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[closewithnewintown]

Of course you understand that. [...] I don't mean that in a mean way or anything. Doing stuff like that... That's just how Hidden Folk work, right? It doesn't make it right or wrong, or good or evil; they just live differently than humans do, and that's sometimes bad for the humans.

So, it leaves us with only a couple of options. Somebody here can't be human. And if it's not the shopkeeper, then it's whoever they're working for. And they gotta be working for somebody.

[hanaban]

[ That wasn't a theoretical question, but okay— ]

There's plenty here that's not human! Have you met the man-eating gardener? That counselor's room is a place I'm not able to see into as well. But if you're looking for somebody, finding the door to their domain is the first step!

[closewithnewintown]

[she's not enabling nene's second boyfriend into dark magic talisman buying okay.]

... I'm a little more suspicious of the second one, honestly. [okay cool so komaeda wanted her to go talk to somebody that eats people that's fun to know.] Are there ways to find doors? Ways somebody like me could use?

[hanaban]

[ I like that he's the second ]

Hmm... Normal people like you typically stumble upon them by accident. If they're too hard to find, the supernatural won't have anybody to feed off, after all. Surely you've seen places like that around here? Where people enter and never come back.

[closewithnewintown]

Where people enter and don't come back...

[thinks...]

... The void? That's the only one I can think of.

[hanaban]

"The void"? What's that like? Was there water on the ground?

[closewithnewintown]

Oh, you know how there's this whole other version of this place that's all sad and cold that you go to when you bleed? There's this endless void that's been growing in there since the start. There's shadows there that throw dying people into it.

[beat] I don't think there's any water. Is the water part important?

[hanaban]

Hm~

[ It doesn't seem like a place Hanako goes to often— or at all. He's too busy cutting down imps and threatening to use humans as bait to do any actual bloodletting, but that's just as well. Doesn't sound like a place he wants to be thrown into anyways. ]

Water spans the boundary between the Near Shore and the Far Shore: the land of the living and the land of the dead. If everybody here is supposed to be "dead," think of water on the ground as sign that there's a back door nearby.

[closewithnewintown]

Water on the ground... [maybe the others will have an idea. she does have quite a bit to tell them now...]

Does the pool count? But, that's not really the ground... It's more under the ground...

[hanaban]

Huh... Maybe! There's a ground at some point, after all, isn't there?

[ ...maybe not this pool, he doesn't know, he's never had any reason to go down there. ]

[closewithnewintown]

There's a giant monster in it, so if there's ground, it's really, really far down. Definitely farther than a human can go. So, it's probably not there...

[hanaban]

Don't hold everybody here up to human standards. Is it really big and really ugly with lots of sharp teeth?

[ Imagine that one Pokemon gif of Squirtle gnashing its teeth ]

If we get rid of a supernatural, its domain may change back to how it used to be.

[closewithnewintown]

Dunno. It's really big, everybody said, but I don't think anybody's actually seen it...

[hm...]

Have you seen any water?

[hanaban]

In the bathrooms? That's not exactly what I'm looking for, though.

[ Still, making a mental note of the pool building and maybe combing through all the bathrooms besides his favorite one ]

What other weird places can you think of?

[closewithnewintown]

The counselor's office, like you said before... The woods... The auditorium... But, none of these places have any water, that I can remember. They're just spooky.

[hanaban]

They wouldn't normally. You'd have to enter the boundary somehow— something transitional, like doors or mirrors or stairs. So keep an eye out for that sort of stuff, and tell me when you do!

[closewithnewintown]

Doors, mirrors, stairs-- Hold on, I should be writing this down. [reaches into her bag next to her, pulls out diary, starts taking down notes.] Can I check if it's a boundary or just a normal mirror by myself, or is that something only you could do?

[not that she's gonna go off to fight a monster by herself or anything except she's totally gonna.]

[hanaban]

You can check, but you might never be able to come back.

[ Most humans who get snared in boundaries don't go looking for them anyways— they stumble upon them by accident, or are lured inside. In Hanako's experience, he wouldn't think Stephanie to be wrong to say the school is gobbling everybody up. ]

So... come find me first, alright?

[closewithnewintown]

[she nods, you know, like a liar.]

Gotcha. I'll keep an eye out for anything that looks like a way into someplace.

[hanaban]

And you're going to come find me first, right?

[ hello? the more important part? ]

[closewithnewintown]

What? Oh, yeah, of course. [like a liar.]

[hanaban]

[ He's going to let the school eat her.

... ]

Well, that's that! Anything else you want to know from a ghost?

[closewithnewintown]

Um... [thinks...] Oh, can ghosts really get inside cars and make them drive around on their own? Trixie told Stingy that they could, but I think she was just trying to give him anxiety.

[hanaban]

[ what ]

Sure can! We can make the headlights blink and everything!

[closewithnewintown]

I see, I see... [nods very seriously] Yeah, that's all the questions I have.

-- No, wait. If I ever find myself facing some kind of supernatural - not in this situation specifically, just in general - what should I use to fight it?