school: just 3 men

[shaft]

i am on my work laptop.... 8(

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[ercnerd]

Then that place was just a stage for our test.

[He sighs.]

Are you going to be all right, Sakyou? If you start experiencing problems with your memories, talk to someone right away.

[shaft]

Given how easily they can tamper with our minds and wills, I'd say we need to be careful.

[ alien... ]

By the way, those documents you two received. Can I see them?

[modissty]

It seems so, yes. [That it was a stage... Their TEST.] --And I will, if anything changes. For now, I'm fine.

[REPRESSION OLYMPICS!! Alien repression...]

Taking care is certainly important, though. I should like to warn the others of what they may be up against if this happens to them, too.

[While talking, he'll fish his paper out to hand to Claude, though!]

[ercnerd]

Good idea. I have a feeling something like this will happen again.

[Sieghart, too, fishes out the folded map piece and proffers it to Claude.]

Mine's the piece of a map.

[shaft]

[ He takes a look at both, thoughtful. ]

What do you two think about these?

[modissty]

[Pursing his lips...]

Aside from the fact that someone not the bear is clearly keeping an eye on us, which we had already mostly guessed? I'm not certain. Perhaps we should bring this one to Chad...

[ercnerd]

I agree.

He probably already knows about it, anyway. Touching bases wouldn't hurt to make more sense of these papers' significance.

[shaft]

Maybe we should ask him if this school has any known enemies—though it sounds ridiculous.

Why would anyone target a school?

[modissty]

To be fair, this is far from a normal school...

But I'll speak to him about it soon, then.

[He says with a sigh because he honestly doesn't think Chad likes him which is absolutely fair. God bless.]

[ercnerd]

Hm? What's with that sigh? . . . Could it be that you're feeling shy?

[shaft]

Got a crush on Chad, Sakyou? That's an interesting type to have.

[modissty]

[IF LOOKS COULD KILL HE'D BE MURDERIN BOTH OF YALL RIGHT NOW.]

He's a very reticent person, that's all. It's not easy to speak with him.

[ercnerd]

[Try him.]

That just means he'll answer direct questions more readily.

[shaft]

If he knows, he'll answer.

[ ... He pulls out the heart vial. ]

By the way, what do you think this does?

[modissty]

[He'll fight god he'll fight immortals too.

He looks at the heart vial with a furrowed brow, though. THEIR LOVE ARROWS.]

I don't have any sort of clue. If I used to know its use back in that other "life", I no longer recall it now...

[ercnerd]

The other vials had a cat and a jewel on them. I don't see the connection.

[shaft]

Hm, me neither. In any case, I'm going to operate under the assumption this is poison for now.

[modissty]

Wasn't the initial assumption that the heart could restore health? ...Not that it's a bad idea to assume it's poison.

[Given their last mystery liquid...]

[ercnerd]

Either way, it's not something I would recommend trying out on each other for the time being. Don't forget what happened on the island. We're not likely to reset here.

[shaft]

Right. [ tucks it back away ] It's too bad we didn't get to keep that pocket watch. That would've been a handy power.

[modissty]

It's a shame that person left so quickly at the end. I wonder if he would know what these things did...

[Binchass cloaked figure escaping into the jungle.]

[ercnerd]

There's no use crying over spilt milk. As handy as stopping time is, there's no point if we still can't resist this place's hold over us.