8/28, afternoon | cw for HORRIFIC VIOLENT TORTURE in the comments

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[network | un: e.grenore]

Can anyone here erase or alter memories? Need an answer ASAP.

Don't bother me with tedious questions.

[like that isn't something suspicious to post to the network... but it's probably nothing.]

[meanwhile in the music room... | semi-open]

The music room is being commandeered today—for the past couple hours the door has been "locked", or at least blocked shut from the inside, with One Direction music blasting from what sounds like a boombox. Dito can also be spotted hanging around the door, spear in hand, like a bouncer to the world's shittiest nightclub.

Every now and then it almost sounds like someone might be screaming in there, beneath the melodious sounds of hit pop idols Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomilson, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik... but surely that's just your imagination. Nothing strange is going on in the music room today. Don't worry about it. It's totally fine. No war crimes in here!

((content warnings: extreme violence/torture, gore, disembowelment, teeth horror, emeto, we're k-wording a teenage girl... like, nothing good is happening here. specific things may be warned in the subject lines but don't come in here expecting a good time.

anyone is welcome to notice the weird activity/approach the door, but we can't exactly have half the game individually trying to kick the door down SO. please hit one of us up by PM/discord if your character would try to investigate any further than that! we don't bite i promise our characters are just insane))

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[carpevinum]

[Stares

at

them.]

I refuse to believe that Senku has been roped into this of his own volition.

[—is his first statement, because what the fuck. He's well aware of you murder-fucks doing whatever the hell you want, actually, and were Hyde not currently dead and gone he'd also assume Hyde to be part of this rag-tag little group of murderers. He can't say he's shocked, nor can he claim to be disappointed, because he's Lucifer. But Senku... Senku is decidedly not like the others in the room, and Dito outside.

He looks at the girl and shakes his head. Not a favoured human. Still, his holier-than-thou superiority complex shows through, and one of his favoured humans is here. That gives him more than enough reason to tilt his chin up and stare down at Komaeda with that cruel red-eyed gaze of his.]

The reactions of the people within the walls of this school are, frankly, none of my concern — if they panic on you, deal with it. I realise this is hard for people of your calibre to grasp, but people mourn those close to them that die or get harmed unduly.

[That comes from the heart — from memories of Lilith, and perhaps a sprinkling of a moral complex that someone back home handed him once.]

I will not make further judgement until I hear the situation fully. I've been asked to provide my services to lock away some memories, and I'm willing to provide them in return for a full explanation and the correct incentives.

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[He seems to relax at Senku's question, oddly. Cold, hard logic... that's something he can always rely on, to stabilize his mind and his emotions. He considers it for a moment, hand to his chin.]

Cover her face, release her somewhere outside... unfortunately, a certain amount of damage can't be reversed. But we can ensure she's in good enough shape that she'll assume less. [like someone kidnapped her, beat her up and stole some teeth. but none of the other damage they've done has been permanent.] If she doesn't remember our faces or voices, she won't be able to pinpoint those involved, either.

Of course, the network post will make me a suspicious person... but I suppose I can live with that. [sigh. as annoying as it is... he's never had a good reputation to begin with. it's really just Senku's reputation they're protecting here.

He looks over at Lucifer, mostly ignoring Komaeda. He wears a slight frown as he speaks, but he's approaching this with an air of professionalism—this is just business to him. An exchange of services.]

This student is with the science club. I've observed their suspicious activities at this school over the past few weeks... they refused to speak with me, and then refused to give truthful answers, so I took matters into my own hands. [with kidnapping. and torture.] Komaeda and Dito agreed to assist with me... Senku was uninvolved. I value his input as a scientist, however.

[Senku has good ideas. Senku is also good at reminding him about potential consequences... he doesn't mind being told to stop if it can be explained with logic. But also, he doesn't want Lucifer to think less of Senku for this. This bloody scene, this cruelty, all of that was Add (and Komaeda, and Dito).]

We were able to extract some information... insufficient as it may be. They're no longer of any use to us. If we release them, they'll likely warn the rest of their little group and prevent further investigation into science club activities. That could prove detrimental to more than just us... I know they must be hiding something. Who needs four hours to check on some bacteria cultures?

Either we kill them, or we neutralize the threat of information by some other method. Memory erasure, or sealing, or whatever you want to call it, would be sufficient for that purpose.

... Also. It would alleviate some of the... [vague hand wiggle] trauma.

[commences]

There's no immediate consequences considering how this school functions, even if she relays this information to Arisu-san, isn't this school about culling the competition.

( some might be glad if she was dead, actually thrilled to know there's a new open spot within the science club so that others could take her place. komaeda understands this school isn't kind, and neither are any of the people within this room — their hope is formed from different reasons. knowledge, curiosity, power, and whatever else can be named — a beautiful innocence that he can find just from this conversation they're holding. )

Yet... Add-kun is right, they'll gate any other attempts he may have, or any of us, making it difficult to move, and subject transfers to all being the same.

( then again, they are the movement, the blueprint. if it wasn't for them, half of this wouldn't be possible, it takes a few dead leaves to pluck from a tree to see real growth. he sighs, crossing his arms, looking towards lucifer not bothered by the way the other looks down on him. is he looking at komaeda because of the blood that's already dried on him and his jacket, if that's the case, he lifts one hand to look at his shirt... tugging it a bit. sciencechan's mixed with rokkun's, and he's a little offended that her waste covered more than his. )

Ishigami-kun must be important to you.

( the fact that lucifer is concerned over him than add, or even dito, sadly komaeda knows his place. he doesn't care about that, but might as well point out the obvious. )

She'll pose a problem to him, or even bring about difficulties to the people around him, or others you may know.... I've seen you within those meetings, Lucifer-kun... the way you care is selective, but you can use that to your advantage to give them a brighter hope without being harmed.