Funeral Service for Adaman and Hodaka Morishima

[giddyundertaker]

[ An hour or two after the first trial's end, Hild and the Undertaker set out to invite as many people as possible to the Restaurant for the funerals of our dearly departed friends.

Why the restaurant of all places? Because there aren't enough chairs and tables elsewhere.

Indeed, some of the tables have been moved against the wall to make room for the seats. The chairs have been set up in four rows of six, like an improvised theater or a church. To the side, a small buffet has been set up courtesy of Obi, Mafuyu, and Hild. As for the main event? Two tables have been set up and decorated in black fabric and white flowers. In lieu of a live viewing, two drawings referenced from the profiles have been set up in the center of funeral wreaths... They're not the best, due to the artist's handicaps, but it does look like Adaman and Hodaka at least.]

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[sastruga]

[She tenses a little at the mention of Hodaka and Adaman. Honestly... she'd much rather just say it was a dream. They could all just pretend like it never happened.

It would be nice, if they could.]

...Mm. It wasn't a dream.

I'm sorry.

[honeyedtea]

. . . Ah.

[ What else even is there to say?

Even with Mafuyu looking her in the eye and telling her it's real, it's hard to actually believe it. Less than a full day ago, they were a full group and Hodaka and Adaman were alive and part of it. They were all tense and worried, of course but–

It was nothing like this. ]

I'd hoped... that perhaps it was some sort of trick. Or maybe... an illusion, or a scare tactic to teach us a lesson. [ She makes a thin sound that doesn't make it all the way to being a laugh. ] I don't know why I thought our mayor was above stooping to this.

[sastruga]

I think... all of us hoped as much. That it wouldn't actually be like...

[If she lets her mind wander, she can still see it. That execution. The image of it is burned into her memory, it seems, or at least for now. Maybe that will fade.

Or maybe it won't.]

Can you hold still here a moment? I just need to grab something.

[honeyedtea]

[ Her head snaps up and for a moment she looks panicked - either at the thought of being left alone or of Mafuyu, specifically, leaving after what they've all just seen. But then she forces herself to get a grip. She can't act like a child, squalling and clinging, so eventually she nods. ]

Y... yes. I'll wait right here.