2026-03-29: A Familiar, Death-Soaked Shard
- Cutscene: A Familiar, Death-Soaked Shard
- Cast: Minato Arisato and a strange boy
- Where: SEES Dorm - Minato's Room
- OOC Date: 2026-03-29
- IC Date: Tuesday, Oct 16 2012 (Dark Hour)
- Summary: Minato is never really alone. The boy beside him, tonight, has something to say.
A minute past midnight, and Minato's alone in his room, the green moon casting ill light down across his inert laptop on the table, across to the bed where he sits aside it.
Is he alone?
He rubs a shard of something between his fingertips, and a boy is seated, beside him. His clothing is striped black and white, like a prisoner; he has short black hair, and brilliant eyes.
"What do you have there?" The boy wonders, with boundless curiosity.
"It was part of the bullet which killed Tatsuya Sudou," Minato replies, atonally.
"Somehow, it fills my heart with yearning," the boy says, standing in front of Minato, as he leans over to examine the shard he holds out. "Wouldn't you agree?"
> I don't really care.
> Not really.
> "... I guess so," Minato replies, mildly, eyes still on the shard.
"But when I think about that man dying to something like this... I feel a great sense of trepidation," the boy says, and something in his tone makes Minato look up -- and then all the way around, because that boy has always been laying on the bed, behind him.
"..." Minato elides, lips parted, no sound escaping.
"Can something so familiar... be used to kill?" The boy wonders, as Minato turns his gaze forward. From the corner of his eye, he sees him, sitting on his other side.
"...", Minato has no answer, again.
"How did it feel," the boy asks, troubled, "when he died?"
"I was afraid, too," Minato says, finally.
"What a remarkably human feeling..."
Minato is alone, in the green light of the Dark Hour.
He continues contemplating the shard for some time.
... he'll give it to the Chairman, tomorrow morning.