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[adsum]

[ PLEASE let him get eaten by a robot dog bc otherwise his nightmare world is sort of, you know.

Anyways, while Rokkun looks surprised when the elevator car plummets, he holds onto the handrail and spreads his feet a little more apart to brace himself and doesn't look all that concerned— like he's ridden the elevator this far down before and know what to expect, even if he doesn't like it. ]

[closewithnewintown]

[watches that curiously, filing it away for later...

when they stop, she stands in front of the buttons, arms crossed. and yes she is very small and it would be very easy to get around her, but is he 100% sure she wouldn't bite him? because the vibe is definitely there.]

I'd suggest you not step outside, but maybe you'd rather get torn apart by dogs than talk to me. That's your decision to make.

[adsum]

[ He's been bitten by worse, but also read somewhere that human mouths are disgusting and bite wounds from people are the worst. ]

Making me choose the lesser of two evils, huh? I thought you didn't care to talk to me ever again? There's nothing more to say.

[closewithnewintown]

There wasn't. And then I learned something interesting. And since Komaeda wanted to be... difficult, about telling me anything else, I'm stuck with you. And you're stuck with me 'til I get my answers.

Just how much of your memory did you get back? All of it, or pieces?

[adsum]

[ Oooooooohh my god, she's just here to squabble with him about memories and things she doesn't know what she's talking about again and he's having none of that, he had hoped they moved on from that. ]

Why? If you're just here to tell me I've "lost" because I don't remember everything, I don't need to hear it again.

[ going to sit down and lean against one corner of the elevator, maybe take a nap if he weren't so sure Stephanie wouldn't shut up and make it impossible anyways. ]

[closewithnewintown]

No, I just want to know what to expect. [when she gets hers.]

Where did he find them? I was sure the counselor had them, but he said they're somewhere else. Tell me where, and you can go.

[adsum]

Expect what? Weren't you so sure there's nothing of you that's missing, that makes you you?

[ Maybe what memories she has is all she's got. She probably has more than one set anyways, don't be greedy ]

The counselor has nothing to do with it, though. I don't talk to him.

[closewithnewintown]

I have all those. I want the memory they forced on me. I want this one.

[she pulls down her sleeve, showing him the one tally.]

Where did Komaeda find your memories?

[adsum]

[ There's a frown at the one tally, but he lifts his eyes and tries not to think to hard about it. ]

You'd have to ask Komaeda that. There's no reason for you to want it anyways, if you're so convinced it's all fake.

[closewithnewintown]

Tell! Me! [stomps foot] I don't care if it's dangerous, or hard to do, or whatever other stupid reason Komaeda has for not telling me! If I'm gonna get killed trying to find out how I died, wouldn't that be best for you? So, tell me! Tell me, tell me, tell me!

[there is a slightly hysterical edge to her voice and she WILL start angry crying and she WILL make it incredibly awkward.]

[adsum]

[ At least he's already sitting for this, so he doesn't pressure Stephanie even more by looking down at her, but Rokkun grits his teeth a little because 1) she's noisy and the elevator is very small, and 2) oh boy is he used to children throwing tantrums. A forced calm, voice quiet so that if Stephanie cares to hear anything he says, she'll have to quiet down too. ]

I told you the first time we talked: I don't want you to die. That's the opposite of what I want. I don't think you'd be better off knowing, either. When I remembered, that's all I could think about.

[closewithnewintown]

It's all I can think about now! Ever since he told me, that's what every dream has been about! I need to know, or I'll never get past it! I can't... I don't know, learn to cope with something when I don't even know what it is!

[she lets out a shaky breath, pinches the bridge of her nose.]

How am I supposed to apologize to everybody back home when I don't know what I did wrong?

[adsum]

[ So, Stephanie's first mistake is listening to anything the counselor says, in Rokkun's opinion. ]

Why are you so sure you did something wrong?

[closewithnewintown]

Because why else would I have died? It had to have been something I did. I got myself into trouble, and nobody could get me out.

[like lbr does that not sound plausible]

[adsum]

Dying isn't ever your own fault. Things happen— you could get hit by a car, or mugged on the streets, or get really sick, and it's not karmic retribution for something you did.

[ Times like these are what remind him that he's at odds with a literal child, because only a child would believe that, if they live life as a good person, no harm would come to them. ]

[closewithnewintown]

[she doesn't mention that at least two of those she would consider her own fault.]

Well, there's only one way to find out who's right. And we'll find out I'm right when you tell me how Komaeda did it.

[adsum]

[ what, is she going to blame herself for walking and ??eating a candy bar ]

We'll be in here forever, because I don't know how he did it. If I knew, I would have made sure nobody could ever see that memory in the first place.

[closewithnewintown]

[yes]

-- How do you not know?! You have to know! Even if you weren't there, he had to have told you!

[adsum]

Do you think Nagito tells me things?

[ no, that guy leads you around every which way and then looks at you like he expects you to understand and Rokkun rarely does unless he asks directly. And this time he didn't because... he doesn't know, because he was angry, maybe. Because it didn't matter at the time, when he was seething over the damage already being done, and he was itching to leave. ]

He was with three other people. You could ask them instead, but I bet none of them will know, just like Nagito doesn't, just like I don't.

[ Sorry Steph, none of them know shit about fuck ]

[closewithnewintown]

Three others... Wait, when they all disappeared for all those days? [when sidney lost his arm, and all the other awful things she heard...] But... They never actually said where they went. Do you know that, at least? I just need a place to start looking. That's all. I can figure out the rest. [by herself]

[adsum]

[ He doesn't know anything about anybody else, what is he supposed to say about that? ]

...Nagito said the fourth floor.

[ He doesn't go there often, personally, but in all the times that he did, he never got that memory back. Not going to say this out loud, though, if it means Stephanie will let them go back upstairs. ]

[closewithnewintown]

The fourth floor... [he can't mean the normal side, with the classrooms. there was another half, wasn't there? they couldn't access it before. that must have changed. and that's where they found his memories.

if the elevator has a button for the fourth floor, she's pressing it.]

[adsum]

[ There sure is a button to the fourth floor, and he stands up when she presses it and the car starts to ascend, making it harder to push off his knees and pull himself up with the handrail and reach past Stephanie's head to press the button to the second floor so he can get off first. ]

[closewithnewintown]

[yeah honestly she doesn't even blink. him fucking off immediately is ideal to her; she's got a lot of rocks to kick and doesn't need him in her way.]