Deathās call echoes the halls by way of a distraught teenagerās voice, hitting across her ears as casually as someone would ask āhow are you?ā However a simple conversation starter wouldnāt give the nun a despairing feeling of elation, that moment between hearing about something and seeing it for oneās self where the last strings of hope unravel. The last thoughts of āmaybe itās not trueā or āI didnāt hear that correctlyā.
But the scene she walks into is quite the contrary.Ā
And for the first time in a while, the nunās smile cracks. Fades into an expression where nary a flicker of hope remained.
Junpei was distraught and everything is a mess, a mess, a mess ā had she failed to be that beacon sheād always strove to be once more? Hands wringing, she can only stand there and watch the trainwreck before her eyes.
"Why are we being forsaken like thisā¦" She murmurs, barely above the breath of Ā a whisper.
Kaori drifts past him like sheās in a trance ā Etsuko follows soon after, and he accompanies the both of them back up to the second floor landing, where Jinta lies at the top of the stairs. Despite his lack of responseā¦ lack of aĀ pulse, before, heās half-hoping, deliriously, that heāll sit up ā like Etsuko did in the cathedral, before, alive after all. But Jinta doesnāt move, and Kaori is screaming and crying, and even Etsukoās ever-present calming smile is gone, and thereās the familiar ding-dong-ding-dong of the body discoveryā
ā¦It had been a lie. Or, if not a lie, a deception. They had been lead to believe that if someone killedā¦ everyone else would be free to go. But thatās not the case ā the echo of āsevenā in his head gives way to a new number, something much more final and foreboding.Ā Six.
Another investigation. Another trial. Another execution.Ā
ā¦Junpei wanted to cry. He wanted to scream, like Kaori is now. He didnāt want to lose anyone else, any more of his friends ā no matter what, he didnāt want thatā¦! Butā¦ what other choice do they have?Ā
For now, thoughā¦ for nowā¦ he approaches Kaori, stepping in front of her to shield Jintaās body from her view and putting his hands on her shoulders. If he canāt cry, and he canāt screamā¦ then he can at least try to stop Kaori from doing the same.
"K-Kaori-san, calm downā¦! Iā¦ thereās nothing we can do, soā¦ so please donāt cry, okay?" Looking at her crying face, and looking over his shoulder at Jintaās bodyā¦ two and two suddenly put themselves together to make four. Kaori crying upon the reveal of her secret ā and all the way back at the beginning, when Kaori had fled his and Miwaās company upon seeing the shards of plastic while investigating Masatoās death. TheĀ shards of glass that he sees scattered around Jintaās bodyā¦Ā itās reminiscent of that. Is that whyā?
"ā¦Reiki-sanā" he says, looking at the nun over Kaoriās shoulder, "ā¦Unless you want to investigate with me, could you take Kaori-san somewhere elseā¦?"
"ā¦I donāt think itās good for her to be hereā¦ unless you want to stay, Kaori-san?"
This certainly wasn't a game anymore. But then again, Kaori never really saw it as a game in the first place. At first, she just wanted to leave and to see her family again. But, with the outside world looking like it does... She could hardly care at this point. Someone else did thoughā They wanted to leave so badly they were tricked by monobear into killing a precious student.Ā
Her mind went blank with the screeching of tires and horns blaring. The poor girl didn't even notice Etsuko walk onto the scene. When the Perfumer came to she found herself being held up by Junpei. His words found themselves into her ears playing on repeat. Without a second thought, she pushed herself away from his grip and into his body. She wrapped her arms around him tightly, sobbing into his shirt.Ā
"This... This isn't fair anymore! He even trickā tricked... Someone else is going to die..! All for our sake... It's not fair..!" Her head laid against his chest. " I- I'm so tired of this..!"
Kaori took into consideration of everything he had said prior. Maybe she should leave the investigation... The best bet was to make up with Misaki right away, she couldn't handle this situation and the thought of her friend hating her. It was too much.
"I- I'm gonnaā gonna go find Misaki-chan..." She let go of him and stepped back. Her speech was still off but she kept her tears to a minimum. "You two should st- stay here and continue the s- search." Kaori added, sniffling.Ā "Th- thank you, Junpei-kun.."
And off she went, dragging her feet down the flight of stairs.Ā
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