week four | mingle

[marriagebroker]

Final week at the estate! Final week with your friends. Final week with your beaus. Time to make the most of it, everyone!

In fact, to celebrate this fact, today there is a cake. It's nothing special, just a nice little cake to enjoy with your morning coffee or throughout the day. Yay, cake!

And when Wei Wuxian arrives that morning, he is going to call out once again for everyone to join him, near the cake.

"Everyone, I have another announcement!"

Hell yeah, announcements.

Boom Boom Room | Dates | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

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[beatmatching]

[ so sukuna = segyein... got it. ]

Then was it to give your student an opportunity to become stronger?

[irreversal]

[ She nods. ]

...It was the only choice we had to beat Sukuna.

[beatmatching]

Then it's just something you had to do, isn't it? You shouldn't feel bad about that.

[ luka's not sure to the extent of which she had to do it, but that doesn't really matter. ]

[irreversal]

...It was. And— I don't.

[ She breaks eye contact with him, her gaze growing distant and unfocused. Maybe therein lies the problem— Shoko didn't, doesn't feel bad for doing what she had to. But shouldn't she?

Was that truly a fitting end for her friend? Didn't she think he would win his fight with Sukuna, which would keep her from having to resort to it all in the first place...? ]

I... didn't think we would have to resort to it. [ A beat. ] He was going to win.

[beatmatching]

[ luka's the wrong person to talk to about this honestly, but he does say sincerely: ]

And winning is survival. Those aren't luxuries you can take if you want to be sure of your victory, though some will always say otherwise.

You can die with a lighter conscience or you can win. It should be an obvious choice.

[irreversal]

[ That sincerity seems to be enough, like a sobering breath of fresh air that cuts through the haze.

Right. Gojo is dead. It seemed unimaginable at one point in her life, when he was the Strongest, and he was the only one to bear that monstrous mantle. He's gone, now, but his students... ]

Yeah.

[ She reaches for her lighter and flicks the fire to life, lighting her cigarette. ]

Do you believe in an afterlife, Luka?

[beatmatching]

I was taught to.

[ luka watches the smoke slowly waft up into the air with interest. ]

But no, I don't. It was a fairytale they told us so that our sacrifice for the Segyein didn't seem meaningless.

[irreversal]

[ At that, she gives a little hum, nodding her head slowly. ]

Neither do I.

But how do you mean, sacrifice? [ every time they talk, she learns how insane being an idol from his world is. ] Who are the Segyein?

[beatmatching]

You'd probably call them aliens. They're the dominant life form in my universe, and they keep pet-humans because of their love of music.

1/2

[irreversal]

[ you know what......... what the hell, sure. ]

[irreversal]

I don't know if I've said this yet, but being an idol in your world is pretty damn different from anything I've ever seen about idols in my world. Even if you end up being a musician in Maya's world, it's probably going to be a walk in the park compared to...

...well, compared to doing it for aliens as a... pet-human.

[ what a sentence. ]