[WEEK 4: Friday, post-investigation, room 112 probably; Yukina, Jay, Girge, Tsurugi]

[nowyouseeit]

[and sometime, after the commotion from the explosion and the investigation die down, Girge is once again approached by three familiar faces. they all look pretty serious, and they lead him back to Kaito's room-- Room 112]

[their official Hunter's meeting room]

Oi.

[he says, once the door is closed. his gaze is steady, not once flickering away from Girge. he seems very decided about something]

We know what we want to do.

Comments

[nowyouseeit]

[jerks a thumb at Jay and Yukina, then Girge and Tsurugi]

And Light. Kaiba and Dave did, but they're dead now.

[ninjay]

You should really be careful about the Hibiki thing. I know some people are still suspicious because of your bruises from that time, and--

[ he looks at him then at girge. ]

Ah. You faked the fall.

[disinterested]

I never said he was.

[my god are you really trying to compete as to who has a cooler leader]

[disinterested]

... Well, not quite. I did shove him for real, but yeah, that was the idea.

[disinterested]

Looks like you'll want to be wary of Light, then.

[A pause, before:]

Were you collaborating with the Teacher from the beginning? If that's the case, then I'd like to know the reasoning behind their targets.

[thawedheart]

...I don't think it fooled everyone. [SIGHS.] But for what it's worth, I do think... most people are more suspicious of Tsurugi-san than of you.

[disinterested]

[he's surprised that it could've fooled like anyone tbh]

We weren't expecting Hibiki to be the Drifter. [He shrugs.] Frankly, Tsurugi should be glad that I was willing to be a part of his excuse to begin with.

[nowyouseeit]

. . . we made an alliance with Light and Kaiba on Monday, after we found you, actually.

[so no, not from the beginning]

I'm hoping that'll be enough for him to trust that I'm not the one responsible, especially since it'd be pretty stupid of me to out my role to him the Monday before I planned on killing someone in our alliance.

From what I understand, though, his reasoning behind targeting Akane was because he wasn't sure what lowering someone's GPA would do. I dunno his reasoning for Velvet, and I didn't see anyone in the pool this week.

[disinterested]

Emily was protected this week. [...] We thought the targets might've been a trap for us, so we avoided them.

[shoelickingshit]

I can be your slave too if you really want me to!

[disinterested]

[Also:]

By the way, what does everyone think of Andersen?

[disinterested]

[a beat

before, flatly:]

No.

[ninjay]

He's intelligent. I'm pretty sure he suspects me of being in at least one of the two groups.

[thawedheart]

He went after Velvet because by the time he picked her, Akane-san hadn't ended up in the pool. He thought maybe there was something going on that had made her immune to it.

It turns out there was just a delay.

As for Emily-chan being protected... that was because I confronted him last week, and I got him to agree not to lower anyone's GPA until I told him to.

[shoelickingshit]

He was kind of fun to talk to! He seems to do a lot of fighting despite being a small guy.

[nowyouseeit]

[jerks a thumb at Jay]

Ditto.

I trust him. And I think he trusts me.

[disinterested]

Likewise, he probably knows that I'm a Prophet, seeing as how he's asked me. I didn't answer truthfully, since he would've had to kill me—or me, him—and it seemed like a pity at the time.

[a beat]

Which reminds me: I made a deal with him some time ago that the two of us would secretly kill any murderers we discovered. I did consider taking him up on that a few times [sorry tsurugi] but overall, it seemed pointless, so I refrained.

[thawedheart]

I like him. He seems to want the best for everyone here. But... he's definitely someone we need to be careful of, if we want to make sure at least three of us make it to the end.

[disinterested]

Hmm.

Do any of you know if Akane is the Bomber?

[nowyouseeit]

[maybe we'll form a murder friendship???]




[nah probably not]

And s'not like CLUE and books were useless for me, either.

[disinterested]

What, did you use them to kill someone?

[thawedheart]

[shit pretend there was a "-san" after Velvet's name]

We're not sure. If you have reason to suspect that... we could check her, on Monday.

[Her brows furrow.]

She seems nice, but it's a little strange to me... that she keeps winding up in danger so often. More than the others, without... any permanent damage to show for it.

[disinterested]

[...]

In one of the earlier trials, she seemed to know who the Bomber was. It's possible that someone did tell her, but Mira suspected that she was the Bomber herself.

[thawedheart]

...it's possible, but I think it's unlikely. [HMM.] I could have understood it if Mira-san and Akane-san confided in each other, since they came from the same place, but... I don't think a stranger would have told Akane-san something like that so soon.

Kaito-san, Jay-san and I trust each other, but that's because we're partners.

[ninjay]

That's good to know.

[ poor tsurugi ]

Someone needs to kill him though. He's a little too dangerous to keep late into the game.