week 5 - ichigo - monday

[completelycrazy]

[It's late, but Newt is hanging around in the McDonald's, picking halfheartedly at a McFlurry that does not taste like victory and is therefore melting in its cup. He should've spent his rips on the real ice cream place this week.

He's also sporting a new outfit seeing as uhhhhhh Izaya trashed his old one. Thanks, asshole.]

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[completelycrazy]

That's what it is, plain and simple. Without this game, we'd all be dead. At least this way some of us can live, maybe.

[It's better than nothing? He's choosing to believe as much, anyway.]

I wouldn't phrase it like that. [Even though he just did. But he was talking in a general sense.]

At the time, I thought killing the Reapers was our best bet to winning the game. We had seven Reapers left and six weeks to go... We had to speed up the process if the Players stood any chance.

[bladeisme]

There could be a life after death where you're from, you know.

[That's said gently, but...he is a shinigami, after all. Of course he'd always think about that.]

...I see. That might still be true, but...I don't think it's the whole picture.

[All the hints they've gotten...it really points to something else.]

So - is that why you tortured him? For information?

[completelycrazy]

[Newt snorts.] Unlikely.

[But he'll leave it at that.]

I don't think it is either, not anymore. Or, I don't know, maybe I always knew there was more to it than that. But I wanted to, uh, bring the Player win within reach should we fail at solving the larger mysteries and have to rely on the backup plan.

[And then, mm. Newt grits his teeth. He's so sick of this.]

I didn't torture him. What Kaiba failed to mention about the truth serum I used is that it's primarily an anesthetic. The goal was to get him talking, yes, but the drug did the job. I only cut off his fingers because I couldn't get his damn ring off. He'd already tried to shoot me with his psych once. I couldn't take that chance again.

[He takes a breath, his eyes dropping to the side.]

The second dose was to knock him out before I slit his throat.