kazuki catchall

[adorabrawler]

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[adorabrawler]

[ the world's most exasperated: ]

Oh my god. Are we seriously going to have to deal with bears tomorrow...

[teenrebellion]

It wasn't aggressive. It definitely saw me, but all it really did was stand there between their bodies and the wolves and stare them down.

[adorabrawler]

... Huh. I wonder why.

[teenrebellion]

Like I said, it was almost like it was protecting them.
But it's weird. I've never seen that happen, unless you count that frog last week with Nahida.

[adorabrawler]

Oh, yeah... And that was a noise too, wasn't it?

[ ... Maybe someone turned into a bear. ]

[teenrebellion]

[ maybe. ]

It was, yeah.

[adorabrawler]

Weird, but... a good thing? I mean, better than finding their bodies mauled by hungry animals.

[teenrebellion]

Definitely. I'll take a mystery bear noise foe that.
There were more wolves in another direction, but I don't know what was out there, besides probably the sleigh. We'll probably need to go back tomorrow.

[adorabrawler]

... Yeah, as usual. We'll have more time then.

[teenrebellion]

More time, technically, but still four erasures to sort out. It's not really that much.

[adorabrawler]

That's... also true. No crime in the real world ever gets solved in a day.

[teenrebellion]

We've been lucky, most of the time. The stuff we find is never really conclusive.

[adorabrawler]

Imagine if the justice system in the real world worked like it does here.

[teenrebellion]

Then we wouldn't even have solved one case before this thing ended.

[adorabrawler]

Pfft, tell me about it. But it's just as illogical as everything else here.

[teenrebellion]

Yeah, but at least they have, like... processes and stuff. We just have to make it all up as we go here.

[adorabrawler]

It's pretty mediaeval, huh. But... we won't have to do it for too much longer.

[teenrebellion]

Thankfully. I'm really tired of people I care about dying.

[adorabrawler]

[ ... ]

Yeah. Me too.

[teenrebellion]

[ he gives a bitter smile. ]

At least it's the last week. Then someone wins the stupid game and we all get to go home, or we'll be erased, too. Either way, it'll be over.

[adorabrawler]

I'm, uh. Gonna stick with "we get to go home".

[teenrebellion]

That'd be nice, yeah.

[adorabrawler]

I just don't want to believe everything we've had to endure was for nothing.

[teenrebellion]

It feels kind of pointless to set up a game where you're supposed to kill each other in the first place, if you ask me.

[adorabrawler]

It's... cruel, but I guess in some twisted way, I get why it's like this.