Hitori Kakurenbo

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[This is the only thing the Network will allow you to access on the 29th.

Characters who are participating in the game may make new threads. Characters who are not participating may only reply to threads, not make new ones. There are no filters present. The cell phones the participating characters have are capable of voice, video, and text communication.

The cell phones have a disturbing tendency to film things on their own, from a character talking to themselves while hiding to a character's messy death.]

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[fractus_animus]

[ He's... not a very emotional person.

Not normally. But if what he's hearing is true (his ears, they're ringing and it's getting hard to think but NO, he has to KNOW--), then... ]

You died. You just look like her, that's--

[ ... Wincing. ]

It was a coincidence. She can't be alive. She's been dead for years.

[fracta_anima]

Almost. I almost died. I was in the hospital for months and [She's babbling. Now that it's slipped she has to explain--explain as fast as she can before he goes and oh god this is not how she pictured telling him at all.]

--and Ikutsuki lied to everyone, falsified the records so he could carry out those sick experiments without Mr. Kirijo finding out. They.... they had no idea. They thought you had gotten thrown into the river from what I understood and--[The tears are coming again.]--I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything like this. I'm sorry.

[fractus_animus]

[ And now he's trying not to cry.

It's ridiculous.

Those words. If he wasn't more hard-versed, he might be sobbing himself. ]

... That bastard...

[ ... For some reason, his muddled, foggy mind just decides to believe her. Even if it isn't true, he can see his sister in this girl. ]

... Haven't been a very good brother, have I? I'm sorry. I... hated you, because... you reminded me of what I'd lost. Figures. I can't see the forest for the trees...

[ ... And he smiles, before falling silent. The line remains on, and his eyes are glossy. ]

[fracta_anima]

[She shakes her head as his eyes go glossy, sobbing harder because she knows--she knows what that means and she didn't want him to die regretting and--oh god. He's dead.]

M-Minato....

[Her knees give out then and she leans against the console, sobbing heavily.]