yogen | npc contact.3

[ shut up, they're at school!! ]

Most people don't start that low when they're happy.

[ He looks fine, though. Readjusting his belt. His face doesn't look any different, the scar on his neck is still there, there's the limp when he steps forward to fill in the gap that Komaeda made but it's not as pronounced.

He taps a finger to his bottom lip. ]

Start here.

( they can't be anywhere else, yogen town isn't here! )

Then why do they ask people if they're happy to see them when looking down, ahaha...

( hm, start there? komaeda follows that train of thought, swiping his tongue against his bottom lip. he'll take a step closer as he settles a hand on his waist, considering the request.

hm, it comes to mind. )

You want me to use my mouth... ah, how bold! Out in the open? No one would have saw my hand.

[ should've stabbed him in the back— no, don't think about that ]

Maybe, but at least your mouth is warm. If you'd rather use your hands, then...

[ gonna take Komaeda's hand and sandwich it between his own and breathe on it to warm it up, because touching anybody in sensitive areas with an ice cold hand is a crime. ]

( his fingers flinch a bit from the gesture, but he allows him to exhale as he keeps his hands in place — sure, he understands that the other was aiming for a ****, but this is much better. komaeda's cold anyway, and he'll take whatever warmth he can get. )

You're always one step ahead.

( or something like that, because he's not taking his hand back as he laughs softly — it tickles, just a bit. )

You made it just in time for December, I'm glad you left early, because now you won't miss out. This is a hopeful month, you know! ( one he wants him to see, that is. )

I can't stand festivals, and I needed to be back before finals, so that was the timing that works out best.

[ Is it a hopeful month... he supposes so, with Christmas and the New Year filling people's heads with hopes and wishes and resolution. It makes him sick. ]

Are you looking forward to it?

Festival was a success, many people played the Escape Rooms that both Amami-kun and I made!

( escape rooms are tedious for those who can't solve puzzles or riddles, but komaeda has always loved thinking — his mind ran a mile a minute, coming up with all sorts of scenarios so that it went hand in hand with the fact that he can't sit still. )

Why does Santa only visit the good children? Why are the bad children ignored... I really don't understand it...

( he thinks they deserve a little more, especially when the children have probably done no wrong — the standards placed on them, and when he looks at rokkun, he probably never had a christmas gift before. ) So we're going to fix that, me and you!

Santa is biased, but not towards good and bad. Rather, the rich and poor.

[ Considering which side of the spectrum he falls on, no, he never received a Christmas gift before. Giving them was always his job, not that he had many Christmases with his siblings to begin with. ]

If you wanted to give gifts, the student council is doing some sort of event. Go join that.

...Ah, you are the Grinch around this time, huh.

( never thought he'd be wanting to talk to someone so mean during christmas cheer, and komaeda takes his hands away because he just gor rejected? let him go. )

You always speak real world views, and it makes sense... I'm not speaking about that, though, have you been naughty or nice this year, Rokkun?

[ Wow. Okay, fine. His warm hands can go inside his warm pockets. ]

I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life.

( crosses arms and looks away, cannot believe this is what rokkun has decided to do...

...and when komaeda had been excited. )

You don't believe me...

[ He's been on his best behavior? Hasn't directly killed once this year. ]

...Prove it.

( how is he to know that he'll be on his best behavior? )

Prove to me you'll be a decent Santa.

( yes, he's still on this. )

I thought we were in agreement that Santa is an asshole.

[ He doesn't want to be santa................ not that most of these students will be alive to have to pass out presents to anyways. He might have thirty deliveries, tops. ]

What's your plan?

He is, that's why I'm making you the new Santa... I've spoke to Arisu-san already and...

( he rubs the back of his head, anyway, he walks closer to rokkun just so he can bump into him chest to chest, and then lean!! )

Dress up, and I'll give you money to buy things. Do it for me, please...~

[ He makes a face at being volunteered to the student council that he wants no part of anymore, but his attention is brought back and he's glad for the tree behind him to let Komaeda's leaning only go so far. ]

Santa isn't the one that goes shopping, you know... Besides, I'm not going to know what people want.

Can you get me out of here, Rokkun? So I can do it myself...? Can you save me...? Can you help me leave this school? Can you do it at this moment? Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh...?

( his hand lifts to grab the other arm, squeezing just a bit before he pulls himself away, one step, and then two, and once he has about five steps distance. )

You can't... ( sighs.... )

[ Wha-

...It's the same old song and dance, but he can't fault Komaeda for the frustration. Being able to leave the school is an escape, but not the breath of fresh air Komaeda is probably imagining it to be.

Either way... ]

When's the last time you tried?

( freedom...? komaeda doesn't care for freedom, it's rokkun speaking as if komaeda can do anything that warrants getting out — he's the only one who can get out, so why won't he help...? why does komaeda ask anything of him, why doesn't he understand? )

Why? So you can laugh at me? ( he doesn't sound irritated, but he doesn't sound happy either. )

...With Goto-kun, we couldn't go to the forest.

I wouldn't laugh at you. Over something like this. [ Other things, yeah,

but not the ability to get out, to step through the doors and fling open the gates—- he'd started off the same way, after all, banging on the windows and breaking his ankle trying to kick down the doors.

He had hated the trees at one point in his life, and then there was the unimaginable relief to be able to find himself back amongst them. ]

You should keep trying. Don't get too comfortable inside the school.

...You know how I feel about these things, Rokkun. I won't become complacent, just like I won't accept these walls being my limits of what I can do.

( it's a motivator, he's not obssessed, but he knows that they can get out if they try — ah, what's within the woods, what would the find out there? komaeda looks towards rokkun, and then he feels a little silly with his sudden outburst, and he glances off to the side. )

A void is already devouring it, do you know one wrong move... one drop of blood... and that person is dead?

( it's said with a smile as he walks to the other side of the tree. )

[ "I won't become complacent" he says, but why isn't he like past Rokkun bouncing off the walls like a caged animal, why wasn't any other student like that, what's wrong with them all

...

He leans over, peering around the other side of the trunk. ]

What are you thinking happens when somebody falls into the void?

Alright, follow this.

( people deal in better ways than him? also, komaeda's not an idiot like rokkun who has died early in. )

If you kill someone there, they drop dead here, correct?

( making sure they have the same line of thinking. )

Do they?

[ SORRY he's lost on the first line..........

but from his perspective, it isn't entirely the case. You kill someone there and they drop dead here, Komaeda knows that from certain cases such as with impostor!Clamor and Elizabeth. At the same time, you kill someone there and they ...simply go home with a head-splitting migraine, returning the next day still very much "alive."

Overall, as a whole, the students might be in the same situation, but that doesn't mean they're all on a level playing field. ]

( HELP WHEN YOU TRY TO CATCH SOMEONE IN A LIE TO SEE WHAT ROKKUN KNOWS AND THIS MAN JUST QUESTIONS YOU BACK.

i hate him, but komaeda will applaud, alright maybe he knows nothing, and it's a shame he wasn't corrected. )

...Something like it, it's peculiar at best.

( a shame, but he's not talking to a brick wall. he leans back properly so that he can face rokkun, and he nods. )

I wanted to show you the other side once, but never got the chance... Dropping blood and then falling directly into the abyss, doesn't sound like it'd bode well here.

[ me too ]

It doesn't sound like it'd bode well but you wanted to show me?

[ Thanks? Either way... he doesn't sound surprised, doesn't sound doubtful either, maybe a little dismissive, maybe like something he's thought about for 249945304950 years and can't be too distressed about it anymore. ]

I guess it'd depend on who you are.

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