Week 3 Post-Trial

[xxxx_me]

[It's hard to feel much cheer after finding out the culprit. Everyone's welcome to do whatever brings them peace after such a tense time, whether it's jotting down memories before the next loss or finding other things to occupy themselves with.]

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[strictura]

[ Nagisa goes back to his room when the trial is over, only to be greeted by some music that's somehow still playing from the jukebox that Gilgamesh brought in here last night. With a sigh, he unplugs it and makes an effort to push it out into the hallway, because he probably ought to return this before anyone misses it, but wow, he is not nearly strong enough for this.

He pushes all his weight against it, and it moves... about an inch. ]

Ugh... come on...


[ At dinner time, he goes to the dining hall, where he slowly picks at his main course while reading a book. When he finally gets to the chocolate chip cookie he picked up for dessert, he just pauses and frowns at it after the first bite. ]

Dining Hall

[xxxx_me]

[Wearily walking in here around when he realizes that like, oh, right, food. Food should probably happen.]

...

Hi, Nagisa.

[strictura]

Hi.

[ He moves his chair over a little; there's room.

Though, uh. ]

...This isn't the table where the plate was, is it?

[xxxx_me]

[Million yard stare before he forces himself to walk over and take a seat.]

As long as there's no apples or berries.

[He's so tired.]

[strictura]

Not in what I had, anyway.

[ So there's definitely some safe food available.

In any case, he's tired too. He can't actually remember how late they stayed up failing at magic tricks last night, but it probably didn't help. ]

That was pretty exhausting, huh?

[xxxx_me]

Yeah. It took a lot longer to figure out this time.

[He stares down some of the other food available, trying to decide what he can stomach.]

[strictura]

I guess that's to be expected. It was spur of the moment last time, but Sajyou was really meticulous in her planning.

[ Even if things didn't actually go quite as planned. ]

rooms

[ballooncaged]

[Seems like you need a strong friend then!! She wanted to just... cleanse herself after that disgusting trial so here she is.]

What's wrong? Didn't think I'd get a chance to pay you back so fast.

[strictura]

Ah...

[ He looks up and lets out a small sigh of relief, wiping his forehead on the back of his hand. He probably should have taken off his scarf and blazer before starting this. ]

Gilgamesh brought this over last night so we'd have music, which was... thoughtful, but obviously there wasn't a chance to return it, what with the back to back investigation and trial this morning.

[ MORE IMPORTANTLY ]

--On that note, I'm glad your voice is back. Was that faster than last time?

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[ballooncaged]

Oh, so that's where it came from. Sounded fun. Didn't wanna bother you guys, so I wondered if you just had an MP3 player or something.

[By now she's getting in a good position to shove - which is kind of a relief since it hides her face.]

...a little. Last time started at night, so it was the next day.

[Well. Nagisa knows.]

It was... when I discovered Mom. A lot of things were different. I wasn't ready.

[strictura]

[ Oh... He feels a twinge of guilt now at bringing this up, and frowns. ]

...I'm sorry. This must have made you remember that all over again.

[ He remembers how sick he'd felt looking at his own mother's dead body, but...

He shakes his head slightly, trying to shove that memory away. ]

Was anyone with you when you found her?

ai spoilers

[ballooncaged]

My friend Ota was with me, but he freaked out and ran away. Date had to find me. He actually works with the police. When we used that dream world technology I was talking about a couple meetings ago... it was to help me speak again, especially since I couldn't answer their questions in writing or anything.

[Heavy burden...]

After that, we were investigating, and that's when we found Daddy. So it was terrible, but not as bad as the first time. Kind of like now.

[As in, matter of fact and tough!!]

I did... remember that all over again. It was pretty weird. I still felt bad, even though I could think more clearly after all the support I had.

[strictura]

[ So that's what that was for... hm. He's not sure how he feels about law enforcement using something that sounds so invasive on a traumatized kid like that, but if she's okay with it...

He nods. ]

It does... get easier, the more you see things like that.

[ He'd like to be able to say maybe she won't have to keep seeing them, but he's sure they both know that won't be the case. ]

It was an especially weird feeling this time because it was her, though, right?

[ It seemed like they'd both come to associate her with their abusers to some extent, whether that was really fair or not. This felt weird for him too. ]

Re: Dining Hall

[seventhlittlemonster]

[...that reclusion lasted for all of one minute.

Because he's hungry too, he needs cheese and pronto!!

He's scouring like a cryptid and picks up like, several entire wheels of mozzarella.]

[strictura]

[ Watches... He really likes cheese, huh. ]

[seventhlittlemonster]

[Yup!! To the point he's just biting into the wheels without anything else! Not even tomato. He loves that strecch]

[strictura]

[ ...Well, he guesses it's good that he still has an appetite? ]

[seventhlittlemonster]

[Ah. He noticed him looking and yanks a piece right off the wheel.]

You want any?

[strictura]

...No, I'm fine, thank you.

jukeboxing

[soverainty]

Oh, what's this? Are you trying to bulk up for the rest of our battle royale, Shingetsu-kun~?

[Those are the honeyed tones of Niko being up to absolutely no good, and sure enough, as soon as she comes pattering down the hallway on quick feet she takes a running leap and perches herself on top of the jukebox. Whoops.

Presumably it doesn't work, but she's totally messing around with the buttons anyway.]

It is good to know where this thing went, though. I didn't take you for the dance party type.

[strictura]

Gilgamesh brought it to my room last night, I'm just trying to return it--

[ FROWNS AS SHE JUMPS UP THERE, it was heavy enough already!! ]

You're not helping!

[soverainty]

Ahaha, so you're weaker than both Goldie and Cassie? She was going around saying she was going to swing one of us from each arm like some kind of gorilla. Totally would have expected that from the musclehead before I expected it from her.

[Is it because of Oriko’s granny sense of fashion?? Her nerd rep?? To be fair, in terms of nerd rep Nagisa could give anyone a run for their money. Niko continues staring down at him entirely unhelpfully.

She stretches out to a lounge and kicks her heels a little in the air, in fact.]

Don't throw out your back, now ~

[strictura]

[ ...He feels a little bad for immediately inferring that she probably means Mizuki, but. ]

S-so what? It's not like P.E. was a worthwhile subject for me to expend energy on anyway.

[ NO OFFENSE, MASARU ]

Just get off of there, you're wasting both my time and yours!

[soverainty]

[I mean, she called her a musclehead in the middle of trial before in front of their resident monster blockhead and the mastermind and everyone, he's totally valid. There's just an airy smirk as he stumbles over his words.]

Those sound like excuses from somebody getting defeated by a jukebox.

We've really got way too many hopeless nerds in this joint, even with the dogs skewing it.

[Seriously, what is with the dogs. There's a theatrical yawn as she... stretches out a little more, cat-like.]

I'll decide what I'm doing with my time, thanks. You got somewhere to be, Morgue-kun?

[strictura]

[ He bristles at the excuses part, but he also doesn't have any intention of getting into that. He just ignores it and huffs. ]

I mean, I'd like to get some food at some point today.

[ Just preferably not a funnel cake. ]