The Newlydead Game: Day 2 with Myriam

[shslliar]

[At some point, when he has a chance, Ouma decides to go looking for a certian cardboard box lying out in the open. It shouldn't be hard to miss, he thought, most cardboard boxes don't have armholes near the bottom.]

[He seems pretty content with the way things are going so far, minor disagreements notwithstanding, but he wanted to check up on someone he managed to befriend. Wherever he managed to find the box (he may have picked the lock and sneaked into the sci-fi set), he slipped a note through the slot Myriam used to see through:]

tap-tap

Hi Myriam-chan!

Is that box big enough for two people? I wanna tell you something, but it's kind of a secret.


[She might know who this is.]

Comments

[shslliar]

[He smirks.]

Well, someone like you who would be better off writing newspapers than participating in a social game of death deserves to be spared. And unless I'm the only person who voted for you, I think I might have secured you a spot in the hotel.

[IF. That's a big "if" and he knows it.]

I think it's more likely someone else will vote for you too if nobody realizes you already have a vote.

[cardboard_journalism]

I get it... subterfuge... that's the aim, right?

I mean... as much as I'd like to get the scoop on this place, I'd like to leave it still alive too...

--What about you, though?

[shslliar]

[He smiles and nods.]

I think I should be fine. Someone already traded my other vote with me, so at least I'll live to see another day. Besides, someone's gotta look out for the team's survival. Might as well be the Ultimate Supreme Leader, huh?

[cardboard_journalism]

Gonna ride the Supreme Leader train all the way out of here, huh?

...Wait a sec, that means you're actually going to try to win? You're really going for it?

[shslliar]

Why not?

[That is what he is, right?]

Maybe? Or maybe I just wanna make sure the others win and I manage to get a hotel room too?

[Another confusing non-answer from Kokichi Ouma.]

[cardboard_journalism]

Nothing, just seems like you got your sights aimed preeetty high. Sss, sss, sss. Maybe you should start with controlling one city and work up to world conquest.

Oh... good! I mean, it's just... it's starting to sound really dangerous...

[shslliar]

[He just grins at that. Maybe he wants to take over the world one day. Maybe not.]

Yeah, I know. One reason why I'm trying to get you out of this mess.

[cardboard_journalism]

I hope no one gets mad at you for it... You're not worried about that?

[shslliar]

[He smiles.]

Hey, if they're angry then let them be angry. Nobody really cares for the wicked, do they?

[What he probably means is he doesn't have many friends at that Academy of death.]