The Last Supper - AlcheME!

[idolpro]

[ The elevator lets you out into a private room: from the decor, it is doubtlessly an enclave of the restaurant you saw earlier on screen.

Your phones have filled with a rather sizable rule list. ]

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[afailedmurder]

I see.

Well, fair enough. It was unreasonable of me to expect you to have compassion for people you barely know when you clearly didn't give two shits about my feelings on the subject last round.

[liftoft]

[ huffs! ]

It ain't that at all. I'm tryin' to have compassion for everyone I barely know, which, y'know, is everyone. I said I wanted to pick somebody I could have an honest conversation with about it afterwards, because maybe we can't get outta doin' bad stuff but at least we can follow up on it like we care.

That means you, too. I'm sorry if it felt like I didn't care about you or your feelings, 'cause I do. You're my team, and if it looked like I don't care about that a lot, then I fucked up. My bad.

[afailedmurder]

[a little of the anger fades, which just leaves him looking tired]

We could have done that with Future is Now. He conveniently forgot that when he was creating his plan specifically targeted against me.

...But I apologize. That's not your fault.

[liftoft]

...Thanks. For talkin' to me, even when things went this way for you. I'll remember, if it comes up again. I wanna say somethin' like, hopefully nothing this bad'll never happen again, but I'm pretty sure I can already tell that ain't gonna be the case.

[ he leans a bit closer, to gently nudge A in the side ]

How come you two're goin' after each other, anyway?

[afailedmurder]

[tenses a little, what is casual physical contact]

...He and I have never entirely gotten along. I'd thought we'd come to something of a truce, but here we are.

[liftoft]

...Sorry to hear it! You both seem really clever, so maybe you're just not used to havin' somebody else around like that. I hope you can work it out! I know I ain't known you long, but so far you seem pretty cool to me, an' it'd be a shame if you were fightin' all the time.

[afailedmurder]

[grimaces]

Clever or not, I am nothing like him.

[liftoft]

I didn't say you were the same, I just said you were both clever.

But you know what, we don't gotta talk about him, forget about him for a minute.

[afailedmurder]

Would that I could.

[but he sighs and says nothing further on the subject]

[liftoft]

[ Chuckles a little, and claps A on the shoulder, all friendly like ]

Actually, I dunno! I kinda feel like I wanna hang on to the few memories I got, even if they haven't been great so far. Something about amnesia, probably.

[afailedmurder]

You may find that's not the case once you start buying them.

...You never had the chance to talk to Maki, did you?

[liftoft]

Ah, nah... I was hopin' I'd see her at the break, but... well, that didn't exactly work out.

[afailedmurder]

[half-hearted:]

Mm. Your timing is truly phenomenally unlucky.

[liftoft]

Sure is! It is what it is though, so... nothing to do but push forward, right? I can't even tell if it'd be any better if this kinda thing hadn't happened until a lot later... it probably wouldn't be that much different.

[afailedmurder]

...No, probably not.