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

gently slides in with a wildcard

[doublelammy]

[Last night may have resulted in today's stunning newspaper exposé, but it also landed Millium with a tiny bit of information. And true to form, she can't keep that to herself.

Thankfully, there's someone else she knows that would take interest in it.]

Ki~no~! Got a minute?

[quickpersuader]

Millium? ["Someone sounds excited" would normally go here, but that's usually how it goes with the girl.]

What is it?

[doublelammy]

Hey, so. The newspaper guy, he said somethin' kinda interesting last night.

When he was talkin' to Cian, he said something about court paperwork.

Didn't one of the songs on the haunted jukebox talk about papers?

[quickpersuader]

Oh... right.

[Kino has to pause a second to try to recall.]

Something like... "go get those papers?"

[A. A lot happened that night and Kino still isn't sure what they did in the end.]

You think those could be it?

[doublelammy]

Something like? Or "I guess I'll get the papers?" I'm not sure.

But yeah, I think so. He brought it up a couple times... seems like somethin' we should at least be havin' a look at, since it's about us, right?

[quickpersuader]

Probably. Did you hear him say anything else about them?

[doublelammy]

Um... just that it says that we try to find the truth and that we're committed to justice.

If he said anything else, I didn't overhear it. But you might wanna ask the others that were there.

[quickpersuader]

[Nodding.]

Okay, I'll do that. Thanks for the tip, Millium.

[doublelammy]

No problemo! Lemme know if you get anything out of it, 'kay?

[quickpersuader]

Will do.

[Even if it takes a note, like Natalie suggested. ...And actually...]

Are you doing anything right now?

[doublelammy]

Huh?

Not really. I wanted to go get in a little more practice with Sakura-chan so I don't accidentally hurt her with Lammy later, but it's not like I don't have time.

What's up?

[quickpersuader]

I was just wondering if you felt like swapping stories.

...I'm getting a little bored just waiting around.

[And just. Living here in general.]

[doublelammy]

[Millium seems excited about the prospect.]

Sure! Anything in particular you wanna hear about?

[quickpersuader]

Hmm...

Tell me... about the most amazing place you've seen.

[doublelammy]

Hmm... I think...

[She taps her lips thoughtfully.]

I mean... any place the Gnomes had a hand in, basically, but what I remember the most are the spirit shrines we went through to get the Zemurian Ore for Rean.

The wind one, especially! It was like we were going through this gigantic tree...

[quickpersuader]

Spirit shrines?

[Kino's attention is now rapt.]

What are gnomes? And what do you mean by "wind one?"

[doublelammy]

Yeah! They were these four shrines around Eastern Erebonia we had to visit to get some Zemurian Ore – crazy strong metal, basically. Earth, wind, water, and fire!

The gnomes were a group back in the Dark Ages, I think? Basically, really really super smart craftsman that made all sorts of crazy stuff. Like Rean n' Crow's Divine Knights and the spirit shrines and the old schoolhouse on campus.

[quickpersuader]

Even the old schoolhouse? [That's an interesting thing to dedicate craftsmanship to.]

[doublelammy]

Well... to be fair, everything under the old schoolhouse were a bunch of mazes connected by this ancient elevator and there was a Divine Knight sleepin' in the bottom of it.

[quickpersuader]

[Blink blink.]

...Why did they build a school house over it?

[doublelammy]

To keep it hidden, I think. I mean, you don't want just anyone wanderin' down in there to try to clear the trials.

If it were just some random shmuck, they'd prolly die horribly. So, y'know, make it look unassuming so no one thinks to look farther.

[quickpersuader]

There were trials inside?

[The mystery deepens.]

[doublelammy]

Yup, yup.

Every month we went through and another floor opened up. They'd be all these crazy mazes with weird puzzles and strong monsters at the end. Sometimes we'd find these weird doors with glowing symbols and even bigger, stronger monsters would come out.

At the very end, the last trial we went through, the whole schoolhouse started glowin' creepy blue n' we went in to check it out, and at the end there was this weird grey battlefield fulla weapons with this giant wispy black monster thingy. So we beat the snot out of it, naturally, n' then the schoolhouse stopped glowing and we found Valley.

[quickpersuader]

And what is Valley?

[doublelammy]

Valimar, the Ashen Knight! [my canon is so anime help] Divine Knights are these big ol robots that look kinda like big clunky mechanical people, and there's all sorts of legends about 'em. Valley was sleepin' under the schoolhouse, and when we helped Rean get through it all, he got picked as Valley's Awakener and now he can pilot Valley!

[it's a fucking gundam]