ayabe

[soba]

meme here, probably

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week 0, sunday

[soba]

[ it's a little after the execution, and i threw a dart so they are at the main hall on the first floor. is ayabe checking for rats?? he can be!!

toi is just checking (for probably the fourth time since execution) that the front door is locked. it is, but he is so mad that it was opened before only to get locked again. it's fine. ]

[kazokun]

[ Ayabe's imagining the entire place crawling with invisible rats all the time, it's really bad. He comes across Toi rattling the front doors and he's immediately hopeful despite knowing he shouldn't be. ]

Any luck?

[soba]

I wish.

[ he gives it another try before stepping back. ]

We didn't even get a good look at the yard...

[kazokun]

Michiru should have taken the opportunity to run away...

[ Anybody would have, but there's the compulsion to stay- safety in numbers, maybe.

Also being on the shoulder half of the height chart, he couldn't get a good look at much anyways. ]

As much as I could see, it looked fine, didn't it? I thought it'd be overgrown with weeds, with how they didn't want us to see it.

[soba]

I was pretty interested in the surroundings. In case there's any scenery someone might recognize...

[ WHERE THE FUCK ARE THEY ]

[kazokun]

It looks like trees, same as what you'd see from our rooms. Are you able to tell any of them apart?

[ Trees are trees. He had this conversation with 45 last week too, back when he was thoroughly convinced that this is the mountain surrounding his school, and not much has proven him otherwise. ]

[soba]

No. Maybe if we had more time to get a good look.

[ but admittedly he was paying more attention to the like, execution? and only thought to look around when it was too late and then the door slammed. ]

week 1, sunday

[soba]

[ it's a couple of hours after the execution. toi is in his room... well. he was sitting, and now he's pacing, because it's kind of hard to keep still after all of that. it's fine. ]

[kazokun]

Toi?

[ There's a knock at Toi's door before the handle jiggles to check whether it's locked. Ayabe's going to give Toi the benefit of the doubt that he was lying down like a good patient all this time and only got up to answer the door. ]

[soba]

[ ayabe is a good boy for giving toi something he does not deserve.

but toi will open the door, mostly since the voice is one he recognizes as someone who does not annoy him, so it's. alright. ]

Mm?

[kazokun]

[ Would he have just let other people stand awkwardly by the door as he paces around an obviously not empty room ]

You're up... I wanted to check how you're doing. You lost a lot of blood?

[ It was hard to tell, with everybody crowded around the door and also Ayabe not really wanting to see. ]

[soba]

[ yes. ]

... no, it wasn't that bad. Luna caught me pretty quickly.

[ toi says, when he was trying to run away, ]

[kazokun]

[ Ayabe nods, because he sure saw Toi trying to run for it while there was literally a wall of bodies blocking the way. ]

That's a relief... Did she put you on room arrest or anything?

[ She guarded Asch all night when his arm was being treated, but he can't tell how bad Toi's wound is. ]

week 3, monday

[soba]

[ it's a new week, which means it's time to explore the new locations!

toi decides to go to the drawing room first then ]

What is this place?

[kazokun]

Arts and crafts room. Blue traps kids here, so of course there'd be this sort of entertainment.

[ He's sifting through some of the paint when Toi arrives, frowning a little because they're finger paints and ugh. ]

[soba]

... figures.

[ he'll walk over to where the balloons are??? and makes a face. ]

I wonder what else will show up?

[kazokun]

[ He keeps a close eye on Toi, wary because balloons squeak and he also hates that, but steps aside from what he's looking at to shove his hands into his pockets. ]

There's two other rooms on this floor that are locked. Have you tried them? I swear, if people come back bloody again...

[soba]

I saw them, and couldn't get in, yeah.

[ locked.... ]

If there's something that might help though, someone has to get it opened... like that infirmary.

[kazokun]

[ He cringes a little because both the infirmary and morgue sounded like death traps from what he heard about what went on in them. ]

Do you know if that's where they got the antidote? I looked around a bit, but there was just pills and bandaids.

[ ... ]

Are you supplying weed to my roommates?

week 3, sunday

[soba]

[ toi is familiar with two things from his stay here. the first, getting horribly injured sucks. and the second, having to be the executor also sucks.

so he waits a couple of hours before he goes to check on ayabe. there's a light knock at the door. he sees that it's slightly open, but he's not going to just walk in. ]

Hey. It's Kuji.

[kazokun]

[ Okay, so. Neither of those things are things anybody should become familiar with. Ayabe's managed to avoid both these things up until this morning when he got hit with a double whammy of them, but after the kappa butt memories kicking him into dissociation and the magic bean healing the wound on his back, everything's just

numb

fake

Like everything's gone back to normal. ]

Come in.

[ Like it's still a few days ago, and we're all still inviting people in like vampires. Fake. ]

[soba]

[ oh if ayabe is fine he's leaving goodbye



but no, he'll shuffle in, shutting the door behind him. no visitors while he is here. ]

How's your back?

[kazokun]

[ Wow, so he only gets deathbed visits and that's it. ]

It's fine. That- ...Brilith gave me something.

[ He barely registered it as a bean, to be honest, but he sits up now, demonstratively, and although he's a little sluggish, he can move perfectly fine. Makes him wish they had more beans and earier too, considering all the injuries people have been getting. ]

It's like it never happened. That's sort of what it feels like...

[ Denial. ]

[soba]

[ as someone currently heavily injured, toi agrees. ]

... right.

Almost like it never happened.

[kazokun]

[ PEOPLE HAVE HEALING ITEMS AND THEY'RE JUST NOT USING THEM Ken has healing goop? it's right here in this room? and yet Ken just chooses to continue to suffer and Toi has no choice not to continue to suffer, because he's not giving Ayabe any indication of how bad his injuries are. ]

Almost. But it did. I... killed somebody. And that can never be erased.