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September mini-event pt 2
09/17 06:00
It's early Friday morning, the silence lifted but still a while before npc students will start coming to school. The door to the student store remains locked, despite always being propped open by a doorstop first thing in the morning, like clockwork. In the pool building, the lights automatically switch on for the day, illuminating the water below.
A large black shape floats in the middle of the pool, air trapped in the fabric wrapped and tangled around it.
A large black shape floats in the middle of the pool, air trapped in the fabric wrapped and tangled around it.
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✽ Please use the toplevel below for investigations
✽ This mini event ties into last week's murder, which ICly occurred Sunday morning, and clues from both investigations in conjunction will help point to a culprit
✽ Please allow Wolfie to reply first
✽ This mini event ties into last week's murder, which ICly occurred Sunday morning, and clues from both investigations in conjunction will help point to a culprit
✽ Please allow Wolfie to reply first
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subaru tilts his heads at the words, because you really just do say things sometimes, and then he straightens up to look amami over; there's something that's been nagging at him, honestly, and he'll once ask once komaeda's out of the room since he
seems a little over-invested in ultimates health conditions and stuff. this is probably best.]
'Kay, lemme backtrack... I won't worry about them right now, since I know they're in good hands with you, so I'll worry about you instead, Ama-chan — because we're classmates, 'cause I wanna be friends with you, and because you're important to Boss... to Keigo, too.
[he'll point at their joined hands; amami's bandaged one clutching keigo's own]
What happened? Are you okay? I know you're tired, 'cause we gave you a pretty rude awakening and all, but besides that.
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and yeah, he notices subaru's eye wandering to his bandaged hand. both of them are bandaged, actually, but subaru might notice that the gauze on his right looks a little fresher than what's on his left. the words don't exactly placate the situation that everyone insisted on irritating worse and worse no matter how he tried to shut it down, but at the very least, they don't continue the trend of making amami look like he's about to snap. instead, he falls back into a more subdued sense of frustration again. it's... still an easier topic for him, at least. )
I'm fine, it's nothing serious. It was on purpose, so let's leave it at that, yeah?
( has subaru ever been to the other side amami spends so much time visiting? either way, that bandage on his left has been there for quite some time now, and he's not exactly secretive about the reason why. )
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subaru remembers the mirror piece wrapped in cloth soon used as his blindfold, remembers natsume's lesson on not letting blood spill, and while he's not gone to the void himself—
he can put it together. like a gear sliding into place, though to what it's working towards he can't say himself. but it's working. he fiddles with the blanket, then frowns and shakes his head.]
Nope! I don't care if you hate me for it, but I'm not gonna leave it at that. What were you "checking out" today, Ama-chan?
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[she steps forward, hand extended, so she might find him and put her hand on his shoulder. she'd been quiet earlier - clearly, she had misjudged how many people were in here, and gone quiet in the face of it, but at least she can reason with a few of them.]
He doesn't want to talk about it right now, and it's early.
[don't push, her tone says. one has to be smart in how they go around this. there's only so much patience he has - and if she's not reading it wrong, his hackles are already raised in protection of the one still sleeping. it's best to not stick a hand into a box full of sharps.]
Please...be kind.
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I'll take care of them. In the meantime, I'm sure you two can make yourselves useful out there.
( if what he's asked is too general, it doesn't look like he's going to elaborate much more than he has. )
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but helena's hand on his shoulder is a weight that can't be ignored, and neither can the tiredness resurfacing on amami's face. he bites his lip, reaching out briefly to touch keigo's shoulder and stopping part way, not sure if amami would allow it; as much as he wants to give the smallest "i'm here" to his sleeping friend, subaru knows he's really pushing as is. his hand draws back and he exhales, standing up fully and clenching his fists.]
... Sorry, Ama-chan. I wanna let you rest, but it's bothering me. The nurse shoos everyone out around six in the evening, and I've never seen her open it back until the morning. I dunno if she's even here during the night like we are.
[like, maybe not now-now morning. but morning. this is relevant, but it's more of an outward note.]
And I know you've got that mirror on you, so you could probably cut yourself with it. That's your usual, right? And there was blood where we found Rumi-chan, but he's not injured outside of his... weird condition. So I was wondering, Ama-chan, when you said it happened "on purpose", did you mean that you cut your own hand, or that you made sure someone else did?
[it's a little fumbling, because he doesn't know how to word "did you stop someone from cutting you/someone else" but. that]
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Yeah, that's how I made the cut. ( fresh bandages and all. he can't get around that, but he'll meet subaru's eyes. )
I didn't do anything to Narumi-kun though, if that's what you're asking, and the office was unlocked when we got here.
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[plain and simple.]
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( just look at him, what's he gonna do? )
It was... ( grimaces. ) Like I said, it was on purpose. I'm sure you can figure it out from there.
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Okay. [...] I'll let you rest then, Ama-chan, 'cause you're right. There's something I can do out there.
[he'll give helena an apology tap and then he'll go, oddly... determined... to do whatever it is he's about to do.]
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...I'm sorry. Here we are, all badgering you, when there's so many other things we could be doing.
[she means it - she considers him a friend, so to push and push and push feels wrong.]
But there's something that Subaru didn't say, about that bloodstain. I checked it, and it's neither fresh nor old. Whatever happened, someone was injured recently, though I doubt everyone would consent to stripping down to their underthings to be checked...
[her head bowed, she inhales, and then admits the part of this that she can only do because it's the pair of them - because Amami has been here longer, and he showed her kindness.]
I don't know what to do.
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( does he really want to deal with this, though?
... )
It looks like Akehoshi-kun has something in mind, so I'm sure he knows what he's doing. ( maybe. )
And anyway, it sounds like there was more going on than just the injury.
( circles, unconscious bodies, dead bodies — helena's a smart girl. he's sure she can make the connections, if she gets enough pieces to put them together. )
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[that, and she's not a magician. she heard talk of circles and spells and such, and all of that has to fly by her, because she doesn't know how to piece it out. but maybe the how doesn't even matter at this point - maybe it's why. isn't that what mysteries always talked about? the why of a situation?]
Tell me, though. Is there anything I can do for you, or on your behalf?
[and if not, if that changes, will he tell her?]
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( he pauses for a long time; to be honest, he's not really sure of how to answer that kind of question. hadn't really expected it to be offered to him in the first place. )
Everything is where it should be. ( he says, like an idiot. ) Don't worry about me.
( because this kind of thing is foreign to him, and he doesn't know how to ask for help, but... this much, he can do. )
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[yes, she'll call him that out loud. he needs to hear it.]
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Shin is quietly in the background listening the whole time and after everyone leaves here Rantaro'll give him a Look and he'll slink off to class, only for Subaru to convince him to skip with an excuse of 'contagious migraines' and so he is 100% confirmed no longer here in the nurse's office after this.]