idolpro | The Last Supper - Heart Soldier Senshi

[ All things considered, the room looks fairly comfy. Dark mahogany walls are decorated with wine red velvet curtains, and chaise lounges and deep-cushioned chairs in matching upholstery arrange themselves in front of a large plasma TV screen that can receive input from any idol's smartphone, though it cannot be changed from the current screen.

A hallway attaches to the room, branching off into two hallways. In the inner hallway, there's a kitchenette—it holds no food in either the fridge or the cupboards, but perhaps as an insult the fridge door's inside shelf holds a gold-framed painting of split pomegranates with seeds artistically spilling onto the ground. At least it's not entirely useless as a room—there are any number of melee weapons in the cupboards and shelves, each weapon's handle furnished with decorative snakes in the unit's color.

Past the kitchen is a modest bathroom that nevertheless uses the majority of its space for its bath and shower, including various skin and hair care products (though no electric plugs, despite the presence of hair dryers), sparkly bath bombs, and a seemingly endless number of wine red towels and bathrobes. Across the bathroom is what seems to be a luxurious sleeping room, somehow large enough to hold as many beds as needed for the unit; the sheets are similarly wine red with what feels like a million thread count, and the mattresses and pillows might be made of the softest material in existence.

The outer hallway leads to the mud room, which leads toward the outside. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

You have a valid point. If we start out too late it may be impossible to catch up. So we might take the initiative to put ourselves in a more advantageous position.

Does that mean you wish to end this game swiftly as possible?

If that's what it takes to do so.

This hardly seems the time to counsel restraint. All that will be good for is drawing things out. And if it's a choice between striking hard and fast, or presenting ourselves as an easy target? I know which one I favor.

Then the most effective strategy would be to target a unit with few members in the hope of eliminating teams quickly so the game can end faster.

[ pokes in with a question. ] sensei... what if everyone has the same idea, will it still be the fastest way to end it?

Hurricane informs me that the elimination of a certain number of units was the criteria for the last game.

Supposing that everyone did target the unit with the least members, then it could draw out the game with only one unit being eliminated per round until it is over.

So while it might be longer, in that case it is the least amount of deaths.

So it's still better and the only one with the chance to also be the fastest.

Yes...

However, I also do not want people to feel like they are forced on this path to attack someone they normally would not when there are other targets that might be more appealing. Such as a duel between two people with no hard feelings.

[ Or Alphinaud finally getting a chance at Valor ]

Which would mean future is now, and--

[not them]

--and ☆ZRAEL, I believe.

Yes. And I do not know your relation with either.

I--

[Her heart turns over; she wishes she could run.]

--but, isn't that almost better? Better than picking someone I felt nothing for?

[ He hums thoughtfully ]

As in someone who might understand your intentions better?

As in...

[She closes her eyes.]

Mayhap. Someone who I'll feel the loss of. Someone - who isn't just convenient.

Nobody deserves to die, simply for my convenience.