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[hullonurse]

[Video switches on, the communicator looking up at England's face. There's her eyes are wide and she looks very disturbed. On her lap, a woman's head is resting. There's no sign of life on her face, though her features are similar to Rosemary's, and England's free hand is tangled up in her long, red hair

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[baoziaru]

[Everyone is losing it here! Stay calm, China. Stay calm...]

This has to be a trick, aru. There is no blood any where and even if they had been put where they were postmortem, there would have been a trail, but there is none.

[hullonurse]

I know that! I know that! And they don't die anyway, no matter what you do, it's not like I've never tried! They don't!

[gochuugoku]

I never tried either, aru! [You're not the only one who woke up to find family.]

Sure, I did not get along with them, but that did not mean I wanted them dead. I-- [He shakes his head.]

No... This is just what they want, aru. Whoever is responsible for this wants us to breakdown.

[hullonurse]

[Clutching the dead woman's shoulders tightly, eyes screwed shut.] ... Hah, they'd like that... Wouldn't you?

[gochuugoku]

I wonder who could have done such a trick like this, aru.

[He looks up thoughtfully.]

Say, Rosemary, where are you right now anyway?

[hullonurse]

In my room.

[gochuugoku]

The apartment. [He had been hoping to stay away from there a bit longer, but...]

I left awhile ago, but I can come back if you do not mind, aru.

[Because to be honest, he'd rather not be alone in this situation.]

[hullonurse]

[Neither would England, but China isn't exactly someone she's comfortable asking for help from.]

I'm quite fine, thank you very much. Do as you wish.

[gochuugoku]

I think I will return. Besides, I had been so shocked at first, that I left the apartment without eating anything, aru. [Although, he doubted the food could stay down now.]

Just give me a few minutes.

[He'll be shutting off the comm now so he can quickly make his way back to the apartment.]

2/2

[gochuugoku]

[Sure enough, about twenty minutes later, knocking can be heard followed by the swinging of the door. He tries not to look at the corpses of his own family and he tries not to think about the one that looks like Vietnam lying at his bed.]

R-Rosemary? It is me, aru.

[He looks around for her.]

[hullonurse]

[Still sitting on the floor in her room, Ireland's head on her lap, gently stroking her hair.] ... I'm in here.

[gochuugoku]

[He hears her voice and follows it. At the sight of the head, however, he puts a hand over his mouth and his eyes betrayed his calm exterior. He speaks with his hand still over his mouth.]

D-Do not let them get the better of you, Rosemary! They cannot be the people they look like, aru.

[hullonurse]

[Doesn't look up when she hears China enter. By now her face is strangely blank.]

... I told her she should stay with me.

[gochuugoku]

Her?

[hullonurse]

I know they hate me. They're probably right to. But they can't deny I'm strong. [Finally looks up at China.] I wouldn't have let anyone else hurt her, if she'd stayed with me.

[gochuugoku]

Is she... a sibling of yours?

[His voice is hesitant.]