catchall mathis

[residentmerc]

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It... it isn't the first time I've seen one like it, but that... makes it more difficult.

[it's the trauma of it all.]

[residentmerc]

... Get a lot of murder back home?

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N-not very often, so the more recent cases... have stood out for how frequent they were... they're the work of a serial murderer.

[residentmerc]

... You guys know what they want?

[ surely not just killing for fun ]

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No. But he also would...

He removed the victims' hearts.

[this is what i mean

when i say this week is REPEATEDLY putting mathis through the WRINGER]

[residentmerc]

...

[ you and ichiban both, damn. it's affection week so!!!! cloud tucks the blanket a little closer to mathis. bundle up child. ]

Think you and Lucas should take a long vacation after this shit.

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[thank u... he wraps it tighter around himself.

-he goes quiet at that suggestion, though, too long of a pause before he answers.]

W-we'll, um, we'll... see if we have the time...

[residentmerc]

... What do you usually do, anyway?

[ besides. religious things. ]

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I...

[thinking about it.]

...not very much...

[residentmerc]

...

... At all...?

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I'm not certain... what I'm doing, anymore.

[residentmerc]

... What were you doing before, then?

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I pursued the murderer I mentioned, f-for... for some time. That was the most important thing, to me.

[residentmerc]

... So why did you stop?

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H-he does still need to be found, but I...

The reason that I pursued him to begin with... it was false.

[residentmerc]

So it wasn't because he killed people?

[ what is happening in your canon teej ]

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[SO MANY THINGS.]

O-of course it was because he was killing people-!

But I believed that he had... killed someone very close to me. That was the reason I began investigating him.

[residentmerc]

[ well maybe it could have been for curiosity ]

So he didn't kill them. How'd you find that out?

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Th-that's...

They had... never died.

[residentmerc]

[

ah yea that would do it ]

They faked their own death?

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Yes. There were... a number of things that I'd never known about.

[residentmerc]

... And you came here from that.

[ been a busy time then. huh. ]

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I-immediately after that, yes...

[y'know sometimes you learn some shit and Suddenly Murdergame]

[residentmerc]

So now you don't know what you'll do after you go back.

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I think that first, I... need to worry about whether I'll make it back at all.