[ CLOSED ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-_oLjmCGY

[rollin]

Who: the idiots who think this will actually amount to anything
When: IC 11/23 onward
Where: Various!
What: The rescue mission Yata, Sheba and co. discussed at the citywide meeting!
Rating/Warning: at least PG because some people swear like sailors

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[ Once everyone arrives at the agreed meeting area, the CERES Metro-rail Station at the Residential District, Yata briefs the group on what to do. As discussed in the citywide meeting yesterday, the group will split into six teams that were decided by drawing lots. Everyone should know who they're teamed up with by now. Yata's instructions are simple enough: don't work alone (buddy system!), and if anyone finds anything, report to him. Should the missing arrivals be found, don't wait on anyone's orders. Yata admits that he's not smart enough to call the shots, but if he found who they were looking for, he believes that taking action should be the team's first priority. Anyone is free to protest, but he won't go back on his word.

Then he makes a special shout out to Hiccup and Toothless because look look guys it's a dragon how cool is that okay back to business.

By 9:15 AM, all teams should be on the move! ]

RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT | SHOPPING DISTRICT | ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT | TECH DISTRICT | PLEASURE DISTRICT | VIVID

Comments

[unevoke]

[Fifteen.....holy hell. The thought of trying to control that many demon things honestly makes him a little sick, and he pushes the thought away as best he can.

Good thing he's not the one with all the demons. Though, it makes him curious as to how they work.]

You tell them what to do, or are they part of you and just...do what you want 'em to?

[masakados]

Nah, I tell them and they listen to me.

[Naoki pauses again and he looks off to the side, one of his hands flexing.] I've negotiated with some of them and stuff like that to get them to join me, and since I'm stronger, they listen.

[He shrugs, disguising his uneasiness at saying this with a casual tone.] Power is a thing for demons. Hierarchical, I guess you'd say.

[unevoke]

[Honestly, everything he says sounds risky and dangerous and not something Shinji would ever willingly do on his own, and he can't tell if he ought to admire the guy for being so tough about things or if he should be questioning sanity right about now.

In the end, he settles for a bit of both. But it makes him wonder about Naoki's mental fortitude and some of his curiosity slips out in a question.]

You ain't afraid they'll ever turn against you?

[He would be.]

[masakados]

[A small twitch goes through Naoki's shoulders, and his eyes widen just slightly before he catches himself. Of course he is. He's afraid of that all the time, but saying that creates a risk. Giving in to it. Because demons can sense fear.]

...If they ever did, I'd just fight them. That's... all there is to it.

I can't afford to be afraid. [Which... isn't an answer, yet it is.] 'Cause they can sense things like that, and they'll see fear as weakness.