yogen | npc contact.2

[ This is exactly what's going to happen ]

I don't know enough about human anatomy to argue... And you wouldn't lie to me about fingers.

[ Because that would be a stupid thing to lie about. This information is going to get spread all over the school and if there's any exam questions about fingers you bet everybody's going to say they have only eight ]

["And you wouldn't lie to me about fingers." i am so sorry the utter trust keigo has in him is failing at this very moment. and there is only more to come the instant subaru hears that, grinning widely.]

In that case~... You've come to the right person! I know a ton about human anatomy, I'd be happy to tutor you a little! Even if you're probably not gonna need it, ahaha~☆

[because they don't go to classes................]

Edited (hated having two "moments") 2021-09-26 02:19 (UTC)

[ Yeah, they can't think of a time when they'd need to know human anatomy to that much detail, but if Subaru is smart, ]

Are you good at math?

Yup! I've got some of the highest grades in my class, no matter the subject!

[unfortunately, subaru is an honor student when it comes to grades and classwork, despite never studying, forgetting his books, and drawing his dog in the margins of his notes. i don't get it. but it's canon, and it's true.]

Ama-chan's the opposite though, when test results come around you've gotta look for his name in the middle of the pack. ☆ He's a total slacker when it comes to attendance, so you'd think it be at the bottom with the rest of 'em, but he's blessed with some brains in that pretty head of his!

[ how they were going to ask Subaru for help in math but instead they're hearing him trash talk Amami's grades instead. Middle is... okay? Is it good? bad? npckun has no frame of reference, it's not as if they ever had formal schooling. ]

You have to help him... If he gets too much make up work, he'll have less time to play.

[ ?? assuming he bothers to do the extra work, but anyways, please help Amami with his grades, this is still a school ]

[it's my defense mechanism i saw "are you good at math" and heard the rattle of the reaper's chains.]

It's fine, I'm already getting him to go to class more~! He'll have plenty of time to play with you still... and you can sit with us when we're suffering through homework too, if you want. ♪

[they can do it in the store... or when keigo Has to take breaks they can kick it in the study hall...]

Anyway, why do you ask?

Maybe... it'd be nice to be able to learn things at school too.

[ more Science Facts they can brag to Amami about... ]

Anyways, I had some math questions I needed help with, and I'd ask Tarou-nii but he's no good. Sara's helping me with one of them, but there's still six more and they're hard.

[he'll make them his little student then, and make them do some of his busywork...! it's a learning experience.

also....... these, huh. boy. he sure checked out when these got brought up at the sleepover. this isn't high school level at all, but far be it from subaru not to give something a shot. especially for someone he loves. amami is lucky he's sub-par in grades.]

Oh... What one is Sasara helpin' you with? I don't wanna cross over with her.

[ you ever think about how being bad at math saves people ]

The Poincaré conjecture. The one with the manifolds. And something to do with surgery...

[ or something... it's complicated and they don't get it ]

[everyone should just be bad at math]

This is sorta before my time, but I think I remember our teacher talking about it as a fun fact... That sort of, "nothing is impossible" kind of thing.

[... anyway.]

Gotta say, it sounds boring, but if it's to help you out then I don't mind spit-balling ideas!

[besides. the quantum field theory one looks interesting to him, the astronomy child.]

Before your time? [ like this is supposed to be old math? that means Subaru should know the answers, right, they'd much prefer he just give them the answers instead of going through the whole spit-balling process, but even if this thing has been a constant source of frustration, npckun can't deny that it's taken their mind off things. ]

It's super boring and I don't even know where to start. If you know other smart people, maybe you can ask them for me?

[only one has been solved still i am so sorry keigo.]

I will! Natsume's sure to know where to start with some of these, he's suuuper smart.

[... but the "before [his] time" thing is something he doesn't know if he wants to touch, or that i want to touch considering it's both 2016 and 2021 in enstars. we'll skip on firm dates it's fine. 20XX so iconic a total legend we cannot help but stan]

You remember how I told you on the rooftop that there's music that doesn't exist yet, and music that does?

[ Natsume... the magician. Yeah. This is the sort of math problem that needs magic to solve. ]

Yeah...? I don't know much about popular music, though, so I can't help.

[ If he's asking for a return favor for researching math for them. ]

No, no, I don't need any help! I just wanted to explain what I meant by it, and why some of these questions are before my time.

[i don't know their position besides "hugging" right now i think i did that earlier but he's gonna whisper his secret. no one talks about this but he wants to complain so bad, him and shin are on the same level of despair when it comes to no easy internet]

I'm from the future. Like, not too far? But definitely more than a decade, as far as some of these textbooks are concerned. We have skateboards that float and consoles that don't have backwards compatibility.

[ ...

Subaru wouldn't lie to them about fingers, but they have to draw the line somewhere ]

If you're from the future, then... you should know lottery numbers.

[ Prove it. And by prove it they mean make them money while you're at it ]

Keigo, I was born this year. I don't know the lottery numbers from right now. But I can give you the ones the year I last remember.

[and keigo can use them like, twenty years from now.]

[ Subaru wouldn't lie to them... he wouldn't... how can somebody be born this year... ]

Then I'm your senpai.

[ They're the older one. They win. Win what they don't know, but being the older one somehow feels like winning. ]

[this trust runs so deep. you're so lucky the only bad things he's doing with this is making them thing they have eight fingers and two thumbs.

...

...

...

he's gonna nuzzle them. he'll just act the way tori does and see what happens. because subaru himself is not a very good kouhai whatsoever actually he doesn't respect a single authoritative figure in his life and that's the same here. that's why it's good he's still a third year, because he'd still call every one of his seniors ~chan and that'd be that.]

Keigo-senpai~, I wanna be spoiled. ☆ Purr purr ♪

Oh. Uh...

[ They're going to be in the same boat, because npckun doesn't know how to be a senpai. They're used to being doted on by the older students here and the only living thing they've ever looked after on their own was a plant Amami had them babysit a month ago.

...

They pull Subaru into a close hug, one hand on his back and the other on the back of his head so they can stroke his hair like Komaeda did for them once and that was nice. ]

[... this isn't overbearing the way chiaki does it so you know what? he's okay with this, wrapping his arms around keigo and leaning against them. soothing enough to close his eyes to.

... still, though, it sorta...

makes him hug tighter.]

...I don't think I've been held like this since I was a kid.

[a little "oh, huh, what do you know" and a little... a touch something else. hard to read, maybe, distant.]

[ For the most part, they could say the same, although it was only one person who would hold them like this, lift them up in his arms and rock them gently, holding them close as if his arms and his hands are enough to protect them from the world. ]

...Komaeda is very good at this. You should ask him someday.

Nah. Maddy and I have too weird of a relationship do something like this.

[... he thinks komaeda likes him? or dislikes him? he poisoned him one week for hope and (stuff happened) but the other day komaeda... praised him, and pet his head. it's strange, and subaru feels a little on his toes around the other sometimes. like a wary animal.]

I'd rather just have you do it. You're nice and warm, and smell good too.

[ ... ... ... they're trying to think of the last thing they ate and what they must smell like, maybe it's apple juice. ]

[... oh are they gonna try the quiet game now, or was it weird that he commented on how they smell. natsume has complained about it before.]

[ yeah, both

... ]

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