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[leftbehindagain]

It can't hurt to try to put some pieces together now that we've had a little more time, right?

Has anyone been able to get anything other than suspicious glares from the Red Team? The more I hear, the less I like the status quo, but if we don't know what the hell they think they're doing we can't really make an informed decision on where to go from here.

I'm also trying to figure out what the... well, the purpose of the Games is. Okay, you get higher Priority out of it, great, but at what cost? If Red Team's so paranoid, why do they allow this distraction from everyone's jobs?

Why is it falling to us and Blue Team to clean up major threats? Speaking of, I hope you guys are all holding up all right, if you've been tangled up in that. The sector I was helping out with lucked out - it was a problem a lot of us have dealt with before, in a way.

No wonder Naoto's getting frustrated.

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[leftbehindagain]

[Sometimes, the most good comes out of something that looks terrible at first. Sometimes, the best thing that ever happened to you starts with your sister being murdered. And the very fact that they're here already has changed things; they might as well try to make it a positive one, in the long term.]

I don't know for sure, but she's frustrated with the treatment they're getting from Red Team, not at all fond of the Games, and interested in our lack of Priority. Did a lot of talking around the fact that something ought to be done - but like I said, when you're surrounded by paranoid bastards with the authority to kill you for open sedition, that's not the best place to say 'and I'm going to do it.'

I have my suspicions, though. Naoto doesn't do verbal gymnastics without a good reason.

[abweichend]

[For someone who seems to spout nothing but negativity, Levi's certainly dedicated to positive change. HE AGREES, KID. Let's... Do our best...!!

The dokis are over oh my god]

I'd be more than frustrated, but it sounds like she's on the right track. [Levi's first impression here was surprise- he'd been pissed on the Miners' behalf.] What's she look like, this friend of yours? I'd like to speak with her in person.

[He regrets precisely nothing about getting Erwin into trouble when the alternative would have been to let Erwin continue on in a role that'd made Levi vaguely nauseous over just how wrong it'd been, but if this guy's friend isn't a Defender he won't jeaopardize by being stupid about it no matter how much he wants to know what she's planning, so he adds:]

When it won't put her at risk, obviously. We need to protect our own here as well.

[Something he takes pretty damn seriously- it's the reason he hasn't said shit about the fact that the person he's closest with was- before Levi had gone and fucked it up for him, of course- a Defender with a pretty high priority. Levi will question Erwin himself and share with the class without hesitation, but he won't subject him to outside interrogation.]

[leftbehindagain]

Short, blue hair, has a hat. Going by SHIRO at the moment. [Possibly also genderless, currently, but that's a whole different can of worms.]

[abweichend]

[SHIRO...

He'll remember that. Blue hair, too. Also short because haha complex, he won't be forgetting that one either. HIS OWN KIND...]

What sort of hat?

[Any distinguishing features help okay don't judge him. Plus the Defenders have those stupid ass visors.... Yeah, let's... Not walk into one of those.]

And what about her suit? Is she classified as a Miner, in blue?

[leftbehindagain]

...I don't know hat names. It has a small brim only on the front? It's blue?

[Probably, technically, this is a pageboy hat. All Naoki knows is Naoto stole it from her father when she was little.]

She is with the Miners, yeah.

[abweichend]

[Levi doesn't even know the real name for the accessory he wears himself and so hat names are out of the question- small brim and blue are better than any other descriptor Naoki could have given him, the most helpful.

The colour, though... Levi snorts.]

So... "Blue Team" all around. Got it.

[So much blue.

...Da ba dee.]

[leftbehindagain]

Blue is kind of Naoto's default color anyway. It worked out nicely.

[abweichend]

...That's probably pushing it.

[He can't really know about Naoto, of course, but Levi fucking hates infiltrating. H A T E S. He will stay forever salty about the fact that his first two Jaunts had been spent as someone else- the Trumps hadn't even given him the option to cooperate on his own. He's so butthurt you have no idea, and so he can't imagine anyone not being at least a little pissed off upon their return to themselves.

Never mind that some of his closest relationships came about because of Infiltrating.... He's still pissed.]

But thanks for the tip, and the information about the Tower. It's something to consider, in relation to our own role here and the Trump that might be present... [Oh, but he's just remember one more thing:] Does it have a number? That card, I mean.

[Not that he thinks it's gonna be that easy, but he has noticed that some of the programs here have numbers in their names...]

[leftbehindagain]

Maybe so.

[He has to think for a moment on the card number.] Um... sixteen? I think. It's one of the higher ones, I know that.

[Higher than his own native Arcana, anyway.]

[abweichend]

Sixteen. [Hopefully there aren't any innocent programs tied to that number- if there are, they're gonna find themselves with Captain Crabby so far up their ass they'll be sneezing cravats and feather dusters...] Noted.

If I find anything worth reporting, I'll do that. Otherwise or until then... Watch yourself out there.

[Fellow Traveler = comrade at this point... And Levi gives Some Fucks about those.]

[leftbehindagain]

I plan to. This isn't my first investigation into weird stuff.

[It's just that on the last one, his friends weren't brainwashed and he could go home at the end of the day. Oh well.]

[abweichend]

[Levi feels you, bro. He feels you.

99% of his friends are brainwashed right now so he extra feels you.]

Good.