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[Hm.

Yuya takes a hanger and turns it sideways. Then he taps the ceiling with it. Softly at first, but then growing in intensity quickly.]

[Toki isn't sure hanger tapping is going to annoy Kano enough, so he's just going to yell.]

Kano!

[ Kano ignores the tapping and yelling. He can feign being asleep. Hell, he can pretend he isn't even in his room, going ahead and shapeshifting into a cat just in case the two of them decide to come upstairs and investigate, Kano won't even be there.

Meow, meow, no Kano here, just a cat hanging out in the lounge. ]

I know you're up there, Kano! [Toki's out of his fucking mind but he's not a liar.] Stop drilling holes in the closet! Go to bed!

[There, that's as much effort as Yuya's going to exert here. One last irritated tap, and then he drops the hanger and sulks back out of the closet.]

Sorry about the pillow, Yuya~!

[Toki's kind of surprised Yuya immediately believed him. He takes one last look at the ceiling in the closet before he decides to leave Kano to his own devices, and finally go to bed. For maybe a minute, and then he'll start seeing the daemon eyes and have to go get some coffee to stay awake forever.]

[ Between nightmares and the fact that Kano resumes his drilling again at 6AM sharp, will either Toki or Yuya ever get rest..... ]

[AAAAAAAAAAA

Yuya's refusing to give in, wadded in his sheets, so maybe Toki can go pay Kano a visit.]

[Toki's been awake since 3am. He's on his sixth cup of coffee and drawing eyes in his vision notebook. As soon as the drilling begins again, he's going to the closet. He would venture upstairs, if he wasn't afraid of Kano's guard detail now.]

Good morning, Kano~! I got cat donuts! Hurry up with the hole and come down before they're gone~!

Morning, Toki~!

[ He shouts above the sound of drilling, though he pulls the drill up a bit so he doesn't accidentally lobotomize the other boy. ]

It'll just be five minutes, I told you, right? Stand back a bit so I don't get you when I kick the floor through!!

Okay!

[He's just leaving the closet altogether and going back to his notes and donuts. Have fun, Kano.]

[ It takes him much longer than five minutes because the floor is thick and he can't just make five holes and kick it through, there is a solid half hour or more of drilling. Don't eat all his donuts, Toki, save him at least one. ]

[When Kano finishes and finally makes it into the closet, Toki will be gone. The drilling too annoying to stand for an entire half hour or longer. There are, however, three donuts left on his desk.]

[ Kano pats the dust off his clothes and steps out of the closet, looking around to see whether Yuya's still here or not, before hopping over to Toki's desk and wrapping up the donuts to stick in his pocket and then flopping down on Toki's bed because 6:30 is way to early in the morning to be doing anything. ]

[If Kano were to examine Toki's loft, which now has a rail on the side going near to the ceiling, he will find drawings. All over the inside of the rail, on the wall the bed is pushed against, and on the ceiling above it. It's the same eyes. Sometimes in pairs, sometimes a solitary eye. The irises are in a spiral pattern, and something drips from the pupil. Here and there among the eyes, are the words "it's watching" in Japanese. There are also fingernail scratches along the rail and the wall.]

[ It's no wonder Toki always looks as frazzled as he does, if this is the state of his "safe space" a bed is supposed to be. Frowning a little to himself, Kano pulls out his phone to snap a picture of all of this, then waves the eyes away to temporarily hide under illusionary plaster but leaves the words and scratches there to trace over with the tip of his finger. How does Toki get any rest at night, sleeping in a place straight out of a horror movie???

He takes out a Sharpie and sits up on the bed to reach the ceiling, making an addendum to the words on the ceiling right over the pillow.

In Japanese: "over you, so take care, and rest easy." ]

[That Sharpie addition will terrify Toki when he reads it. Good job, Kano. If Kano chooses to explore further, he will find three notebooks shoved under the mattress. Two are for visions, one filled, one just started. The vision notebooks contain a mix of French and Japanese, no completed sentences, lists of words, some underlined, some circled. Lines where the pen has moved of its own accord if Toki had a vision while writing in them.

Starting twenty or so pages from the end of the first notebook, almost every page has a sketched eye on it. Several of those pages are only filled with eyes. The second vision notebook contains mostly eye drawings, more disjointed word salad than the other notebook, slanted writing that digs into the pages, sentences starting only to turn into scribbles of nothing coherent. The third notebook, titled "Screenplays About My Cat" is for Yuya's nightmares. Like the vision notebooks, it's mainly word salad in two languages. Everything is related to pain, death, screaming, and other things alluding to murder. There are no lines or spaces or punctuation. Sketches of Yuya sleeping accompany almost every new page.]

[ If Kano knew his good(?) intentions would be taken like that, he might feel bad. Or he might not, after skimming through the first two notebooks and understanding nothing but still pulling out his phone and systematically snapping a photo of every single page for posterity, and then the third one... The third notebook is where he really starts becoming concerned, not only for Toki but for Yuya as well.

Toki... thinks Yuya as a cat. There's creepy pictures of Yuya lying there asleep, like this is what Toki does at night. Stuff about pain and murder?? Oh my god. Toki is planning to murder Yuya. Maybe all the pressure and stress from school has finally made him crack— the repetitive eyes is basically evidence that Toki's mind has snapped. Oh my god. Yuya's going to die. God.

Kano pockets this third notebook. God. Toki is an aspiring murderer, but he is still Kano's friend, and so Kano will take care of the evidence. ]

[Toki returns a few minutes later, presuming Kano should be done with the drilling by then at least. He has a box of chocolate frosted croissants with him. If Kano ate all the donuts while he was gone, Toki should still have something there for Yuya. A weird apology for the smothering and getting him up in the middle of the night to look at a hole in the closet. He doesn't look to see if Yuya's still sleeping.]

Is he done yet!? Do we have a secret passage!?

[ Kano hops down off the bed and lets the eyes reappear all over Toki's space, bounding straight towards Toki and clasping a hand over his mouth. This is the guy who should've been smothered in his sleep. ]

It's done, I'm done~!! But you gotta keep it quiet, Toki, or it won't be secret!!!

[Toki raises an eyebrow and mutters something into Kano's hand. He holds out the box of croissants. Guess Kano gets those too.]

[ He has no idea what Toki says, but hell yes, more food. These won't fit in his pockets so he'll have to just hold them. ]

Huh? What was that?

There's no one else on this floor! No one can hear me!

[Except Yuya, but he already knows about it. Toki needs to go examine Kano's work, and he heads for the closet.]

We should get like a step stool or a tiny ladder!

He~h, I'm super jealous of that, you know! Upstairs is always so crowded, and now there's all these other guys too!

[ The guards!!! They don't even trust him to sleep in his room, having taken to standing guard at his bedroom door. Joke's on them, when he can just escape down here.

It's pretty shoddy work, and if anybody tried to hop down through Kano's closet floor or haul themselves up through the closet ceiling, they'll be getting hands and arms full of splinters for their trouble. Their feet, too, if Toki's not wearing shoes and decides to step inside the closet where Kano hasn't cleaned up at all. It'll take some polishing, but nothing a step stool or tiny ladder can't help. ]

Do you think a ladder will be easier than a pole? I thought sliding down a pole would be really fun~!! I dunno how to climb back up, though!!

You should just take one of the rooms down here! No one will know! I learned how to pick locks~!

[He learn to break into Kano's room, but that's information Kano doesn't need to know. The closet is currently not hazardous, as Toki is wearing shoes. Because he went to get croissants. He looks at the disappointing work and splintery wood around the hole.]

We could get a pole!

[Sure, why not? Yuya could probably climb it with no trouble. Toki's tall enough he'd spend minimal time actually touching the pole and much physical strength isn't needed. The question being, would Kano be able to get back up there himself?]

But maybe a ladder is better! Or like a rope with footholds!

[ Thanks for thinking about Kano's lack of both height and physical prowess. A ladder with footholds would probably be best, and it's something he can pull up into his side of the portal and cover up the hole when he doesn't want the other two coming up to his room, a selfish one-way passageway. ]

Hm, hmm~ Rope would do the trick, I think! I'll go out and find some later, but for now... Let's talk about expansion!!

[ He goes over to Toki's side of the room and knocks his knuckles against the wall separating this room and the next. ]

Maybe I can take this one?

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