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Ohh. That makes sense! [thinks...] So, you must be pretty mad that this place messed with Nene's memories. She might not have remembered you at all when she was "asleep."

[ Mad... isn't really the word he used, but he also doesn't really know what to feel about that. Yashiro remembers him now, and regards him as she always has, so he has no choice but to be satisfied with just that. ]

But she did remember. Did she tell you? She's the one who called me over here in the first place.

After she woke up. And that kinda confirms that she must not have remembered you before, right? Or she would've called you sooner. [shrugs] We don't even know how long it was, or what happened to us during it... All that memory just locked away someplace...

[TRAILING OFF MEANINGFULLY...]

Sure.

[ Okay, so when I first read this tag, I thought Amami was offering for Rokkun to head upstairs first and he'll "catch up later" as in he'll give Rokkun the time to talk with the other two before coming upstairs to join them. This, Rokkun is fine with. Later can be indefinite, that'd be even better.

But now I'm reading it like "catching up" in terms of getting to know one another better and now I'm not sure anymore but either way, it's the first one that Rokkun thinks.

So he turns on his heel and heads down the hall towards the stairwell as if heading up first, with a heavy lean on the handrail and favoring one leg more than the other so he can meet these assholes up on the roof. ]

[ The door opens and the first thing Rokkun sees is Komaeda lying on the ground, making a beeline towards him before realizing something halfway there and he looks around instead, finding an empty rooftop.

Where is...?

He stops briefly at Komaeda's side, but from the looks of things there's nothing he can do for him right now and so he runs up to the edge, dropping to his knees and gripping the edge of the building as he looks down at the ground, tense and prepared to jump as if that would help anything, Komaeda you have better not have dropped my brother—- ]

[ Like memories are things you can lock up in a box? ]

Well, it's not all that difficult to change a person's memories...

[ trailing off meaningfully... ]

Mmhm!

[ It's a very big brother sounding name. ]

Not always, but most of the time they're gone. Who is that?

[ she does not need to know anybody's names, please, she's a simple library ghost whose job is to collect dues ]

Rantarou.

[ It has to be an Ultimate, and those are getting scarcer by the day.

He takes another nekogiri to eat because he hates talking about Komaeda's affections towards other people and also he really couldn't care less about Subaru's love life, and he doesn't have to offer commentary on either with his mouth full. ]

At the beginning of the school year... did you watch a young girl die in the library? I wanted to apologize for the mess... but I hope I cleaned up very well.

( well, it was a fire among other things, but he didn't think about the library ghost at all, or any supernatural being locked away inside. sure, he took a book earlier in the year, stared his strange adventures with stealing more books, but the biggest crime was the mess, and not everything else. )

I really like the library, ( it's his go to spot when things are stressful, and his luck doesn't traumatize him there, but it's different when forcing it to work in his favor... rip aiko. ) so... I believe I owed you that.

( oh, yeah, it's amami. unfortunately that means it's always going to have the meaning that rokkun likes the least when it comes to these things, y'know? so he steps onto the roof alone, but amami isn't far behind as he follows. kind of wishes they could have been quicker about their little chat though, once he sees the scene waiting for them out here.

already, rokkun looks like he's got the edge of the building covered. and unfortunately, komaeda has earned some degree of trust from amami when it comes to kamo-kun. he is... the person who first asked for amami to keep them safe, after all. hence why they're the priority as he scans the area with a sigh, a little bit tense, but first trying to see if he can catch sight of them before he lets any real panic set in. there's still... the other side being their little roof-stair-covering-house-thing to check, right? they could be behind it, maybe...

komaeda can just lay there, it's probably fine. )

Because he was ten. No ten year old wants to be a babysitter 24/7. I'm no good with living things, so I definitely wouldn't want to.

[ But maybe this is just the viewpoint of the youngest sibling, who never had anybody to take care of because they were doted on themselves. Rokuro had the responsibility of being the eldest, and their sister honestly got the best deal. ]

( he can hear you idiots, but he'll look towards them both like they understand nothing. also, i can't imagine rokkun going out of his way to be subtle at all, and not just saying amami's name outlook like that. )

Rue Ryuzaki has quite a take on hope... I always want to see what people say about it.

( his true love is hope? leave him alone.

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i'm sorry rokkun, subaru, they were both a bad one, i hope they like wasabi. :( )

Oh, I remember! You made it very quick.

[ That was nice of him. The other girl had a better death than one drawn out for days without food or water or hope that anybody would ever come for them. ]

You did clean up well. And the fire was small enough that none of the books got wet!

( the ground is cold, and his vitals are low, and he looks dead, and that's all there is to it! he can hear them shuffling about though, already aware of how this works, so he remains laying on the ground because they worry too much, and that's on them.

he is part of the asshole duo, apparently, so he can't get up until npckun is found, or jumps out. )

At what age did he pass?

( as if komaeda's trying to calculate something here, but no, he's actually just curious. he doesn't think of rokkun as the type to be burdened by them, he likes the concept of siblings way too much, but not as much as amami. it's what makes komaeda sure in his thoughts on the matter. )

Maybe he's better with living things... and dead things. Also... you say that a lot, you know...

Mhm! That was me! I worked very hard for the hopes of people here... I thought they deserved a little push.

( a big push in the right direction, and he smiles softly as he watches the ghost. all he can do is recount the days, and hope that his mind has them right.

it's not every day he can discuss his glory kill with someome, especially being praised for his cleaning? that's all he's good at, honestly. )

Did you know who that girl was that died? I'm sorry she didn't attach to the library so you could have a friend... she looks like she would have been great at parties.

You sound like you've done it before. [and she hopes it wasn't on nene, because honestly she's getting kind of tired of all these toxic relationships.]

Somebody here did something to us. I wanna find out who, and why, and for what reason - and how it can be fixed.

[DON'T ASK IF YOU WON'T GIRLTALK WITH HIM, ROKURO!!! HE CAN'T TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT HIS CRUSH BECAUSE OF WHO IT IS AND WHO HE'S SURROUNDED BY!!! he doesn't know he shouldn't talk about it with rokuro either, but it's fine.

amami makes sense though, but when komaeda mentions rue ryuzaki his face turns thoughtful--

and then the wasabi hits when he eats the cute kitty and subaru doesn't mind stuff like this, but he definitely prefers other people getting tricked, he won't spit it out because he's not a pussy (teen pride) but this is where i reveal i've never had wasabi before so i don't actually know how bad it can get my knowledge comes entirely from anime so he's not a happy camper but he won't lose]

[ Haha, yeah. He just sort of smiles at that first comment. ]

Hmm~ Y'know, this sort of thing is what Yashiro and I do back home. I'm still pinning down this school's Mysteries, but one of the first steps is keeping an ear out for rumors.

[ The whole "belief gives supernaturals power" thing, and rumors largely feed into that ]

What's everything you've heard about memories? Whether there's proof or not doesn't matter.

Do not make promises you have no intention of following through on.

[ If he had any thought the trade off might be worth it, she's going to have to stop him right here. She who led a student council election gladiator fight... but with her careful neutral expression and level tone, her thoughts on the matter can only be assumed. Most assume the worst from somebody decidedly closed off and who is in a position of power, but she thinks back to the last time she posted anything to the pda forums, a fleeting message minutes before the school year turned and the forum wiped clean once more.

So no, she doesn't celebrate loss of life. But she also has no choice but to accept death, the knowledge that she cannot save everyone. Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war. ]

...I've seen worse years. This year has been comparably tame, so far.

[ Still exhausting, but she's in no position to complain. ]

Time... I guess?

[ This is the face of somebody who does not know and can only guess. ]

Though some people remember enrolling in the elevator system at the beginning of middle school, and some remember transferring during middle school or high school. Overall, I don't think we're all that different, though...

[ "you belong to me but you choose what we do" is kind of backwards, they think, but it's also kind of him. Trouble is, they're more used to hanging out with a group of people rather than one on one, and there's no lack of opinions and clashing decisions in a group.

The nekonigiri get a layer of nori laid over the top of their heads, kind of the like the black hood they all wear. ]

Covering up the ceiling is probably going to take some time, so let's tackle that first, before it's noon and it gets too hot.

[ When the sun is directly overhead and makes them feel like retreating somewhere with a solid roof. ]

( maybe if hikaru was interested in poisoning all the students so they could be dragged out into the forest, then maybe they could go along with komaeda's plans! but yeah, hikaru belongs to him because they share the same room which means they do as komaeda says, which means if komaeda doesn't feel like choosing they will choose!

not the cultist cat, which komaeda stares at. )

Can we borrow some of the outfits from the cultist club? ( probably not what they're called, but that's fine. ) We can stitch it together, and then a little piece of your efforts will be embedded in it!

( now that he thinks about it, black will soak up the sun's rays, and that way no one has to suffer from the gnawing heat. he already doesn't like to be in the sun, but there are days where it feels... worse? or maybe it's his imagination. either way, he'll scoop some rice into a bowl as he slides it over to hikaru, and he'll turn off whatever he used to cook with. after, he'll grab his cold toast to take a bite. )

Come on, you're way too slow.

[usually Helena will stay after classes for a moment to see if there's something she missed. but not today, today she's striding out with purpose! after all, there's something very important she has to get from the art room, and then put together somehow with the rest.

so it's about an hour after classes, when the flow of students is quieter, that she shows up. Helena shouldn't be a surprise on her own, she's been good about keeping her promise to show up to them, but the (very badly wrapped in construction paper) package under her arm is new.]

Keigo, it's me.

[that name, only when she can't hear anyone else about. it's special, after all - it's theirs to give when they want.]

[ It's something... it's a lot of thoughts they have in their mind and at the forefront is the easy way out of letting the shower wash it all away, stepping out with a smile on their face and telling Subaru to forget about it, pretend it never happened. But they touch the scar on their chest and pull themselves up and turn off the water, their hair a tousled mess after changing and toweling their hair dry as much as they can. The blanket goes back over their shoulders, hood pulled over their head. ...pulled off their head, because if they leave it on, their hair's going to dry flat.

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They're quiet when they step out, sort of glancing at Subaru, looking away... but they do approach him, tentatively taking his wrists and looking at his arms and his face like how much damage did they do, they should be the one apologizing... ]

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