yogen | npc contact.2

[so they can say it now..!!!!!]

What's topology? A study of spinners?

[ This already sounds like bullshit, but they're willing to hear him out, curious about how he'll be able to spin this around to advertising rocks. ]

Yeah? Unless it's a machine that can beam exam answers directly into my brain from across the campus, I'm not interested.

[ ...swings their hands a little

This is their best guess at what a typical student would need to pass exams ]

Haha, tough crowd! Too bad, they've been pretty popular with third years who're getting set up for graduation, y'know. Hinata-kun, Lucifer, even the infamous Akehoshi-kun is a big fan — and he's at the top of his class.

( or near the top, and he had a fanclub too, didn't he? something like that. )

It'd be a shame if you missed out without even finding out what I'm talking about.

[ cries as i try to bring the topic back around ]

No, it's math but with squishy shapes. I'm going to win a million US dollars when I solve this one math problem.

[ So it's still a business thing in the end, and it makes their head hurt, and it's very not fun. It's something they and Sara do separately, for the most part, which sort of takes away from the hanging out thing.

...

takes another sandwich ]

What do people do with you?

[ HE'S REALLY TRYING....... ]

It better not be drugs. I know better than to give in to peer pressure.

[jdjdkdkd cries too dw i got you]

I like my topology better. [just so they know.

...]

A lotta stuff, I guess. Sort of like what we usually do though, just hang out and eat and do whatever we think of... There's a circle I go to the dog park with, I play basketball with my friend sometimes, we've got an arcade in town, I like watching movies with people, and window shopping's fun, too.

[a lot of stuff.

... there's more than just that, too, but at least some of this stuff is feasible.]

Here I mostly just bother people when they're doing something and make them let me join in. And listen to Macchi play piano, she's really good... Won't play the songs I wanna sing, but that's fine~☆ I sound good without music too. ♪

Of course not — everything we sell here is 100% safe. ( during working weekday hours. ) Anyway, these are better.

( he'll let go of their hand, but only for a moment — he needs to grab his side of the road rock here. placing it in kamo-kun's hand, he'll pull their hands together so that they can hold it with both, wrapping their fingers closed around it. maybe if they don't have to look at it, they won't think about how ugly it is. )

This here's called hornfel, and it's known to give you mental power. Whether it's studying for a tough exam, or getting the courage to ask out the person you like, it'll come in handy for overcoming any challenge you find yourself faced with.

[ Oh... There's that unease in their chest again as they listen to Subaru, the same when they had listed to Amami recount all the amazing things he did and accomplished. Playing basketball with people, playing games, watching movies, going shopping... they're all such ordinary things that npckun recognizes how ridiculous it is to feel jealous of that, but they are. They'd probably be bad at basketball with how heavy the balls are, and movies rarely hold their interest for very long, but... still. Just having the opportunities would've been nice, even if they didn't end up taking them.

... ]

You sing a cappella? Sounds tough... You have to get the notes just right, without music to support you.

[ ... ]

Do you really expect me to believe that? I'm not paying for a placebo. What a sham. Don't insult me.

( pffft they look so upset with him help... he bursts out laughing )

Ahaha — it's true, though. I picked it up in one of my clubs. Reliable source, I promise — I know a few kids got tested on it.

[ It's my favorite, but Amami!!! you gotta keep in character, come on, make the sale ]

Yeah, and how is it helping your mental powers? Can you prove that all nontrivial zeros of the Riemann Zeta function lies on a vertical straight line when the function is set to zero?

I'm not the one holding it right now.

( it's in their hands, with his just holding those — making sure they don't let go and damage the merchandise or anything. )

But something tells me you know the answer. ( wink )

[ ...

Tosses the rock at Amami's face as gentle as they can manage while cracking up ]

Ohhh, you're so bad at this! You're better off as my commercial artist and let me handle sales!

[ THE WINK, STOP ]

Hm? No we don't.

( have to look at the sunset, can watch the stars — they can have one, it's just as beautiful here now as it will be later, but something about watching anything with rokkun is... an experience he thinks too much of as good luck. looking at him warrants that komaeda-arata catches that small frown, and he smiles sheepishly as he looks at him, that expression can be ingrained into his memory when he closes his eyes. )

Also called the "magic hour", which would be just as fitting... Ah! I do have one, ( not on him, but he does... he does. it's just the additional statement that makes him keep his eyes on rokkun and in slight disbelief he's accounting for komaeda-arata to forget later down the line...

...

he will, it'll all slip from his memory sooner or later. )

You make a valid point, Rokkun... ( he will lean up against the other, but not so much considering he's a cripple, but he wants to rest his head on rokkun's shoulder. ) I have a camera with lots of pictures of here, but... where were you?

( i had the most gay thing to say but then i always wondered why komaeda-arata didn't have rokkun pics so i scrapped it. )

( the way gmail said no found family...

noooo not his son sad now, oh, i'm dying. sighs. )

You're saving up, aren't you? Hm... Besides, you have more than most in this school, there's no need to mock the poor.

( saying npc-kun is rich now. )

Don't spend everything in one place.

The good luck... I could never say what I think it is, because it'll only last for a moment.

( it's then his arm squeezes a little tighter on npc-kun's arm, alluding to something... wonder what that is.

his voice remains low though, staring at the teacher as he keeps the shopkeeper hidden behind the wall so they can't be seen. )

I'm enjoying everything I have. Hm... Let me talk to them, and see what they say.

That's not a lot, are they your friends or enemies?

( they say keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but isn't that sort if validation what people find nice when they know they're friends? not in komaeda-arata's case, but... whoever hiro cares for. )

Oh, that's no problem at all! We practice that sort of thing in Yumenosaki from time to time, so even Natsume and Aira can do it~.

[some better than others, probably.]

It's important to know what you're singing incase there's ever an audio mess up, and it's also just fun. ☆ Wanna try? I'll sing with you, I love singing with other people!

[... truthfully, it wasn't so long ago when subaru felt the same unease that keigo feels in their chest now; he gets what it's like to be kept from those things, to be jealous of what others have, it's just that instead of ruminating on them he sorta kinda

stuffed his feelings away and pretended they didn't exist ☆

healthy coping and all. less serious jealously he whines about.]

( he'll catch it, grinning all the while. )

That bad, huh? To be fair, you did give me a pretty tough pitch — can't make a sale like that without a smile as cute as yours.

( no shame at all as he says this, because it's true, and amami absolutely did make his rock purchases exclusively to see them smile more at first. )

Maybe I am better suited for back-end kinda stuff for business though.

Oh, I already have a debt collector.

[ If that's what Amami means by back-end... shady stuff you can't let the shopkeep, the face of the store, do. ]

It's not like my smile's any cuter than yours, though. You just don't smile like you mean it.

( amami is taking blow after blow here and he's not sure how to deal with all of this hitting him at once actually. he's just got this frozen ass smile that probably conveys pretty well that he wasn't expecting it, together with his blinking for a moment before responding. )

I was thinking more like, business partners and contract negotiations...

( he opens his mouth. he thinks. he shuts his mouth, and opens it again for something different, looking sheepish. )

But jeez, really trying to call me out here, huh? I plenty mean it!

( the one when he bombed the sale, at least. )

Hm.

[ Business partners sounds too much of a 50:50 deal and they can't afford that sort of cut, and contract negotiations? If Amami can't even sell a rock, how's he supposed to negotiate contracts.

Not important, though. ]

Smile for me like you mean it. I can help, if you need me to.

( stop it's different when you're not trying to sell people on something you picked up off the side of the road... )

This one's not good enough, huh? Okay, okay, I guess I'll need your help then.

( this can be their challenge — in return for him trying to pitch that rock sale. )

Yeah? I'm good at singing!

[ probably? hard to judge when you're singing by yourself and your voice sounds good in the shower ]

What songs do you know?

[ ANYWAYS now that i've spent the past hour trying to figure out what npckun's voice would sound like, I settled on this ]

[ npckun can do it, why can't Amami ]

Okay! Look at this face and do what I'm doing! How can you not smile for real while looking at me?

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