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No harm, no. Just be prepared to feel frustrated.

I'll go into my studies with low expectations, promise.

Good. Ah...

Shall I tell you the big depressing thing so that we can cheer up with cake after?

[Deep breath]

Yeah, okay, I'm ready. Hit me.

We're essentially a show to be watched outside our dorm. The demons are also called the producers. The producers will force us into games. Some are fine. No big deal.

In some we'll be forced to hurt people or be hurt ourselves. People get killed in these games but after the games any who die are brought back to life.

If you try to kill yourself in a game to avoid being hurt or hurting someone else they will torture you. Please do not do it.

Alcheme tends to play in the middle. Not going all out to protect ourselves since we don't want to hurt others. But not doing nothing either.

I know everything I just said is extremely awful to hear.

[IT SURE IS SHE LOOKS TERRIFIED]

Yeah.

Yeah.

It is not great.

But. One day you will be able to go home and this will all be behind you.

Y..Yeah, of course...

[Sits down]

...Honestly this all sounds really scary and bad but it. It doesn't actually feel real? Is that just denial talking?

That's denial, yep. It doesn't feel real. Sometimes even while it's happening.

I'll do what I can to help you out when things are bad.

...Protecting ourselves without hurting others, yeah?

We try to not do much harm. And try to protect everyone's special people on other units best we can.

And it's a secret. Don't talk about it, especially in games. But if there's ever a game where you can choose to protect one unit?

Talon from Wild City has made sure to arrange so every unit is covered. For that situation, we choose future is now.

It was a game that happened before and some units weren't protected. If it ever happens again though we're ready to make sure no one is harmed.

[L nods, taking that in. Wild City and future is now, important unit names she should look them up later. Breathing in slowly and running her hands through her hair.]

future is now. Got it. It's a big relief to hear we have a secret system like that in place actually. And you should definitely tell me more about the special people on other units, I don't know anything about the other units yet. There's a lot I've got to learn!

I'll do my best to protect you guys without hurting your important people too.

U has a boyfriend on Lilis. N has a friend from home on Taisho. A has a boyfriend on Bad End. K is fond of Lilis and HSS I believe? C's best friend is on Wild City. My boyfriend is on Avante.

And I think half of Alcheme has adopted Eclipse from HSS but don't say that everyone is shy.

[That's so many boyfriends, she nods taking that all in, and giggles about Eclipse]

But that sounds so cute!

Eclipse shows up to spend the night sometimes. He's one of the younger people around, fourteen, but he's pretty grown up in personality and behavior.

Where does he sleep? Did I take a spare room...?

N's room or a couch. Sometimes my room. We're probably going to buy a spare room for him eventually though.

Oh good, I didn't want to take his bed. A spare room for him sounds really nice, I'm sure we can make room for him somewhere in here, this place is big. We can get a partition of some kind.

[Not quite parsing 'buy a spare room' you can't just buy rooms in a house right]

How are you planning to decorate it? What kind of things does Eclipse like?

You can buy extra rooms and they get added in magically. Decor wise though every thing we buy comes in Alcheme aesthetic.

I'm not sure what colors and such he'd prefer... We can buy fabric. But I'm not very fast at sewing still.

More magic, of course. I need to get used to everything being magic. But we should still decorate for him! What unit colour did he pick, he probably likes that? Then we can pick colours that match with it. And what are you sewing?