Yeah. This is my first time seeing them in-person.
[ when she pushes past him, that finally gets him to actually move, snapping out of it. he hesitantly approaches as well. ]
She looks exactly like she does in my memories... nothing about her changed.
[ which is strange because nearly everyone has a different look than the person in their memories. at the very least, the hair colour should be something more... realistic, rather than a shade of blue. ]
[ The girl has blue hair... So she's probably as perfectly similar? Elda puts her hand up against the glass, as if testing the strength of it. She's tempted to just punch it open, honest? But she doesn't, not just yet. ]
[ that's probably a good idea... he has this strange uneasy feeling in his stomach but it's not like they can just leave her in there, right? he moves closer to the case to examine it, placing his hands on the glass as he looks around it. ]
[ and so she's ...! Going to take a fist back with her hand, wrapping that first up a little bit in a kerchief from her purse. And with her eyes going wide and cat-like? she makes to swing a punch in and connect with the glass! To try to break it! ]
[ the glass surprisingly shatters with very little resistance...! just a single punch is enough to have the entire case collapse into tiny little shards. a strange smoke releases from the case and maizono falls limply to the ground. naegi doesn't run over to her right away, though that's mostly because elda is probably blocking his way ]
[ She steps aside to allow Naegi to get through to check on her but... she just sort of slumped there. ... Is she - she's not dead, is she? God, she hopes she didn't cause a problem with that. The small woman shakes out her hand a little bit, and then is surprised - no cuts. The glass shards seem to almost me dissolving.
[ once naegi sees that elda doesn't have any cuts and that she's relatively all right, he steps forward to now check up on maizono. he reaches out to try and pick her up from the ground but as soon as he touches her shoulder, he immediately pulls back like he just touched fire. he stares in disbelief at her for a second, something like a knife plunging into his stomach and twisting, and with a shaky breath, he reaches over once more. however, he doesn't go for her shoulder. rather, he places his two forefingers against maizono's neck, under her jawline, and-- ]
[ So here's the thing: Elda actually has most of a nursing degree finished from back when she was young. So at that she bullies into the moment here to check the pulse herself, try to elevate the blue haired girl's head, and generally start to listen for breath ]
[ naegi moves over to the side to let elda get to maizono, though he's clearly... rattled, back to the frozen state that he was when he first saw her ]
What-- What should we do--?
[ is there even anything they can do? if she's been dead for this long in the case... ]
[ She's not breathing and more to the point the body isn't particularly warm - at least not from internal body heat. This body has been dead for a while. How? There's no signs of it suffocating that she can see. Heart failure? Does it have any injuries or whatever?
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[ when she pushes past him, that finally gets him to actually move, snapping out of it. he hesitantly approaches as well. ]
She looks exactly like she does in my memories... nothing about her changed.
[ which is strange because nearly everyone has a different look than the person in their memories. at the very least, the hair colour should be something more... realistic, rather than a shade of blue. ]
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... Truly? I wonder if there might be others-
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There might be... we can go check around?
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[ she looks asleep, right? Not dead? Probably? ]
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[ that's probably a good idea... he has this strange uneasy feeling in his stomach but it's not like they can just leave her in there, right? he moves closer to the case to examine it, placing his hands on the glass as he looks around it. ]
I don't see a button or any way to open it...
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[ Tap, tap ]
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... ] Not that bad, probably.
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... is there no other way we can get her out?
[ he already knows that the answer is no but... ]
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[ She doesn't, for sure. ... She does have longer fingernails these days but that's a whole other thing. ]
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I only have my keys...
[ he's assuming that these won't work at all ]
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[ As she examines her purse. ... Mm ]
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... okay, let's try breaking the glass but really carefully...
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[ and so she's ...! Going to take a fist back with her hand, wrapping that first up a little bit in a kerchief from her purse. And with her eyes going wide and cat-like? she makes to swing a punch in and connect with the glass! To try to break it! ]
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A-Are you all right?
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... Mmm. ]
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I-- I don't feel a pulse--
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Seriously?!
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What-- What should we do--?
[ is there even anything they can do? if she's been dead for this long in the case... ]
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How is she...? So young? ]