WEEK 3

[akudamods]

On Saturday, it is relentlessly sunny. Sunday too. Monday will be the same but with a lot of wind. For now, you get a new area: Old Shinsekai, the den of depravity surrounding the police station. Will you venture into the unknown and seedy? Or retreat into the familiar pods, keep bothering your overseers?

Maybe you plan something else altogether.

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[your_best_friend]

...

[* Flowey sighs.]

Your friends are right to fear me...

...You wanna know what I was doing before I was bought here? I was... I... Everyone else went to the surface to live with the humans back at home. I stayed behind because I knew I would ruin my Golden Ending. I...

...I can't feel love or compassion or guilt.

Heh... Maybe I should just leave you all alone... Frisk isn't here to protect you all from me.

[akudamods]

[Receptionist tilts her head as she listens to this. Only about half of it makes sense, but it sounds like Vessel wants to live among humans?]

Hmm. You're not this Frisk person, but wasn't the lack of emotion useful for doing those pulley calculations under pressure? I thought the same thing, but there was no way I was making that work.

[It doesn't seem like she cares about his lack of emotions... then again, the expression kind of slips off her face too, in a moment of dumbfoundedness.]

Besides, I thought all Akudama were like that. Incapable of feeling. You're definitely a step above all the ones who were attacking.

[Like, she's seriously questioning. "What makes one an Akudama?"]

[your_best_friend]

...Yeah, I guess so... Even simple machines like a pulley can be the solution to a puzzle. And a lack of emotions may also help in the trials... But a lack of emotion only gets you so far when you can't legitimately form friendships or family.

[* A... step up? He was just doing what Frisk would do...]

...I thought I was the only one incapable of feeling. Everyone else? ...Well, I can't claim to be the ultimate authority like I can with so many other things, but... they have friends and family. Loved ones. Hopes and dreams. Goals in life. Reasons for doing everything they do.

Listen... I've certainly ran my fair share of oppressive dystopian governments, killing people for even daring questioning my opinions, or for even having a different opinion in the first place. How long until Kanto targets you for the same thing?

[* He turns to the other police officers.]

...What about the rest of you?

[akudamods]

[Receptionist is just like Hahaha What the Fuck?.gif @ Flowey running oppressive governments. She'd take it back, saying he's a step above, but frankly it was a low bar so... yeah. Just gonna be thinking here with her Nice Cream, also is this RPG food gonna heal her or what!?

The other cops just scoff and say,]

You don't know what you're talking about. Kanto only gets involved with us when Kansai can't take care of something. Receptionist, get back home before you get tangled up in more of a mess.

[They go back to helping the evacuees before she can swallow her food. Rude!]