[CONTINUE + 4] Week 1 || Act: mingle

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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, though now there's far, far less of them.

Is time running out for the mission? How many more loops do you have?

...You feel as if something is watching you when you're not looking.

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[ugly_split_ends]

[Fukawa's room is a lot worse than it was before: it's filled with stacks of loose paper, notebooks, and other folders stacked messily from pile to pile. Enough that there's no room to sit except the bed. The only space free is a table where there's a diffuser, which emits a strong smell of pine. There's random dirty laundry on the ground, too.

Some manuscripts are outright affixed to the wall with tape. On inspection they look like they're stories in the process of being edited. Lots of crossed out words with markings and corrections.]

Just... sit anywhere. ...As long as it's not on a paper.

[le_mat]

[He glances around, nose wrinkling slightly at the pine smell but not complaining. Eventually, he sits on the bed]

You've been busy.

[ugly_split_ends]

...Yeah. This is how it is.

[...]

[le_mat]

...

[The silence is... heavy]

[ugly_split_ends]

...No really, why w-would you apologize?

I said bad things... I always say bad things.

[le_mat]

That doesn't mean I wasn't being an asshole too.

... I was going to be stubborn and wait for you to apologize first, but your other side got onto me.

[ugly_split_ends]

...Please say she didn't stick you anywhere!!

[le_mat]

Heh, surprisingly no! She even said outright she doesn't want to stab me.

[ugly_split_ends]

"Surprisingly"...

[...]

[le_mat]

I mean, okay you missed this since she was out, but I miiight... have had a bit of a knife fight with her during the trial before last.

[ugly_split_ends]

Oh god no... you had to literally fight her off?! H-How?!

[le_mat]

I don't think she was actually trying to stab me, just freak me out. But I mean, you can't blame me for reacting like she was! As much as I joke I do take the whole 'serial killer' thing seriously.

I'm pretty fast with a knife too, but I think if she was really going for it she probably could have managed it. It was when everyone was 'pretend' stabbing me, remember? You fainted when Dazai-san said you could be the killer if you refused to help.

[ugly_split_ends]

O-Oh... yeah, I vaguely remember seeing his face.

... That's good. It means I'm 'controlling' her a little better, then. I don't need to freak out... maybe. It's possible she was just luring you i-into a false sense of security...

[le_mat]

Hm, if that's the case that just means it's on me for losing my edge. She wouldn't be the first serial killer to try for me.

[ugly_split_ends]

...Just what kind of life were you leading...?

[le_mat]

A very exciting one.

... in all seriousness though, I... I do want to still be friends with you. But maybe I was pushing too hard.

1/2

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[ugly_split_ends]

...Is it possible to be friends with garbage...

[she sniffs, nose clogged, as her face clouds over.]

...

D-Don't tell me I'm not. I know I am... it's l-like I'm w-watching myself... s-say the w-wrong thing... all the time...

[le_mat]

... I think it's possible, yeah. I mean. Look at me. I'm a PTSD riddled wreak using bad humor and a shitty savior-complex to cope. I doubt anyone here isn't some degree of fucky.

We can all just be... fucked up together, I guess.

[ugly_split_ends]

I-It is when I'm lashing out at you! When all I'm doing is hurting people who keep saying 'be my friend, be my friend...'

[le_mat]

It's up to you if you want to be better at that. It'll take time and yeah, some people will probably give up on you. But it's either try and maybe end up with a few people that accept you or don't and... well, you stay where you are.

I can't force you one way or the other. I'm just saying, for now, I'm willing to keep trying.

[ugly_split_ends]

...

...I guess I just... want to know why.

W-What's in it for you... besides... pain from being around me.

[le_mat]

I don't like seeing people suffer, is all. Probably that savior-complex I mentioned.

Plus, when we're not bickering you're not bad to be around, you know.

[ugly_split_ends]

Hehe...

Hehehe...

M-Maybe I like suffering... ever think of that...?

[le_mat]

And you called ME a masochist.