→ synflux inbox

[gorb]

ACTION ✗ TEXT ✗ VIDEO ✗ AUDIO ✗ HOLOGRAM ✗ DATAVERSE

@

SOBA

✖

CHARACTER NAME

Geto Suguru

CIVILIAN NAME

Zaru Soba

TEAM

Brimstone

HOUSING NUMBER

003

❤

Comments

[gorb]

It will. You can trust in me and Satoru. We'll find your brother, and we'll find Nanami, and we'll deal with the problem together, mm? You're not alone this time.

( It is time for Geto to step up, apparently. )

Now. First thing's first. Signs of entry. Are you a deep sleeper?

[eyescar]

Uh, yeah. My grandpa used to say I'd be able to sleep on the middle of the road in Tokyo.

[ Like the dead. Kind of. ]

[gorb]

So you might not have heard anything coming or going?

( Unfortunate. But he pauses. )

Is this your room, Itadori-kun?

[eyescar]

I've always been like that.

[ Yuji sighs, and nods, motioning with his hand. ]

That's it. I don't know if there'll be many clues.

[gorb]

A lack of clues is still useful. Normal people would leave something behind, right? So if there's nothing we'll at least know this was premeditated.

( He moves into the room, heads to the window to check the latch. It doesn't budge. )

Did you see anyone strange hanging around last night?

[eyescar]

No, just the usual Outsiders.

[ Yuji pokes around the room, still looking mildly distraught. ]

I don't think anyone here had something to do with this, right?

[gorb]

You mean the villagers?

( A thoughtful hum. Geto knows he has to be careful here, he can't let his own prejudice be that obvious. )

I wouldn't discount it, Itadori-kun. Villages like this are often hiding something. And there's a layer of fanaticism I don't like. They might be worth looking into.

[eyescar]

Most of them have been polite to me, but I know some of the others have seen some strange things.

[ Frowning, he rubs his forehead. This is too hard. ]

I've never seen this kind of thing before, but since you led a cult...

[gorb]

Mine was classier.

( Distracted, so he's not exactly minding his words. He pauses from rattling the window lightly to glance Itadori's way, but there's very little point hiding what he's been and so a shrug, easy and light. ) The iconography didn't belong in a bad horror movie, anyway. And technically I only subsumed the cult. It existed long before me, Itadori-kun. I merely made it more useful.

( Collecting curses. Murder. A nice little shield when he needed it. It was only really the main family he cared about. )

But I've been to many places like this, and usually the smallest of minds exist within their protection. Cruelty often hides in plain sight.