Week 5 → SOME DAY? Monday evening?!?!

[minogame]

( Some time after the motives have been announced and emotions have had a chance to wind down or something, Urashima will come over towards Break and Gilbert's room. Break will be able to recognize his footsteps easily enough in the hallway-- they're light and fast and as energetic as ever but he passes Gilbert's door and slows down just as he gets to Break's.

I'm assuming the door is open here or something so he sort of just hangs out there for a solid few seconds before knocking quietly and poking his head in to see if Break is resting like he should be. He won't complain if Break is sleeping! Honestly, it's not like he's checking on Break because they're super close or anything... but the man really keeled over Sunday??? And he's Gilbert's friend??? And really, being a suspect is stressful (he knows, he's been there twice). )

... Mr. Break?

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[crazily]

I am. But I have been for a very long time. It's my punishment, probably, since my Chain is incredibly useful, but I pay for it appropriately. The Mad Hatter is a Chain that exists only to destroy.

[ That part he had come to peace with long ago, because it felt fitting. Making a contract with the Mad Hatter was something that was never really done because of the high strain that it placed on the Contractor, but Break hadn't hesitated at all. In a way, it felt right to him. He could never call it atonement, but there was something he had always found fitting in how his Chain worked. However, that second question gets Break to pause for a bit longer.

If he had only been "kidnapped" to this a week or two earlier, it wouldn't have mattered. He was frail and had been for years, but his condition worsening was tied to using the Mad Hatter. It was predictable and calculated. Each time he brought his Chain forth, he knew it was eating away at his life. However... That last time he had summoned it, he knew it was different. The fight with the Baskervilles was intense, but not an impossible one, even blind. Yet he had felt exhaustion creeping into every bone and muscle of his body, and though he hadn't said anything before he had passed out, he had wondered if that would be his end.

So, now... He knows the next time would be the last. His poor health is something he goes through great lengths to hide, but he always feels it now. He's used to ignoring it, only allowing himself the time to actually show and bear that pain when he's alone, but still, it makes that question a hard one. The silence lingers a little longer than he would like, because in truth, the answer to that question scares him.

Yet, even so, he just smiles calmly. He answers the question on the surface, though he also avoids it in his discomfort. ]

I have no intention of dying just yet, don't worry~.