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So I was right-- my entire life really is one big joke. Man, do you have any idea-- is forensics even a thing in the "real world"!? There's no way I studied my ass off for years just so I could learn it was all made up. God... doesn't this count as "cruel and unusual"!?

[Probably a familiar sight-- a newly "realized" character rants his dissheveled little head off about the predicament he's found himself in. He looks like he could go on and on, actually, but he stops short and just sighs impotently.]

Sorry... [he just barely manages to spit out that apology] I'm kind of having a bad... day. [more like year, from the looks of him, but he doesn't bother correcting it if he's thinking it]

Uh-- [awkwardly makes eye contact with the camera, tries to smile, gives half a wave, but it's all pretty forced-- to be expected, really, of anybody who's just been told their entire life was entertainment fiction] Hi, I'm Adachi, and I... [maybe murdered a couple chicks for no good reason? well... not really, right? so... no need to mention it.] ...thought I was a detective...

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[the whiniest groooooooan] Talk about luck...

What the hell are you doing here, you creep?? We bust our asses to put you behind bars, and now you're just gonna act like you're some bumbling ex-cop!?

Yosuke.

Souji. We've gotta tell the cops, man, he should be in jail...

What? Newsflash, kid: none of that was real! I don't think I could go to jail if I tried! Do you have any idea how hard it was to make up a confession Dojima-san would accept?

Thank god Central was already riding his ass to put someone down for the murder--

[Shit.]

Is Dojima-san here, too?

Not yet.

[He looks somewhere between nauseous and relieved. A rare moment where his fronts-- the clumsy cop and the villain both-- are down. He almost, almost blurts something out: "tell me when he shows up", or "let me talk to him first"-- but they're all fleeting nervous thoughts, and he realizes who he's talking to before he gives them voice. He can't ask for anything. He wouldn't get it anyways, if his pride would let him ask in the first place. He just clicks his tongue uncomfortably and lets the subject drop.]

Calm down.

Calm down? Public enemy number one just popped into existence thinking he has a free pass to hit the beach, and you think I can be calm??

Yeah, I think you can.

.. I.....

I can't

I seriously don't think I can

You heard what he said about senpai--you heard the whole thing! He wanted to kill her! That's not the sort of crime you can just write a note and fix!!

I'm not saying that. Freaking out isn't going to do anything, Yosuke. It's just going to bring us to the wrong conclusions if we're not thinking clearly.

We have to think everything we do through. We can't let him use anything against us.

--well what was I supposed to say!? "Hi, I'm Adachi, and apparently I was just the villain in some stupid videogame until a few hours ago"!? And don't get me started on who's busted their asses on what. I've got ten years on you, so why don't you save your crying for the therapy meetings. I'm sure we can both tell everybody all about the shit we've wasted our time on in our little game.

Yeah -- and then you murdered two people just so you could feel like a big man! You can't just make that go away now that somebody's giving you a convenient out!

Fine then! Let's walk down to the police station right now! I'll even let you hold my hand! Then we can tell them all about how I should really be in pretend people jail for all the pretend crimes I did. One way trip to the therapist for both of us! Is that what you want?

Cut the crap, Adachi! News flash: we're all fictional, here, and just because Yamano and senpai aren't here doesn't mean what you did to them doesn't matter.

Everyone here already knows about the midnight channel and what it's for, and don't tell me they wouldn't love to get some answers from the sicko who started it in the first place!

Oh, you're going to blame me for the entire Midnight Channel thing now!? Maybe you were too busy tossing ninja toys around and missed this part, but that place reflects people's thoughts. So any shit that happens there is your fault as much as it is mine!

No, but I bet they'd like to get to know someone who puts people in there for kicks. Might even be the only thing you're good for: giving them a criminal profile on just what kinda sicko they're looking for!

[He's about to yell something back, but he realizes there's something more important to talk about that got lost in all the bitching and whining Hanamura was doing...]

--wait, are you telling me the same thing is happening again, here?