Episode 31
"So Demon Snow gets Kyouka the soy sauce and gets stabbed for it?"
Mori nods.
"That's just rude."
Mori nods again. "But it's kinda funny."
"Why is my character mad at Atsushi?" Lucy asks.
Mori grins. "You'll see~" He sings.
WHAM!
Lucy hits him with a coffee mug. "Don't ever use that tone of voice again. It's creepy as fuck."
"I don't wanna cut Lucy down!" Kyouka protests.
"It's a show, people. You don't have to."
"Oh, right."
"That is a lot of boats." Atsushi observes. "Do we have permission to film there?"
"Don't worry, we won't get caught."
"Not what I asked."
Gide sighs. "We made a set. The director is just being an idiot."
"Thank god."
"Damn, Lucy is really mad." Higuchi observes.
"Yeah." Gin agrees.
"Remind me never to cross her." Tachihara mutters.
"Why didn't I just use my Ability to break the chain?" Atsushi points out.
"Fuck you that's why." Mori says.
Elise pulls Atsushi to the side. "He didn't think of it." She whispers.
Atsushi cocks his head and smiles, but before he can say his line, Lucy speaks. "Oh my god you look like a tiny wet kitten when you do that." She claps her hands over her mouth.
"CUT!"
Gin snickers with her phone recording everything. "He really does!"
"I can totally transport just the moisture from wet clothes, you know." Lucy says.
Mori shrugs. "Funnier this way, though."
"Funnier if you're a pervert." Lucy says without missing a beat.
A makeup artist runs onto the set. "Gotta get a scar cover-up for Atsushi!"
The pair let the artist by.
Ango trips and drops the glass bottle, which shatters on the ground.
"CUT!"
"So Kyouka's parents were spies? Cool!"
"That would be awesome." Kyouka admits. "If it were true, that is."
"I didn't steal it!" Lucy protests.
Fyodor strolls onto the set with a briefcase. "I switched them, though."
"Why?"
"It's funny."
"CUT!"
"Blood for mind control? That's messed up! How do you come up with this?"
"That one was Tachihara's idea." Mori admits.
"Knew you couldn't have any good ideas." Lucy smirks.
"HEY!"
"Uh, Ango, would the government actually do that? Treat it like it was her fault?"
The man adjusts his glasses. "Unfortunately they would and have. This is actually based on the declassified file of a case I worked in the past."
"You're serious." Gide says.
"Deadly."
"That is fucked."
"Indeed."
"I've heard that there is a way to transfer abilities to family members. Wait, really?"
"CUT! Yep. Seen it occasionally as a doctor. Rarely though."
"That's cool as hell." Atsushi marvels.
Kajii jumps up and down. "I get a scene! I get a scene!"
"You get like ten seconds and two lines dude." Tachihara smirks.
"He's happy because he gets paid extra when he gets a part." Gin reveals. "So yeah."
"Oh god, more Headmaster shit?" Tanizaki groans.
"It's dramatic!" Mori chirps.
"It's overdone!"
"Live with it, man." Atsushi sighs. "I have to."
"The HEADMASTER gets a REDEMPTION ARC!?" Atsushi howls. "This is fucking ridiculous!"
"It's not your real caretakers. They are irredeemable." Mori points out.
"But still! That's like condoning abuse!"
"What the fuck? He hammered a nail into Atsushi's foot?" Tachihara gapes.
"That was one of Atsushi's stories about his old orphanage that we adapted." Mori replies.
"Really?"
Atsushi pulls off his shoe and sock, showing them a scar on the top and bottom of his foot.
"That makes it worse."
"Oh, I know."
"Father? You think that fucker was a fucking father!?" Akutagawa yells. "Abuse is not a joke, Mori! The fact that that fucker "raised him properly" doesn't excuse the fact that he was an abusive assbiscuit!"
Dazai is nodding along.
Higuchi cocks a fake gun. "Abuse is always a bad thing, no matter the results. The truth is that this hit too close to home for Atsushi and you know it!"
Kenji crosses his arms. "Back home, anyone doing that would have the kid taken away and been put in jail!"
"Disgusting, to treat anyone this way." Hirotsu adds.
Atsushi watches with tears in his eyes as the others protest what Mori had written.
