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If it weren't for current state as someone who was happily napping away despite their given circumstances, Arisu probably would've asked Irie what Hope's Peak Academy was, with her face still buried into the pillow. The question still would've sat in her mind if she didn't take a moment to try and remember the events that occurred in the past couple days. Of course, she wasn't allowed to sleep through anything that she wanted to sleep through, but even so, it was hard to say if she was actually paying attention. Okay, somebody she didn't really care about died, and they did an investigation which she didn't really care enough to be able to do so, they had a trial, she didn't care about that, and they executed someone. She didn't remember if she cared or not, because at that point she was drowsy enough to even lay her head on her podium and accidentally miss the entire thing.

The sound of Monomausu's voice echoing throughout the monorail managed to stir her from her sleep, but it was Irie's shouting that actually got her to open her eyes. She would've closed them again if the girl didn't come over swinging around a bag that seemed to be filled with items that didn't really catch her interest. Paint their nails? To be honest, Arisu was a little confused as to why they were in Irie's interest. Didn't she just ride horses? What do horses have to do with painting nails? The idea of someone caring about one thing was bizarre enough to her, but multiple things? That's just crazy.

"Eugh..." She pushed herself up onto her elbows, wiping the drool off her chin while squinting as her eyes adjusted to the light. 

"Favourite... What? Colour? Oh. I dunno."

Truth be told, she really didn't. There were way more things to care about than which colours you liked. Arisu didn't care about any of those things, much less colours. But putting Irie's nature into count she figured it'd be best to give her an answer anyway. Less trouble that way.

"Green... I guess?"

Nailpolish Time - Irie [Arisu]

The rider had been unusually silent since the trial, her bun a little more disheveled than usual, taking her time to change out of her pajamas and sitting on her bed cross-legged in her white shorts and her pink unicorn t-shirt, writing in her pink journal. The TV screen turned on and Monomausu’s words rang through the speakers. The girl blinked and seemed to light up completely, Monomausu’s words having such an effect on her.

It was all going to be fine, just like it was supposed to! She stared at the screen and smiled widely, looking over to Arisu. She jumped to her feet so quickly she almost stumbled over and dropped her journal, catching it again in midair. The pages of the thing didn’t even crumple, and it snapped shut nicely. 

"Did you hear!" Irie asked, smiling to Arisu. Of course Arisu had heard. It’s not like you missed a huge announcement. Probably. It was Arisu. "This is great- Soon we’ll be at Hope’s Peak Academy like we are supposed to be! Mononeko can’t do a thing anymore!” She was promptly forgetting or actively ignoring the fact it had been said one of the students controlled that thing. Irie crouched next to her bags and got herself a brush- Or so she meant to, because she noticed something far more interesting.

"Hey, Arisu-san- Let’s paint our nails!" The rider turned around, looking over to Arisu. Irie smiled, holding a bag in front of herself, apparently full of nail polish and makeup. She already walked over to Arisu’s side of the room, looking determined and happy. "What’s your favourite colour?"

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i swear to god if this doesn’t make it into the anime i’m

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"Yeah. That was pretty shitty."

"I'm surprised she hasn't eaten you yet, to be honest... Do you taste bad?"

(Monomausu) Oi kid! Ya better be careful with the new motive and stuff!

"Oh, it’s you… Well, okay. It doesn’t really get to me, though…"

"Try not to kill anyone either, dude."

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"Wow... I didn't know that mouses could care."

"Ah, wait... mouses... mice? Mices... I didn't know mices could... Er, well, that's cool. It'd totally suck if you died either way."

(Monomausu) Oi kid! Ya better be careful with the new motive and stuff!

"Oh, it’s you… Well, okay. It doesn’t really get to me, though…"

"Try not to kill anyone either, dude."

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"Lucky... It's so lame..."

"Ah, well. At least you won't die, then."

(Monomausu) Oi kid! Ya better be careful with the new motive and stuff!

"Oh, it’s you… Well, okay. It doesn’t really get to me, though…"

"Try not to kill anyone either, dude."

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Normal Days - Allison (Motive Reaction)

"Eh…"

Oh, right, yeah, the murder thing. The having to kill one of the passengers if you want to get off this train thing. Man, she almost forgot about that.

Was having everyone forget about her achievements supposed to shake her up? Even when Mononeko had obviously indirectly referred to her when listing examples, she didn’t do more than raise a brow. Sure, she was one of the most talented skateboarders the world has ever let their eyes feast upon, but the only thing about that that’ll change is that people actually know that about that. This motive was hardly taking anything away from her, honestly. Skateboarding was just a hobby at most, and Arisu could live without people knowing how skilled she was. The worst that’ll happen is that she won’t intimidate any newbie skaters into getting them to buy her food. It might be a little sad, but nothing to kill anyone over.

"Whateverrr…"

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(Monomausu) Oi kid! Ya better be careful with the new motive and stuff!

"Oh, it’s you… Well, okay. It doesn’t really get to me, though…"

"Try not to kill anyone either, dude."

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"..."

Was her plan to come back into her dormitory and get some shut-eye for an hour or twelve supposed to end up like this? As totally eager as she was to know the answer to that, the biggest question she was asking herself was how the hell could someone be so jumpy right after calling you out on dumb behavior? Of course, it wasn't as if Arisu was going to try and ask why she was like this, since, well, she didn't want to go through effort of doing so, but it was still a thing to think about. Even if she didn't really care about it.

All this talk about determination made her want to vomit. Not because the idea disgusted her in any way at all, really, but man, could this girl learn how to be more sensitive to people who didn't appreciate it when someone decided to yell? Well, she may not have been yelling, but with her head hurting badly enough already, just a normal indoor voice would've made her groan. Truth be told, you could've said anything to her, and as long as you were talking quietly enough, Arisu wouldn't have minded.

In fact, her expression hardly changed when Irie asked about her lack of friends. Even including the regulars at the skate park she spent most of her days at, there wasn't anyone she really considered a friend. Or cared enough about them to consider them a friend, but either way, the fact didn't really bother her. She simply shrugged as a response. 

The only thing that took her off guard was her hand being grabbed out of nowhere. Give her a chance? What did she mean by that? Arisu blinked at the girl who was a little too forward for her tastes when she managed to piece together what she was implying. Was she really asking her to be friends?

"Gh..."

"I-I...? O...Okay?" If that'll keep her from talking so loudly some more...

Normal Days - Allison (Trial Reaction)

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This was beginning to steer in a direction that Arisu wasn't too excited about. Why was this girl so insistent about them being friends? As fine as she would be with outright denying that fact in front of her, she couldn't help but hold herself back. It probably would've been a million times easier on her to just accept it and move on, but she just didn't understand why. Knowing that there's a person who could meet someone out of the blue and be completely set on the two of them being friends was ridiculous to her. 

"How could you make friends in a place like this? You could be talking to someone who will end up being a murderer."

Honestly, this girl was nothing but ridiculous to her. Trying to understand her perspective on things only raised more even questions. How could someone put so much effort into things? Putting effort into caring, to be more specific on what Arisu really couldn't put her head around. She couldn't imagine it to be fun or rewarding in any way at all. 

Letting out an sigh, she blinked at her roommate, eyelids heavier than they usually were. Even with her level of insensitivity, it wasn't hard to tell that she'd more or less upset Irie in some way. With that thought in mind, she frowned, but not exactly prepared to make an attempt to comfort her. Wouldn't she be happier if she didn't care so much? Suggesting that she did so was the only option Arisu could think of, but it was hard to tell if it could work for everyone. Even if she herself didn't see anything negative about this method of dealing with things, she didn't find anything absolutely positive about it either. Though, it wasn't as if she cared enough to try and find anything good or bad about it, so that was to be expected.

"I don't even see the point in being with friends with people in the first place."

"Much less caring about them..."

The idea of getting attached to someone just seemed like a terrible idea altogether. It wouldn't end well and she was certain of that. Entirely certain. Dead certain. Well, not exactly certain, but she couldn't imagine it going any other way. Or didn't care enough to try, but still, she was pretty certain.

Normal Days - Allison (Trial Reaction)

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Easier said than done, Arisu almost spat out, managing to bite down on her tongue just in time. Don't laze off? Don't throw away her life so easily? It's not like she was purposely trying to do either, because if she had to make an effort to try, she'd probably have given up on doing so. It just came naturally, her indifference, her apathy, none of it was by choice, but Arisu didn't see the point to try and help herself in that case. She didn't see the point in Irie trying to help her in that case. 

Was she supposed to feel happy that someone cared enough to get angry at her? It didn't really do much except give her an unwanted headache, and being stressed was a feeling Arisu had been trying to avoid since forever. Like, honestly, if someone destroyed her skateboard, the worst she'd probably do is raise an eyebrow. She didn't want to get upset over things, and if the best way to avoid it was to not care in the first place, then that's what she'll do. Simple as that.

"I... I didn't even know who that guy was before we found him dead. Why should I care about who killed him?"

For just a moment, she had the ends of her shirt in her grip, eyes shifted to the floor and back, the expression on her face clearly displayed her discomfort. Lectures made her feel sick. Lectures from people she knew made her really sick. Lectures from people she hardly knew were enough to make her need to stick a head over a trashcan for a couple hours. She didn't need any more lessons to be hammered into her head. She was sick of having lessons hammered into her head. 

"And why should you even care about what I do? You're wasting your time on someone you hardly know. I don't get it!"

Normal Days - Allison (Trial Reaction)

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Hugs weren't really her thing. Physical contact in general was a little off putting, but it wasn't something she was necessarily opposed to, it was more... unexpected. Arisu wasn't used to it. In fact, it took her a moment to realize that there were arms around her in the first place, and another moment to register that it was Irie. Even in the case where she wasn't fatigued to the bone, she probably wouldn't have had the heart to try and push her away. Though, it was more because she knew it would take an effort, and, well, that wasn't really her thing either.

The mention of those who had voted for her was enough to make her eyebrows furrow. Despite hearing their names several times throughout the trial, only now did she manage to finally have them stitched into her head. Arthur and Arata, she thought, Maybe I should've voted for them...

But then the subject of voting for herself came up. Arisu wondered how Irie would react to her actually being the murder if this was how she acted to her just giving herself a vote. It'd be a sight to see, she figured, but not exactly eager to watch it actually happen. While she did wonder how much a broken riding crop would hurt, she wasn't too excited to know the answer to that.

"Er... I, um, well‒"

Irie cut her off by saying that what she was about to say was an invalid answer. What was she supposed to say now? As hard as it was to think with the girl staring at her like that, she really didn't have any options. Or an actual explanation, to be perfectly honest. Although tempted to ask why she even cared, Arisu decided that she wasn't in the mood for any more arguing.

"I'm... sorry?"

Normal Days - Allison (Trial Reaction)

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Normal Days - Allison (Trial Reaction)

Even while watching the votes get tallied, her expression remained as detached as ever. Any outcome would’ve been fine with her, living, dying, because either way, it’s not like Arisu saw any point to caring. It’d just be more stressful that way. If she wasn’t concerned, it wouldn’t hurt her so much, wouldn’t it? Of course! That was how she always went about things! It hasn’t failed her once. Yet, anyway.

"Amazing."

The only thing that managed to get a reaction out of her was the mouse she had so taken upon to personally adopt appearing seemingly out of nowhere. While her eyes narrowed when Mononeko placed a paw on his tail, Arisu knew best not to intervene. She was way too tired to try to, anyway. Being wrongly accused of murder really wears you out. Silently, she prayed that whoever the next murderer was, would carry out their plan at a time where people were actually awake. Surprisingly, the fact that she wouldn’t mind someone being murdered as long as she wasn’t asleep didn’t seem to bother her.

It seemed like Arata had something to say to her, but immediately went back on that decision, in addition to going back towards the walls. In all honesty, Arisu didn’t really care about what he had to say no matter what it was, so she just raised an eyebrow before giving him the death stare.

"Oh, don’t worry."

"You’d probably find me dead before I willingly go anywhere near you."

With that, she made her way over to her room, extremely ready to get some shut eye in her dormitory. Provided that she would be able to, putting her roommate into consideration. 

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I vote for me. Do your worst, I don't care.

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Trial - Allison [Losing Grip] (Re: Everyone)

"You’ve got to be kidding me."

They were kidding, right? Just like that, everyone suddenly thinks you murdered a guy. Even after you go through the trouble of showing them your skateboard. I mean, it didn’t really help anything, but still, that was a pretty big feat for her. Arisu never showed it to people so willingly unless she was actually planning on using it. Considering the fact that her life was on the line, it wasn’t too annoying to have to do that.

“Conjugal nature? I don’t even know this guy’s name, and you think I met up with him, turned him on, then killed him. Hell, he probably doesn’t even know who I am. Nice. Nice.”

Man, he wasn’t even her type. A prankster? Nooo thank you.

"I killed him because I’m horse chick’s roommate. That’s your logic. Thanks."

"You know what? Nevermind! I don’t care. Fuck this. Fuck all of you. If you think I’m the murderer, then vote for me! See if I give a shit!"

She couldn’t even hear the people who were standing up to defend her. She didn’t care. This was all so stupid.

"I’d rather be dead than be with a bunch of people who willingly sent an innocent person to death, anyway. I don’t have anything else to say to any of you.”

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Trial - Allison (RE: Arthur)

"…"

Did she have a skateboard with her? It didn’t look like she did. Wait, what was that on her back? Oh, it’s a backpack! A special backpack, one that’s made to able to carry skateboards— What’s this? Is that a skateboard? On her skateboard backpack? But, why would someone bring a skateboard onto a train. It’d make sense if she were some sort of skateboarder, maybe…

"Sigh."

Sliding the bag off her shoulder and letting it hang in her hand long enough to be able to slip out the skateboard in question, Arisu held it over on top of her podium, before holding it up and displaying it so that everyone in the room could see that, besides the bumps and dents you would expect to see on any skateboard, it was perfectly clean. 

"It isn’t easy to get blood off of a skateboard."

This was starting to get annoying.

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TRIAL - ALLISON [BAD REPUTATION] (RE: ARATA, ARTHUR, ELLISON, IRIE)

"Woah, hold up."

"Dude, that’s my name. My name. Me. You think I killed the guy? I didn’t even know his name. I don’t even know your name. How do you even know my name? This is fucked up.”

You rest your head on a stand for one minute, and the next thing you know, you’re being accused of murder. It was probably just the result of not getting her needed twenty four hours of sleep, but man, did she really not want to deal with this.

"I don’t even know what the hell this Valerian Root thing is. Not like I need to know, honestly. Sleeping aid? I could fall asleep right now if I weren’t having fingers pointed at me."

Crossing her arms and letting out a groan, Arisu shot a glare towards Arata, Nagisi and Ellison, then raised an eyebrow at her roommate. Why was Irie looking at her like that? She didn’t kill him! As much as she really could care less about whether they were friends or not, Arisu still wouldn’t do something as low as frame her as a murderer, at that.

"Gh… Friend…? "

"I-I… Even if I did kill the kid, I wouldn’t frame her. And besides, don’t you think if I set up that tea ceremony or whatever, I would’ve cleaned it all up after I finished? I wouldn’t be stupid enough to just leave it there. It’s like the top hat guy said, I don’t even drink tea!"

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Trial - Allison [Trial Start]

"Haaah? A trial?! The hell’s the point of that?”

Did they really have to find out who killed Kat… Katu… the guy with weird colored hair? If being honest was completely necessary, the only thing she really remembered from her so called ‘investigation’ was catching a glance of the kid’s hard-on. Well, adopting the talking mouse and trying to hide him away from the cat thing was pretty eventful, and possibly the most notable thing Arisu had done for the entirety of her time spent on this train, but, come on, the dead dude had a boner, for God’s sake.

Speaking of the talking mouse, it didn’t look like Monomausu was enjoying his current predicament, which was being shoved into her hat in order to keep him hidden. Not to say she was really having the time of her life either, since having an animal sitting on top of your head wasn’t exactly her idea of fun. Ah, well, she thought, figuring that the cat was too busy dealing with this trial, I guess I’ll just go and find him later. 

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Try not to get eaten by the cat thing."

And with that, she slipped her hat off, letting the mouse make it’s way down onto the ground. It’d be a lot more trouble to have to explain why she had the mouse in the first place if she were to walk into the trial having him in her possession, so she decided to just let him do his thing while she would try and find a way to nap during the whole process. 

After yawning several times during the elevator ride, Arisu scratched the back of her head as soon as she’d taken her place at a podium. Man, what wouldn’t she do to be able to get out of this annoying little game? Well, killing someone was definitely an option, but, eh…

"Oh… His name was Katsu. Alright. Didn’t know that.”