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[falsepretentious]

BYAKUYA KIRIGIRI

This is Byakuya Kirigiri. Don't waste my time.

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text, 9/26 YOU CAN IGNORE THIS TILL THE OTHER CLOSES IF NEED BE

[evidentiary]

Byakuya, do you have time to meet up today? It's not exactly time sensitive, but it is important.

[falsepretentious]

Of course. It happens to be an early day today. I can meet you around 4PM.

[evidentiary]

Shall we meet at your place? It is a conversation best had in private, probably.

[falsepretentious]

That's fine. I'll be waiting at my dorm at that time.

[evidentiary]

[ and kyouko will knock on the door at that time!

please let her in. ]

[falsepretentious]

[Since you asked so nicely...!

Byakuya answers the door quickly and greets her with a thoughtful look.]

You're right on time. Come in.

[His dorm has a lot of snacks and anime posters, but it is very clean at least.]

[evidentiary]

Thank you, Byakuya. Ah...this is about a rather unpleasant turn of events in memories...?

[ it's so busy in here. she will head towards his computer chair to claim? ]

[falsepretentious]

[She's free to claim it! Byakuya will just cross his arms and hover nearby, frowning as he scrutinizes her statement.]

...Unpleasant, you say? [Do go on.]

[evidentiary]

...It's about that bear I drew for you the other time.

[falsepretentious]

[He raises an eyebrow uncertainly.]

The so-called headmaster? What about it?

[evidentiary]

The..."entrance ceremony", I suppose you could call it. [ she's sitting neatly, ankles crossed, and looks serious. ] ...Namely, "you must kill to graduate"...it was a speech along those lines.

[falsepretentious]

Kill to graduate?! [He repeats incredulously.]

That just sounds preposterous... [But his voice wavers, he starts to belatedly remember something...]

[evidentiary]

It does, but those are the stipulations are I recall them. It was...not something I could have misunderstood, I think.

[falsepretentious]

[He pauses for a moment and raises a pointer finger as he collects himself and his thoughts, while this memory comes to him... His own memory of the black-and-white bear introducing himself. Now he looks a shade paler.]

...I understand what you mean. To leave... you must kill someone. ...Mutual killing...

[evidentiary]

Yes. That's what I remember of that creature...and what he said to us. I don't recall if anyone took him up on that, but...

[ ... ]

It isn't a cheerful thought at all, is it?

[falsepretentious]

...Not in the slightest.

[Who would even willingly want to play a game like that?]

It's not how I'd expect to kick off a school year, at the very least. What could have happened at Hope's Peak...?

[evidentiary]

At the very least the answer seems to be "potentially murder"...

[falsepretentious]

I can't argue with that possibility, unfortunately. [He sighs and shakes his head.]

Of course, I imagine that it will take a lot more than the words of a stuffed bear to drive high school students to murder.

[You'd think...]

[evidentiary]

The threat of being trapped may help, but...I'd also like to believe in that.

[falsepretentious]

That's a fair point. Of course, until we remember more, all that we can do is speculate.

[evidentiary]

True enough. ...I do wonder if all of us knew one another. I know I knew Makoto, but...

[falsepretentious]

Nothing on me. [He completes the thought.]

And I have nothing on either of you. But I'm certain that it's only a matter of time. [He shifts slightly.] It's not a complete world without a complete Kirigiri family.

[evidentiary]

...I agree. Hopefully I was the elder there as well...I can't let you get a leg up on me in this arena.

[falsepretentious]

Heh... You never know. This other life may just be where my age reigns superior!

[evidentiary]

Even if it were, I'm still winning in this life, aren't I...?