Itās been...two weeks?Ā
The Future Foundation has been without an acting Chairman for two weeks.Ā Munakata is nowhere to be found.Ā Suicide is assumed, though Sakakura is far from convinced - heād be mad, too - he is mad, regardless, but in that case heād be furious...
...And he has been awake, on and off, for three hours.Ā Ā
They kept him in a controlled coma as the Foundation scrambled without any adequate leadership.Ā Why?Ā Because heād be in pain?Ā He consented to that pain.Ā Grotesquely snapping his own bone so he could cut off off his own fucking hand has to be a clear enough indicator of that.Ā Ā
What he did not consent to was letting the organization run around like a dragon with its head cut off - blind, directionless, and without its fangs.Ā Ā
Risking the Foundation is to risk extinction.Ā Waiting for tissue grafts to replace what was already cauterized is not steep enough a price to keep him in that hospital bed.Ā
They donāt expect him back at headquarters for at least another week, and thatās accounting for how stubborn he is.Ā Few people would even see him leaving this early as a possibility.Ā And most of the people who might are dead.Ā
Dead, or missing in action.
...But whatĀ he doesnāt expect is to see him so soon.Ā Ā
...What business could he possibly still have?Ā Is he hoping to usurp the position while Sakakura waited for more extensive surgeries?Ā Convince the Future Foundation that itās better off if he pries the teeth from its head before screwing it back on?Ā Ā
Thereās a lot he could say - you didnāt kill yourself after all, huh?Ā Ā tell me which direction Munakata fucked off too.Ā Ā donāt you have a class full of terrorists to play schoolyard games with?Ā Ā Ā
...Instead, he huffs.Ā There is no anger left in his voice.Ā Not, at least, the wrath that Naegi would have caught in the beginning of their...interactions.
He sounds resigned.Ā Inconvenienced at worst.Ā Thereās not a lot of energy for rage at this point.
