romance and murder go so well together

[capyper]

[ If the colorful posters from Tuesday weren't enough, Yato has redoubled his efforts for today and slapped these up all over the place:



We are admittedly not entirely sure what the heck the catgirl is there for, but she's there. Anyway, in the dining hall this evening, Aqua and Yato have set things up for a group dinner!! All the food is being put on one table; the rest of the room is for mingling and is colorfully decorated in a way that suggests that Yato went wild in the art room at some point and decided what we all really need in our lives is more color and more glitter!!

There's also this piece of paper with everybody's names on it in pairs, and sets of questions (red tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet). That's right, your mystery game is speed-dating and Yato is here to be your cupid for the evening!! ]

Comments

[cherryblooded]

...At this moment, I'd be happy if I had the answer on how to get out of here. But in general... it's nice to have a few surprises now and then.

[happysweets]

Well, that definitely would be nice. ...I guess it depends on the surprise, though.

[cherryblooded]

Definitely prefer the nice surprises. But even bad surprises make things less boring.

[happysweets]

You really are an optimist, huh...

[cherryblooded]

Did you doubt it?

[It's probably weird with his everything, now.]

[happysweets]

No. That kind of outlook suits someone like you, now that Misa-Misa thinks about it.

[cherryblooded]

[...that's kind of ominous now.]

Will take that as a compliment.

[happysweets]

It was more of a regular old observation, really! I didn't exactly mean it one way or the other.

[cherryblooded]

At least it's not an insult.

[It totally is.]

[happysweets]

Of course not! I wouldn't do something like that. ...At least, not on purpose.

[ Or in public. ]

[cherryblooded]

You're far too kind for something like that.

[happysweets]

Flattery won't get you anywhere, as much as I appreciate it...

[cherryblooded]

[He knows.]

Just the truth, Miss Misa.

[happysweets]

Well, you're nothing if not honest, Cherry, I can definitely say that much. That's a good quality to have, in any case.

[cherryblooded]

Honesty is the best policy, right?

[happysweets]

[ That gets a bit of a laugh out of her! ]

Well, you're right about that, for sure. Nobody likes a fibber!

[cherryblooded]

For understandable reasons.

Oh, right. We were asking questions, weren't we?

[happysweets]

If you want to. Misa-Misa just wanted to make sure everyone got asked something. But I wouldn't mind answering one of yours.

[cherryblooded]

One won't hurt. 'What do you value most in a friendship?'

[happysweets]

That's an easy one! It's support, for sure. Misa-Misa had a lot of, like, um, what's the term...good-weather friends? And they were basically only my friends because I was pretty and getting into modeling and all and they wanted an in with the industry and stuff, but, when it came to Misa-Misa's actual feelings, none of them were ever really there for me. I basically spent that bad year of mine alone, after all.

[ She surprisingly plays that off pretty calmly. ]

So, when someone's there for you in the good times and the bad times, that's a real friend there.

[cherryblooded]

Then the people in here must be good friends to you.

[These are pretty squarely Bad Times.]

[happysweets]

I would say most of them definitely are, yes! We all have to stick together in times like this, after all.

[cherryblooded]

That's good. Hopefully we'll be able to keep these friends even when we go home.