Kiss of Life

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Who: Aira, Amami & anyone who hits me up
What: Catch-all
When: November
Where: Around
Warnings: TBA

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[notsosou]

Memory again, huh...

[He does have the lantern on him, taking it just in case in two directions at once. It might just be there was a lot happening that month, even though Shin doesn't know Rantaro knew the victims personally.]

Yeah... Can't help but wonder if that was because of the number of tallies as well...

[He couldn't go outside himself, but he saw other people doing it. Unbeknownst to him it was simply because all three were deaths, not murders.]

Actually... that's kinda strange in it's own right, don't you think? Why it got so much larger all of a sudden... Sure there was that fundraiser for dorms, but.

[What actually governs it? Boundary... he can't help but think of Nene's description of the Far Shore.]

[sisters]

Ah— not that kind of memory. It was just... you know, it's been a while.

( exchange trip really messed up his sense of time and the relation he has to recent events, but it's for the best, really. either way, he's not lingering on that, dismissing the subject with a wave. his eyes do linger on that lantern if he can see it on the other, and there would be clear interest even as he continues, but he's not going to ask into it and pull them away from their current topic either. )

More importantly, there was the talk we had with Kazuki-san. Said he was going to see about having it taken down but, clearly, that's not what happened.

( considering the state of the chiaki and all that. )

I'm more curious about those steps before — I think you might be onto something, but it's hard without knowing the numbers. I know that some people, like Komaeda-kun, could make it out no problem pretty early on. Meanwhile, I wasn't able to until later, only just in time to go out and talk to Kazuki-san about all of it.

[notsosou]

[It's a small lantern, but it's still large enough to make a rounded shape of his jacket pocket that Rantaro might recognize. From the movement of his eyes it's clear he's noticing and filing away Rantaro's interest, and taking the moving on as it is. His look is contemplative, pensive.]

So there's someone in the school with the power to do it... and Kazuki knows them.

[Or multiple someones. Still, that's incredibly useful information, even if Kazuki wasn't able to persuade them. The barrier's not just part of the school, it's under active control. The little part of him that's been seeing agency in everything in Yogen is going 'I knew it'.

Komaeda but not Rantaro... he's making a mental note of it even though it's not much data to go on. He can at least ask Sara about if she could later, as well. Actually, thinking of, wasn't she running around asking people things, early on?]

Huh, maybe we should hold a survey.

[It's that half-joking hypothetical tone, and by 'we' he means probably not him, but it's a possibility.]

[sisters]

Yeah. I tried asking him, actually — the counselor — but he's no help at all. I'll bet if we asked him about those earlier months, he'd know about those conditions too, but...

( he trails off for a moment, sighing as he looks out the window. )

The rumours surrounding that guy, they're not exactly good, huh?

( the last person amami wants to have to barter with is the counselor who only sees murderers and steals memories. )

[notsosou]

[The Counselor is the one controlling the barriers?? Hh.]

Good luck getting anything out of him... He didn't let anything slip, did he?

[Shin knows that kind of person... you'll only get what it amuses them to give, and they'll make you dance for it. You have to be the sort who can get people's tongues to trip up yourself... or find some form of weakness, something they fear...

Still it's good to know for the future, having a name. Filing it away...]

Yeah... Wasn't surprised to hear he was bad news back then, either. [From Rei, but he's still in the mode of being secretive about her existence until she has a body. And the newest ones only make that worse.] There's that one that he's able to steal memories... Don't like thinking that might be why we don't remember getting some of these, ahaha. If it's true.

[If it's true. There's some ridiculous things being said about near all of the transfer students at this point, for example... but it wouldn't surprise him at all if it was. He rubs his wrist a little. The itchiness of forever-healing skin is something they've all had to learn to block out or be driven mad, but it's still a reminder. And... where do they come from, actually. If they're something like the barriers...]

[sisters]

Like talking to a brick wall. ( which is about what amami had expected, but he shrugs. )

I have other avenues I'm thinking of checking out though. He's not the only one who's got rumours floating around about him.

( which would actually, be a perfect lead into sharing some yogen history with shin, but amami's more interested in the things he doesn't know. he can loop back around to anything else, but— )

Speaking of which, didn't you mention something about memories before, too? You seem pretty interested in them.

( not that it's a bad thing, mind you; actually, if anything, the repetition has piqued amami's interest more than an offhand mention may have. speaking of them more generally has helped too. always easier to engage in a topic you're curious about when it's not a spotlight shone directly on you. now, watching shin, his eyes are bright and expectant. )