towerofanimus | 001 | ❝Do you seek the truth?❞

Characters: Yu and... you.
Setting: Dorm Room 2-04 → everywhere
Format: I'll adjust to your preference.
Summary: One protagonist awakens, confused and left to his thoughts before seeking the truth.
Warnings: None currently, aside from true ending spoilers.

Awakening wasn't a strange ordeal for him. After all, he normally did end up falling asleep after staring at the passing scenery. What wasn't in the realm of ordinary happenings? Not being able to move at all, and suddenly waking up on a bed that was certainly not his own. It would be a lie if he wasn't freaked out slightly, yet he paused... tried to reflect on how he could have gotten from the train and to this location, yet it was all a blank.

Soon the paralysis wore off and he began to sit up, taking in the sights around him. ...A dorm room? He had just been on the train back to the city, right? Yu sighed, looking to see if there was any sign of where he is now. The first things he noticed other than the cool metal around his neck (a collar?) is the letter...

One that he automatically placed down after reading the first sentence. Destroyed? How could that be? Hadn't they stopped Namatame from unknowingly doing what the true killer had to kill those two last year? Hadn't they caught Adachi and faced not just Ameno-Sagiri, but the one who had been behind the events that transpired? There were so many questions going through his mind, and none of them were going to be answered by staying here.

After opening the trunk at the foot of his bed, Yu set out to search for answers... and any familiar faces that may be here as well.

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"The tower we're in right now." He watches his apparently new roommate, wondering what to make of him. Did he read the letter already? If not, then he would have to explain things to the best of his knowledge.

"I'm Minato Arisato." He introduced himself, after getting the other boy's name. Yu Narukami.

He notice the glances and his gaze went down to the note.

"I see... Nice to meet you, Arisato-san." A boy with blue hair... hm.

Yu had read some of the letter, just glancing through it and... not really wanting to stomach any part of what he just read. He spares a nod, grip on the note tightening. He'd left his friends behind, having defeated the threat to not just their lives, but their entire world, and now this-?

"...Is it true, about our worlds-?" Because he's praying that it's a lie, that he hadn't failed them.

Minato looks at Yu, his expression carefully stoic.

"I don't know. That's what they told us about, but I haven't seen the state of my world for myself."

"...I see." Yu is silent for a moment, regarding the carefully chosen words and what he just read. These coupled with the collar around his neck definitely struck him with a sense of foreboding, along with a strong desire to locate his friends- if they were even here at all. That as well was something that failed to sit right with him in particular. Yet if it was true-

No. Until there were more facts and actual proof of what is written here on the paper in his hands, he will not allow himself to be diluted by a rumor. Never again. He owes them all this much.

"Then I can't believe this just yet," he mutters, folding the letter closed and placing it down again. He can't dwell on it, not when he has to learn the truth - however painful it may be. That, and- "Is there any way I can find out if my friends are here?"

He shouldn't have left them behind... Shouldn't have, even though he had a promise to keep at the time.

Minato empathised, his expression almost soften at Yu's last question. Finding his friends was the first thing he did when he arrived. Perhaps Yu would have better luck than him.

"You can use the computer to leave a message or recording on the network system." It's not as convenient as the tablets back in the Underworld. The computers here cannot be moved out of their rooms. "If your friends are here, they can see it on their computers."

Maybe, maybe not. There would be no way of knowing until he got confirmation of the best or the worst. He glances over at the computer briefly, sighing.

"Couldn't make it easier and just offer a phone with the letter, could they." Maybe it was a poor, deadpan attempt at humor... but right now it was all he could attempt. He wanted to go out and physically search for them however, to see them in person after having had to leave them in the thoughts that it was all over and they would be fine without him. Had his departure doomed them to this-?

No. He wouldn't think like that now when the possibilities are endless. Looking to Minato once more, he seems almost hopeful behind guarding himself. A friend had once told him of how dangerous 'driving blindly' could be, after all. "Is there anything else I should know?"

"There's one thing." It's a rather important point anyone living with him should know. "This place can bring in people from all kinds of worlds, even alternate realities where things might happened differently. So it's not surprising to see doubles of one person."

Minato pause, just to let that sink in, before continuing. "There's another 'me' around in the Tower. He normally don't wear my red armband."

"Alternate realities?" It was almost funny, how the concept of other worlds didn't surprise him as much thanks to the Midnight Channel and the TV world. The mentioning of doubles didn't phase him nearly as much as it should have, either. though, doubles who weren't Shadows? What sort of madness is this?

"...Alright." He must still be in shock from killing a god, or so it seemed.

He nodded. It's probably more surprising to see in person, but not for the reasons they thinking of.

"He's different but...don't mistake us."

001 | ❝Do you seek the truth?❞

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