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( The look Natsume gives him is exasperated like "duh" )

Dying from WHAT, Senpai? From what Nagito-san, it didn't sound like Tsukinaga-senpai had been injured or anything like THAT.

[ ... It's a trap. He won't fall for it. ]

I don't know from what. I wasn't the one who killed him.

[ Sometimes people die from no apparent reason. Gestures at Clamor. ]

...No wonder you didn't think you'd have an admirER.

( you're ass to talk to, akira!! hm... Let him think about it from a different angle... )

I'm not MAD, for the reCORD. What Nagito-kun told me specifically was that he saw Tsukinaga-san's eyes flash GOLD, and then he dropped to the FLOOR, and someone dragged his body aWAY. He said that if I wanted to know MORE, I should seek you OUT. As someone who's unfortunately had experience with— (

ugh, his eyes are normally gold, he flicks some hair with a grimace )

Rather, with what happens when people's eyes turn gold when they aren't usually such a coLOR... I wanted to know what happened to HIM. ( with him. ) He and I weren't... CLOSE, so it isn't as if I'm out for revenge or anything like THAT. I just want to underSTAND.

( ... )

Since both times I've seen ( experienced ) that type of possesSION, they didn't just "fall down"; they kept going until they were either STOPPED, or it...

( how does he even consider his own experience? it just ... left, and he frowns slightly. )

It just stopped, I supPOSE.

( Satisfied, or felt like it wasn't in danger anymore... maybe, considering what Nao had told him about her reasons for agreeing to it. )

[ Okay, so he feels very much like he's five and getting scolded by his mother, "I'm not mad, I just want to know what happened" except you know she's mad. Also that he got tattled on, which makes this feeling even more real. ]

It wasn't him that Komaeda-san saw. Well- it was his body. But it wasn't Tsukinaga-san... and then there wasn't anyone.

[ It stopped. Left the body, and the body fell down because there was nothing inside to sustain it, unlike Natsume's case where he was still himself. ]

( ...hmm. Did Leo break something, in that case? Like what happened with him, or... Not everyone at that tree could've made that mistake, and Maya seemed rather sure pitting them against each other, so... )

Do you know how someone else might've come to puppet Tsukinaga-senpai's boDY?

I... don't think that's something people can do on their own.

[ At least not in terms of like... souls watching the school for dead bodies and going "mine" when somebody drops dead ]

( okay but would that be funny or what? if that's how that worked. )

So someone would have to work some type of magic to do SO. ( crossing his... arms... i don't remember if he already did this but look, this is it. ) Or have a deal with someone or someTHING...

Or improperly dispose of a soul's contaiNER, though the soul would have to get in there in the first place—leading to the first two opTIONS.

[ Would it have been better or worse for people if their dead dropped friends were still walking around but weren't them

Akki is sort of silent as Natsume thinks out loud. It... sure must be some sort of magic, to be able to do seemingly impossible things such as that. But he doesn't offer anything more than that, can't point him towards the people in the school who know how to do exactly this, because besides, ]

...You're not thinking of doing it, are you? Finding a way to give Tsukinaga-san's soul back to his own body?

( worse, but funny )

God, NO. ( they weren't That close. now if it were subaru on the other hand, ) Knowing how might help clear up a few things for me regarding another student HERE.

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[ Oh, that denial kind of making him feel sorry for Leo, but there's relief there too. ]

Who...

[ said in that tentative way of somebody who actually does not want to hear who, because Natsume's going to point fingers again and he'll have to swear he didn't kill anybody ]

( :/ .......... )

Why do you want to KNOW?

[ He holds his hands up ]

You brought another person up, so I thought... Never mind. You don't have to tell me.

[ We don't have to talk about it! This works out better for him. Can he leave now? ]

( No! )

You THOUGHT...?

( hello? Hello? Neither of them are leaving this bathroom until Natsume's satisfied. He'll give Akira a swirlie if he has to. )

I thought you wanted to talk about it.

[ STOP why is Natsume so suspicious ]

( Why does Akira act so suspicious??? )

...You wouldn't know her anyway, I'm SURE. She's a first year—she's repeaTING, because she spent part of her school year as a body in an auction BOX.

[ Because he's being BULLIED ]

I remember her. You think somebody else has taken over her body?

( Sounds like a personal problem, you ever try not being so bullyable?? )

Just the oppoSITE. She had a piece of herself taken from her and placed in a puzzle BOX. Some... things hapPENED, and it was broken instead of being SOLVED. She described to me what she remembered of the person who offered the chance to her beFORE, so I've been trying to find out who's been roleplaying God as a soul surgeon and taking apart things that don't belong to THEM, with permission or otherWISE.

[ Maybe if everybody were nice, like the cultists, there wouldn't be such a bullying problem in this school ]

...What did she remember of that person?

( Don't think I forgot the cultists (consensually) harvest blood. )

...Not that MUCH. It was a MALE, face obscured by a black HOOD. He said he could help HER. She didn't ask what he was going to DO, but she found out soon eNOUGH.

[ Call it blood donations... ]

...I see. They're probably part of, um. Lucifer's group, then, most likely.

[ The cult, but it's not polite to call them that. ANYWAYS this has nothing to do with him and he would very much like to not be here, is what all his lack of eye contact and excessive fidgeting is trying to convey. ]

The cult, you MEAN... I suppose I'll investigate them laTER.

( ? He's not afraid to say it, but also, what are you so ready to leave for... C'mon... We're friends, Fujioka-senpai. Also: no, I went and checked this thread and there is one more thing we didn't touch on that much, let Natsume rectify that immediately. )

How were you planning on saving HIM?

[ This is why Akki doesn't like making friends. ]

I was too late by the time I knew, but if I weren't...

[ Saving somebody before they die is out of the question; he doesn't have that sort of clairvoyance. If he were there at the time... he'd be kidding himself if he thought he would be capable of playing hero and facing whoever would have killed Leo, so it would have only been after the fact, maybe. Like with Rokuro and the imps, saving a life before the soul departs, the method of which he decidedly does not like talking about. ]

...When a person dies, if there is lingering attachment to this world, there's the chance they'll be able to come back. It's not technically saving him... but he'd be able to wake up once more.

( Once Natsume's done being a bully he can be nice it's fine, just because him and Rokuro share an arcana doesn't mean... anything... slowly realizing Natsume would probably encourage the blackmail of Akki too nvm

...it's not technically saving a person, but they can wake back up...? then how isn't that saving them? natsume cups his chin thoughtfully, hm— )

...What do you mean it isn't technically saving HIM, if you do something like THAT? Plenty of people would consider it to BE.

[ Why are Chariots so MEAN I went to go look at who in Yogen are Chariots and they're all SO MEAN ]

He still would have died. Even if someone comes back, the death still hurts. The ripples are still felt. And when they come back... they're different.

[ He's on Team Stephanie in the "memories make a person" debate ]

( STOP I DON'T KNOW )

They can't be too much differENT. The core of peoPLE, who they are at their puREST, can't be so immutaBLE. Amnesiacs still perform the same actions they did when they had their memories, don't THEY?

( just without knowing why. at least in fiction he hasn't been through the enstars arc where someone loses their memory yet. which has happened twice this year btw )

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