[ When it rained, Yu checked the Midnight Channel. They all did. They'd determined the case was still on, thanks to Naoto, and thanks especially to Yu's tumble into the Samegawa, which had been hard to explain. He'd come up with a way to describe it without including Yosuke, and though he could tell the group didn't really buy it, they were leaving him alone about it. What was most important was that someone had tried to kill him, after all, and there had been a flurry of discussions. Kanji started hanging around him more than usual, and he found Naoto watching him across corners and from down the street. He tried to reassure them he'd be alright.
Truthfully, they were all on edge.
Yu, perhaps, especially so. He couldn't say why. Just a nameless dread that settled into his stomach when his clock struck midnight, and he turned to inspect his TV.
When it sparked into life - with a blurry impression of an unusual figure - his heart had dropped into his feet.
They all discussed it the next day, after school, and while Yu did his best to seem unshaken, Rise eventually picked up on something being amiss. Yu had been forced to reassure her all was well, and that they needed to focus on the case, but he couldn't escape his bad feeling.
That feeling only got worse when he got home that night, and on the news was a segment:
MONSTER IN THE SAMEGAWA?
It was, apparently, an update on an initial report that had been on TV a few days prior. Yu had missed its original airing due to having spent that day at work after school. But kneeling on the tatami that night with Nanako, watching the announcer discuss the blurry footage and a new photograph that had surfaced of some kind of creature swimming up the Samegawa, much too big to be a normal fish, he'd felt his heart go cold.
When he watches the Midnight Channel that night, there is a boy. That boy has legs, and a sneer, and golden eyes.
Yu wants to throw up. He does not. He calmly answers Kanji's call, tells him to get everyone together tomorrow at Junes. They have someone new to rescue.
Everyone realizes that only Yu knows who the kidnapee is. Everyone realizes that when Yu is able to describe him in detail to Rise, when everyone had been just starting to mutter about having to search for clues. Everyone trains their eyes on him, but no one asks, because Yu is made of steel and fire bound up in cords of icy calm, and no one wants to break the surface tension and unleash what lies beneath.
The run to the dungeon is not that far. And the dungeon is... a cavern. The arrive at a rocky entrance, dark and wet, flooded up to their knees and lit from a source no one can see. ]
Kanji, Teddie, Yukiko, with me. Let's go, everyone.
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Truthfully, they were all on edge.
Yu, perhaps, especially so. He couldn't say why. Just a nameless dread that settled into his stomach when his clock struck midnight, and he turned to inspect his TV.
When it sparked into life - with a blurry impression of an unusual figure - his heart had dropped into his feet.
They all discussed it the next day, after school, and while Yu did his best to seem unshaken, Rise eventually picked up on something being amiss. Yu had been forced to reassure her all was well, and that they needed to focus on the case, but he couldn't escape his bad feeling.
That feeling only got worse when he got home that night, and on the news was a segment:
MONSTER IN THE SAMEGAWA?
It was, apparently, an update on an initial report that had been on TV a few days prior. Yu had missed its original airing due to having spent that day at work after school. But kneeling on the tatami that night with Nanako, watching the announcer discuss the blurry footage and a new photograph that had surfaced of some kind of creature swimming up the Samegawa, much too big to be a normal fish, he'd felt his heart go cold.
When he watches the Midnight Channel that night, there is a boy. That boy has legs, and a sneer, and golden eyes.
Yu wants to throw up. He does not. He calmly answers Kanji's call, tells him to get everyone together tomorrow at Junes. They have someone new to rescue.
Everyone realizes that only Yu knows who the kidnapee is. Everyone realizes that when Yu is able to describe him in detail to Rise, when everyone had been just starting to mutter about having to search for clues. Everyone trains their eyes on him, but no one asks, because Yu is made of steel and fire bound up in cords of icy calm, and no one wants to break the surface tension and unleash what lies beneath.
The run to the dungeon is not that far. And the dungeon is... a cavern. The arrive at a rocky entrance, dark and wet, flooded up to their knees and lit from a source no one can see. ]
Kanji, Teddie, Yukiko, with me. Let's go, everyone.
[ He is calm.
But he is not ready. ]