yogen | npc contact.2

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Every 100 pulls earns you a chance at winning a discount, but the number resets at the start of each day so you'd best play in multiples of a hundred. How's that sound? We should make more posters so people know.

( SITTIN HERE THINKING HOW HE EATS THE PEOPLE OF NAMES HE KNOWS.... INSANE. )

So now we're friends, and we can hang out all the time... hm... only sometimes... or I can admit you into Hope Class, what do you say?

They are... it's a shame what happened, do you think the third years will make it...

( to graduation because they staying out over a migraine is kind of embarrassing.

ok i'm talking shit about them but i'd stay home too if i had a migraine... crying. )

How can you make a sell if you don't have their studies... They're not smart enough to have learned about the manifolds...

[ Stop, they'll be fine, ]

You have to give me all of you[r money] first.

[ nods

yeah. it was a nice sentiment, but... yeah

Hiro eats another chip. I'm sorry threads with Hiro is just like this, he's just here for the food. ]

Nah.

[ Graduation's rough and npc-kun lacks the faith. Even with study guides...

They step back away from the locker and closes the door, because there's nothing useful for them in here. ]

They'll fail even with study guides. Maybe they'll pay me to do their homework for them.

[ Like, if they do well, great. If they struggle and get bad grades, at least it wouldn't be too far off to cause suspicion ]

[ Kazuki looking at his class roster at the beginning of the year like a restaurant menu ]

Apologies, lad, but my days of sitting in a classroom are far behind me.

[ Hmm, can't eat in the library. Vetoed. ]

...Have you been in the courts yet? It's boring inside, and it feels like you're stuck in a cage, but people stay away.

[ How I have to wait until you and everybody else is asleep to tag this thread back I'm that embarrassed

But yeah... when was the last time Rokkun cried? I know it has to have been in this school year bc I have that one sad icon uploaded but also I'm not looking through 5000+ npc contact tags to find it. ]

Years ago, it feels like.

[ Like the day he died, like the days that followed. He breathes a sigh here, now, though, getting up onto his feet and stretching his arms up over his head, back stiff. ]

But I won't cry today, because I don't need to. I don't feel hopeless enough to need to.

[ ...

He feels a bump against his shoulder, somebody warm leaning against his arm because they need two hands to hold and eat their sandwich, quiet thoughtful chews like they've got too many thoughts in their head.

... ]

I hope it comes true. I'd come up here every night with you until it does.

Each day, huh? Well I guess the rates are up to you.

( he does have more thoughts on the matter, but... well, he knows kamo-kun needs the money for something important to them. so he'd feel bad if he tried to encourage them into more realistic strategies. instead, he'll focus on that last bit. )

Right, should we pay another visit to the art room some time? I've been thinking about joining the club so I can get some more practice, actually.

You don't have to join a club to draw. You can do that wherever.

[ If it's about art supplies, it's not like people don't go in there and use it up outside of club hours. They and Amami did just that. ]

A friend of mine said I should be more involved in things recently, so I thought I'd give it a try.

( also they seem to have red in there somewhere and he still wants his pink... not enough to draw in shin and sara's room, but... )

If you don't mind the company though, I can stay here and draw with you?

( i know, but sometimes komaeda just... has a Koment. my phone just auto corrected to that and you know what... )

Hmm... Just like an Arata to want someone in the most abstract ways.

( he laughs, shaking his head. )

You have to make the totem first... right?

( im crying it's ok, maya enabled komaeda-arata to pursue his route with hiro, he has to see it through.

he looks at his hand... a hug lost in the void. )

...Hm. Was your sister friends with the old president?

( maybe hiro know after maya called her weak and had it coming for her death. )

Now now, one of them will... Not all of them, but it seems like none has anything useful to help with.

( they could go into other people's lockers, but it'll probably give them nothing unless they go straight to the source. komaeda-arata thinks about it for a moment, wondering if he can act like a third year again... since he can sit in their class and play the role perfectly. )

If you're not there to do their exams, it'll do no good...

( can't help those that can't help themselves. )

We could always ask the teachers... Hm...

You don't sit, you can stand... come now Kazuki-kun.

( you think komaeda-arata cares what people do in their classroom? crona sleeps on the floor, or well lays when he stops talking. )

Hope is what I should discuss with everyone, that's all that matters... and you've tested the hope of so many...

Must be what animals feel like... you must feel safe there...

( did he call him a... yeah, he did... yeah... )

I haven't been inside, but... why would you take me somewhere so deathly boring? ( but he'll bite, it's the... people will stay away, so he looks towards him. ) If I hate it, you owe me...

[subaru's eyes almost open at the sudden thereness of keigo, but he's not done with his wish. it's hard to find just one thing to think about, so he's frankensteining one together with lots of run-on sentences...]

So it's that important of a wish, huh? [a man could die of curiosity.] I don't mind coming up here with you until it does, though~! I love spending time with you!

[it's fun and warm and lets him forget for a little bit that people around him are missing pieces and he can't do anything to stop it, that there's very much a tension as graduation looms ever closer for third years like himself, the possibility of death if one isn't careful...

and because he likes talking to keigo, too.]

( ? not the timed tags against me and everyone else now. think of how i feel with komaeda-arata... i want him heartless... it's okay i'm embarrassed too, i'm part of the problem... )

What a specific choice of words to say...

( he watches him stand as he remains sitting, eyes up, contemplating what's said, and he wonders if crying is a hopeless matter. he doesn't know, the last time he cried because he was sad... it was always for... hope, even last time before he entered the school.

...

...

everyone cries for different reasons. )

...As long as you haven't given up, then... I'll be able to see how hopeful you can become. Don't let me down, alright?

( ... he looks at his hands, one remembers the warmth of the other's face, and the other just there, but he doesn't dwell on it, and instead sets them on his own legs. )

( that sure is a question to ask a person who's been grief-ridden for years now...

god, she wishes she could be the kind of a person who answers this question with 'joy.' and, fuck, maybe to make it easy on herself, she should — but she doesn't. instead, she thinks about it, a little bitter; both joy and rage, they're temporary. they come and go as they please, small things setting them off — but grief... grief gnaws at your insides until you're all hollow; grief haunts your mind and heart, both, until you sink a knife into your flesh in hopes that it'll stop.

grief is like a festering wound; it might heal, someday, but it leaves an ugly scar, and the moment you scratch it open again, it hurts just the same as it did in the first place. a brush of someone's fingers — a stray memory — and you fall apart, like a house of cards, like you've never healed at all.

she looks down, at where her sleeve covers her arm, and narrows her eyes. )

... dunno, probably rage, right? ( but she still can't be truthful; still can't invite questions, in hopes of protecting the rotting scar over her heart.

anger's good, anyway. she's known to get angry quickly, so this seems like the right answer. ) Why?

[His boyfriend's fucking dead and that sucks and so here comes Lucifer, full of obvious sadness that he's trying to make less obvious (because someone has to break the news to Hikaru after all) and also many, many questions. He'll just... scope out Hikaru and then come say hi to them.]

Hikaru. Do you have a moment for a discussion? A serious one. You aren't in any trouble.

[Not giving Hikaru time to even answer that, it was a question of politeness, not a question of "do you actually have time to talk" because he's going to do it anyway.]

I'm not sure if you've heard yet, but Clamor... was found dead in the swimming pool yesterday morning. I want to give you as much time as possible to grieve, since I know the two of you were friends, but I also have questions to ask relating to this and someone else we found while investigating — Narumi.

[He brought tissues just in case.]

( it's cute... not only kamo-kun's courage in finally letting go of their hands, but komaeda's shift in topic, pulling them into something softer. something more fitting of their age than the rest of this place.

so amami's gonna do the natural thing. he's gonna get up and wander a couple feet away, gathering up one of the buckets that was set up here, and i'm going to say that there's a couple cheap plastic cups and bowls from the kitchen too because you need varied shapes when you're making sand castles, so he grabs one of each of them too. he'll trot back over and — wait, actually, he'll dip them in the salty pool water for a minute, bringing them over while they're still dripping wet. everyone knows that you need to make sure the sand is wet for it to hold its shape best as a castle, right? with that, he sets them down next to the other two. )

Here, you can use these.

Huh? What...

[ From one topic to the next, Hikaru hardly has any time to process anything. What does Lucifer mean Clamor was found dead in the swimming pool—- Natsume had told them that thing in the pool they thought was a monster wasn't actually a monster. And Narumi... ]

What are you talking about...?

[ There's no reason to ask right or wrong when it comes to personal belief, but Akki doesn't share his opinion; maybe he hasn't come to a decision yet. It's hard to know, when you really only ever experience one out of the three. ]

...That's what he said too, when I asked him. He said grief is like shackles bolting you against the ground, but rage pushes you forward... and he believed in rage. It's just... something I was curious about.

[ Not the full explanation, but not untrue either.

... ]

Feeling something is better than nothing, though. Just something I think would be good to keep in mind.

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