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[loudmouths]

keigo higashino

photographer extraordinaire! studying at recolle university! let's be friends!

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TEXT → FAST-FORWARD TO FEB 13

[tarotcards]

[ On the morning of the 13th, one day before Valentine's Day, a sudden text message appears from a Souji Seta. Perhaps you've talked to him before. Perhaps you haven't. Perhaps you're wondering why the hell you are receiving a text at six in the morning but look, let's not sweat the small details. Pay attention to the larger ones, like the contents of this very important message: ]

Hello.

Through the tides of fate, you have been chosen to participate in this year's Valentine's Day event: Blind Dating. It is believed that no one should be alone for such an important day and as such, you have been paired up with another lonely soul.

Your match is with Yin Longwei. Please contact them to plan out your date for tomorrow.

However, if you and your partner do not know what to do, there will be a booth in Recollé Square for the sole purpose of assisting unsure or confused participants of the event. There will be date suggestions, booklets of pick-up lines, and refreshments.

Happy Valentine's Day.

- Cupid

[loudmouths]

[ oh this is. good. time to squint at the phone blearily! ]

Ok but aren't blind dates supposed to be a mystery?

2/13 sometime

[longwei2go]

okay so
"cupid" doesnt understand how blind dates work
i didnt sign up for it but thought i should say hey anyway
so
hey

[loudmouths]

Yeah, uh. I wasn't expecting to know who I was matched up with before the actual date.

But, hey there! I'm Keigo, as you know. Uh.

So, this is kinda awkward.

backdated to 4/14 (i hope that's fine?)

[outpunch]

How much do you pay
asking for a friend

[Friend...yeah, right.]

that's absolutely fine!

[loudmouths]

are you asking me for my rate?

'cause it depends on what your friend wants!

[text] backdated to like a week or two ago, idk

[frostythehitman]

Hey, I asked about your photography rates last month for an album cover. I've got some money to pay you now, so let me know if you're still down to do this.

o7

[loudmouths]

Oh.

[ this guy... this............ guy............ keigo still has those images burned into his brain... ]

You do? That's great! Uh, I'm pretty much free after classes during the week, so...

[ wait. ]

You're the one that's still in highschool, right? Maybe the weekend would be better for you?

text 5/22

[youraffection]

hey cuz r u up?

[loudmouths]

if i wasn't i am now

what's up?

action 5/22

[loudmouths]

[ getting over to yosuke's house in the dead of the night wasn't really an issue, it was making sure he didn't look like a burglar that gave him a problem. his hair was a little mussed and he sorta just threw on some track pants and a hoodie...

maybe this was why he couldn't get a date.

either way, it's time for the moment of truth: ]

yo i'm outside let me in before someone thinks i'm here to kidnap you

[youraffection]

[ He's probably not the most intimidating burglar around, but Yosuke does know that he would scare the shit out of his mom. And he likes his mom. So they're trying to avoid that.

So he's waiting with his phone on hand when Keigo finally arrives. ]

what did u wear a ski mask?

[ It takes him less than a minute, though, to the front door. He opens it slowly and quietly, sticking his head out before motioning Keigo to come in. ]

TEXT → 05/23

[tarotcards]

[ This is a week after Souji promised to talk to Keigo about this but Things Happened so he didn't get the chance to just find a proper time to text him but NOW IT'S HAPPENING SO THAT'S WHAT MATTERS ]

I know this is out of the blue, but can I ask you something?

[loudmouths]

[ late or not, keigo will never ignore a text from souji!! ]

yeah sure what's up?

TEXT → 06/21 → 1/8 all at 7am and a minute apart from each other

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7/4 text

[botamochi]

hey, do you think it's weird to wear a bandanna, sunglasses, and a hat in the evening?

[loudmouths]

...

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh??? well of course it's weird!! well, the sunglasses, at least... the rest should be fine...



are you plannin on robbin a bank or some shit?

7/13 | text

[crudest]

[The message that Keigo gets isn't through text - but rather through Retrospec's DM feature. Baren's paranoid about people getting his phone number, but he wonders if that's even necessary if what he thinks happened... actually happened here. There are memories in his head that definitely weren't his, of a sister that didn't belong to him, and tendencies that were just wildly out of character.

So.

A text - not that Keigo would probably know who it is automatically, seeing as Baren's Retrospec user picture is that of a cat's eye. But at least his name is stuck there. Baren Kaiyou, the model, and right now, the troublemaker.]

you
stalker
ghost hunter
whoever you are
i apparently have business with you

[loudmouths]

[ well, that was odd. getting direct messages through retrospec wasn't especially common for him, especially not from a stranger. but there was something about the name that just clicked. keigo didn't want to consider it, but perhaps those strange visions he received really weren't in any way related to him. thankfully.

still, the text was rude, and keigo wasn't about to let it slide. mostly because of that one little word he used... ]

I'M NOT A STALKER OMG

god

who are you???? are you the guy that these visions are about or some shit???

[mercurio]

this is a serious survey that i'm running!
would you please answer YES or NO to the following question

Q: PROMPTO ARGENTUM IS KIDNAP MATERIAL

thank you for your time!

[loudmouths]

uh

i have no idea considering idk who that is...

no???? maybe???

ACTION > LIKE 7/26 OR SOMETHING before the event

[youraffection]

[ Yosuke never realized how much he kind of schedules his life around his shifts at work. Though he's able to get up and walk around, his doctor did recommend that he take a couple weeks off to rest and heal up as much as he can. He would probably be using that time to rest better if Yu hadn't been able to help at least speed up the healing process thanks to his...weird summony creatures. His sprained ankle is pretty much good to go and most of his cuts and bruises are gone.

His arm, though...still in a cast.

And it itches like crazy.

Yosuke sighs dramatically as he flops back onto his bed. His mother doesn't like the idea of Yosuke being alone much despite the fact that he's all grown up now. (You know, seventeen.) But it is nice to have his cousin around. Even if they're just being bums and playing video games and whatnot. ]

Hey...

[ He tries to look as pathetic as possible. ]

Can you hand me that pen?

[ Reach it for him, cuz, he's wounded. ]

excellent

[loudmouths]

[ if keigo had it his way, he would have taken yosuke's place in a heartbeat. his cousin was one of the few people in recolle that he would take a damn bullet for, no questions asked, and knowing he had no feasible way to prevent what had happened from happening made him feel kind of useless. realistically, he couldn't be there all of the time for him, but it still didn't stop him from putting himself down over everything that had transpired. not to mention, souji being part of that whole fiasco, too...

keigo sighed. he was excellent as masking his deeper feelings, but even still, it was hard to miss how distracted he was when yosuke spoke up. ]

Eh? Oh...

[ keigo leaned to one side and, rather lazily himself, stretched across to grab one of the nearby pens on yosuke's desk. ]

Here. What'dya need this for?

9/3 Misfire

[strawberrypunch]

Can we get some

[loudmouths]

get some what???

text

[appraiser]

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sunrises
firetrucks
crickets

[loudmouths]

[ okay uh

this is extremely creepy??? ]

...is this a joke?

misfire

[hadeir]

eat your way out of a paper bag

[loudmouths]

what why

9/10 very unfortunate misfire

[adoringpast]

i neverr thwought thss would haapppeen to me likee what the f,uck i thougght tthey're juts jokiing!;!!

i'm so glad

[loudmouths]

.............ehhhhhhhh????

hey are you okay??? what the fuck is this

forward dated to like 9/24 misfire

[crudest]

actually do you even remember when i kiss you before i leave bed or are you still half-asleep

if it helps, you stop snoring so it's kinda hard to tell

holy shit

[loudmouths]

UH

UH!!!!!!

WHAT???

SERIOUSLY WHAT

misfire 9/19

[ladytakamaki]

I'm so gonna fail math at this rate...
Mako's not feeling well and I don't wanna bother him for help?
I don't get any of this graphing stuff!

[loudmouths]

uhh

graphing sucks but it's not that bad once you get the hang of it...

uhhh around 9/20ish i think idk

[youraffection]

[ So this happened. So who else would he go to than his favorite cousin? ]

keigo
cuz
r u there
i need 2 talk 2 u

oh boy

[loudmouths]

yeah i'm here

what's up?

9/24 misfire hey want some more conspiracy theories

[refate]

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so, what i'm saying is like
work with me here, it's hypothetical as hell, just follow along
but like the equation could be used in a(n, again, hypothetical) situation to gauge the growth of an *online* population the same way that it's used to quantify the general growth of a smaller demographic.
it would just need some adjustments, but it does, seriously, make a pretty decent baseline to work with.

misfire

[lastcomfort]

Yes, but I'm not sure if I could eat something that I met first.
(´•ω•̥`)

[loudmouths]

you mean like raising a chicken and then makin it into nuggets?

10/1

[crudest]

so do you want some roses

i forgot about this entirely

[loudmouths]

uh

okay, look, last time was excusable, everyone's phones were messed up.

i can't overlook this though!!!

back around the Retrospec post

[falsepretentious]

I have a simple question for you, and I'd like it answered promptly.

WAH SORRY FOR THE DELAY pretend he responded immediately or soon after

[loudmouths]

oh?? what's up?

11/12; action

[compendiem]

[ It had originally been Nihoncha that he'd wanted to go see, but standing in front of the lot that he was so sure that he'd memorized the address for when he'd last looked it up on Google, it just doesn't exist. Minato rubs at the back of his head, looking part sullen and part embarrassed, because it's so obvious that he doesn't know this city and can't suggest somewhere else to go or something else to do besides stand dumbly in front of an empty parking lot, willing Nihoncha back into existence because that would be easier than dropping his hand and turning to Keigo in defeat. That's what he does in the end, though, because there's no other choice. ]

Sorry... I'll have to rely on you for this. What's one place that's a must-see before the business shuts down overnight?

[loudmouths]

[ keigo was all too eager to meet new people and hang out around the city; he loved making new friends, after all! but they had already hit something of a snag: the place minato had specified was no longer there. weird. ]

...This is weird. It should be here.

[ keigo frowned, almost straight-up skirting around minato's question. he pulled his phone out, taking a picture of the missing storefront, pocketing it again after a moment. ]

But... hm. This isn't a great sign, is it... Your guess is as good as mine on what's still gonna be up an running, I bet. We can start down the street and take a look, though...

[maskreant]

let's play some hangman?

_ _ _  _ _ _  _ _ _ _  _ _ _ _?

[loudmouths]

[ this seems ominous... ]

uh random but ok...

A??