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entranceway2017-07-10 08:51 am
eatsyourscience) wrote in entranceway2017-07-10 08:51 am
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[Souji is, surprise surprise, in the di-- Actually, this time he's in the kitchen. For a change of pace. He's got the device propped up on something so that he can talk at it hands free. Sitting in front of him is a piece of the rainbowiest rainbow cake a person could possibly make.]
Today is my sixth anniversary.
[He nudges the cake a little toward the camera.]
So I made cake. There's plenty of it, so I'll leave it here in the kitchen in case any one wants to have some.
[With a smile that seems quite tired, he shifts the cake to one side, and glances after it. With his gaze still cast away from the camera, he asks:]
How long have you been here? Do you want to go home? [He looks back at the camera again, his expression more thoughtful than tired now.] I'm kind of...doubting myself in that regard.
Today is my sixth anniversary.
[He nudges the cake a little toward the camera.]
So I made cake. There's plenty of it, so I'll leave it here in the kitchen in case any one wants to have some.
[With a smile that seems quite tired, he shifts the cake to one side, and glances after it. With his gaze still cast away from the camera, he asks:]
How long have you been here? Do you want to go home? [He looks back at the camera again, his expression more thoughtful than tired now.] I'm kind of...doubting myself in that regard.
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Murders?
[Why is it always murder.]
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There were a series of murders in Inaba in 2011. Me and my friends were involved in finding the culprit.
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Whoa, seriously? I thought you said it was a small town. How many small towns have murder sprees?
[It's a rhetorical question. The answer is not many that Ryuji can recall hearing about.]
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That doesn't seem like why you've heard of it, though. [Or Ryuji would probably have remembered something like serial murders.]
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[He's positive of that--his gut certainly is, and it's rarely led him astray.]
Like I remember hearin' somethin' about it before...? But I can't remember where. [Ugh. He rubs a knuckle against his temple as if that'll somehow jar loose the stray thought.] What's this about kidnappings?
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[Just like the murdered women had. Souji's still pretty unhappy about the whole thing, but knows that Namatame really isn't to blame. Still the fact that he kidnapped Nanako is enough for Souji to keep Souji from warming up to him.]
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That's it!
[He snaps his fingers in an aha moment.]
Inaba! That's the town where they found people strung up on poles, isn't it? Those freaky murders that detective copped to. I remember seein' that dude on TV!
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Yeah...that's Inaba. And that's Adachi.
[He wonders if he ought to say more than that. Talking about Adachi is...complicated for him. It's a couple of seconds before he does speak up again.]
Adachi was my uncle's partner. We got along pretty well. [Up to a point.]
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So all that stuff on the news--you mean to say it connected to the Metaverse? No wonder the details sounded like somethin' out of a paranormal flick.
[Sorry for your ears, but his voice is definitely rising a few decibels. It's enough of a revelation that he forgets to substitute a broader term in place of "Metaverse."]
And you knew that douchebag detective!? They still post articles from time to time. Everybody just thought it was some fetish killing. It had to do with Personas all along... I can't believe it.
[That's a lie, though. After what he'd seen and done in Tokyo? He can believe it better than most.]
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Yeah, he could access the TV world, the same as me. He--
[He had a very similar Persona and a similar connection to Izanami.
...]
I'd rather not talk about him.
[It bothers him. It bothers him that Ryuji knows Adachi and the murders. It bothers him that Akechi reminds him of Adachi, if only a very little bit. It bothers him that Akira's Mirror has Adachi's fucking Persona.]
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Wow, this whole time you guys were involved in that...
[Who would've thought such a connection was there all along? Absorbed in processing that news, he crosses his arms and leans back, eyes considering the ceiling contemplatively.
Jeez, now he knows where Akechi gets it from. Watching Neo Featherman and Adachi interviews must have been a lethal combination in Akechi's childhood or something.]
I don't blame ya, pal. Your uncle's partner? [Damn, son.] I bet that clusterfuck is one thing you don't miss about home.
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[That's not really a confirmation or otherwise. He's pretty sure it was hard on his uncle, or would have been if he hadn't had so much else to think about with Nanako being sick and crazy things happening around town.
For his part, Souji actually wouldn't mind getting to talk to Adachi again. He's not sure what he'd say or if Adachi would even care enough to listen. But the bond he has with Adachi is unbreakable.]
My uncle had a lot of other stuff he was dealing with at that time.
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[Nothing like a little betrayal close to home to shake the scales from your eyes and make you see you don't know as much as you thought you did. With luck Wonderland only has room for one civil servant-slash-serial-killer at a time.]
Still, I can't believe I saw that stuff online and didn't know it was about the cognitive world! What the hell. It's like I shoulda connected the dots after we stumbled into the Metaverse for ourselves or somethin'. [He's not sure how, but it feels like he should've.] I guess the circumstances were pretty different.
[With this small concession, he relaxes into a smile to lighten the heavy subject matter.]
But hey, both our groups got our guy, and made the world a little better than how we found it. We're pretty damn awesome.
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[In retrospect, there was much more of a connection between them than he could have guessed without the information he has now.
His lips quirk in a smile that's only a little sardonic.]
Of course we are.
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[Boasting and fist pumping wards away the chill of contemplating more murder, more senseless death.
Like a fly trapped in amber, Souji reflects how similarly young him and his friends must have been at the time of those incidents; not for the first time Ryuji thinks this is insane, why does this crap keep falling on us, we're just kids. Just kids. But the answer is there within the question, he supposes. It fell on them because it hadn't fallen on anyone else.
And maybe it takes someone too young to be used to the status quo to shake things up beyond conventional means.]
You'll have to tell me the whole story sometime--with the shit that went down in Inaba and the other world.
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Yeah. Sometime I'll do that. In exchange, tell me more about the Metaverse.
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[That they had this connection is mind-blowing as it is. Small world(s).]
Seems to me we have a lot to learn from each other.
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