is totally not answering the question, though...]

[dereban]

And of course you so obviously sidestep the question.

[She's going to take it as a 'yes' unless otherwise told otherwise. Sometimes a non-answer is more of an answer, really.]

Well - I suppose that isn't much of my business how you guys handle this sort of thing.

[cw_suicide]

I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be opposed to some support, also.

[dereban]

If I see her later, I'll see about talking to her.

But you're not allowed to push people to Yachi just because you think she potentially might need more support than you, given your background or any other ridiculous reason.

[cw_suicide]

No, it's really that she'll overwork herself.

I'm more the indolent sort, you know.

[dereban]

Ahh, that sort of thing...

[She gets that, too.]

I don't know what I can do regarding that, [just going to start rolling a snowball idly as she says that] but I suppose an attempt can be made.

Since we all can handle what's to come, I think. We need to just support each other in general... as cliche and stupid as that sounds.

[cw_suicide]

... I do keep wondering, though. About the pattern of it.

[dereban]

. . . I guess if we're treating it like a serial killing -

[She takes out her notes, looking a little serious.]

None of the victims have been the same color so far. I think it's the same with the - two culprits, I think?

[There's... an uncertainty to her last two words; shaky.]

[cw_suicide]

First was blue and purple.

Then yellow and yellow.

Now orange...

[yeah there's definitely worry green might come up]

[dereban]

Mm...

Well - it's best not to think too hard on it; we don't know if the pattern will hold up. Even if the third time around tends to be a shitshow, a lot of the time.

[week 3 curse is bad]

[cw_suicide]

[what was the third trial in the house again--oh right. Haku and Flayne. Zabuza and Rin.

...

yeah that was a bad time.]

... if it is that color... is it wrong to hope for one and not the other?

[sorry, Yoshi-kun, he likes you, but like...]

[dereban]

... It's okay to be selfish and want to hope.

But if it is - what do you plan to do for the vote?

[cw_suicide]

[that is the question, isn't it.

... Hitoka would scold him if she knew what he was thinking.

so he focuses on drawing a big FROWN on a snow pile's "face"]

[dereban]

. . . If you plan on voting for yourself in that case, I am telling everyone during the trial tomorrow.

[cw_suicide]

I technically kind of did the last trial.

1 / 2

[dereban]

[SQUINTS AT HIM HARDER??????

DAZAI, PLEASE]

[dereban]

Please don't do that again unless it's necessary...

[cw_suicide]

You mean if I'm the culprit.

[dereban]

Would I have said it for any other reason?

[cw_suicide]

The last couple of times, the culprit voted for themselves and then there were attempts to toss them into the Core. What happens if the culprit doesn't vote for themselves? Does that do anything?

[dereban]

That seems risky, don't you think?

I mean - I'd say it'd be fine if the majority vote was on one and we were trying to see if voting for someone would prevent someone getting thrown into the Core, but...

There's also the possibility that doesn't matter in the first place.

I think what's more important is the reason 'why' throw them in the Core in the first place.