yogen | npc contact.2

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 ]

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...

I don't want to talk to the teachers. Go by yourself.

[ They can... split up. Komaeda can go pander the teachers while they stay here and learn how to crack safes. ]

Alright.

( like he's taken the chance of a lifetime, which he'll peel himself off npc-kun, and then proceed to find the stairs to go up without even looking back. his footsteps are loud until... they're gone, like a ghost's footsteps, soundless... and just the beat of his shoes left in the memory.

at least the second story is the 3rd years... so he can pick a random classroom... )

[ not how he doesn't even look baaaaacck

...

okay, yeah, they're following him up the stairs, little tap tap tap footsteps up the stairs. ]

( trot, trot, trot!! now they can see the life of komaeda-arata from afar, which means... the lights flicker above him from time to time and cancels out the sound of a certain shopkeeper's footsteps, and he stops to look up.

...

there's never a reason to look back when he's always guaranteed good things if he moves forward. )

[ NO........ flickering lights mean an impending blackout and so those tap tap taps become taptaptaptaptaps until they're right behind Komaeda and making zero attempt to be stealthy. ]

Uh... I didn't think you'd follow me, I thought you wanted to go our separate ways...

( he heard the rushing taps, but the lights aren't flickering anymore... they're normal, blinding as they were at first. )

Did someone talk to you, you can ignore them if they did!

Oh. Um.

[ ... ]

I just finished investigating everything on my end. You haven't talked to anybody yet? You're so slow. I guess I'll have to help you.

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. )

[ 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?

( 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. )

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. ]

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.

Good luck's not supposed to last more than a moment anyways.

[ ?

Anyways, they're reluctant to let go of Komaeda's arm after that little squeeze, but if it's talking to a teacher...

Okay.

They slip their arm out. ]

Good luck. Do your best.

...Is it? Hm, I wonder.

( just a moment then why isn't npc-kun gone? it can linger for awhile, but he's sure the other will leave him sooner or later.

...

...

...

as soon as his arm is let go, he'll walk into the classroom with a small smile, and an apology that he couldn't make it to class today... he wants a rubric for what they're studying and learning... and will do better next class. )

[ The teacher looks at Komaeda funny and gently reminds him that his homeroom is upstairs. If he needs a rubric, though, he'd better visit the faculty office to pick up handouts from all the various classes he might've missed, instead of tracking teachers down one by one. ]

( what bad luck is this!! the way they won't own him as a student which is fine, he laughs like he didn't realize he came to the wrong classroom, but he'll leave out from the room... )

We have to go to the Faculty Office... and say how we're helping the third years with migraines...

( maybe he should go in there and lie on shin, actually. )

[ npckun hmms a little at the thought of going to the faculty office, but it'll be okay, maybe, if they're with somebody else. Shin being familiar will make them feel better too, but why am I imagining Shin lying on the ground in the middle of the faculty office ]

( that one shin icon with him on the floor, yeah, it checks out actually. between his shrimp posture and floor posture, we just can't win, but it'll help them in the long run as they can walk to the faculty office together. komaeda-arata i lowkey forgot because i was at work doing tags, but... )

If I could dress up as Tsukimi-kun... it'd be hilarious, but we'll have to use him as word of mouth...

( looks at npckun... wait... )

[ holds up both hands ]

I'm not that good of an actor. I don't know how to be that pathetic. It'll have to be you.

...Has he bought a token to wash his clothes from you yet?

( if he has, they can just steal them... and komaeda-arata can... dress up. )

[ What was decided on discord, I think it was a yes? If it was a yes, npckun nods yes; if it was a no then they shake their head. ]

[Yes to temporarily stealing his clothes and impersonation, no to the Death Hallucinations... we can assume he's gotten stuck in a wall or something even though the mental image of them coming in and pretending to be him above his unconscious form on the floor is making me laugh immensely.]

Edited (realised the date was not what I thought it was ) 2021-09-22 11:07 (UTC)

( AKZHAKZJS SHIN??? crack, he doesn't need komaeda and add to make him insane... he's doing well alone, anyway we had some side plot for shin dwbi....dwbi, but it's fine because now komaeda will grab npckun's hand and take them to the dorms because if they're going to do this mission...

they're going to do it right.

trot trot trot. )

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