yogen | npc contact.3

( ur last tag was cute i kinda cried, i don't deserve that. where is he!! taps memory notebook, he has a to do list to complete. )

[ Damn, can't avoid it forever, huh? He doesn't need his hands to play soccer, but they're still convenient to have and he'd like to keep them.

Komaeda can find him on the field today, actually, practicing bouncing a soccer ball on his knees, feet, and head on the slick grass. I was trying to find what the official term for this is and apparently it's keepie uppie?? who named this ]

( thinking about his hands, sighs, it's the illness in his brain honestly. hide his hands.

nooo keep up... i love it... keepie uppie... he's not going to bother him, instead, he'll watch him doing a few keepie uppies, and after getting bored from seeing like three. )

Can you do a thigh catch?

[ Three uppies take like two seconds, Komaeda will never stay awake through any of his soccer games at this rate

Google is giving me different things for thigh catch and thigh trap and I don't know anything soccer so Rokkun's going to humor him by doing both, getting the ball up around chest high before bringing his leg back and cradling the ball with the front of his thigh when it descends so that it rolls onto his foot and balances without a bounce, before kicking it up again and turning to catch the ball between his butt and the back of his thigh, youtube videos are more impressive than me describing this with words, pretend these are cool soccer tricks he's doing ]

( he's actually good at coming to soccer games, he has a soccer game... free event or something, but he watches, leave him alone!

he'll watch his fluent movements as the ball rolls down is body, tossed into the air, and comes back down; after, he claps about three times. that was nice enough, and he looks around wondering if amami is here doing soccer tricks too, or if it's just rokkun alone. considering its the latter, komaeda will sit down on the field to watch rokkun where he is. )

I should have brought someone with me, you have quite the line waiting to meet you. I'm sure they'd be impressed.

[ The grass is cold and wet, that probably feels gross

Rokkun would be in no better state, though, sweating despite the cold, clothes muddy from where the ball picked up dirt and grass and transferred to wherever he keepie uppies. ]

Thanks for the flattery, but nobody would be impressed with basic drills. I've been soccer captain for a long time, you know? And I don't have a fanclub or anything.

( he's sitting, he'll clean later, but he doesn't have a fanclub...? well, he remembers one person from awhile ago, but there's no need to bring that up. )

Keeping the ball from hitting the ground is pretty amazing, I can't do it.

( yes he can, but no need to flex... )

For a long time...? I guess that's long enough to dislike me, do you hate me like everyone else here?

[ He looks at Komaeda and thinks the ball might bounce off his knee wrong and go sailing into the tree or something, technically not being on the ground but they would also have a time getting it back down. ]

You know I don't. Why are you asking me that now?

You put bombs in my PDA, said it was Kaneko-kun, but I feel as if he hates you, and then I had no way of communicating for a few days. That, and you disappeared on me, and I couldn't find you until coming to the wisteria, and you were asleep.

...

( if that's not hate, then what is it? everyone is always negative towards komaeda, he's thinking about bothering his unconscious, coffin keepsake next. )

[ Oh. Haha. He keeps his eyes on the ball so he can keep it up. ]

I wasn't the one who put bombs in it, and I didn't say it was Seiya. [ I think. It might've been Komaeda asking if it was Seiya and Rokkun not denying it, but he didn't confirm so ??? doesn't count as lying. ]

Seiya's having a hard time, so he hates pretty much everyone, and the rest of that... I couldn't help that.

( makes a mental note to die tomorrow. )

Mhm...

( now he's doing that LYING thing again! won't sigh, just kinda stares at the ground. )

Making things difficult...

( it wasn't a bad thing, but it was difficult when the whole school didn't get to suffer their pdas breaking all at once, he doesn't have to look at the disappointed expression he's wearing. keep your eyes on the ball. )

You couldn't help it, yet you took part in it...

[ He can't die tomorrow, npckun talks with Subaru on Sunday and they can't if they're sad.

also lying by omission isn't lying, it's just not telling the truth, right to remain silent or whatever, like how he doesn't deny he took part in it but doesn't say anything about orchestrating it either. ]

Was it interesting, over there? I figured you'd get a kick out of that, finding and learning things on your own instead of being told.

[ Nobody listens when they're told. But if they come to the conclusion themselves, it'll mean more— even if he takes his eyes off the ball for a second to glance at Komaeda and think to himself that maybe they don't always come to the right conclusion. Not right away, anyways. ]

It's not a place that can be left, without working together.

( STOP HOW WOULD THEY EVEN KNOW KOMAEDA DIED

rokkun has him there, he did enjoy himself, and it was pretty fun learning new information from it. what he does however is pick up his pda, shaking it a bit. now that's what he didn't like. the thought of covering the blood capsule was an idea after the fact, but he was more or less onto the tips and tricks with the little things. he knew that little void area was interesting, and even the idea of pushing back the void. )

Everything else was fun, do you want to hear about it? I'll tell you everything, even the parts I liked, and the parts I disliked! Come, come. Sit!!

( pats the ground in front of him, his patting slows down as he glances up to rokkun , "without working together," and he wonders who replaced rokkun. is this a doppelganger.... huh? )

...That's right.

( who is this? )

[ Stop, he's not looking at him, maybe Komaeda brought back the wrong one

With one last bounce off his knee, Rokkun catches the ball as it comes down and goes to use it as a seat in front of Komaeda, using the collar of his shirt to wipe the sweat off the back of his neck.

Looks at the PDA, looks away. ]

Yeah? How was it? You guys took kind of a long time.

[ 42 days, come on, ]

Why did you do that to my PDA, and who inserted the bombs? ( if it's akki, komaeda's going to break his fingers actually, so rokkun will be spared. ) Kaneko-kun's the time jumper, memory guy, but...

( why is rokkun so generic and basic, why does everyone have cool friends. sighs... )

Answer me first, and I'll tell you! You wanted to know more about me right, we can do it like this.

( they took a long time which was only seven days in that world, and his lips purse into a straight line as he stares at him. he wants to say something like, "did you miss me?" but he opts out on it while trying to think of some fact that rokkun might want to hear about him. )

Edited (i forgot what was important) 2022-01-14 18:31 (UTC)

[ How bad of an answer is "opportunity" when it comes to doing stupid things? It didn't have to be Komaeda's PDA, like it didn't have to be specifically Nene's or Hinata's— heck, he'd also lied to Turing and swindled them to give up their PDA, recruiting them to collect others and he'd had Shinobu's at one point too. ]

Is this telling you much about myself? [ that he's a cheat and a liar and doesn't say anything about anything? nothing new, essentially ]

Akki took care of everything. He promised it wouldn't damage anything permanently. [ The force wouldn't have been enough to blow anybody's fingers off if they were holding it at the time, and burns can be treated and PDAs could be fixed. ]

Just needed to get the system offline for a moment, nothing personal. I figured you'd survive finals and still have your PDA.

[ Dead people's PDAs would've been useless, a waste of time, so with Komaeda he could at least guarantee Akki one, months down the line. ]

I'll make sure not to next time.

( live past finals.

as for akki? komaeda might just cut off his fingers, it's a coming and going thought of his as he stares at rokkun, and then looks down to his fingers. the only thing keeping him from doing it now is because in a way, it was fun, but komaeda didn't want to give up his pda to begin with, rokkun has taken it by force. to show weakness by taking advantage of the weak, how disappointing. )

Next time, choose someone else. Now I feel bad for Kaneko-kun, he didn't do anything... maybe I'll check on him later, wonder if he'll sleep with me...

( he's mumbling now as he looks up to rokkun, and recounts the start of the adventure. as soon as they went in, he'll dig into his pocket searching for... )

We started to investigate, Add-kun went into the void with Chakkun, and I found something nice and sparkly in a window. I almost died trying to get it! I thought that was fun, jumping from point a to point b, ah... no wonder you wouldn't let me cut myself at the vending machines, you always knew about the void. ( reaches over to pinch his nose, boop. ) While I was trying to get what I was after, Akehoshi-kun came out of nowhere and almost kicked me into the depths... I narrowly escaped death! But I got what I was after.

( he's still digging in his pockets, he has a lot in there... )

So what... breaking five PDAs renders the rest useless? Maybe Rokkun can be a strategist when he really tries.

Seiya knew what he was getting into. Leave him alone.

[ He isn't the sort of person who would agree to do something if he didn't think it was worth it, especially when he's put into the position of the face of the operation. And he wouldn't sleep with Komaeda... he wouldn't, right? he wouldn't. he'd stab Komaeda in his sleep first, Rokkun can be reasonably sure of that.

Setting that roiling rage aside, the rest of what Komaeda says makes him trying to picture the void, to be back there with the ground falling apart and being Just Some Guy in the middle of nowhere with nobody.

A nose scrunch at the nose boop, and it stays scrunched because damn, Subaru, how many strikes against you can you collect in one year? ]

You say that as if I spent the last several hundred years doing nothing but kicking down walls and setting things on fire. I'm the soccer captain.

[ The playmaker ]

I'm not mad at Kaneko-kun, I actually like him.

( that said, komaeda's thinking about having a cat nap with him already, maybe a few days later because seiya probably likes it when komaeda's quiet anyway. even now, he's brought a hand to his chin as he thinks over the individual, he doesn't have a chest like hinata, but he's probably still comfortable. he stays wrapped up in bedsheets, so he must have some warmth to him. no loud snores, just the simple rise and fall of his chest which makes komaeda smile for a moment before looking back at rokkun. )

He's just as abusive as you. ( "stop calling rokkun abusive," no. anyway, he'll pull out the necklace that he has which happens to be the center piece, and the other two sides are missing. ) I found this.

( there's a small chuckle, shaking his head, and locks of hair tickle across his nose as he tries to push the soccer ball from under rokkun. )

Haven't you? Anyways, it was odd... that void had a janitor's closet that's much better than ours. For being your father's school, he has everything backwards, but Chakkun believes that world to be real.

[ Rokkun... is a different kind of abusive, maybe, it says a lot when Komaeda likes Seiya better when he's done nothing but punch him and try to inject air into his veins.

He looks at the necklace, nodding a little in recognition, and then looks up from it. ]

You should probably give that back. What's so weird about the janitor's closet being better over there, though? It is a real world, with real messes that need to be cleaned.

( that's why he's going to sleep with him? reward, he'll find him in the nurse's office, so if rokkun sees him going there, then he'll know. also, he's aware of his affinity with blood which makes the process easier. )

Do you have the recipient's address?

( he'll pocket it once more, so it's one of those bad luck type of charms? )

You weren't there, Rokkun... does that make you a fake... Do you want to talk about being characters controlled by someone else again? Hm... it's just that, I wouldn't mind having that closet here, even though it was an old memory before it was ransacked.

151. [ He leans forward and Komaeda gets a nose bop in retaliation ] Do I feel fake?

[ He's real! and has free will! stop, don't take that from him ]

Anyways, if that's what you're fixated most on, all you have to do is ask for ...I dunno, bleach or toilet paper or whatever was in there you wanted so badly. A potato.

I gave the other two halves away, so I have to retrieve them, again? ( he's booped, and he closes his eyes. see, this is occurring abuse. )

No, you don't feel fake... ( grabs his hand and holds it. ) You feel warm.

Let's play soccer, then we can play when we go to Tokyo Disney.

( he's going to get up now, bringing rokkun with him. why does he know about the potato? ) It was just a memory, was that Kaneko-kun's or yours?

Edited 2022-01-15 18:37 (UTC)

[ He shrugs because Komaeda doesn't have to do anything; he knows how eager people are to steal (looks at Amami) and how reluctant they are to give things back.

Letting himself give Komaeda's hands a squeeze as he gets to his feet, he then lets go and steps back a couple of paces to make space between them and motions with his hands for Komaeda to toss the ball into play.

Gonna ignore that comment about Tokyo Disney, he's going to throttle whoever suggests it again this year ]

Originally? It was mine. But since Seiya's seen and lived it, it's his too. I don't know which version you saw.

[ Except that there was a potato in the closet that Seiya found strange but Rokkun did not. ]

...What about the other two, are they all in 151, or do they go to separate places?

( maybe if rokkun tried to bond with his siblings, amami wouldn't be taking them! that said, he does need to bond, so komaeda will make a mental note to do that.

as soon as they have space between them, komaeda will look at the ball, not really caring about the sport so much, he drops the ball, catching it with the side of his foot to bounce it a few times. )

Potato in the janitor's closet, a warm spot in the science room, do you remember the time of the clocktowers?

( how does he mention subaru broke those. )

There was some stuff about us, but that's not important.

01/13 — rokkun

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