come out of hiding, i'm right here beside you

[barehands]

[A while after the execution has ended, everyone will find a simple note slipped under their door.]

If you don't want to be alone after everything that's happening, some of us will be in the dining room. Even if you decide not to come, please remember that you aren't alone here.

[The note isn't signed, but the handwriting is feminine and neat.

For anyone who decides to come, there's a good array of food laid out on the table. There are some small and simple cakes, cookies, and pastries, a healthy amount of okonomiyaki, okayu, and other Japanese dishes (with a focus on rice and eggs), along with curry. In addition, there are pancakes, and a large pot of soup. It looks like a few people collaborated to make enough food for everyone here.

Just like the meal they shared together earlier in the week, the candles from the storage room lend a more peaceful light than the fluorescent lights above.]

Comments

[enhancements]

...As I've said, humans are good at destroying themselves. They've made various mistakes that are difficult to fix. Not impossible, but difficult.

[journalname]

...right. I hope they are not doing that at home...

[Not that he would easily be able to tell. But the effects would doubtless reach the Underground eventually, just like all the garbage they keep throwing in the river.]

It is good of your founder to try working against it. That seems like the kind of thing all humans would aim for.

[enhancements]

I was tasked with overseeing all of it, before he left the company to me. It's an extensive mission, but it's one I'm going to be seeing through to the best of my ability.

[journalname]

How noble! I wish you luck.

[did you bring about the zombie apocalypse or what my dude how is this going to come back to haunt me]

I think magic could help with such an endeavor - but you have all progressed so much in science and technology since. We may all be evenly matched.

[enhancements]

[It'll make sense in time. What matters is that the people who founded Umbrella were pretty into saving the world, and Wesker is very much on board for seeing that goal through because it happens to align with his own. It's kind of a lofty endeavor, sure, and more than a bit pretentious, but world-saving is very much what's happening here.]

Evenly-matched or not, it would help expedite the process, surely - we're prepared for this to take decades. With any luck, it won't, but that is a timetable that we're looking at currently.

[...World-saving that he is going to micromanage like fuck is what's happening here, because Wesker is anal like that.]

[journalname]

I wish that I could offer you help. Perhaps I could, in the future. It depends on what might happen if we get out of here.

[No commitments. That's not something he would personally do, that's something he would have to enlist other monsters for.]

[enhancements]

[And something about that strikes him oddly, though it's difficult for him to work out why, and so for the time being he just. Doesn't.]

You don't have to-

[...]

...If you consider it something that's possible after all of this, I wouldn't refuse the offer. But it's not strictly necessary, either.

[......]

Either way, I appreciate the sentiment, Asgore.

[Nailed it.]

[journalname]

It is nothing. As you say, everything depends on how we find ourselves at the end of this. But it does not have to be necessary to be worth doing!

[Sometimes you help just because?]

It is possible I shall find myself very busy, after this. Those who arranged this clearly had some way to cross through the Barrier. That would be incredible to find...