Week 0, Friday

[bladeisme]

[When Akira makes it back to the hotel room, he'll find that -

Well. Ichigo is still asleep, somehow. The pillow's been removed from his head, but he's still pretty soundly snoozing away.

He's entirely missed the body and all of the announcements. Jesus fucking christ.]

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[purrtagonist]

[echoing Max's words]

"Your Partner is erased? You're erased. This counts even if your Partner was a Reaper."

[. . .]

[he's doing the math in his head. the numbers don't look good]

By those rules, one kill means at least three innocent people die, even if we find the right culprit. The victim, the victim's partner, and the killer's partner.

[jesus]

[he inhales sharply as those words sink in. is this game really designed to elicit the largest amount of bloodshed it can't?]

[bladeisme]

...Three people will die, no matter what.

[He sees that inhale, and - honestly? He feels the same, despite everything. Despite trying to brace himself for the worst, this just feels -

So utterly, incredibly unfair. To have this system set up so people can die quicker, even those who were innocent of the crime...

It makes him feel sick.]

...And we don't have a choice.

[purrtagonist]

Or do we?

[Akira shoots back, though it's mostly on instinct. Ichigo says they don't have a choice, and he wants to believe that they do. he just. . . doesn't know what that choice is yet]

Somewhere down the line, there has to be a better option for us than this.