MESSAGES

[kingmakereffect]

If you have something to ask the Kingmaker about over the phone, this is where it goes! The Kingmaker will answer the phone as soon as he's available. There isn't an option to leave a message on his voicemail, but the Kingmaker will take your calls at almost any hour of the day.

Your smartphones will only connect to the Kingmaker. There is no option to dial a number, instead it will connect automatically to his phone.

Comments are screened for privacy; no listening in on each other's private conversations without permission, after all.

Comments

[penduli]

She does. Jumping the gun thoughtlessly is definitely a younger person thing, and she's done that a few times recently, hasn't she?

[kingmakereffect]

She has, yes. You sound pretty calm about it.

[penduli]

[ ...yeah... ]

I've made my peace. [ ... ] Were you watching the past couple of days?

[kingmakereffect]

I was, yes. I always am.

[penduli]

[ Then what's the point of asking people to sell out their peers!!

...he's not gonna ask that. ]

...Miss Sigrun's still asleep, [ as he's sure he can probably tell, if he really is always watching ] so I don't think there's any harm in asking if we can continue our deal?

[kingmakereffect]

What sort of information do you have for me, then?

[He sounds interested now.]

[penduli]

[ ...all right, let's see how well this goes. ]

Miss Sigrun's asked me to continue to play being a sell-out because she wants me to try and get information from you that we can use to our advantage—sort of turning the tables, since I'd be selling you out to them instead of the other way around. [ It's not a bad idea, coming from her. ] I agreed to it so I could have access to my phone again and let you know, on the off-chance you weren't... terribly mad at me for getting outed to the rest of everyone else.

I don't think they'd be expecting me to do it again, seeing how much it hurt everyone [ Yosuke ] and how sorry I was over it, but... [ A small laugh. ] I'm not really as good of a person as they think I am, Kingmaker, and I think it actually gives me a pretty good cover to keep doing so, wouldn't you say?

[kingmakereffect]

Oh, that is interesting. I do like it.

Of course, I won't be surprised if you turn on me. But I'll play along. What do you want to know?

[penduli]

[ It's human nature to turn on each other when someone's use has run out. ]

Well, she wanted to know what your plans for us were. I'm pretty interested in hearing that myself, since last we heard of them, it was from Glory and Ambitious. Mostly Glory. They wrote to us when you didn't hand us an incentive, and we asked more from Glory later on. Mr. Cherryblod did, anyway. I took notes.

[ ...he's always been asked to takes notes. ]

The last thing we heard was that you were going to kill all of us, starting with the already dead first since you did that last time, too. [ ... ] She wanted to know what you were planning for them as well, especially Glory and Ambitious.

[kingmakereffect]

[...that was their mistake, tbh.]

Hmm. As much as I like the game you want to play, that isn't something I can give you. Do you have another question I could answer instead?

[penduli]

[ Sure was.

...and he hums thoughtfully. Not something he can give him... All right. ]

That's fine, and I might. Let's see... [ ...Sigrun called him smart, but he's not that smart. Not really. He's just a D in a class of Fs. ] If you can't tell me what your plans are, then... tell me why you'd want to kill all of us? Unless you'd rather me try and guess at it.

[ He's pretty shit at potshots in the dark, but he can manage. ]

[kingmakereffect]

Well now I have to hear you guess it. I won't get insulted, so go ahead.

[penduli]

You're bored of us.

[kingmakereffect]

That's actually a good guess.

[penduli]

But is it a right one?

[kingmakereffect]

Nope. It's a nice try, though.

[penduli]

[ All right. ...there's going to be a lot of guesses in a second here, hold onto your hat. (Do you have a hat.) ]

You're getting bored of this game, even if you're not getting bored of us. You're running out of time or something similar to that. You're tired of our friends on the other side. You're actually dead already, and you want us to join you in the afterlife so we can have wild ghost parties and you'll never be bored again.

[kingmakereffect]

Okay, the last one is my favorite, but that's not it. Wild ghost parties would probably be fun though.

[penduli]

Have I at least gotten close with any so far?

[ ...please give him that much. He told you about Sigrun's weird doll thing. ]

[kingmakereffect]

Not really.

[penduli]

[ Hmmm. ]

...I think I'm out of guesses. [ Nothing obvious he can think of. ] I'd ask if it's because you'd gotten all the information you could out of us, but... that's probably not true.

[ ...given how interested he'd been, anyway. ]

[kingmakereffect]

It isn't. That's an interesting one though.

[the km continues to be Helpful]

[penduli]

[ he always is. ]

Will you tell me why you wanted to off us all then, since I've tried my hand at guessing?

[ ...he's not actually expecting a straight answer here, don't think he's dumb for asking. ]

[kingmakereffect]

Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me. I'll at least tell you that it's a simple answer.

[penduli]

[ ...a simple answer, huh. ]

What makes you think I wouldn't believe you?