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kondo kozue | 近藤梢 (anthesphoria) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-07-18 23:23:00

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SEEKRIT MEETING
Who: Kozue and Much of Team?
Where: Butterfly Room
When: Some time after 'dem big plot announcements
What: Meet. Talk. Panic? Probably panic.
Why: See what.

Kozue, it turned out, was actually fairly experienced in sneaking out of the dormitories.

She was just usually evading curfew and hall monitors, not the police or whoever was enforcing the Stay In Your Rooms Students policy... but maybe they were actually the hall monitors, or they were as practiced as the hall monitors were. It had been nerve-wracking, and she had been more careful than she almost ever was, but it had gone off almost seamlessly. And now she was in Noodle Alley, out of uniform and very quickly-and-not-suspiciously slipping into the secret door.

She held her breath and hoped that the angels hadn't somehow figured out how to get into the Room, but… where else was safe? From police and the principal and shadows and angels to boot? This was way too much. Just way, way too much for her. Hopefully Yoshi and Masami and Kai and Keiichi and Renju and whoever else would be here soon—they'd said they'd come, and that would make things easier because they could talk about it and not leave her in this terrified, uncertain place. She didn't even have Kiriko to walk there with, or Kiriko's nonchalant, uncaring cool to take heart from. She hadn't realized how much that made her feel safe, until just now, but…

"Hello?" She called out, as the door creaked open and she slipped into the blue-lit, calm, hopefully Not A Terrible Trap room.

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anthesphoria
2010-07-22 10:58 pm UTC (link)

Kozue had been about to say something, but with the sudden appearance (sudden, but not really surprising, because a surprising Tom appearance was seldom, if ever, thematically a surprise) of Tom and Max, she was sidetracked. Mostly by Max.

She bent down and scooped him up, cooing and making generic puppy talk at him—things along the lines of I'm so glad you're okay and the bad angels didn't hurt you and reminding him that he was a cute puppy. As Masami arrived, she looked up, and nodded. "It seems like everyone is okay, I've heard from mostly everyone. ... Probably someone should text Aoi-san and Nishihara-san and see what they're up to." Now would definitely be the time to strike. Misaki had already been into Paradise, but Kozue wasn't sure that it was a guarantee of safety. After all, they had thought Seiji was safe, too...

That thought bothered her. She turned to look at Renju again. "So... if Prometheus was protecting him, and Prometheus is still there..." She frowned. "I mean, did anybody see him?" She hugged Max slightly closer. "His body, I mean. What if they didn't hurt him through Paradise?" It would be easy enough to just kill one teenager the normal way, right? "Either way, yeah. We need to find out what happened, right? To the angel, too. He could still be there, after what he said about him and Mikio-san being so much separated."

She looked between the already-gathered members, able to ask questions, not quite able to propose something. "... so what should we do?"

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lotus_beyond
2010-07-23 02:54 am UTC (link)

The glance did not escape Renju, even as she inclined her head slightly in acknowledgment of Tom's entrance and casual apology for her phrasing. It was baffling, and a little irritating, but calling Seiko on it or letting it ruffle her feathers would be a waste of time at this point.

"I would suggest trying to find Mikio-kun as well, but given the amount of security right now..." Renju shot a brief, thoughtful look at Tom, then shook her head. "It's not likely that any of us will be able to manage it safely. We might be suspects, after all..." The thought disturbed her. At least they had somewhere to go that was safe from the temporal authorities.

"I think that, as Yukizaki-san said, our best link to what happened is the angel. At least some of us should return to Seiji's place to find it again." Another glance, this one a wary look down towards the doors that led to the various dungeons. "Though it may be risky right now, with the angels active, we seem to have few other options."

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ofmanydevices
2010-07-25 03:02 am UTC (link)

"By the time I got there the police were already swarming the place. I tried to keep an eye on them to make sure they weren't looking to us." Tom looked at Seiko, contemplating putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. He looked toward Kozue, and recalled her advice on not being clingy and weird. He let his arm hang at his side.

Max on the other hand was happy to be clingy, and licked Kozue's arm, his tail wagging furiously. He intended to make a full round to everyone in the group, but as long as love and cuddles continued, he would stick with the person that loved him.

"I'm already out of my dorm, back in my father's house. He doesn't care about me being there, but I don't think he'd want Max around. I'm not sure what to do with him. Though in the interim I've set up a hotel room that can't be traced back to us where I can keep him, and anyone else who needs it, at least for a few days." At the mention of angels, Tom's eyes narrowed, and he found himself grinding his teeth.

"I'm arranging for the angels to have problems of their own. Fujiwara is gone, I'm making sure he can't come back. I'll be presenting evidence to the police that he was up to wrong doing, and that he attacked me in his store. That coupled with his association to Mikio and his having fled... it'll make him a prime suspect. The police will investigate him, and hopefully anyone he's associated with. With luck our enemies will need to worry about getting caught now too." Tom's hands clenched into fists.

"As for finding them in Paradise... well if we do, we can consider ourselves very lucky to speak to them on behalf of Mikio." Tom could barely contain the anger in his voice as he thought of what they might do should they find the Angels in paradise.

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mellow_lellow
2010-07-26 02:45 pm UTC (link)

"I think we should all be able to put people up or find places to stay, it'd be better to stick together even if it is in pairs, if Mikio was taken into Paradise, or well whatever was done to him it is better for us to be able to look out for each other." She sighed, solving this wasn't what concerned her, she knew she wasn't smart enough to work out the murderer, what was more important to her was everyone being protected, safe. After her own ordeal in Paradise everything seemed a thousand times more dangerous, more worrying.

"We should wait a while before we go in to Paradise, I imagine the murderer might suspect us to go in immediately, we can't just rush in they might be waiting for us." She paused with a frown, Tom sounded angry about this, but even though she knew the angels were their 'enemies' she wondered if they others were too as confused as Mikio not human, having to fulfill some higher goal?

"Easy tiger." She said glancing at Tom. "We don't even know for certain if it was them who did this, not only that but didn't Mikio work for Fujiwara or something? Maybe they were friends? Maybe this is more complicated emotionally than just a traitor being silenced." Perhaps she just was trying to justify their actions to try to understand them, or get all this into something she could understand.

She sighed, this all also probably meant date plans were off, not that she wasn't appriciating the gravity of the situation. But after getting thrown into Paradise, having her friends (and assorted acquaintances) see her deepest darkest thoughts and feelings, being stuck half naked to a statue, then once rescued had to deal with her suddenly rediscovered inner bitch and boyfriend trouble along with being forced onto a mission in Paradise? She felt like she had at least deserved one date before they got thrown back into the crazy quite so hard.

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