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You approach your group, it’s not like there’s anyone else here but the guy tied to the chair.
“So, huh.” You cough. “Marcela, I just screwed up massively…”
“Don’t tell me you bet extracting the information out of the guy on winning?” Marcela reads you like you’re a children’s book.
“Huuuuuuuh…” C’mon, Kobashi, you need to come clean. “Uuuuuuuh… Yes. Yes, I did.”
“You did what?!” van Zullekom is thunderstruck like half of the time.
“For the love of Saraswati…” Marcela facepalms as she looks down, she must feel lightheaded. “W-Why? H-How could you…? I believed in you, and you gambled everything…? This is just…” Marcela is in disbelief.
“I’m sorry…” You drop your head. At one point, your incompetency was going to get the best of you yet again… Another thing to add to your list of failures. Expert Private Detective your ass…
Why can’t you just be good enough…?
“Let’s not drop our heads just yet.” Vanessa has never allowed morale to drop! Unless it’s her fault. Then there’s no way to recover it. “A little step back has never stopped you, Kobashi. Just several massive ones!”
“And this isn’t one of them because…?” Marcela isn’t as optimistic as van Zullekom…
“This is no peccadillo from Kobashi’s part! It’s possible to make no mistakes and lose. That’s not failure; that’s life, young lady! Kobashi has proven reliable time and time again and this won’t change it. The case is still wide open.” Vanessa is your biggest believer here.
“I’ll tell you why this isn’t over, Marcela. I haven’t given up. I’ll never give up.” The only thing you can do now is keep going. “We just need to find a way.”
“I…” Marcela sees two doofuses having each other’s backs, who have proven to never measure up, yet they’re still going. “Yeah, you’re right. But how…?”
“We’ll have to break the Janeeva Convention…” Vanessa looks oddly serene. “Bombastus is truly a man too busy for his own good. But there’s someone else who works alongside him on his projects. And she really seems to like your cakes, Kobashi.”
“What’s the Janeeva Conversion?” Marcela doesn’t get it.
“You want us to find Dorothy?” You don’t like where this is going.
“And have a chat, perhaps.” Vanessa has her evil side. Maybe being wrongly imprisoned twice does that to your psyche…
“…Hey! Can any of you guys ask what’s going to happen to me? Am I going to stay here or what…?” Leon feels leonely.
<span class="mu-s">What do you do?</span>
>Offer Dorothy cake in exchange for information.
>Find Dorothy, befriend her, then maybe you can get something out of her.
>With Leon the LeonTamer’s help, maybe you can get the information you need from Dorothy.
>Write In.
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