[h1]Fujiwara[/h1]
Sighing, Fujiwara got up from his seat and left the table. Minako's statement had put him on edge for the moment; though she did have a point in trying to balance out the party, the way that person conducted himself was about as suspicious as suspicious got.
...
Well, to be fair, it's not like he was much better. But at this point, it was much more efficient to just sleep it off and ignore the issue until it became relevant again. He had more pressing matters at hand, like getting enough sleep so he wouldn't get fatigued for the day's grind tomorrow.

"A beta tester... Why the heck isn't he off with other betas, though? And flaunting the fact that he was one... It seems too... Unnatural. Desperate, even..." he muttered to himself as he walked off to the inn where the two female party members were staying at. Shelling out some col for a room of his own, Fujiwara walked up the stairs to the second floor of the inn and, entering his room, switched to some more comfortable not-armor clothes and fell back on the bed to fiddle around with the menus on his interface. Maybe he could find some sort of hidden options or something...
Well, at the very least he could make equipment switching and item usage a lot less time consuming now than if he decided to put it off to later, and the monotony of the action would probably put him to sleep faster than anything else...

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[h1]Ayame[/h1]
Ayame struggled to lift Lao's body, but without any qualifications to do so it felt like she was trying to lift a sack of bricks without any sort of leverage. Before she could steel herself and possibly try dragging him up the stairs, though, another person came over and offered her some help with the unconscious Lao. She was in no position to reject, so Ayame accepted the offer with open arms.

"Thanks for the help, Umichi. I'm Ayame. It's a pleasure to meet you." she said as Rey came stumbling into the area like a drunkard. Ayame had to try her hardest to hold back a laugh before beckoning her companion over. "Lao decided it was a good idea to pass out in the middle of the floor here, so it'd be nice if we could get some help bringing him upstairs."

Turning back to Umichi, Ayame looked at him for a moment, then at the party he came from. He seemed... Familiar.
"Have we... Met before somewhere?"

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