[Week 0, Sunday post-execution: Setz]

[purrtagonist]

[admittedly, he isn't exactly looking for Setz. not specifically. but there's so much on Akira's mind (murder, trial, execution, Anthy and Maya being taken down with their respective partners) that his idle wanderings around the available areas of Shibuya eventually causes him to cross paths with his fellow Player]

[he slows to a stop, tilting his chin up to address him with a casual greeting]

Setz-san?

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[subordinacy]

There's that, compared to being picked off one by one each week. Or, if we're "lucky", it speeds up killing all the Reapers, since we could accidentally get one by proxy of their partner.

I didn't say it'd necessarily speed things up in a good way.

[purrtagonist]

[a bit wryly, with a hint of thinly-veiled anger in his voice. his eyes flash, not at all hidden by his glasses]

Point.

. . . that's a worst case scenario ending, though.

[subordinacy]

It is. I wouldn't be surprised if the Composer was going for that, though.

[purrtagonist]

Max says reapers are "usually sadists," but I'm guessing that applies to Composers too.

[he lets out a frustrated noise, lifting a hand to pinch his glasses and pluck them from his features, scrubbing at his eyes with one hand]

[subordinacy]

[...]

Dysfunctional servants tend to have dysfunctional masters.

[Don't ask him how he knows this.]

[purrtagonist]

[you sure ... at me a lot jan it makes me sus]

Mmm.

[his hand falls away, and the glasses return to his features]

Anyway.

Getting mad about it is fine. But at some point, that anger needs to turn into action.

[subordinacy]

[I ... ALL THE TIME, EXCUSE YOU!!]

... Yeah. In the end, what we do is what matters, rather than how we feel about it.

[He crosses his arms.]

That's still the question right now, though: what to do from here.

[purrtagonist]

[UH HUH!!]

The only thing we can do, until another option presents itself.

Find the reapers.

[notably, he doesn't say what to do when to find them. but that's because he doesn't know]

[subordinacy]

... Yeah. Let's hope the game really does come to that, though, and that there aren't any caveats we haven't been warned about.

[purrtagonist]

[Jan is also scarred by HIDDEN CAVEATS]

We shouldn't hold our breaths on that way.

[no trust]

But at this point, we just have to keep hoping that we'll get more information as we go along.

[subordinacy]

[JAN IS EXTREMELY SCARRED]

... If it really is meant to be a "game" at all, we should. Ones where the odds are completely stacked against one side aren't "entertaining", after all.

[purrtagonist]

[SAME FEEL, FAM]

[anyway also it was meant to be "we shouldn't hold our breaths on that" so thanks typos]

Less a "game". . . more a performance?

[WRY]

That sounds about right. Performances are always entertaining for those watching, no matter the results.