Lights in the Deep | Open
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Aiichiro couldn’t help but feel grumpy about this whole thing, but then again, when was he not feeling grumpy about something? A talent show? It seemed so trivial. Two people were dead. Dead. One murdered, and the other murdered in turn. Two corpses and they wanted the rest of them to have a talent show?
It was insulting. If the blue mascot really wanted to be helping them it could be giving them a way out. Not this. Bullshit.
But, on the other hand, maybe that thing was right. Maybe they needed something, something to keep them from being too self destructive. It was like trying to bandage a fault line, but maybe it would give them the time they needed. If everyone worked on this talent show, it could distract them long enough to get murder out of their minds, and then maybe Aiichiro could... do something. Once they’d been far enough removed from this whole murder thing, they might be more willing to cooperate.
Aiichiro was mulling this over to himself while enjoying a cigarette. He’d had a lot to think about the last few days. So much had changed. So much had been lost. He had planted himself on the floor of the viewing platform, staring out into the ocean pressing down on their glass cage. The smoke was held between his teeth and he puffed little grey clouds into the air with each breath. He missed Matsuyama, and his boys, and the councillors. Missed his pal Isamu. He’d never thought about how hard life would be without them. Would he have been able to survive Hope’s Peak Academy without them there?
In his bandaged hands was his guitar, idly being played. His fingers ran up and down the neck, striking frets in time with the pick in his other hand, playing scale, arpeggios, and abstract melodies. He’d probably prep a song for the show, but hadn’t decided which yet.
Until he decided, he would just stay there, breathing smoke, staring at the fish and the dark blue waters, strumming background noise, and thinking. There were people outside, but ignored them. Would continue to ignore them, unless they came into the room.














