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[playingdetective]

Characters: Akise Aru, anyone else
Setting: Any hallway with a fair degree of people
Format: Either
Summary: Akise detectives the hell out of this situation (?).

"This is new... She really didn't take it well."

Akise is far more intrigued by this turn of events than any normal person has a right to be.

It's not like this is the first he's ever heard of the supernatural. Frankly, after infuriating Murumuru to such a degree, he expected something to happen. He just didn't foresee it to be in such a passive-agressive manner. It doesn't take a lifetime of being near his former accomplice to decipher her personality. He expected her to eliminate him in some way. Erasing him or deleting his memories are unconventional choices, but fully within her scope of power.

He did not expect to come out of it as the owner of the diary he's had for a few days now. Yukiteru needs this to stand a chance as First. Why did she not take it away...?

'The tower's freezing.', it says plainly, as if Akise is already familiarized with his predicament. It's a useful piece of information, given how it tells him that he's in such a structure in the first place, but a diary that talked about what happened to him would be so much more useful in this situation. Then again, that would hardly encourage cultivating his skills as a detective.

And yet, that doesn't bring him down. Not in the least. Matter of fact, Akise looks cheerful, navigating the halls in an attempt to feed his diary information on events he's yet to witness. He reviews the contents at five minute intervals, having noticed a large absence of electronics in this place. If there are others here, he considers, then that does not support his theory that this is a personal punishment. Even stranger is the fact that, for the first time since he's received it, his diary seems to be malfunctioning, neglecting to show events at times.

I wonder if the others are here. It sounds unlikely, since Murumuru and him were the only anomalies, but it would be a problem if she had done away with the other diary owners after he changed their futures to such a degree.

Comments

[blackwitch]

[ .. Cell phone..? Well, at least Evatrice is intelligent enough to be able to figure out a few things from that name and the way it looks. So it's like a regular phone, except you can carry it around, huh..? Probaly some future invention, or from another world.. not that she needs one, being a witch and all, but she's always eager to learn new things either way. Curious enough that she isn't really murder-friendly for once. At least, not immediately. ]

Of course the people in charge here would want to stop that kind of communication. They're not morons. [ A sigh as if she can't realise someone wouldn't immediately realise that. ]

[playingdetective]

[Akise looks up, sighing as he hides the phone back in his pocket.]

I wonder... If what the letter says it's really true, then at least they could give us our own way to communicate with other people here. We still wouldn't be able to contact anyone else.

[As if it would make any difference at all. Maybe he doesn't know about the network. Maybe he's just making conversation. Or maybe he's simply trying to steer it away from the possibility of divulging the future diary.]

[blackwitch]

They must think those terminals are good enough! [ And at least she did figure out how to work those, despite being from the eighties and all. ]

That, or they just reserve that privilege for the people who have special powers. Isn't that almost like survival of the fittest?

[ Because it's Evatrice, of course, and she can't ever not gloat when given the chance. ]

[playingdetective]

Impressive. I've never seen anyone with actual powers before.

[Not completely true. 12th was pretty weird, and Deus and Murumuru go without saying.]

But a true detective makes sure everyone survives in the end, strong or otherwise.

[blackwitch]

.. Huuuh? [ Even without the latter half - it's too sappy and goodie-two-shoes for her tastes, but luckily she's distracted by the first half - she almost seems a little curious. Not necessarily in a good way, though. ]

You claim to be a detective?

[ It makes her think of Battler, honestly. And mostly how he defeated her like that right before she got here. ]

[playingdetective]

An aspiring detective. In time, I expect to turn into a world-famous one.

I guess getting out of this tower is step one right now.

[All of it said with a straight face.]

[blackwitch]

How interesting, you really think you can do that even though you're just human?

[ It's difficult to say whether she's genuinely interested or just making fun of him. Probably a little of both - Evatrice is someone who understands where hard work can bring you despite all odds, after all. ]