7/16: Shirasu

[randori]

[ There has been an unfortunate number of dead people found in the music room, but Natsuo is there anyways, sitting on the bench of the corpse piano but backwards so that he's staring out at the rest of the room, not really focused on anything in particular. For him, this room is a place that gave him fond memories, not the nightmares others may have come to associate the place with, but... ]

Shirasu... Can I ask you a question that might maybe make you mad?

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[randori]

Uwah—! I thought I was doing really well, but you're ahead of me already!

[ like it's a competition... If he counts the botched first objective as half, he might be at 3.5 by the end of the week, and he'll sleep well pretending he won. ]

I'm glad, though, not everybody's objectives have been bad. Have you been having fun with yours?

[wagashis]

Maybe four by the end of the week, if I'm lucky.

[but he's mostly saying that to tease natsuo a bit, honestly...]

But yes, mine have been rather interesting. I'm not sure I would call any of them 'bad'.

[randori]

[ Slow down... he would say, but it's better this way. He can rest well, knowing that the civilians are doing fine, and pray that the villains will make it too. ]

Was one of them... Did it have to do with fighting? When we fought?

[ He'd said something about Natsuo being able to "help," or something ]

[wagashis]

I was meant to challenge someone to a duel, yes.

[so thanks for the help, natsuo, he appreciates it!]

[randori]

[ He laughs, because that would have been an objective he'd have fun with, and Shirasu chose a good person to do it with. ]

A missed opportunity! You should've just come up to me and slapped me with a glove!

[wagashis]

Perhaps if I'd had a glove to do it with.

[but he can't help smiling a bit more in turn when natsuo laughs, though he doesn't quite laugh himself.]

But it still worked, didn't it?

[randori]

Yeah, it worked. If you do need help on yours- any of them- just let me know! Even though it says seven for each group, maybe it'd be a good idea to keep going, and we can wish our way out of here!

[ Optimistic! But he's still hopeful. ]