Requiem aeternum, bullets right through the sternum...

[crouching_sin]

Characters: Naoya and you
Setting: Starting in room 4-20, and then various places around the tower! (Backdated to yesterday I am a slow turtle.)
Format: Starting with prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: Naoya wakes up in the tower and actually glad at the message. He then sets out to explore the tower.
Warning: Naoya is a warning. But okay - blasphemy, massive Devil Survivor spoilers, crazy laughter… I'll edit it if need be!


[Room 4-20]
Naoya stayed still while the paralysis passed, and rose from the bed, looking down at the letter next to him. He opened it, reading its contents.

"… Destroyed. … Destroyed? Ahaha… haha…" He clutched letter tightly in his hand, laughing in a mixture of relief and pure madness. As long as it were true - and oh he hoped it was - then it was likely He was dead.

"Time to learn where I am…" He turned and looked at the chest at the end of his bed, opening it. … Good. His clothes were there and he could get out of this stupid outfit. He put his cloak up as a privacy barrier and started to change.



[Floor 3]
A library, hm? Naoya walked along the aisles in the darkness, peering at the titles. No history… hm. Disappointing. He would have liked to find out more about this place the easy way. Ah, well. He could find it the hard way.



[Floor 22]
In the darkness, Naoya could make out a few of the paintings. Some of them looked familiar. He walked along further, and stopped, staring at one of the paintings.

A blue-haired boy with cat-like headphones in a white cloak stands above a group of people, blood running on the ground. A golden light shines out from behind him, and Naoya sneers.

"Idiot. He thought that this would be the right way to use this power. Haha… hahaha…"

He reaches out, grabbing the painting and pulling it off the wall in strips, throwing them on the ground.



[Hallways]
A group of Miniblins stands in front of Naoya. He smirks and lifts a hand, gazing down at the pathetic creatures.

"Too weak. You guys get a game over."

Energy gathers into his hand, and he lets the Megidolaon go, the sound of the explosion ringing through the hallway. He chuckles, and steps over their charred forms.

Comments

[crouching_sin]

"Fine. I'll see if I can manage anything. It'd be stupid to get jumped by something and die that way." He wants to at least go out in style this time.

[evokingfool]

"That would be helpful. But be careful around here, sir." Even if the man have powerful skills, the monsters may surprise him.

[crouching_sin]

"Oh, you don't have to worry about me. What's your name?" He could handle himself just fine.

[evokingfool]

"I'm Minato Arisato. What's your name?"

[crouching_sin]

"Naoya. How long have you been here, Arisato?" He could be polite and use honorifics. He just doesn't care enough to.

[evokingfool]

Minato think for a moment. "Around half a year, Naoya-san."

[crouching_sin]

"And what sorts of things have you been able to find out about this place?" If anything. Of course, any intelligence would have to be verified with his own eyes, but still.

[evokingfool]

"This tower is where survivors was brought to by the people in charge. Each floors are mostly different from each other, but there's a few common rooms like libraries." A short pause. "This place's history isn't recorded anywhere, however."

[crouching_sin]

"A shame. And is each survivor from a different world? Or are there some from the same world?"

[evokingfool]

"Each different world. However, even if they're people you know, they're supposedly from an alternate world." His word choices are deliberate and careful. He doesn't completely believe what they said about it, yet. "They claimed to have save just one survivor from each different, ruined world."

[crouching_sin]

Oh. Well. Just perfect. That means there could be people who would be coming after him.

"I suppose our captors think they're noble for this."

[evokingfool]

"More or less." The impression he gets from their last contact, and pretty much everything else. "They sometimes run 'experiments' on us."

Just a warning, y'know.

[crouching_sin]

"... What sorts of 'experiments'?"

Thaaaaat doesn't sound good.

[evokingfool]

"Mostly games and fighting. To see how long we last and whether we're willing to turn on each other."

He would've survive if he willed himself to kill. But no, in those times, Minato would lose and die.

[crouching_sin]

"And what's your answer? Are you willing to turn on anyone?" He grins a bit.

[evokingfool]

"I won't willingly turn on anyone. But I will fight to protect." His stubbornness and resolve will kill him (again) here, but when he's given the choice between killing or dying while protecting? It's obvious to Minato.