7/9, backdated - Flowers and Murder

[kokuyoyo]

Chikusa Kakimoto CKastaroth@applenet.net
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I'm going to assume that a day is enough for us to recover well enough over everything, so there are a few things I want to address now that the app has been secured again.

First of all, since it's troublesome only speaking on the app and we never know when it might be compromised again, I made a code for us to use in reference to each other. It's not completely finished but it should give you an idea of what I'm going for. I'm open to any other suggestions on what to add to it. Different demons have been assigned different flowers. Combatants and Navigators can be distinguished by where they "grow".

[insert list here]

Secondly, we need a place to meet up in real life. A few times in the past, the first round has used my dorm, but that isn't sustainable especially since other Awakened are and can be adults. I suggest a school-funded cafe project. Those of us attending Green Valley can use various excuses as an extracuricular activity focusing on economics, cooking, or whatever else. Adults could act as supervisors. Someone is free to mention a better idea.

Finally, I think we should start investigating figures of significance in Eddan and preparing to dispose of them if they turn out to have anything to do with our current situation.

Comments

[touketsu]

I don't think we should be making assumptions like that.

[For one, it's too painful to listen to...]

I'm as angry about what's happened as anyone else is, but I don't see how behaving like what we're trying to fight is going to make things better. Try to use that head of yours more for thinking than bludgeoning things, Guts-san.

[blackdogdown]

I am using my damn head! What do you want us to do, let Luci lead us around by the nose until we stop being useful to him.

If people in this town are really responsible for their actions, they're disgusting. We all saw the vision with the fire. A whole family, gone, and those gas masks covered it up. Somebody in the council has to know something.

[touketsu]

No, I don't, but Luci knows more than we do.

Hmm...I'd say he's like our coach. He's not very good at it, but he's the only one we've got and...he does seem to want to help us. More importantly, we can't play without him.

[There's a brief pause at the mention of the fire. Fubuki's only just recently learned about it from Kidou. After all, the only ones who really saw that vision were those who Awakened before he did.]

Has anyone tried asking Luci about those people in masks?

[blackdogdown]

You say coach, I say general. And when you have a shitty general, you ditch him before he gets you all killed.

Asking Luci anything usually ends up with my car desecrated and me losing my temper, I'm not feeling like talking to him anytime soon.

[touketsu]

I think abandoning Luci would put us at more risk.

Anyway, if you're too afraid of having another beep sheep incident, I'm sure someone else can speak with Luci. I'll even do it if you're going to be a baby.

[blackdogdown]

Nothing in life comes without risk kid.

If you wanna talk to that asshole go ahead. Tell him to screw off from me or something.

[touketsu]

That's true. But there are smart risks and stupid ones, and that sounds like a pretty stupid one.

And you should tell him that yourself.

[blackdogdown]

Eh, you figure out that shit later. My life is nothing but a bunch of stupid choices I gotta pull myself out of. I don't see why a new world would change that.

And no way he'll mess with my car again....

[touketsu]

Well, it's up to you if you want to take the path with the lowest survival rate.

It was very nice knowing you! ヾ ･ิ ‿ ･ิ



P.S. I'm still not telling Luci for you. And even if I did, that wouldn't stop him from messing with your car if that's what he decided he was going to do. And that's what I meant by learning to use your head.

[blackdogdown]

don't use those "emojis" on me you brat.


[Don't taunt your father like this. ]

And hey, my heads full of killing shit and whatever. I'm a simple guy.

[touketsu]

Hmmm... That doesn't sound like the sort of person I should listen to, though. ┐( ಠ ◡ ಠ )┌

[blackdogdown]

your life is now about killing shit. monstrous evil shit. my advice is great.

[touketsu]

No, I'm pretty sure it's bad. Good advice isn't so monotonous.

[blackdogdown]

How else do people deliver good advice?? With some sorta political speech?

[touketsu]

Hm? No, I don't think so. I think good advice is just advice that's irrefutable. And fun, too. So that you're more likely to listen to it.

[blackdogdown]

I'm not very fun.

Doesn't mean I'm always wrong.

[touketsu]

That's exactly what it means.

[osakanpride]

What's this about people in masks?

[ Something tells him, compiling all of this into coherent notes was going to take some work, with how long the list of problems here ran. ]

[touketsu]

[Fubuki isn't sure how much he should say, but being an advocate of people working together on this, he's willing to share what he knows. Just...not who told him what he knows. It's for Kidou's safety.]

I don't really know a lot about it because it happened before I remembered anything, but they're people that were seen in a vision the Awakened had. They're firemen, actually. Or they're supposed to be. They show up after the shadows kill people, but they don't help and instead they make the attacks look like they were caused by fires. They cover it up. I was told they were even able to see the people watching in the vision and that they tried to attack them.

[osakanpride]

[ That made it a little more difficult if they only heard it second hand. ]

June 17th, the night the application had also installed itself into our, [ the second cycle, ] devices. There was a headline in the media about multiple fires. I wonder if they're connected.

[ But that was awhile ago. Would evidenced still even be there? He had no choice but to take a look, anyway. ]

[touketsu]

[Does he say anything? Should he? Hmm...]

They might be connected. And if they aren't, there's no way to tell without looking into them, right?

I think I know the location of one of them. I've been there.

[osakanpride]

The article was inconclusive and stated it might have been the work of some bored teens.

[ If you asked him, it sounded like an excuse. Not to mention there was no follow up of the article confirming whether it was true or not. The detective was willing to investigate the location(s) to confirm his suspicions. ]

The easiest way to rule out the possibility would be to investigate it personally.

[touketsu]

You're a navigator, right? You probably shouldn't go alone.

[osakanpride]

[ Ugh. Navigator. Something he may never cope with, but the detective was adapting nevertheless. Survival was paramount. ]

Yes.

[ The was a long pause before he followed up after the answer. ]

Are you coming then? What's the location? We'll meet there.

[touketsu]

[Fubuki doesn't know if he's the wisest choice of combatants to bring along. He's still new to this. But...he does know the area, and if something happens, they'll at least have that to their advantage. Though, probably, there's as much of a chance of something happening in broad daylight this time as there was the last time he went with Kidou.

They'd been fine then. They'll be fine now.

Maybe. But what if something goes wrong? The last time Fubuki was there, he hadn't really been himself. But he knows someone who was. If he asks Kidou to come along...]

Okay. [He gives the address to a home in Green Valley. It isn't far from where he and Kidou live, but he won't say that.] I'll head over right away.