bakaomi | (no subject)

Please try to have some sense of self-preservation, or we really will end up losing you at this rate. Are you truly going to throw aside Nito-kun's efforts to help you like that?

[ishikirimaru can you REALLY talk.

but he sighs, shaking his head.]

We could not get them to confess. They denied it, and we got nothing useful out of the two of them... until Ray-kun's letters, I feared that perhaps we might have been wrong and they may have been telling the truth.

[ . . . . on the one hand, senri is literally right there.

but on the other, he's also an emotionally manipulative little shit who has no qualms with being turned into a bartering chip so

senri will just stare at sasuke at that, pouting a little.

yeah are you really going to throw aside his efforts like that]

... please don't. We can... figure something out. I don't want people to think that you're a threat when you're just trying to help us.

You can't do what Ray told you to if you're dead, idiot.

[ :/ ]

[UGH.

The turn-around is immediate. He goes silent, teeth partially bared. Senri wouldn't even have had to pout, honestly. The moment the words leave Ishi's mouth, Sasuke is saddled in with resignation.

He jerks his head in the opposite direction from all of them.]

Then we will all do what we can to try to keep you from being discovered. Please see to it that you do your part and do not simply confess it.

... then we'll proceed like that.

We need to figure out what we're going to say though. If Ishirin-san is going to say that he stumbled on the scene of the... fire? What were Taka and Sasuke doing? We don't need to say that it was Sasuke yet, even, or say Taka stayed with Merriment....

But it's worth thinking about.

How many people know Sasuke switched to Merriment?

[ he glances over at him. ]

If they ask me, I can just say I was in one of the wings. It takes me completely out of the picture.

[SASUKE POINTEDLY DOES NOT LOOK BACK at them for the longest time. It's clear there's something questionable by the fact he doesn't immediately snap cooly about no one knowing.]

Three.

[He's quiet again. Finally, guiltily, he glances back, but his eye only makes it as far as their knees.] Oda, Mouri, and Connor.

I told them I was patrolling.

...then we will have to say you were patrolling elsewhere, and hope that they trust you enough not to check for truth in that statement.

[since they were part of the previous alignment doxxing... that complicates things, but-]

I hope those who have that ability will be reasonable enough to save it for more important matters.

[ . . . . . ]

Well... so long as Oda-san and Mouri-san trust you enough. Connor-san can't do that.... I don't know if Mouri-san would have enough confidence to use it unless it's to confirm an alignment or a killer. So... as long as no one suspects Sasuke in the first place, it should be alright.

At least in the place of Catra - since Entrapta wasn't either of you.

... Mouri suspects Entrapta and Catra for being Ray's killers.

I told them how to use Lie Detection similar to how Ray and I used it last time. [His hand wants to reach up to his face, but he brings it back down.] They'll have a signal and a third party.

Unless they couldn't find a common person between them, and then Mouri would just use it and reveal the results.

You all just have to be careful not to answer telling questions in a yes or no fashion. Ones they can check.