WEEK 3

[whimsicalism]

WEEK THREE

Two weeks, two trials, four deaths.

One thing is certain: The monster in charge of this place knows enough about everyone here that he also knows what can drive some of them desperate enough to kill. He is powerful, and he has access, and he despises the whole student body. The face of the class' captor has been revealed now, in a sense, and the flames of his hatred for children have turned out to be very real.

At least, for now, the students of Ira Academy have one another to lean on. Some might have found the post-trial camaraderie a comfort. At least everyone hasn't given up hope. At least many students are still finding their anger and their will to fight back.

There are fewer pretenses this coming week. Classes proceed as normal; the school day still functions as normal, but the further everyone comes from that first fateful meeting with the man in charge of this school, the further away and more incomprehensible the thought that there was ever really a chance of going along with the original plan, completing reeducation, and staying safe.


...Of course, you could still try. There'd be nothing stopping you.

But you won't, will you? That's just how the students of Ira Academy are. You'll visit the third floor of the Academy, ascending the newly opened flight of stairs. Maybe you'll investigate one of the new rooms, dwarfed by the echoes that bounce of the uninvitingly tall ceilings. There's probably still something in this place on your side.

Will you work together, or will you grow further apart?

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OOC NOTES

Welcome to Week 3! New locations have been added and the third floor is now open for exploration. The library is a very large space and more than one person can investigate it throughout the week if you'd like. If you want to investigate one of the Floor 3 rooms, please hit the mods with a ping in Discord and put INVESTIGATE in your subject line.

As a reminder, AC runs Sunday to Sunday concurrent with these posts and is collected based on the prior week; this means you have a whole week to get in AC for the week prior. AC for week 2 should be submitted no later than this coming Sunday. Remember to submit your regains, and sign up for a spot exploring this week's mystery if you want to!

Comments

[cellpreservation]

[...What do you even say to someone you helped pull out of a washer the night before.]

...So.

[imprefect]

So.

[What, indeed?]

You're one of the ones who pulled me out, right?

[cellpreservation]

Kind of. I was mostly helping carry you.

...How are you feeling?

[imprefect]

[She looks him up and down. Well, she's slender and petite and delicate, so even if he isn't that strong, it obviously wouldn't have been a big deal.]

... Nauseous.

You all made the Principal angry again, didn't you? On Friday.

[cellpreservation]

When isn't he angry?

[imprefect]

I hadn't seen or heard him that angry.

...At least, I didn't think I had. All I could think was, if we'd just behaved, he wouldn't get angry.

[cellpreservation]

If he's angry because we're not killing each other effectively enough, I'll keep pissing him off every chance I get.

...

I'm sorry you got hurt, though.

[imprefect]

[Nanami blushes a little bit, goes to cross her arms huffily, and winces at the limited range of motion.] If you think that's all it'll take...!

Listen. Don't keep making him mad just because you think he can't do anything worse to you. He can.

[cellpreservation]

If he beats us all up too much, we won't be able to kill each other the way he wants us to!

[imprefect]

He isn't just going to beat you up! [She smacks her good hand down, making her barely picked-over French toast plate rattle.]

If he decides to send you away, it's not like you just get expelled and go home, you know!

[cellpreservation]

What's he gonna do, kill us? Gee, where have I heard that one before?

[imprefect]

You're still not hearing me! The worst of the bad kids, the real miscreants, the ones who aren't fit to continue, I don't think they just die, they get taken away, and it's probably somewhere absolutely horrible!

[She claps her hand over her mouth, as though shocked by and trying to stop her own outburst.]

[cellpreservation]

[That does get him to pause at least.]

Wait- hang on, what do you know?!

[He leans forward, intent.]

[imprefect]

[Still with her hand over her mouth, she looks around furtively, likely looking for a nearby Little Brother that might be paying attention. Nanami slowly lowers her hand.]

I already got in trouble; do you really think I'll stick my neck out again? Even if I told you that I think it has something to do with the way this place works and that I think anyone who's died might be stuck there, too, I don't know much more than that!

...So, don't you get it? That's why you don't want to keep making him angry! And why I was lucky to just go to detention, so I can't do anything that'll get me into a worse punishment!

[cellpreservation]

[Wait wait wait hold up-]

How do you know that? I mean - are you saying their ghosts are still here or something?

[imprefect]

What? How should I know! I haven't seen any ghosts, even if a lot of weird things have started happening... like the way that Little Brother was acting.

But there's a place he sends hopeless cases...the ones detention doesn't do anything for. Like another prison, but for kids. I don't know why or how and I couldn't even figure out where it is. I think those of you who fail the final assignment have gotta be the most hopeless cases of all to him.

[cellpreservation]

Kids who actually murder someone but don't get away with it are his idea of hopeless?

[Hey principal what the fuck.]

[imprefect]

You don't think so? They're obviously not following the rules. ... Which only say I'm unable to identify a killer for you, so I'm not breaking any of that, by the way.

[Sounds like she's trying to reassure herself rather than saying anything in particular to him. But her confidence fails again just as quickly.]

Then again, he reserves that kind of punishment for any kind of big troublemaker... who'll never fit in.

[cellpreservation]

...Like who?

this might slightly bork the time on dunce thread so if needed you can say this convo happened after

[imprefect]

...

Like Ao Hoshizaki.

She was supposed to be my senior, but she just caused problems in the end.

[cellpreservation]

Your senior... like another prefect?

[imprefect]

[Tch...] Senior Prefect.

She's older than I am, so she was ahead of me. But look at the mess she made for me! Well, it's just as well that I'm doing it all by myself!

[cellpreservation]

Because she disobeyed?

[imprefect]

Right.

I don't even remember why... or what happened. I'm sure I was listening to everything the Principal said then.

[This sounds truthful! Nanami probably doesn't have much more to share about this beyond what she's given out.]