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[adsum]

Huh? Oh, no. She's always been terrifying.

[ Your Maya lore is that she's always just been Like That. ]

[closewithnewintown]

Ah. [real dead dove: do not eat situation right here] That's why I worry sometimes, though. She wants to win. The people she's hurting to get there might decide there's an easier way to hurt her back...

[adsum]

[ I hope nobody was surprised. ]

By getting at Hiro instead? That'd be a death wish. ...Though, [ and, ugh, she makes a face at the thought ] in a place like this, if you can take somebody down with you, maybe that's worth it to them. Maybe I should be giving the knife back to him.

[closewithnewintown]

Do not give Hiro the knife.

[SAID WAY TOO QUICKLY AND INTENSELY]

[adsum]

...What did he do?

[closewithnewintown]

... A minimum of one stabbing.

[adsum]

With my knife?

[ you return to her a BLOOD KNIFE?? ]

[closewithnewintown]

[everything is blood here it’s as clean as it would ever be]

Possibly. He won’t say yes or no, which usually means “yes.” Between him borrowing the knife from me and giving it back, the student council president was murdered. Who knows what really happened.

[adsum]

[ CLOSES HER EYES ]

God. [ GOD!!! ] To get Maya into the student council? What is she thinking...?

[closewithnewintown]

Not just on the council. She’s the new president.

Now do you see why I’m worried?

[adsum]

I mean...

[ Yeah, but also? ]

It stops there, though, doesn't it? She can't murder her way up any higher.

[ Unless... watch out, miss vp ]

[closewithnewintown]

Nowhere to go but down. They're fine right up until the moment somebody decides that what happened to Aiko should happen to her.

[adsum]

...Will you tell me what happened to her? Everything that you know.

[closewithnewintown]

It's not much, but I'll do my best.

The back of her head was kinda... smashed, and her arm was broken. She'd been dead for a few days before anyone found her; most of us think a fire in the library is connected. [pause] Well, "found." Somebody dropped her corpse right... Oh, um. It was in front of where you were, in the glass box. With a note that said "donation."

[adsum]

[ whispers quietly under her breath, what the fuck ]

And people think Hiro did all that?

[closewithnewintown]

Kinda. Not alone, at least. [vague shrug] And maybe he didn't do anything at all! I just wish he'd just be... I know things are different here, but I'm not used to not being trusted. All I want to do is help. Help him, help everyone...

... When he saw that I had that, [gestures to the knife] he was just so... sad. I just keep thinking about it.

[adsum]

[ The mention of the knife makes her mouth twist in a frown, trying to imagine why Hiro would be sad about it— because it was hers? because she apparently existed in a suspended state in the auditorium all month and left for dead? They weren't... He wouldn't be sad... she thought so, anyways. ]

We can't... help everyone. Not individually— not with people butting heads with one another. But if we can fix the situation, nobody needs to die. I think we can do that, even if it's a struggle to trust and be trusted.

[closewithnewintown]

I agree, but... [cocks head to side] I am planning on helping everyone. Us, you guys-- if I can do something to help the people that did this to us, to find out what makes them do these things and stop them from wanting to do it again...

[because that's what heroes do. everyone that's in trouble deserves saving, no matter what they've done.]

There's always a way. It's just a matter of finding it.

[adsum]

Everyone everyone? Maya everyone?

[ Maya who she sounded wary of? ]

The people who are out there killing other students just because... I dunno. Because they can. Everyone?

[closewithnewintown]

Maya, Komaeda, Hyde, the monster that eats your fingernails if you don't return your library books, the counselor, whenever the big bad villain comes out twirling a mustache...

Everyone.

[adsum]

[ She clutches her hands to her chest—- ]

What??

[closewithnewintown]

... Is. Is that new? Is that a recent development?

[adsum]

I don't know! I've never stolen from the library!

[ She stares hard at Stephanie's hands like, what about you? are you a criminal, miss Meanswell? is that how you know?? ]

[closewithnewintown]

[no she's good and fully fingernailed it is clamor who does Book Crimes.]

Well, that's good! Then you have nothing to worry about and your fingernails are safe.

... But, yeah, whatever's doing that? I'll help them.

[adsum]

[ Now Nao is going to stare at everybody's hands that she meets and judge them by the presence of their fingernails, thanks. ]

Why...? What if you meet a monster who eats fingernails because that's their favorite food, or something? Are you going to help take people's fingernails to feed it so it doesn't eat the rest of them? Is that your compromise?

[ Sometimes a compromise isn't the best option... sometimes she feels very protective over her fingernails knowing there's somebody out there who wants them. ]