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after school NAVIGATORS
Who: Mission 1 gang
What: Post-purgatory catch-up
When: August 31
Where: Dorms / Study hall
Warnings: maybe discussion of body horror or murder and other fun mission 1 things
What: Post-purgatory catch-up
When: August 31
Where: Dorms / Study hall
Warnings: maybe discussion of body horror or murder and other fun mission 1 things
( anyway, it's been a couple days since he got back, and with classes starting and dorms opening up on the 30th, he figures it might be a bit busy to go making plans then. instead, it's the next day that amami will wander through the school, stopping by spots that he thinks he's seen the other members of their little mission at before. if he finds them? great! he won't take up too much of their time, just asking if they'll be free the next day, and asking them if they can meet up in the new dorm's study hall at... how does four p.m. sound? if he can't find them, they'll find a folded up note on their new dorm room's door that says the same, signed by rantarou amami. )
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( looks at clamor, a member of the other team when they all split up.
just keeps looking. )
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...
oh.
he pauses, catching that look Amami is giving him, and politely stops the munching to clear his throat.]
Ahaha, sorry... [can you blame him when his boyfriend cooks this well??] Why don't you start with what happened on your side, then?
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Sure, that works. When we got separated Tanaka-kun, Meng Yao and I were all still in front of the tree. Well, I think it was the same one... On the branches though, it wasn't wisterias.
( he kind of looks off to the side. exhales.
... )
It was people.
They were all stuck together. Or, well, I guess that "stuck" isn't really the right word. It's more like their bodies were fused, like different parts of them were stitched together, and then to the tree.
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Shinobu suddenly blanches—not at that thought, but at the realization that the jar of petals she has in her locker probably isn’t full of petals at all. What else does Rantaro’s team know about what she’s actually been holding onto? ]
Were you able to recognize any of the people stuck inside the tree?
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[It's a reasonable hypothesis, but Lucifer is the type of man who needs to be absolutely sure about things, thus the question.]
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But the tree there was bare, wasn't it?
( he knows! he remembers! he was climbing it, after all. )
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[Oof ouch he's sorry.]
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The real wisteria tree may not be that literal, but... I don't think what you saw is that far from the truth.
[the flowers normally glow like that in the real school, especially at night, though only those with spirit sight can see it... Nene noticed it, too. he has a good idea of what this all means.]
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[ You know, just in case Lucifer needs the extra reassurance. He’s not totally insane. ]
The tree began to glow faintly blue after I made my deal with Hanako-kun. It grew brighter after night fell, and it was brightest before Lucifer turned you both to stone.
[ Shinobu frowns thoughtfully. Maybe it’s not something people can normally see without making a deal (in her case) or some sort of inhuman ability (in Lucifer and Clamor’s cases). ]
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Which brings us back to Shinobu's prior question... could those of you who saw the human tree make out any faces within it? You may be unable to see the glowing lights within the tree proper due to your nature as a human, Amami, but you were clearly not spared the horrors of, [he grimaces,] that.
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( he'd had some of the details — knows enough about the tallies on their wrists to have pieced together the natural conclusion of meng yao's apparent concern for his wellbeing back then, but it's still a lot to hear that you started "dissolving" after you died. and given the nature of the tree they had seen in that memory? well, at least he's not the type to panic in retrospect. )
I might not be able to see it glow, but I guess the flowers are also blue, huh. And about the faces, I'll be honest: I wasn't looking all that close. Tanaka-kun or Meng Yao might've been, but...
( it was kind of a difficult sight for him to process in the first place, without trying to ingrain the finer details of it into his memory. )
We didn't have all that long to look at it for anyway.
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But, well! Hindsight is 20/20. ]
There were so many of them...the people, that is. So many ages, from different lands and places, all so close together that they appeared to be stuck together, and people even shared a single eye, or had an extra arm...the tree seemed to be practically weighed down with the amount of people. Needless to say, there were faces in there too but at that point I don't think they looked like how a person's face should be normally due to their situation.
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( oh, so maybe it wasn't just a pure trauma response that amami felt like they all melted together like that. not sure if it's more of a relief that his memory wasn't making that up, or all the more horrifying for the fact that it was reality. either way, not a fun time, and he doesn't look all too happy to be talking about it, necessary as it may be. )
They were trapped, and they wanted us to help them, but... like that, there wasn't any way that we could find to separate them. We did end up freeing them though. Their spirits... ( and he looks towards meng yao and gundham here to confirm, because he wasn't actually looking at this part so he's not 100%, ) became butterflies, and headed towards the school building.
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[Gross, actually. Lucifer probably would've burnt the whole thing down on sight without investigating it or even attempting to free their souls. At that point, eternal silence is better than the scars left on the soul from such an event.
But Lucifer is simply not a nice person in the end, so perhaps it's better that he was not the one faced with such a thing.]
We saw a number of butterflies when we were in the forest, but they weren't quite in mass quantities if I'm remembering correctly. It's unlikely that there's a correlation between the butterflies from the trees and the ones that—
[Hold up, Lucifer has just remembered something.]
—Actually. We did see a large number of butterflies pool around... a fresh corpse, and begin to feast upon it.
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But, hm. ]
...Did they?
[ Ugh, that's not something he was expecting but hey. This place tends to be brutal in those sort of things so he feels like it's something that definitely seems like an occurrence that'd happen here. Maybe they should be called hell butterflies instead. ]
They weren't hostile to you and the others, were they?
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The butterflies posed no threat to us. They were only interested in the corpses, which, from their uniforms, were likely once students. I wasn’t able to recognize any of the bodies we passed. Before they met their demise, I imagine they were trying to run away from the creature hiding in the woods.
[ ‘I imagine,’ she says, like she didn’t come to that conclusion after she practically handed a poor boy up to Kazuki on a silver platter. Not keen on reliving the memory, she purses her lips and leaves the floor open for somebody else to take. ]
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...That makes sense.
[ As much as any of this can, at any rate. He has to wonder if the butterflies that transformed from the tree would end up being the same as the ones in the forest. Hopefully not! But, hm. ]
The creature I assume was the one that's part of Kazuki, I assume. Is there anything else notable concerning the forest while we were in that other building? Which, of course, we did find a few things. I for one was able to locate some sort of role call sheet for students along with the homeroom teachers—Kazuki, Akari, and Mizuki.
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( you know, like, the void. he'll read them off from memory though, like he's been studying them harder than his actual homework. )
It seems like they were meant to keep the students safe from Kazuki-san while they completed their first binding for him.
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[Oh boy, did Lucifer and others break many of those rules!]
We did hear whistling out in the forest, which we all avoided, believing it to be a trap of some sort. We must have broken one of the many "rules", then, including the one about being in the woods in the first place. Interesting... I wonder if there is any connection there between breaking the rules, and the entity that was hunting us and others?
[He assumes that creature was hunting them, anyway, and that the people who got killed instead were simply other prey animals in its eyes.]
"Silence is enforced in the library"... That would explain that, at the least.