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[dereban]

WHO: Himeko Inaba and you!
WHEN: Various dates in April; first prompt is before the murder discussion, second prompt is after.
WHAT: Regain related shenanigans!! She's also trying to get into the student council room, too. It's probably fine. Also if anybody wants to do wildcard options, there's that, too.

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↳ option one. [ locker area / april 18th / early morning ]

[Inaba has a tendency to head to the locker areas in the early hours of the morning, mostly not only to blend in with the crowd and see if there are any changes to the faces that she sees so that she can denote that.

But what she also winds up finding is the black cat, playing with something...

...and it's dizzying, as she watches it, her hand on her head as if she's almost about to stumble. But then, it leaves the item, which seems to be coated in blood.

And she stops, freezes, catches her breath when the cat leaves her be and she just... looks at the item in still shock silence before her eyes widen even more at the familiarity.]

... Eh?

[She doesn't realize that her mouth was moving as she speaks those words, crouching down as she picks it up carefully.

Of course, holding something covered in blood --

That's probably going to get a few eyes, isn't it?]

↳ option two. [ near the student council room / april 26 / after school ]

[After hearing everything that has to be said with the whole murders and such, Inaba knew what she had to do.

Seeing is believing, after all, and well...

Trusting others never came easy. The problem is that she doesn't have the key to the student council room, and she's not the type of person to actually ask, out of potential suspicion, but she might have to at some point.

But for now, she just lurks in a corner, wondering if anybody else will make the attempt to go in.]

↳ option wildcard.

[Want to play something outside of the above? Feel free to hit me up on plurk at tsundereban!]

Comments

[mermaidcursed]

( ... something about that reminds her of komaeda-san, and that- that's a big yikes, actually. )

I can listen. I can talk and distract- We're all here together, Inaba-san. I can't sit idly by and let you just... shoulder this on your own. We have to support each other.

( but then... she really can't force inaba to accept her or her help regardless, can she? )

[dereban]

Don't you think I know that—

[ She snaps, almost instinctively out of frustration as her fingers grip even tighter at the still bloodied pendant behind her back, almost too tightly. As if her nails could bleed into the skin.

But then she sighs, shaking her head. ]

Sorry... I know. I know that we have to help each other, but... distracting isn't going to cut it. Distracting is just running away from any problems, and I'm not...

[...]

Maybe I should go. Classes are going to start soon anyway.

[ As if she actually needs them.

She doesn't. ]