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Group Blog for Ai Aizawa, SHSL Paparazza Na Lee, SHSL Blackmailer. Associated with Beyond Despair's Bounds! Status: DEAD (Chapter 3 victim)

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[Text to: Darius (Ai's bf)] Hey, I heard that Ai's coming back to HPA really soon! Like, today! You wanna go to meet her? ^_^

[Text to: Setsuko(?)]: wait wat wat yes time + place pls

Darius’ normally hurried typing was even more accelerated than usual as he realised the gravity of the situation. Ai was back? Of course he wanted to meet her!

[shslbritishblokes]

[Text to: Setsuko(!)]: oh dw about that 

Did Setsuko not hear from Ai while she was gone? If not, Darius thought it would be best to not bother with the details. This certainly seemed to be a strange circumstance, but Darius decided to remain optimistic. For now.

[Text] Gr8 ill be there soon

Finishing the text, Darius killed some time by performing some errands that he needed to complete before heading down to the agreed location, an entire 15 minutes early and impatient.

[yansinbeki]

[Text to: Darius (Ai's bf)] Awesome! C u there :-D

In fact, she hadn't had contact with Ai until just that morning, so she was none the wiser of what had happened there -- or what Darius knew. She had no idea that anything bad had occurred at all with Ai, and had only gotten a clue from her friend's text. Setsuko would find out eventually, what with the growing unrest... But for now, she was entirely in the dark.

At the location, Setsuko had been waiting there for at least 40 minutes. She was sitting patiently, but was checking her phone every couple of minutes -- she seemed eager. At about 11:40, a male in a worn brown trenchcoat, wearing his greasy hair in a ponytail, showed up. Setsuko waved to him, and he waved back, but then he sat down, not associating with anyone. Looked like he was there for the same reason she was.

When Darius approached, Setsuko got up from her seat, waving to him. The student in the trenchcoat put his hand up to acknowledge another person's arrival, but did nothing more in that regard. Setsuko ran up to meet Darius as he walked forward. "Glad you made it early! I'm sure she'll be here soon. So, just.. Sit tight for a while, I guess!"

With that, she gestured to a place where he could sit down, waiting for Darius to take a seat. Shortly after, she sat down, staying near him. As she looked out in front of them, she spoke, almost as if she were thinking aloud. "I wonder what sorts of things happened on the trip... I hope she tells us."

In the distance, a girl with long black hair, wearing a grey sweater dress, approached.

[shslbritishblokes]

[Text to: Darius (Ai's bf)] Hey, I heard that Ai's coming back to HPA really soon! Like, today! You wanna go to meet her? ^_^

[Text to: Setsuko(?)]: wait wat wat yes time + place pls

Darius’ normally hurried typing was even more accelerated than usual as he realised the gravity of the situation. Ai was back? Of course he wanted to meet her!

[yansinbeki]

[Text to: Darius (Ai's bf)] Great! She said to meet her at the front of the school, in about an hour! :-D

Setsuko smiled as she hit send, then paused for a little bit. Ai had told her something odd about all this when she'd texted her. Should she convey that to him?

[Text] Ai thought you might be skeptical, when she told me to tell you. Idk why tho 😓

[Text] Glad you're coming! :-)

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i say "fight" | ryuu | endgame | open

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At the sound of the voice he hadn’t heard in such a long time, Ryuu jerked. Great, was he hallucinating? That’d be just his luck. Wait, no, everyone else is awake, too, so that meant, even the people who were dead–

He blinked, looking over his shoulder to stare at Ai, clearly bewildered for more than a few moments. For the first time since the third trial, Ryuu stood there, and he actually… kind of felt happy.

Because Ai was alive, too.

“Ai-chan. Geez. You’re a fuckin’ sight for sore eyes. Definitely didn’t think I’d be seein’ you again. Not that I’m complainin’; trust me. I’m… I’m glad you’re alive.”

He cracked a smile back at her. Look at that, she even has all of her hair back. Oh, and now she’s asking him how he did! Haha, it’s funny that you should ask that, Ai.

“Oh, y’know. Roommate dropped me down the stairs, killed one of my friends. Then one of the only people I trusted murdered Yomihiro-kun,” he jerked his head towards Mitsuo, “but there’s no fuckin’ way I was lettin’ him get away with death. That’s what he wanted. So I framed bratty blondie, and she got executed. Nice. Just doin’ my civic duty to make sure people live with their crimes. Like they should. What about you?”

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Ai couldn't hold back a small laugh as Ryuu looked at her confusedly. But, she supposed that was natural; after all, the living students had already been awake when she had woken up, but the same didn't apply in reverse. Must've been at least a little surprising, seeing her again after being without her for so long due to a tiny thing called murder. (Okay, so maybe it wasn't so trivial to either of them at the time, but it seemed far away now. At least to her.)

"Heh, it's nice to see you, too. Glad you made it. " She couldn't help but twirl some of her hair in her hand. The action itself was unconscious, but she noticed that she was doing it soon enough. Damn, she'd missed this. She'd tried to do the same thing in the sim more times than she could remember, but her hands had just grasped at air.

She said nothing, but nodded solemnly when Ryuu talked about the incident that involved her "death." She hadn't been there for Ryuu's injury, but she'd heard about it from Chinatsu. His second sentence caused her to raise an eyebrow. One of the only people he trusted? So he knew Mitsuo's killer? Had that been retroactive, or had he known for the trial? If the latter was the case, then why the mistrial? Her eyes widened as Ryuu confirmed it. She blinked, and she made her eyes go back to their normal size. It would only hinder her if she showed her surprise.

"So. You're the reason for the mistrial. You made sure Angelos was blamed." Her voice didn't hold any trace of condemnation or admiration. It was just a statement of fact. She stayed silent for a few moments. "...given what I've heard about the third trial, I can understand why you'd take that sort of thing into your own hands." Again, no indication on whether she agreed or disagreed.

Deliberately so, of course.

When it came time for her to say how she'd fared, she scoffed a little, a wry smile forming on her face. "How'd I do? Well, you know what happened to me before you were pushed down the stairs. Keh. After that, I ended up in this place called Youkai, which was generally assumed to be some sort of afterlife. Not much happened there, honestly. I investigated the place. Participated in trials for the murder victims -- when they were actually held, of course. For Mitsuo, we were all either getting stumped by the crime scene or comforting him, and for Kyoko, we were just generally catching up. There wasn't really another formal trial until Dakota was assaulted. And then we voted for Takumi as the mastermind, and watched you guys get out alive and free, and then were finally visited by the same person who visited and freed you all. Also, I learned some magic." She crossed her arms, scowling at him a little. "And for the record, Angelos basically did jack shit."

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Refocused Lens / Ai / Endgame Reaction / Closed for Mitsuo

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Mitsuo was pacing about, opening and closing his mouth wordlessly. This was still far too much for him to process. So he just paced around the area, staring intently at the ground in front of him. It was all he could do to keep his head about his shoulders right now. They were free - and alive - so why couldn’t he be happy?

Of course. He had experienced death. Every now and then he rubbed at that spot on his back where he had bled from in the simulation. Even though the chill had gone, he still found himself shivering now and then. These scars would take quite some time to fade.

Even though he saw Ai-san wave to him and heard her footsteps, he still jumped a little when she spoke to him.

“A-Ah, Ai-san, hello…”

He rubbed his shoulder, looking down the hall a ways.

“I… I dunno… I-I’m still… trying to process everything. I-I’m so confused, a-and kinda sad… Um, uh… i-it’s hard, coming back to life, you know? I… It still hurts, even if it wasn’t real…”

“Umm… H-How are you, Ai-san?”

[yansinbeki]

Ai listened to Mitsuo talk about how he felt, nodding in some places. She was by no stretch of the imagination a therapist, but it's often better to just let the thoughts out, rather than bottle them up. She felt that might be true for Mitsuo in particular, since he seemed prone to panic. Better out than in, especially if keeping it in would lead to a breakdown.

She saw him rubbing at the back of his neck, and her hand instinctively went to her hair. Her hair was as long as it always was, but now much longer than she'd become accustomed to. She ran her fingers through it a little, closing her eyes a little and sighing slightly.

Opening her eyes, she looked back at Mitsuo. "I'm alright. I understand what you mean, it is kind of a shock to the system. But, it's definitely nice. I have this back," she said, moving some of her hair forward, "and the perpetual headache is gone." Ironically, a twinge of pain seemed to spread out in the back of her head just as she had finished speaking. Ai couldn't hold back a wince; somehow she got the feeling that spark of pain wouldn't be the last or worst of it.

"But, I agree with you, when it comes to processing everything. It's going to take time." Her expression shifted from neutral to warmer, as she smiled at the boy before her. "But we're not there anymore. Things are going to get better, now. It'll take time, but I'm sure they will."

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i say "fight" | ryuu | endgame | open

The end of the trial was weird.

Like, to word it lightly, it was weird. He had no idea what was happening, really, beyond them all being right over Takumi being the mastermind. He didn’t get this whole business over Kumi being from a different world (what the fuck?) and Maru suddenly being older and not having a list (what the fuck?) but he mostly kept silent as everyone went through their speeches.

Words. Words, words, words.

And then Takumi was executed. He wasn’t even sure what went on there, either. He spun and then he died. But not from the spinning. Someone else was there at some point.

Who knows.

Ryuu was too tired to care.

They woke back up, and everyone was… alive. All of them, even Takumi, which made him wonder what the point even was of that execution, and he was back in his stuffy school uniform. The worst of all the things that had happened that day.

Sachiko was okay though. Ai was alive. And, as much as he shut everyone else out as the third trial happened, he was still a semblance of relieved to see Mitsuo, Bria, Rosario, Akihiko. Those people.

“… Geez. What a fuckin’ day.”

[yansinbeki]

Ai stretched her arms up, as if she were just waking up. She'd been awake for a while, though, and up and about. She'd been up for so long that she'd traded her hospital gown for her normal uniform again, and she found it more restrictive than anything else she'd worn in the past couple... She didn't know how long. It had felt like months, but she doubted that was the real time. Was it? She'd have to ask.

But that ultimately wasn't her priority at the moment. She could ask someone here, or she could ask someone back at school, like Setsuko. Who the info came from didn't matter. What did matter was... well, Ai couldn't quite put her finger on it, but it had to do with the other people who had been on the Kaiyou "trip." She supposed a part of her was curious about how they were doing, now that they were all in the same place again.

Speaking of her "classmates," there was one she'd actually spoken with! The one whose good graces had led her to the correct mastermind. Thanks, Ryuu-san. He seemed different, but then, Queenie had told her about that. Plus, who wouldn't be sour after this? Still, she'd been told that this had really started happening around the third trial. Her trial. It'd probably be a good idea to speak with him.

"Sure was. Glad it's over," she replied. A small, good-natured smile appeared on her face as she twirled a lock of hair in her hand. God, she was glad to have her hair back again. As Ai approached him, she sighed a little. "So. How'd you fare."

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Refocused Lens / Ai / Endgame Reaction / Closed for Mitsuo

Watching the mastermind trial from afar had made Ai feel…strange. On the one hand, it was satisfying to see the assumed-jackass reveal his actual jackassery, and seeing him get what was coming to him was much appreciated. On the other hand, Ai couldn’t bring herself to feel much for all the Kaiyou residents making it out alive. Yeah, sure, yay, they lived, but what about everyone in Youkai? Was there something about it that kept them from leaving this simulation? Her dread about being unable to return home even overshadowed all the questions she had about what Kumi had talked about. She knew she probably should’ve been feeling relieved that the mastermind was no longer a threat and Kumi was headed back to where they came from (even if they had some strange catgirl on their heels), but she couldn’t bring herself to be anything but nervous. Thankfully, the prince that had freed the others came for all of them soon enough. After she had ascertained that she was not, in fact, actually wet, and was actually awake, Ai got to walking around the area. She couldn’t be a good paparazza if she couldn’t climb around anymore, and her muscles had been too at rest for quite some time. As she ambled around, she noticed a familiar face, standing there, with a familiar expression. Ai was surprised to see Mitsuo looking so alarmed, but she could understand why. Even she had to admit that this was quite a sudden turn of events. Approaching him with slow, even steps, Ai gave a little wave to him. “Mitsuo-san. Are you alright? Anything specific bothering you?”

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Everything is Okay and Nobody is Hurt

Alternatively: Matching Icons for You and the Squad

I’ve also got two others, though you’ll have to PM me to see them.  Fair warning, they’re unavoidably gruesome; hence why they’re secret.

Inspiration

Art by @shslkaichou, Mai, @shslobjectheads, @takumiuenojewelry, @shslteatime, @cadywakes,

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The Cat Squad of BDB

shslblackcat, shslkaichou, shslninelives, perfectly0rdinary (thanks for not letting me @ Mitsy’s actual blog, Tumblr)

Original post found at http://gyce.tumblr.com/post/95984813571

[yansinbeki]

✍ ai-chan....

Weeps...

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✍ Queenie?

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Send me a ✍ and a character and I'll draw the character horribly on MS Paint.

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Execution || It’s More Than Just Skin Deep

{This execution contains eye gore, decapitation, and torture. Reader discretion is advised, and you can access a toned-down version without pictures here. The end image is particularly brutal, and again, reader discretion is advised.}

Keep reading

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Story Time With Jelly Girl || The Jelly Girl

“So, before we begin, let us have a story!”

“Once upon a time, in the rebuilt empire by the sea, it began growing well. It was powerful and influential, however not everyone tolerated it.”

“You see, there was a smaller kingdom that dwelled in a lake nearby, who had their home and land being threatened because of the development of the empire that built over the kingdom’s lands. The leader of these was a wise old jellyfish woman called Jelly Woman, and she had formed a pact with the previous kingdom, however, her efforts were in vain for this new empire simply kept on building.”

“Resources were being depleted, and the jellyfish people found their very lives being threatened. One by one they fell, until one particular individual tried to put a stop to it.”

“She was the granddaughter of the old jelly woman, and the only child in a while. She had come to understand what happened, so she sought out an answer, help for her people.”

“So, she met the adviser of the empire, and they told her of a witch who granted favours in exchange for favours, so she grew ecstatic. She sought out the witch, and they met.”

“However, the witch was sly, and she played on the wording of the request. She gave the girl the capability to keep the empire from being destroyed in exchange for her voice, with the caveat that she would lose said voice forever if she couldn’t manage to convince the emperor.”

“So, she went off, determined. However, it was on this day that the emperor decided to go sailing off to a faraway land, leaving the girl in a panic. He was set to return on the third day, but the girl didn’t reach him in time.”

“So, she lost her voice, and her kingdom fell. The adviser took pity and took her in, and she became the official storyteller for the kingdom with the adviser’s assistance, and she learned to talk in pictures.”

“Now, I believe we have an execution to get to…”

Execution Start!

[beyonddespairsboundsone-blog]

Votes are being tallied…

15 Masami

1 Angelos

1 Sachiko

1 Queen Of Spades

1 Rosario

Masami Kojima has been found guilty!

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Trial Start || The Fox is being Hounded

And with that, an announcement sounded across Kaiyou.

“Everyone will now come to the main circle.”

It was Kumi’s voice that summoned the students and marked the end of investigation, and everyone gathered back in the main circle, minus one blackmailer and one photographer. The fountain descended as usual, and everyone found themselves taking their usual positions.

However, with a giggle, Hunter rose from his seat and took a position at Ai’s podium, staring around the room.

“Court is now in session for the murders of Na Lee and Moeko Oinuma! You have to find the naughty heck who killed them and who Injured Ryuunosuke Sakakibara! Or hecks… I dunno!”

Trial Start!

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Monofile || Ryuunosuke Sakakibara

Name: Ryuunosuke Sakakibara

Time of Injury: 12:19 AM

Time Found: 7:05 AM

Location: Public Washrooms, Male Section

Cause of Injury: ???

Additional Notes: He appears to be tied up! How did he get there? Investigate Ryuu for further clues! Sachiko doesn’t appear to be leaving anytime soon either…

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Monofile || Moeko Oinuma

Name: Moeko Oinuma

Time of Death: 10:23 PM

Time of Discovery: 6:15am

Location: Post Office

Cause of Death: Exsanguination

Additional Notes: Moeko is quite clearly dead, and slumped in a chair in the post office. Her expression is one of surprise, and blood stains her clothing. She appears to have something in her hand, as well…