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Who: Faculty, and idk if you wanna bring a +1 i won't stop you, i'm not a cop
What: FACULTY MEETING
When: 12/6, 7pm-ish
Where: Faculty office
Warnings: TBA

[a note, in a childish scrawl of blue ink, is placed on the desk of every teacher.

The rumors are true.
Here, tonight, 7pm.
We can't do nothing.

at the appointed time and place, you can find Sportacus sitting cross-legged on his own desk. he is eating an apple, though mostly he's just taken one bite of it and is otherwise using it to gesticulate.]

"Every student that fails their exams will be killed. Sometimes, they make you do it." That is how the teacher next door described it, when I asked. [pause] That is not good! So, it cannot happen. I hope there's no debate on that, but...

[he's heard things about some of you fuckers and he's not impressed, basically.

still, he smiles. but he always does that.]

We have very little time to do an impossible thing. Luckily, that is when most impossible things are done!

[he gestures vaguely before him. the floor is open, gentlemen. let's save our students.]

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If that's your topic starter, sure.

( blinks... though, he doesn't think that has to be said, everyone has their own ideas on how to save someone. )

What are you going to do if not?

( idea? hm... )

Ah... if they got sick, they'd have to miss out, you know.

Faking sick... Or, really being sick... [seems to be seriously considering it] I have a feeling the make-up test would be worse, somehow.

[as for the other question...]

I will do whatever I can that's best for my kids. [pause] Whatever that ends up being.

That's the problem you have, you search for answers, but are afraid of what the future may bring — too busy thinking of the now.

( a roll of his eyes, lifts his hand like he's helping erase that doubt from sportacus' mind. )

Do you know what will happen if they do a make-up test? Or are you just pulling at straws?

( sighs, be cool again komaeda. which he does, because now he's smiling like he never had that small irritable moment. )

[cocks head] When "the now" is children being murdered for the crime of not being very good at math, it is hard to think of anything else! I will try my best to think of other things.

[smiles]

I'd like to think it's an educated guess! Does this place like to make things easier, or harder? [a shrug] Another educated guess is that we'll be punished for disobeying them in any way. I'd like to earn it.

Good! I get concerned when you're all stuck on the now, but not thinking ahead...

( so making them sick is out the question, with a hand on his hip, he glances at the ground thoughtful. )

Yep, we probably will! But we all knew that when we applied for these positions, but some of the people here get off on pain so...

( nothing to worry about there. )

Schedule a field trip.

[nods slowly]

The vice principal... It wouldn't be very difficult for someone to convince her she approved it before...

[or, at the very least, komaeda could annoy her until she breaks and accepts his reality. he seems pretty good at that.]

... But, thinking ahead... We all do have to come back here, for now. There must be a way that isn't only delaying the inevitable. There is always a way.

There's various ways to save them, it's just whether we have the means. Has anyone decided to flirt with the vice principal? If she's lonely, maybe she'll hear someone out.

( yet, such pathetic means are beneath komaeda, so he looks at sporty to do the job. )

Been single lately?

[stares at him for a good 15 seconds.]

My entire life.

...

( please........................................................................ )

Keep the idea in mind, some people like the inexperienced.

I don't want to discourage creative thinking! But, maybe I should change the topic to "we don't kill our students, and also no one kills me?"

She's nice! Just a crybaby, actually.

( all she does is cry and want the best for her students here. )

She has no hand in the rules we've already seen, though, but maybe she has some power...

[please god let this topic change stick]

But, if there is no principal, wouldn't the vice principal be in charge?

The rules were made by the principal, I think she told me that couldn't be changed... that she had no power.

( but maybe things have changed since then...? )

Don't hurt to ask...

[considers...]

I don't know much about schools, but that doesn't seem very... Does she seem truthful? To you.

[with the correct answer being the opposite of whatever komaeda believes it is.]

I accompanied the Ultimate Detective to meet her, it seems... there's nothing she can do.

( whether that's truth or a lie, komaeda recites the conclusion they came to. )

You can always speak to her yourself, if you need someone to hold your hand, I believe Amemura-kun would be a good fit.

["ultimate detective" = "have you spoken to herlock for longer than five minutes and trust him to correctly read the expiration date on a loaf of bread" = "vp might still be hiding something"]

I think speaking to her as a friend might be slightly more effective.

( komaeda would jump sportacus right now if he said his thoughts, i swear to god. )

It doesn't matter how, as long as it's done. Will you save your students, or will you waffle in despair... I do wonder.

Are we despairing? Almost all of us are here, together, trying to find a way to save as many lives as we can...

[a shrug]

That's not any kind of despair I've ever seen. Maybe you use the word differently!

I said "will you," I never said that you were despairing at the moment. I'm talking about the future, like said... you focus too much on the now.

( he sighs, lifting a hand to pat sportacus' shoulder. )

You'll understand me soon.

The future depends on the present, yes? Focusing on the now is focusing on the future!

[and he's pretty sure he doesn't need the future tense on that last one. he has a working theory.

he places his hand on top of Komaeda's.]

Your hands aren't soft.

( he just wants him to know that, which also means don't touch him until he gives permission. )

How many futures are you trying to save?

That's because I walk on them! [except for right now when he is very uncharacteristically not moving them at all even slightly.]

All of them. You must always shoot for the moon; even if you miss, you land in the stars.