[Video; Afternoon- Just past 3pm.]

[theyseemehating]

[When the video clicks on, it displays a person that hasn't been seen for a while on the network- Mai. She's dressed down like any other servant in the Nannai house, and looks worse for wear. Her hair is tangled, with chunks sticking to her sweaty face and her clothing is soiled with stains that are difficult to identify as a black and white image

Comments

[yet_shall_live]

You're trying to provoke them?

[More or less immediately exasperated.]

[theyseemehating]

Not usually, but I sometimes make exceptions.

[yet_shall_live]

Don't be stupid. Provoking them needlessly won't accomplish anything.

[theyseemehating]

It got me out of doing any more ridiculous chores today.

[yet_shall_live]

...

[That combined with Aizen's theory that they send people home if they refuse to cooperate long enough...]

Then they're not capable of effective punishments.

[theyseemehating]

Hmpt. I wouldn't say that.

[This guy does bring up a good point. She probably should lie low for a while so that Madam Higa (or anyone else) won't get creative with how to punish Mai.]

I guess you haven't been here very long.

[yet_shall_live]

Three weeks.

[Too long for his standards, but an hour was too long.]

From what I've heard, acting out can get you left alone, even sent home if you're willing to endure the side effects.

[theyseemehating]

...

[That was news to Mai.]

Who told you that?

[yet_shall_live]

Aizen Sousuke. He claims to have been sent home for not cooperating. He didn't elaborate on why he was brought back.

[Kanda's not so sure he believes it, it seems.]

[theyseemehating]

[Mai didn't respond for nearly half an hour, during that time she entertained that theory. She wasn't Miss Cooperative before she was sent away, and she just thought that what she experienced was a dream.

... A dream that she apparently had for several months.]

So they punish people by sending them back home? That makes total sense.

[Except that it doesn't. Not at all.]

[yet_shall_live]

Neither does allowing us to work for Ukiyo's Guard and granting access to weapons.

[By this point Kanda had nearly given up ascribing sense to the goings on in this place.]

and now [private] forever;

[theyseemehating]

...

[Shit. Mai needed to find out how to get that job.]

Why are you still here?

[yet_shall_live]

We're being held on an island.

[Comes automatically, but there's a moment of thought before he continues, his voice just a little lower.]

After getting past the guards and the foot patrol, there's still the water keeping us here. I don't know the dock schedule, and I don't know what's needed to get a boat.

[theyseemehating]

You would be surprised how easily having a knife could get you all that information.

[Maybe that's why she'll never be a guard with access to weapons...]

[yet_shall_live]

[She's got a point. So why are you still here, Kanda? It sounds a little forced.]

I can't just turn my back on all this.

[theyseemehating]

So... you're staying here to do what exactly?