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AKUTAGAWA RYUUNOSUKE kind of an airhead, but good-natured and charming could you stop smoking for one second though	DAZAI OSAMU should a narcissist really be that quick to want to die please leave Akutagawa alone	HAGIWARA SAKUTAROU there are important things besides poetry and being moody such as combing your hair
NAKAHARA CHUUYA picks drunken fights with everyone loses drunken fights with everyone	IZUMI KYOUKA you don't have to disinfect everything don't spray kouyou-sensei with windex either	NATSUME SOUSEKI a gentleman with a gentlemanly mustache having a sweet tooth is also very gentlemanly
MIYAZAWA KENJI a cute and sincere child maybe don't ask to see his picture books	TANIZAKI JUNICHIROU masochist with a foot fetish does being a great author really make up for that	NAGAI KAFUU a romantic traveler who still keeps a diary how much can you write about prostitutes
SHIMAZAKI TOUSON studying and writing about everything is great and all but no one is going to let the niece thing go	TAYAMA KATAI if you hit on less girls people would like you more also if you were less of a hipster	SHIGA NAOYA manly in that he will stick by people close to him an insensitive dickbag to everyone else
MORI OUGAI doctor doctor, give me the news what is someone actually responsible doing here	KITAHARA HAKUSHUU #aesthetic would be in the student council in a high school AU	MUROO SAISEI self-proclaimed wild child how many people sensitive about their height do we need
MUSHANOKOUJI SANEATSU sheltered noble chase your dreams! maybe learn to ride a bike!	OZAKI KOUYOU mama bear to his disciples the absolute pickiest eater	EDOGAWA RANPO hates the mainstream an eccentric entertainer, don't let him talk to you about eroguro
SATOU HARUO a rare practical person in a constant state of 'Dazai, why'	KOBAYASHI TAKIJI tortured to death for communism please hug him	YOKOMITSU RIICHI the most serious one "the thing I hate the most is literature"
ODA SAKUNOSUKE really, really Osakan cheerful and direct and pushes himself too hard	HORI TATSUO a sweet and attentive person canonly called "idol-esque", why wouldn't you tag him	NAKAJIMA ATSUSHI both split personalities are cute outside: shrinking violet, inside: FIGHT ME
MASAOKA SHIKI carefree, cheerful, and BASEBALL never going to get enough players for a game with these nerds	WAKAYAMA BOKUSUI drinks more sake than anyone else way easier to get along with than Chuuya	TAKAMURA KOUTAROU a gentle-natured artist is poetry/painting/wood carving a hat trick
ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU owes everyone money survives by being charming and knowing where to hide	KUNIKIDA DOPPO mood swings all over the place straightforward and good at compliments	KOUDA ROHAN a hard worker, especially in housework would hate Tumblr's edgy headcanons
YOSHIKAWA EIJI probably has a gym membership probably can quote 50 different generals	NAKANO SHIGEHARU seems calm, filled with angst and passive-aggression	KIKUCHI KAN everyone's big brother exactly how much money have you given out, sir
MIYOSHI TATSUJI immature and rebellious a pure, if opinionated, boy	NIIMI NANKICHI pranked you while you were reading this you'll forgive him because he's so cute	TOKUDA SHUUSEI sour and pessimistic but still a hard, reliable worker
SAKAGUCHI ANGO the grand delinquent can you just clean your room instead of covering it with pesticide

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[heartsound]

[ It would have been so good if he could just read people's expressions, instead of actually hear what they think. ]

It's alright, we can take the bottom floor room first and see if we find anything interesting. High elevation is the greatest enemy, you know.

[ Well. For Haruka. ]

[buyingmittens]

Mmm... okay! And then I can go upstairs myself, and if there's anything cool I'll carry it down so Harucchin can see it!

[I don't want Harucchin to miss out on anything! He's a good friend, he should get to see everything.]

[heartsound]

[ Good friend... You're too nice to this ex-criminal werewolf.

Splitting up can be a good idea or a bad idea, but this far Haruka has not heard any evidence of anyone else being around. And if they separate he can try to keep track on Niimi by concentrating on his thought. Maybe ask him to think loudly or something. ]

That's very nice of you, Niimi-san. You don't have to do that though. Should we try this way?

[ He motions to the left, down the hall and toward a group of doors at the end. ]

[buyingmittens]

[Haruka is a Good.]

It's as good as the other way! Let's go!

[Niimi starts to head down the hallway, making sure not to get too far ahead of Haruka even in his excitement.]

[heartsound]

[ With close mafia connections and a desire to tear down the Japanese police force just because he wants his big brother's attention? Sure thing.

Thanks for not rushing ahead. There's no way he'd be able to keep up with energetic people that way. ]

Well, we don't know that yet. Only by finding out what's at both ends, we'll know that.

[buyingmittens]

Then, maybe eenie meenie miney moe would be the best way to pick?

[It's never steered Niimi wrong so far.]

[heartsound]

Does that work?

[ As for Haruka he's gone by logic and whatever is the best way to pull a plan off, so spontaneous actions like exploring isn't anything he's got much experience with. ]

[buyingmittens]

Mhm! Sometimes what you pick isn't that important as long as you pick.

[And the hallways look pretty much the same to him. No way of knowing what's at either end.]

[heartsound]

Ah. Mmm, I guess so.

[ Sometimes it really matters, though.But maybe not so much when you're not involved in crimes. ]

[buyingmittens]

[Pranks are like crimes, right?

They've come to the door at the end of the hallway. It looks like a normal door to Nankichi.]

Um... It's probably empty, but maybe I should have my gun out in case...

[heartsound]

[ On a much smaller scale, sure.

Haruka tilts his head to the side, trying to catch any thoughts from inside. ]

Mm. It’s good to be cautious.

[ He slips a hand into a pocket where he keeps a small gun hidden beside one of his oxygen mask. ]

[buyingmittens]

[Niimi nods and transforms his book into his gun before opening the door.

It looks like a dining hall! It also smells like a dining hall - the scent of rotten food is apparent even before Niimi sees the long table with plates still set out. Some flies are buzzing around decaying food. (Can Haruka get fly thoughts?)

Niimi covers his nose.]

Ewwwwwww.

[heartsound]

[ Haruka can not get fly thoughts. Or any animal thoughts unless they speak or think in human languages, like the Italian mafia don Haruka used to work with.

The smell of the food makes Haruka nauseous, and he presses a sleeve over his nose. That’s horrible, he thinks he might pass out if he walks much closer. He doesn't understand how Niimi can not be near-fainting. ]

That is vile.

[ That food has been lying around for far too long. ]

Did the people disappear in the middle of a meal?

[buyingmittens]

[A mix of childish stubbornness and childish resilience to gross things. And even with that, he's not going to uncover his nose anytime soon.]

They must've. What could make people disappear in the middle of eating? It doesn't look like there was a fire...

[That would be a reasonable excuse for abandoning the food, but there are no burn marks here or in the rest of the castle.]

[heartsound]

[ And in reality Niimi is older than Haruka. But Haruka is childishly stubborn when it comes to not doing things like getting out of his futon, or the kotatsu, or getting into a bath.

Childishly resilient….not so much. ]

Mmm… Something supernatural? There’s not any mysterious dust or anything in the chairs?

[ Please do the looking part. Haruka will not do it.

Police dog or not, he doesn’t want to do police work. Doing simple detective work of finding lost animals and stuff is much easier. This is the thing you put Ogi or Ogata on and then you try to suffocate them with the disgusting food. ]

[buyingmittens]

How can you tell mysterious dust from normal dust?

[It looks... barely dusty at all, actually.]

There should be dust here, right? If it's an abandoned castle. But there's not much.

[heartsound]

I suppose it looks more precise, or something like that? Maybe it's the kind of thing you just know is odd when you see it?

[ That is odd. ]

The food should be even worse off, too. That it wasn't entirely eaten or stolen by rats before it rotted is also pretty weird.

[buyingmittens]

Hmmmmmmm.

[Niimi's thinking hard.]

So, whatever weird thing happened to make everyone disappear, it happened pretty recently.

[That's not reassuring at all.]

[heartsound]

It probably did. It might have made the rats disappear as well.

[ Because otherwise, the food would be gone in a different way. ]

It looked as if it had been abandoned a little longer than since pretty recently though, at least from the outside. It’s definitely something unnatural.

[ Recent and unnatural, how nice. ]

[buyingmittens]

[A reassuring combination.]

Should we try to figure out what happened? We can leave if you don't wanna.

[I don't wanna get Harucchin hurt.]

[heartsound]

[ So sweet. ]

We can at least try for some rooms. It should-- [ He's cut off by a loud crash that echoes through the empty halls. ] ...Did you see any open windows when we were outside?

[buyingmittens]

[That is not a good sound, and Niimi flinches.]

O-old castles sometimes don't have windows at all, right? Just holes. Anyone could climb through those...

[heartsound]

[ He looks out through the door that they came in through, out into the hallway, and tries to focus his mind toward where the sound might have come from. But his mind-reading isn’t strong enough to catch things in the entire castle. ]

Those kind of windows are usually not close enough to the ground so people can’t climb in through them.

[buyingmittens]

But there're people here who can fly and jump really high and things like that...

[It's not a depowered jamjar, so getting in through a high window is definitely something plenty of people are capable of. Niimi wouldn't know exactly who.]

[heartsound]

Yeah… That does make things a little more troublesome in this case.

[ Even nii-san can fly if he’s chewing on the right color of hair. Though Haruka doesn’t particularly like his brother’s “cockroach form”. ]

Would they, though? A few people know we’re here so in that case hopefully they’re only trying to prank us.

[ But you never know. ]