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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-19 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
You're a human, too, dumbass!

[Well, no shit, Gundam- that's a very obvious thing, so Ryuji will counter that with an equally obvious thing that places the suspicion right onto him.]

And you're still alive according to this thing. People die if they're killed! What the hell is this, some sorta killing game!?

[He clenches his fist.]
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-19 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
What...?

[Ryuji's voice is kind of just ringing in his ears as he reaches out, though it seems Gundam won't just give him the handbook. It's... not going to stop him from scrolling down, brow furrowing as he reads through the rules. "Extreme violence is prohibited on this island," right, okay, it must be referring to the Jabberwock Island Gundam had mentioned before. "Hope Fragments"...? He has no idea what that means.

It's the following rules, the ones next to the little bouncing bear sprite, that make it hard to hear anything going on around him. His hand lowers from Ryuji's chest, less out of conscious effort and more just from not really being aware of what's going on around him.]


A class trial... execute the blackened?

[He sounds like he's talking to himself, not the other two boys.]

If the blackened gets away, the others... will be executed?!

[Hajime looks up then, eyes wide as he looks to Ryuji first for some kind of reassurance, then to Gundam just as quickly for some kind of refutation. This... this can't be real, right?]
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-19 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he's pretty dumb, all petty and destructive thoughts accounted for in this giant fuckass of a mess that he's charged right into. Hajime lowers his hand, and Ryuji still has it in him to haul off and start a chargin', but he's concerned with how touched Hajime seems to be about this entire thing.]

Uh, no, I mean.

[You're asking Ryuji Sakamoto if, given the opportunity between completely misreading a room and getting hot-headed versus taking the time to sort stuff out... that he won't go for guns blazing route?

Well, Gundam... Don't know what to tell you here.]


Look, somethin' is goin' on here, for real, can you at least... I dunno, promise me or just say something to the effect that you're not a killer? This shit is fishy as all hell, s'what I'm sayin'.
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-20 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
He can't be.

[Hajime's not even looking at either of them, he's just staring down at the handbook. He can be incredibly dumb like... 80% of the time. But when it's important, when he can focus, he's observant. It takes him a bit to try to put pieces together, it's true, but he's from the kind of game where those kinds of time limits are okay.

He shifts his grip, trying to actually take the handbook. There must be evidence in it that proves that Gundam's not a killer, right? There has to be.]


I won't believe... someone like Tanaka can be a murderer.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Alright.

Good enough for him.

The mask fades away into particles of weird blue distortion, and that's that. If Gundam says he didn't kill anyone, he might as well believe him. He takes people for their word; it's once you break that to Ryuji that he will never forget that.]


Alright.

[That didn't really fill in the gaps of all the other absolutely fucking batshit stuff that looked like it was going on back wherever Hajime and Gundam had come from. He thinks back to all the talks he had with Hajime, too, about what it would be like to go home.

If that's the home he has to go back to ...]


The only calamity I'm seein' here is how you ain't lettin' him see that book. Might as well just give up the ghost, dude.
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-20 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Hajime glances to Ryuji, surprised at how quickly he accepts what Gundam's saying. But... he really shouldn't be, he realizes almost as quickly. Ryuji is just the kind of guy who's so willing to believe in other people that even something like this...

He still wants the evidence to prove it. It's in his hand, he's sure of it, and he doesn't let go of the handbook.]


If... if this has a list of students in it... the people you're saying thought I was their classmate... I want to see it, Tanaka.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-20 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Well... he didn't really come from a world where that was actually a luxury he could afford either. There were a lot of corrupt people whose sins had turned them into monsters that hid under sheep's skin in their own society. Ryuji and his friends, then, only ever worked to alleviate those corruptions.

And also? If this were a murder game, he'd probably wipe the floor with his persona. He loved his inner demon monkey king.

He'll stay quiet as Gundam hands over the book. He's curious to know what's going on, but it's not his story to tell.]
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-20 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Would Persona fall under the "excessive violence" clause?? Who knows.

Hajime takes the handbook, hefting it in his hands. He's never seen anything quite like it; sure, it seems like a normal smartphone or tablet, but there's something weird about that little dancing bear. Like a malice deeper than any he's ever felt before.

He shakes his head, tabs over to the Report Card, and-- selects his own pixelated portrait after a deep breath to steel himself. ...Well, he doesn't look dead, though what's with the only things listed on his profile being mochi? Not to mention--]


Super High School Level...

[Super High School Level What though? It's all just question marks, even in Gundam's handbook. Beep, beep, he taps on Gundam's portrait. Nothing surprising there. Then Chiaki's, again with the same kind of trepidation from looking at his own. Again, nothing surprising. It's... nice, seeing her face again, his own expression softening.

The next one he clicks on is Mahiru Koizumi, and he flinches, a whole-body shudder at the greyed-out portrait labeled DEAD. Though he doesn't recognize most of the faces, the more he taps on, the more dead students he sees. He feels faint, like he might throw up. But--]


There's... it's evidence that he's not a killer, isn't it? There's just-- too many people. I...

[He clutches his tie with a hand, looking to Gundam again more pleadingly.]

What happened? Why... this is what you meant about people turning on each other, isn't it?
hopefragment: until he wanted us to stand ON him (he seemed like such a stand-up guy*)

[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-20 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
That's... that's Koizumi. Satou's friend in the Main Course. And this guy... this has to be her brother. Kuzuryu, the Super High School Level Yakuza.

[This is all good and normal. Apparently their(??) classmate is a yakuza heir, that's fine. Don't worry about it, Ryuji.]

Did... he couldn't have killed her, right? I-I mean... there's the rule. About... about a blackened getting away.

[Vaguely, he's aware that uhhh the door is still open. Let's just-- head inside, kids, Hajime stumbling a little as he makes his way over to sit heavily on the floor. Li rolls off the bed with a chirping meow and promptly buries herself in his lap. She's too big to really fit in his lap these days, but it doesn't stop her from trying.]

How come the police didn't get involved...? I mean, you guys are all talented students. They'd know you were missing.
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-20 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ryuji is chill over here, but when Hajime looks to move so that there's some privacy to their discussion, he has a moment where he looks over at his friend for a cue- like, he knows this is kind of something personal, and he doesn't want to really be there if it makes either of them uncomfortable.

But it's not like the door closes in front of him or anything, so he'll join in, scratching the back of his head sheepishly.]


The police are useless, dude.

[Speaking very much from personal experience here. He was there when Ren came back from interrogation, saw all the bruises and marks all over his face and arms.

The police didn't save the world from anyone. They were absolutely, positively, fucking useless.]
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-28 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[The police are useless, it's true. They didn't investigate Natsumi's murder beyond a cursory glance. But these are people with talent. The police should be trying to find them! How could an entire class just vanish?!]

Your whole class is trapped there...

[And somehow, someone like me got mixed up in this, too. In the future... after the Project.

His fists clench at his thighs, and he just looks down at the fluffy ball of digicat curled up in his lap. A whole class full of talented students, being forced to kill each other. He can't fathom it. He wants to tell Gundam to give up the joke, but there's just no way he'd joke about this.]


Why... didn't you tell me about this before, Tanaka?
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[personal profile] ryuji 2018-08-28 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[He looks between the two, still not getting the full picture of exactly what was going on, and that's... that's fine, really, he guesses it'll be explained in full, but he does pick up on small ticks between Hajime and Gundam. He might be rather dumb at figuring puzzles and scholastic types of things, but he's definitely decent at picking up on people, and he can tell that Gundam cares deeply about Hajime.

He understands completely the willful amount of energy it takes to protect someone you care about, and he's getting that this isn't a joke. How can he think that? Weirder shit's happened. He walked to school one day with Joker and the next thing he knew, he was in a castle with all sorts of armored guards trying to kill them.]


I think he cares about you, dude.

And like... whatever happened there would've hurt you to know. So he didn't wanna say anything. I mean, look at 'em. He's practically straining at something you just said.
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[personal profile] hopefragment 2018-08-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Hajime looks to Ryuji and shakes his head before shifting his gaze to Gundam. It doesn't make sense, it's crazy to think about, but it's not...

He sighs and runs a hand through his hair, shaking his head again.]


No, that... that's not what I meant. I meant... how could you keep something like this to yourself? You have to be worried about them, right?

[Gundam can natter on all he wants about being a dark lord and having no friends, etc, etc, but Hajime just can't buy it. He's a weirdo, but he's a weirdo with a kind heart and obvious love for animals. Surely Hajime wasn't his only friend in this weird, messed-up situation?]

I guess what I'm trying to say is... are you okay? Keeping secrets about yourself... isn't easy.

[He manages not to look at Ryuji for that bit. Ryuji is. Bad. at keeping secrets about himself, to say the least. But he's not gonna call him out directly.]

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