Day 10

[andascholar]

[Everything is terrible and Zelda has no time to mourn forever. She needs to make plans and solidify alliances. And so she is making invitations to her dressing room whenever boys are available.]

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[talktothestand]

Zelda...

How are you feeling? [He... knows it's not the best question to ask when Zelda just lost her girlfriend, but he's at a loss of what else to say. He's not the smartest.. ]

[andascholar]

. . . Back at the beginning, I was offered an extra vote if I killed someone. I refused before, but, Mari was so upset, she wanted to go to the hotel... If I'd taken him up on that offer, I could have helped her before this all happened...

[talktothestand]

....She didn't belong in a place like this to begin with. [ Sighs. Ah, Mari.

Mari, Mari, Mari.... She wasn't meant for a place like this. ]


If you needed someone to kill to help Mari-chan get to the hotel... I would have offered.

[andascholar]

Okuyasu... [Wow that is so scary, but also so brave. Would she really be able to kill Okuyasu? ...But he doesn't have a vote to cover him and she knows that and that's awful.] Thank you. I think... It likely would have broken Mari's heart to get to the hotel that way. You were a good friend to her, weren't you?

[talktothestand]

I liked her a lot. [As a friend and... well. He knew she was thinking of other people more. And that was ok. That was always Okuyasu's life. ]

I wanted her happiness and protection than anything else.

Mari-chan, you, and Niles were the only ones who were able to know me as... myself. It's not much, but I liked that enough that I'd help you. I'm glad to be known as myself and not just someone that Rohan knows or "Rohan's friend" like others did since day 1.

I'm grateful for you guys.

[andascholar]

[yOU ARE BREAKING HER HEART HERE. Zelda stands up and slowly steps towards Okuyasu, wrapping her arms around him.] Nijimura Okuyasu. You're an incredibly brave and kind man. I'm glad I knew you.

[talktothestand]

And it's not like I got much much worth and chances as far as winning this game now that my only friends are slowly going... Mari did. Niles did. YOU do, Zelda. [Heh. You might actually get this guy to crack a slight smile. A sad one, but it was there. ] No one would miss me. People would miss you. They missed Niles and they miss Mari-chan.

...

I'm glad I met ya guys, too. Even if it was just to help with the kidnapping and showing those other bastards what we're made of.

If there's anything I can do to help before the Ronald bastard gets me... I'd like that. That might be my last thing to ask of ya, princess.

[andascholar]

[Don't cry. Do not cry don't you dare cry. Give him dignity. Zelda blinks furiously and looks up at him, taking a deep breath.] I will miss you. I wish I could help you, are you... Are you truly sure? You'd ask this?

[talktothestand]

[His grin widens in attempt to help keep the atmosphere just.. a little more chipper, even if he knows it can't be fixed cause he just reminded Zelda that he has no votes and they're all used up. Sorry, Zelda, he didn't mean to...]

Hey, name your task and I'll do my best. I'm not the smartest guy around here and not all that fast... But I will do anything.

[andascholar]

[Clenches her fists.] It's cruel. It's so very cruel to you.

[talktothestand]

And I've had more cruel stuff thrown at me my whole life. I think I can handle whatever you might ask. Don't worry. [Rubs the back of his head a bit sheepishly. Did he say something wrong to Zelda...?]

[A childhood of being abused by an alcoholic father. Growing up with an abusive older brother after that... Taking care of themselves after both parents were unable to ook after them. Being used by his own brother. No friends except when he met Josuke Higashikata.

So quite frankly, Rohan's treatment of him here didn't compare.]

[andascholar]

...Even if I asked you to die for me?

1/2

[talktothestand]

...!!!

2/2

[talktothestand]

W-What happened just now that might need your protection? Did something happen and I can help?

[That came out of nowhere. But.. He would.]

[andascholar]

[...HE'S ACCEPTING IT SO EASILY] You - you can't tell me, that you'd be so eager... I know you don't want to die. You said you wanted it to at least be on your own terms, but, this is asking so much...!

[talktothestand]

Hey, hey... [A reassuring hand on her shoulder.]

No one wants to die. It's normal. I even had prizes that I would have liked to win more than anything.

But I am dying on my own terms. I am choosing when I die and not letting the Ronald or the chihuahua or whoever's running this game at this point... So it'd be ok, Zelda.

It'd be ok if I got to go knowing I helped somewhere along the line.

I don't know how to thank you and Niles... So I'm doing what I think can probably get through to you guys that I'm grateful.

[andascholar]

[This is so so cruel. As a princess she's enlisted people to die for her countless times but never this directly. Never by her own hand. She's supposed to protect her people. And now she's even making him comfort her. A failure of a princess to the end.] You... You will save a life. Someone will go to the hotel, and this will be remembered. I'll tell everyone of your sacrifice. I'll have your name spread throughout Hyrule Okuyasu, everyone in my kingdom will know the service you've done for me. For everyone here.

[talktothestand]

[He sees the sword. He reaches for it. ]


You need to win this. You and your people.

My last words... Huh.

I want you guys to give the Ronald hell. I want the person who is getting this vote be safe. I want you to give whoever sent Niles to the hotel some hell.

Maybe in another lifetime, I'll get a looker like Niles or a sweetie like Mari.

But most of all... Maybe in another life time, we can all keep hanging out together.

It's been fun, guys. You guys, even Rohan, were my only friends and it's the most I've ever enjoyed myself.

To anyone who thought I did nothing, I am having the last laugh, at least.

Thanks for everything, princess. [He raises the sword up. He then stabs it into himself, into his abdoment.

As he grunts and coughed, blood spurted from his lips and dribbled down his chin. Zelda is welcome to keep making the sword go in further. He just couldn't ask her, the burn victim, to do the hardest work. ]

[andascholar]

[OH MY FUCKING GOD WELL SO MUCH FOR OFFERING HIM ONE LAST CHANCE TO BACK OUT. Zelda jumps, eyes widening in horror, but she understands him and walks forward to clasp the handle of the sword. It has to be her that does this. Make it quick for him make your last words to him short don't let him suffer.] I will tell them. Thank you. Thank you, Nijimura Okuyasu. Let us meet again in the next life. [Drives the sword through him.]