[Shinnosuke + Noctis: week 5, Thursday afternoon]

[thatsthespirit]

[Milla isn't alone when she finds Shinnosuke milling about one of the hotel's common areas. remembering that he's currently blind, and not wanting to accidentally startle him (this conversation needed to start off on a good foot) she makes sure her approach isn't at all stealthy. . . and then, of course, she introduces herself and her companion right off the bat]

Shinnosuke?

It's Milla, and Noctis. May we have a moment of your time?

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[elemancy]

[noct, the man who can canonically wield like 13 weapons at once, here, weaponless. there is irony here, he is exasperated by it.]

It's a good thing to ask. It might not help, but it may give us a clue we wouldn't have otherwise. If we're going to get to the bottom of things, it'll help.

[he sighs.] We've run around in circles enough letting innocent people be scapegoats.

[he's not sure it'll help anymore than the alibis and strip searches, but they won't know unless they try.]

[thatsthespirit]

[annnnd she feels a slight pang of guilt for Tarvek in week 3. that'll hang over her head for a very long time]

I agree.

[to Shinnosuke]

I have no use for anything the Sheriff might be able to give me. My duty right now is to end this game as quickly as possible, with as few casualties as possible, and ensure that everyone makes it back home alive.

I'd rather ask for information and assistance in trials then material objects.

[or. the human body that he had hinted at offering her in their last conversation]

[insincerely]

In other words, a goody-two-shoes.

[... Well, not that Shinnosuke can claim to be as awful as he pretends to be, although he can't guarantee he wouldn't ask for something selfish first (he would, uh, like his sight back).]

But it's true that at this rate, we're all liable to die.

[elemancy]

And that's why we don't really have time to waste on anything but solving this mess.

[they're all pretty aware that they're liable to die—and that they're targets by being bounties.

obviously.]

[thatsthespirit]

A "goody-two-shoes" is probably someone more akin to Yuna and Papika, honestly.

[or Jude!! she never considered herself a do-gooder tbh, just someone who followed her heart and her duty whenever she could]

And Noctis is right. At this point, we need to step up our game. Now that we have all of the Bounties gathered, we should be able to brainstorm solutions to our problem together.