[open] And in the end I'd do it all again

[skullandcrassbones]

Alright, Alright, this was fine. This was cool. Just vibing in the velvet room. It wasn't like it was his first time or anything. Still felt strange being here though. The doors were a new addition. Not to mention the bulletin board. Which he had yet to make sense of the most he got was multiple Akechis and code names. That was... okay. He was getting good enough at handling very-much-not-dead Akechi back home. They weren't best friends by any means but he would like to think they were on the way to actually pretty solid friends. Most of that was because he convinced Ren to stay.

So, what he had pieced together was: This was a relatively safe place, there's multiple Akechis, and there's doors. What was he supposed to do with this information. He hadn't really explored anything without someone else there, and no it's not because he was afraid, like the cat would like to tease.

1) He was staying in the room gathering the willpower required to explore the outside. But for now he was trying to put together the bulletin board. Sure was a lot of words. Ren could be called Akira, okay, he's got that down. Akechis and Ren/Akiras were together a lot. With how much Ren fawned over him, it wasn't shocking. It was at this point he realized he should probably take notes. He pulled out his phone, surprised to find it kinda worked. "Alright!"

Now back to finding out what was going on. He was scanning it over trying to piece things together. He had expected red strings, but blue worked fine too. He was reading and taking notes fine up until a particular one. "For real?!" He shouted, the first real thing he said in a long minute. "Siblings?"

2)With the courage gathered he stepped into the fifth door, glad to see a version on Toyko he recognised. He traveled around, starting to notice the almost scripted way others interacted. Creepy. He decided to start with the place he knew best. Le blanc. He hoped there wasn't anything out of place, boss would kill if he knew it was. Okay maybe not.

He was just standing at the door, looking through the glass. His hand on the doorknob. He didn't think he'd run into Ren, or an Akira. He just kinda felt weird going in there and not knowing what to expect.

Comments

[shujinacademyprince]

"Ah. I only worked with Shido for a brief time before Morgana and Sae helped me out of my situation," he wonders if that would help this Sakamoto conceptualize the idea of him going to Shujin. "In fact, the Phantom Thieves have a body count in my world." Which might surprise him but also help mention how different his reality seems to be from this Sakamoto's.

[skullandcrassbones]

Oh alright, he guessed that was fine, "For real!" That was not what they agreed on. They made sure not to kill anyone and they were nervous all the time on if they over did it since they had to fight their shadows too.

[shujinacademyprince]

"Well Morgana was with me and didn't teach them about the Metaverse in my reality," Stray points out. "If it's any consolation to you, in my reality you don't stick with them after the Kamoshida incident."

[skullandcrassbones]

He didn't stay with them? What was he doing, why would he leave his best friends. Yeah killing people was pretty off the table but he still couldn't imagine leaving them. Even in the beginning he was pretty close to Ren.

"Right, when did you join them then?"

[shujinacademyprince]

"Oh I'm not. I can't stand Kurusu's reckless abandon at playing hero," he informs Sakamoto. It seemed as though his reality looked very little like what the typical plot beats seemed to follow, though.

[skullandcrassbones]

He couldn't exactly get mad at that, Ren did like playing hero. He had the best intentions but still. "So, how do you know so much about them?"

[shujinacademyprince]

"I know the people involved and the fact they've taken the lives of at least two people, one of which was a target of mine." Stay mentions back. "They've also helped me in a few cases but I'm not sure they fully understand a change of heart."

[skullandcrassbones]

If Morgana wasn't with them it didn't surprise him. He was the ringleader of the change of hearts. Ren wasn't opposed to the more negative outcome. Ann almost went that route too. If he had been forced to make that decision he wasn't sure where he'd fall. "How did you end up with the cat?"