Day 66: Game Room (Fourth Shift)

[knightspirit]

The game room, huh... In normal, everyday life, it wouldn't have sounded too terrible, but as things were, it seemed like more of an annoyance. Games were fine, but priorities.... On the other hand, Kyousuke seemed to have hit a block in figuring out the clues to the the illness, and just thinking without getting anywhere wasn't very productive, either. At this point, it may have been best to push it aside and come back to it fresh. He had his reservations about it, especially since the end of the day was rapidly approaching, but... Frustration wasn't going to get him any closer.

He poked around what games were there with resignation, still half wondering what he was even doing and trying not feel guilty for needing a break. After a while he came across an electronic device marked "Game Boy Color" and picked it up out of curiosity. He'd heard of those before... If he was right, this thing was older than he was, by quite a bit. Flicking it on confirmed his suspicions; the sound and graphics from it spoke for themselves.

Shrugging, he took it a random seat, wincing at the pain in his ribs as he sat down. He guessed it wouldn't kill him to mess around with this thing for a little while.

[Lloyd!]

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and then I did too, sob

[survives]

Of all the things he could have asked... Leanne couldn't quite help a small laugh at Zero's question, shaking her head slightly. Why, huh? She'd have sure liked to know why anyone in the Institute did anything to them. No matter how much she thought about it, no matter how many theories she shared with fellow prisoners... She couldn't even begin to understand why anything happened in this place.

"I don't know," she said at length, flashing him a smile even she could tell didn't look too convincing. "I think... He was like the nurses. He really thought I was just some crazy girl called Jessica. He... He wanted to help me." She could have almost trusted him too, could have wanted to take him up on his offers to help... If she hadn't known about everything else that went on in the Institute.

sobbing party everywhere

[dividedby]

...Zero could agree with that. This place had a way of driving one mad trying to figure out what was really going on - and that in itself could very well be its purpose, considering it was supposed to be an insane asylum. He wouldn't be surprised if that really was the case.

What he was being told about the doctor Leanne saw didn't help matters, either. Legitimately believing that the prisoners here were actually insane, and wanting to help them... Zero wanted to think that the staff were all just really good at pretending to be unaware, but considering how his nurse had reacted when he'd attacked her the other day... How she had still asserted Zero's 'insanity' despite being caught in a dangerous situation...

"...You really think so?" Despite his choice of words, he wasn't questioning Leanne's judgment; rather, he was questioning - again - the point of it all. Questioning the doctor's role, and why he wanted to help her. How he wanted to help her. Was he really ignorant of Landel's real goals? How could he and the nurses, if they were really innocent 'employees', not notice something strange about all of this? Especially if their desire to help their 'patients' was genuine?