factoring | Homophonic: Livio

Yes. Wenzhou and I were at the Cold Topic.
We found Valerie's body there along with some small fires and a wig.
Were you?

[ so many traps!! ]

Shit, I'm sorry. I was in the tunnels with Amelia. There was a cave in, scorch marks.... Setsu's body was there. Inside one of those slug monsters. We had to fight it.

I'm sorry to you too, Livio.

Fire there too. I wonder if they were related cases or if it's something else. Somebody tried to make a slug eat them?

I wonder if they were just trying to waste our time. Seems to be a lot of that going around at trial.

I doubt any killer wants to be caught. It makes sense that they'd try and cover their tracks some way or another.

Yeah. Couldn't even if they wanted to. How is Wenzhou?

Upset, but that's to be expected.

What about you and Amelia?

We'll be okay. We have each other. ... But about Wenzhou... I mean about yesterday, too. He was in my world. Or... some version of it, anyway.

Good.

He seems to be drifting in and out of apathy, but he's trying to stay present. I don't know exactly what happened while he was away.

I can try to answer some questions, if you have any. Did he tell you anything?

We've been a little too busy to really sit down and talk about it.
It sounded like some of them were there for a hundred years.

That's understandable. Did he share a message he got today? The effects will probably last until Sunday, if it's like the other weeks.

Yes. It looked like it was wingdings. Did you happen to see it as well?

It's never over quickly with these things.

I didn't, if you don't mind sending it over. I don't know what wingdings are. Yeah. So... just let me know if I can help. Vash and Wolfwood, too. We don't come from a kind world, so it's the least we can do.

It's a type of font on a computer. Illegible. Do you want the translation instead?

You're all kind despite it, then. I'll let you know.

I wouldn't mind both, if that's alright with you.

[ he doesn't think he's that kind, but vash and wolfwood definitely are, even though wolfwood is a huge tsundere ]

Anytime.

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"Be wary of your surroundings.
Things are not what they seem."

Thank you. Just to be sure, you've seen all the other messages up until now, right?

Certainly.

I don't think I saw the one from your group? But otherwise I believe I've seen them.

[ sending this over! ]

it looks like they're really going for world erasure. they're really stubborn that way, aren't they? at least the winner can use their points to also bring others back to the realground, but i'm afraid i don't really think they'd be able to save too many unless they really work for it with how much it costs. what a shame, isn't it? i hope this group won't be anti-violence.

That does give some context. Thank you.

Any idea how many points it would cost to bring back one person?

When I asked the Reapers, they said... basically erasing someone.

The cost essentially evens out. For every person erased they can bring one person back. Only the winner gets the right to do use their points this way. Can points be transferred?

I didn't ask... I didn't think something like that would work. Did you ask?

I haven't yet. I know Fei Du wanted to.

I also don't believe this is possible, but there's no harm in being sure.

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