ZERO;

[crashout]

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[fleuris]

Oh, wow, what a huge mistake. We have two things to read until our eyes bleed.

[ hmm... weird. ]

My sister. She's a slut.

[ yup, that's Five in a word. ]

[crashout]

[It gets something of a laugh from him while he sets the bottle aside, taking a drink of this bright green liquid.]

The only sister you have? [It's conversational, and also he's fine if she wants to elaborate why Five is apparently a slut. Also ha, wow, Zero and Five? That's not weird at all to him.]

[fleuris]

Ha! I wish. No, I have five of them - One, Two, Three, Four, and Five.

[ can you tell their mother was super creative? ]

Which really is five too many.

[crashout]

So I see. [What the hell, that's wild.] I've never had siblings, but I'm starting to think I'm luckier for it. You...must be the oldest then? [Numerically speaking.]

[fleuris]

Unfortunately, yes. I was the first, and then the rest all came tumbling out at the same time.

[ it was The Worst. ]

But it doesn't really matter. They're not here, and I am. Might as well enjoy the peace and quiet while I can.

[crashout]

[Yeesh. No thanks.]

You consider a place like this peaceful and quiet? [Turn of phrase, sure.] There's still thirty-two other people here.

[fleuris]

And none of them are my sisters. Peace. And. Quiet.

[ ugh she doesn't even want to think about one of them being here while she doesn't have her sword or her dragon. ]

Besides, I wasn't the one making a racket downstairs earlier.

[crashout]

[He looks over the rim of his glass as he takes a sip, listening to her and moving away from that topic.]

Implying something I should know about? [He won't openly admit to anything yet.]

[fleuris]

Tamamo already yelled about you being unfaithful.

[ so that cover? yeah, it's already blown. ]

So is it a sex dungeon down there or what?

[crashout]

Ah. Makes sense. [Sorry Tamamo.]

What all did you hear? Didn't think we were being that loud.

[fleuris]

Some moaning, some screaming - nothing specific, if you're worried about that.

[ which means no one knows whose name got yelled or who said "hit me harder" or whatever kinks they were playing with. ]

So? Sex dungeon, yes or no?

[crashout]

[Huh. That's...interesting.]

A little more comfortable than a sex dungeon if you can believe that. But I've always imagined dungeons with iron bars and shackles.

[fleuris]

They usually are, give or take some blood and rats.

[ hmmmm. she takes a gulp of her glass, eyeing Junpei. ]

Is there a reason you're being so tight lipped?

[ or is junpei someone who doesn't kiss and tell. ]

[crashout]

[...]

It's not what you think it is. [Ah. So there's that.] Whatever you think it is, it's probably not right.

[fleuris]

[ ah. ]

Oh yeah? And I was thinking you lot were just enjoying yourselves down there.

[ siiiiiiip. ]

Though I guess that does bring up the issue of how you got down there.

[crashout]

You really sure it was downstairs? Nobody else saw anything, did they? [He's not immediately providing an answer, but...Zero seems smart enough.]

takes a stab at this??? yolo??????

[fleuris]

[ is Zero smart enough? maybe. is traverse? absolutely not. ]

... This place really is screwed up. How the hell does sound get from up there to just the first floor?

Or was that a bunch of bullshit too?

[crashout]

[There's a tilted grin.]

We never went down to the basement. Pretty sure sound was broadcasted down there when we were checking things out.

[fleuris]

I hate magic.

[ this is stupider than Three's fucking riddle boxes. ]

You didn't answer the last question either - did you three even do any fucking at all?

[crashout]

I didn't fuck anybody, no. [Call him boring, but there you go.]

[fleuris]

If you're not trying to drink away bad sex, then why are you here?

[ aka what the fuck happened to you ]

[crashout]

[Well. That's a loaded question!]

...I'm still trying to figure out what just happened.

[fleuris]

[ yeah, it's easy to ask those when you don't care about feelings or propriety. ]

Drinking doesn't really help with that.

[ sure is great for blacking out though! ]

What do you think happened?

[crashout]

It does, actually. [Don't ask. But uh.]

I think we got a warning message from someone who was already here.

[fleuris]

Spoken like a true addict.

[ zERO you hypocrite ]

... Was, but isn't anymore? Great. Ghosts are the worst.

So was the warning about the people or the place?