yogen | npc contact.2

...Hm? Oh, yeah, we can.

( absent thoughts are common, his brain cycles through the old, pushes in the new, and he moves forward so he doesn't think about the past. he can't take it back since he already commented on it, and his eyes glance towards hikaru like it's unknown to him for someone to willingly want to go along with him — honestly, they could have accepted eating the nekonigiri, and then carried on elsewhere. )

What did you want to do first, you belong to me for the whole day.

( with the heads modeled, he's going to slide them over to hikaru to add the faces. ) You can make them look like your friends, then.

[ "you belong to me but you choose what we do" is kind of backwards, they think, but it's also kind of him. Trouble is, they're more used to hanging out with a group of people rather than one on one, and there's no lack of opinions and clashing decisions in a group.

The nekonigiri get a layer of nori laid over the top of their heads, kind of the like the black hood they all wear. ]

Covering up the ceiling is probably going to take some time, so let's tackle that first, before it's noon and it gets too hot.

[ When the sun is directly overhead and makes them feel like retreating somewhere with a solid roof. ]

( maybe if hikaru was interested in poisoning all the students so they could be dragged out into the forest, then maybe they could go along with komaeda's plans! but yeah, hikaru belongs to him because they share the same room which means they do as komaeda says, which means if komaeda doesn't feel like choosing they will choose!

not the cultist cat, which komaeda stares at. )

Can we borrow some of the outfits from the cultist club? ( probably not what they're called, but that's fine. ) We can stitch it together, and then a little piece of your efforts will be embedded in it!

( now that he thinks about it, black will soak up the sun's rays, and that way no one has to suffer from the gnawing heat. he already doesn't like to be in the sun, but there are days where it feels... worse? or maybe it's his imagination. either way, he'll scoop some rice into a bowl as he slides it over to hikaru, and he'll turn off whatever he used to cook with. after, he'll grab his cold toast to take a bite. )

Come on, you're way too slow.

Oh, uh—

[ Are they supposed to make their own cat or eat the rest of the rice? They're just going to hold the bowl between their hands for now. ]

Sorry, but we got these from Lucifer-senpai, so they're special. I can't let you use mine, and we don't have extras lying around... I'm sure there's black fabric at school we can use, though.

Let's check, where do you all keep them? We'll be lucky.

( maybe, but listen, komaeda gave them majority of the rice, and the little cats that he made are fine. already sitting on the table for hikaru to grab those too, if they want. )

We could always try the principal's office.

[ For continuity's sake, they'll take a handful of rice and try to shape it as close to Komaeda's examples as they can, but art isn't exactly their strong suit. Good thing about cats, though, is that they can be any blobby shape you want and as long as it has triangle ears and a tail, it looks like a cat. ]

In our closets? More aren't going to magically appear unless Lucifer-senpai's handing them out. We can ask him.

[ Why would they be in the principal's office... They don't want to go to the principal's office, the ac is turned up too high in there. ]

( hikaru's simplicities... when they're cats, komaeda will look at each new one, and because he has a bit of soy cause near him, he drizzles it on the felines without cloaks. now they can be little bevs, but that's probably such a strong amount of flavor, but who knows... maybe hikaru's into that. )

Lucifer-kun... ( hm. ) I got him to handfeed me once, so I doubt he'll give me a cloak...

( honestly, i could make komaeda regain his little halloween reaper fit for this year... then he can look like a cultist! anyway. )

Unless you want to ask him yourself... Get us 10 of them.

[ Maybe they're lucky and Komaeda grabbed dark soy sauce instead of the light one and it'll be edible. ]

Okay!

[ Lucifer-senpai will absolutely, without a doubt, pull through for them, they have complete confidence. ]

Wait right here, I'll be right back!

( i flipped a coin... spared today. )

Okay, I'll finish these up.

( so he's going to drizzle on whatever fat cats that hikaru made, giving them spots or stripes, and then he gets a little creative to make a clover on one. that's by taking one piece of rice, rolling it in the liquid, and then putting it back so that he can make the shape. komaeda is no artist, so of course the cat's tail falls off, but it's fine... they have nine lives.

he'll stay there for as long as he remembers to.

...

...

which is three minutes, he wants to follow. )

[Lucifer can sew luckily, y'all are lucky, so when he's asked to Do A Thing he absolutely sets to work.

It's probably not hard to ?? make a cultist cloak ?? like they're just cloaks, plain black and simple in design, but give him a few hours to crank out ten of them.

Hikaru could ask anything of Lucifer and he'd say yes honestly, so this isn't a huge deal to him. He won't even question it.]

[ In three minute's time, Hikaru is probably still talking with Lucifer, holding him to the promise of having them done by the end of the day. It probably is very easy to make the cloak, with stitched on hood and pockets, and Hikaru doesn't even think to tell Lucifer that they and Komaeda plan to undo all the stitching and sew the cloaks together instead of getting fabric from home ec to serve the same purpose. ]

[They super are done by the end of the day and you know what, that's just as well, he won't even be mad about it because it's Hikaru

fuck komaeda tho

But Hikaru is baby.]

( not hikaru not telling the whole story, but not lying at all... wholesome. it's okay, even though komaeda wanted to follow, three minutes in dementia time is long enough for komaeda to get to the door of the kitchen, and then stop.

...they'll be out of eyeshot so there's no need to chase, so he will turn back around to the rice and kitties, and hopefully by the time hikaru comes back...

komaeda will have almost near perfect nekos for hikaru to come back to. it's because a few are missing whiskers, or eyes, but he seems almost satisfied with how they're nothing at all like he originally did, and he just wanted to play around since the other was gone. )

[ LOOK they're just excited to receive things from Lucifer, that's the important thing here. Their ceiling canopy is going to be Amazing, because Lucifer-senpai graced the fabric with his touch.

But that's for later, and Hikaru returns to the kitchen empty-handed. ]

Senpai says he'll— oh! These are cute. [ trotting over, when they spot the completed cats ] He said to give him a couple of hours and he'll have ten cloaks for us.

...Are they?

( like he's confused that's even said, but he focuses on the cloak conversation after. )

Ah, Lucifer-kun, how kind... how kind... he must like you a lot, that works out for us.

( because that means he can send hikaru in, and as long as the other is chipper about whatever they ask for, they should be able to get it. ) Goto-kun, why do you live in the dorms?

( he asks, handing the plate over to the other so their hands are no longer empty. )

[ Ohhh, the thought that Lucifer must like them a lot makes them beam and stand a little straighter, like a puppy that's gotten praised for doing nothing but be cute.

It's an expression that dims, though, when Komaeda asks that question. The plate gets set down on the counter, and they go looking for plastic wrap to save these for later. ]

...Things aren't great at home, so I like it better here.

Was that a sensitive subject?

( you'd think komaeda would be more mindful considering the type of home he comes from, but no, he doesn't even think about it. instead, he wonders if saying something like that house will go up in flames, and then you can get a greater home would help. )

Did Saihara-kun know about what happened at home with you, or did you just choose to follow an Ultimate of his grace?

[ AS IF THE PROBLEM WAS THE HOUSE ITSELF ]

Nobody ever asks, so I don't talk about it much. I don't think Saihara knew either... At least I don't think so? [ Maybe he detectived his way into knowing? ] But he asked, so... I guess, yeah! I chose to follow him.

( UGH LIKE THAT ONE MOVIE WITH THE HOUSE POSSESSING THE FATHER SO HE WENT INSANE. )

...Maybe he did, he was very talented... a bright light to us all, and his hope was practically the sun that shined here in this place. People relied on him, and they should! His talent was beautiful... maybe that's why he helped you...

( he did help people who didn't deserve it, but now he has to ask because apparently nobody asks. )

What was your home like... that made Saihara-kun bring you in...

[ What the fuck kind of movies are you watching nms, is this The Shining?? ]

Home is an apartment complex, actually. We lived on the sixth floor. Maybe he wanted to save me from all the stairs? There's so many people, sometimes taking the stairs is faster than taking the elevator.

( YES i couldn't remember.................... leave me alone, thinking about the movie don't blink now... )

...Why would he save you from that? Saihara-kun wouldn't be bothered by something so simple, there has to be something else.

( because... )

...He was kind. He wanted to help others so you must be in need.

[ ... ]

Yeah, he was kind. I don't really get what I needed saving from, but I'm grateful that he asked. It's been fun. Everybody here is so weird, so it's been fun to watch. I'd rather stay at school forever, than go home.

...I wonder.

( no matter how many times he stares at hikaru, he doesn't see anything. yet, saihare saw something in them, and that's where komaeda fails because there's nothing aside from... that little fragment of hope. )

Your hope is... not even a fraction to his, but... why.

( he knows... saihara didn't die for them though, he knows... that hikaru's probably all that's left of saihara's generosity to another. he frowns at the thought before sitting down, and when komaeda thinks about it... he misses him. last time he missed saihara, he stabbed him to force him back, to make him see him, and now... what?

hm.

komaeda can't just stab himself, or maybe he can... but will that bring him back? probably not. )

Are you good at seances?

Oh. No, I'm not allowed to summon things without supervision anymore.

[ And... it wouldn't be any good to try and bring Shuichi back, no matter how much Komaeda hurts and pines for him. It's nothing something they like to mess with— pulling people over to this side just to see them, to have them relive their memories, to ask them questions.

If they're patient, their loved ones will come back to them. In a dream, sometimes. In person, others, although it may not be the same person, but still you can tell. And so they wait. ]

( "anymore" sitting here thinking to myself don't tell me this the one that summoned the imps, don't tell me hikaru summoned the i— )

...What happened last time that made you need supervision?

( because that means it went wrong, and if they did it flawlessly, then it should be fine for them to do whatever they want. his thoughts were more, maybe he could talk to him about what he should do considering saihara had a... certain thought process that no one could match. it's not like he's in love or anything! he doesn't like anyone, it's just what do you say when the light of your life becomes extinguished like that. to not get that chance...

hm. hm. )

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have y'all's robes

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