IC Contact/Voicemail

[ardent]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL]

"You've reached Kiyotaka Ishimaru; I seem to have missed you! My sincerest apologies for that - but if you leave your name and state your business, firmly and concisely, I'll return your contact as soon as I can!

Until then, I look forward to speaking to you; do what you can to make your day pleasant and productive, and be sure to keep your head up!"

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

Comments

[superordinary]

N-not so quickly, Ishimaru-kun...

[ Like, he appreciates the infodump but geez, he didn't need all of that at once. ]

Where's Kirigiri-san?

[ardent]

A-Ah, right...!

[Ugh, look, he's not good at this - ]

We set up a rotating schedule to keep an eye on you. I don't know exactly where she is right now; do you want me to find her?

[superordinary]

[ He shakes his head. ]

I'll contact her later, if that's okay... Um, can I get something to drink? My throat's kinda dry...

[ardent]

Yes, of course! Stay there, I'll...

[Just. Let him jump up and go do that, if for no better reason than it gives him an excuse to leave the immediate area for a second and collect himself. This is awkward as hell for some reason and he isn't entirely sure what to do with himself; the task of getting water is a brief one given the general layout of hotel rooms, but it gives him something to do with his hands for the duration.]

...Are you going to be all right?

[superordinary]

[ As soon as Naegi gets that water he's just going to drink it all in one go. ]

Yeah. It's...been kind of a long day. The final trial was exhausting.

[ardent]

The final trial...

[Well, that's...promising, right?]

So you've managed to escape the school, then.

[superordinary]

Not quite. I was just about to open the door when I came back here.

[ardent]

But you've won.

[The relief in his voice is obvious; he sits down again, though his hands are quick to tighten in his lap while he tries to work out exactly how he feels about all of that.]

...You did really well, Naegi-kun, I'm happy for you.

[And he actually is; he's not good at expressing it well, but that much is true.]

[superordinary]

[ Naegi stretches his legs, wiggling his toes a little; it really does feels like he's been out cold for a week. ]

I'm relieved it's over. Enoshima's dead, and her despair lost against hope.

[ardent]

As it should be!

[Yeah, there are going to be exactly zero tears shed for Enoshima over here, um.]

[superordinary]

[ IT'S OKAY, NAEGI'S NOT EXPECTING ANY TEARS TBH. ]

...Before she executed herself, I told her I didn't want her dead. But she just yelled at me and started the execution anyway.

[ardent]

...Why would you tell her that?

[...empathy of a rock.]

[superordinary]

Because I'd never wish death on anyone.

[ardent]

Maybe not, but she deserved to die by her own rules - given what she made us do in the name of following those rules, it's only right!

I won't wish death on the innocent, but Enoshima is as far from innocent as you can get!

[superordinary]

Y-yeah, there's nothing innocent about her. I didn't want her dead, but...I was okay with her doing it anyway, if that makes sense?

[ardent]

[Ah...]

...It does, I think.

[...]

You're a kinder person than I am, either way.

[superordinary]

Um, I-I don't think I am...

[ ...Moving on. ]

This probably goes without saying, but we're not bringing her here. She should stay dead.

[ardent]

I thought as much, yes - that's a choice that should be left to you and the others who faced her, of course, but I would have been surprised if you wanted otherwise.

[superordinary]

I still intend to argue on Ikusaba-san's behalf, but this world is definitely better off without Enoshima.

[ardent]

And when it comes to Ikusaba, I still intend to argue against, but we can cross that bridge when we get there.

[superordinary]

...Yeah, there's not much of a point to argue about that now.

[ Truth be told, he's still kind of mad about Enoshima killing her sister for those petty reasons she gave him. ]

Mind if I talk about the trial?

[ardent]

[Ishimaru pauses for a moment, though he doesn't seem unwilling to discuss it; it's been nearly a year and he's still not entirely used to people actually coming to him to discuss things. He'd offer sometimes, before Hope's Peak, if people were having difficulties, but it's different being approached, somehow.]

Of course not - you can tell me anything, Naegi-kun.

[superordinary]

[ Naegi stands up and paces along the bed as he talks; he doesn't seem restless or anything, he just wants to actually move his body because his muscles feel stiff. ]

We had to solve the school's mysteries or we'd all get executed. It's one thing to hear it from a classmate here in Johto, but finding out the truth during the trial was...horrible, and Enoshima definitely enjoyed rubbing it in.

[ ... ]

S-She showed us a movie. People wearing Monobear masks were rioting in the streets, and there was a Monobear head on the Eiffel Tower.

[ardent]

...Worldwide destruction - Kirigiri-kun told me something about that. That that's...why we shut ourselves in the school, because Super High School Level Despair had done something to the outside world.

It's entirely true, then...? Nothing she could have made up?

[superordinary]

We asked Genocider about the state of the world outside the school and she confirmed that the footage was of the incident. Since she doesn't share memories with Fukawa-san, she remembers what happened.