hippocarnival | Daybreak Academy

So you did live there? [Yuya finishes his cup of liquor, but doesn't move to refill it yet.] Is it Tokyo? Lots of people seem to come from Tokyo to here. Like Nana!

[ Kano goes ahead and refills it with something pink and very strong; maybe it'll knock Yuya out and he won't have to talk about this anymore. ]

Nah, not Tokyo~ [ It was just a normal little town in America, that he doubts anybody would recognize the name of or care, so he takes the chance to regain control of the conversation and turn the questions back around. ]

I've never actually been to Tokyo! Or Japan, for that matter~ How 'bout you? Is it fun over there?

[Yuya doesn't appear to even notice Kano filling his cup yet, shoulders sinking. But he's lucky, because Yuya is extremely easy to redirect like this.]

No... I'm from Sendai, and that's waaaaay north! [He points up for emphasis, his gaze heavy despite his grand gestures.] I've never visited Tokyo, but I want to. Toki's from there too!

[It's only then he looks down and realizes there's alcohol in his cup, after a second of staring, and then proceeds to bring it up to his mouth. He doesn't seem to be having a reaction to the potency anymore, or any of the hesitation he had earlier. As long as Kano keeps providing, he keeps drinking.]

Heh~ It'd be cool if they'd known each other back then, right? Like childhood friends~

[ They've got eight or whatever bottles to go through, which is probably seven and a half more than they actually need, especially since only one of them is even drinking it. Kano doesn't even wait for Yuya to finish a cup before refilling it, instead just topping it off every time he drinks some and lowers the cup. ]

I wonder if someday we'll get a mission in Sendai? I want to see Yuya's home too~

They would have said something! [Yuya shakes his head rapidly spilling some of the alcohol while Kano is trying to pour him another. Yuya's not even the slightest bit aware of how much he's drinking, but it's catching up to the speed he's consumed it.

Yuya takes a heavy breath, closing his eyes as he starts to drink the new pour.] Kano should just... visit. I want to take everyone home with me...

[He starts to giggle at his own thoughts of how his mom would react to him bringing everyone home.]

[ A mess... Kano moves the candle over closer to his side, just in case drinking alcohol can also catch on fire, he isn't actually sure how flammable this all is. ...It's really fortunate that he'd moved everything out of here when he did. ]

Can I really? Come over and play?? I wonder if the school funds things like that, trips home~

[ The last time Kano was invited over to a friend's house... He wasn't even invited, Kano had strongarmed Maverick into taking him home, but this time! it would be like a real invite! he would be invited!! ]

Yes! [What part is Yuya saying yes to?

He jumps slightly, swaying as he suddenly moves to grab Kano's hand in his and he laughs too loudly. Despite his grinning, his eyes can't seem to focus.] You can come play, I've never.... never brought anyone but Gongenzaka home!

We'll go, but not for my birthday, because we're going to Germany. [Apparently.]

[ Oh geez— when touching isn't on his own terms, Kano freezes when Yuya grabs his hands, and after a moment pulls one of them away so he can refill Yuya's cup and give him something else to do with his hands. Fall asleep already, friend. ]

That's right, that's right, you told me your birthday before, didn't you? What was it? Leap day? Weren't you going to spend your birthday money on the theater club trip?

[ Why are you rich!! Lucky, how can you just tour around Germany like it's no problem, and Kano can't even leave campus by himself without guards breathing down his neck. ]

[Despite the flush on his face, Yuya's hands are cold. But that's probably just the season, right?]

I did? [Yuya fumbles with the cup when he doesn't expect it, and it promptly tumbles out as his hands go slack, spilling all over the ground.

His expression starts to blank out. It's getting way too hard to think, trying to remember one trip from another and focus on Kano's face at the same time.] That's New York... right? Right?

Right, right... We're going to New York~ Are you excited?

[ Too much alcohol and a non-insulated shack really don't help matters; Kano jump up onto his feet when the alcohol spills everywhere, and blows out the candle just in case, plunging the room into darkness. It's fine for him to still sort of see, and the room is tiny enough anyways so long as Yuya doesn't accidentally kick of the bottles, so he ducks under one of Yuya's arms to haul him outside, maybe a blast of cold air to the face will bring some coherency back. ]

Yeah... [He's cut short, because as soon as Kano hoists him up his head starts spinning, everything blurs out all at once.

Yuya's knees buckle and his head rolls back as it all goes dark, and he's completely limp and collapsing without Kano holding him up.

He's still cold, but less normal is how slow he's breathing. But maybe it's fine. Maybe.]

—Uh.

[ Hey? Hey???? Wake up?????

Kano lightly slaps Yuya on the cheek. And when he doesn't respond, he slaps harder. ]

[Nope, nothing. Yuya's completely unresponsive, eyes closed and not even so much as flinching when Kano smacks him. There's just enough warmth and breathing to signify he's alive, but sick.

Well, more accurately poisoned. And this is why you don'tdrink hard liquor like it's soda.]

[ What is Hieke's emergency sigil?? He needs Hieke..........

As much as Nekano deserves to be a hero cat, he's going to need a more direct line of communication if he wants to get medical help, so Kano goes ahead and assumes the face of the most boring, plain person he knows. Sorry, Minako's brother, yours is one of the few faces Kano is familiar enough with through having known him for years, plus I have ready icons for Minato and that's the most important thing.

"Minato" hauls Yuya's arm over his shoulder and proceeds down the stairs as best he can with dead weight. It's going to be bumpy, sorry for your shins, Yuya.

He has a no good, very bad idea, but it's not going to be something he wants to get caught on his floor doing, so Yuya will have to die in his own room. Sorry for invading your privacy, he's going to dig through Yuya's pockets for the room key, unless it's already unlocked (stop leaving your doors unlocked, kids, even if it is super convenient) ]

Anybody home...?

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[It's unlocked, because Toki's here. He slides the notebook he'd been looking under his mattress when the door opens. No one needs to see that yet.]

[ Oh... Toki's here. That's both good and bad, although it's not really disrespecting Tsuyukusa's last wishes if Minato is a real person, right? One that hardly leaves his room in Aube, so Kano knows he won't be given away, but also has a sister in this dorm so he reasonably can be here. ]

...Um. Tokidoki, right? Can I borrow your shower?

[ Ignore the fact that he's hauling an unconscious roommate behind him. ]

[Uhh. He doesn't know this kid. He's only talked to him on the Network about devil names.]

Sure, why not~!?

[He doesn't care. However, the unconscious roommate cannot be ignored. Kano should have made him invisible or something.]

Yuya! What happened!? Is he okay!?

[Toki's away from his desk and hovering in less than a second.]

Uh.

[ The great thing about impersonating Minato is that he's always just sort of quiet and slow, so he takes Toki's questions as completely rhetorical ones and lets Yuya lie on the ground for Toki to hover over him, maybe wake him up with all the noise.

But when that doesn't happen, he can at least be a little reassuring. ]

He's breathing. Alcohol on his breath, though...

[ Toki... you drink. You're the one person who probably knows about this stuff?? Or maybe not, if he also just gives in and blacks out and wakes up the next day acting like nothing's wrong. ]

I read that cold showers might work for hangovers, so I wanted to borrow your shower. Pour cold water over his head.

He's drunk!?

[What a hypocrite. He basically had implied that there was something seriously wrong with Toki for doing the same thing. Yuya looks completely wasted, so he's assuming there was a great deal of alcohol involved; and nothing on the lighter side, as he smells like the the hard stuff... and fruit.]

Did you just like find him somewhere!? Hangovers are a next day thing, but sure, try the shower!

[If Yuya was inexperienced in these sorts of things, he's probably on his way to alcohol poisoning. Toki blacked out at the bar because of an interaction with sedatives. He drank much less than Yuya had, really.]

After you get him in there, go... find some green tea! That might help, or like asparagus or anything else you know of that might speed up metabolism!

[Because of course there's some asparagus somewhere. Toki's going to dig through the closet and see if there's still a bottle of milk thistle supplements lying around. He has them just in case.]

[ Kano has a feeling that maybe he shouldn't leave the room and leave Yuya alone with Toki, as much as he really really wants to just abandon him here and wash his hands clean of the mess.

Alas...

He goes ahead and drags Yuya over to the bathroom shower and turns on the cold water full blast. ...Tilts Yuya's chin down so that he doesn't drown. ]

I probably have something like that, actually...

[ He hops up onto the edge of the sink to sit, and digs around in his pockets for tea bags. They're of all sorts, but he does keep a stock with him at all times. ]

Does it have to be green?

[Toki would have accidentally let Yuya drown right there, so Kano's instincts are right.]

I don't know~! I think so?

[Maybe any tea would do. He's mostly just read about these things. He does find the bottle of milk thistle and cranberry things. They're in gel capsules. He's never tried them, because as Kano assessed earlier, he does just black out and not worry about anything the next day. He joins Minato in the bathroom, wondering how to actually get Yuya to swallow these things. Minato, for some reason, had tea in his pockets. That's weird. He's also reminding Toki of something, the way he's sitting on the sink like that. Like that picture of...

It's spring. The trees are filled with flower blossoms at their peak. Everything is green and lush. There's a small clearing in the forest; sunlight shining down upon it, visible beams of ethereal gold. In the clearing is a young girl in a green medieval style dress. She looks happy and is laughing, catching fireflies. An albino fawn sits at her feet. The fawn closes its eyes as the girl's laughter changes tone to one of malevolence. The fireflies drop to the ground. The sky turns red and it begins to snow.

...That girl again. She keeps showing up for some reason. Maybe it's significant. He searches his pockets for his phone, but it's not there. He barely registers Minato and has no idea Yuya's in the shower.]

Why are you in here?

[It sounds rhetorical, because he's not going to listen to the answer anyway. Leaving the bathroom, he finds his phone on his desk and starts making vision notes. There are so many text files just from this week.]

Edited (word) 2019-02-27 03:23 (UTC)

[ Tea is all the same to him, so it's a mixture of things that Kano's got, sorting them out into greens and not-greens and pocketing the rest when the second question comes filtering through, detached enough that Kano looks up and around, as if expecting somebody else to have entered the bathroom besides the three of them. ]

Why am I...? What?

[ But Toki is gone and Kano hops down from the sink— quickly goes to the shower to add some hot water to the cold and throw the handful of tea bags into Yuya's lap, as if they'll steep in that lukewarm temperature and offer some detoxification benefit— before poking his head out the bathroom door to see what Toki's doing. ]

Did you get a text from someone?

[ Somebody more important than Yuya, whose health and well-being you were shouting about up to two seconds ago?? ]

[Kano and Toki are lucky they have 0 chance of killing Yuya because of word of God, or he'd probably be dead.

He still doesn't wake up, but the water pounding his head and the rapid temperature shift draws some response from his body, finally. Nausea, mainly.

He chokes, tipping forward to puke up mostly bile as his reflexes try to purge the alcohol. Luckily he didn't eat anything before this started, so his stomach doesn't have anything else to empty.]

[He looks up from his phone when he's done taking notes.]

No, I had a vision. Why are you here? Wait, did you change rooms and move into 204 and that's why you were in the bathroom; because it's yours too!? That makes sense~! Sorry if I walked in on you~! There hasn't been anyone next door since I got here, so I wasn't expecting you, I guess!

[There's retching sounds from the bathroom.]

Is that your roommate; are they sick!?

[ I can't believe Yuya is not only dead, but he's dead to Toki. Kano can't believe that, staring at Toki like maybe he's somebody in disguise, because there's no way Toki can forget somebody who he's lived with for more than two months, right? Wasn't it already established that Yuya's sick- didn't Toki come out to get something for that?

Kano shakes his head at all those questions, reaching up to press the back of his hand on Toki's forehead, and grabbing for his wrist with his other hand to drag him back towards the bathroom. ]

Maybe you need a cold shower too... C'mon, let's go check up on him... You're not drunk too, are you, Tokidoki?

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Emeteo warning

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so sorry, drunk yuya

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