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...You're actually very cute, aren't YOU.

( He's saying this like it just dawned on him. Wow. )

What is your favorite aniMAL, Kudo-chan?

[ ! !! Help pushing and pulling the ladder is definitely appreciated, because she wasn't blessed with floaty ghost powers, just fingernail digesting ones. There's a book on a high shelf that's partially sticking out of the row that she reaches for: it's an animal encyclopedia. World Book's Animals of the World or something like that, very high up, very hefty, will definitely give somebody a concussion if it falls on their head. ]

[ Wow! Maybe if you all just OPENED YOUR EYES!!! you'd be able to see how cute she is from the start. ]

The anglerfish!!

[ She claps her hands together and beams ]

( her memory... that really is all they can take, isn't it? but with how much heart nene has in her little body, it's more than doable. it still doesn't feel like enough. clutched fists brought against her chest mark her anxiety and guilt alike- regrets, even. )

We will. I promise.

( and if she tries to see if there's anything of hers left later, that's her business, nene thinks. how much time do they have left? she's growing fainter- dang it. )

While you can- is there anything you know about this situation? There's so much we don't know.

[ Damn. Their secret plan to shank Nanami in the back has failed. But the boy picks up the laptop and turns it around so its facing him on his lap, poking at the button to wake it up—- ]

Rokkun, look! It has pinball!

[ Did you want to ask him anything important? sorry, let him play a round of pinball first, get it out of his system ]

( the anglerfish........ he's suddenly reminded of kanata-niisan....... )

Well, I was going to build off of it for a nickname instead of just assigning you an animal without your inPUT, but that one's difficult to DO. ( chiaki kudo... he'll think about it. ) Why do you like IT? For the reCORD, I won't knock it -- one of my graduated seniors had a fondness for deep sea fish TOO.

[ Its okay she's distracted too! ]

Ne, ne! Can you beat my high score!!?

[ Nanami moves around so she is close enough to him to peer over his shoulder. Looking at the screen watching him play the game, she will wait till the round is over. Cant distract a gamer from their game. She asks eventually. ]

Are you a gamer too?

[ He's gotten a little used to saying things like these, hasn't he? It's a realization that feels a little heavy to make. ]

...We promise. We might not know how to do it yet... but we won't give up. No matter what. And... we won't forget you.

[ This comes kind of in unison to the first half of Nene's, echoing her while they're both for the most part... still moved and intermittently silent with emotion. He can feel his voice trembling a little -- and he doesn't say anything to the other half, falling silent in full.

Something tells him... Aiko might not be there to respond anymore. She's said what she wanted to, after all. ]

[ I was going to reply to Nene's question, but Rina you're right, that would ruin the mood, so instead the light goes out, the stone damp except for a little circle on the very top where the coin had been placed. ]

( ori that is so incredibly valid and i would die for you.

ah- they were out of time then. she should have... no. thinking like that would only hurt her more. after a moment of silence, nene wipes her eyes with her wrist before giving shuichi a very sudden hug. )

[ He sure does try, eyes trained on the screen and both thumbs on the space bar and he leans to one side or another every time the ball goes askew as if he could will it to go where he wants. And while he doesn't manage to beat her high score, he does manage to place on the scoreboard, inputting his name as akirakira and lets out the little satisfied sigh he'd been holding in the entire time.

...

Then startles, as if suddenly remembering where he is and what he's doing, looks somewhat embarrassed at being spoken directly to and glances over at Rokkun for help— except Rokkun isn't looking, he's bent over the chalkboard on his lap he uses as a surface for writing, scritching away in his notebook. ]

Umm... sort of... I play a lot of Age of Empires. And Star Wars Episode I: Racer.

I have not played an Age of the Empires game since I got here!! Do you have a copy? We should play together sometime, there's a few ps1 games in the game club room including Blood War or Evil Zone. I've been playing a lot of that lately, enjoying Kakurine but she's a bit broken. [ Yeah the evil eye thing is gunna take a minute. ]

...!?

[ It takes him by surprise. Shuichi would have stood there in silence with that dull sense of hollowness in his stomach, for probably a longer time if left by himself. It's never so easy to come to terms with the loss of a human life, after all. No matter who it is -- no matter how you knew them, or didn't.

With a quiet shuffle of uniform fabric, he wraps his own arms around Nene before he knows it. They don't need words for what she feels... he thinks he knows. ]

...Are you alright? If you need to cry... I don't mind.

What's not to love about them? They're cute and clever with lots of teeth. [ like she's describing a cat, not a fish, but look ] They're soooooo cool! What other animal do you know hunts by drawing people close? Luring their prey with something bright and enticing and then—

BAM!!

[ She jumps at him, clapping her hands in front of his nose in her best anglerfish imitation. ]

Gotcha!

[ please, his shadow is literally ditching her, it walks through the door like how npcs turn into shadows in normal Yogen and pass straight through it. She can go to a nearby window and look out and try to find him outside but

there is nobody there. ]

( he doesn't flinch, but his nose does scrunch a little. so much energy, yet so small. )

You're definitely nothing like THAT, so it would've been ill-fitting anyWAY... ( but her reasons are good he'll give her that!! taking her hands and pulling them back down, now now... ) I agree with their... evolutionary cleverNESS, though there are some other species that lure PREY.

Mm. You sounded hurt, too. So it's for both of us.

( few things can withstand the emotional honesty of one nene yashiro, and this is not one of them. instead, she stays like that for a bit, the two of them left only in the wake of aiko okane's final words, a moment between the two of them alone. and she heard his tremble, saw his shock over everything. )

Ah, well... you aren't wrong. I've never been that strong of a person, to begin with.

[ The only thing he has... is he's gotten used to this. To these things he thinks no one should have to get used to, like saying goodbye to people and hearing out what they had to say in their final moments. But he doesn't want to tell Nene that. ]

I think you're stronger than me, Yashiro-san.

There's different kinds of strength.

( she speaks softly, because raising her voice feels wrong after all that. even now, jus this feels like it's too much. and yet leaving so quickly feels... she doesn't know. she doesn't have the same experience with this sort of thing that her friends do. even with mitsuba-kun... )

Be kinder to yourself. Okay? You're the only you you have...

... I'm sorry I didn't ask that when we still had time.

[Ladder duty... Clamor can handle that, no problem. He follows her gaze up to the heavy book in question, then nods, waiting for her to fully descend before moving the ladder into position for her (safety first!).]

[Oh no, his poor cultists! Luckily, there is absolutely a spell for banishing such low-ranking demons from the school, and Lucifer is more than willing to teach them. Now no one can yell at him for being a gremlin, right? Haha.

but no seriously, he does teach them a spell to get rid of low-ranking demons. It requires an incantation but beyond that it's a simple process. He also goes ahead and explains to them what protective herbs they should be using in summoning because... you know, the witches need to do it and so do these kids. Go get some sage, bay leaves, and basil you fools, among other things.]

( LISTEN SHE WANTS TO SEE WHERE HE'S GOING!!

... nowhere, apparently; his shadow passes through the wall and dissipates, as if it never existed. a little lost, she returns to the broken mirror shards, squatting next to them with a dazed expression. do they show her anywhere else, or remain empty? if there's nothing left to see, she'll crush one in her hand, making herself bleed — she has to collect them, still, in the normal school. this is for a reason! )

[ ...She isn't wrong. It's just, things like those are the sort that are easier said than done -- and besides... it's not himself that Shuichi wants her to worry about right now. His hands still settled on her shoulders, he lets the tips of his fingers dig ever so softly into fabric despite his awkwardness, as if to reassure her he's there.

As for talking, it's easier to focus on the other, more practical topic. ]

Ask her...? You mean, about the things she might have known?

Yeah. I'm used to having more time...

( and no, she will not elaborate. go get menaced by kazuki first, shuichi. )

... Why does everyone expect us to know things about this place already?

( i'll even dress komaeda up with the chain because this thread has to be a little insane, now... where is akira hiding, where do i find him. )

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i feel a kinship w chiaki i also love a deep sea monster

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me like what ocean animal should be chiaki's fav

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mine is the jellyfish... flower hats are my fave but the stygiomedusa gigantea is Good

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im here for the new ocs komaeda initiation you know... everyone goes through the vibe check