yogen | npc contact.2

I don't need opportunities to kill you.

[ Said in a way that implies he can kill Komaeda at any time of his choosing, or whatever

Komaeda watching the sunset, Rokkun watching him... ]

Also don't look directly at the sun.

I haven't... I was waiting for something to happen, like an enormous amount of bad luck! It would have made my search a little more exciting.

( and when he thought that npc-kun didn't want to accompany him to talk to the teachers. )

Are you sure about this? ( he asks, holding out his arm so the other can link with it. )

They are with me. Try to get some sleep, lad.

[ Plucking the watering can out of Komaeda's hands because this is what I let Haruka do and so maybe Kazuki can have some of the same right. Good luck to Komaeda. ]

Hmm...

[ All that comes to mind are boring things, like business and math. What do people even do together? They don't know, they only interact with people long enough to make a transaction and then never seem them again. ]

I don't know... Nothing comes to mind. Just sitting like this together is nice.

Ahaha... How bold, you know I'd make it difficult for you.

( he accepts rokkun's word of advice, and he closes his eyes for the world around him to go completely dark, the sun's shape left behind his eyelids which is still burned into them. it's a subtle color of orange, and little miniature dots that are the make-up of the sun's outline, and then he opens his eyes again... and his eyes... are on the sun again, until he glances to the side to look at the ground. )

...What should I look at then, we're supposed to watch it together? I knew we should have waited for the stars.

In a couple of days, we'll remove your sigils.

( yes, and he can take the watering can, but as long as he doesn't take the hacking gun. )

Good night, old man.

( they are with him? well... komaeda-arata will be figure out how to get his bones, but he'll turn off the hacking gun's light so that kazuki disappears from view. tucking it in the inside of his jacket behind him, he walks past the spirit, inches away from bumping into him as he goes back towards the school. )

[ gmail wants Komaeda to abandon his son

who has eyes just for money and if Komaeda turns around with only a few fat stacks of cash, he's turning around to this face. All the money. Give. ]

( gmail does, it's because it knew they'd be greedy! )

... No.

( he knows what the face is for, and he's not going to do what the other is thinking. )

Think of it as your allowance, and you don't need it all at one time. ( pinches their cheeks with his free hand, before handing them what he has. )

[ FOR NOW.......... ]

Is Narumin in trouble? Can I see him?

Are you any good? Try me. Sell me a rock.

[ Rocks are amazing. He's heard them do their pitch hundreds of time. This is easy mode. ]

[ npckun looks a little wary, like if they take Komaeda's arm it's going to fall off again

...

They decide to take their chances, linking their arm with Komaeda but also holding on with their other hand, it's more of a clutch than a link. ]

None of those lockers were useful. Wasn't that bad luck?

You've gotta have an answer prepared if you're gonna refute watching the sky, Keigo, it's my... third favorite thing to do!

[yeah, third sounds right.]

The first's performing on stage and second's walking my dog, by the way~. I can't do either here though. [a sigh. let's say he's finished his sandwich so he can lay down, arms pillowing his head] So all I've got right now is stargazing.

[... that's a comfort from home, in a way. he tucks his chin down and glances at keigo though, and he wriggles his arm away to sort of. pinch their clothes, a little hold]

What'd you like doing before you came to school? Or... with that brother you mentioned? Before he, y'know.

[kicked it]

( it's fine they can have his organic hand so that it doesn't fall off unless ripped, and only npc-kun can do that to him if they're ready to end his life. he'll walk them towards one classroom, peeking inside to see if there's a teacher at their desk willing to talk to them. )

Hm... Should I accept that as bad luck? Good things will happen, but what if something better is further down the line if I gather more bad luck?

( not how it works, but it goes back and forth without him, and so... if that was bad luck, they're due something good, but he's always hesitant to accept anything positive with his luck. )

He's... resting.

[Probably forever, if what Lucifer understands is correct.]

Unfortunately, what happened to Narumi is magical in nature. He's... alive, in the bodily sense of the word. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much. If we can't figure out what's wrong, and how to undo the spell that was done...

[Then he's going to die. But Lucifer offers a very shaky smile.]

I have him under a stasis hex for now, so until then, he shouldn't deteriorate further...

But you'll be able to figure it out, won't you? You'll undo whatever happened to him, and you'll save him. I know you will!

[ He has to. He's Lucifer-senpai. There's nothing he can't do. ]

On the spot? Well, uh, let's see... what kind of rock am I selling?

( does he at least get to sell one of the cute ones? gotta cater to your wares and all that. )

[ picks a plain normal boring rock you'd find off the side of the street out of their box and places it in Amami's hand ]

You can still perform...

[ Here, on the roof, for them. It's sort of like a stage, right? There needs to be a roof for proper acoustics, though, and there's not much in terms of seating, and

They look down at Subaru when he brings their mind back to the present, but it's still that quiet, thoughtful look on their face, because what did they like doing? What do they even remember of their brother...?

...

... ]

I was a lot younger, so all I really remember is following him around the house. There was this game I played by myself, where I'd try to stay in his shadow at all times... I guess I just wanted to stay close to him.

[ Was that fun? It was a game, it was something to do, because sometimes you're three and you have separation anxiety and this is how you cope. ]

[ Komaeda doesn't need a totem to go blind, he can do it himself. Rokkun, on his part, looks out across the campus until it disappears into the forest, shadows softening until it blankets the entire world below them. ]

We can do both.

[ He says, and then frowns a little, like it just now occurred to him that he has to walk through that forest in the dead of night in order to get home. ]

...This is called the "golden hour" in photography. The best time for taking pictures. [ looks over at Komaeda, looks back at the slope of the trees ] Not that either of us have cameras, anyways. I'll remember for the both of us.

["here, on the roof, for them" take that out of brackets and he will. without a second's hesitation.

anyway, a sense of... kinship, he thinks, the same he feels with makoto and his family situation, sweeps over subaru at the words. his smile lessens a bit, dims, and he breathes out softly as he looks at the stars. back home, his dad was among them, but here...?]

... I did something like that with my dad, too. He didn't come home a lot, 'cause he was always busy, but when he did I wanted to spend as much time as I could with him. Now that I'm older, I get why he was so busy all the time, but I...

[talking about this stuff always make him feel so

lonely. he doesn't like it, and he shifts against the concrete; when he speaks again his voice is loud and bright, free hand animated as he waves it around]

Anyway! I totally get that feeling~. It's nice being close to the people you love, right? Even if you use a little game like that to do it~. What kinda things do other people here do with you? Maybe we can steal some ideas for ourselves. ♪

[ noooooooo

takes the money, but like, sadly ]

How am I supposed to live off such a paltry amount...

I will. I don't abandon the people I take under my wing.

[But that leads him into something else, and Lucifer's very weak smile is quick to falter and fall.]

Narumi was found roughly the same time Clamor was found. As I stated when I came in, Clamor... is already dead.

[He quite literally drags his hand down his face at that, eyes elsewhere.]

There's nothing I can do for him. He was found in the pool...

I think...

[ peeks around Komaeda's side at the empty classroom— empty aside from the teacher with their head down on their arms folded over the teacher's desk, because sometimes your entire class is absent with some sort of contagious migraine so you take the opportunity to nap and get paid for it. ]

...when life is bad and gets worse, you should take what good you can, when you can.

[ It's called quitting while you're ahead, don't wait for the jackpot. ]

( looks at it.

...

no, none of those actual geology lessons stuck. he's just gonna guess and if kamo-kun can catch him in his bullshit, they can give him rock lessons later. he sets it aside on the counter for now, so he can take both kamo-kun's hands in his with a wide grin. )

Hey there, you look like you've been working hard. Exam season is coming up, and I'm sure you've got a lot on your plate, yeah? Don't worry, though — I've got just the thing to help you out.

[ They can't say it because it would kill the mood. That Subaru goes ahead and shatters anyways with his bright and cheerful anyway!! ]

Oh! That's a good idea. Sara and I are studying topology together. Helena's teaching me how to read Braille.

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