lambda

[pipa]

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week 0, monday

[pipa]

[ hewwo ygf is tracking her down eagerly ]

What do you think of Monika?

[diluvian]

[ hewwo lambda is watching ygf approach warily. ]

She's inoffensive so far. Are you asking for her to be part of our team?

[pipa]

She wanted to join ours. I don't have any complaints against her.

[ she does not have a giant target on her back like mr. can we kill everyone off schedule ]

[diluvian]

I'm fine with it. She has the personality to get along with others, which we probably need.

[ if they have to be strategic about it, lambda knows her personality isn't people friendly. ]

[pipa]

Hm... less likely to be attacked.

Then we'll need just one more.

[diluvian]

Less likely to be attacked, but we also need someone who doesn't shrink back at the same time.

[ they need a good balance. ygf may be quick to cry in public, but lambda knows home girl didn't almost destroy china for nothing. ]

[pipa]

There's quite a few pacifists, hmmm...

[ someone fighty but not murderous... ]

We can see who doesn't have one. [ she pulls out her phone. ] Yuyu saw that a few have been formed already.

[diluvian]

I saw, too. Those clowns really chose BDSM for a name.

[ she opens up her phone to look at who's left. ]

I don't mind Yuzuriha. [ but she does have murder and eating hot chips and lying in her skills. ] Mizuki has spunk, but she didn't want to accept being dead.

[ lambda was so mean to mizuki for no reason. ]

[pipa]

Maybe she feels differently now? Yuzuriha seemed fine, but I haven't spoken to her as much as Mizuki.

week 0, saturday

[diluvian]

[ pipagate....

the moment lambda sees her, she just says: ]

What now?

[pipa]

Your team has to win, of course.

[ a pause. ]

I mean, I also hope mine does, but that only really matters if they use points to bring me back. So, it's more likely that you'll go home.

[diluvian]

[ ...

that gets her to falter, a little, and her voice is two percent softer. ]

Your dedication to Ritsuka is admirable. [ lambda isn't surprised, but she has to respect devotion when she sees it. ]

Do you think they won't? You did something to earn them more points than anyone else right now.

[ she speaks about murdering hikari like ygf did a chore like sweeping the floor. i'm sorry, hikari. ]

[pipa]

If I'm honest, I'm not too sure on the likelihood that they'll try to erase someone. Maybe Yuzuhira, but if all the other teams start to as well... basically, Yuyu's lead only does anything for them if they also act afterwards.

[ she doesn't think netty would be against it but he is so lazy and zelda is

such a goody two shoes ]

[diluvian]

[ she gazes into the abyss as she thinks about all the tech mishaps that happened for team formation and once again pretends it never happened. okay. ]

... You did your best. [ her very questionable eldricht foreigner best. ] If they care about winning, they'll do something about it.

[ well. ]

They're enough who seemed opposed to murder. [ she says, like they're fools. ] That even if other teams start, too, I don't think everyone will be running for it.

[pipa]

It might be that some teams might start doing it more in the later weeks, once they realize that they're behind others...

[ hmmm ]

So, it's a risk to do it early, but if you get away with it, and then someone else on your team does it again later, you're going to be guaranteed to be ahead of anyone who does it last minute or even once.

[diluvian]

So many of them said they wished you could have waited, but we all already know the game only lasts so many weeks. The slow and long game only works if you have an idea of how things will shake out. You played the Game how you wanted.

[ even if it is a risk and speaks of impatience to go first, it's not like she didn't put some thought into it. ]

Enough of them thought I needed to hold your hand, but someone who commands an emperor's love doesn't need her hand held.

[pipa]

Hehe, I made my choice! I can accept my consequences without regret.

[ she doesn't regret killing hikari. she only regrets getting caught, really. ]

week 5, sunday

[pipa]

[ puts this on your doorstep ]

What happened?

[diluvian]

[ she's still trying to sort her thoughts. ]

I think... it was supposed to be a story. I was supposed to be a story. You were also one.

[pipa]

I was?

[ she sounds surprised. ]

What kind of story?

[diluvian]

You were about to get married, but I told you to find a better husband.

[pipa]

[ huh. ]

Who was the husband?

[diluvian]

An idiotic prince who was in love with a girl who didn't exist.

[ she sounds cold and bitter about it and then she shakes her head in the next second. ]

It shouldn't be anyone you or I know.

[ here or back in chaldea. ]

[pipa]

Ah...

[ well, she'll hurry on from that. ]

What about your story?

[diluvian]

[ she sighs and tries to be as detached as possible about this. ]

I was cursed and could only be freed if someone vowed to love me. A prince said he would, but he ended up engaged to you instead.

And he said he didn't love you either.