okay so this sucks i can already guess how matsui is but how are you doing
[ it's not so much that he thinks rang is sad. it's that he's thinking rang has to be aware that there's only two members of their team left and if one of them goes...that's it. ]
[the emotions he'd normally have tried to suppress if jonas was near him are loose, ping ponging back from fury and grief and cold amusement, because of course the idea came to him -- the bitter realization of what this could mean]
i didn't think anyone here would have it in them to get rid of an entire team
it's a low blow if you think about it it's only been a few weeks impressed isn't the word i'd use ig but i am a little surprised somebody's brave enough to pull it off knowing how many people are gonna be pissed off by what this means
that depends on if we catch them or not they've probably seen what we've done the last two trials and thought their chances were pretty good i don't know about guifei but d made it clear that he wouldn't actively hinder your efforts but im sure they will this time
we would've fucked up last time i think if buzen and matsui weren't trying to tell us d was responsible there were too many loose ends there's a good chance whoever did this has a team that won't try to help out, so we're looking at 3 or maybe 4 people who could be lying to us so. what are you thoughts? what do we do better this time than last?
[there is a bit of pause, as rang tries to think about the possibility of a whole team, that not everyone is like him, grudgingly going along with strangers until forced to cooperate]
buzen would have fought so we need to check for injuries, healed or otherwise
[he realizes that it's like. so hypocritical of him to say considering his lack of willingness to help out before, but jonas is asking, and rang will give him his thoughts]
shenhe did her best but she was biased against her team so we need more than one person checking at a time
his sword was broken right? likely either someone strong enough to do it themselves or a psych that could break down metal we have too many healers running around that we might already be screwed, but we'll try anyway ...i know everyone hates it but knowing we only looked at legs, arms and hands last week you could easily hide injuries on your torso or your chest and get away with it because nobody's forcing people to look i hate the idea of strip check. like. a lot more than i want to admit but considering buzen was another combatant we might have to push for it this time i...can help where i can, but it might be better if it was someone else who knew what to look for we should at least try to insist that it's two people to a person, and not people from your own team organizing that's gonna be a pain but it's about as unbiased as you can get
it was yes i don't know how much we can rely on matsui, but he could be encouraged to see if an injury was done by a blade or not
[the rest of that sounds smart, rang wonders if they'll manage to pull it off, but it's more thinking that he's done about the subject. this is why he likes jonas]
jonas i will tell you this now but i think you already know that matsui will try to kill whoever erased buzen so if you want a team to vote for then i suggest thinking of a way to keep him contained
i think he'd know best from what i got, the two of them are really intimately familiar with their own blades since like. bodies or whatever. so he would have the best eyes for knowing if there's a match but you're right. i already know. ...i don't know if i can blame him either, really this is a lot to handle, never mind having to do it publicly i think the best i can do is ask the reapers tomorrow if someone can volunteer for the erasure on sunday instead of having it randomized or however it's done and appeal to his usual nature of not wanting to hurt anybody else unnecessarily as in "don't screw over another team when we still have to vote."
i wouldn't waste words on him just knock him out or grab whoever it is and keep them locked in their warehouse so he can't get at them until sunday as for the erasure he should be the one to do it even if he breaks himself after
matsui might kill ME if i try to knock him out so i'll leave that to somebody else also yeah that's what i'm getting at i want to ask if someone can volunteer to make it extremely clear to everyone else in the room that matsui deserves that much if someone doesn't respect that then there's really no saving them from whatever he decides to do about it
[ ...but with that there's a pause. ]
does it bother you that there's that possibility? that he'll break himself afterwards
i told buzen that i wanted to erase people in this game, that i was that kind of person he told me if i did, then he'd break himself. and that matsui would follow him right after. he tied my hands by putting both of their lives on the line so i always knew that they could break if buzen believed it, then matsui will
shit. they really just...kind of cornered you then and that's it no room for error if one broke, there goes the other do you think he told anyone else that?
i'm not sure i suppose i should have asked him since it's an important thing to know
it depends on how many people were worried about us being on a team together which were a lot but even then i think it's easy to tell what would happen based on how attached matsui and buzen were with each other
[rang be less of a murderer once in your whole life]
i mean...yeah fair i figured as much without you telling me i kind of wish we had an idea because then we could start with some sort of suspect pool someone who'd know what would happen if you pushed either sword we'll have to watch people carefully even knowing we'll be looking for them, everybody slips up eventually
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w2, friday
so this sucks
i can already guess how matsui is
but how are you doing
[ it's not so much that he thinks rang is sad. it's that he's thinking rang has to be aware that there's only two members of their team left and if one of them goes...that's it. ]
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[the emotions he'd normally have tried to suppress if jonas was near him are loose, ping ponging back from fury and grief and cold amusement, because of course the idea came to him -- the bitter realization of what this could mean]
i didn't think anyone here would have it in them to get rid of an entire team
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it's only been a few weeks
impressed isn't the word i'd use ig
but i am a little surprised somebody's brave enough to pull it off knowing how many people are gonna be pissed off by what this means
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they've probably seen what we've done the last two trials and thought their chances were pretty good
i don't know about guifei but d made it clear that he wouldn't actively hinder your efforts
but im sure they will this time
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there were too many loose ends
there's a good chance whoever did this has a team that won't try to help out, so we're looking at 3 or maybe 4 people who could be lying to us
so. what are you thoughts?
what do we do better this time than last?
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buzen would have fought so we need to check for injuries, healed or otherwise
[he realizes that it's like. so hypocritical of him to say considering his lack of willingness to help out before, but jonas is asking, and rang will give him his thoughts]
shenhe did her best but she was biased against her team
so we need more than one person checking at a time
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likely either someone strong enough to do it themselves or a psych that could break down metal
we have too many healers running around that we might already be screwed, but we'll try anyway
...i know everyone hates it
but knowing we only looked at legs, arms and hands last week
you could easily hide injuries on your torso or your chest and get away with it because nobody's forcing people to look
i hate the idea of strip check. like. a lot more than i want to admit
but considering buzen was another combatant we might have to push for it this time
i...can help where i can, but it might be better if it was someone else who knew what to look for
we should at least try to insist that it's two people to a person, and not people from your own team
organizing that's gonna be a pain but it's about as unbiased as you can get
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i don't know how much we can rely on matsui, but he could be encouraged to see if an injury was done by a blade or not
[the rest of that sounds smart, rang wonders if they'll manage to pull it off, but it's more thinking that he's done about the subject. this is why he likes jonas]
jonas
i will tell you this now but i think you already know
that matsui will try to kill whoever erased buzen
so if you want a team to vote for
then i suggest thinking of a way to keep him contained
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from what i got, the two of them are really intimately familiar with their own blades since like. bodies or whatever. so he would have the best eyes for knowing if there's a match
but you're right.
i already know.
...i don't know if i can blame him either, really
this is a lot to handle, never mind having to do it publicly
i think the best i can do is ask the reapers tomorrow if someone can volunteer for the erasure on sunday instead of having it randomized or however it's done
and appeal to his usual nature of not wanting to hurt anybody else unnecessarily
as in "don't screw over another team when we still have to vote."
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just knock him out
or grab whoever it is and keep them locked in their warehouse so he can't get at them until sunday
as for the erasure
he should be the one to do it
even if he breaks himself after
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also yeah that's what i'm getting at
i want to ask if someone can volunteer to make it extremely clear to everyone else in the room that matsui deserves that much
if someone doesn't respect that
then there's really no saving them from whatever he decides to do about it
[ ...but with that there's a pause. ]
does it bother you that there's that possibility? that he'll break himself afterwards
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i told buzen that i wanted to erase people in this game, that i was that kind of person
he told me if i did, then he'd break himself. and that matsui would follow him right after.
he tied my hands by putting both of their lives on the line
so i always knew that they could break
if buzen believed it, then matsui will
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shit.
they really just...kind of cornered you then
and that's it
no room for error
if one broke, there goes the other
do you think he told anyone else that?
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i suppose i should have asked him
since it's an important thing to know
it depends on how many people were worried about us being on a team together
which were a lot
but even then i think it's easy to tell what would happen based on how attached matsui and buzen were with each other
[rang be less of a murderer once in your whole life]
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i kind of wish we had an idea because then we could start with some sort of suspect pool
someone who'd know what would happen if you pushed either sword
we'll have to watch people carefully
even knowing we'll be looking for them, everybody slips up eventually