Butterfly Kiss

[burnmydreadbabe]

 Things had really sucked the last month. And Makoto means really sucked. Shinjiro had died right in front of them, Pharos had left for as much as that kid irritated him, and they had just found out that Ikutsuki had been lying to them the whole time they defeated the Shadows under his orders. 

Makoto wondered if there was anything else worth fighting for if it was nearly impossible to protect anyone that he really cared about. Was the power of the wildcard anything special after all? 

Once the meeting about why Tartarus didn't disappear was over he tells Mitsuru he's going for a walk. He steps out of the door, his tongue nervously fidgeting with his snake bite piercings as he looks up at the blue moon. A butterfly flitters past, making Makoto think he was being summoned to see Elizabeth. 

He follows it out to Paulownia Mall, to the back alley where the Velvet Room presides in reality. If it was important enough to show him the butterfly it must be a matter of utmost urgency. 

However when he opens the door what he finds is...decidedly not his Velvet Room. It looks like a lounge room, several doors lined up nicely in a row. There's a board that seems to have information on it, which might give him a clue as to where he is. Igor didn't seem to be chomping at the bit to tell him anything and Elizabeth was nowhere in sight after all. 

[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.