pc: jiaoqiu

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[fried]

[ his vibes are vaguely annoyed, but he comes to sit close by, rubbing at his face. ]

It was... something.

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[annoyed?]

What's wrong?

[fried]

Nothing. It is my problem, not yours, and in any case, I doubt you'd be pleased to hear about it.

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[frowning.]

Whether I will be pleased or not does not change whether I would hear what you have to say.

[though, backing up.]

If you don't want to speak of it, though, I won't force you.

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[ a pause, and he sighs, rubbing at his face. ]

... I am unsettled by the suddenness of Miss Firefly's death. I would have preferred to find the evidence and have a moment to question her. Instead, we came back to her corpse on the floor of the church.

We still do not know who killed Zhongli. I would have liked to hear her answer.

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Ah.

[a little surprised by that.]

Do you think she would have known?

[fried]

I wondered if she was the one to do it. But we won't know, now.

My concern, you understand, is that there still may be one more degrading soul out there, if it wasn't her, and it wasn't Akihiko.

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I highly doubt it was her, though you're right that it would have been good to confirm.

[biting her lip, considering it because she doesn't know mira was ooc out last week.]

We had boots in that case, though. The suspect list was the same range that keeps coming up.

[she does keep thinking about this, has quite a lot this week.]

[fried]

[ yea this would all be moot if he knew about ooc shit but yolo ]

Which list was that again? [ i tried to look but lost it ]

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The boots fit Yves, Richie, Jacopo, Mizu, Laurence, Claude and Akihiko. There was also a shirt, which fit an even larger group - Basilio and Anders - but we weren't sure anyone actually wore that.

Of those, all but Yves and Laurence also had one of those bruises somewhere on their body.

[fried]

[ wait mira wasn't oocly out last week, week three, i just checked ]

Hm. [ ... well both of those options AREN'T GREAT but. ] Well. I suppose that'll be a nightmare to contend with in the following week.

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[oh you're right my b she was out week 2]

Yes, don't worry, I hate that list as much as you do. But I'm not sure if there's any way to narrow it down, other than waiting for someone to act again.

[fried]

I'm not sure, either.

[ a slow sigh. ]

Regardless of what we do, someone will die this upcoming week. And we must kill them in order to save them.

[ the annoyance is gone now, and it's just, like... grief. that's it. ]

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I selfishly hope it won't have to be me.

[said lightly, but not really meant that way. the idea really fills her with dread.]

But I don't know who it is, genuinely. I will admit that I mentioned to Claude that he was on a short list of possibilities, and his manner was odd. But not odd enough for a knife in the back.

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I hope it won't be you either.

[ in a less light tone, because he doesn't want her to have to deal with any of it. ]

Claude is always odd. He's told me a few times that he doesn't always quite know how to deal with being social, and I believe it.

[ this sounds mean but he really is just like claude is an awkward boy ]

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If you think I am not aware of that... shortly after that conversation, he pivoted to giving me advice about accessories to wear in my hair.

[but she loves him he is a big fave.]

I'm only saying. I have been trying to keep my eye out for anything odd. The only one with injuries in that group was Jacopo, but... I can't make any sense of his behavior ever.

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Haha. When I tried to talk to him about the memory of his I saw, he very abruptly asked if I was blind.

[ he's also one of jiaoqiu's favorites too, despite all of this ]

Perhaps we'll be lucky and it was actually Firefly. A clean slate. [ this is callous and rude but sometimes you're desensitized to death ]

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[she doesn't find this rude, no.]

Perhaps so! What a relief that would be.