akira

[preordain]

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[tearduct]

Ryo.

[AT LEAST PRETEND NOT TO BE TRIGGER HAPPY AND UNHINGED. He frowns over at Ryo.]

If you kill them, people would have to vote for someone else. Don't do that. You'll be the person they vote for, and you can't change anything if you don't win the contest.

[preordain]

[ hnnnn.

he sighs. ]

After it, then.

[tearduct]

After. The next day, like they make us do.

[Not after trial in the jail. Do not.]

I'll be fine. It's you I'm worried about.

[preordain]

[ he would 100% just shoot them in jail and then execution day would be awkward.

he frowns. ]

Why me?

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[RYOOOOO. I, personally, think this is fucking hilarious, but Akira would be mad.]

Because you won't let them do all the checks on you, and then people panic and focus on you instead of looking at the evidence they already have. You need to stop bringing all the weapons to trial.

[preordain]

If I leave them in my room and they do a room check, they'll find them. It's safer to keep them on me.

[ so obviously he will keep refusing to do the checks? ]

[tearduct]

[He's frowning because he still doesn't like it even if this is true.]

Leave them in my room then.

[preordain]

... I'll just make sure they have no reason to check me.

[ this solves nothing ]

I don't want them touching me.

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I'll check you, but you're the one who said we should be careful about that. Since they know we know each other.

[Whatever, it isn't like he isn't gonna try to keep them away from Ryo anyway.]

[preordain]

It's a little ridiculous, since if I did anything you'd be the first to accuse me if you thought I did it.

[ like

obviously THEY don't know that. but ryo does. ]

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[He glances at Ryo, expression a bit hurt by the accusation even if it may not be entirely false.]

They don't know what the two of us know. About us.

[preordain]

[ sometimes you have zero expectations that your crush would try to cover for you. it's fine. ]

... no, they don't. Although going by how this week has been going, I wouldn't be surprised if people have some sort of idea.

[ memshare sucks. ]

[tearduct]

[Right... Memshare. He frowns with realization.]

I wish it wasn't doing that.

[He has too many terrible things happen to him for it to be on display for every person he runs into.]

If you... If something like that happens, you need to tell me, Ryo, if you can.

[preordain]

[ he stops walking for a second, before continuing. ]

Are you sure?

[tearduct]

[The stopping surprises him into also slowing to a stop. For a long moment, he doesn't look at Ryo, trying to gauge whether he truly would want to know. On one hand, it'd give him a heads up of what to do, and they've seen--heard--the people offed are somewhere else.

On the other hand... he'd know... Ryo had done something not great to someone else.

He lifts his head to look at Ryo.]

Yeah.

[preordain]

[ the thing is, ryo is still sure that akira might still out him in the end, because akira is a good person. if there's ever a time where maybe more than one person killed, okay, that's a better chance. but if it was only ryo...

...

still. the offer is more than he expected, and his expressions soften in the tiny way it does when he's with just akira. ]

... well, I still don't have any plans to do anything like that, at least.

[tearduct]

[The fact I sweat more and more as Ryo falls more in love with Akira as every day passes.

The look on Ryo's face is one he hasn't seen in a little while, and it makes his heart hurt. Things felt so much simpler when they were both ignorant. The Tree of Knowledge is nothing except pain and suffering.]

Good. [But it makes him think about something else.] Do you know if there really is a limit? To how many can go. I haven't bothered asking.

[preordain]

[ don't worry about it akira it's cool ]

When I asked they said yes, since there's no point of it being an 'exclusive' party if there wasn't some sort of limit. We could ask if anything has changed, since they did give false information before.

[ although he wouldn't be surprised if the limit is still a thing, because in theory it does track for what kind of party it seems like this will be. ]

[tearduct]

[me getting the edit long before the original]

So more of us are going to be taken out of the invite list before we get there...

[Great. HE'S TOO TENDER-HEARTED TO BE HERE FOR THIS. Wasn't life misery enough? Now here too.]

[preordain]

Possibly. Or they could get killed for reasons unrelated to it...

[ like lavi's situation, or how four murdered because she's a weird psychopath. ]

So, try to make sure you don't seem like an easy target.

[tearduct]

[NOT LAVI... He'll cry.]

I wouldn't go down without a fight at least. You know that, Ryo.

[Little does he think about whether it was someone he really liked trying to do him in, though.

That'd be funny.]

[preordain]

I know. It would still be preferable if you aren't a target at all, though...

[ ryo has a lot of confidence in akira, but he does not know enough about everyone else. not having devilman really is inconvenient. ]

[tearduct]

It'll be okay. I'm not gonna make myself a target.

[Not

intentionally...]

[preordain]

[ he is thinking very hard..... ]

Maybe you should have a gun...

[tearduct]

[He really frowns so QUICKLY.]

I'm not keeping a gun, Ryo. I'm not shooting anyone with a gun.