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Damon thought this was stupid.
They were in the midst of a killing game, yet everyone seemed way too enthusiastic about playing a video game based around finding out who committed murders… Seriously, what was wrong with them?!
Despite this, however, he found himself being dragged to the trial room by Kai. Tozu seemed to want to play as well, which was fitting. It was a death game, after all; No wonder it was a prize in the gachapon.
The first few rounds were of hide and seek, in which he justifiably raged when Wolfgang killed him. The game did seem to bring him into a better mood than he had been the entire time they had been there though. It was fun, he had to admit, and as the real game started, he couldn’t help but be excited to play. He also wanted to prove he was better at the game than Wolfgang, but that was irrelevant.
At the start of the round, Damon went to the left side of the map before getting stopped by Kai.
“Damon, hiiii! We should, like. Stick together or something!”
“…What? Ask Diana or someone.”
“Oh, hell no! She acted kinda sus at the start of the round anyways. I heard her gasp. C’mon! We should stick together!”
“Why?” Damon deadpanned, tilting his head.
“Because we’ll always have an alibi, duh!!! Unless you’re the imposter?” Kai replied with a grin.
Damon scoffed. Kai was way too good at this game… It was probably just some sort of influencer thing. Regardless, however, he didn’t want to be voted off just because he refused to stick with Kai. Guess he had no choice.
“…Fine.”
So, they kept around one another. He watched as Kai completed the wires just above storage, noticing above them the blinking of a security light. Right, those were a thing. He wondered if they could see them.
“Y’know, we can, like. Talk, right? Didn’t know you knew how to be quiet,” Kai chuckled.
“Shut up…” Damon scoffed. He was deep in thought, that was it. “…You seem awfully happy right now.”
“Well, this reminds me of before the game, y’know! Playing games with my fans and stuff!” He exclaimed. “It’s nice that you’re getting kind of into it as well. You got SUPER frustrated when Wolfgang killed you earlier. At least, that’s what Cassidy said. I was still alive, LOL!”
“…Did you just say ‘lol’ in real life?” Damon deadpanned, ignoring the fact that he had screamed “OH, GODDAMNIT!” into his mic extremely loudly earlier.
“Yeah! And? It’s fun!”
“…” Damon blinked a second. “SMH,” he deadpanned. There was a moment of silence before Kai bursted out laughing.
“Oh, damn! I’m surprised you know what that means, dude!” He exclaimed in between giggles. Damon just rolled his eyes in response.
“Of course I do. Just because I’m busy doing more important things doesn’t mean I have the technological intelligence of a five year old,” he scoffed.
“Well, yeah, but—”
DEAD BODY REPORTED!
They were brought into a meeting. Apparently, Tozu died, which everyone was happy about. In fact, Wolfgang was so happy, he didn’t even try to figure out who did it.
…Then Diana sold herself out.
Diana was ejected instantly and was then exposed to be the imposter. Damon scoffed. Even here, that girl couldn’t help but be hopelessly naive. It made his head spin in frustration as her little pink character was ejected. Whatever. Bright pink was objectively better than pastel pink anyways.
Him and Kai met up again, continuing to do their tasks. Surprisingly, in a casual setting like this, Kai was shockingly easy to get into conversation with. He almost… enjoyed? Was that the right word?… He almost enjoyed hanging out with Kai. It was kind of nice, just vibing through this silly world with cartoony characters as they chatted and did their tasks.
They were just going into the cafeteria, passing by Eva on the way, when they came across Cassidy.
“BARGAIN BIN!” Cassidy exclaimed excitedly. Damon immediately got annoyed at the nickname. Would she ever stop calling him that?! “I guess Kaimon’s over here!” She grinned… Well, not really, but Damon could hear the grin in her voice. And what the hell did Kaimon mean?!
“Yeah, we’re having a good time!” Kai answered happily.
“It’s useful…” Damon semi-agreed begrudgingly. He heard Cassidy snicker as he led Kai away from her and into admin.
“Oh, there’s an admin table here. Right,” Damon mumbled, looking at the icons. He turned to Kai. “Any clue what these mean?”
“Noooope! No clue!” Kai grinned before focusing on the table. “That’s Cassidy’s icon, right? Oh, shit, why did it disappea—”
DEAD BODY REPORTED!
Not much eventful happened during the second meeting. Kai thought it was Cassidy because her icon disappeared, but there wasn’t really much other than that. Everyone seemed to have an alibi, so they ruled the murder off as happening a long time ago. However, Damon had other plans, right before voting.
“I think we should vote for Grace,” he deadpanned.
“How about we skip the vote?” Wolfgang recommended, annoying Damon as the lawyer’s voice swallowed his. He didn’t exactly have a reason to vote for Grace, but in his mind, voting for her made sense. However, apparently someone did notice his comment? Which made sense when they asked a question.
“Wait. Real quick, Damon, why Grace?” Kai asked. Oh, shit. Wait, yeah, he kind of needed a reason.
“…Intuition,” he deadpanned, mentally smacking himself for the weak argument. He ended up just skipping anyway, ignoring Cassidy’s comment on Wolfgang having lawyer's intuition and not him. His mood quickly recovered as he saw Kai laugh, but he wasn’t sure why.
“It was the debate club special,” he joked, and wow, since when was he on joking terms with these people? Why was he acting so weird?…
He sighed as he regrouped with Kai. “Well, that’s one down,” he told him. He was referring to Diana, who was the first imposter despite that being a round ago. Unfortunately for him, however, Cassidy had other plans.
“WAIT, WOAH, WOAH! What?! Did you guys just hear Damon?!” She exclaimed, catching up to where Kai, Damon, and Wolfgang were walking. “He said ‘that’s one down’”
“Notice how there’s one person not here,” he deadpanned.
“Did you hear Damon?!” Cassidy doubled down. Kai just sighed.
“I’ve been with Damon the entire time, there’s no way he did a murder at all!” He protested. Cassidy and Wolfgang both ended up leaving, which left Kai and Damon alone again.
“What a stupid argument…” Damon muttered.
“Eh, it’s fine. I know you’re innocent, so it shouldn’t be too hard to convince the group that you’re innocent.”
“Sounds good, I guess,” Damon shrugged before pausing. “…Thanks, Kai.”
“No problem!” Kai exclaimed.
They continued to go about, doing their tasks. Kai was working on the dumb simon says minigame as Damon stood close by.
“Man, this imposter kind of sucks at killing. We’re gonna get a task win at this point,” Kai deadpanned.
“Works for me,” Damon deadpanned. He thought to himself for a bit before speaking up again. “Hey, Kai?”
“Yeah? What’s up?”
“…This is kinda fun.”
Kai gasped in surprise before he accidentally missed one, getting distracted. “Shit! I hate this stupid task!”
Damon just chuckled. “Sorry, I guess.”
“It’s fine. But damn! Mr. ‘I Hate Everyone’ is having fun playing a video game?”
“Tch… Don’t get used to it. I’m smart enough to know this is just a distraction.”
“And?”
Damon paused for a second. “…What?”
“We’re having fun! That’s all that matters, right?” Kai asked.
“…Guess so,” he shrugged as Kai finally finished the task.
“Finally! That was hell!” He exclaimed. The lights went off immediately after.
“Oh. Let’s head to electrical, I guess,” Damon remarked, heading to electrical as Kai followed. He was getting the hang of the game pretty quickly, he thought.
The lights were back on by the time they got there. Pretty much everyone was there too. The doors to electrical were locked, and he could hear Cassidy screaming inside.
“Typical,” he deadpanned as Kai chuckled. The doors opened, revealing Cassidy and Wolfgang. Damon tried to get Kai to go a certain way, but Kai didn’t seem to follow. Before he could tell him where he wanted to go, the lights went off again.
“Seriously? Where the hell did Kai go?” He asked, passing Cassidy on the way to storage. He looked around for a bit as the lights turned back on, heading to the right side of the map. Upon realization that he was nowhere in sight, Damon sighed and went back towards storage.
“Wolfie!” He heard Cassidy exclaim from the left side of storage as he went up to admin. The lights just turned off again (it was getting ridiculous at that point) when he finally spotted Kai.
“Jeez, finally. I was looking for you for a solid two minutes,” Damon deadpanned as Kai did the uploading data task.
“Heh, miss me that mu—”
DEAD BODY REPORTED!
Damon didn’t think much of it before he processed which person died; Wolfgang.
Didn’t Cassidy?…
“What the frick?! I literally just saw him!” Cassidy explained. Damon realized it might not actually be her before Kai spoke up.
“I’m calling it right now, I think it’s Cassidy.”
“I literally just saw him!” Cassidy repeated as if she were innocent.
“I gave Damon a completely solid alibi, 100% not the imposter, and Cassidy was STILL convinced it was Damon!” Kai exclaimed. Despite the slight doubt in his mind, Kai’s words completely convinced Damon that Cassidy was the imposter.
“Okay, so here’s my story—”
“No, Damon walked away!” Cassidy accused Damon, which was the last straw for him. Even if he was wrong, he was going to make these people believe it was Cassidy.
“Oh, really? So you’re not the one who walked in after me and said ‘Hey, Wolfie!’, and suspiciously, he ends up dead!”
“Yeah, because I just walked by and said, ‘I literally just saw him!’ Did you not hear the words I just said?!” Cassidy exclaimed, pissing Damon off even more.
“Of course! Well, guess where I was? With my good friend, Kai Monteago.”
A moment of silence passed before Kai chimed in. “Damn right!” he exclaimed.
Damon knew everything else would fall into place; Eva and Wenona were together and Grace was following them, leaving them no choice but to vote Cassidy.
“The killer is you!” Damon exclaimed. It was a bit dramatic, but he had been dramatic that entire time.
“Okay, fine! You got me!” Cassidy admitted as her character was ejected.
“I KNEW IT! YESSSSS!” Kai exclaimed as the victory screen popped up. Jean started the game up again as they were all transported to the lobby.
Damon went into the corner of the map. It was just far away enough to not hear anybody else talking, which was kind of nice after the loudness of the last game. Kai ended up walking over to him, however, breaking the silence. Weirdly enough, Damon didn’t find himself minding all that much.
“Good job, Damon! That was a fun game!” Kai exclaimed happily. Damon was thankful Kai wouldn’t see him because he felt a smile creep onto his face.
“Mhm. Can’t say it wasn’t,” he relented. They stayed in silence for a bit before Kai chuckled.
“So. Good friend, huh?”