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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] yogen2021-08-05 07:26 pm

MISSION 2.C

Participants: Natsume, Komaeda, Hinata, Helena
Location: Fourth Floor
Date: 08/22 - 08/28

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our memes are making me insane

[personal profile] futurebullets 2021-08-26 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
[For a moment, Hinata can do little more than stare out into what lies ahead of them, horror stealing away his words for that very short stretch of time.]

What the hell- [It slips out of him in a burst, before he can think to muffle it or at least cover Kogamo's ears. He's having too much difficulty processing what's in front of them to be thinking straight.] That's- That whiteness can't be normal, it's like everything's fading away-

[A bolt of panic goes through him.

I lost him.

He was okay. Monokuma had lied. Komaeda had been okay.

I really lost him this time.

He's not so far gone that he won't tilt Kogamo away from the cold before he leans forward, but his voice is still raw when Hinata raises his voice to yell.]


Komaeda! Sakasaki!

[He wants to be wrong. But deep down, part of Hinata already knows that he probably won't receive an answer.]
decrypter: (empty.)

[personal profile] decrypter 2021-08-26 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[silence, save for the breeze and Hinata's shouting. silence that greets her, sets her on edge. and the desperation in his voice tells her something - it's worse than if people were killed, because at least you had bodies. at least you heard them die. you had something to hang onto.

but a nothingness...it chills her worse than the air, than the river that had nearly drowned them.]


Hajime...I don't think we're supposed to be here.

[something feels too, too wrong about this. about the world shifting and changing and spitting them back out somewhere unfamiliar, and then erasing itself on them.]
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[personal profile] futurebullets 2021-08-27 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a moment, no longer than a second, where Hinata shuts his eyes in tortured indecision.

But Helena is right. They cannot stay here. And loathe as he is to leave them alone, Kogamo cannot come with them into that blank unknown.

Hinata crouches back down, making sure Kogamo's feet are on the floor before he unwinds his arms from around them, fingers still outreached in case they lose balance or try to hang onto him. He's calm again - the ripples in the lake have smoothed out, surface appearing undisturbed once more.]


...Thank you. If- [He breaks the word off for a moment. Isn't it bad, to suggest they won't return? But it has to be just as bad to lie, and Hinata refuses to when they've been through enough today.] ...We'll try to come back. As fast as we can, and we'll try to send your dad home even if we can't.

[If they aren't swallowed in the snow. If they don't die right here.

Hinata will stand if Kogamo has let go of him. But even if they haven't, he'll gently reach out and take hold of Helena's hand and squeeze. It's time to go now.]


Let's go out together, Helena.

[He will not leave Komaeda. And Natsume, even if he's just met him - again - he will not leave him, either.

If they have to face being swallowed up, so be it.]
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[personal profile] decrypter 2021-08-27 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
We'll find you again, Kogamo.

[she has to say it, with that tug on her sleeve. with that ache in her heart that wants to dash out with him, and not to simply leave him in a house that's too big for him, without a soul for comfort. without faith that something would change. if she could restore him to someone's arms - or somehow, unwind all these choices.

but right now, with the hand that's not holding Hajime's, she has her cane. and so she can crouch, while still holding on, lay it down and reach to her neck. removing the tie that her uniform came with, it might still be slightly damp, but she can press it into Kogamo's small hand. something to touch, something to have, beyond words that could be lies. what was felt solidified what was heard.]


It's a promise. Even if it takes us a while. Even if we don't seem the same. It will happen.

[even if she has to go through another endless set of cycles again. even if this is only a dream of some sort. Helena manages another smile - kind, sincere - and then straightens up with her cane.]

Ready when you are, Hajime.

[they'll go out at the same time. where they end up now...

hopefully the others are there.

the warmth of someone's hand seems all the more so, against the bitter chill.]