cavaliered | ➤ superhell: ryo

-- Akira wasn't with you? [she sounds genuinely surprised.]

[ he shakes his head. ]

Apparently he was with his roommate.

[there's a pause, as she reminds herself that akira isn't ryo's cavalier,]

Oh. That makes sense, I guess. [...] Where'd you end up?

I was in my room. It was a rare moment where Itto wasn't there.

[ peace and quiet... and then he was locked in. ]

Huh. Did you wake up to a prize of some sort?

I did, yes. Seems a little in bad taste right after a murder announcement, but what would I know?

[snort.]

Fucked up is the norm around here. You get a note, too? Or just the prize. I don't give a shit what your prize was by the way, you don't have to tell me. Unless it was a knife.

I wish it was a knife.

[ that would be so useful. ]

I did get a note.

What'd it say? [again. nosy.]

You really are persistent.

My tolerance was raised.

Years of practice. [sometimes you're hashtag it's complicated with the most annoyingly tightlipped person in the universe.]

Mine too. For what it's worth.

I guess it might be meant to help us with the Satan thing.

[ which is fine, but there is so much happening at the same time. ]

That'd make sense. I'll worry about it later.

So what's next for you?

At this point?

[ make sure akira doesn't do something stupid. ]

See if anyone knows anything, but I have a feeling that won't get very far. It's likely that whoever does is just the actual killer.

What would we even be supposed to do after that, anyway? We find out who did it, then what? We're already in hell, that punishment is kind of hard to top.

No idea.

But I would at least like to know if it's an isolated incident or if might become a bigger issue. There's still a lot we don't know about what's expected of us here.

Yeah. [she shoves her hands in her pockets.] You talk to Lavi at all about this? We went over a few scenarios.

No, not yet.

What are your ideas?

[ticks off on her fingers:]

Kid's not actually dead, the Demons are fucking with us. Kid actually is dead, which means none of us are. Kid's dead, and someone did it to thin the competition. Those are the basics.

I suppose for the first point, the not knowing can be considered a form of torture.

[ "what about being sad about a death" no the not knowing ]

For the last... maybe. That, or they think that Satan might find killing someone to be entertaining. It would be an easy way to secure an invite if so.

[no he's right]

Huh. I didn't even think of that aspect. I forget he's a major player in all this, half the time, but you bring up a good point. That makes it even more annoying if that's the case.

[ he nods ]

I can understand the train of thought. Of course one would think the Lord of Hell would love violence.

[she rubs at her face, and then:]

I guess we'll see if that's true whenever the Demons pop up again. If they do.

They'll have to eventually, it's their job. Maybe they're hoping if they lay low we'll just forget.

[ they forget about the murder because they get distracted by another party. ]

Well, I won't. [...] Thanks for the info exchange.

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