[ it's so much easier to talk about blue then to let himself grieve, okay? ]
Not too much. I asked them about the game we were playing and what we could do to win. [ here's a small smile, for real this time. ] I mainly wanted to understand them and see what kind of person they were.
[ they'll grieve when... they...grieve???? which is??? ]
I promised to come back and make origami with them.
[ that makes ken feel a little better too. ]
But they did. They told me we have to separate them from the house if we want to be free. Everyone. If we can find out where the house's source is and separate it from Blue—we'll win.
[yeah, that sounds about right with what Akira learned, both from Blue and Phoenix, as well. and vaguely. . . he wonders if Phoenix's source of information was Ken]
[his mouth twitches]
"Access to the source is available for those who seek it out."
. . . yeah. I've been thinking about that for a while now, actually. Especially since the room flashed red under Ash's Third Eye.
[the pieces are slowly starting to come together. . . Akira feels like they're in the home stretch, but-- even so, they still have a trial to go through this weekend, and that part sucks]
Blue mentions that the heart of the matter was what was most important to me, too. I wonder. . .
. . . is that room connected to the house's heart?
But we've been able to use it without certain things coming back for us. [ just. gonna touch his neck and eye akira's leg. ] Not to mention, there's still one more floor left, isn't there?
[ but blue was snatched up on the fifth floor which is what's confusing him. what's on the sixth floor?? ]
In the note that Phoe— [ he'll stumble for a bit and NOPE. NO CRYING. HE'S A BIG BOY. ] ...that Phoenix found, it was clearly what all that Blue had tried before.
If we want to separate Blue from the house, we can't do it using conventional means. There's some way to separate the two of them that Blue was also trying to figure out.
though speaking of notes and losing it—ken will slam his fist extremely hard against the walling behind him before replying. replying? shouting? shouting. ]
Absolutely not! We're not letting Blue do that! After everything they—
[ ah.
here's an outburst that's totally uncharacteristic of ken's normal behavior. or, well, how he's been acting. just everything building and building...sometimes it just get to be too much. ]
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I saw the same one, then.
[ though as the subject of blue comes up—he'll turn dead serious. ]
I've met Blue, Kurusu-san. After we spoke—they wrote me back and then I went to meet them.
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Ah. . . yeah. I met with them on Thursday. Akechi got to talk to them in person after our meeting, too.
What did they say?
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Not too much. I asked them about the game we were playing and what we could do to win. [ here's a small smile, for real this time. ] I mainly wanted to understand them and see what kind of person they were.
[ he may or may not have befriended blue. ]
What did you talk about?
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I asked them what their favorite food was. The answer was peeps chili.
[his mouth twitches at that]
But I also asked them how to stop the vicious cycle the house is perpetuating. Did Blue mention anything about a "source?"
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I promised to come back and make origami with them.
[ that makes ken feel a little better too. ]
But they did. They told me we have to separate them from the house if we want to be free. Everyone. If we can find out where the house's source is and separate it from Blue—we'll win.
[ his brows furrow and he bites his bottom lip. ]
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[his mouth twitches]
"Access to the source is available for those who seek it out."
That's what Blue told me, when I asked about it.
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[ or would that be too easy? except there was that note that phoenix found...that ken also copied almost immediately. ]
Blue's last hint for me was, "things that are close to the heart will help the separation".
[ sadly, ken does not look very thrilled despite them putting more things together... ]
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[the pieces are slowly starting to come together. . . Akira feels like they're in the home stretch, but-- even so, they still have a trial to go through this weekend, and that part sucks]
Blue mentions that the heart of the matter was what was most important to me, too. I wonder. . .
. . . is that room connected to the house's heart?
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[ but blue was snatched up on the fifth floor which is what's confusing him. what's on the sixth floor?? ]
In the note that Phoe— [ he'll stumble for a bit and NOPE. NO CRYING. HE'S A BIG BOY. ] ...that Phoenix found, it was clearly what all that Blue had tried before.
[ ken presents his version of the note. ]
If we want to separate Blue from the house, we can't do it using conventional means. There's some way to separate the two of them that Blue was also trying to figure out.
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[well, the first thing Akira says is--]
Nobody had better try that last resort method.
[the staff are not the only ones who would be Very Unhappy, that's for sure]
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though speaking of notes and losing it—ken will slam his fist extremely hard against the walling behind him before replying. replying? shouting? shouting. ]
Absolutely not! We're not letting Blue do that! After everything they—
[ ah.
here's an outburst that's totally uncharacteristic of ken's normal behavior. or, well, how he's been acting. just everything building and building...sometimes it just get to be too much. ]
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[Akira doesn't jump when Ken slams his fist against the wall, but he does reach out to place his hand on his fellow Persona-user's shoulder]
We won't let it happen.
If you and I need to protect them, then we will.