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[heartstopping]

[Rolo doesn't bother with the anonymity of text for once, nor the innocent civilian teen act. He can't bring himself to care right now. Why bother maintaining a decent reputation, why try to build a life? There's no point anymore. Not for him, anyway.

He sits with a flat expression, idly fiddling with the charm dangling from his phone.]

There is no Council. The sentencing room is empty and it doesn't look like it's ever even been used. Whatever's in control of this aren't people. It's no wonder blowing the building up didn't do anything.

[His fingers still on the little locket charm, and then squeeze it tightly.]

If anyone has any ideas on how to kill something without a physical body, I'm listening.

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[solitarysoul]

[Levi doesn't sound surprised.]

It's probably something like that computer thing that talked to us before. Maybe more than one of them.

[So that'd still be a council, he guesses.]

How did you find this out?

[heartstopping]

I managed to see inside the room when I went for sentencing, before they could mess with my memories or whatever it is they do.

[ via fucky supernatural timestop powers but he doesn't need to show all his cards quite yet ]

[solitarysoul]

[Huh, okay. He's not sure he believes that but it doesn't change anything.]

You can fight gods, but if they're a computer and we're in a computer I don't know how we'd break it.

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[grappler]

[......]

Pretty sure blowing up the fucking council is what screwed up our memories.

[heartstopping]

I don't care.

[And that's not a normal teen "I don't care". This is really the face of someone who has stopped giving a shit entirely and wouldn't give a fuck if the world ended this very moment. It's a little unsettling on such a babyfaced teen, honestly.]

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[opheliac]

u goofball, blowing up the building did do something! it opened up a new realm of heebie jeebie space, and we got sucked in.

did u forget all that?

[heartstopping]

[Ugh. You.]

It didn't end all of this, did it? So it was useless.

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[quizpersona]

Oh my, are you looking to kill "god" ? That's really exciting!

[There's finger scare quotes around "god" of course. Hey it's the little man who slit his throat. Gogol looks not bothered by this actually? More so excited someone might be catching up to the point he was making a little while ago.]

In order to do that, you might want to consider if you can without changing reality itself. You could learn that first and then— [A little chuckle. It's general "you" here.] What do you think might happen to you if you do?

[heartstopping]

[There's a slight narrowing of the eyes when he sees this guy, but Rolo quickly decides he doesn't care. Bigger fish to fry.]

I don't care what happens. I have nothing left to lose.

[If only Lelouch were still here. Now there's someone who knows about killing gods. But tragically, if Lelouch were still here, this post wouldn't be happening at all.]

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[drugsnotclubs]

Huh. Makes sense.

[At least it does when you're on team "we're all just simulations in a simulation".]

That'd explain the weird no-memories of it thing. The place probably just uploads whatever info it wants to give us and then leaves us to it.

How'd you get a peek in?

[heartstopping]

You've seen me fight.

[There's finally some spark of life in his eyes, but it's only in that pointed look he gives the screen.]

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[rebellions]

Yeah, no shit. I would've thought them coming back from being blown up proved as much.

[ Taking a free piece of information as it is without being an ass about is, unfortunately, not in Ragna's dictionary. ]

If you ask me, they're just a system running this place. Even if we do kill them, there's no guarantee they won't just be replaced.

[heartstopping]

If they weren't there in the first place, then they probably weren't actually blown up. All you did was demolish a building temporarily.

[Yeah, he doesn't sound terribly impressed, but in his defense, blowing up buildings for the explicit purpose of killing someone inside is part of his goddamn resume and Ragna clearly failed at a significant part of that.]

I'd believe the system thing. So the question is how to break the system.

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[notthekingpin]

Jerry isn't going to like this PSA very much.

[heartstopping]

Good. He can come talk with me in person if he doesn't like it.

[Rolo would really, really like to see Jerry in person right now.]

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[melnik]

[ Before tackling the real weighty question, first things first. ]

How did you discover this information?

[ The tone is unassuming enough because, frankly, he has no difficulty believing it. He'd just like to know how he found out. ]

[heartstopping]

I got a look inside the room just before they did whatever it is that has that memory vagueness effect.

[No, he will not be explaining how.]

[killjoyprince]

I've been thinking that for a while now... I was thinking that they may be operating remotely.

[It made sense. It'd be safer for them if they weren't near enough to the people they kept captive.]

[heartstopping]

What kind of power can mess with people's memories like that remotely?

[Not any kind of the powers he's used to. He's leaning more towards Shinji's idea that none of this is real.]

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[bulleting]

Given the building exploding didn't harm them, I've assumed they weren't actually inside. But I don't have any advice on how to actually find them.

[She recalls a strange image that appeared on her tablet, a while ago now. It looked like it could be the sentencing room, with frames around what looked like screens. Her assumption had been that the Council used these screens to make their verdicts, but given she couldn't actually remember what happened inside that room, she could never be sure.]

How did you find this out, if you don't mind me asking? As far as I know, you're the only one that's been able to keep such a sharp memory of what happens on the inside.

[heartstopping]

My memory about what happens inside is still fuzzy. I just managed to see inside before they hit me with whatever effect that is.

[Which comes with additional interesting details with regards to how his powers work on Jerry and the Council, but no one else needs to know that part.]

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[laserguy]

[He's read some of the responses before deciding to chime in.]

How long were you able to look at the sentencing room before they did their normal crap?

[heartstopping]

[ oh thank god someone with a brain ]

Only a few seconds, but it was enough. I was walking into the room where the Council was supposedly handling the sentencing, and it was empty.

[murderingjustice]

is there a way you can confirm this information?

[heartstopping]

I saw it with my own eyes. If that's not good enough for you then I don't care.

[Especially for you.]