goalsides | NIER;

What? No! [jesus christ.] I'm just asking in case anything comes up. You know how weird this school is.

[ Stop... That gets him to laugh. ]

I was kidding. [ Anyway. ] I do know how to swim now.

[rude :( but he does grin slightly.]

Good to know. The more we can do to keep everybody a little safer, the better.

[seriously how has no one drowned someone in the pool yet. terrifying.]

[ Yeah, how has no one drowned yet? Where is our pool death so no one will EVER USE IT? Because most people's corpse to water ratio is 1:1 pool. ]

Yeah, as safe as possible... Do you still think that these are involuntary?

[ The murders. It really is murder talk in seasonality's version of a closet. Nier pulls this out. ]

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[hateful. also i'm crying. taichi stares blankly at the costume before batting at one of the little arms with a shrug.]

I don't know if I would say it's involuntary, but I do think there's something pressuring them to do this and not talk about it. Blackmail, something. I haven't figured out what yet.

[ Nier has never seen a dinosaur before in person (WHO hAS). ]

True. I did hear that Rupert planned both murders, then Ichinose said Kaoruko did, too. [ ... ] It's just people heavily considering it back in trial made me want to believe the same thing.

[taichi has. taichi literally has a dinosaur.]

I asked him why he picked the two of them. He said he didn't have a particular reason. Does that sound right to you?

[ Nier saw that, but also found it hard to tell it was a dinosaur because Aguman is actually a chibisaur. He wants to ask about that, but first this. ]

That lines up with what was told to Winter, yeah.

It doesn't make any sense. Maybe they were just people picked at random, sure, fine, but the fact that it was twice in a row is what doesn't sit right with me.

Personally, I'd think they chose people they weren't close to so it's easier.

[ It's definitely easier for him to consider killing people he barely knows. ]

I don't know if Rupert knew either of his victims that well, so that's one way to look at it. But it still doesn't answer why it was back to back.

... The only explanation I can make up is that whatever they're working towards can only be done by killing multiple people.

...mm. Rupert seemed to be implying we're all still on the same side. Killers included. So what, this school's running on sacrifices?

[ Plainly: ]

I don't like it.

[ Cause what the fuck? All of that is unsettling. Awful. Bad. ]

Me either. [he pushes aside a banana costume, and then an apple.]

So what do we do next? At this rate it almost feels like you have to kill someone yourself to learn anything about it.

[ Taichi... Why are you saying it like that. Who taught you this. Nier finds the grotesque grape outfit. ]

I'd say we should find the last maybe... Two? Killers, but they might not be able to tell us, either.

[ rip ]

[he would prefer not to???? but look.]

That's my point. But it's not like we have leads on Sieghart so I have no idea where to start looking.

Yeah... Sieghart's case was all over the place, but it seemed like we got everything we could?

[ He thinks. ]

The problem is that people know what we're looking for now. It's going to be easier and easier for killers to hide clues if they know what we're expecting. I wonder if that's what happened here.

If they know what we're looking for, then shouldn't that make it easier to figure out how they might try to hide those things?

[ Nier thinks about it some more and the Sieghart case. ]

Actually, that still seems difficult since it feels like there's so much you can do with vouchers.

...do you think somebody could buy a way to hide certain evidence for the right price?

[maybe...maybe that's how they missed something else.]

It’s possible. Though I don’t know how likely dorm heads would exchange things like that.

Speaking of which, did you find out what Rupert used his vouchers for?

The dorm heads exchanged for a pole for Hanayagi didn't they? I don't know if they really get a choice if people are willing to pay vouchers.

[which isn't their fault. but wow. dorm wars bad.]

I didn't get around to asking, no. Have you heard anything?

I thought they did, but a pole is different from some power that can make evidence vanish or obscure it.

[ them: do dorm heads have morals I guess they don’t need those ]

I haven’t. I know there was the six vouchers to Chad that weren’t accounted for unless I somehow missed it in the mess that Saturday.

Unless someone phrased it in a totally different way. I don't know. I don't think the dorm heads would help cover up a murder since they don't know more about them than we do, but if somebody was smart enough they could lie to them.

[who's to say!]

I never found out either. But Saturday was so confusing to begin with...it was hard to know what to focus on at any time.

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