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[ and suddenly from out of the blue, a text from Yuri's favorite Shinsengumi vampire. ]

do you know a cheap restaurant that does food delivery

[ what and why ]

[It's somewhere around 2 or 3 AM in the morning, and someone is frantically calling Yuri's CereVICE.]

Yuri! Yuri! A-are you there? Yuri... please answer! [He sounds very out of breath and panicked.]

[It's a day after, well, everything so far as Neji's concerned. The words from the briefing to all newcomers rang sharper in his head than did the call to arms of the senile old man in ViViD's ballroom. He'd been shuffled along and helped into and out of too many situations out of his immediate control in the past day to dare think he could do much more than laze the day by. Unyouthful of him? Absolutely. Neji simply couldn't give a damn.

So it's late evening when he finally remembers the CereVice. Reaches for it. Treats it like the suspicious thing it is for several minutes and feels not unlike an ape examining a new toy.

Everything was frustrating.

He tries to understand it the best he can, tries to recall how the basic functions work. Once he's at least certain he won't make an absolute fool of himself (not for his sake, really, but because of the matter at hand-- believe that as you will), he dials Kozukata Yuri. He talks into the thing like it's a radio- voice, of course, just as bland.]

This is Hyuga Neji. I was told I could contact you at any hours through these means. I'm don't mean I have anything urgent to discuss-

If you could let me know how you're faring, it'd be greatly appreciated. That's all.

[And of course he hangs up. Because that's what you do with a radio transmission.]

Edited (I forgot a LTTER and it was bothering me so much I had a hard time sleepinng orz) 2016-03-21 12:28 (UTC)

[Okay but like you have to admit the network has turned kind of useless and Neji doesn't trust his own roommate and so obviously.]

What are you doing with yours

[Obviously the only thing worth questioning here is how Neji forgot the question mark. Tsk.]

[ It's the first time Souji's visited the hospital at Cerealia, and he's keen to make it the last. It's too big, too crowded, and crawling with robots. The non-murderous kind, which made them boring. He can't really explain why he's going out of his way to check up on people, so he shoves it under "curiosity" and "I have nothing better to do because there's nothing to murder". But now that he's done checking up on Lili, Souji heads off towards the exit, already intent on leaving. ]

[ His gaze casually flicks to the side as he strides across the room, then it stops straight on a figure he most definitely recognizes. ]

[ Now that he thinks about it, he can't say he's surprised to see Yuri either. He only dithers for the smallest moment, glancing at the exit and back at Yuri, before making his decision to approach. ]

Kozukata.

[ Souji calls out, then slows down as he looks Yuri up and down, trying to determine if she's been as badly wounded or if she's here to visit someone else who's been badly wounded, or if she's just the sort who likes to hang out at hospitals. ]

so uh

apparently i missed something big while i was gone. you doing alright???

[It's been an eventful morning. Neji and Tenten are missing and their cerevices cannot be reached, apparently because they are 'occupied'. Lee has been taking this to mean that they have a new job, but he still feels concerned because of a scream that he heard... and he also has no idea what kind of job it is or where.

But he knows that there's one person he can always count on. And someone who is good at locating that which is lost! So he tries to call Yuri...]

Yuri? Ah... good morning! Are you awake, currently? I apologize a hundred times over if I disturbed your sleep! I hope that you rested peacefully and that you day is kind to you! But... I have a favor to ask of you. I have need of your services! To find Neji and Tenten... please, if you would help me, I would appreciate it beyond words! ...W-well to be fair I already appreciate you beyond words...

[What if he even saying?! Lee doesn't even know, and he stammers to complete the call.]

A-ah, please contact me as soon as you receive this!

[ As with Rei, it takes Yu a few hours later than he'd like to get in touch with Yuri. His more immediate obligations with his roommates - and getting quite literally entangled with Merlin and Hyoubu - take him some time to wrap up. He does at least find out from Rise that his group was not the only group to wind up this way. They were not alone.

That is not comforting.

He does know one thing for sure: he wants to see her, too. He'd never met or even spoken to Yuri before they all got pulled into that dingy cell together, but he wants to know her now. She's brave, and quiet, and self-sacrificial to a worrying degree. She seems kind. He'd like to know her.

And there is the matter of the key. But that can wait. That really needs to wait at least a little bit. They all, all of them, died. He's still reeling from it a little himself. He doesn't know how to forgive himself yet for failing his friends that badly.

In the meantime, this is all he can do. Try to say hello, and try to get to know her. And maybe try to bring her something nice. ]

Hey, Yuri-san. Have you made it home yet?

[ It's taken him longer to find and message Yuri than it had with Rei, simply because Rei was one of his closest friends and he hadn't wanted to let that linger too long. It means that it's late on the 18th when he does finally get around to it though.

A few of the things she'd said had caused concerns amongst a few of them too, about how willing she'd been to lose her own life.

But he knows better than the other two boys that she'd made a good, caring decision. Especially knowing the final state that building had been left in.

The text is short, simple, but shows he's there to check in on her. ]

It's Merlin. How are you doing?

[Asking How Are You seems really, really stupid.]

Do you need anything?

[He kind of hates that it seems like he's always asking this, especially since one would suppose rooming with Rock Lee would give him the answer.]

Tell me you're still in one piece.

[--okay, not a question. The point stands.]

text; 5/6!! nighttime prob

Voice (CW: eventual mentions of suicide)

voice / date: 6.8

text / 6.20

action; towards the end of the robot event

6/30, text

Voice/during interlude

7/18, text;

text; late 07/18