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[This is one of the few posts Souji's made that doesn't involve him working in one way or another. Instead, he's sitting in his croft. His face is still heavily bruised, closed cuts half-hidden by his hair. There's what looks like a ring of black and blue around his throat, the skin there mottled dark by Adachi's hands
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she knows it was bound to happen eventually; this whole thing with adachi was kind of a big deal, and souji is ... well, souji. leader guy. he looks out for everyone, especially his friends. his close, personal friends, of whom chie is but one.
and yet, she doesn't want to talk to him.]
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now she's not so sure, on either count.
adachi is dead, and souji killed him. and that disturbs chie far more than she wants to admit to even herself.]
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and yet ... and yet, chie can't stop herself from thinking that maybe, just maybe, souji could have - no, should have found another way. because he's souji, the guy who does the impossible, the one who reaches out to the truth and shows the way for everyone else. he's their leader.
adachi was a monster, true. he did awful things - unspeakable things - and he deserved to pay for each and every one of them, probably even with his life.
but not at souji's hands.
souji was chie's friend - one of her best friends. and they were just high school kids, for crying out loud - sure, they were all mature and practically adults anyway (except for yosuke), and the trials they'd endured over the past year were sobering enough that they'd earned their battle scars, each ( ... )
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well, she doesn't like to admit this, either, even just to herself, but when she remembers that souji killed adachi, souji made adachi stop being alive ... it scares her, a little.]
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and he did practically almost die himself, after all. he must be feeling pretty awful about this entire episode, too.
chie picks up her comm device and clicks on audio to answer him, but -]
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overcome by a wave of shame, she clicks off her transmission after a few seconds of dead air. she replays the scene from that day in her head: there's adachi, there's the fear spell, here comes ange, and all she can do is stand there like an idiot and watch as adachi's persona butchers the girl.
stupid.]
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this wasn't an innocent mistake, like when they'd discovered that they were more or less the cause of the midnight channel. they knew adachi was bad news; they were basically complicit in all of his crimes.]
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she starts another message, in text this time, and hopes it will suffice.]
i'm keeping an eye out, don't worry.
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He knows Chie has a lot to say - a lot she needs to say, she doesn't do well keeping things to herself at the best of times. At any other time, he'd gently press for more information, try to pry it out of her so things could be dealt with.
But this isn't any other time. This isn't Inaba, this isn't a murder case where they were on the side of Justice and Truth, and all of them worked with one purpose, one wish. Now - now...
He puts the communicator on the table, scrubs his face with his hands. His bruising aches in protest.
She hadn't been here before. Did that make it better, or worse? She hadn't been here through it all, but she'd arrived just in time for three murders, one of which had been at his hands. His gut clenches, twists, and he stands up, suddenly nauseous. His feet carry him back and forth, pacing.
He'd had to do it - Adachi was going to kill him. He'd been angry - he'd been in a white hot-and-cold rage - ( ... )
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He needs to keep it together.]
I know you will, Chie-chan. That's one thing I'm not worried about.
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how could he really mean that? chie had let him down.]
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if he shows up again i'm gonna be the first to know about it. these eyes are peeled!!
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