suitedreams: Jiji

[battling]

some names get shortened because i can't remember

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[unsaid]

[mikazuki is aware - he'd shared a meal with aikawa when he first met him too.

he supposes doing the same in his honor would be fine.

mikazuki will just nod then, and take a pair of chopsticks, and join bradley in his eating]

... you must be unsatisfied.

[battling]

[ He eats them with a fork like an animal.

He looks tired for a moment. These 600+ years and all the people he's lost along the way. When you're the only wizard of all your siblings, you get used to losing them.

That doesn't make it better. Time can dull the pain, but this wound is fresh. ]

Yeah. [ Why should he lie? ] Three different cases and we managed to solve one.

[ That's better that last week, and yet. It doesn't make him feel better. ]

[unsaid]

.... there remain hints and leads. I do not believe it whole-heartedly without hope in order to find results.

[for whatever reason there could be....]

But for now, there is a certain sting to knowing it could not be done in the allotted timeframe.

[battling]

[ He takes a sip of sake, and takes the moment to consider it. ]

We had a messy footprint and a spear. The people who were missing tickets. Somebody had their memory fucked with.

[ The longer it goes, the less likely they'll be able to find the culprits. ]

[unsaid]

It depends on if you believe that the pool was related to Aikawa's murder, or Zuko's.

I do believe the print there was left perhaps by Diluc Ragnvindr...

But we might still be able to investigate people's recollections of the past week, and see what they are able to discern.

[battling]

Both his pendant and the script were found there. Along with his brains, blood, and those bone bits.

It's not impossible that their killers were there at different times. The lobby and the pool ain't that far from each other.

[unsaid]

[he nods at that]

Precisely so. There was a great deal of overlap in these cases...

It only proved to make it more difficult for us.

[battling]

It starts getting muddier the more place gets used. Harder to tell who's related to which bits of evidence.

[unsaid]

[he nods again]

... unfortunately, it remains that this is what we have to navigate in order to find our answers.

The frustration remains.

[battling]

It's a bitter feeling.

[unsaid]

It is.

[ . . . ]

Do you possess any regret for coming here?

[battling]

I ain't enjoying myself.

[ but if it's let Nero die or suffer, he'll always pick Nero. ]

You? Wish ya didn't come?

[unsaid]

[ . . . he tilts his head at that]

Well, we have said before that in the end, it is coercion.

[ . . . ]

Though I think I would have attended regardless.

[battling]

To fight?

[unsaid]

In my own way, perhaps.

[ . . . ]

It is difficult - to think that others may suffer, and I might ignore it.

[battling]

If you see it, it's hard t' ignore?

[unsaid]

[ . . . ]

If I know it exists.