Day 4, afternoon

[pandatrash]

[How's everybody doing? Really feeling the spirit of the holidays? After the grisly scene is over, your tablets return to normal, and helpfully inform you that tonight is a Killing Night.]

[That's not all the tablets do today. At some moment when you're alone and happen to look at the thing, a screen with this as its background (yes, including the watermark) pops up. Written on that screen is a fresh new murder carrot — something you desperately want. In fact, even if you are Too Protagonist to take it, you get one. Have a taste of what everybody else is dealing with, you goodie-goodies.]

((Show us your carrots~
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

We're going to truncate the killing night phase a little (though you can backthread with your nighttime buddy as long as you please) so as to not overlap with the holiday. Basically, it'll look like this:

Sunday 6pm PST - trust sheets due
Tuesday 6pm PST - results of killing night are revealed
Thursday 6pm PST - voting discussion post goes up
Friday MIDNIGHT PST - votes are due
Saturday 10am PST - execution post goes up
Sunday (the 24th) - optional minigame week for everybody who isn't into real life Xmas
Sunday (the 31st) - trust sheets are due for the next round (the form will be up for several days before that, no need to actually be present on NYE)

Or just check the calendar for the schedule.))

Comments

[cluelesscavewoman]

[She's focusing solely on training. Keeping the movem-

She pauses and there's a slight rumbling noise.

...When'd she last eat?]

[suppressthedark]

[That? That nets a small grin from him.]

Need some food?

[cluelesscavewoman]

[She stands straight, shoving the baton into her belt.

Then just rapidly nods.]

[suppressthedark]

[He'll just. motion over to where the kitchen's at.

Follow him!]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[FOLLOWS!

Not even questioning, he is near-friend and he has food.]

[suppressthedark]

[Well, not YET. But he does manage to whip up some...well, pretty average fair on the whole. At least everything he uses isn't awful?]

Here. I've already eaten, so -

[This is allll yours.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[She'll eat pretty much anything. Her own cooking is survival, toss it on a fire and eat.

But she bows when it's given to her, waiting patiently.]

Thank you very much!

[Then promptly stuffs her face. Goodbye manners! Kazuno would be crying...If she wasn't dead, and a robot.]

[suppressthedark]

[Hey, at least she's got an appetite for the food they have here. He'll just take a seat and wait for her to finish.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Unsurprisingly she finishes quickly...

...Then holds the plate out.]

[suppressthedark]

[Uh.

He just takes it, because she's obviously done, right??]

Enjoy it?

[cluelesscavewoman]

Judgement...

[...She's still looking at the empty plate even as he takes it.]

[suppressthedark]

[Use your words, Futayo. He pauses, seeing her stare.]

...Anything wrong?

[cluelesscavewoman]

More please?

[Stares... She'd be doing puppy-eyes if she knew what that was.]

[suppressthedark]

...More? Uh...Sure, I guess.

[HE'S NEVER HAD ANYONE ASK FOR SECONDS BEFORE, this is a new thing - but he still smiles and gets to cooking again for her.

When he's done again, this time he'll have made enough for seconds as he holds out another plate.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[aaaAAAAA!]

Thank you!

[She isn't any more elegant about eating the second time around. She even grabby hands at the new plate and starts eating without even setting it down.

The plates nearly empty when she slows down, staring again.]

...Ichigo-dono. Are we...friends?

[Is this how friendship works?]

[suppressthedark]

[Dono?? That's some pretty impressive respect she's got for him - and all because he gave her some sub-par food??

She sure can pack it away, though. Where in the hell is it all going?]

Don't worry about it.

[As to the friend question -]

If you want to be, sure. I'd be be fine with considering you my friend.

[God, she's just...she's like a little kid in a lot of ways, and it's pinging his protective big brother instincts. Yet, she also knows how to fight - god, how he wants to know how the hell she grew up, and yet he's not going to push her in order to sate his curiosity.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

Jud. That means I have made three friends... It is not as difficult as I thought.

[She's so proud of that. Even if one's her cousin who she hadn't seen in years and the other was Erika. She managed it.]

Maybe, I have four? I have not been able to speak with Muneshige-dono since our battle. Though I am not sure if we would be allowed to be friends...

[Hmmm]

[suppressthedark]

[...only three?

Wow. Again, he just keeps finding himself wondering about her life up till now.]

Your battle? What happened?

[A pause, and then -]

Ah, but you don't have to talk about it unless you want to.

[cluelesscavewoman]

Judge! [She perks up, even if she's still in her chair she leans forward putting the plate down. She's so happy to be asked about it, to get to talk about it.]

Masazumi and Four-Eyes told me to wait just outside of the execution grounds. We lost communications for a while after that. In that time Tres Espana's first special duty officer, Tachibana Muneshige.

I have never gotten to fight against anyone other than my father or the instructional automatons before. It was really exciting. My heart was beating fast the entire time! We clashed fifty times!

[By this point she's raised her fists in front of her. She's so pumped about it.]

I wish to fight him again one day. When he is at full strength. He had fought my father the day before, who had used Tonbokiri's advance drive to seal his speed...

Though we succeeded in our goal of preventing my master from committing ritual suicide so I should not complain. I was also able to reclaim Lype Katarripsi for her...