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As soon as Ritsuka is done with the entrance ceremony, she rushes to the faculty office for her assigned scolding. She does not want to piss off any teachers m ore than she has to, thankyouverymuch!

Edited 2021-04-03 19:22 (UTC)

After spending a long time over break trying and failing to replicate the magic circle that Ritsuka thinks she summoned "Saber" with, she knows where a lot of the school's chalk is. The class 2-A teacher gets many sticks of it from Ritsuka, always accompanied by a genuinely curious look, but she won't ask about what she's using them for unless the teacher breaks first.

Nene doesn't want to be in trouble even more, but she also wants to make it very clear: she tried to leave.

Ritsuka arrives at the faculty office and the strict woman beckons her to her desk and gets right to business: she wants to know the names of everybody who stayed inside the school during spring break. She says she does not care who's idea it was initially, or what they were doing inside, or who's to blame or any of that; she just wants names.

Does Ritsuka provide?

The teacher isn't telling, just accepts the chalk and stows them away in a little box for safekeeping. Ritsuka gets +2 merit points for each full stick of chalk, thank you for your contribution.

While the stricter woman takes Ritsuka aside, the assistant principal asks Nene to come to her desk. She looks immediately concerned when Nene insists she tried to leave, and asks if Nene is being bullied? who was forcing her to stay?? she won't get in trouble if she names names, but the faculty can't do anything about bullying if they aren't told.

Well, miss assistant principal, she doesn't know who locked them in. But they were all stuck in there and couldn't get out. She's been doing her best to clean up after herself, but it's been really scary- that's why she was at the front door, so she could try to get help when they arrived. (She even lets herself tear up a bit. It's completely genuine.)

Noooooooooo The assistant principal is the sort of person who feels like crying when she sees somebody else cry and now they're both tearing up. She asks if maybe the door got stuck when they broke in?? It's karma. She doesn't say that out loud but it's what she's thinking.

But she also asks why didn't anybody ping somebody with their PDA to ask for help?

She reports that they tried every door and window- and that they didn't break in but had been there since the end of the day despite their best efforts- but couldn't get anything to budge.

And then, nervously, Nene confesses that with how isolated they had been, it didn't feel like they were getting through to the rest of the world any other way, and that she... expected the same of the PDAs. But she's really, really sorry for not trying, because even if it was scary she should have!!

Is she going to be in trouble...?

The assistant principal promises she won't be in trouble!! uh, though she does glance over at where Ritsuka and the other woman are talking, she can't really promise more than no punishment from herself personally. It's okay. It'll be okay. The doors are open now and Nene can go home, get some rest, and put this all behind her before school starts tomorrow.

W-Well... she understands! You can't speak for others, after all. She'll accept what happens... But she wants to thank the assistant principal for being understanding, and... um, does she have tissues? It's been a dilly of a spring break.

(She doesn't expect to be able to leave, but she really wants to go home to her parents. The idea brightens her spirits considerably despite the remaining stress. But she might be brainstorming morning hiding spots if they can't leave again.)

The assistant principal has SO MANY tissues, she will dig into her purse and give Nene a brand new pack. And also lean in close and speak under her breath that if the next time this happens— if Nene gets pressured into doing something she knows is wrong, please don't be afraid to ask for help, and have faith in the adults who are here to help them.

White's mostly just. Coming around to give her a gift, actually. Within a cleaned glass bottle he most certainly did not have some poor NPC fish out of a trash can is going to be a number of stars, along with a note inside that says: "Each time you feel alone, hopeless, or stuck, unfold a star. They shall lift your spirits."

He just thinks she works too hard and she's got it kind of bad job wise. The stars have small cute messages ranging from compliments to comments that might make people smile, like a note on something one of the cats or a student did that was particularly nice. Maybe if he visits and sees she's running low, he'll make some more, but for now there's about 50 total.

( So she doesn't believe that it wasn't intentional... Darn. )

Nene nods and promises she will! Is there anything else...?

That's it! Go home and sleep.

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is so cute I'm so mad

She's going to keep the jar of stars on her desk and admire them for a day or two but once she realizes what's inside they're all going to be gone by the end of the week lmao. Each time she unfolds one, she'll tape the paper to the cover of one of her notebooks she carries around so she can continue to be uplifted by the messages and also to waterproof them from her tears. When she sees White in the hallways or if he ever visits the faculty office she'll hold up her notebook and go (:!!! at him

OH NOOO MISS VICE PRINCIPAL I DO STAN YOUUUUU he's got his work cut out for him, but it makes him happy to make others happy. it's the little things in life

you know what. she's gonna get weekly supplies of these things. i'll tell you at the beginning of the month if there's anything different in the stars, but she can be a little more excited to come to work with a jar full of well-wishes for her!!!

life's not so hard anymore when you've got a jar full of stars

At some point towards the end of the first week it becomes common knowledge she's looking for chalk, Shuichi brings her two sticks that seem to be leftovers from his own homeroom because they're still in the original box (just, the only two left inside).

The box must have been sitting open in the classroom for quite a bit, because it's a little frayed around the corners and so are the two chalk sticks themselves. It's not that uncommon for chalk to chip, so I'm sure she won't pay any mind to the X-shaped marks just very very faintly scratched into the sides with a really thin object... If she uses them, on the other hand, she might find that they're just a little bit difficult to write with compared to other chalk (maybe they're just cheap??) and a bit more chalk dust falls down than she's used to.

(It's salt from the home ec room, that was stuck down the middle after a very narrow hole was carved partway through the top of the sticks. It kind of causes any chalk lines they trace to have just the narrowest, barely noticeable gap down the middle.)

all she wants to do is provide you guys a good education and what does she get in return? BETRAYAL.

She never calls on Shuichi in her class ever again ///: Furthermore, she leaves it behind at another class's homeroom when she rotates to it, that teacher uses it for all of one stroke before pocketing it and taking it to another homeroom to abandon, and the two sticks of chalk travel all around the school for the next two weeks like a prolong game of hot potato with nobody seemingly wanting to throw them away.

Eventually they get donated to the charity auction as a pair, with a placard reading "CURSED CHALK. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK."

With people coming in injured more and more, Nene is really worried about her friends, but adults aren't always around to help, and... well, it's good stuff to know. Could she teach Nene some things to help her friends if they get hurt...? Of course she will always come to the nurse herself first, she promises!

why are all you punks beating each other up aaaaa
^^^ nurse's internal thoughts

She thinks it's a good idea, though, and says she'll speak with the other faculty to work in a day or two of health lessons for each class sometime during the month so everybody can learn the bare basics too, things like when and where to apply pressure to stop bleeding, situations where you want to use a cold pack versus a hot pack, how to wrap a hand so the bandages don't get loose and a mess in two seconds, etc. If Nene wants to learn anything more in depth or wants to practice, she's always free to stop by the nurse's office.

OOPS...

Shuichi is now morally obligated to do all his homework and even study extra for whatever class she teaches. He never tries to apologize more directly though because he's a chicken (and he's Still not 100% sure it's safe to admit he did it on purpose outright), but this got so out of hand it's going to keep him up at night.

(Even if he's not 100% sorry he did it.)

I'm going to curse whoever buys the chalk at the auction, they're going to die and Shuichi will have to live knowing it's his fault

I WAS WONDERING IF THE CURSE BECOMES REAL... He's going to hate it but I love it, thank you.

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