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wcb r5; day 1; Moriarty
[Akane is perfectly calm, and perfectly willing to be carried wherever Moriarty sees fit to take her. Why shouldn't she be? She knows him, even if he doesn't know her. He wouldn't kill her without a good reason, not this early. Not even if he doesn't know her.
And if he has a good enough reason for that...?
Well, maybe that would be fair too. But for now she's perfectly relaxed.]
And if he has a good enough reason for that...?
Well, maybe that would be fair too. But for now she's perfectly relaxed.]
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She bites her lip, and then speaks, her voice soft; she couldn't see a camera, but she still didn't want one hearing her, and this seemed to be the best she could do.]
I...
I was killed, when I was twelve. Or I will be, anyway. Will have been. They put me in an incinerator and I burn to death. I... I still have fevers, because I'm caught in a time loop. And the other end of the loop... in order to keep it from ending in my dying....
I was able to reach 9 years into the future when I was trapped in that incinerator. I was able to reach a friend of mine. He was playing the Nonary Game then, too. So... I set it up. I'm... you won't be familiar with it, here, but I--well, I and my brother.... We called ourselves Zero, and we set up another game.
We trapped people in there, including ourselves. We put bombs in them. And we have to play the game, and it has to end right, because if it doesn't... I'm going to vanish.
[She's trying to justify herself, still, still so nearly sure that he'll hate her for being the one responsible for a game that is a cousin to the one that they're in right now.]
It's not just about that, actually. That's... that's the reason we did it, but.... We're also getting revenge on the men who did that to me, back then. To us. The one who was in charge of it, the one who dragged me into the incinerator and locked me in... he's going to kill all his friends.
And everyone else, probably, if everything goes wrong. If it's not the right timeline.
I... I didn't have anything to do with what happened here, though, I promise.
I....
[And she bites her lip again, and has to force herself not to look away, because how can he possibly trust her when she did tell him that, so soon? Why would he believe her assertion? Her soul, her secrets, laid bare and exposed to someone who doesn't know her, and her desperate instinct is to pull away, to try to protect herself, to try to hide them again. But....
He'd asked for more. He'd asked for her trust and she believed in him....
Right?]
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Carved into the core of what he is, is her. Her pain. Her suffering, of being burned alive as a 12 year old. The fact that she is doing her own game where there will be death and suffering, all for her goal to survive -
- and he does not hate her, for how could he hate someone who is struggling for the right to live, even if it would be considered Evil? Even if it was to also get revenge, is that not fair for it to be given to men who were willing to sacrifice children for their aims?
She has the resolve to do so, even if those innocent will suffer for it. He knows this, just like he knows her story, coming to him like a half-remembered dream.
So, his response...is obvious, isn't it?
When she trails off...he looks at her, and then wraps his arms around her, pulling her close to his chest, hand on the back of her head.
It's alright. I will not reject you, Akane. I could never reject you, no matter if you were good or evil.]
...Thank you, my Akane. For trusting in me.
[Again, that falls out of his mouth before he can even think it, but is just....feels right, in this moment as he holds her, now aware of how afraid she must be, how much this must have taken to say, how quickly she attempted to downplay it.
And yet...she trusted him with a truth that could jeopardize her if it ever came to light, an ugly truth that most here would not be able to understand.
But he does.
So he will never betray her in turn.]
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I'm glad I get to meet you again. I'm glad I met you the first time. I love you, Daddy.
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And I you, my dear. Though you'll have to be a bit understanding if there are things I miss! I'll have to learn you once more.
[And then...Moriarty laughs, lightly.]
Then again, I suppose this is merely my comeuppance for normally being the one in your situation!
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That's okay. I told you, I know that you aren't, well.... That you aren't the you I knew before. It's only understandable that it will take time for all of this again.
[And then he makes her laugh again, almost giggle, and this time there's relief more prominently than anything else in it.]
Maybe there is. If it helps, I do know some of what you're dealing with, I think.
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Ah? Yes, I assume you would, given...
[He trails off, before gesturing.]
...Well. I needn't say it fully, hm?
[There's a pause again, before-]
...Ah. Should I go into a bit of detail about myself, given what you've kindly told me about yourself? While I am certain the core of the two of us remains the same, I have gone through certain...events my other has not, I'm sure.
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[This part... it can never really be rushed, no matter what the need is. What a shame.]
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[He smiles at her, then-]
Truthfully, I was never taken to the world I was in before like most involved in this game for the purpose of playing in these sorts of games - no, I was instead summoned to the middle of one to play a certain bit part.
[He sighs, dramatically.]
It was supposed to be a simple thing - one and done! Yet, just because I led them all on a small, inconsequential chase, one of them forced a contract with me.
[He shrugs, though it's with a bit of chagrin.]
...Well, I suppose I had another reason in accepting it, and it wasn't completely forced. Still!