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Who: anyone
When: Day 53, evening
Where: the lounge & dining car

[So there were no nice breakfast and video games this morning, but there is a nice dinner and video games this evening!

Francis has made pizzas from scratch -- enough for everyone to have a few slices. They're all vegetarian, for obvious reasons! Those are laid out on the tables in the dining car, so have at.

Upstairs in the lounge the TV has been hooked up to a console that looks like a Switch with the serial numbers filed off and a lot of sparkles. Your game options are, essentially, Mario Kart and Smash, only... all the playable characters are just the Heroes themselves, including past characters you may remember!

This is friendly PVP go punch your video game self in the face.]

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[ He will break you. Eventually. Or you'll figure out some alternate way to handle it. ]

So does stuff like that happen often, or were we just extra unlucky?

[oh, she has a way of handling it :)]

Unfortunate, I am afraid. They happen, but not often. Trials such as those are not sanctioned by the prince and his cohort.

They didn't plan for that to happen?

[ SO MUCH RELIEF. ]

No, thankfully not.

[ He visibly relaxes, like a weight has come off his shoulders. ]

That's some good news at least.

The fare is far tamer, we are usually forced to play games with one another and "mingle".

I don't really like the whole 'mingle' thing but...compared to that other thing, I guess it's okay.

They will not happen all the time, there are different sorts of trials, but yes, I suppose it is preferable to dying.

I'm pretty sure anything is preferable to dying.

[ Until the moment he's proved wrong, of course. ]

[EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

is what she's THINKING but she's not going to like, elucidate.]

Aside from, perhaps, torture to the point of wishing you were dead.

I guess I can see the argument for that one.

[ There is probably worse though. ]

Watching someone else get tortured to that point and not being able to help them?

[been there done that, it was basically where she was before.]

You are very kind.

[ His face blooms bright red with color. Dude. Don’t compliment him out of the blue like that! ]

I am not! Don’t just say stupid stuff like that out of nowhere!

[calmly undeterred, but wow that blush is a bit cute it reminds her of...

nevermind.]

You are, but do pardon me.

[ Honestly, he doesn't know if he genuinely is kind or not. Chiharu seems to think so too, but he's not sure he 100% trusts that girl's judgement on things. Or this one. ]

It's stupid to even think about. I probably just want to make sure something like that never happens again.

At least from you.

[ If anything he's blunt and honest. ]

You realise these need not be mutually exclusive concepts, yes? You can be a kind person while also not wishing for that to happen again from me, or otherwise. I am quite terrible, so I do not blame you.