LE MEURTIER; AN ASSASSIN'S TALE (AU)

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Yosuke gets a contract to assassinate Yu.

What happens?

An AU where Yosuke has a much darker secret than just resentment, and what happens as a result.

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[ Yu makes a soft, vague sound of assent, looking over at the other boy and nodding. It is a weird place, there's no denying that - and that room with the noose in it the other day had been incredibly creepy. ]

We won't stay long.

[ Any longer than is needed to, of course. His own desires and wishes aside, he still feels this is Hanamura's show.

The air around them is strange and feels heavy with something Yu doesn't recognize. Even breathing in feels different. Not more difficult - just strange, like he has to learn how it works all over again. Maybe that's not so strange in an entirely different world.

Up ahead, the bear calls back to them. "This way, this way!" Yu huffs a sigh and looks at Yosuke with a small shrug. ]

[cpt_ressentiment]

Yeah. Just until we find something. ... Anything.

[ His tone drifts into something a little more gloomy than he wants, thoughts of Saki-senpai fluttering through his mind again. His gaze even turns to the ground for a moment. But he takes a deep breath, looks up just in time to see that bear-thing waving and carrying right on ahead of them, and sighs.

He looks to Yu, almost mirrors his shrug with one of his own, and moves along.

But... maybe his pace slows the smallest bit when things start looking familiar, when the sight of the local shopping district takes over the scenery. ]

Whoa. This is...

[ But he trails off, immediately looking in the direction of where he knows a certain liquor store is supposed to be, if this really is what it looks like. And sure enough, there it is. ]

And that's... the store that senpai's parents own.

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The shopping district.

[ He's only been here a couple of days, but it would be hard not to recognize even in this weird, dark, warped state. Yu will unconsciously slow when Hanamura does, matching his pace, but he actually comes to a halt when something catches his ear. ]

Do you hear that?

[ Voices. Yu will stare up into what passes for a sky here as a barrage of abuse rains down - all of it for the Junes, how it's stealing livelihoods from the other stores, how Junes is making them all go bankrupt, Junes this, Junes that...

And there are a few other comments, too. Ones that make his nerves prick. "If you ask me, there's something dirty going on there." "Where else could all that money have come from?" "They're thieves. Crooks!" "Or worse..."

Without thinking Yu will look back down at Yosuke, apprehensive yet unable to help feeling sympathetic, too. That can't be easy to hear. ]

[cpt_ressentiment]

[ It's not easy to hear at all.

It's like he stiffens more and more with each word that reaches his ears, head bowed and eyes narrowed behind those still-foreign lenses. His fists clench, and he forces himself to fold his arms across his chest just to keep that much from being so obvious.

Worse, huh...? Yeah. They've got no idea.

"And I heard that Konishi-san's daughter is working there..." "How could she? Working for the enemy... what a troublesome child." ]

S-Stop it...

[ It hits a nerve, but it drags him back into some semblance of focus, and he looks back up, to Yu. ]

So, you think this was senpai's reality? When she wandered in here?

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[ His expression doesn't much change despite Hanamura's obvious discomfort, though he still feels a twinge of empathy. He thinks the rumors about Hanamura and his family being crooks are just spurious accusations brought on by (justifiable) bitterness and anger. Of course they'd be bitter, their livelihoods are at risk... but that doesn't make it Hanamura's fault, and he's the one suffering for it right now.

(How little does he know.)

He shakes his head, about to reply, when another call comes from up ahead.

"Hurry uuuuuuuuup!! I can smell something! I think someone's been here!"

Yu will shoot a look the other's way before picking up a jog and heading towards the source of Teddie's voice. ]