First Line

[linesofdeath]

Who: Shiki Tohno (linesofdeath) and You!
Where: Room 01-20, Floor 4, Floor 8
When: Before the event, that's for sure.
What: Having the notice that his world ended, a certain youth decided to see just what kind of mess did he end up in. Again.
Warning: N/A for now.


Room 01-20
[He had been calm, he had not been reacting badly ever since he woke up. But of course that’s what the boy’s trying to look like as he scanned the letter he arrived with in the room he just woke up in.

It was a strange ceiling, by the way.

In any case, the boy didn’t say anything as he got up after finishing the letter, and if there were any other occupants in the room, the first thing he’ll ask was just:]

…Do you know where I can get a bite in this place?

Floor 4
[A ridiculous meal over and done with (seriously that tasted really bad), Shiki went on his way as he noticed a glass-walled lounge on his way up to explore the tower. Well, in a sense this would at least help him find out just where this cloud is.

…

Only to find out that an expanse of grayness is not exactly a thing he really enjoyed looking at. Regardless, he’s there, just staring at the outside sky with a perplexed look.]

Floor 8
[…Maybe he should’ve avoided the maze and went on another way entirely, but no. He had to go through them in order to go to the next floor, and knowing him and his way of walking into trouble, maybe he should’ve stayed in the lounge instead…]

Comments

[linesofdeath]

--?

[There's a blank stare as the boy stared at the other girl quizzically.

Hey, that's a familiar face, except, like always he can't really put a name on her face, which is all the more confusing considering they had promised something really important a few days, or was it the day before-?

Well, before his life was kinda shot to hell and back.]

[yumizuka]

[ It's okay, because she's come to terms with Certain Things and can overcome this obstacle just as easily as the rest. With a nod, she straightens up. ]

Welcome to the tower. [ That's something a classmate should say to another, right? ] This place isn't too bad once you overcome the initial shock.

[linesofdeath]

[There's a few more seconds of silence as he searched his mind for a name to put with the face.

...Er...Right.]

Yumizuka-san, right? Er, thanks for the welcome.

[Awkward...]

I don't know about that one, though. I mean, monsters are usually bad news to any living person.

[yumizuka]

You don't run into them often. Only if you're on the other floors and it's nighttime.

[ Quietly adding on: ] I won't let them get to you, okay?

[linesofdeath]

U-uh, are you sure you should be saying that?

[Well, considering that Yumizuka-san really doesn't strike him as the type that'd be capable of.

Y'know.

Fighting.]

Not that I doubt you or anything, but I never knew you fight, Yumizuka-san.

[yumizuka]

I didn't know how to fight for a while, but I learned.

[ Offering a slight smile. ] I bet there's other things about me that you don't know about. Maybe... maybe we can get to know each other here.

[ She sounds so sad when she says something like that. ]

[linesofdeath]

Well, I guess we have all the time in the world to do that, now.

[There's a wry laugh from him, sure it's kind of a morbid joke even for his taste, but laughter is better rather than being bothered by these kind of things.]

[yumizuka]

[ Oh, is she supposed to laugh at something of that nature? It seems wrong to, but if he is... ]

Right, all the time in the world... [ Satsuki manages a quiet, but surely awkward laugh. ] In this world at least.

Um, do you know much about this place?

[linesofdeath]

Considering I've just been dumped here without any way of knowing all that's true...

[Beat.]

That's a no.