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jigoku_logs2013-03-26 01:33 pm
sank) wrote in jigoku_logs2013-03-26 01:33 pm
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Two people walk into a bar...
[ WHO ]: Saki Konishi, Yosuke Hanamura.
[ WHERE ]: The maze. All night long.
…no, just kidding.
[ WHEN ]: From March 26 (evening) to March 27 (morning).
[ OPEN/CLOSED? ]: Closed.
[ RATING ]: May be PG-13 for language?
[ WARNINGS ]: Saki and Yosuke. They’re a warning.
[ The first time Saki ventures outside of the apartment building, it's only the second day of her stay in this place and she slips out too early in the morning, before anyone can notice her. She had been told how dangerous it was, but had quietly disregarded the moment the walls felt too suffocating and the air thick with pressure. She's out maybe ten minutes, the grass still dewy and the sun only half risen, before spotting someone she didn't recognise pulled her back and away. She has about eighteen different "Rule One"s, half of which she ignores at her leisure, but in places like this don't trust the locals is definitely one of them.
The second time she ventures out, she makes it as far as police station. Although seeing nothing and nobody, the quiet and the empty streets is enough to unsettle her all the way back to the complex. The third time, she lingers perhaps a bit longingly at the foot of the library building before deciding going in wouldn't be the best idea. That time, she has to run back to the apartment building (not hard, but nerve wracking, terror she will never admit to) and it's a few days before she goes out again.
Saki puts less effort into sneaking out this time, and the way the evening breeze hits her face is a reward in itself. She's curious to see if the city changes at all at night but stays purposefully close to the apartment block.
So taking a few steps inside the maze isn't a problem, right? Just a peak and she'll be out again. ]
[ WHERE ]: The maze. All night long.
…no, just kidding.[ WHEN ]: From March 26 (evening) to March 27 (morning).
[ OPEN/CLOSED? ]: Closed.
[ RATING ]: May be PG-13 for language?
[ WARNINGS ]: Saki and Yosuke. They’re a warning.
[ The first time Saki ventures outside of the apartment building, it's only the second day of her stay in this place and she slips out too early in the morning, before anyone can notice her. She had been told how dangerous it was, but had quietly disregarded the moment the walls felt too suffocating and the air thick with pressure. She's out maybe ten minutes, the grass still dewy and the sun only half risen, before spotting someone she didn't recognise pulled her back and away. She has about eighteen different "Rule One"s, half of which she ignores at her leisure, but in places like this don't trust the locals is definitely one of them.
The second time she ventures out, she makes it as far as police station. Although seeing nothing and nobody, the quiet and the empty streets is enough to unsettle her all the way back to the complex. The third time, she lingers perhaps a bit longingly at the foot of the library building before deciding going in wouldn't be the best idea. That time, she has to run back to the apartment building (not hard, but nerve wracking, terror she will never admit to) and it's a few days before she goes out again.
Saki puts less effort into sneaking out this time, and the way the evening breeze hits her face is a reward in itself. She's curious to see if the city changes at all at night but stays purposefully close to the apartment block.
So taking a few steps inside the maze isn't a problem, right? Just a peak and she'll be out again. ]
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We were there for a year. A lot happened.
[ After a moment, she ducks her head, giving a breathy laugh. ]
It was an accident. We weren't together, we didn't mean to.
[ That doesn't make any of the other stuff less real, though. ]
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I'm sorry, senpai... I wish I could remember.
... I hope I can be like I was there, too.
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You're a good guy. I have faith in you.
[ Not a good kid, or a good man -- he's surpassed the former and she's not ready to see him at the latter. This is a comfortable, fair middle. ]
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Thanks, senpai.
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Where do you think we are?
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[He snorts after a beat, a derisive sort of laugh.] Feels like it, anyway.
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[ It's unlikely, as it was only told to Saki when she was a child and had otherwise fallen out from being Inaba's main urban legend by the time she started high school. It's also not true, but that's the last thing she's going to confirm. ]
Her statue was in the shrine for years. She wasn't a priestess, but apparently Kiyoko's family had built the shrine and maintained it, so when they needed someone to sit for Ame-no-Uzume, they picked her. When she was left at the altar a few years later, she committed suicide. Like, fifty years later, there was this group of kids that were really popular at the school, and anyone who wanted to join their group had to spend a night in the lap of Kiyoko's statue.
[ Saki starts off telling the story plainly, her voice losing little from its normal disinterested pitch. As she gets into it, however, tonal embellishments are added — and the noise from the natural parts of the maze, wind rustling the leaves and the crows cawing over head only adds to the atmosphere. ]
This one girl, Ami, she really wanted to join the group to impress this guy she liked. So she did the dare, thinking nothing could hurt her. Inaba was a safe town, and nothing had ever gone wrong when anyone else took the challenge.
The next morning, they found her cold, lifeless body draped in the statue's arms. It turned out that her great-grandfather was the man who had left Kiyoko at the altar all those years ago.
[ It's very likely Saki's getting the math wrong, but she doesn't give it any true consideration. Fifty years could equal great-grandfather, why not?
Mostly she's just disappointed she doesn't have a flashlight to shine under her face. ]