FINAL INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

FINAL INVESTIGATION

[Well, your time, your anger, your losses have led up to this.

It's time to go, and that blue card will give access to the floors above. In particular, there is the floor Barbara mentioned before the throne room, which seems to be a good idea to check out beforehand.

Indeed, it's much like the previous floors the Strangers had lived in, only smaller.]



[There is another elevator in the area, but that is inaccessible. Even using Marie's card doesn't seem to work on it. Hm. No matter. Marie's card works on all of these rooms, so it's fine, right?

In any case, if there's answers to be found about just whose in charge - and what in the world is going on - this is the last chance of finding them. You've all gotten this far, and as your teams descend on the rooms, you can feel the end is near. Hopefully, that end is not that of the universe - or of Ivy.

Good hunting, Titled.]

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[theserpentsmiles]

[There's still something big Nagisa is missing. Something incredibly important - something that changed his course, before this place. He doesn't know if it can be changed back.]

I'm ready.

[losergod]

[ After Barbara, Nagisa is up next. He'll help him get his memories back without too much fanfare. ]

When you're finished, I may need your help running this machine. I can't get my own memories back unless someone else helps me run the machine, so...

[theserpentsmiles]

Absolutely. I've watched you do it for the others, I think I've got how it works.

[He's a fast learner! For now he'll go make himself comfy in the freaky amnesia machine. He....doesn't know what all might be missing, though he has some guesses...]

[losergod]

If it's bad and you need a moment, I'm here.

[ All right. He'll insert Nagisa's tapes next. Time to see what Nagisa's forgotten, he supposes. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[There's a pause....and then a surge of that same bloodlust he displayed during the trial. Riveting, like a predator closing in on its prey, hungry. Somehow it's even more intense. Some serpentine monster with long, deadly sharp fangs already inches away from flesh....

It only lasts a moment. When Nagisa emerges, he's....not calm, nowhere near calm, but it's difficult to tell what exactly is going on in his head. It doesn't seem.....bad.....exactly.]

She's not dead.

[He's pretty sure only his brothers know which 'she' he means.]

[mementodagger]

[Yurick feels an instinctive flinch of fear at that bloodlust, but it fades even faster than the bloodlust itself actually lasts. He doesn't fear his brother. No, he rests his hand on the boy's shoulder.

He wants his last memories back, but if he has to wait until everyone else is restored, then that's the least punishment he deserves.]

Then you can see her again. You... have a reason to go home.

[backuphero]

[Jonathan is still in full-blown emotional overload, and so even he's not sure if he's sobbing when he throws his arms around both of them.]

You have hope. You've... she's... Marie was a god-damned liar and I just... you have hope.

[He's trying, he really is, the words just aren't coming out right at all.]

[losergod]

... Mister Shiota, are you well?

[ He is fussing. Let him fuss. ]

[theserpentsmiles]

[All this time, he's been grieving someone who wasn't dead. Just like Akira. He still has the picture from the first motive, he's kept it with him - it felt wrong, somehow, to just...leave it around.]

Sensei....used the last of his strength to.... He worked a miracle, he healed her... Not even a scar. [All because of... He'd been prepared for it, for someone to get hurt like that. He'd been preparing for it from the start, and Nagisa feels his eyes dampening and just clings to his brothers. He still isn't sure what to do or where to go, but...but things are a bit more right.

C is here too, C is speaking. Hi, C.] I- I don't know. Kayano-chan is alive, and....and Sakura-chan...