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closed mingle: welcome to amity island.

[ Kara has cleared out a landing site just outside the area of the ship Mimi was camped in. Each member of the party has been given a rough map marking the more thickly forested areas, contours marked for hills, and an arrow in the water indicating the general direction back to the underwater base. There are Xs for where the old shipwreck emerges through the green, but only those visible from the air, if you're on foot you're on your own. In Kon's handwriting, the maps are all labelled Amity Island in block letters. The wildlife is friendly unless provoked; we can't vouch for the plants. ]

[ The body itself is in a sturdy wood coffin resting on a bed of freshly dug earth, the lid can be easily pushed off. Time to get cracking. ]

[ ooc info about the island can be found here and here. any questions should be directed to the mods at the second link. ]

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Of course not.

[That much he can answer without any hesitation, his stomach turning at even the thought of another class trial. But his main fear since arriving here is that somehow, some way, Monokuma might appear and hurl them all right back into the hellish situation that they'd all managed to escape from.

But he's quiet, mulling over the rest of what the other boy had said, eventually frowning and shaking his head.]

The future, huh...?

[It is all they have right now. An unknown future on an alien planet.]

Fine. For now... let's focus on the investigation at hand.

Of course!

[He seemed rather happy at that, to focus on the investigation. In fact he was really happy because he had missed doing these things. Not exactly the investigation itself, though solving puzzles was always fun. But the part where he got to look at this with Hinata.

Ah... but what if he was expected to go do stuff on his own instead? He had come over hoping they could look together.... Maybe he should ask? Or clarify? He was starting to feel a little unsure and nervous now.]

Can I join you?

...What, you need my Super High School Level Reserve Course talent for something?

[It slips out before he can stop it, a slightly bitter edge to his voice as he meets Nagito's eyes. He'd said they should just focus on the investigation, but... why did the other want to spend time with him? Nagito had made it pretty clear in the Funhouse what his true opinion of Hajime was, no matter what he'd said about loving his hope or whatever.

The constant jabs, the reminders of his Reserve Course status... it's not something he can get over so easily.]

That's not....

[Ah, but this was what he had wanted, right? A wedge? But.... He didn't really want this either? Why wasn't there an easy solution to this? What should he do? What was the right answer? Why wasn't it easy?]

I just wanted to....

[It was probably impossible. But this was better. Right?]

Nevermind. I'm sorry to have suggested such a thing. Trash like me doesn't belong anywhere near you. It was silly to even suggest such a thing. Ah, how unfortunate. I'll just do what I can on my own. Maybe I'll be lucky and stumble on something no one else noticed.

Since that's all I'm good for.

You just wanted to what?

[Rub it in his face about his lack of talent? Reemphasize that even someone like Nagito has some kind of talent. Maybe repeat some of the choice bits about how unfortunate it was to let a Reserve Course student show off.]

Make up your mind.

[He can't really bring himself to say anything. Of course Hinata would be angry, of course he would be annoyed and say that. He had been mean, purposefully even, pointedly harsh. He had been angry. He had been angry at all of them, but especially angry at Hinata. However, he had regretted what he said not long after. There was also the legitimate anger of what he had done to them. Though he had accepted his failure and moved on from it.

If anything, the failure redeemed them in a way. So now he just wanted to move on. But of course it wasn't that easy.

He was being greedy.

But, despite his own worries and concerns he should at least try a little. Because despite it all, he still wanted to be accepted. He still had to live with everyone, for the time being.]

Spend time with you.

[Hajime stops and looks, really looks at the other boy, feeling his hands clenching into fists at his side. Back before they learned the truth about Hajime's talent, back before the Final Dead Room, Nagito had said he didn't want to die alone. How lonely it would be.

At the time... Hajime didn't know whether or not that was the truth, or just another story Nagito made up to try to gain his sympathy. He still isn't sure, just like he isn't sure right now whether Nagito's just trying to use him for some yet-unknown purpose. Build up his hope just to take a more perverse pleasure in it when he can't live up to it.]

...Why?

[Can he trust Nagito? If this were a class trial, all the evidence would be pointing to the contrary. No matter what the other boy says, Hajime can't know what's truth and what's a lie. But he has to ask, just like he has to care. Because after all of this... Nagito is still his classmate. Sonia wanted them to work together. Chiaki...]

I don't have any great "talent." You're not going to get to see a greater "hope" from anything I do.

[Why? That in itself was a difficult question he didn't exactly have an answer for. Why was it that he liked spending time with Hinata? He felt something was special about him, he definitely could sense a great hope within the other boy. And he felt a calm serenity when around him. Even finding out he was a reserve course student didn't change those things. He had thought they would have.

Of course... he knew there was more, but he was never going to share that.

What could he say? He lacked the words.]

And yet, despite that, you have always been good at these things. You have always solved the cases. You have always been reliable. Being near you is... relaxing.

...

[I had help. From Nanami, and from you.

Hajime's never felt like he's solved a case on his own. It was always a group effort with the rest of his classmates. Sometimes it felt like a struggle to try to see all the ways everything fit together, how they could use the evidence to find the truth. Even when they didn't want to learn the truth, they all kept pushing forward...

He exhales through his nose and jams his hands into his pockets, closing his eyes as if that might somehow help him figure out what to do here. Nagito had been so kind to him when they met; it had been hard to believe that he was capable of as much malice as he'd proven himself to be. Maybe there were still pieces of that person, the little things Hajime had glimpsed through their conversations that had seemed like small truths among all the lies.

He can't be sure of anything where Nagito is concerned. But he does know that... he's scared of what Nagito might do if he leaves him alone.

He opens his eyes.]

...Fine. Where do you think we should start?

[ Oh! He can stay! If he were a dog he would be wagging his tail. ]

I wasn't really sure since the body was disturbed it's hard to really use that as a starting point. But getting to know the island is definitely a good first step. Maybe even wandering around aimlessly, something might come up. A lucky encounter or something.

[ Of course he had already found some foot prints and other things. ]

Have you been to the campsite yet? There's also some kind of spaceship.

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