Really, they should have realized that when Chara first told them, but Frisk had been very rattled by that first conversation. By the time they'd realized it was far too late to even try to figure out where Chara had gotten to. So they take a leaf out of Papyrus' book and start by...checking every barracks deck.
First they start with the rooms labeled seven on each floor, trusting that Chara had at least been right about that much. Having already checked Nomo and Moro, they've come up to Mero certain that they have it right this time! Smiling and squaring their shoulders, they give the door a few knocks.
Asriel's second night was a lot quieter, and much less emotionally exhausted. But he hadn't really left his room much, only when he was hungry or wanted some time alone to explore the ship. Everything was still so overwhelming, so many unanswered questions and worries...
The knock wakes him up out of a nap, and the young monster untangles himself out of the mess of blankets he piled up in his new egg bed. He wraps one of the blankets around himself like a cape before he groggily answers the door.
"Hello...?"
He blinks, looking a little confused when he recognizes the child in front of him. How did Frisk find him?
Frisk holds up their hands and shakes their head frantically, trying to come up with a way out of this that isn't just literally fleeing down the hall. Frisk doesn't want Asriel to think they're just being a jerk, but--!
Well...they're bound to run into each other on the ship eventually. And Frisk doesn't have to say that they knew Chara before coming here.
"I...I met them when I was getting dinner yesterday."
Frisk wouldn't be the type to lie, Asriel thinks. Especially not when it involves something like that. But it just doesn't make any sense. There's no way that Chara could be here.
"That's impossible, Frisk. Chara's... Chara's been gone for a really long time. What would they be doing here?"
"I...I don't know. But they're alive here." Frisk isn't sure how Chara was given a body of their own, what the Ingress did to separate the two of them in the first place. But that's a mystery to worry about another time. "...they were really upset about something, too. They wouldn't tell me what."
[Next comes an image file that shows the floor in Chara's room. It's tiled completely with jumbo sized brand name chocolate bars, filling the frame from one side to the other. It's more chocolate than the picture can hold.]
TBH I cant actually beleive they gave me this many. I thought they were going to refuse, but I instead got even more than I asked for.
It's the truth, but it aches anyway. But there's something else there, festering as Chara speaks.
Confusion.
Chara shouldn't know anything about Flowey. And the piercing gaze makes him wonder if Frisk said anything - no, no, Frisk wouldn't. But how would they know? They were gone, and the only human in the Underground that knew was...
"...Yeah, I did. I couldn't anymore, when Frisk showed up."
There's a flicker of guilt in his eyes, but he continues on anyway. If Chara knows what he did as Flowey, there was no need to hold back anymore information regardless of how he felt.
"When I absorbed the six souls, I had that power back for a little while but... in the end, I couldn't defeat Frisk. And now that power is gone for good. ...In a way, I'm glad it is."
[A knock at the door alerts Asriel to someone outside. However, when he goes to check there's only a neatly-folded shirt and a handwritten note.
The shirt reads ASRIEL FAN CLUB and sports a picture of his smiling face done in neon pink and orange puff paint.
As for the letter?]
PRINCE ASRIEL!
I HOPE YOU ARE FEELING BETTER THESE DAYS! I, PAPYRUS, HAVE A GIFT FOR YOU!
DON'T WORRY IF YOU CAN ACCEPT SUCH A FASHIONABLE ITEM, FOR YOU SEE, I HAVE ONE JUST LIKE IT! WEAR IT SOMETIMES, AND REMEMBER, IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE A COOL GUY!
On the morning of July 16th, Asriel will receive a copy of Kevin Flynn’s book Digital Gaming: Programming Tomorrow’s Arcade Classics. (Back cover). The book contains the autobiographical reflections of the author, apparently the “Creator of the #1 Video Game in America,” Kevin Flynn, about his work. Two example pages can be seen here and here.
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