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]

[She shakes her head no.]

No one does. There's a lotta people that think it was the Goddess testing us, though. Destroying so much of what we worked for, so she could see how we'd build back.

[quickpersuader]

Sounds like you built a lot already.

[doublelammy]

Sure, but the Great Collapse was centuries ago. We've had time.

We're still not up near anythin' like the Divine Knights though. Even our attempts to copy 'em aren't anywhere near as good.

[quickpersuader]

Unless the original builders came up with those designs overnight... You're probably doing well enough for yourselves.

[doublelammy]

We do what we can. Things get bigger n' better n' crazier every day.

Kinda afraid to see what kinds o' stuff's gonna be out there when I get home. Two months is definitely enough for some beta stuff to be out, at least.

[quickpersuader]

[That just has her eyes narrowing, looking away from Millium.]

We haven't even gotten to the two month limit yet...

[Ugh. She wants out of here already.]

[doublelammy]

[...Sorry, Kino.]

Hey, though. Tell me somewhere else cool you've been. We were here t' trade, weren't we?

[Distraction, go?!]

[quickpersuader]

[Distractions are good. Kino thinks for a moment, before:]

Would you like to hear about the country with a history of 800 years?

[doublelammy]

Sure!

[She is so ready for storytime.]

[quickpersuader]

[STORYTIME IT IS.]

So... my Master was a traveler in her youth. She told me about a strange place she came across during her travels - an entire country that seemed to have been abandoned. It was like everyone just vanished. Food and belongings were all left behind, and the only thing notable besides that was an open gate. My Master couldn't figure out what had happened, because it didn't look like they'd all packed up to immigrate or anything. They were just... gone.

So she took some of the preserved foods and continued on her journey. But once time, I realized I was in about the same area, so I decided to check out the country myself.

What do you think I found?

[doublelammy]

Did the people come back?

[quickpersuader]

That's what we thought... at first. Everyone was really cheerful and friendly - it sounded like they hadn't gotten a traveler in thirteen years because of how remote the country was. Hermes and I were almost worried they would make us pay for the things Master took.

After that, we were allowed to stay for a while and learn a bit about them. They had eight hundred years of history that everyone had learned from their parents. We couldn't figure out why everyone was missing when my Master came across it, though.

At least... not until the village elder decided to talk to me before we left.

[doublelammy]

And what did they say...?

[She's looking a little worried. IS THIS GHOSTS. IT'S STARTING TO SOUND LIKE GHOSTS.]

[quickpersuader]

She asked me if I was a descendant of that land.

[And here, Kino gives a wry smile.]

The people who lived there... all of them were just descendants of the elder's generation, which was a group of roaming criminals who had been exiled from their country. With nowhere else to go, they found this abandoned country and decided to live there themselves. But they didn't want their children to know their past, so they invented 800 years' worth of history, including made up ancestors and family trees.

[doublelammy]

Oh, woah...

[Millium just looks... impressed.]

That's... some real impressive storytelling, actually. Keepin' just a few lies straight is crazy hard, but 800 years of history is... wow.

Guess they turned their lives around once they got there, huh?

[quickpersuader]

Well, to be honest, many of them forgot the truth. And it's forbidden to write down any of it, either.

[No doubt to perpetuate the lie.]

It seems they decided everything that happened by whoever could shout it the loudest.

[doublelammy]

Ha. Well, they say history's decided by the victors. If they're all they got, "whoever shouts the loudest" sounds like a winner t'me.

[quickpersuader]

Mm, more or less.

[She nods in agreement.]

The elder seemed to regret it a bit, but the fact that it's a lie was going to die with her. Hopefully no one from the original civilization returns.

[doublelammy]

Well, if they'd been gone all that time, kinda serves 'em right. Finders keepers, after all.

[quickpersuader]

Finders keepers. Besides, if they left all of their food behind, they must have had a really good reason for leaving it all instead of staying.