hotel: jiji

[shaft]

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week 0, saturday, courtyard

[shaft]

[ Claude is looking at the statue of Munechika. This is just your other prompt. ]

This has a striking resemblance to you.

[unsaid]

[this is just my other prompt

mikazuki looks up at the statue and smiles]

Does it? I feel like it lacks something...

[shaft]

[ Looks between the two. ]

Not up to your standards?

[unsaid]

On the contrary, I simply wish it did not exist.

[shaft]

Too humble?

[unsaid]

Realistically speaking, I do not know if a National Treasure can be humble.

[like.

if he’s being honest, it is literally part of his personality that he’s kind of a big deal back home

that said]

… but I do not think I am fond of anything that implies I may be stationary, or stagnant.

[stuck in stone…]

How would you feel, if you saw a statue of yourself?

[shaft]

Pretty amazed that it hadn't been vandalized in some way, probably.

[unsaid]

[he laughs]

Oh, that as well.

Are you not a popular fellow? Or are those who adore you the type to have a mean streak too?

[shaft]

The former. [ he sighs! ] But that's an interesting way of thinking of a statue...

Do you not like photographs and paintings either?

[unsaid]

Oh? That is a surprise.

[or maybe not since jiji likes losers (no)]

Fufu... Photographs and paintings are also keepsakes of memory, are they not? I suppose I do not mind the sentimentality that they might mean for others...

But I rarely have need for snippets of the past.

[shaft]

Is your memory just that good?

[unsaid]

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.

[shaft]

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

Have you tried getting rid of it?

[unsaid]

I have not.

[ . . . he tilts his head]

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

[shaft]

... Do you want to try?

[unsaid]

[lol]

If questioned later, I will deny it.

[as he moves toward the statue,]

[shaft]

[ he watches, with baited breath ]

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

[unsaid]

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]

[shaft]

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

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

[unsaid]

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.

[shaft]

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! ]

[unsaid]

[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.

[shaft]

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 ]

[unsaid]

[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.

weekend 0, sunday

[unsaid]

[i'm going to guess that claude knocked or something - or he is just in the hallway when mikazuki begins to step out. it's like an hour after the rooms opened because mikazuki needed help getting dressed into his other attire and that's fine.]

Oh? Exploring, Claude?

Fufu, would you like to come in?

[if he does, he will see almost immediately that opposite the door, there is a grand view of the upper half of a crescent moon. that's not ominous.]