[center][img]https://i.ibb.co/2ss01Xz/Kogen-Banner.png[/img][h3][color=ed1c24]Big Lake, ???[/color][/h3][hr][sub]Mentions: [@baraquiel][/sub][/center]
Kogen had his arms crossed, sitting down with his back turned from the traitor. He did his very best not to just snap at Akechi, to break him like he had done so to him in their home world. It was a mix of his rumbling stomach and Tsubaki's request that kept [i]the demon[/i] at bay, though it was at the expense of any meaningful action on his part.

When Asahi returned, fish in tow, Kogen merely grunted at his pleas to 'help out.' Standing up, his arms rested to the back of his head as he released a very exasperated sigh.

"[color=ed1c24]Why should I work with that traitor? Did you all forget what he did to me? Or were my years of torment still something that we'll continue to ignore?[/color]" Kogen asked the rest, through gritted teeth. There were a lot of things Kogen wanted to say about his classmates, and about Akechi especially. How they've only looked out for themselves, how they all didn't care who got hurt as long as they could come out without a scratch. It was just like them all to abandon their weakest and throw them out to the wolves. Poor Yuudai was the first victim of this selfish sense of self-preservation. There were a few others wounded as well, and Kogen began to think about just who else their classmates could have abandoned...

"[color=ed1c24]Say, why was the rat with Tsubaki-san anyway?[/color]" Kogen had asked Asahi, his arms crossed once again. "[color=ed1c24]And why were they far from the rest?[/color]" Kogen looked down to the grass in deep thought, gears churning in that otherwise hollow head of his. Why was Akechi alone with Tsubaki, who was wounded and had lost an arm? Was he supposed to carry her but had lagged behind from the rest? No, that doesn't make sense... Was Akechi somehow first-aid certified? Not a chance. There was only one rational reason as to why he'd be there, an obvious answer that could only come from one too familiar with the sting of betrayal.

"[color=ed1c24]... What were you doing out in the woods with her, Akito?[/color]" Kogen had asked his bully, his voice carrying a grim and uncharacteristic sense of seriousness. His fist clenched tightly for a second, looking straight through Akito for a moment. However, he remembered what Tsubaki had asked of him, and more importantly, he knew that whatever they were doing with the woods, Akito didn't abandon Tsubaki after all.

"[color=ed1c24]... Whatever. I don't care, anyway. We're all still alive, and we're all together, for better or for worse.[/color]" Kogen sighed as he walked towards the lake. "[color=ed1c24]I'm going to look for a nice, sharp rock, something we can make sparks from and chop wood with. If my mysterious sources are true, I should be able to sift througu some in the gravelly parts of the lake.[/color]" Of course, Kogen only had the faintest idea of where to look and what to find. After all, his 'mysterious sources' was M*necraft. All he knew was that he needed to find something [b]sharp[/b] and [i]shiny[/i] in the shallow parts of the water.

And so, Kogen pulled his pants legs up before going to town on the sediment that dotted the shallow portions of the lake's floor.