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[errandry]

[ from the recording, the noise boils out of the speakers in a torrent of shrieks and chanting and drums. impressions are almost shockingly crisp: the vaulted ceilings, torches leering from the dark, carved idols with all their spines and horns. figures flicker in and out of focus as the recording darts past—stripped bare, every one. well, it's only manners in a cult to go naked to a ritual sacrifice, isn't it?

the tide of sound rises. they're shouting a single name. Esaimu, Esaimu, Esaimu—! ]



[ then, of course, the camera zeroes in to a figure on the outskirts. for a boy surrounded by naked women, he sure looks traumatised. ]

E... saimu...



[ meanwhile, very clearly from the present— ]

I'm totally gonna wreck the video on this thing. How'd it even get inside my mind?!

Comments

[aettir.livejournal.com]

What'd yours show, anyway?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

When Sho was following me and I tricked him into blowing up his head.

1/3

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ you know, Kazuo, sometimes he forgets that you are a psychopath. ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ and then you remind him. ]

3/4

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[ . . . ]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

For—that thing with your school, right?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Why?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

I dunno, asking?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

It is fine.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

That's probably a worse thing to broadcast any day.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

What is?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

K—kh.

[ frustrated noise. ]

Killing someone.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

It was not important.

1/2

[aettir.livejournal.com]

[aettir.livejournal.com]

What the hell—are you seriously saying that?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Then what's important?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Nothing.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

Bullshit.

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

Why?

[aettir.livejournal.com]

If nothing's important, then what—what the fuck are you even doing? Why're you here? What're you doing talking to me, anyway?

Don't—you want anything?

[deadliest6.livejournal.com]

[So many questions.]

I want nothing.

[aettir.livejournal.com]

So why'd you kill everybody in your class?