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It's like... there's candy... and when you see some candy of the same color lined up, you crush it!!

( it's like, one of the very few games she knows, mostly because she doesn't care about these. she also knows some LINE games? )

... oh, Akki. You have to tell me what to dooo... ~ I don't know anything ~ Please help meeee ~

So, like... tetris... sort of.

[ The next game they play can be tetris, but tetris isn't a game that will convert somebody to becoming a gamer. ]

But, okay. Let's sit down. [ Right here, in front of the lockers. ] This is yes, no, these to move... press the start button when it prompts you. You get to choose a character, and your name.

Hmm... yeah, kind of! It's more complicated, though! There's levels where chocolate spreads, so you have to be quick!! And power-ups!

( if she explains candy crush well enough, can akira make it, real talk )

Oh... ( well, she's gonna listen and follow instructions, at least, pressing buttons in order to test everything out. she names her character Rikarin☆, and waits for it to load. ) So what is the game about?

( she asks, as the screen begins to change. something something inherited farm? )

[ Real talk... maybe. Chihiro might have better luck making the game.

The nickname makes him smile a little, but he turns his attention to the game and explains it much better than I can because I've never actually played the game. You go around taking care of the plants and raising animals and collecting materials and talking with people and finding romance... it's a game that has it all, and the longer he talks the more excited he sounds about a SOL farming simulator. ]

( she thinks she understands, but the farming? tedious. the animals, in the other hand, are cute, and when she makes her first coop, she names her chicken after akira.

... it's kind of fitting, right? she also gives its' first egg to the npc that most resembles rokkun, because obviously that's who she's gonna marry in this sol dating sim. )

Oh, Akki... ( AND SPEAKING OF DOMESTICITY ) I have a small request!

[ Rokkun is so generic Japanese high school student that Akira can't tell that's who she's basing the character off of, but having the chicken be named after him... cute... he does look a little happy about that, even if she focuses more on the animals and lets her crops die. ]

Huh? About the game?

( the animals get to live and be fed while the crops die... her field is covered in stones, weeds and wood she'll never pick up, that is a promise, and she's only bothered to sew some corn or whatever, and then never even harvested it. )

Not really! ( unfortunately for akira. ) Um... this is just something I heard from Rocchi, but apparently, you're decent with sewing?

[ The moment he gets the game back from her, he's going to save her farm. ]

Uh. In a sense, yes. [ He looks down at her skirt— back up REAL quick before she can catch him. ]

Did you need your uniform mended? It's tough getting the two to last the whole year.

( stop, the dead crops give her farm an unique personality. also, do not perceive her skirt, because it was a joint rika&izumi effort and it still probably looks like she just cut it with scissors.

that also gives it an unique personality, though??? )

In a sense? ( rokkun said the same thing WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? ) But, no. I need something modified!

It's already too short!

[ There's "unique personality" and then there's her skirt?? ]

( ....................

stupid. )

But what if I really want to flash everyone my panties?

I'm... not going to help you do that.

[ This is where he puts his foot down. Everything else? okay. Facilitating indecent exposure? Not today, Satan. ]

( pfft... )

Aww, rejected! Guess I'll just have to flash you my panties myself!

( and she reaches down to the hem of her skirt, just to scare him, before her hand shoots up and she grabs the glasses off of his nose instead, taking them away. )

Dummy, that's not what I was talking about! ( and as punishment for thinking so he's not getting these back right now. she's putting them on her own nose instead. )

[ He nearly knocks his own glasses off his face trying to hide his eyes from Rika's panties, so it's a shock to blink and find them gone completely. ]

Wha- hey!

[ Stoppppp he's going to look like generic npc 234902494 without his glasses, like Rokkun if Rokkun ever flusters.

Rika's vision goes blurry with those glasses on her face, and out of the corner of her eye, she can see an imp sitting on the ground in a corner chewing on the remnants of a finger.

... ]

( wow, is that what he's concerned about? fine, rika's gonna make rokkun dye his hair blue next, so he stands out like a sore thumb and akira can no longer fear looking like him.

except, he'd never let her, but details — )

Haha, your vision is —

( blinks.

blinks again.

she's touched one of the imps before; lucifer let her pet it, actually, so she recognizes that small, bald head, now in stunning clarity. her eyes widen in obvious surprise, hands suspended and holding tight onto the glasses, so akira can't take them away just yet —

and then she shots up, gasping, pointing at the imp. )

Akki, what the hell?!

What? Wait, no— I'm not falling for that!

[ That thing where people go "gasp! what's that??!??!" and run away with his glasses the moment he looks away, fool him twice, shame on you, he's going to scramble to his feet and try to reclaim his glasses. ]

What do you mean you're not falling for that?! That's my line!!

( his confusion is just fueling hers?! )

You could see these things all along? How did you not freak out?!

( she's not giving them back? he will have to fight her for real!!! )

[ He can't fight her! what if she breaks his glasses!! ]

Huh? The glasses??

[ He could see— what? ]

( well, then he's gotta deal with being blind for now!! )

... Akki, you seriously... ? ( is he fucking with her? is he not fucking with her?

either way, she's bolting down the hallway to see what else these will reveal... show her the forbidden imps )

[ He's not that blind!! And if he squints he can follow Rika just fine, banking on whatever's got her distracted to let him be able to catch up with her. She sees... the forbidden imps! Most of them are asleep, actually, rubbing their bloated bellies or picking at their teeth with splintered bone. ]

( this is so fun. but also so scary? BUT SO FUN? watching the imps really reminds her of the see-no-evils... and instinctively, she also wants to cut right through them, but... as long as they're not actively attacking her or akira, or any other student on her watch currently, she's gonna stay her hand and peek into various rooms...

which happens to be the auditorium and library, since they're on the first floor. )

C'mon, Akki, keep up!!

[ huff puff wheeeeeeeeze

Akira is not meant to keep up, but at least he allows himself to slow down somewhat as Rika approaches the auditorium and library, since these are dead ends and she should know better than to run around in the library, and the auditorium is completely empty. A void, if you will.

There's nothing very interesting to be found in either of them, though, unless a tiny elementary school girl sitting on the bottom step of one of the ladders in the library is interesting, or the fact that one of the half dozen imps lounging around the hallway is wearing a flour sack. ]

Wait up...! Kawai-san...!

Keep up, Akki!

( she says, having the cheat athleticism of an olympian without even training for it...

but this is all very interesting, thank you. though, lbr, she probably doesn't even notice haruka, or mistakes her for another imp in her frenzy. she zooms across the hallway next, to start peeking into the offices — nurse's, specifically, but if the counselor's doors are open, she'll peek there, too? )

[ He's dying, please, maybe he should just sit by his locker and wait for her to finish having the zoomies. Where is Ishimaru to tell her to stop running in the halls?

The nurse looks surprised to see Rika and gets out half a greeting before Rika's off again, but the counselor's office door remains shut, the quiet sobbing inside pausing for a moment when Rika rattles the doorknob but resuming again by the time Akira passes by it. There doesn't seem to be anything more interesting on the first floor, and the second... Akira's not going to follow her up the stairs, he's going to stand at the bottom and clutch a stitch in his side. ]

( she really is having zoomies... but, she also figures there's more to explore, and doing it all in one go is probably impossible. sad about counselor's office being closed, though... kind of wanted to see what kind of a demon he is —

she starts going up the stairs, but then realizes it's... probably best to just ask for the glasses? )

Akki! I have a new request!! ( so she almost crashes into him, next, grabbing him by the arms. ) Can I borrow your glasses for a while?! How bad do you need them? Do you have spares? It's suuuper important, like, life-and-death!!

( and she's not even exaggerating, listen. the imps? they're going insane? )

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