imeeji_frontstage | BETRAYAL AT THE HOUSE ON THE GAME TOWER

Who: Exael and the rest of you lot
When: To be inserted into the timeline after completion
What: Betrayal at the House on the Game Tower

[ The GAME ALERT and map show on the screen of your phones— idols, you know what to do!

The Game Tower elevator doors are open to receive, and close once they have you in their confines and the broadcast monitors click on. You can keep an eye on the city further and further below you, as watch with your host's introduction to today's game.

At the very least it's not Mukuro's face on the screen this time. Instead it's Exael again, pigtails bouncing as she hops up from a grand low bow— it looks like they cut part of her broadcast spiel for you guys. With a showman's flair, she twirls and splays her arms as the camera zooms out to focus on a grand mansion, more Hollywood glamor than anything belonging in Tokyo.

"Summer has come to Tokyo, and so has the season's specialty: The Trial of Courage! Step right up, and charge right in because waiting won't help you at all! Here is a place even angels fear to tread! Azzy's very own, The House of Mirth and Betrayal! This place has a sordid past that casts a shadow as long as the valley of death, and soon our Idols will be adding their own pages to the tale!"

The elevator stops atop the central tower of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building and then lurches unpleasantly, wrenching itself out of where elevators ought to go. The sudden movement jolts you, and when the doors open you spill out into into a room.

Hopefully, with not too much time missing. ]

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Why his tongue...?

For the words he spoke, the lies that he crafted.

Mmm.

[Well he will, not offer one of his knives, but he'll wait for Lucifel to do his... Thing?]

[ he has a knife attached physically to his right hand so he's just gonna start clipping out dandy's tongue by prying his mouth open and then starting to work, it is extremely unpretty but he just fucking works it ]

[He's like, still covered in dried tacky blood head to toe so, you know, watching intently.]

[ yeah we're all having a good time here

yanking out his tongue unkindly, like this is pretty fucked up but also he's just manhandling this body, no love at all

When he's finished he's starting to open up his ribcage, too ]

[That's... bloody. And it makes him... Angry. You know. Seeing red.]

You want him that much?

He said he loves me, after all. Don't I deserve this much?

What will you do? With it?

Keep it with me, of course.

[Frowning just a little, restlessly reaching up to retrieve the handcuffs from Loki's wrists.]

I can understand that, I guess. But I don't think you're going to need it, really?

No, I need it.

...?

[Tucking the cuffs into his belt and scooting closer, watching Lucifel curiously.]

I thought you hated him?

I love him. Don't be mistaken.

You're certainly difficult to understand.

I don't expect you to understand me, so that's fine. Understanding is something like a lie too, anyway.

[ cutting through the arteries now ]

Is it?

[Ugh fine if you're taking the heart he'll use a knife to start prying out one of Loki's eyes.]

It is. After all, if you say you love someone, but you don't understand them, then is it really love? Is it not love of the idea of that person? If you say, "I love you", then doesn't that mean that you're saying, "I understand you"? But if you don't understand them, then you're lying, right?

[ humming as he pulls the heart out now, yanks it really ]

I'm difficult to understand, impossible to love.

.... Fully understanding someone seems like too much. It's impossible, you know?

[ you know when even crazy rean schwarzer has to be like uh dude maybe you're mistaken here ]

And so is love.

[Look like he's crazy enough to think everyone should die as a untrustworthy traitor but??]

Your standards are unreasonable.

[ gives him a sort of skeptical look before he sets loki's heart down, leaning close and giving a smile ]

What are your standards, then? What do you think love is?

I... Used to think I knew. I used to think it involved caring about each other and acceptance and trust... But no one can be trusted, can they?

I still think you can love people though, knowing they're turn on you. Love them, but not forgive them.

H~m. Well, I wouldn't say it's impossible to love necessarily, then. It is impossible to be loved, however. For example, I love Loki-san - but I can certainly not be loved by him.

[ isly, moving to pet dandy's hair ]

Even so, I'm sure this hatred is love, too.

[Hmm his crazy says this checks out.]

I suppose that's... True. You can love someone and hate them too.

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