[Vash looks a glum as a human can with a cup of coffee as he pokes at his hashbrowns in the cafeteria. Is he just living two days in the past? It's hard to tell, but he looks like a man on death row who can't even stomach his last meal. It's all over the trial evidence he's carrying in his pocket, does Vash really want to know the details of his own crimes? He knows he should, but he's trying to make excuses for himself not to, and put this off as long as possible.]

[To anyone wandering by, Vash is off in his own little cloud of gloom.]

[Not for the first time, Sora realizes how much stronger Riku is than he is. Struggle all he likes, he can't throw Riku off of him. Finally, Sora takes a break] This isn't over yet, Riku! [Just... break.]

[Axel's friends are so important to him, and Suzaku, ugh! Who is he to ask Senti to keep the stupid chains on someone another day? That isn't right! Not that Sora EVER expects his chains to come off now. But, he'll live with it. Anyway, if Riku is right, and Senti hates him more, at least they can do their prison activities together for a long time]

[Sora makes a face at Riku] You're heavy.

[Naminé knows she shouldn't be upset. By all rights, she can't be. But she is. All of the happenings from just that morning have her on edge, but Saix wants to meet Suzaku and so she'll go with him just as he goes with her. It's only fair, and she wants to help.

She follows Saix to the Dolphin Observation Deck, a little behind and to the side of him, with little to say for now. She doesn't want to dwell on that morning's first disruption over the network.]

I'm not cleaning any bathrooms.

Degrading someone like me to do work like that?

Someone else can do it. Now.

HAPPY INTERGALACTIC BUTTER DAY!

[Having at long last thrown off the bonds of thralldom (or at the very least serfdom, being equally atrocious a fate!) Kunou makes his path to the dojo, again at long last! And lo! The heavens smile upon him!]

Seek and ye shall find! [Holding up a bokken!] Behold, all who dare to look upon its brilliance, the glory of my new weapon! I shall bequeath it the most noble of purposes: to protect she which shames the sunrise with her splendor, my adoring beauty, the Pigtailed Girl! Quake in thy boots, all ye who seek to deter me from my righteous path of love!

[And now! To find someone to smite.]

[Following her disturbing discovery, Nunnally is out in the Butterfly Pavilion. She is seated on the ground, on a blanket, her chair parked only a couple feet away. Around her bounds Anastasia, the Giza rabbit. On her are a few butterflies. She's quite lost in thought, but wouldn't mind pleasant company.

Isn't it all quite picturesque?]

[Once Bakura's ball and chain were removed, he started tinkering with his communicator, managed to figure out how to read the map on his communicator, and saw there was an arcade, he made a bee-line straight for it. Is this really a prison? He sticks his head in the arcade, and a smile lights his face, as he hurries over to a zombie shooting game.]

Fantastic!

[He laughs, his happiness at being allowed off the chain, and finally having a bit of fun is a little overwhelming, and makes him seem perhaps a few years younger than he actually is. The spirit takes a bit of an interest in the game, and after the first round, Bakura let's Touzokuou take over, seeing no harm in him playing for a bit. He's very happy that he hasn't managed to start any trouble yet, and has allowed Bakura to conceal his existence.]