[ A flicker of recognition sparks in Yasu's eyes as she sees Ai's smile lose its vivre. It's odd. She should be wary, but that hollow smile is familiar enough for Yasu to timidly step out from the crack in her heart. It sounded like an old friend.
The board doesn't look quite the same... [ Yasu turns to stare out the observation deck's window, gazing down at the lifeless planet below. ] But the rules are identical. [ She got the feeling that the "murdergame" was popular among witches. Beatrice's game was already a hit in the senate, so a game that stripped its format down to its bare essentials and gave witches license to toss in their favorite pieces yoinked from whatever Fragments they were fond of would naturally take off.
Part of Yasu wanted to cackle at the irony, but she was still human enough that the misery of being put through this particular wringer for the second time vetoed the motion. ]
...we were 'enrolled' in the Principal's school against our will. He brainwashed us for months to make us perfectly obedient, but Kakuya snapped us out of it. [ The fox kit in her lap stirs, and Yasu gives her scritches. ] The Principal almost killed us all the moment he found out... then Kakuya helped us out and gave us a stay of execution by proposing the 'game' as an alternative to slaughtering his students immediately. The Principal found it funny, so...
[ Yasu's shoulders slump. ]
The first thing he did was tell us that if we didn't kill each other, he'd help our enemies back home. Reika was a magical girl, a- and she thought that nobody back home could handle it if the villain of her story came back. So she- w- well.
Like I said. I should've known not to trust a magical girl. [ Yasu gives Ai a pained smile. ]
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The board doesn't look quite the same... [ Yasu turns to stare out the observation deck's window, gazing down at the lifeless planet below. ] But the rules are identical. [ She got the feeling that the "murdergame" was popular among witches. Beatrice's game was already a hit in the senate, so a game that stripped its format down to its bare essentials and gave witches license to toss in their favorite pieces yoinked from whatever Fragments they were fond of would naturally take off.
Part of Yasu wanted to cackle at the irony, but she was still human enough that the misery of being put through this particular wringer for the second time vetoed the motion. ]
...we were 'enrolled' in the Principal's school against our will. He brainwashed us for months to make us perfectly obedient, but Kakuya snapped us out of it. [ The fox kit in her lap stirs, and Yasu gives her scritches. ] The Principal almost killed us all the moment he found out... then Kakuya helped us out and gave us a stay of execution by proposing the 'game' as an alternative to slaughtering his students immediately. The Principal found it funny, so...
[ Yasu's shoulders slump. ]
The first thing he did was tell us that if we didn't kill each other, he'd help our enemies back home. Reika was a magical girl, a- and she thought that nobody back home could handle it if the villain of her story came back. So she- w- well.
Like I said. I should've known not to trust a magical girl. [ Yasu gives Ai a pained smile. ]