whitewalls | minato

... I'm glad you talked to Sol. They're really sweet.

<small.[ she may have a favorite npc and their name may have three letters. ]

[ Naminé must be the only person who doesn't bully Sol. Even Minato has bullied Sol. ]

I think so to. I asked if they wanted to share a meal together someday... Do you want to join us? We could cook and eat together. It'd be nice.

I'd love to. It'll be nice.

[ especially when everything else... isn't.

she moves to turn the oven off. apparently she got all the cookies out. ]

Getting to reach out to others is a good way to spend time, when things are hard.

It's a good way to spend time, even when things are not. I wish it weren't.

[ He wishes he could just eat cookies and play slots and lie on the ground all day all the time, but instead he's crunching burnt cookies and wishing tomorrow wouldn't come. ]

Do you and Emma spend a lot of time together? As roommates?

I wouldn't say that we're together constantly, but... she's very kind to me. I appreciate it a lot.

[ naminé wouldn't say they're anything like best friends, but they get along. ]

I'm glad. I like her too.

[ Kazuaki's been a good roommate too; Minato's sort of the opposite, wandering around all day and not coming home at night, but he tries. At least he's better than Hisoka. ]

Lots of people here... are very kind. So getting to know them, and then having something like this happen... it's unimaginable, huh?

... yeah.

Especially if it's someone you're bonded to. It's already bad enough when you just know them, but when you also might...

[ die. ]

Kill them?

[ no

unfortunately, this is the suggestion Minato supplies to finish the sentence ]

I was going to say die.

[ HE MADE IT WORSE ]

Why do you think you would die?

[ killing makes more sense, or something ]

I mean... if you don't get paired off with someone else, then you'll die too, right?

[ oh ]

Oh.

[ hmm, yes, okay, he understands the train of thought, now. It was just him that got derailed. ]

That's what it sounds like... But we have three people this time. And whoever the person who got corrupted is, if the purification process is the same...

[ Four more dead by Sunday. Yikes. ]

Right...

[ she counts on her fingers. ]

So, there's four people who will be partnerless, if we count the roommate of whoever gets voted for. They can bond at least two of those people, like they did with Hisoka and Axel. But that's still two who won't make it.

[ Thanks for moving right along from killing to death. Minato rubs at the back of his neck, staring at Naminé's fingers as she counts. ]

Three dead... Number four gets voted on... Four partnerless... but potentially two could be saved.

[ a frown ]

Best case scenario, we're losing six people total.

Mm... there's always the possibility that the person who's corrupted happens to be partnered with someone who died. We can't say they wouldn't target whoever they're bonded with if they're not in control of their own body.

[ which means that there would only be one person leftover instead of two. ]

It's too difficult to tell without a motive. And I can't imagine anybody not getting along with any of those three- or Tsurumaru, either. Mary had wanted to be friends with everybody, after all.

... yeah. It's hard to make guesses when we don't know much.

Lune said we should have an easier time tomorrow, both because we should be more used to how trials work and also because something might be... different?

Because there's less people?

[ They could blindly guess and have a better chance of getting it right. ]

I'm not sure. When I tried asking about it, they wouldn't get any more specific than that.

[ also, minato pls, ]

[ Hm, yeah, they're just like that, and Minato can't figure out what the unspoken rules about what they can and cannot say are. ]

Well... if Lune believes in us, we'll just have to trust that, right?

... right. They're nice, so I don't think they'd lie about something like that.

[ she does think they would potentially misjudge and be wrong though ]

[ Well. Sol was saying last week that it didn't matter whether the corrupted remembers being corrupted, that they're guilty just the same. Kazuaki had been pretty upset about that, and Minato had to disagree with that sort of thinking too. Maybe it's just different, for being that aren't human. ]

...It's easy to doubt people, but... For me, I prefer to trust people until I have a reason not to. Four doesn't think I should, but...

[ He shrugs. What does Naminé think? ]

... I'd rather trust them. It's kind of sad, to live thinking that people are going to betray you.

[ she understands that people might. even someone you're friends with might do something bad, for whatever reason. but how can you even make friends with someone if you go in thinking they're bad? ]

[ You don't make friends in a murdergame, that's how. ]

...Yeah, I think so too. Even people who could betray you, doesn't mean they will. So I want to believe in them. Everybody here, I want to believe in them. The corruption isn't their fault, no matter how it takes them over.

Mmhm.

... and I think that even if someone does do something of their own accord, that doesn't mean they weren't really your friend. Sometimes... circumstances lead people to doing things they wouldn't have normally.

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