Seventh

[akapeanut]

[George appears on screen, face as neutral as ever. She's sitting in a gross, olive green booth, a plate of food in front of her. She doesn't seem to notice it. In fact, if anybody cares to look closely, it's pretty clear it's been sitting there a while. It's probably not even hers.]

I don't suppose anybody wants a tour of ghost city Seattle, huh?

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[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[Souji actually frowns for a second thinking about Adachi.

It makes him want to take a table....
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)

AND FLIP THE CRAP OUT OF IT
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻]

It made him feel big.

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[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[She winces.]

Gross.

It's...nice that you guys were doing something about that. Uh. I mean, I wouldn't have.

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

How we got involved was complicated. But it worked out.

[He looks through a rip and holds out his hand toward George.]

This is it.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[She takes his hand, cheeks flushing lightly.]

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[Souji is so used to things like this with girls. He doesn't think a thing of it.

He steps through the rip with her and they're standing in Inaba's shopping district, in front of the shrine.]

This is Inaba.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

[She looks around, sincerely impressed.]

I've...never been anywhere outside the US.

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[He smiles a little.]

Do you want to look around?

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Sure...

[She looks at the little shops, surprised at how...quaint they are. She's never been to a place like this.

She finds she doesn't mind it.]

You were leaving here before you showed up at the mansion, right?

[She looks back at him.]

Where were you going to go?

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[He nods.]

Back to Tokyo.

[He glances through the tori at the shrine, then starts to walk down the street, slowly, waiting for her to walk with him.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[She follows, looking around.]

As boring as this place probably is, at least it looks comfortable. Tokyo sounds....busy.

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[Souji smiles a little.]

More happens here than you'd think.

[They're out of the shopping district soon enough, and he heads toward Junes.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. People kill each other, apparently.

[She pauses.]

And I'd be the one reaping their souls. Wonder if there were any Japanese reapers. Must've been.

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know.

[Souji tilts his head though, considering. There's no reason to think there aren't reapers in his world.]

Maybe though.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

How many people were murdered?

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

Two. Five others could have died though.

[He leads her down the road along the Samegawa. Mostly because he wants to see it again. But it's KIND OF on the way.]

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

[She looks down at the water. For some reason it makes her want to go fishing, even in the cold weather.]

You saved those hypothetical reapers some trouble, then.

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

They wouldn't have died in this world.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Huh?

[What then? Mars?]

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

[Souji reaches up like he's going to adjust a pair of glasses he's not wearing.]

A few people had access to another world inside the TV. The victims were thrown in there and died.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

Oh.

[She'll just...roll with that.]

I guess that might not be in our jurisdiction. I dunno if any reapers covered anything like...that.

[Pause.]

So, literally inside the TV?

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

We got to it through the TV. So we say it's inside.

The bodies would turn up here, though.

[akapeanut.livejournal.com]

How'd you figure any of that out?

[eatsyourscience.livejournal.com]

Trial and error. [They're leaving the riverbed now and he steers them toward Junes.]

It took a long time.