cartesianism | Week 4: April 22nd

Fourth Week

A second murder shook the town of Cartesio. Clarisse's ambush plan ended with Katsuki Bakugou's death. Now what?

Nothing to be done other than continuing their life and watch what happens. After two weeks, after the deaths they have seen, it's hard to think there's a way out. The only option is to wait for the right chance to turn the tables and see a weak point in the Sergeant's plans -- and hopefully not see any murders.

The townspeople's attitude towards the tourists soured even more. The destruction of the church was much worse than anything they had seen so far, and they ran out of patience. People who in the past were nice and wanted nothing more than to make the tourists happy now aren't afraid of saying to their faces what's what. Random pedestrians shout at the visitors, telling them to stop being criminals. Although there are a few who have more patience than the rest, general opinion is clear:

The tourists are nuisances, to say the least.

In the lobby of the motel there's a few more brochures, and the maps have been updated once again.

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[In the meantime, Kino finishes getting everything else arranged neatly in bowls for an easier time preparing. The large skillet has been oiled, all we need now is the ingredients!]

Okay, now bring it here and dump it all in. Make sure they're all touching the skillet - we don't want them piled on each other.

O~kay!

[And so she does. It takes a couple of handfuls to get the chicken into the skillet, but Millium darts between her cutting surface and the skillet to get it in there as fast as she can.

There's a couple cubes stacked on top of each other, but that's easily fixed by poking the ones on top until they fall to cover the bottom of the skillet.]

[Kino prods at the pieces a bit to get them all on the skillet. Perfect. And now...]

We need to add the seasoning. Careful not to spill any on the stove.

[There is a variety of bowls set out on the counter, each with different spices and seasonings painstakingly measured out, probably. One is just an entire bowl of chili peppers.

This is fine.]

[Millium looks over the bowls for a moment. She doesn't really recognize any of the spices, but wow, that sure is a lot of red.]

Woooah. Some like it hot, huh?

[Not that she seems to mind, because her next action is to dump the seasoning in. Kino might have to guide her toward being a little more careful, but most of it will (unfortunately) wind up on the chicken.]

[More flavor! Although the air itself is going to smell more and more like pure spice.]

I have a good feeling about this one. I found a new ingredient I've never seen before.

Oh? What didja find?

[...And give Millium a minute, she needs to turn away from the food to sneeze. Spicy...!]

They're called ghost peppers. Sounds good, right?

[No. No, it's the opposite of good.]

...G-g-ghosts...?!

[DISLIKES: GHOSTS]

Yeah. It might be part of the legend behind the food... that's usually how names like this come about.

T-then why would you want to use them?! [CONCERN.] We have enough trouble without getting haunted, Kino...!

[That gets a curious look from Kino.]

You think we'll really be haunted by ghosts just for eating some peppers?

Why would you want to risk it?!

Hmm...

[Kino prods a bit more at the chicken and spices.]

Because it could be interesting, maybe. And because if a ghost appeared in this place, they might have some important things to say.

There's at least two ghosts you wouldn't mind seeing, aren't there?

[. . .]

They wouldn't be ghosts. Ghosts are scary. They'd be spirits.

Sakura has magic and she can sense stuff like that, and she told me so, so I believe her.

[Logic!!]

[Ah.]

So she's seen those kinds of things too?

Umm... not around here, so far as I know. When I asked her a little while ago, she said she couldn't sense anything.

But that was back when she was just lookin' for Lovepon n' Mira. I don't know, now that other people are gone...

I meant more generally.

[Anyway.]

Like I said, it's probably just a story.

I can only guess yeah, since she was magicking to try to find some.

[A helpless shrug. Millium knows jack all about magic, okay?]

...I-if you're sure. [She's still a little pouty, but she'll go along with it!]

I'm pretty sure.

[Kino is going to eat those words tomorrow. Anyway, time to turn down the heat and clap a lid over the thing to simmer a while.

It's... very red.]

Was there something that happened that made you scared of ghosts?

...It's a pretty color.

[Millium, no...]

Huh? Um... [how dare you ask me about a thing canon doesn't even remotely touch upon] Lechter brings me back books from missions sometimes, and there were some real scary stories...

And then we ran into the ones in Legram...

[It's a very pretty, if somewhat inedible looking color.]

You saw them yourself?

[Millium "death tolls in the thousands" Orion does not know the first thing about what looks edible.]

Yeah. The castle was haunted with all sorts of spooky things that we had to fight through to get to the big spooky thing n' even then we couldn't even really beat it, something else came in n' saved us, and...

[it was all VERY DISTRESSING Kino]