GAME OVER (S██'s Palace)

[pointzeropercent]

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Part 3

[pointzeropercent]

[After everything, the group ends up back in the school where everything started. It still looks the same as the first time they went through, except there are no students milling about in the hallways.

You can see a path of alternating teal and magenta footsteps, leading through the entryway and up a staircase. Follow?]

[prozaic]

[Of course he's follow. It's far too late to turn back now.]

[beathollow]

...

( yes, she follows, one hand on the wall. )

[unweathered]

[ Following!]

[pointzeropercent]

[Up the stars the footprints go, up and up to the third floor. Then they turn and head towards a classroom. This path may be familiar, as it's heading to the same class where all of this started.

Once you are up on the third floor, you will be able to hear yelling coming from a classroom down the hall, in the direction the footprints are headed.]

[unweathered]

[ Running to that direction, guns at the ready. ]

Mr Teal, you better not be losing~

[beathollow]

( mafuyu starts running towards it, because hey? what the fuck? )

[prozaic]

[Oop-- time to run to the source of the yelling! Might even make a dynamic entry if he can.]

[pointzeropercent]

[They reach the classroom, and the door slides open.

It is indeed Teal and Magenta arguing, though the argument might be one-sided as Magenta is definitely the more aggressive one. He's screaming at Teal, who's covering his head with his arms and flinching away from it. Though don't doubt Teal either, even though he looks scared he's still yelling back.]

That moment of weakness is why we died! We could have continued our plan and just gotten Kanna voted out! Then we would have survived!

She's our sister! I couldn't let her die like that!

We barely knew her!

She's family!

Our family is Mom and Dad! She has her own family now!

[It seems like they're arguing about how they died. Definitely the perfect time to interrupt.]

[beathollow]

You loved her enough to die for her regardless.

( even if he regrets it on some level. )

[prozaic]

[Shalem is just going to go and grab a chair to put in between them. Slamming it on the floor in between them, in fact.]

That's enough.

[metagame]

Does your own survival only matter to you..?

[pointzeropercent]

[Both Teal and Magenta are startled by the sudden introduction of the chair, breaking up their argument.

Magenta will respond to Mafuyu, though he's stopped yelling thanks to Interrupting Shalem.]

Tch! If we had really loved her, we would have prevented all of this in the first place. But we were too lax and didn't consider the possibility that Kanna would be acting nervous for reasons beyond getting the Sacrifice card.

[Teal will likewise respond to Atem.]

Well...he probably carries most of our sense of self-preservation, so it makes sense that he's like that.

[Even now, he's being charitable to Magenta.]

[prozaic]

[He'll leave the talking and negotiating to others-- Shalem is just going to stand here where he slammed the chair down, and is drumming his fingers on the backrest. He's just going to be intimidating (12), to keep Magenta from losing it at Teal again.]

[pointzeropercent]

[With a 15+3, Magenta doesn't look that intimidated. But with a 1-3, Teal does. He actually looks so scared that he ducks down to avoid getting hit by anything.

Magenta just looks at Shalem while gesturing at Teal like "you see this shit?"]

[prozaic]

[Just raises an eyebrow at Magenta, unimpressed. His intimidation sucks atp, honestly, what can you do when these people have already seen you die multiple times.]

[pointzeropercent]

[lmao yeah, Magena saw you die already dude.]

[beathollow]

And how would you have done that in a game that is actively stacked against you?

[pointzeropercent]

I would have found a way. That's why I exist: to do the things he couldn't.

['he' being Teal here.]

[beathollow]

But you didn't. You fought a losing battle for two people, and you know it. And now you're torn up about it, literally, or we wouldn't be speaking to two of you right now.

[pointzeropercent]

The only reason I didn't succeed is because he intervened at the end! I can't be blamed for his actions!

[beathollow]

( internally )

It was still you. And what would you have done if she had died, Shin?

[pointzeropercent]

[Magenta seems to react pretty violently to that, flinging a table across the room. Teal flinches away from it too, like he can sense what's coming before it happens.]

That is not my name!

[metagame]

Yet you believe it a lie, do you not? Your guilt was obvious. If you truly embraced your identity as Sou Hiyori... you wouldn't have faltered.

[beathollow]

Because being the man who put you in this situation to begin with is better? Is it? Is it really?

( its telling how mad she is that she doesn't flinch and instead steps closer. )