#VIII: 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓪𝔃𝓮

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Starter for @5crow

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Entry 1

               Technically, this is the third time already, but for convinence, I’ll stick to 1, since it’s the first time I’m writing this down. 

I’m pretty sure I’m stuck in a time loop. It’s the only explanation, and weirder thing’s have happened to me. I don’t know if it’s Igor, or something else. If he is responsible, he won’t spill. Just looks at me, can’t tell if it’s a “you’re crazy” look or a “I know but I’m not telling” one. 

That guy creeps me out...

I’m getting off track. The point of this is going to be to write down what the fuck is happening and hopefully try and make more sense of it. Find a pattern, or something. 

So far, whatever is doing this, keeps sending me back to the ship, to just before Akechi....

It has to be something to do with him, right? 

Entry 2

            Another 2 loops before something changed enough to warrant note. This time, I got sent back further, all the way to the start of the ship, not just to right before the fight. So it’s not a fixed point it’s sending me back to, but then is Akechi still the key, or is it something else? 

Nothing else changed aside from that.

Entry 3, Loop 6

          It’s been.....about 6 loops, maybe? It’s getting harder to keep track, which is concerning. Maybe I’ll start adding the loop number at the top. 

Something changed again, it sent me all the way back to the start of Niijima-san’s Palace. I still feel like it has to be related to Akechi, I just don’t know how yet.

I still can’t change anything....maybe I need to try harder. 

Entry 4, loop 10

                  It’s getting longer

Every loop is sending me back further, not always by much, but it’s getting longer. At least I’m getting more time to work things out, to try and change things, even if I’m still not exactly sure what I need to change. 

It has to be Goro, I’m sure of it. I get snapped back every time he

I know it’s him, it’s him I have to stop, to save...

entry 5

       i lost track, i can’t keep this up much longer, it’s insane

i’m nearly all the way back to when i first met goro, ive been repeating months for fuck knows how many loops and i still can’t change anything

not enough to save him

if i could just get the stubborn asshole to listen to me for once, maybe i could lead him away from his choices...

i just don’t want to see him die again

i cant

Akira sighed shakily, one hand gripping his messy hair, the other with a chewed Biro poised over a tattered looking notebook. Only one line is written, hastily scrawled and then crossed out again. No entry, no loop, just-

i think i’m falling for goro

He’s so fucked. 

Who would have guessed loop after loop of living the same few months would have endeared him so much to someone who betrayed him and shot him in the head. 

Multiple. Times. Even despite everything he’d tried so far. 

It was the start of June, he had several days until he was ‘supposed’ to meet Goro for the first time. 

“Fuck that” He mumbled to himself, viciously shutting the notebook and tossing it to the side. It was something, for some reason, he still hadn’t tried yet. Meeting Goro sooner. 

Maybe if he took the chance to meet him without Ann and Ryuji, without him overhearing Morgana....maybe that could be the start of finally finding a turning point...

So Akira set out on a mission, Morgana back at the cafe for once. 

He was going to check each and every place he ever remembered Goro visiting or mentioning, over and over until he ran into him. 

After that? Well, he’d cross that bridge when it came to it.