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holyspirits) wrote2025-03-16 05:56 pm
holyspirits) wrote2025-03-16 05:56 pmW5 CYOA - Zhongli, Akihiko, Laurence, Ali Zoph
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holyspirits) wrote2025-03-16 05:56 pm
AKIHIKO
Akihiko takes his cart and nyooms off for the theater. It's a big outdoor theater with a giant projector screen behind a stage. It has colosseum seating looking down.
Currently there are a few scattered guests in the seats, since there aren't reservations necessary. But there isn't a show going on right now, so they're mostly just there to eat lunch from the nearby restaurants.
Whatcha doin? ]
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So, what are the preparations around here? What is Akihiko finding, that might indicate that stuff?]
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There are a few girls with helmets pushing large speakers around on the sides of the stage. One bunny girl is standing in the middle adjusting the microphone. ]
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Descending the stairs with the whole cart probably won't do, so Akihiko instead rummages on the cart and gets a rag and the most all-purpose spray bottle he could find. As long as it looked like it had liquid in it, it'd do. With this stuff in hand, Akihiko descends the stairs to approach the stage. He's not going up there because it's empty, but he approaches this girl at the microphone]
Is something happening today?
[Since finding out anything through deduction won't do, it'll have to be done through talking. Let's test the waters and see what we get here.
Still, that's not really the only goal here. This is an outdoors stage, but it's unlikely the Idol would come down from the colosseum seating. There must be an alternate way for the artist to get to the stage. That might be the best way to intercept the Idol, probably...is any route like that visible?]
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Nah, just kiddin'. I know what you mean. Step right up, you're today's opener!
As Akihiko approaches he can actually see that there isn't much of a backstage or alternate area of approach. It's outdoors and at the back of the ship. Wasn't the cafe at the back of the ship too. Don't worry about it. So there's like... Space for a performer to MAYBE change clothes real quick and some storage behind the projector screen. But otherwise just a bit of empty space. ]
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[Shit. Akihiko's mind races. What blends in more? To accept, or to refuse? Is asking someone who came to clean to come and do something at the microphone something normal?!
.......
Well no time to think]
F-Fine. Don't complain if it ends up a mess.
[Akihiko puts the rag and spray bottle on the floor, and gets in front of the microphone, arms crossed because he doesn't know what to do with them.
And he delivers a minute-long boxing match commentating he recalls from one of his own matches. This is not the greatest spectacle ever, but hey, at least it tested the microphone and that's what matters.
Face slightly flushed, Akihiko steps away from the microphone]
You can't just put people on the spot like that!
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Once he's stepped away from her mic again, she resumes her spot behind it. ]
You kinda just did all that to yourself.
But I guess that's the kinda guy you are.
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I came here to clean; I didn't come here to watch that.
[Time to leave this stage in a hurry. Yeah, he accepted what he did, but there's a whole world of difference between people from heaven knowing about it, and random girls from who knows where knowing about it! Geez.
Akihiko takes out his phone, messaging the rest]
I'm at the theater but there doesn't seem to be much productive to do over here. Any luck wherever you guys are?
[Well, they sure have had more luck than you, Akihiko]
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Him walking away is not going to make this video stop playing. Him trying to turn his back on it doesn't change what he's done.
The video progresses, violence in the candy castle foyer playing out just as he remembers.
But sure! He can send that text! ]
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Putting the phone away and noting his way out is blocked by crowds of people, he turns towards her]
I won't bother asking where or how you got that from, but that doesn't mean you can just air someone's past like that.
Just turn it off, please. I'm trying to start over, alright?
[He's trying not to make a scene because if he goes and like unplugs the projector or anything, it will cause a hubbub, he's sure, but damn, he never thought that here, in this ship of all places, his own crime would be reminded]
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Because you're the only one left?
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Of course not!
[How to put it into words...]
...because nobody else gets to decide that but me. I'm the one who has to change. Obviously I'm the one who has to figure out when and where the starting point of any change is at.
So fine, if you and the rest want to gawk at that, go ahead. See if I care.
[He cares, deeply, but damn it, what else is he supposed to do without causing a whole mess that can put the current mission into peril? Sucks to have to swallow this bitterness, because it feels like a constant punch to the stomach to have this reminder especially when it's all so fresh, but oh well]
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[Or at least he hopes so, because if it turns out this ship's population will, who knows, turn up at the end to vote or something to decide if he gets redemption or not, he's screwed!]
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The truth, for example?
Sounds to me like you just act selfishly and dress it up in nice words after so you can forget about it.
The crowd gasps and oohs sympathetically, but Akihiko gets the feeling it isn't him they're sympathetic towards. ]
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Do you really think any of that is something I can forget?! I couldn't even if I wanted! All that is going to follow me forever. But that doesn't mean I'm going to grovel in front of any random girl on a random ship!
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