Week 4: April 22nd - April 26th

[cartesio]

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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Comments

[doublelammy]

Because I've been kidnapped and I'm very far from home. And now there are ghosts haunting my room.

[Millium, succeeding in the mission by just being herself and being honest.]

[integratedsoul]

[ U-uhm, this is coming across very poorly, Cian can tell. And she's not sure coming across poorly is what they need with the way their reputation has been tanking... Sarge's words be damned.

Time to step in and place a hand on Millium's shoulder. ]

There's a lot of us who are taking care of the children regardless. We may not be related, but that doesn't mean we are irresponsible.

[cartesio]

Nice, nice, I wanted to hear that.

[Good, child services won't take Millium away]

Although you don't have a good record when it's about taking care of children. Court records have shown one was murdered recently, wasn't he?

[doublelammy]

[Wow, look, now you've made little shark girl sad.]

...Yeah. We were making friends...

[integratedsoul]

[ Cian nods, there's no use to hiding it. ]

I'm just as shaken up about that as you are. Bakugou-kun and I had actively been planning community events too... It's hard to believe he's really gone.

[ Quite literally hard to believe, with how things have been going recently with blood and jukeboxes, but... ]

[cartesio]

What's hard to believe he destroyed our entire church before getting killed.

[He doesn't sound like he has much sympathy for Katsuki, unfortunately]

But that's what you all proved during that trial of yours, anyway.

[integratedsoul]

[ A-ahaha..... Uhm, yes. Awkward smiling. ]

We did, because we were committed to finding the truth. It was self-defense, but I won't deny that the damages are regrettable. We've been trying to clean up, but there's a lot that is impossible to restore...

[cartesio]

Right...

[He sighs]

I guess you do try to find the truth and are committed to justice...with what the court paperwork says and all...

[integratedsoul]

We all wanted to find the truth about the murder, at least.

It's been... challenging. Most of us haven't met before we started staying in the same motel, so we're not really a unified group, you know? Circumstance has brought us together and we're trying to work out how to coexist with each other and the townspeople as well.

It's.... not been going as well as I'd want. [ Understatement of the year. ]

[cartesio]

That sure is a way to put it.

[ He frowns and...can't help but shake his head. ]

Just how do any of you plan on taking responsibility for the actions of violence against the town, if that's the case?

[integratedsoul]

Clean-up is the least we can do, so it's what we've been starting with.

In my hometown, I used to volunteer for social work in my time off. Cartesio luckily doesn't seem to be in dire need of charity, but I'll gladly join any existing community efforts to better the community.

You wouldn't happen to know of a charity that needs helping hands?

[doublelammy]

[!

"I Guess I'll Get The Papers."

Millium will Remember This.]

[silvertongueheir]

Clarisse was one of the few among us who actually wanted to be constantly destructive. I hope you do not judge all of us based on her poor behavior.

[cartesio]

Oh, I'm afraid she's as much of a representative of you all as, let's say, that woman over there.

[He points at Kinzie because of her leg knife holster. She looks like she's ready to kill, in his opinion]

[doublelammy]

...Wouldn't you wanna defend yourself when people from your group keep dying and you don't even know how you got here?

[Lammy aside, Millium can at least pull off the part of a sad, frightened child for this one moment.]

[cartesio]

If you want to defend yourself from yourselves, you have to be more subtle. This? [He waves a pen, as if he was scribbling the air all over Lammy] This isn't subtle.

[...]

Although I do guess it means nobody will kill you if you have this...robot around, so good job there.

[doublelammy]

...Lammy is my friend.

[And to illustrate the point, the robot floats closer, carefully circling its arms to cross in front of Millium like a protective hug.]

And that's what I'm hoping. That by having him around, it'll scare away anyone here who might hurt me.

[cartesio]

The... The robot is...your friend.

[ Something he hasn't seen before, to be sure. ]

Still, none of us would like to see another child get hurt... Even if... Is it true you were the one to take part in that execution, over the weekend?

1/2

[doublelammy]

[! Shit.]

2/2

[doublelammy]

M-me..?!

[It is amazing how genuinely offended she sounds right now.]

I— mister—! I don't know what you'are talking about...!

[goturshit]

"That woman over there." Smooth, Anderson Cooper.

[cartesio]

My--my name is Robert Miller.

[Guess who missed the reference]

[goturshit]

[ looks him dead in the eyes: ]

You're the one singling me out right now, there are worse things I could call you.

[cartesio]

Like what, exactly?

[Is that a dare? That seems like a dare. This man isn't backing down]

[goturshit]

No, no, I'm not giving you that shit for your paper for free. First I want you to say exactly what you think of me here, Walter Cronkite.