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[sei looks like she wants to say something, then catches shinnosuke looking at her and twirling his knife. her brow furrows, and she stares at him with a frown. really? really, you're not going to say anything, dude?

flayn does not notice this, because she's a little distracted by hearing - ]

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng? Well... at least they were together...

[that's probably a good thing? mostly. it might have been a bad thing for whoever or whatever was responsible for their murdergame, but frankly, flayn is of the opinion that entities like pandora and the nightman deserve whatever they get, and she's assuming something like that was involved in their foray to the realm.]

Ah, there was... Belph and Hikage, I believe they were also from the castle? Did you know them? And Damien and Jason-- ah. No, forgive me, they were from a different group, but they knew Stephanie from their world before they ended up in these situations... [she sighs.] ...in our case, there was no requirement that we all had to die. Just that... at least one person had to die each week, or else we and everyone else from the places we came from would be wiped out.

[ HUA CHENG WAS HERE???

this makes yin yu choke on his drink, and he reaches up to blot at his mouth with his sleeve gently after a moment. it's. not surprising. of course... where one goes, the other will follow..... ]

.... I hope that Chengzhu was not too... [ a pause. ] ...Well. They both must have made it out alright.

[ otherwise hua cheng would have definitely tpk'd that entire game ]

There have been far too many situations where people were required to murder each other.

[ is what gu yun decides after listening to all of this, taking a long swig of his wine. ]

I suppose Sora does make a point, though. If, for example, Lup arrives here, who is to say what she might remember? Would she know of both? What a mess.

...Hikage tried to get me convicted for murder, and Stephanie and I were friends. I didn't know Belph that well, but he was close to both of them from what I could tell. Our entire war was about balance, and I know the only reason I stayed alive back there was because my partner was an alignment we needed. And I wouldn't have wanted to leave her anyway. Some people handled it a little worse than others. Yasusada lost his temper and got voted for even if he didn't do anything. Same with Dazai.

All of these games are about culling numbers, but the different methods are strange. [why is there no consistency???]

[sora, meanwhile, frowns mightily upon hearing that all of his friends fucking died? hello??? but regardless....they're all fine now. that's what matters.]

I helped him cover for a murder. [he just. says this. it's his way of saying that he was friends with the dude.] Hua Cheng and I were on the same team, and Xie Lian and I both had roles to play in the game. We survived and we brought our dead back. We were lucky that we were able to talk to our dead pretty early and got the message about two members from each team needing to kill. Otherwise we could have really screwed things up for them and for us.

[but gu yun brings up a good point, too.]

...in the Realm, we forgot a lot of things, but then we sometimes remembered later. What if it's something like that? Like if they're here, they might remember some of their other lifetimes or whatever? Is that possible? What do we even do about that?

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