onceuponacomm | CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 2

The first chapter was over. The stakes and mechanics of the system you're in have been shown to their full extent, and regardless of how you feel about the Samidare and Zola's deaths, the story must go on.

Clean-up is done with a perfection that'd make you wonder if there ever was a murder on that rooftop in the residential district. Everything is spotless and repaired, making it look like nothing ever happened. If it wasn't for the absence of two people among your number, you'd think it had all been a bad dream. But it wasn't. The brutality of the incident and the execution make that plainly clear.

Now, with the opening of a new week, something else opens. Lands beyond the area you spent seven days in. What will the new week bring? Will it be another murder?

Keep turning the pages and find out.

[[Welcome to Week 2! Feel free to make top levels at your discretion, and remember to note it in your header if you plan on investigating any locations. However, please try to keep investigations to Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday! You can also privately contact Hamelin at your leisure.

In addition, a reminder that any Murder Proposals for this week are due by Tuesday 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST! However, please note that you have the option of submitting murder proposals for a later week as well.]]

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Do you want it back

May I? [ She takes it back from him, and holds it up to the light. Even after all his work, it is still surprisingly intact at its core.

Hm. ]

Excuse me.

[ She turns and opens the door of the workshop and - tosses the gem as far as she can. Which is not very far, but she's satisfied. ]

Clumsy me, now it's thrown away. [ Like the trash it is. ] No, I don't want it back.

[????????????????]

OK

I do appreciate the attempt. And - [ She holds up the one he made for her. ] I will cherish this one will all my heart. Thank you.

I'm glad you like it

[But tossing the old one may have been overkill?]

[ Not in her dictionary! ]

I don't think this is what I imagined when you said "protective charms," but you must be a master of your craft.

If they look nice enough Even people who don't believe in what they're protecting people from will wear them

[So he's had to make sure they were pretty.]

What do they usually protect people from?

[ She had just thought it was something like a general protection spell. ]

Violent spirits The forest near my village is haunted by a spirit who targets children

That's terrible... I've never met a spirit, but anything that targets children is despicable.

I have You're lucky

As a child?!

Yes If it hadn't been for Shii-chan I wouldn't have survived

I, for one, am very grateful to Lady Shii-chan. But I am sorry you had to experience that. I would argue it made you stronger as a person - though I know it doesn't necessarily help to hear such things.

If it weren't for that I don't know what kind of person I'd be

[Is that good or bad? Probably a little of both.]

I feel as though you were always meant to be a kind, earnest person. Of course, that can mean many things.

[...]

Shii-chan liked play fighting But I never wanted to do that I always wanted to pick flowers instead So you might be right

Never underestimate a flower, I say! They can be as deadly as they are beautiful - and resilient enough to bloom during the coldest winters.

[ So nothing wrong with picking flowers! ]

Lady Shii-chan sounds like the heroic type.

She is She would always stand up for me when other kids picked on me She was my hero

[And he repaid that by...]

... Was?

She's alive As far as I know But I haven't seen her since we were 8 I won't ever see her again

... And not just because we might not leave here? Is this related to when she saved you?

[...He hesitates a long moment before writing an answer.]

The Kotori Obake makes promises with children But you can't be made to keep the promise if you don't remember it So her family erased her memories and took her far away She'll never remember who I am But she'll be safe