week 1; thursday ( natsuo )

[axilium]

[presumably some time after natsuo got treated (hopefully... he got treated...) and carried back to his room—

he's getting a visitor! for once, belph actually looks worried.]

Hey, Natsuo.

What the hell?

Comments

[randori]

[ Treatment pending, but he's alive enough now, even though he's been confined to house arrest in his bedroom for much of the day. ]

Uh. [ how to respond to what the hell ] What've you heard so far...?

[ He doesn't want to say anything about anything that'd happened, but if there are only gaps to fill, at least that's better than explaining all of it. ]

[axilium]

... Well, apparently you and Shirasu heard things, and then you two had an... accidental altercation.

[randori]

[ So he heard from Shirasu— that's both good and bad, because he isn't sure what Shirasu saw, and he's not quite sure Shirasu knew what was going on with him. More importantly though, before he straightens that out- ]

Don't blame him, okay?

[axilium]

... I don't. I mean, I'm not thrilled that any fighting went down—but actually, I was hoping you didn't hold a grudge or anything, so that's a relief to hear.

[randori]

I don't! We weren't fighting— that wasn't a fair fight. He just stabbed me, that's all.

[axilium]

... Uh, I'm not the expert, but I don't think most people would say, "he just stabbed me, that's all."

[randori]

That's really all that happened. I got in the way of his knife.

[axilium]

Yeah, how about you don't do that anymore?

[randori]

It wasn't on purpose!

[ How about you don't make such unreasonable demands? Sometimes, stabbings are just unavoidable. (this stabbing was entirely avoidable) ]

[axilium]

[natsuo..........]

Well, yeah. I'd hope you aren't a masochist, because that seems like a very bad quality to have in murder mansion.

[randori]

[ pulls this face tbh ]

No... I know a M and I'm nothing like him.

[axilium]

... You must have a very interesting social life.

[randori]

Eh- [ is that a good thing? it sounds like a compliment, but he's not sure ] Yeah, well, he's my number two, so...

[axilium]

... You're not an S, are you?

[randori]

NO WAY!! I'll punch you for that, but I won't feel happy about it!

[ no, he's just V

V for Violent ]

[axilium]

[immediately backs away.]

Have you thought about curbing those violent impulses?

[randori]

.........It's a work in progress.

[ But he is working on it, believe it or not. Or he was, and then promptly forgets about his efforts every opportunity there is to get angry. ]

[axilium]

... What's the progress?

[randori]

The planning stages...?

[ It hasn't even started yet ]

[axilium]

Yeah, that's what I was expecting. No wonder you're stuck on that stage—planning seems to be a weak point of yours.

[randori]

I'm great at planning! I said it's a work in progress! It's getting there!!

[axilium]

It can't be "getting there" if you haven't even started.

[randori]

It has!! I've been working hard at it for two whole years!!!!!!

[axilium]

...

Natsuo. I'm going to give you some very valuable advice.

Sometimes, it's better to let things die before you put your foot in your mouth.