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[crystallomancy]

( What does she mean, what's wrong with him? And he isn't stupid, he just...

He clenches his teeth and closes his eyes. )

[adsum]

[ Something's wrong with him, and he's very stupid, and he's not very good at taking direction if he won't look at her while she draws her fist back for one more blow. She at least would have the decency to look her victim in the eye when she kills them, watching as the light dims and

...

There's a sharp pain at the center of Natsume's forehead, the flick making his bangs fly up and resettle. ]

You're sooooooooo annoying! Open your eyes and tell me you're sorry!

[crystallomancy]

( Wow, she almost sounds like Sena-senpai. He still recoils back, eyes snapping open to shoot her a sharp look.

...He rubs his forehead, frowning. )

I'm sorRY.

( That it had to come to that. That he has her blood on his hands, metaphorically. That he's burdened her with something she was probably fine not knowing, really.

...For valuing his life over hers and for being willing to do it again if she really wanted to try and kill him. )

[adsum]

Say it like you mean it.

[ Even if it's just pretend, because she knows he isn't. Because people who are sorry don't say it like a story, emphasizing the larger context rather than saying straight up: "Hey, sorry I murdered you" ]

Also, how are you going to make it up to me?

[crystallomancy]

( ...How is he going to make it up to her? How do you make it up to someone you killed? He can't ask Hiro because Hiro's avoiding Kouji, Sara's predicament probably did not involve murdering the person she wronged, Fujioka-senpai is functionally useless... )

I'm sorRY, Kudo-chan. From the bottom of my HEART, I'm sorRY. ( ...He bows his head a little too, still thinking about it. How can he? ) And... I don't KNOW. How would you like me to make it up to YOU?

[adsum]

Seppuku.

[ ... ]

[crystallomancy]

( ... )

Is that what you really WANT?

[adsum]

No, I'm just testing my limits. Would you, though?

[ Because that's not a no from him ]

[crystallomancy]

( Natsume, thinking about his virtual world )

Not in real LIFE. It'd be stupid to give it up so easiLY.

[adsum]

[ If she knew about that, she would want to be the one doing the stabbing ]

It's easier to take somebody else's, huh?

[ She settles back with a little humph!, pulling the blanket back around her shoulders. He is never getting this back, sorry Natsume, sorry Nene. ]

I don't remember any of that, you know? It doesn't feel like "real life" to me, so it's hard to feel slighted. But I'm mad at you on my own behalf; I'm sure I didn't want to give up living either. So you're going to give back everything you stole from me, and then I'll forgive you. Deal?

[crystallomancy]

( Ow. ...He deserved that, though. )

...DEAL. What's first on your LIST, Kudo-chan?

[adsum]

[ She picks up her notebook and slaps it down in front of him. ]

Civics! After that is statistics, and then earth science!

[crystallomancy]

( ................. )

You're going to make me tutor YOU.

[adsum]

Yes!

[ If he's to give back the life he's stolen from her, then she can't let finals kill her ]

[crystallomancy]

( well ....... better than any alternatives, he guesses. )

Alright THEN. You'll be at the top of your class with a little help from ME, I can promise you that MUCH. ( an easy promise too. ) But I'm not going easy on YOU, so don't complain about my teaching STYLE.

[adsum]

If you hit me, I'm punching you back! You have to praise me when I'm doing well! Be that sort of teacher!

[ This isn't complaining, this is preemptively setting her standards ]

[crystallomancy]

I'm not going to hit YOU, and if you meet my stanDARDS, then I'll give you a compliMENT.

( And this is him setting his, this is going to be so much fun. Chiaki is a girl, though... he might go a little easier on her. )

Civics FIRST, like you SAID. What do you need help WITH?

[adsum]

[ It's handing over something he can whack her with, but it's fine because she has her fists to retaliate with and it would hurt much more than the notebook she flips open and holds up to Natsume's face. ]

Make up practice problems to ask me to make sure I know everything forwards and backwards.

[ It's the middle of finals week. At this point, everybody should already know everything and all that's left is review to keep everything fresh in your mind. Natsume is her practice test bank. ]

[crystallomancy]

( me out here like what are civics even, we didn't have a proper civics class in my school, i'm crying, chiaki why don't you teach ME

Natsume takes the notebook from her, skimming her notes. Is she a good notetaker, does she doodle in the margins, this is important lore info... He's going to go to a fresh page anyway and take the pencil she'd been using to start writing questions though, thinking. )

You're rather easy to please, aren't YOU. ( Not a bad thing, but studying isn't... difficult... ) ...Your punches certainly smart THOUGH. Did you get into fights often at SCHOOL?

( ... )

Before you came here, I MEAN.

( Her place. )

[adsum]

[ Her notes are somewhat scarce; it looks like rather than writing down everything the teacher says, she writes down just the parts she doesn't understand or wants to review. Normal notes in black ink, more complicated (and more thorough) notes carefully copied in blue, and occasionally a word is circled or underlined or penned into the margin in red. She writes only on one side of the paper and sometimes there's doodles but only on the very top margin so that nothing will bleed onto her notes on the other side and they're not actually doodles of things but more like shapes and patterns, like you see in adult coloring books.

Lore info aside, Chiaki laughs ]

No way! Nobody would dare fight me! They already know they'd lose!

[crystallomancy]

( YOU ACTUALLY GAVE IT TO ME, puts this away for safekeeping. At least it's good enough for him to formulate some questions—he'll focus on what she doesn't get and extrapolate on it a little. Give three paragraphs worth of explanation or don't get praised. )

And what titles do you have to your name to prove THAT?

[adsum]

Anego!

[ Big sister, but like... in a yazuka context ]

[crystallomancy]

( In what world is anego a ti... oh. Oh. )

You know, ( thinking, ) you aren't the first person aligned to those types of groups that I've had the pleasure of working WITH.

( Double Face is more than a little suspect, but as long as they take care of what needs to be done... )

[adsum]

I should hope not! You may be stupid, but you know how to talk to people, so I bet you have tons of normal high school friends!

[ Because that's the group she's talking about. Just normal high schoolers. Hanging around rooftops, hammering nails into wooden bats, you know. ]

[crystallomancy]

I didn't to your run-of-the-mill high SCHOOL, so not particularLY.

( how yogen is his normal high school experience )

I attend a private academy for the performing arts--there's a general education course naturalLY, but the main focus is on various other vocaTIONS... It's a school most famous for churning out idols above all else THOUGH. You could say we're all more like friendly rivals inSTEAD.

( not ... entirely the truth but not a lie either tbh )