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IC Contact/Voicemail

[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!]

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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.]

[ 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.

As it should be!

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

[ 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.

...Why would you tell her that?

[...empathy of a rock.]

Because I'd never wish death on anyone.

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!

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?

[Ah...]

...It does, I think.

[...]

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

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.

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.

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

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

...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?

[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.

[ 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.

...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?

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.

...I see...

[Ugh...]

What else happened? If you don't mind.

Um, Enoshima started talking about the only reason our class survived the incident was so we would participate in the mutual killing.

[ He's fairly sure Ishimaru knows this already, but he decides to talk about it anyway. ]

She told us there are still pockets of resistance left in the world, and that's why she hijacked the TV signal. She wanted to show the world how we, the symbols of hope, killed each other... She used us.

[Ishimaru can feel himself tensing up as Naegi continues talking; no, he didn't know this, what...]

W-What are you talking about...? The TV signal...?

[No. No, no, he's misunderstanding this. He has to be misunderstanding this.]

[ Gently caress, did nobody explain this? Naegi stops pacing, his hands tightening at his sides as he looks at Ishimaru. ]

...The entire killing game was aired live on national television.

[...oh, god...

While he may have very loudly had some sort of fit at that a few months ago, Ishimaru just goes completely silent; his body is still strangely rigid, and it takes him perhaps a bit too long to find words.]

...Then everyone saw you defeat her, too. It didn't...it didn't work, it's...she used us, but...

[He shakes his head a bit; words aren't going to happen right now, though he does gesture a bit, the motion fluttery and vague. Keep going, if you want to.]

Do you remember when Hagakure-kun said he heard sounds coming from outside?

[ If he recalls correctly, it was shortly before Monobear handed out the second motive. He pauses for a second, wondering if he should keep talking, before continuing. ]

People who watched the broadcast tried to help us, but they were gunned down. That's...what Hagakure-kun heard.

...I remember, yes. We thought it was...construction of some sort, I think...

[This is difficult as hell to listen to, but it's...well, it explains things, at least, so he doesn't exactly regret it.]

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