KAGACHI

[applechemist]

i'll put something here later

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Week 0: Friday

[applechemist]

[ Good news, Escha isn't holding a bloody knife anymore! But she remembers what Kagachi said before, about how maybe they're supposed to fight, so. Even though she looks a little shaky, she's approaching him.

But, uh, probably better to start light! Start with small talk! Like you do when people have been... Murdered..... Hrm.]

How are you doing?

[preceptive]

[escha tried.]

I'll manage. I'm used to this kind of thing.

[not that he looks happy.]

You?

[applechemist]

[ Oh no that's sad. ]

Used to it...? That sounds horrible. I'm not used to it at all.

[preceptive]

Dealing with murders comes with the line of work.

[applechemist]

Are you a detective, like Junpei?

[ You know how detectives walk around with huge weapons? ]

[preceptive]

[what kind of detectives have you met, escha...]

Not exactly, but you could say that's part of the job.

[applechemist]

[ Maybe he's a superhero, like Dick? Neat... ]

I see...

So is this happening like you thought? Or different? With, um... I guess people must have fought. [ For some to end up dead. ]

[preceptive]

Pretty much. We know that the last group's numbers dwindled, so... people had to have died. And based off other things found, it sounds like they might've killed one another.

[applechemist]

Do you think they were possessed when they did it...? I can't decide if that's worse or better...

[preceptive]

Yeah. That's what I think.

... If the others' guesses are right, we'll have to kill whoever did it.

[applechemist]

R-really? Can't we just... Put them in jail?

[preceptive]

Depends on what the rulebook means by "dispatch". And we don't exactly have a jail around here.

[applechemist]

Dispatch like... Send home? Maybe?

[ She does not sound confident in this, but she can hope... ]

[preceptive]

While possessed?

[applechemist]

[ She gasps... She didn't think of that. ]

Oh! No, definitely not...!

What about dispatching, um, the demon? From them? And then they're okay!

[preceptive]

... It might be different for others, but where I'm from, the only way to deal with this kind of thing is to kill the host.

[applechemist]

But that's... Not fair.

[preceptive]

I don't think it's meant to be.

[applechemist]

Maybe we're just wrong.

[ She doesn't sound like there's any hope behind the idea. So far most of the collective predictions and theories have been pretty spot on, so, no. They probably aren't wrong. ]

[preceptive]

We'll see. There's no use in agonizing over it right now, anyway. We don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, let alone after that.

[applechemist]

I suppose you're right. We'll see tomorrow...

How, um... How do you usually deal with this?

[preceptive]

Find whoever's responsible and make sure the dead are at peace.

[applechemist]

[ She meant emotionally, but that's. Fine. ]

I wonder - is there anything we can do to put them to rest, properly? We can't even bury the bodies...

[preceptive]

[the answer to that is emotional repression.]

Hard to say. I can't cross the Veil here...

[applechemist]

... What's that?