MISSION 2.B

[adsum]

Participants: Shuichi, Akira, Rika, Kokichi
Location: Fourth Floor
Date: 08/22 - 08/28

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There's a window, but the fire...

[ The reason for the time limit is that growing fire they can see glowing behind the door back to the school, and it's the reason why this is as far as they've gone and never turned back.

Is breaking through the window and falling thirty-five feet instead of forty from the rooftop any better? ... ]

[unsurely]

Ah... it's alright. I'm talking about the window, but... we aren't going back inside.

[ Yeah, he's suggesting they lower themselves with each other's help from the roof to the window on the outside, just a little insane, this is fine. They only need to hold out and survive like a second longer than Hikaru's memory, right? ]

The fire stays contained in the building... I believe in your observations, Goto-san.

[ In the fact that just maybe... there's something they've earned at the end of repeating their suffering all this time. ]

1/ cw suicide

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[ "Just a little"? Hikaru gives Shuichi a look like he's completely insane, but...

Hikaru is the one with nothing to lose, no reason to say no, so if everybody is in agreement then that's that. They'll believe in Shuichi too. ]

Okay.

[ Alright. The windowsill doesn't stick out too much to get a good foothold, but there's it's wide enough for five people to pack close together and hang on. Hikaru lowers themselves first, gaze falling on the two gorinto on the other side of the glass, a sad smile on their face as they scooch over to the leftmost edge, watching the fire ravage the school and its students that they, despite everything, loved.

Seconds pass. Minutes drag on. Sweat on their fingertips make hanging on difficult, let alone the trembling muscles in their arms. The memory isn't ending, because the ending has always been set in stone. ]

...I'm going to let go.

[ The least Hikaru can do is give prior warning. ]

Don't worry, this isn't me giving up. This is a memory... one that I locked away because it was too much to bear alone. But I'm not alone, am I? None of us are. I think I'll be able to handle it now, so... Thank you for being with me and seeing this through to the end.

2/2 cw suicide

[adsum]

[ With that, they push off the side of the building, letting go in order to cup their hands on either side of their mouth and shout out with everything they have so that the wind whipping past them doesn't swallow up their voice: ]

IF WE MEET SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, COME BE MY FRIEND, OKAY!?

[ They're swallowed up by the darkness below, and up above... it's light. It's the window shattering with a burst of flame and piercing glass, so hot it feels cold, the shock of a cold shower on a hot summer's day, the startling wide awake from a nap you hadn't meant to take. ]