First Strike

[ogrewhelming]

Characters: Sakura Oogami and YOU
Setting: Room 2-03, Floor 15, Cafeteria
Format: Action brackets, will match if preferred.
Summary: One of the new kids investigating.
Warnings: No spoilers in the entry itself, but some for up to chapter four are likely to crop up in threads.

[There's no known force in the universe that can get Sakura to break her morning routine… But for the sake of suddenly being equipped with roommates, she will save the more involved exercises and the kiai for later in the day. She's currently going through a series of basic leg stretches on the floor.]


[Even after a few days have gone by, there's still plenty of tower left to explore. Sakura is in the process of doing this. The workshop is a floor particularly worthy of intense investigation - if she's to recreate her favorite workout method, this would be the place, would it not? There's a wide variety of regular hammers, that's a good start…

And over by that work bench, at last, a sturdy sledgehammer! It's wonderful to have one in her hands again. Her hands practically itch with the desire to start swinging it this instant… but that would be unsafe, particularly after being so out of practice. Would they have tires here? In any case, there's a sinister-looking person prowling around the floor, clutching a large hammer and muttering softly to herself.]

…Something to hit. I need something to hit…


[After an enlightening and thankfully non-fatal jaunt through several floors of tower, Sakura is relaxing over a leisurely cup of tea. She looks about as friendly and approachable as it is possible for her to ever look.]

Comments

[tsunball]

[ It's not like he would refuse, he's way too much of a coward to do that - especially in front of someone as strong as Sakura. So even though it's a little awkward and it can even be read on his face, he does sit down while putting his food in front of him on the table.

.. Wait. He just realised.. what do you even say in a situation like this. Okay, okay, Leon, think.. ]

... Uh.. yo? [ .. great job, leon. A+. 'you tried' star. ]

[ogrewhelming]

[Indeed, what does one say? "Thank you for killing someone before I could get around to it," "You were lucky; Monobear ate the next person on pancakes," "I am dead as well; would you care to compare experiences?" She'll... play it safe. This is what normal people talk about, correct?]

How are you faring?

[tsunball]

[ If anything there's one consilation: Leon already knows about the pancakes by now.

Either way, this tense atmosphere, sitting here with Sakura of all people.. it reminds him of something all of a sudden, yup, this is pretty much the same way he feels during talks with the teachers about his grades while his parents are there with him. Exactly like that. Both are enough to run a chill down his spine, even if he's trying to play it cool-- but he's obviously a little nervous, so it's failing. ]

I guess I'm fine.. [ he couldn't say it more awkwardly, honestly. ] I mean, pretty okay compared to the kind of shit this place could've pulled on me.

[ Awkwardly his hand shoots up to run through his hair. ]

[ogrewhelming]

That is fortunate.

[This is definitely awkward. She can tell she's making him uncomfortable. But... well. This is Leon. She'd never admit it out loud, but she's pretty okay with wigging him out. And she does want information. Maybe he'll cool down once they've talked a little more.]

I have not been present long enough to see this tower at its worst. Tell me, what should I expect?

[tsunball]

[ His first instinct is to mention the whole dude sniffer deal, but then again.. Sakura is a girl, even if she might not immediately seem like it, so.. she should be fine, right?! ]

It just does the most random shit all the time, there's no predicting it! [ at least now he's getting a little less awkward and instead more worked up - apparently because of the memories. ] There was that time when everyone passed out, a time they just cut off all electricity and didn't give us food, and then there was that time a fucking whale crashed into this place!

[ogrewhelming]

A whale? Are we underwater? [It seemed like open air, but... whale?]

[tsunball]

No, it was a whale flying through the air, it's--

.. Man, just don't ask me, okay? It was just really fucking weird, I don't understand it either!

[ogrewhelming]

[She's no super high-school level biologist but she's beginning to suspect he's pulling her leg. He sounds like he believes what he's saying, but then again, he sounded fairly shocked over Maizono too.]

Whales, then. What other oddities should I be aware of?

[tsunball]

Apparently they randomly kidnap people and do stuff to them too, but that's never happened to me so I don't have any clue what exactly they do. [ which he - noticably - feels pretty glad about. ]

I think most of us here from the school lucked out so far.

[ogrewhelming]

[...Well. That's... still slightly better than what Monobear made them do.]

They say that those who have suffered in a previous life are granted a reprieve in the next.

[tsunball]

.. Man, that would be the best! In that case, we'd all get to go to some big relaxing spa resort kind of thing, right?

[ For a moment he actually got.. pretty caught up in the thought, with the biggest dorky grin on his face, but then he realises.. wait, he was talking to sakura.... and it quickly fades away again a little more awkwardly as he shakes his head. ]

I mean-- .. yeah. Guess it'd be nice. [ Still too much like he's talking to a parent or a teacher. :| ]