ROUND 1

[idolpro]

[ The room is BRIGHT YELLOW, as all the rooms you will enter are. Black tiles make up the floor, changing to your unit's color when pressure is placed on them. There is a button in the very center of the room standing on a podium; it's slightly smaller than palm-sized.]

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Comments

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ ... ]

I try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Which also means I won't make you any promises this time.

[maidenheaven]

. . . Mmm, I understand. I want to avoid making the same mistake twice, too.

[ his eyes glow just then, the gold bright - man eater will find his wounds splitting apart then, all at once ]

So - I'm sorry about this.

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ Man☆Eater used to always be pretty careful about making sure he didn't have any weaknesses for sensitIV to exploit. since day one, he's been diligent about removing every scar left on his body during his time in Imeeji.

with two exceptions.

unfortunately, those two exceptions both happen to be placed directly over his heart.

and so it's over in an instant—he coughs up blood, his legs crumpling under him. ]

[maidenheaven]

[ as soon as he's down, lucifel moves over to press the button - then, without stopping, goes to man☆eater's body.

if he heals him now, then maybe he'll have to be awake to suffer - but then, even if he dies, maybe he'll suffer anyway. so -

once his victory is secure, he kneels down to stitch the wounds back up, sealing them shut. ]

I'm sorry again, about all of this.

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ he doesn't look at Lucifel. his eyes stay locked on some distant, unfixed point, and he just mutters, voice hoarse and gravelly: ]

Pathetic...

[maidenheaven]

It's my fault. Don't blame yourself.

[ softly ]

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ his eyes narrow at that. more forcefully, roughly: ]

Shut up. I don't need your pity.

[maidenheaven]

. . . It's not really. . .

[ there's a pause, and he breathes out - just as the doors open ]

. . . Sorry.

[carnivorouscarnival]

[ he doesn't say anything else. ]