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[ She's surprised for a moment and actually starts to move further in the room. She's relieved cause here he is! And he's still okay... as okay as he can be given the circumstances. ]

Hey hey, Outsider. How are you doing?

[Yeah, no, Aoi still has a hand on her shoulder holding her back. She kind of thought this might be the real thing and she's pretty wary of the shadow problem here?? She's not here to be dragged into the Shadow Realm. I'm never going to stop making that joke. She's peering over Cinque's shoulder mistrustfully at both Gabe and his little friend.

Also is his chest turning to shadow or did he just lose a chunk of it or what.]

Cinque. Slow down. [Hm.] Reyes-san, what is that thing?

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Oh!

[This turn of events actually surprises Tsumugi, who after a few moments of shock, smiles slightly at Reyes.]

It's great to meet you face to face. But... umm...

[She glances at the bug and shadows. She remembers the latter acting on their own in the memory.]

Is it safe to get near you right now?

Let's just keep you guys over there for now. Just to be safe. This damn bug Granz put on me won't hurt you, but I can't make any promises about the shadow.

[He's going to give up on removing the bug for now though, and he sighs irritably as he grabs his shirt and hoodie and pulls those back on.]

I'm not going to ask 'how', since I'm sure the boxes weren't that much of a challenge, but why? Shoulsn't all of you be leaving?

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Oh! So Prince Alfie helped you out! I'm really glad.

[ And she's putting a hand over Aoi's for a moment to just pull it off. Her expression goes from the friendly relief, to something determined. ]

Not without you, Rey Rey. Let's leave together.

[ Sorry, she has a mission and she has promises to keep. She intends to keep trying to help him and get him out. ]

Cinque.

[Aoi is going to bodily move to try and block if she tries to get too close right now.

The bug is weirdly reassuring, actually, but she's not happy that Gabe is probably armed and has eldritch shadows and could potentially hit whatever button is still working after the Resort and the staff have shut down. So.

(Also congrats on your new nickname, Rey Rey.)]

I get that you want to help him, but we have to be careful. We won't be able to do anything if we don't watch his powers and whatever else is going on here. [...] What is going on with the bug?

Cinque, you umm... shouldn’t touch the bug.

[Not until they know what it does at least. A sigh from Tsumugi. She turns her attention back to Reyes.]

But umm... yeah. We’re not leaving without you. I don’t think it’s plain possible to talk us out of it at this point.

[YEAH UH. That's why he put his shirt back on. Don't touch the bug plz, it's weird and also the only thing holding him together right now. Even if he hates it.

And to answer everyone else's questions, he just sighs and runs a hand through his hair. A frustrated gesture, mostly.]

Long story short, it's helping me right now, as weird as that might sound. That psycho doc finally did something right.

[He starts to say 'no' to everyone's request to leave, but then he stops. And he looks at the girls for a while longer. The gears seem to be turning in his head as he considers a few things, and then finally:]

You know what? Fine. I'm tired of everyone bugging- bothering me about that, and if you three managed to get in here then I'll need to escort you out anyway. So fine. Let's go.

[Congrats on getting him out of the brain at least? Six weeks of effort at wearing him down has not gone to waste.]

[ She was planning on staging a sit in. Just sit her butt down there until he agreed, but then he actually concedes. So she's happy that Prince Alfie did his best AND that Gabe is actually going to go with them. ]

Yay! Let's go, Rey Rey!

[ She'll wait until after him though just in case he changes his mind. ]

Did you know they all made it back okay?

[ The ghosts... in case he's worried ]

Finally.

[That was easier than she was expecting, but at this point she ain’t looking a gift bug in the mouth. Pincers? Whatever. Occupy Brain 2k19 has lasted five minutes and it was already too long.

> Trust their luck
> Trust the tentacle doctor’s bugging adventures
> Trust no one

She’ll wait with Cinque, because honestly—]

We’re the ones escorting you out, I’m pretty sure.

[Blue Angel has joined your party! YEET yourself?]

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E-eh? Really!?

[Tsumugi is honestly surprised that he gave in that easily. She’ll take it though.]

Well... I’m plain happy that we’ll be getting out of here sooner then.

[She was expecting a MTB to be honest.]

[Sorry Tsumugi, no gun friend today!

But speaking of the ghosts, Gabe looks directly at a seemingly-empty part of the room and points at it.]

Don't think I didn't see all of you follow them in here. Get out too.

[Hm.]

[ Oooh. Ghost friends! ]

They were probably really worried.

[ Also hey remember that hand holding convo? Cinque is totally offering him her hand. ]

Ready?

[Aoi’s just going to blink and stare at the empty room and then... start laughing, a little, part relief and part at the ridiculousness of everything.

How many ghost friends did they even pick up, please.

She stops laughing when Cinque goes up to him, though, looking unhappy about it for a second before she sighs to herself and gets to what can only be described as slightly aggressive hovering. The ghost friends do make her feel better though.]

Well, it’s good to, um— [not see them, is it] —have them along. Let’s get out of here.

[Hopefully the way back is as straightforward as the way here??]

They’re here?

[Well, that’s comforting. She can muse on that later though.]

Yeah, let’s leave.

[Before the other foot drops.]

[He's listening to the invisible ghosts for a moment, because they're saying something to him, but then he speaks in return to them.]

It's fine.

[Though when Cinque offers her hand, he holds up one of his own to wave her off.]

Probably a bad idea right now, kid. I'll walk out on my own.

[He'll leave the hand-holding for Aoi to do, since she's right next to Cinque and seems to care about her a lot.

But yes they get to walk out of the brain, and interestingly enough Gabe seems to know the way out! Dum de dum, they can bypass memories since he's not going to get stuck in those.

But when they get to the hatch, Gabe will go ahead and go up first, but as soon as he reaches the top he lets out a yelp of surprise and is dragged out of the trapdoor.]

[ Right now. She definitely heard that.

She will take Aoi's hand instead. She really has been dealing with quite a bit of stress thanks to her during this outing.

Everything is going SUPER GREAT and all. The way back seems even faster and everything seems like it's getting better. That is until that happens...

oh shit. ]

Rey Rey?

[ Let's finish the climb up and see what's going on! ]

Oh, you’ve got to be kidding.

[It’s a mutter to herself but still!!

Anyway, the walk over was nice and relaxing and maybe a bit too relaxed? This is definitely not the outings they were talking about doing but she’ll take it for the time it’s available, handholding and all. But of course they come to the trap door and there he goes. Not sure if that counts as a reverse yeet or what but y’all really gonna make her D-board back out the way she came in, huh.

Since Cinque is holding on to her she’s free to D-board up with, but Aoi is swooping up to the trap door to see what the hell just happened.]

FINAL INVESTIGATION

oh look he had a friend this whole time

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he's had a friend for like two days

It's still a friend and that's important to her?

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