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[After some time has passed Levi's voice filters across the network, accompanied by the only visual he can provide at this point: a top-down view of his now only partially tattooed hand.

He'll keep this brief:]

Looks like my little stowaway from the Grid can clean this shit up too. It takes a minute, but it's painless-- [a pause as the aforementioned stowaway floats toward Levi's face for its close-up, glowing a faint white and puffed proudly in all its pokey glory until he shoos it off to the side with a huff] Knock it off-- ...The Bit doesn't care what they say, and neither do I.

I'm not hard to find-- [Here he gives the general location of the building he's created, which by now is a bit better suited for company- there will be a pot of ~~non-nourishing~~ tea waiting on an end table for anyone stopping by for Bit-laser tattoo removal.

And the public portion almost ends there, but before Levi changes his psychic filter:]

...Tell me where you are if you can't make it out here. I'll find you, I guess.

[The rest is private, directed to Erwin in particular and as neutral as Levi can manage given the circumstances:]

You too.

[[ooc: Handwave, chat, go to him, have him come to you... Anything is good by me, including newbies asking for info if they haven't gotten the welcome speech yet. Dat vet thing. He can probably do that now.]]

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[Levi can't help reading the words once they're exposed to him, but true to his assurance over the network he doesn't say anything about them, nor is he doing all that much internal judging. It isn't hard to guess what the names hanging off of the brand mean, but...

Levi wouldn't be surprised if a few of his victims' names were scattered here or there. His hands aren't exactly clean either.]

Calm down-- [directed at the Bit, obviously, as Levi gives it an affirmative nod in response to its questioning bobbing- do I do what he says?. It wastes no time in obeying and after a moment, it settles on the top of the M to get to work. Good little Bit...] Anyway... I've only heard a little about that, the disappearances. Armin filled me in... That was after the last failure, wasn't it?

[Oh great; because more people need to think he's a murderer.]

[Adachi squirmed as the little bit went to worked, trying not to let out any weird noises, like giggles or something.]

Yeah, then. I guess this failure didn't hurt us so bad, or didn't piss off the Trumps enough. Whichever.

[He paused, fidgeting.]

...you got any beer?

['Murderer' can mean a lot of things- not to worry, bro. Until you start up and stabbing people here (as yourself and not an infiltrator), Levi doesn't give half a shit. It's a little odd how his default has been shifting from "I don't know you people" to "allies until proved otherwise" as far as other Travelers are concerned, but it is what it is.

He isn't even side-eyeing the squirming. U tickles. It's a thing.]

Apparently not. Or whichever of them it was that sent us there is more lenient toward failure than the others. [There's probably something to that, figuring out which Trumps correlate to which Jaunts... But he hasn't come to any conclusions there just yet.] As far as the beer goes... I can make something if it's just the flavour you're looking for, but it won't do anything for you otherwise. That's a work in progress- the tea's just for taste too, as of now.

[He's trying. They may not need food to live while they're here, but a little normalcy won't kill them. It's a morale thing. ...Also he'd swear there's something missing in the fake food he's managed to create so far, something just off enough to be less satisfying than it should be. ONE DAY ~~aka next AC period...~~]

Ngh... no one really drinks beer for the flavor.

[Because let's face it, most of the beer he drank was piss water. His expression twisted up in disgust at the thought, before he shook his head, focusing on the Jaunt instead.]

Saying it's the Devil that's responsible is the easy answer, but...

[He wasn't so sure.]

Devil deals in physical pleasures, 'ya know. A nurse that's willing to skirt the rules of who she can and can't have relations with is closer to the Devil arcana than that Jaunt was.

[A bit of a smile came to his face at that. Damn, he missed Sayoko.]

I think... that might have been Justice's responsibility?

[Levi had back home, when he'd had the chance. He's no beer snob, but he'd had his favourite haunts for a reason.]

Justice. That's-- [He pauses, trying to recall what it means in this context and not in the context of, you know, 'justice' as he understands it.] Taking responsibility, right? The other me seemed pretty confident that's what that world was governed by, so it's a pretty good possibility.

[Adachi smiled faintly, a bit of pain worming into his heart. Man, this place was cruel, reminding him of home like this. Nanako...]

Yeah, responsibility. I mean... winning it would have meant taking the Name back, not using it.

[He let out a disappointed sigh.]

Pretty sure that's why we lost.

You think so? [Levi scowls, crossing his arms.] Maybe what they really wanted was for one of us to hand it over to them instead.

But was that what happened? Someone used it? I wasn't exactly the most diligent in keeping an eye on anything besides the liquor shelf back there.

[Among other things he had his eye on... Sigh.]

[Adachi let out a faint grunt at the question, a sigh threatening to escape from him.]

Yeah... pretty much. I tried to get it back by stabbing the guy, but...

[He paused, pulling the sword he had on him and uselessly stabbing at the ground. The blade sunk through it as if it wasn't there, before he brought it back up, showing that there wasn't a single mark left behind.]

This damn thing can't cut.

[Levi raises an eyebrow as the sword disappears into the ground. Looks pretty useless...]

What a waste... Who had it last?

[He's only asking because he wants to understand what'd happened- Adachi was Infiltrating too and so the whole stabbing thing... Eh. Shit happens. Levi won't won't lose sight of who the enemy is here. The Trumps create this Infiltrator personas (lololol) and so they're the ones with the responsibility.]

Not sure.

[He let out a sigh, setting his useless sword at his side.]

I think I've seen the guy around before, but I don't know his name.

[Levi nods. There are a lot of them around- hard to know everyone.]

I guess it doesn't matter now anyway- it's already done. [He sighs, though.] It didn't seem like we left that place any worse off, from what I saw. That's something, I guess.

[Even if they had, they can't do anything about it, so it's probably a subject that's best left for when there's nothing else to talk about. Levi tips his head at U's progress.]

...It should be ready to move on to the next one soon, looks like. Just tell it where to go.

Yeah...

[Adachi sighed, still bummed... if only because he wasn't sure what the persona he had been forced to play would have done. If it was just him...? Well, he knew what he would do. But what would a 'him' like him do...?]

We'll have to work twice as hard next time we're ourselves.

[Letting it go is easier said than done, Levi knows. He can tell himself it's over as many times as he wants, let that dictate his actions...

But he's aware it's gonna be a little while before he and the rest of the people with a problem with how things went down can move on. He knows exactly how he'd handled it if he'd been himself, and that makes the what-ifs even more god damn annoying.

U seems to sense Adachi's buummed out-ness, and rather than moving on to the next tattoo, it floats up toward his face and moves to land on his forehead while Levi's turned to grab some more tea. Levi's made a (half-joking) attempt at Bit-assisted brain bleaching earlier... So maybe this new friend wants that too...??]

[Adachi let out a grunt as the machine landed on his forehead. What, was this supposed to be comforting or something? He rolled his eyes, before reaching up and offering the little guy a pat on the... head? He assumed the top was the head at least...]

[U bleeps a pleased little bloop at the patting; Levi almost snorts at the eye rolling.

Almost.]

U-- Cut the shit and get back to work. [He turns to Adachi, expression linefacedly (somewhat) apologetic.] It gets a little distracted sometimes- this is the most it's interacted with anyone other than the handful of people staying here since it came back with me.

[Levi gets the impression it'd been pretty solitary back on the Grid... Not a popular Purpose apparently, Cleaning...]

Ah, it's not a big deal.

[Adachi waved a dismissive hand as the little bit -- byte? -- went back to work on his tattoos, coming to that conclusion as well. After all, they all had gotten to see how secluded everyone was in their assigned task. Having the freedom to do whatever he wanted was probably ridiculously exciting.]

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DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT NANAKO TOO SOON (ten years later) cries into hands......

So how are them Doomcember feels? :D

GET OUT!! cries into hands forever..........

BAHAHAHA

didn't play last night but I anime'd and adachi's giant bag of cabbage made me chuckle

He strokes a cabbage in the first anime at one point.

omfg I can't wait to see that hahahaha amazing

He is an amazing nerd.

BLESS HIM

Precious sinammon roll