WHO DUNNIT?

[afterlifer]

WHO: YOU! And you! And you and you and you! ALL Y'ALL.
WHAT: Liveaction Cluedo Event
WHEN: Evening today!
WHERE: Town area, starting in the restaurant.
WARNINGS: MURDER. Except minus the actual dying. Because of the already dead. Oops.
SUMMARY: Dinner turned murder mystery with costumes. More details here.

Everyone's been invited to a giant dinner courtesy of the Shinda Sekai Sensen at the restaurant in town! It looks like maybe a few people have been strong-armed into coming, but.. oh well. They're there to have fun and enjoy a good meal, right?

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[tenminutes]

Already dead, remember?

[superhacker]

...

But how... why is he not moving...? [ WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON... ]

[tenminutes]

Well you can still get taken out. It's like dying, but since we're already dead he'll just wake up like nothing happened later. It's like going to sleep very violently.

[superhacker]

That sounds... painful... [ He hiccups. ] W-will he really be ok?

[tenminutes]

Yeah, he'll be fine so just enjoy the game, okay?

[superhacker]

[ YOU CAN'T ASK HIM THAT... it reminds him of very unpleasant memories. ]

I c-can't do that... it's like b-back in my school...

[tenminutes]

Your school?

[ Uh oh. Yuri doesn't know anything about Chihiro or Leon, so she planned this event figuring WHO THE HELL WOULD BE IN A CLUE GAME, IT'S FINE. ]

[superhacker]

[ He nods, biting his lip. It hurts to remember. ]

S-someone locked us in our school and... and... he was forcing us to... murder each other. Kuwata-kun was... was killed as well. I saw him die.

[ For now, he'll skip the part where Leon was executed because he kind of killed someone. ]

[tenminutes]

Sorry. It's over now though, Chihiro. [ She reaches over and puts a hand on his shoulder. ] Leon might look dead right now, but he'll be fine in a little bit. It's just how this works. No one can die here because we're all already dead.

[ She's guessing breaking a window and running off wasn't one of the options. ]

[superhacker]

Even so... seeing him like this...

[ He sobs in his hands. It was traumatizing the first time, it doesn't make it less bad right now either. ]

[tenminutes]

I guess it is kind of gross, he's bleeding all over his carrots.

[superhacker]

... The... The blood in general... i-it was worse the first time, b-but...

[ Instead of balls, now we have carrots. Such a suggestive sight... ]

[tenminutes]

Just pretend it's cherry juice. Leon drank a whole bunch of cherry juice, then passed out on his cup because he drank too much and now he's sleeping it off.

[superhacker]

[ But he can't picture Leon drink all that stuff... uuu... he gulps. ]

W-will it really work..?

[tenminutes]

Of course it will. [ Yuri looks around, then picks up a chopstick that isn't hers and breaks it on the side of the table so that it's sharp, then scratches across her hand with it so that it's bleeding. Not deeply or anything, but enough that Chihiro can definitely see that it's hurt. ]

Give this a minute and it'll be all gone. It's a smaller injury so it'll go a lot faster than Leon's, but the principle holds for both situations.

[superhacker]

[ ...

YURI NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING STAHP he's going to faint here... except he won't- but he's looking at the wound, even more terrified and upset. ]

It's... g-going to heal by itself?

[tenminutes]

Of course it is. [ And after about a minute, sure enough, there's just the bit of blood that came out when she did it, which she wipes on a napkin, then shows him. ] All gone, doesn't even hurt anymore.

[superhacker]

... That's... I can't believe it...

[ This must be magic. It can't be anything else. Magic in the afterlife, who would have thought? ]

I-it means... I could get hurt and heal too? [ Don't give her ideas Chihiro PLEASE. ]

[tenminutes]

You could get pulverized and turned into Chihiro soup and you'd be okay later.

[superhacker]

[ ... He didn't need that mental image. ]

... [ Just have his shocked face as a reply ok ]

[tenminutes]

Not that that's likely to happen, either way. [ Doesn't even look bothered. ]

[superhacker]

It's... not? S-so I shouldn't worry...?

[ Well, at least it's not butter. ]

[tenminutes]

Don't worry about it all. I told you, didn't I? The only thing you really have to worry about is disappearing, which won't happen as long as you fight against it in your own way.

[superhacker]

[ He's pretty sure safe from that, considering that he's still got many more issues than anyone would think. The fact he's still dressing as a girl is enough to ensure his stay here.

But he knows nothing about Kuwata-kun... he would feel pretty much lost if the only person he knew back in his world was gone! ]

Kuwata-kun won't disappear then, right?

[tenminutes]

No, no way.

[ Yuri sounds surprisingly confident about that. Plus-- ]

Especially not in a situation like this. Negative things would definitely be a way to keep here. Also, he's kind of an idiot so I'd be more worried about him disappearing when he's not in lights-out mode than when he is.