towerofanimus | 02 - a wolf among sheep

Characters: Yamato and YOU
Setting: Cafeteria! Oct 13th
Format: I shall follow~
Summary: Yamato is dressed up as an adorable lamb. He is downright psychotic with rage.
Warnings: He is actually a wolf in sheep's clothing. He has fangs. He will bite.

Yamato felt downright ridiculous as he slipped quietly into the cafeteria, looking about to make sure that it was empty. It had taken a stupid amount of time to slip this far without being detected, but it was better than someone seeing him dressed up as this- this-!

This lamb!

He was absolutely adorable! Cute! Cuddly! It was an outrage! He was a Hotsuin, and Hotsuin do not look adorable or anything of that nature! Yamato snarled quietly to himself, stepping further into the cafeteria. If he didn't need to eat, he would've just stayed under the bed for eternity!

It was bad enough going to that 'meeting' - where barely anything was solved except the candy collection. At least he could hide behind the other children there, but on his lonesome? No, if he was caught by himself, he would have to suffer being laughed at.

Total humiliation.

So someone find him and laugh at him already.

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Gilbert spotted an unusual sight as he entered the cafeteria for another meal. A child! A child in an adorable costume! He just couldn't resist. He had to talk to this boy. "Hey, little guy," he said softly. "Enjoying the game?"

Yamato stiffened up, and clenched his jaw as he tried to stifle the instinctive urge to snap irritably. He inhaled sharply and turned to give the strange man - pale hair and red eyes, what was it with people having such unnatural coloured eyes here? - a cold stare.

"Do not call me little. And sadly, yes, I have been dragged into playing this ridiculous game."

"But you are little," Gilbert replied, not quite grasping the seriousness of Yamato's words. "So I take it you're not having fun with whatever game is going on? I can see why you wouldn't. Apparently, the higher-ups forced people into their costumes." That did not help his perception of this place at all, nope.

Yamato let out an annoyed huff at the insistance of his smallness, but simply stuck his nose up into the air.

"...they are playing a sadistic game. Aside from forcing us to wear such humiliating outfits, we have to collect a certain amount of candy - if we don't, we die."

"Wait, you die?!" That was what sent Gilbert over the edge. That was too awful! Dragging a child into a game where death was a possible consequence... the people running the tower had to be bad news. "This isn't a game! This is a cruel joke!" He squatted down to the child's level and continued speaking, a note of desperation in his voice. "Let me help you! I can't have a kid dying on my watch!"

Yamato just...stared, for once a bit caught off guard by the man's bizarre behaviour. Why...did he seem so upset? Yes, it was a rather ridiculous game, but nothing to be so upset over. The candy were very easy to find.

"Ah..." Well, if Yamato could use this man to collect the candy, that means Yamato wouldn't have to wander about in public like this...ahahah, brilliant!

He smiled.

"Very well. I accept your help."

"Alright! Where do you think we should look first? I think you may have been here longer than I have, so you probably have a better picture of this place than I do. Unless I'm wrong and you just got here too?" Gilbert took the boy's hand, unaware of what consequences this would cause.

Yamato twitched slightly when the strange man took his hand, his gaze flattening and his smile dropping immediately. "I have only just arrived myself, a week ago, to be specific, however, I have learned that there are several floors off limits."

Eh? Why was this boy getting so serious all of a sudden? Gilbert just couldn't pick it up. "Oh? Which floors are those? The candy must not be there, then. I hope."

"Floor Forty-one, a dark room that is filled with insects. Death by suffocation if you remain there. Floor Thirty-seven and Thirty are filled with monsters. Death by mauling if you remain there. Floor Twenty-Six is the morgue, and the monsters enjoy dragging foolish people into the cold chambers. Death by mauling or hypothermia if you remain there. Floor Twenty-Four has a 1% chance of a shadowy being attacking you. Death by vivisection if you remain there. Floor Twenty-One-"

Yup, he's gonna go through all of the floors, Gilbert.

Holy crap, that was a lot of ways to die! "W-wait! I get it! Pretty much all the floors are off limits! I guess it would be easier for you to tell me which ones are safe?" He really hoped that the candy was only on the safe floors. Otherwise, he was going to have to go get his sword, and that'd waste precious time.

"The floors with the dorms are safe. Your room at night is the only place the monsters won't go into," Yamato explained. "But during the day, I believe the forest - one of the forests, mind - is safe, as well as the meadow floor."

"A meadow floor, huh? And a forest? Which floors are those?" Gilbert paused. All those hellish floors would naturally be before the peaceful ones. "You know... I may have to get my sword. We might run into monsters before we get to look in those places."

"There is no need. If we encounter danger, I can take care of it well enough," Yamato said calmly. He could summon Cerberus if things became a bit dicey.

"Really? What can you do?" It was a curious question, not one intended to belittle Yamato. "Are you sure you don't want me to get my sword? I think I might go get it anyway. Do you want to stay here or come with me when I go get it."

Yamato ignored the first question, his gaze becoming mildly irritated, but he heaved a sigh after a pause. Well - fine. He supposed the other could be used as a durable meatshield if need be.

"Fine. I will wait here."

"Alright! I'll be right back!" Gilbert ran off to the dorm to fetch his sword, and came back with it belted to his hip and in its sheath a few minutes later. "Okay, I got it! Where should we investigate first? The libraries? That meadow floor you mentioned?"

02 - a wolf among sheep

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