yogen | narumin rescue squad

[Why is there a bomb under the floorboards. I wish I could say this was the most unsettling house Shin's ever been in, but it's a close second place now.

...Narumi wouldn't keep it there if he was planning for it to go off, at least while he was still in the building, right? Right. Unless it's there without his knowledge, but surely he has to have noticed... at this level of locks-on-door shoot-on-sight-ness paranoia...]

...

[He gives up and lets Sara put the coat on him, with the somewhat disgruntled air of a cat longsufferingly letting you put a sweater on it, and a slight wince whenever the shoulder is jostled. Once it's on and he's moving a little albeit having to stop and rest or lean on things a lot, his sluggish body heat does start getting to work, Narumi has good taste in coats.]

...Good advice. We should... figure out where we're going before we leave, too. Don't want to spend any more time out there than we have to, if it's that rough...

[He's not looking forward to the 'am I going to get mugged' thoughts, it's been four months since that now mundane-seeming worry has been needed, transposed onto other things. He doesn't have any cash on him at least apart from like. 26 yen that's apparently just considered part of his soul in change in his jacket pocket, along with the lint.]

Even so... Turning the house into a crater seems a bit much in terms of self-defense, Narumi-san.

[Shooting him also is a bit much, but you know what he means.]

...What do you mean?

[ ...

You know how, like, when something's buzzing or ringing or ticking in the background for so long your brain gets used to it and you don't perceive it anymore unless your attention is specifically brought back to it? ]

[He's more likely to assume Narumi's dodging the question rather than just can't hear it, but the response is the same either way. He sits on information at the best of times but 'hey, there's a bomb here'... the sort of thing the rest need to know. It does make a thread of worry start to trickle in, though.]

That annoying ticking under the floorboards... don't tell me you've just hidden a clock there.

[It's not a clock, he's sure of it... call it a premonition.]

Um...where are we going? Good question. I don't even know where we are... I guess we could look for the other group? Maybe they're having better luck then us? Or get dinner! We're outside, so senpai, are there any good ramen places near here?

[ Luck. Komeada. Its a joke, get it. Anyway she's not sure if they're actually in the same place but if Narumi is kicking them out, Sara's at a bit of a loss. Hanako did not give detailed instructions on how to heal a soul.

Well, lets just hope for the best! ]

Maybe its one of these locks? [ She taps the biggest one. Tap tap. ] Like, a time keeping one! So you know what time it is when someone breaks in? Haha...

Sara, why would it be under the floor?

[Sorry to go all wrong answer in trials on you but... what. Come on. Well, maybe there's a basement but... no, it doesn't make sense.]

...Ramen sounds really good right now. [He's increasingly wanting out of this house, for multiple reasons... that being one of them.] ...You come too, Narumi.

[He can't actually force him to... even less than normally even, but... doesn't feel like a good idea to leave him here anymore.]

Edited (can't think bc music but might have misread smth earlier) 2021-10-25 03:40 (UTC)

[ No offence, but he maybe doesn't want to go with people who didn't know what they were doing here, don't seem to know what they're going to do out there, and also admitted that the other half of their gang is waiting out there. ]

Sorry, I already brushed my teeth.

[ Can't eat after you brush your teeth, that's the rule. ]

There's not going to be much still open this late at night, but I can give you directions to a place that's cheap.

[ The closest car on the street seems to be a pickup truck that ig Komaeda can remove the person from the driver's seat and commit grand theft auto, but also everybody should have the experience at one point in their lives of sitting in the back of a pickup truck and hanging onto dear life. There's a pair of pink fuzzy dice hanging on the rear view mirror. ]

( you know where he's going, he certainly is going where you think he's going, there's no stopping him as he starts to remove another body so he can have the driver's seat. )

Er...maybe there's a basement down there? And its also locked, and thats why there's a ticking noise?

[ Which translates too: She has no idea. Locks seem like the only thing in this house expensive enough to be ticking. ]

Ah, okay. My treat though, if you change your mind? [ Brushed his teeth, but not that he's had dinner? Its worrying in a way thats hard to put her finger on. Well...if free food isn't tempting, Sara doubts much more then putting him at gunpoint is getting Narumi out of this house ]

I just want to eat something from a restaurant, so I don't care if its the worst raman ever!

...Komaeda's going to put us into a mobile deathtrap again, isn't he.

[she can hear him moving around. please confirm.]

He absolutely is.

[Lucifer, meanwhile, who is a demon and is unfortunately related to his brothers who love pranks, gives into the temptation of moving the frozen guy Komaeda just kind of... cast out of his own vehicle. Frozen Guy™ is moved to the passenger seat of the stasis'd car behind them, where Lucifer buckles them in and closes the door.

Chaos.]

Sit wherever you'd like, Helena. Komaeda — don't get us killed, please.

Ah... goodbye friend.

( he's sulking a bit at seeing the man taken to the other car — could have been another crunch, and ooh, that lucifer icon is so cute? — aside from that, he waits for everyone to get in the back of the pick-up truck, and he stares at the dog that's sitting inside of the car with him. that's fine, and so he reaches out to pat their head. )

Is everyone ready...?

( he adjusts the mirror before him so that he can see behind, the back of their heads more apparent than the road, it's fine, komaeda doesn't need to see that part since everything is frozen. he turns the key in the car, the vehicle vibrating and shaking to show that it's turned on, and gas spews from the back — sorry, sorry. his girlboss hand clutches the wheel, nails tapping against it as he waits for them to give the signal.

...

...

signal is someone alive because komaeda's going to push his foot down on the pedal, turning the vehicle around so that they can drive back to where they came from. take in the scenery guys, because komaeda's foot tends to become dead weight """accidentally""" speeding up every so often, just a little fun you know. )

Lucifer-kun... do you think Ito-kun will be alright once we leave from his bo— ( ACHOO! and he speeds up with his foot slamming on the pedal because wow, how abrupt, once he gets himself together, he lifts up his shoe so they're at a proper speed. he ALMOST hit a pole, but no one saw that, no one... ) ...Ugh.

[this is terrifying all over again. her heart picks back up when Komaeda hits the gas, and whoever is closest to her is getting Helena clinging onto them as tightly as a possum does, made all the more fearful by the bouncing and moving that comes from no seatbelts and the wild domain of a pickup truck. please send help, this is not what she signed up for when she told Sara she would help.

hopefully the drive won't be too long, but who knows.]

[Lucifer is very cute, yes.]

I believe he'll be—

[OOOOH NEXT TIME THEY COMMIT GRAND THEFT AUTO LUCIFER IS DRIVING, WHAT THE FUCK—]

—fine, yes. I wouldn't let us come in here if it would cause further problems.

[...he says, like bringing Komaeda places doesn't cause problems.]

[ It's an apartment building so maybe the downstairs neighbors are the ones they should judge, leave him alone ]

A restaurant. [ He was thinking more of those street stalls, but okay... okay. Some people have money and can afford fancy dinners. ]

There's a restaurant near the center of town, where all the skyscrapers are. It's pretty far, so... I guess I could come with you, to show you the way. We can probably catch a bus there if we're quick enough, but it'll be too late to take one back, so hopefully you guys are meeting up with your friends somewhere in the city.

[ "Further" problems, like Narumi obviously has some issues of his own without their being here. The way back is as eventful as the way here, and they eventually return to the street they had arrived from with all its broken windows and demolished buildings and people all cut up with glass and that one man lying on the ground who got run over by the car.

The door they had all exited out of, incidentally, is a ramen restaurant. ]

( it's a pretty safe ride for the most part, the dog sitting in komaeda's lap as they pull up where they were before — he drives slow so that the wheels aren't popped by the glass on the ground, and he will park on the curb where the ramen restaurant is.

looks to the side. )

Anyone hungry?

( he'll cross his arms on the wheel, looking through the rear view mirror to see if everyone is ready to get off yet. )

We can't...be distracted...

[slowly, she sits up, having to detach herself from whoever got clung onto tightly as they drove. someone's soul shirt probably has wrinkles in it now.]

Remember what I said about what's important...please look around.

My soul is not hungry, no, but don't you think it's interesting that the place we appear to have come from is a restaurant?

[Lucifer knows in his mind that Levi would be super jealous right now, since Lucifer's at an Authentic Ramen Shop™, technically. Lucifer also knows that not looking around the area would be pointless, so he gets out of the car and makes his way toward the shop. If he opens the door, are they going to be back in the room they originally came from, or is this going to be a fun situation where they open the door and there's an actual restaurant behind it?]

It really is, I wonder...

( komaeda doesn't leave from the car, instead, he's propping his arm against the window, and his cheek pressed against the palm of his hand. he watches everyone else though, thinking that if he stays within the car, that maybe nothing bad will happen while they check out the restaurant. besides, he glances to the dog next to him in the car, and what are the chances that it may try to hop out or something, he doesn't know how frozen animals work — but he'd rather not put them in that predicament. instead, he'll try and climb out the window on the opposite side so that he can look around the debris that's fell over, analyzing what dead bodies are trapped under the rubble, or the few that couldn't make it since they're pierced by glass. )

[because we decided it, Helena's having the belated realization that "wow, Lucifer smells nice" and is also walking around with a feather in her hair.]

Low to the ground....I remember that much...something small and out of place...

[tapping around, trying to find what strange object they were sent back here to collect in the first place...Narumi, what secrets are in your heart...]

Ah, and if someone could check the car the police have, that would be very good.

[Clamor may or may not have been trying to straighten up Narumi's room while the others were chatting, but considering his own lab back home tends to be kind of a mess, well... at least some of the mess has been moved from the floor onto a chair. It's less of a tripping hazard now!! Narumi's bed is also made. What else can he snoop at while Narumi is distracted... maybe the rooms of his other family members? How clean are those? You know, just to see if he's getting these bad habits from anyone, or if there are any other weapons/bombs in the building they should be worried about...

but anyway let's assume at some point he slips back into the entrance area to catch the end of this plan.]

Do you have a favourite place, Narumi? It doesn't have to be something fancy. [like, do they even have any money?? how much dream-change does Sara have in her pockets... maybe they should stick to whatever's cheapest]

Think of this as our way of making things up to you. [aka he still has to come along, he already admitted he'd be willing to so no take backs]

[ Clamor snoops at the other bedroom down the hall and finds it to be very clean in comparison to Narumi's. There's a large queen sized bed at the back of the room, a small bedside table on either side, and a small blocky television across from the bed on the opposite wall. He can see a layer of dust on the tables and on top of the television, like this room hasn't been dusted in a very long time. That's the only other bedroom in this place; it's the two bedrooms + half bathroom on the top half, and the kitchen + living area on the bottom. The ticking can be faintly heard somewhere in between the two floors. ]

Oh... uh. I don't eat out much. [ Who has the money for that? Eating out is like a once a year thing, like for birthdays or holidays except you got to choose just one to celebrate per year. ]

If you're treating, I'm not going to be making demands... Ramen would be fine. I haven't had it in a while.

[ "I'm not hungry" Lucifer says but opens the door anyways. Inside is an actual restaurant! It isn't very well populated at the moment, but there are several round tables in the main eating area, as well as stools in front of a counter where you can watch the chefs cook and not feel so awkward that you're eating alone. On the side wall are some advertisements, including a handwritten one for a lost dog and a phone number to call, several notices about missing children, a poster promoting a ramen eating challenge at this restaurant, and also mugshots of Clamor, Hanako, Helena, Hikaru, Komaeda, Lucifer, Sara, and Shin. The floorboards squeak underneath their feet.

Outside of the shop, there are a bunch of people pinned underneath the rubble, unidentifiable until 24809403 tons of concrete are removed from on top of their person.

Hikaru flips their hood over their head as if they're the most inconspicuous out of this group just in case things get unfrozen in the interim, and volunteers to check out the police car, be right back. ]

( guys, under the squeaky floorboards... get under there!!!

okay, komaeda can't do anything with all this rubble of dead people, so he's going to flip over like one or two, and then look where hikaru ran off to. because he wants them to help with digging through the ocean or rocks, glass and dead people with him.

...

...

grab the police car keys, hikaru, grab them. )

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