KON CATCH ALL

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The friend is Toki

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Weekend 0, Friday

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[Tsuyukusa is immediately scoping out this setting, so it doesn't take him long to run into Kon, who he acknowledges by just shouting;]

YOU!
[With the undertone of he's about to blame Kon for this entire situation.]

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[ at least he doesn't jump out of his skin, but kon does straighten abruptly at hearing the shot, turning, and - ]

Tsuyukusa? Holy shit - [ and then he sees a flash of the state of him, beneath the school jacket. ] Stop looking at me like that. Are you still bleeding?

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I'm fine!
[He may still be bleeding. Don't worry about it.]

Forget about that! Did you do this!? If you're going to put me in some other world the least you could fucking do is give me all the abilities I'm supposed to have??

w0, saturday, post trial

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[ there's a lot to think about, after that shitshow. but kon, for as frustrating as that was and exhausting, in the long run, is walking the campus. he avoids the geese, making his way towards the most... forest-y area of the grounds, scanning.

until, once he's close enough to make a guess based on intuition: ] Tsuyukusa?

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[He's perched up in a tree, and frankly surprised he was spotted.]

What do you want?
[It's not even with his normal irritated bite. Just dejected.]

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[ there he is - he figured he'd be around here, somewhere. he follows the tree voice. ]

Came to check on you. [ beat ] Not out of pity, or whatever. It was just a shitty as hell day all around.

week 1 Friday morning

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What the fuck happened to you?

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[ wouldn't it be great if i was dead and didn't answer this text ]

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[ nah jk ]

monster made of rotting meat a little like the dead and vengeful ayakashih that yakou had merged together vomited acid all over us while trying to kill us.

1/2

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[CRYING I FORGOT SOMEONE IS DEAD RIGHT NOW]

What???

2/2

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So does that mean the yakou is behind all of this after all??

w1, sunday

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[ once he's helped manwol out and spent time in winter with viola and his dormmates, kon sends just a single: ]

meet behind the SUB.

[ and whenever tsuyukusa gets there, he holds up a hand tiredly where he's sitting on the ground in the shade. ]

Two people have died. The Pokémon used were returned to those balls to heal safely, it's part of why they stay temporarily in them. I'm tired, injured, and hate this place. I don't want to fight with you, Tsuyukusa, but I don't want you to think you're not warranted your anger.

So just - let's not be assholes at each other if we can help it. Let's try and do that truce some actual good.

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[He doesn't reply to the text, simply goes to meet Kon as asked, and it's like Kon read his mind because he comes stomping around, clearly ready to yell about something or other. The request makes him pause but he's... absolutely still angry.]

You don't even know what I'm angry about.

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[ he resists the urge to count on his fingers. ]

You're angry because this place is fucked up, you've been forced to watch multiple die over two weeks, we've been put through some stupidass shit, I was insensitive about the Pokémon because I was understandably under duress but shouldn't have taken it out on you being also understandably distressed.

[ like, do you want him to keep going, because he's also resisting the urge to add on "you're also just angry because you always are." truce! respect the truce, kon, you suggested it in the first place! ]

w2, monday

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[ god i'm so tired and so is kon. ]

winter dorm is going over information today.
i'll give you an update once i can put it all together into something coherent, but
it's a lot. it's a fucking lot, tsuyukusa.
i can definitely say we're not in amatsuki - the yakou, teiten, all of that, none of them are part of this.

crow got a script for a performance that was rejected.
like a play or show. like that cats thing, or the one that's always playing in the gym.
someone is using it to control us and make us act out roles and games for their entertainment is the only way i can explain it.

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[A little while later;]

Sieghart's just told us something similar, said that he heard about it from Taichi. So either multiple people got the same false information or it's legitimately the situation here.

w3, monday

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[ everything happens so much! kon is - tired, honestly. but he's got his notebook with him, and is jittering, trying not to think of the fact that he's seen a handful of memories from other people today. hopefully that doesn't get sprung on him yet again.

but he does head out to find tsuyukusa. if he doesn't spot him, he'll text him, but - hey hey hey time for plot sharing! ]

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[Tsuyukusa like most people goes out to explore the new buildings, so Kon can find him (spins wheel) in the auditorium! Hello sir.]

Oh. It's you.
[Hello to you too, tree.]

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Don't sound so excited to see me.

[ damn, tree. but he holds out his notebook to him. ]

I'm going to want it back because I need to actually keep logging things, but here. I promised to give you an update once I'd gotten the information.

week 4, wednesday

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[Hey Kon! Look who's wandered into the kitchen! A rare sight given he doesn't eat.]

You're cooking again, huh.

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[ he glances up, dusting his hand of flour off on his waist-tied apron. there's some surprise at seeing tsuyukusa in here, yeah, but it isn't displeased by it. ]

Yeah, now that I'm not - [ makes a face ] - running around wanting to get married.

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So you two got over that already? That's good. It was weird.

[He is trotting over to grabs some teacups and a kettle so it seems he's making tea.]

w5, saturday

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[ here he is! here he fucking is. and he hates this so much more than he could have actually anticipated?

but kon comes into the classroom, bringing a thing of sake with him like when he'd brought it out of the SUB for tsuyukusa in the first place. ]

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[He just takes it and looks up at Kon with a tired, almost irritated but mostly just emotionally exhausted look like "what do you want me to say"?]

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[ he pulls up a chair to riker over it, sitting backwards and bringing his arms up to cross on the top of it. ]

We don't have to talk. But I'm going to catch who killed Leo. [ point blank, to start. ] He was my friend, and even if you're going to be seeing him and Otome soon, that was what you asked of us.

And then we're going to make sure we get all of you out of the daycare, so that you can all graduate.