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[hippocarnival]

YUYA SAKAKI UN: FUNDIRECTION

STATUS: Student Grade 9

ACCOLADES: (Here is a list of leading roles Yuya's has in school theater performances over the past two years, plus a glowing review of his familiar Odd-Eyes)

BIO: Hello! You can call me Yuya. I'm from Sendai, Japan. This is my second year in Daybreak Academy. I'm a Tamer, and Odd-Eyes is my familiar. He's the big red dragon that hangs out in the courtyards. He's friendly but he tries to steal food sometimes. I speak Japanese and English but not very good French. I'm also in the theater club. I'm in Lumiere 203. Let's be friends!

© TESSISAMESS

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[yokeye]

[Toki glares at Maverick.]

I know you have a cat! I was asking if Princess had one! Because we followed a cat up here and it's not Ricktoria! I thought maybe it went into your room because you just came out! It's a logical question that makes perfect sense!

[foolishjustice]

My actual name is Goro Akechi.

[He doesn't seem to mind the nickname, though, and just waves at Yuya.]

I don't have a cat, but...that sounds like the one that was in our room while we were trying to figure out that piece of paper.

[hippocarnival]

[He turns his own sheet of paper around and holds it between both hands for then to see.] Did it look something like this?

[deuteranope]

[jeez fine okay]

Yeah, that's not a pet cat, that's a friend cat.

[Even now... He really needs to examine his life choices. At Yuya's prompting, he lifts his own paper -- only his is actually complete, thanks to cheating.]

Yep. Guess we were supposed to team up for this shit. It was sending us to the second floor where your room is, but it ain't like we could've known that without both fucking halves... Either of you know anything about some hobo picture code? I'm struggling to find a way this plan wasn't fucking stupid as hell.

[yokeye]

Hey! I was right! They connect!

[He doesn't know anything about a hobo picture code, though.]

I could try looking at it again; the whole thing this time and let it just reveal itself~!

[hippocarnival]

Is it a code? We were thinking it was a map. [Yuya reaches to absently pat Toki's shoulder. He did a good job.]

Friend cat... you mean like a familiar?

[deuteranope]

Eh. It's a little of both.

[He stares at Toki a moment, then slides his eyes over to Yuya in a silent question. Is this an Actual Thing They Should Do, or like...Toki bullshit...]

Something like that. Even you had to realize he was fucking smarter than a regular-ass mundie cat, right?

[foolishjustice]

We're thinking it's a map of the dorm building, with code symbols marking each room. Ours is marked as a 'good place for a handout', while the hallway for this floor says 'leave quickly'.

[yokeye]

If you already know what the symbols mean, what are you trying to figure out!?

[This just got more confusing. He points to the cat symbol.]

Is the cat trying to tell us where it lives!? Isn't that Nana's room!? It's her cat! But if this is where the cat lives, then why does it want you to leave quickly!? None of this makes any sense!

[hippocarnival]

Well, Matsu figured out how to open doors in our apartment...

[Cats can be smart. He leans in to look at the map.] Oh--these are the dorms, right? If the arrow says to leave the third floor, then it can't be that.

[So is it leading then elsewhere? He squints and then points at hits and Toki's room.] That's ours. That's what one mean?

[deuteranope]

[Mav's jaw tightens slightly at the reminder of what the symbol over his room means, still bothered by it even if he keeps reminding himself that it's...probably not how things are meant. At least these other two are providing a distraction.]

I just fucking said he's not a pet cat... The cat over Nana's room means that a "kind lady" lives there. We're definitely supposed to be on the second floor, dumbass.

[Let's see, Yuya's and Toki's room... Mav leans over to try and scan Akechi's list.]

[foolishjustice]

[He has written down the translations, with Yuya and Toki's symbol marked as meaning 'you can camp here'.]

You just illustrated what we're trying to figure out. We know what the symbols mean, but not why we were given this map. 204 is marked as 'this is the place', though, so we might find answers there.

[yokeye]

I thought you meant not your- yours and/or Goro's- pet cat, but that it still could be someone else's cat...

[Nana could have had a familiar. He looks over at Yuya.]

Anyway! "This is the place"? Do you think it's Kano's map!? But no, because we already knew that he wanted to move down there, so why would we have a map telling us that!? It has to have some other hidden meaning!

[hippocarnival]

[Nana does not have a familiar.

Yuya rubs his chin thoughtfully.] Yeah, that room is empty right now so Kano talked about taking it. I don't think he has a cat? But he does have...

[Illusions. He straightens back up.] If that's where it wants us to go then we'll find more answers there! The front door is probably locked, but we can still get in through the bathroom.

[deuteranope]

[He glances sharply over to Yuya. Despite everything, it would be...so much easier for Kano to be able to keep that secret of his. Mav wants that for him, even if he's irritated right now. ...Partially because he gets to keep a cat friend, that way, but. It's nice to be able to be a cat, isn't it? He thinks it must be.

...And then the other bit registers.]

He wants to move down there?

[Why... It wasn't as if Kano spent time in the room he had now, but... Mm.]

Whatever. Lead the fucking way, I guess.

[hippocarnival]

Something like that. [Yuya glances around, and lowers his voice a bit. He's trying to keep Kano out of trouble at least.] He cut a hole through our closet so he could get down to our room without leaving his.

[It's to dodge guards, probably.]

[foolishjustice]

[He glances around to make sure nobody else is in the hall, then lowers his voice just to be sure.]

Let me get one of my lockpicks, just in case. Just don't tell anyone I know how to use them.

[By now, Mav at least probably knows he has them for locked chests in Mementos, but still...it's a fishy skill for a detective.]

[yokeye]

I can do it, it's fine!

[Did someone even fix the lock from last time? He doesn't know.]

[deuteranope]

[(x) doubt]

Pretty sure it'll be way fucking less noticeable if you let princess just do his thing, but I just remembered I really don't give a fuck.

[hippocarnival]

I think we can let Akechi at least get his tools. [Because Yuya remembers how breaking into Kano's room went, with a busted-ass doorknob. Maybe they shouldn't repeat that.]