thesettingsun | Week 0, Friday, post-investigation: Veronica.

Week 0, Friday, post-investigation: Veronica.

[So discovering a dead body was not exactly fun. There doesn't seem to be much else to do before the trial tomorrow, so Dazai has retired to his room to flip through his own novel and be by himself for a while.

This is not helped by Veronica entering unnanounced.]

Can I help you?

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[UNCEREMONIOUSLY, LIKE SHE DIDN'T JUST BARGE IN:]

Did you ever get to stab yourself?

Yes.

[There's a scratch or two on his arm.]

As you can see it wasn't anything serious.

[... She shouldn't be glad that someone successfully hurt themselves, but that sure doesn't stop her from letting out a breath. Is it relief? She sure as heck doesn't know. But she knows it makes her a pretty shitty person.

Either way, she steps further into the room to squint at his arm.]

Did you... bleed from them? From the cuts?

[That's a specific question. And there's only one conclusion to draw from that: it's an accusation of murder!]

I don't know what someone told you, but I only bleed blue-black ink, not purple! None of that was mine!

What? [KNEE JERK REACTION. She's baffled for a moment, taking a step back.] That's not what I— Ugh!

[Why is he this way?? She already Regrets.]

That's not why I'm asking! Jesus, why does that have to be the first thing you think of?!

Well why else would you be asking?!

[Does she regularly go around asking people if they bleed?]

Because whatever the hell happened to Gi-gan, she sure wasn't bleeding blood!

[Look...... Listen................. She's intense when she wants to know something. Let her live??]

You're the only person I could think of that might've bled here before, so— The blue-black ink. Has it always been like that?

Since long before I came here, yeah. I don't know about anyone else, but my blood hasn't changed.

Fuck. [Why is blue-black ink now a normal blood thing? This is so much.] Then what the hell happened to her? Was her blood just... normally like that?

I don't know. I haven't seen anyone else bleed here, which normally I'd be thankful for.

[Buuuut, murder investigations.]

Normally. But we're going to see a lot more of where that came from before this is all over, aren't we?

[God, murder investigations and trials. She doesn't know how to deal with all of this. But after a beat, she laughs. Awkwardly.]

Look, um... I'm really sorry about barging in like that. That wasn't cool of me.