#I don't like that last paragraph Miki's developing god complex is showing

[waiting-on-a-dream]

(about my prisoners taking the change "better": they're just good at pretending like everything is fine! trust me, kei has left the cafeteria with shun (eiko is still there) and he's currently having a breakdown in his cell DJDKSLSLSL also, sure, most of them like miki, but not a lot of them like eiji. so yeah, some of them are actually happy that they got a new guard even though they lost miki)

Eiji doesn't like Akane's tone, but Miki stops him before he can say anything to her. She doesn't want this to start with a fight.

"We tried our best to find any clues, but.." Miki shakes her head. "T-there weren't any.. Sorry. About the instructions.. Um.."

She looks at Eiji for a moment. She needs him to say something this time. He sighs.

"I guess, if Guard 002 thinks we should get to know you all better, we can try and interrogate you all later. I don't know if you were in the middle of the second trial or it just started, but it looks like we have to do your original guard's work now."

Miki meanwhile notices Ichiro and she gets confused for a moment, but she realizes that he's probably talking about a stuffed animal.

"O-oh, sorry, I haven't seen it. Did something happen to it? We can look for it if you want." She smiles.

It's okay, she's used to dealing with prisoners like him and usually they quickly start to listen to her once she shows that they don't have to worry about anything when she's around.

"I want him back," Ichiro doesn't answer Miki's question about something happening to Keiko. "He's about this small, very squishy," he holds up his hands to show an estimation of Keiko's size. "Grey," he adds on as an afterthought, as if the guards couldn't have guessed.

"We're halfway through the second trial," Haku helpfully informs Eiji. "Yui-san hasn't been interrogated yet."

"You didn't have to tell him that," Yui snaps. What? Is Haku telling Eiji that just so he won't have to be interrogated again?

"Say, pretty lady," Daisuke pops up beside Miki, leaning in a little closer. "You just got here and you're throwing yourself into stressful guard work already? How about taking today off just to explore the place? Maybe it's a lot different compared to wherever you were before this." He glances at Eiji from the corner of his eyes, smirking playfully. "And I think someone could use the rest."