shaft | hotel: jiji

Is your memory just that good?

Hmm... Yes, I would say so.

Some swords forget... but I believe it is part my role to remember. Though I am only an old man with a collection of stories.

[ He smiles a little at that, but accepts the answer, looking back at the statue. ]

Have you tried getting rid of it?

I have not.

[ . . . he tilts his head]

That would be rather amusing. Do you suppose we could break it?

... Do you want to try?

[lol]

If questioned later, I will deny it.

[as he moves toward the statue,]

[ he watches, with baited breath ]

Don't worry, I'm not a snitch.

Good, good.

[mikazuki will wander up to it and just reach out to pat his own marbled head,]

Farewell, Lune.

[and then shove the statue right off its resting place a moment later. statue jiji's head rolls poetically to claude's feet]

[ Claude just stares down at Munechika's severed stone head. ]

... If this turns out to be prophetic, I might regret this.

Ha ha ha. I will leave a ghostly message for them to vote for another, once the trials come.

[like who? but he will descend and neatly begin to brush off his suit]

I believe myself a bit more difficult to defeat than stone - but perhaps that is inviting fate to prove me wrong.

I hope it doesn't. I'd miss the teatime conversations.

[ He picks up the head, trying to see if it is hollow.

But... no clues! ]

[no clues.... mikazuki will step around the rubble, looking at it rather impassively despite it being

him]

I feel similarly.

Though this is less satisfying than I was hoping for... Too bad, too bad.

Maybe that's because you didn't loathe it as much as you thought you did?

[ holds the head toward him like it's a puppy ]

[hm. his expression remains impassive.]

No, I do not think that is it.

Maybe it would have been more entertaining if we found a secret passageway underneath its feet. Or if it made a funny noise upon collapse.

... So it just wasn't theatrical enough for you?

[ honestly, he kind of gets it. ]

[nods

he will feel slightly worse when he hears that kazu and bradley got jumped by statues]

Sadly not. But it was still a worthwhile venture.

[ He looks at the head. ]

So what was your role? As one of these hosts.

Likely the same as the others you have seen... though we did not entirely anticipate what our responsibilities would be. The young one and I were invited under the impression that we would only be guiding a mission to rid a number of worlds of darkness.

To suddenly have a corruption infiltrate the village, resulting in us needing to discover who was possessed each week, was not part of the plan.

[ ? ]

The young one?

[mikazuki makes a gesture to the statue next to his - it's roxas kingdom hearts wearing a similar cloak. though a few flowers have been left on the statue, artfully arranged anemones.]

His name is Roxas - though I did have to call him 'Sol' for a time.

He is a very wonderful young man.

[he sounds like such a grandfather here i cannot emphasize it enough]

He does look rather young. They don't have an age limit on these things, hm?

[ Pats Roxas' spiky little head. ]

Are you glad he's not here?

Ha ha ha... In a manner of speaking - though he would be cross if I were to immediately answer 'yes'.

[so like

yeah.]

Makes sense. Most people wouldn't want someone they care about to go through this kind of thing.

[nodding]

If I could endure this entire scenario myself, I would. It would actually make the whole ordeal a bit simpler.

A lot easier to kill strangers to escape?

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