mineo.

[enfangs]

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[sengokus]

[mineo's brow furrows in - confusion?]

... why?

[enfangs]

[he puts his phone away, shoving his hands into his pockets.]

You were friends with all of 'em, right?

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . ]

I'm friends with pretty much everyone left. Fridays are never going to work out for me.

[but.]

I just want to make sure none of us got hurt in here, if someone was looking for Mahito-san.

[enfangs]

[...

he shrugs.]

Nothing hurts, so as far as I can tell, I'm fine.

[mainly since he hasn't noticed the scarring yet.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he seems to sigh in relief a bit at that.]

Okay. Good. I'm gonna start searching and then making the rounds - are you staying?

[but he will move to get up and experimentally roll his own shoulder as if to make sure all of his limbs are working right - though he pauses when he catches some scarring on his bare forearm]

... huh...?

[enfangs]

[?

he moves closer so that he can get a look.]

... What the fuck?

[sengokus]

[ . . . . his brow furrows at that and he rotates his arm.]

That - wasn't there. And I wasn't awake.

[just. to reaffirm that. but he'll check his other arm and there is indeed more scarring too.]

[enfangs]

Did someone slash you in your sleep, or something...?

[though after a beat, he rolls up his sleeve to bare his arm, similarly scarred.]

[sengokus]

[his brow furrows at that and - he pauses before looking around the room]

... check the room with me? Let's see if there's anything else to find.

[enfangs]

Don't see anything... but sure.

[he starts walking around.]

[sengokus]

[mineo will also start walking around, checking the walls for phantom paw prints that are no longer there, and then after a bit - ]

.... I wonder if these are our hints.

[the scarring]

[enfangs]

... What the hell is this supposed to tell us? A hint about Mahito, or...?

[sengokus]

... well, he's not the only one with scars.

[if he's being honest.]

I have some too. Gu-san, Childe-san.... [there's a couple of warriors here?] ... but we can double-check tomorrow for a full list.

[enfangs]

He was the only one going around looking like Frankenstein, though. [he holds up a hand to where his head scar is.] But guess we'll see.

[sengokus]

Between this and the paw prints... I dunno. We can check the dog park tomorrow, but I wonder if it just means this is related to Eleanor-san's death.

[enfangs]

Like with the toblerone thing? Maybe.

Though that might not help much tomorrow, especially when we've got three bodies to deal with.

[sengokus]

[ . . . ]

We're gonna have to work quick, and stay on task.

[enfangs]

Yeah, we're all gonna have a tough time with that. [...] Three bodies isn't great odds for us... but at least there's probably more than one killer—though that might actually not be a good thing.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

I wouldn't be surprised if someone just - acted again after we couldn't catch them before.

[enfangs]

Maybe. Get away with murder enough and it tends to make you confident.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he just. manages a bit of a bitter sigh.]

.... then we have to try to make sure that they don't get away this time - as much as we can.

[enfangs]

Mm.

[he watches mineo for a bit, before:]

... Any leads on the whole motive for killing besides indulgence thing?

[sengokus]

... no. Apparently if someone talked to the robot or Fukuda-san, we might've had a lead but - nothing, so far. I don't even know why Fukuda-san but...

[what a weird fucking place they're in]

But... Sloth-san told me that maybe if we find a new killer, we'd catch an old one, instead of just fixating on past cases, so...

[enfangs]

[he runs a hand through his hair.]

Basically, "tough luck but also good luck", huh? Well, we'll see how things go.

[maybe they'll catch yet another independent killer/attempted killer, third time's the charm]

[sengokus]

That's pretty much what Sloth-san always says.

[deeply supportive and encouraging but phew unsure if it's helpful. he'll just move to exit the planetarium then]

Gonna do rounds to see if I catch anything - wanna come?