CHUUYA

[applechemist]

i'll put something here later

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Week 0 | Friday

[applechemist]

[ Well that investigation sure was. Something. Escha is headed back to her room to set down this?? Bloody knife?? That she's still holding onto, I guess.

That's probably ominous for Chuuya to see walking towards him in the hall, but at least she's holding it very carefully and not threateningly?? ]

Oh - hello, there. [ Why are you on the floor. ]

[goatsongs]

[Chuuya looks up from his papers full of crossed out lines and sees Escha. And a bloody knife.]

Why do you still have that?

[applechemist]

I didn't know what else to do with it. And I thought we might want to look at it tomorrow during...

[ Whatever happens tomorrow. ]

... What are you doing?

[goatsongs]

[As good a reason to carry around a bloody knife as any.]

Trying to write them poetry.

...it's not going that well. I didn't know them much, so everything I try to write as tribute feels hollow.

[applechemist]

That's nice of you.

Even if you didn't know them well, I'm sure the sentiment is still meaningful... As people who were stuck in this situation together...

But I'm sorry that it's not going smoothly.

[goatsongs]

...I don't want to give them something less than my best. They deserve more.

[And he can't put less than his best into a poem anyway.]

[applechemist]

They deserve more than what happened...

[ Whatever happened. ]

... But it's normal not to be able to work well in these circumstances, isn't it?

[goatsongs]

I wouldn't know. This is the first time I've seen someone who was murdered.

[He's known death before, yes - he's intimately familiar with how sickness can take the young and undeserving. But murder is different.]

[applechemist]

[ Escha winces. ]

Me too... Dick told me about supervillains in his world and - i-it's not like we don't have criminals where I'm from, but... [ Well, they're rare enough that she hasn't had to face anything like this before. ]

Week 0 | Saturday

[applechemist]

That was pretty crazy, huh...?

[ And she gives him a tentative smile to try and lighten the mood. (None of the dead stayed dead, so that's good, but... What Polly did is still A Lot.) ]

Now it's not so bad that you weren't able to write something good for them.

[goatsongs]

[Why is Polly like this.]

At least there's that. Doesn't make up for the rest of whatever the hell that was, though.

[He pats the seat next to him at the dining room table. C'mon, sit with him a bit.]

[applechemist]

It doesn't, but... We can try looking on the bright side?

[ But she's not just blindly optimistic, so she. sighs. And takes a seat next to him with a polite nod. ]

[goatsongs]

Kind of hard to.

You think the demon is still loose?

[applechemist]

[ On the up-side, talking theories puts her in a more business mindset. It makes compartmentalizing a little easier. ]

Well... The instructions for the exorcism made it sound like it might still be with her. Then we'll get rid of it. So I don't think it's just roaming free, at least.

[goatsongs]

I hope so. I don't really want to think about what happens if we don't get rid of it.

...Nobody else is going to murder anyone for a stupid reason like that.

[right??]

[applechemist]

I'm sure we will. We have all the items and all the instructions... So there's no reason it shouldn't work, right?

[ Escha nods. Yeah, that sounds feasible. ]

I'm sure it won't happen again. There's no reason for anything like this to happen again...

[goatsongs]

This was stupid. Right? It's not just me being a grumpy old man, this was a stupid reason to kill three people, right?

[please validate him]

Week 1 | Saturday

[goatsongs]

Hey.

[Chuuya'd been doing nothing but drinking all trial, but just because he wasn't talking didn't mean he wasn't listening. The way Escha reacted with disbelief at the thought of hurting someone you love, the surprise when Monika admitted to the crime even though it was all but confirmed before then-

He thinks of their conversation about Zero, before.]

You want company?

[applechemist]

[ She still looks pretty down - but at this point it's really more about Prompto than it is Monika. Not that either is a great... Situation. ]

Yeah, that might be nice.

[goatsongs]

[So Chuuya sits with her, and after a moment's hesitation, reaches out to gently pat her on the head.]

[applechemist]

[ She laughs a bit uncomfortably. She's 20 years old, you weird tiny man. But she is. Polite, so. ]

... It seems like everyone else stopped believing her a lot earlier.

[goatsongs]

[A ten year difference is good enough!!]

Yeah. About the time when she called watching everyone theorize 'fun' is when I stopped.

[applechemist]

Having a bad personality doesn't necessarily make you a killer, though. At least, that's what I want to think.

[goatsongs]

I have a bad personality. That is somebody who doesn't give a shit about other people's lives.

[applechemist]

But it's the demon, right? Not really her...?