week 2, friday, post investigation (caren, chuuya, assassin)

[doublesmall]

[one night they'd all gotten together to drink, and the next night had taken one away. their circle is short one person, but chuuya still gathers the other two in the same place they'd met before, partly for the alcohol, partly because it just... feels appropriate.

just like last time, he's started drinking pretty much immediately, but at first he's keeping silent; this isn't a conversation chuuya knows how to start.]

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[sexorcism]

Sometimes, justice doesn't look the way we expect it to.

[She had known a hero of justice once, hadn't she? Or a boy who had so wanted to be one. He wouldn't agree with their vengeance.

But someone else might have.]

I do not mind, either.

[shinssin]

Eleanor and I had the same deal. I don't want to say that any friend of hers is a friend of mine... But I trust you both.

... Tomorrow's trial will be tough. I don't know if I can look at the evidence properly.

[doublesmall]

It's a deal, then.

[he nods, as if to seal it, and then--]

We'll take care of it for you, alright? If you can't look, you can't look. Just do what you can.

[a pause, before...]

And try to keep your cool tomorrow, alright? You don't have a partner right now. We need to consider making sure you get out of this, too, and if you do anything too reckless...

[shinssin]

Hehe.

[ That's not a "yes, Chuuya" so........ ]

It's fine. I talked to Velvet. She's from the same world as Eleanor... If there's any way I can reach her, it's through Velvet. I'll make sure we survive.

Thanks.

[shinssin]

By the way...

We all know that Junko did it, right?

[sexorcism]

[Caren looks 100% unsurprised.]

...Your suspicions are also mine.

What led you to that conclusion?

[doublesmall]

Someone told us she was a Reaper. Did you get the same memo, or...?

[shinssin]

Weeell, Eleanor and Junko would have died at the same time if they were both targets, wouldn't they?

And... Well, you'd be right.

[sexorcism]

Similarly, it seems strange that we were waken up ahead of the normal time, by an alarm that wasn't set off before then.

If she was able to orchestrate that, she may have been betting on our collective ability to rescue her.