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[week 0 ; monday]

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[ So, right about now, Kotetsu is currently sitting in the courtyard rather near where the net trap is set up. It doesn't look like he's currently in any kind of trouble and just is... waiting for someone? Or something? His tiger is sitting two feet away, but occasionally is shifting between bunny and lion form. ]

This is getting kind of boring.

[malewife]

What are you doing?

[ Joonghyuk appears from the direction opposite of the trap... His wolf daemon comes with him, hiccuping to switch between a hawk and then a black jaguar. ]

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I'm using myself as bait.

[ Even if the kids he was working with before, he's still keeping diligent in trying things with their traps. ]

w1 monday

[malewife]

[ wherever the hecc is tiger, Joonghyuk is also here, looking... Displeased as usual.

Then he sees him. ]

I am aware you cannot run like a regular human being, but what about swimming? Can you at least properly swim?

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[ Just... around! Guess you caught him in one of the moments where he's not actually glued to Sholmes. Lucky for him. ]

I haven't gone swimming in years, but I know how to swim just fine.

[ He doesn't even protest the running part at this point. Seems he's gotten bullied on it enough. ]

[malewife]

[ Damn. Can't believe I separated the gays... Well, swimming is kind of like riding a bike, so yeah. ]

How well would you say you are at teaching?

[ He will not bully Kotetsu. ]

w1 sunday, post-exec

[malewife]

[ Wherever Kotetsu is, Joonghyuk happens to be here, too. He frowns. ]

Your wounds.

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[ He's sitting up in the solar, maybe about to stand to stretch out a little. But he looks up when he hears that voice. ]

Kim said I'll make it through it.

[malewife]

I'll make sure to tell others when you start bleeding.

[ He will rat you out, but anyway. ]

Are you all right?

w2 wednesday, post-event

[malewife]

[ Well, after cleaning everything up, it's kind of nice to walk around the city, though he keeps wondering if there's anything to find. He notices Kotetsu, but doesn't get a chance to say anything because Niah brushes against a strange piece of glass.

Your name is Yoo Joonghyuk. You are twenty-eight, a professional Esports player, and you're on your way to pick up your younger sister, Yoo Mia. It is busy on the subway, as it always is in Seoul. You're used to it and keep your eyes on your smartphone... Looking up the report the private investigator you hired has finally sent you. It is then the subway abruptly stops. It's then when the world changes. A white fluffy goblin shows up and tells you the stage is ready for the upcoming apocalypse.

A blue system message pops up to every person on the train.

< Main Scenario #1 – Proof of Value >
Category: Main
Difficulty: F
Clear Conditions: Kill one or more creatures.
Time Limit: 30 minutes
Reward: 300 coins
Failure: Death

Of course, people protest. They try to ward off the goblin with yells and screams in their panic, but it makes an example of them. Pop pop pop, three heads explode. Participate in the scenario of die the exact same way. Blood splatters onto people and the window panes... You're scared. There's... Only people here. In less than a minute, fights start breaking out around you. No one was spared and eventually everyone chose to kill to survive—elderly, men, women, and children. You, too, choose to take another's life.

More system messages flood.

[ Great Sage, Heaven's Equal has donated 200 coins for your first kill! ]
[ Maritime War God has donated 100 coins for your perseverance! ]
[ Abyssal Black Flame Dragon demands more carnage! ]

You don't want to die. Mia... Will she be okay? You have to return to her. You have to find her.

But you don't last long. By the time you and the other survivors could get out of your train cart, the dead start rising and snarl. The only thing they know is hunger now, so they swarm their prey: you and the others. Screams ring again in your ears, but they taper out. You can't tell if it's because they've been caught or your senses are fading.

You've taken someone's life to live for how long? Ten more minutes? On the floor, you can feel your blood pool beneath you as human teeth snag onto your neck, eating away at your flesh. You die from blood loss.

Then you wake up again, on that train, and repeat. Again, you must take a life. Again, you have to survive. This time hopefully longer than the last.

Ah, this time you hesitated. You couldn't take the life of a small girl... She reminded you of Mia and you hesitated, so her mother took that chance to kill you instead.

You wake up again, on that train, and repeat. Again you must take a life. Again, you have to survive. This time hopefully longer than the last.

The man that helped you against those that attacked you ended up strangling you when you let your guard down. Those messages keep popping up. You're getting the sense that your life is like a drama to these... Constellations—gods—who tuned into the livestream. White hot disdain swelled inside of you, mixing in with the smell of bile and blood before your eyesight goes.

You wake up again, on that train, and repeat. Again you must take a life. Again, you have to survive. This time...

Well. Joonghyuk is getting used to memories doing this now. ]

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[ Sure, he's getting a bit more used to memories cropping up, but this is... a lot to take in. He shifts his gaze to Joonghyuk. ]

What is this?

[malewife]

[ Overall, he's fine. The same demeanor, the same tone of voice. If anything, he's peeved by all of this. ]

A nightmare, from when I did it the first time.

w3 monday

[malewife]

[ It seems like Joonghyuk is arguing with a vendor... Unlike some people who wear cute summer clothes, he just isn't wearing his black coat, so he's in a sleeveless turtleneck.

Niah, in his jaguar form, sits beside him. Tail flicking back and forth in annoyance. ]

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[ Someone else is also wearing their normal outfit, though he does keep his vest on despite the heat.

Finley is drooping a little from the heat, in tiger form, as they both approach. ]

Having a problem here?

[malewife]

This vendor is only hiking the price. This is barely haggling.

[ Vendor, points at Joonghyuk, and just says... RUDE. ]

w5 tuesday

[malewife]

I need you to share me a secret for my role task.

[ That's it. Wherever Kotetsu is, he demands this...

Don't mind that he it seems like he has a lot of lacerations and they sure bleed. ]

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[ That catches him off guard. His injury also seems to have migrated from chest to his intact leg, so there's that. Good stuff. ]

What kind of secret...?

[malewife]

[ It's fine. Joonghyuk also bleeds words and they only say depressing things. ]

Any. Whatever I don't already know.

[ It doesn't seem like he cares. ]

[week 5 ; friday ; post-anon meeting]

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[ At some point after that anonymous meeting, Kotetsu is going to be looking for Joonhyuk. Sure, he's dealt with plenty before, but... ]

Got a few minutes?

[malewife]

[ He turns to him with the raise of his eyebrows. ]

There is not much else to do on Friday aside stipulate what everything we have means.

[ So yes. He has minutes. ]

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Valid.

[ Some people have things they want to do, though. So, he wanted to be sure. ]

I know you've gone through a lot already, with what you've gone through with your world and all, but... Are you okay?

w6 friday

[malewife]

[ He's just at the park at night! Sitting on a bench with his daemon lying down under it.

Normal things to do. ]

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[ He's been wandering around trying to get some of his role duties done, but he pauses and walks over to the other man when he sees him sitting there in the park alone. ]

How are you holding up?

[ He's not sure what else to even ask in a situation like this, but. There it is. Finley walking slowly beside him. ]

w7 saturday, post-"trial" in the GRAVEYARD

[malewife]

[ Joonghyuk is somewhere around the new camping site they made in the bomb deadland. His fables are softly chittering and chatting as he merely watches the sight of the people around.

It's nice, isn't it? ]

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[ It's strange. It's all... so strange. ]

We're really here, aren't we? The Land of the Dead. Feels like I'm about to wake up from some kind of dream.