Day 15

Akira's not in the infirmary, which is just as well. Or in his room, which is... actually a pretty good sign, if her third guess is on point.

Her third guess is Ichigo's room, so that's where she's knocking. And hoping that Ichigo's the heavier sleeper between the two, and also that they're asleep. She's not interrupting anything, she knows this because she is naturally in tune with the power of love. Or because she had her ear to the door for a minute and nobody's that quiet. It's totally the power of love, though, nobody can prove otherwise.

Letter to the Dead

You were really interested in the video games when we met, after all! So maybe now you'll have time to play it. I meant to give you this on Trashmas, buuut I couldn't find you, and then I lost track of it, and Tycoon took a dump in my room, and I guess it was under my bed for a week?

...I kind of knew it was under there, anyway, I just didn't want to look. I guess it was me being selfish,
wanting to spend more time with you? I bet you have a real princess back home anyway but You're pretty cool Actually I'm mad at you but it's probably boring and if I was less selfish and thinking more about you instead of thinking about you and me you might not be dead right now!

I can get why Tsumugi couldn't go on but you were always really strong and reliable

I actually looked at the rules and did the stupid math because just not looking at it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If I survive three more nights, I'll win, and get to go home, and go back to saving the world. There's a bunch of other scouts doing the same thing, though, we get more all the time so I could totally leave to become an idol or get killed by ugly bears if I wanted to. I don't want to, though.

Did you actually want to die or were you so mad you didn't even care? I died when I was 14 and it was kind of like that, there was something I had to make happen, so I did, and I got torn up doing it but I still won. I came back, obv, so maybe it was borrowed time? I didn't get a last kiss from my crush then, either.

If I'd kissed you after all

I'm going to live just so you can't call me out on any of this. Unless I don't in which case forget it, burn this letter, can you even burn letters twice? Don't rip it up that's rude. Eat it or something, like a goat. I'm supposed to be a hero, so there are some people I'm putting ahead of myself. If I can't protect them, I'll quit the Sailors. I can't be a hero if I can't protect anyone, after all.

Wish me luck!




((For posterity, Minako's math is in fact off by one at this point, because there are seventeen survivors. ))