WEEK ZERO: REMOVAL

[retellers]

WEEK ZERO: REMOVAL (41 remain) Time to wake up, participants of the Realm. At 8am, everyone will receive a message on their PHS. Please be at the plaza by 9am. Even if the participants ignore the message (or are sleeping in, shame on them), as 9am approaches they will fall victim to a compulsion to head to the specified location. Three Leaders, Fox, Rabbit, and Wolf, are already present, Virid with them. Wolf (again) speaks. "... Everyone's here now, so we'll learn what needs to be done soon." Once they finish speaking, an alert goes off from a PHS in the crowd—specifically, Yona's. Her PHS displays a simple message. You have been selected to remove Virid Visette Viridian. Regardless of her will, she will feel compelled to walk towards the scene. No other participant will be able to interfere; should they try, a barrier blocks their way.

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[reconnective]

[it's a hard decision considering they were brought here to watch someone die, but then again after yesterday...]

Neither do I. If this is the only way we can learn what might happen to the rest of us...we probably can't. [if this ever happens again...this will be preparations for the future.]

[exercisms]

Mm. But. . .

[He thinks Yona must know, but does Virid?]

[supremity]

[ A dark laugh to go with his. ]

An example would have been fine, considering what's happened. Murder is murder, and so a punishment was necessary. But this.

[ Making Yona do it, making unjaded and innocent people watch it. ]

[uhhhmagic]

It's called Timestop with a Clone followup, dingus, and it's a strategy. Can't just win everything with evocation, ya clown ass.

[discernments]

You shouldn't have to want this.

[ She thinks, you shouldn't, but everyone has their choices, their own feelings. ]

What we need do is find out if there's a way to make it better. If the Realm reacts to what we do, can we do something about this?

[robopriest]

This is...over the top. Which is an understatement, but...there's no need to make it this kind of spectacle, and make us do its work.

[REALM SUCKS!!!]

[misstrust]

Virid knows how most of us feel, I'm sure of it.

[discernments]

We must not forget—if we're able.

[ If this, too, isn't something that won't be taken away from them. ]

And we must not stop because of it.

[evocationary]

[ NOT ALL OF US ARE LEVEL SIXTEEN WOW ]

Okay, but you powerleveled while I was on hold, so you have an unfair head start. Don't metagame me with your strategy, dweebus.

Also, evocation rules, transmutation drools.

[robopriest]

[That is a terrible thought - that they'll all just forget this, and everything will go back to normal.]

Someone better write it down, I suppose. [He mutters to himself.] Lets just hope we won't have to see this whole thing again.

[favourable]

[...

virid smiles.]

Yeah. It's kind of funny, actually. If I got a wish, I was going to ask to live. That wound... I thought it meant my brother had killed me.

... What I forgot was that we both died that day. Instead of playing by their game, we'd decided to escape to another world and live on together—but things didn't work out that way. He was killed, and I was still bleeding out, so... I made a decision for myself, for the first time.

[he remembers now. why, he doesn't know for sure, but... there's really only one thing he's done differently here than others, isn't there?]

I chose to abdicate the throne and die with him.

So, you don't need to feel bad about this. I'm already dead, and I don't need any wishes this place can give me. I already made one on the Amaranthine.

[he's content with that.]

[chanteuser]

Would that thing be here if it wasn't?

[supremity]

[ Anyone else, it'd probably hurt. Hua Cheng just holds on, letting him squeeze.

And he doesn't say anything, at first, his expression not changing even as he feels that dawning horror in his gut too. Almost nostalgic. ]

... it sounds like it, gege.

[frostythehitman]

[ BELEAGUERED SIGH.

Goddammit, you got him. He'll chaperone you on your barrier-break attempt. ]

Alright, fine. Lead the way.

[siblingless]

[She clenches her jaw, looking down at her feet.]

Then, should we all try taking it down at once? [Sumire knows that's not quite what he means, and that it won't really work. When she looks up, glancing towards Virid and Yona, she makes a small noise of frustration.] This isn't fair. Why did this happen?

[heartablaze]

[Her fists clenches from the other side of his grip. But she locks her jaw, trembling, watching Yona...]

...

Virid-kun...

[robopriest]

...

[Is he...is he saying he remembered because of.................?]

Oh, that's not good.

[THIS IS FINE.JPG]

[discernments]

[ Or Virid can just drop his lore and Jeanne bites her lip, hard.

She takes a deep breath. ]

We might just, yet.

[supremity]

[ Anti-Realm Coalition: Start! ]

"One of us" created the disturbance, so "one of us" needs to fix it, is what I would guess the logic of it is.

[dawnblushed]

[...oh, yona hates this.

hearing this doesn't make it any easier. maybe it should. if he's already dead, then a week here is a week more than he would have had, isn't it? but a life is still a life. he chose to die once, but he could have lived here, if he hadn't...

if things hadn't turned out this way.

yona brings a hand up to wipe at her eyes and takes a breath. when she speaks, her voice comes out mostly steady.]

Is that... is that all that you wanted to say?

[she can't say that she won't feel bad about this, because she will. but if it brings him peace, then she at least won't argue with him, either. the best she can do now is give him the chance to say anything else he wants to say.

and if there's nothing, then... to make it as quick as possible.

her other hand comes to rest on the guillotine's lever, waiting.]

[dianxias]

[ oh this is bad, actually. very, very bad.

xie lian bites his lip, and says a silent prayer for virid, though he doesn't turn his face away. ]

[robopriest]

[Hansa raises his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose.]

May the Holy Father help us. Of course there would be a twist like that...

[heartablaze]

So...

What happens to Yona-chan, then, if...

[Well. Not if, at this point. It looks very much like a "when."]

[discernments]

You're right, but if there's so much disturbance, is it what it truly wants?

[supremity]

[ He looks up from her, to Yona and Virid, though it lingers a moment longer on Yona. They could certainly try to take it down together, but he's not so optimistic as to think it would work without better a better tactic. ]

The Realm wanted to restore balance. We didn't know what that meant, and for as much as he deserved the punishment for what he did... [ A dry huff. ] No, it's not fair.