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Week 4, Post Investigation
[It's been a long, tiring day - especially for someone so worn out physically from healing Undine earlier. Going through the investigation, hiding evidence, sitting through another meeting with the now demoralized Reapers on his team -
By the time they meet up again, it's late at night, and Ichigo slumps down to take a seat, obviously trembling a little from exhaustion. Before anyone says anything, he takes the piece of Undine's hair out of his pocket, letting it fall to the ground.]
...I...am really goddamned tired.
By the time they meet up again, it's late at night, and Ichigo slumps down to take a seat, obviously trembling a little from exhaustion. Before anyone says anything, he takes the piece of Undine's hair out of his pocket, letting it fall to the ground.]
...I...am really goddamned tired.
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And funnily enough, Undine doesn't even recognize that as her own hair at first. It's been so long since she's needed a haircut that she temporarily forgot what happens when it gets cut. Her eyes are on the hair piece, though, and eventually she looks up to Ichigo with a raised eyebrow.]
Are you sure you don't want to rest then?
[Instead of talking, she means.
Also she brought a bag of McDonalds for Ichigo (it's hella chicken nuggets) and she also tosses a chocolate milk bottle in Akira's direction.]
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[(because it's coffee, hidden in a milk bottle)]
[also, he stares at the piece of black hair, then back up at Ichigo, brows raised]
Is that. . .?
[from a crime scene? neither he nor Undine had noticed Chuuya snipping off a piece of her hair]
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[Which, apparently, included this hairpiece - because it's got a really goddamn distinctive texture to it. He's assuming it's like how Japanese people normally have ramrod straight hair (and why Akira's hair is so unusual).
He takes the nuggets, though he makes a face when he sees what it is.]
More Mcnuggets? At this rate, I'm going to turn into one of the damn things.
[But he dutifully eats them, because she went through the trouble of bringing them for him.]
I can rest tonight, during curfew. How're you two doing?
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[And then she freezes.
And she starts going through her hair. There is indeed a tiny chunk cut out of one side of her hair, mostly-unnoticeable because it's usually hidden by her hair bow.
Now she looks freaked out.]
That's- how did I not notice that? It's so obvious too, if anyone else had found it...
[Maybe not so much the color, but the shape and texture for sure. There sure are a lot of Japanese people and white people in this game.
Incidentally, that probably also answers how she's feeling right now too.]
...I suppose it's good nobody here knows my real hair color. They probably wouldn't even think to check me.
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Shit.
[he hisses out a breath. she's right; with her blue hair, likely no one would even think to check her for missing chunks. but even so. . .]
We need to be more careful.
[this? this is sloppy. and with only two of them left alive, there's so much on the line, here]
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[He says it so matter of factly, even as he munches on his food.]
I could tell you two didn't plan out the murder that well, either. There was a lot of blood left behind, and even though I know that your psych deals with water, you cleaned him up way too much. That's going to look suspicious as hell during the trial, even though I tried to take shots that didn't make it too obvious about what happened. There's the hair thing - always doublecheck your bodies and make sure you're not leaving incriminating evidence behind - and while crossing his arms was a nice gesture, it was a bad idea. I never got asked to use my fingerprint set, but - there was a lot there that could have given you away, like that weird, bug-eyed figure in there.
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[Because really? REALLY?]
The clean thing was unintentional anyway. I was drawing the water away from his body so nobody would know it was a hydrokinesis psych, and the blood came with it. Since blood is partially water.
Plus I was bleeding everywhere too and we had to go patch me up until you woke up later.
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Ichigo, are you. . . grading our crime scene?
[yeah. that's what he has to say to all that]
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[That's in response to Akira's little question, but he shrugs.]
Anyway, that'll still be something suspicious - here's hoping they assume it's Force Rounds or something, because then we could make a case that Jacopo killed Chuuya before he was killed in turn, like Ranpo.
[SORRY IF MENTIONING RANPO IS A SORE SPOT, he's just. being incredibly glib and unbothered about this whole situation. Almost like he's been in similar meetings in the past.]
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Ichigo, were any of your other teammates close to Chuuya?
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[Akira's mouth snaps shut, his own expression hardening. not because of Ichigo's blase attitude towards Jacopo and Ranpo, but because he knows why Undine is asking that question. and it's an extremely good question to ask]
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...I'm not sure. I don't really know my other reapers that well - I tried to stay away from them as much as I could, because...well, I didn't know when they were going to die.
Why?
[Though, deep down?
He has a pretty good idea about why Undine is asking that question.]
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He also knew Ranpo was one too, when he killed Ranpo.
[Look. All she's getting at is that it's very likely one of Ichigo's reaper buddies has been selling out reapers to Chuuya. She doesn't believe Ichigo did it, but any of the others...]
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Chuuya wanted to win. To end the Game as soon as possible. And I think those close to him may feel the same way.
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The moment that comes out, that familiar (to Akira) aura of killing intent flares up, feeling like the temperature around him drops - And Ichigo's eyes narrow, becoming steely and hard.
He has no hesitation as he speaks again.]
Jacopo or Izaya - or maybe both. They'd talked a lot about using Players to take down the other reapers without needing to dirty our own hands. Guess they decided to see if they could take out Akira even when you'd offered peace.
[He thinks for a moment, breathing in and out, before -]
...Well, Jacopo's dead, so we won't have to worry about that. And the rest of my group's considering joining your side, so that we have enough time to figure out what the Composer wants. Because now, they have a reason to want to bring back the Erased.
[He sounds immensely bitter - but he also knows this is how it goes with most people. If there's no personal stake in what they're doing, they'd rather just win instead of working for the greater good.]
this is awkward now that the executions happened
But regardless of the reason, if they want to cooperate, that's a good thing.
[A big 'if' there. Hopefully Jacopo was the leak and that won't be a problem anymore.]
LMFAO
Shin knows about me, too. I'd also place bets on Caren knowing.
[just. throwing that out there, too]
And while that's dangerous, if the rest of your group really does join ours, then we'll at least be able to give the Players of this Game more time.
[and really, that's all Akira wants. not to survive-- although he will try-- but to give the Players more time.]