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yuseirra · 15 days ago

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**Onk 163 spoilers**

Since that chapter is out, I guess I can talk about it more openly, right!

In short, I cannot resonate with either Aqua and Tsukuyomi. I don't feel a single ounce of pity for either of them, which is saddening because I used to care for Aqua so much when I first picked up the series. He's the first one I wrote a long character analysis for way back even before hikaai grabbed me by the collar and pulled me in, (I did a splendid job with it, I really cared about him) he was a fav. I already know he's selfless and suffering and has a good soul but I am not convinced what he's done is the right choice. Aqua's right about himself. He is a fool. Nobody wanted him to die except maybe him and Tsukuyomi (I'm being twisted but I seriously feel like her tears are crocodile tears rn because isn't SHE the one who caused him to be reborn and assigned him a mission?? Isn't she the one who kept urging him to walk that path of vengeance? And now it's suddenly about saving Ruby all along?? ? Did Kamiki want Ruby to die from the beginning? What's going on?) Tsukuyomi is the one that caused Gorou to be born as Aqua in order to fulfill something. Aqua put his life following what Tsukuyomi assigned him and now she pities and cries when he can die. Hey, then you should have just let him live his life as an 18 year old? Isn't this the outcome you wanted? Or is Kamiki really THAT evil? I have a feeling it was Tsukuyomi who found Kamiki a problem THUS, she made Aqua go after him to take him down on her stead. How else would things play out this way huh?

Back to the "nobody wanted Aqua to die" bit, yeah? Ruby wouldn't have wanted it, Ai wouldn't, Kana, Akane, all his friends and acquaintances, Miyako and the president, EVEN KAMIKI, did not want Aqua to make this choice. That's why I just can't agree with what he's done. Kamiki looked so visibly startled and shocked when he saw Aqua stab himself and try to kill him. Kamiki told him Aqua has so much to live for so he should go back and enjoy his life, Aqua didn't listen and he goes ahead and tries to kill them both, even crafting up a fake lie that would degrade his father's reputation.

Kamiki praised the movie. He funded for it, even. Aqua wanted to lie Kamiki tried to kill him over it, that's just something I can't support. It's cruel and I'n not sure if those measures were so necessary. There was that about Kamiki turning themselves in?? What was that? Was he really going to do that after Ruby's concert or was that him just manipulating Nino but HOW CAN THAT LOGICALLY LEAD NINO INTO TRYING TO ASSAULT RUBY?? I JUST?? This guy really is a god or something if he can make that possible GUYS he really must be Sarutahiko. Ai(Amenouzume)'s husband. Goodness.

Honestly, I'm so frustrated about this situation, it resolves nothing. Doing this doesn't bring about anything meaningful and if Aqua dies here, he... Brought it upon himself. I don't like it being posed as some noble sacrifice because it isn't. So what is the truth?? So what does he know?? What was his divine mission then, was he really assigned to kill his father and that's how things turned out to be this way? Did Kamiki really do all those horrible things? But he looks so, so bright and happy when he was with Ai and he says he didn't do anything. He never once admits that he's done those things. It's vague. That chapter where Aqua dunks him was all about lies and the public not caring about what the truth is. So Aqua is going to lie about his dad and frame him as a murderer when it's really HIM trying to kill him and not the other way around. But I CARE about the truth, I, as a reader who's followed the series deserve to know what's going on, at least two major character's lives are at stake and we don't have a clear idea of what's what, this isn't right, is it?? So, what is it, Aqua? You know, if you're going to take someone's life, isn't it only fair of you to base it on the truth??? I just can't support him on this one unless I see it being justified. Besides, not a single thing is changed for the better if HE dies. It has no meaningful message, no resolution, just two broken people suffering to the death with everyone around them destined to too if they do. At least, no one would mourn Kamiki besides Ai (he's so alone), I think he himself knew that, but Aqua had a lot to live for. If he decides he must still go through and make a choice as dire and dramatic as this, it needs to have a strong base but... What I saw of Kamiki, he was so kind. If you look at all the things he says and the way he treats Aqua, Aqua keeps telling him all these harsh remarks but he doesn't show so much aggression over it. He smiled at him and.. I'm not sure if that was him being manipulative?? But none of the things he say are actually wrong. He has a point, and it actually relates to what the character went through as a part of his life. Aren't those two both victims of the nature of the industry? Is Kamiki the real evil behind it all that must die? That cannot be it. I wouldn't be so confused if he weren't someone Ai's truly loved. He really loved her too. From what I see, he's someone who took the biggest toll when she passed and he threw his entire life away to feel her again because he couldn't bear Ai doesn't exist anymore, to the point he broke down and lost his originally good nature. He's someone who's suffered immensely, I just don't see him as the guy who would have hurt Ai...he can't. He just.. Looked so happy with her and she always smiled back too, Ai wouldn't choose a person that'd do that to her and say she wanted to love them forever, won't they.

Aqua won't die guys. I'm not concerned about his life AT ALL. Him and Ruby are like a set, what would Ruby do without him if he dies like that? I just don't see that happening. He will be fine and we'll see him reunited with his precious beings. Because, it's.. Very dumb and underwhelming if it isn't. If they still go through with it, okay...I guess. I should be thankful of how the piece is saving me of the sorrow I'd have felt, right now.. I'm confused and even a bit angry towards Aqua for having been so reckless;; I'd feel sorry for everyone around him, and I'd slap Aqua's back. Tsukuyomi, I really don't know what to feel about her. What's her deal? Why is she here and what's she in this for? If she's the god of fate, she's so helpless, I do have an idea why she exists and what she's in this for actually, but, her crying won't help anything. She should stop being so ambiguous and do something if she's a god and the one that's brought the two souls to live again as Ai's twins, none of this would have happened without her intervention, I'm pretty sure what's currently happening to Aqua is an aftermath of what she assigned him to do.

What I feel is at stake, really, is not Aqua's life but the message of this piece. There is no way that can be saved if the rest of the pacing is this slow. That's what I want to be saved somehow though, three chapters left, if they are not going to to a good job with Hikaru and Ai and write them in a convincing way in depth, I just hope they focus on/do a spledid job with the twins. Just don't ruin them anymore.. I never wish I had to feel or say that. They built these perfectly good characters, why aren't they bringing out what they can be when they have? I'd be so proud of them, wouldn't they be too?

The songs though...omygod the songs though?? Guess that'll explain things miles better than the manga itself at this rate, I'm glad they exist, at the same time I wonder why they'd make it like that if they're not going to discuss just what the those intriguing lyrics there are supposed to mean

If the message is saved, then this work will remain so meaningful to me! There are too little chapters left...it'll be hard to have my hopes high though. What I can hope for, then, is to wish the work be less messy any further. If they aren't going to tell us what's actually going on and drag on like this when there's a mere 3 chapter left, there really isn't so much to look forward to.. This is my selfish wish but what I want now is for them to not make Ai's love look fruitless. I'm too distracted about that to feel anything about Aqua rn, so what was her wish?? Why did Aqua give up on that? And why is being a liar suddenly a negative thing, when the work started on a sentiment that lies are love? I really liked that idea. I thought it brought about a good insight of the nature of the industry. The "lie" here in some cases, can be interpreted as being considerate for the other party actually, it doesn't actually actively conflict with loving someone, you can lie for someone out of love, that's what Ai's done... It didn't have the best effect, but her feelings were there. I feel Kamiki may be similar, he could also be that guy who lies out of love and pretends he's the bad guy? Anyhow with Tsukuyomi branding them both as liars, I wonder what they want to do with this concept of "lies" as well. Are they going to make it seem like it's bad, at this point of the series? That also isn't a good message from the way I see it. I really love that liar couple, I literally drew 400+ pieces of them since July!! ;-;)99 so let me rant about that a little.

That's all for now! Don't know what to expect but I hope things don't go for the worse!

#oshi no ko #oshi no ko spoilers #aqua hoshino #oshi no theories #hikaai #I'm generally really unimpressed with this chapter #but that's because I'm not sure if things to form a clear opinion on them and what to feel towards it rn #it should have been touching??maybe? but I just feel like this didn't have to happen at all and Aqua just.. messed up;#nobody wanted him to end up like this #and he won't die. don't worry. I write stories too and this is such a dumb turn.. I don't even feel it's a shock #spoilers #what a way to feel when the main protagonist's life is at stake;; I never knew I'd be like this either #but this explains nothing!!! nothing is revealed! still no amswers!!

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nogenderbee · 3 months ago

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♡˗ˏ✎*ೃ˚ 𝔼𝕪𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕖 ₊˚ˑ༄

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ @vodka-glrl request: Okay so yandere gaming x fem! Reader where the reader just loves hanging out with xingqui and chongyun and gaming gets jealous and yk the rest :>

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ OMG YESSSSS

I did it with the oneshot aaaaand I guess it could be considered a but of a softer yandere-? BUT I STILL HOPE YOU'LL LIKE IT AT LEAST A BIT!!!

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ TW: yandere, unhealthy obsession, threats(?)

If Ga ming knew that by introducing you to his friends, he'd sign up to... all of this... he'd have never even mentioned them in the first place.

He was now sitting with his arms crossed as you enjoyed your meal and tea with Xingqiu and Chongyun.

"(Why must she be smiling to them like that... this smile was supposed to be reserved just for me... What do I even do...)"

His thoughts were interrupted by your voice though.

"I'm going to bathroom really quick. I'll be back in a second okey? Don't go anywhere!"

"I can go wi- I mean... Of course! I'll guard your stuff!"

He quickly corrected himself seeing the opportunity and waving to you gently as you left.

"Is there something on your mind, Ga ming?"

Xingqiu asked, visibly noticing the tension hanging in the air and how easily your boyfriend let you go despite usually following you everywhere.

"Yes... with me... You remember what I told you last time, right?"

"It was Y/N that offered us this meeting."

"Yeah, that's why I haven't burn you yet. I want my love to be happy... but you're pushing your luck..."

"By simply talking?"

"You're making her laugh too much."

"That just means she's just having good time with us-"

"Chongyun, I think it's time we take our leave."

Xingqiu sent Ga Ming one more glare, noticing how insane their friend is beginning to bebqns how this situation may end unpleasingly for them...

"Tell Y/N we're sorry."

Both of them left, not even paying for themselves. Maybe they forgot? Or maybe it was just way to pay back Ga ming for how he's treating them? Doesn't matter to the lion dancer tho! All he can think of is you...

"Okey I'm back! Huh? Where's Xingqiu and Chingyun?"

"They're sorry..."

"Hm? Oh, were they busy?"

Ga ming stayed silent for a little while thinking of his options... but despite being very tempted to make you hate those two boys, he didn't wanted to make you and in the process...

"Yes... We can just treat it as our date now, sunshine!"

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@bleachtheidiot @vodka-glrl @miya-akane - come get your dim sum lover!

#genshin impact #genshin #x reader #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #ga ming x reader #ga ming #genshin ga ming #genshin ga ming x reader #yandere au #yandere #genshin yandere #oneshot #genshin oneshot

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danganronpasurvivoraskblog · 5 months ago

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Hibiki alive!? But we saw you fall to your death!

Is...Is this a dream...Am I...d-dreaming...!?

no...*COUGH!* i'm...here...setsu...

You...YOU IDIOT!

*Setsuka wants so badly to hurry over and hug Hibiki, but knows better and instead falls to her knees at the foot of the bed, crying.

What HAPPENED to you!? How come you-!? A-Are you alright!?

i...

Ah, hold on...I would advise asking too many questions. It's not ideal for Ms Otonokoji to talk right now.

Let me explain what happened...

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*Sora explains to Kaede the full story of what happened while Yoruko helps console the relieved and crying Setsuka.

Ugh, you MORON! What the hell made you want to do something like that!?

i didn't...mean...to betray...you guys...i just didn't want...you to...die by kanade's...hand...for my sake...

Hibiki-!? I-!? You-!? UGH! I'm really mad at you, I hope you realize that!

i'm sorry...i can't...say sorry...enough...

Well, forget about all that. We're just all so glad that you're alive...I know you shouldn't be talking but...Please...Tell us how you survived, because that was a LONG DEADLY fall that you dropped off.

theres...actually not much of a story to that one...i fell...a long way...but my clothes got...caught...on a gear before...i hit the ground...and...

It softened your fall?

yeah...and...there was...a med team...at the bottom of the fall...so they...they got to me in time...and saved me...before i could die from blood loss...

That really happened? That is...like...GODLY levels of good luck!

Yeah...Yeah! Godly! In other words-!

Divine Luck!

But...how was that possible? Divine Luck only works if Yuki is present, and he wasn't with us when we fought Kanade.

No...He wasn't...But TAIRA WAS!

Huh? You mean-?

According to what I already know about Divine Luck, it's a miraculous power that has the ability to shift the balance of the world in a way that makes it so whatever Mr. Maeda desires will come to fruition. By the law of said ability, it also somehow makes it possible for him to share his talent between people.

In my personal opinion, I think the most likely scenario is he gifted the power of Divine Luck unto Akane Taira before the fighting began, and Taira transferred that power over to Ms Otonokoji before she dropped. Therefore, she briefly gifted Ms Otonokoji her Divine Luck, which gave her enough power to save herself before she fell.

Then we owe that woman a great debt.

...i guess i didn't want to die...i just...didn't want you guys to die with me...i know it was stupid but...im sick and tired of the people i love being hunted...down...and killed...

I know Hibiki...and I forgive you...Thank you for coming back...

#danganronpa survivor #danganronpa #danganronpa another 2 #sdra2 #danganronpa v3 #drv3 #setsuka chiebukuro #hibiki otonokoji #kaede akamatsu #sora #yoruko kabuya #kanata inori #ask #the day the world stood still arc

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ivanttakethis · 13 days ago

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Before Round 27 - Tov’s Log

Jae (?) vs. Lang (?) -> ??? Win

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Tov awoke the next morning to the phone ringing.

Nyx was gone, just as he said.

The only evidence of his presence left behind was rumpled sheets and a radio communicator so they could stay in contact.

They still had a lot to talk about.

All of the secrets Nyx spilled were still whirling around in her head.

“Vera is still alive.”

Good. Great. One less dead classmate.

“I never told you that I saw Aurien get taken away by Solei.”

They were even on that. Tov never told Nyx that she knew Solei was the one who rescued Aurien.

But that was before Round 7. Before she thought Tallis had died right in front of her eyes and lost her mind.

At least Tov returned the favor and spilled the secret about him too.

Now two people knew Tallis was out there somewhere.

Though what stuck in her mind the most, what left her with far more questions was—

“I never told you about my children.”

The thought of Nyx having just one child was enough to make Tov’s head spin. But he said children. Multiple.

He was so young. When the fuck did he have time to have multiple children?

Who were they? How long ago did he have them? Does he know their names? Are they still in contact? Where are they now? Please tell me they’re not in Anakt Garden—

The phone rang again.

Tov’s plot to tear that bastard Guardian Oryon’s wings off with her bare hands would have to wait for now.

She sat up in her bed and fumbled blindly for the answer button, hitting it with more force than necessary.

Wren started talking before she could greet her. “Hey! Where have you been? I’ve called you like three times already.”

“Late start.” She said around a yawn.

“Ah, so you haven’t read the news yet.”

Tov frowned, “What news?”

“Don’t worry about it. Just a bunch of gossip rags spewing bullshit about Round 26.” The distain in Wren’s voice was palpable. “‘Has the star of Season 39 fizzled out? Tov’s stellar fall from grace!’ Gag me.”

Ouch.

“That bad, huh?”

“It’s not bad, it’s tacky. They’re acting like you bombed on stage.” She said. “Akane was tough competition. Neither of you were going to win by a landslide. I don’t know why people are losing their fucking minds about it.”

Wren sounded pissed off enough for the both of them. Tov found herself smiling.

“Hey, I’m the one who almost died.”

“Yeah, but you didn't.” Wren said after a moment. “You beat death.”

“I just got lucky.”

“Then I guess that means my good luck charm worked.”

Oh, that’s right.

The new weight on Tov’s right ring finger came to the front of her mind.

She raised her hand up toward the window, letting the silver band catch the sunlight pouring in.

“Maybe...” Tov hummed softly, running her thumb over the sun and moon engraving.

“Something about your voice sounds different today,” Wren said. “You’re a lot more upbeat than I’d expect someone in your position to be.”

Is it really that obvious?

There was no way Tov was going to tell Wren anything about what happened last night.

She shook her head, “I think you're just hearing things.”

Wren laughs, “You're a terrible liar.”

“I'm a great liar.” Tov countered, affronted.

“Then l'm great at figuring out whether you're lying or not.”

“I don’t like the connotations of that.” She said flatly.

“You’re overthinking it.” Wren matched her tone.

Tov made a noncommittal noise, scrubbing the sleep from her eyes with her palms.

“I won't push you on where this new spark came from, as long as you put it to good use.”

“Put it to good use how?”

“For your next round!” She said. “You need a song that plays to your vocal strengths and uses that new spark you have. It should be something powerful, something that shows the audience that you’re still here and you’re still going to come out on top.”

“I still have to become the Sun.” Tov echoed.

“Exactly. It isn’t over yet.” Wren said. “You have a season to win, remember?”

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This is a follow up to @imperfectnothing’s post of Tov and Nyx’s reunion after Round 26! Plus some sisterly bickering bonding!

Getting to see Nyx and being able to confirm that he’s okay has helped lift Tov’s spirits (even if she does want to put his owner in the dirt over what she’s learned).

She also has major survivor’s remorse over what happened with Akane, but Nyx and Wren’s encouragement makes her want to keep going. The power of siblings!!

While Nyx mentioned Solei to Tov, she still doesn’t know Solei is part bird 😅

#alien stage #alnst #alien stage oc #alnst oc #alnst oc: tov #alnst oc: wren #alien stage fan season #alnst fan season #alien stage season 39 #alnst season 39 #tov’s log

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a-student-out-of-time · 4 months ago

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I think Chiaki looks suspicious. She’s gone through rapid changes in her personality since October and while that could be due to everything with Kana and her parents, what if it’s something else. There’s also the fact she agreed with Nikei that Tsumugi needs to die, which looking at it now, is a bit of a red flag.

Huh!? But-

They've got a point, though...

Hey! Just because she's had some bad days, that doesn't make her suspicious!

That's right. I've been mad at her for how she acted, but that's going too far!

Do you dare accuse one of my moms like that!

Why shouldn't I? You're all the closest ones to Hinata, aren't you? Especially her.

And what will these accusations suggest? That the parasite has been masquerading as one of us just to get close to Hajime?

Then how would you explain the existence of our children? Would not that have been made clear to us by those in the future?

And who's to say Shirogane hasn't been playing the long con? Your family broke up after she started killing everybody, remember? We have no idea who she could've taken!

By that same logic, couldn't we accuse Taira-san?

...You leave her out of this. She has nothing to do with this.

I didn't say she did, I'm only asking you, based on what you said. But over the last few months, she's been out more than any of us, hasn't she? And she was on the island on her own too.

So why are we suspects, but not her?

Because Akane's not an idiot!

Oh, now you're calling us all idiots, huh?!

Well, we'd be having less problems if you'd just accepted that, sometimes, killing is necessary! But you couldn't just-

ALL OF YOU SHUT UP, RIGHT NOW!!!

Look...whatever issues you have, right now, I don't care. Maybe someone here is Shirogane, maybe they're not. Whatever happened, however Hajime, Esumi and Hayase were taken, it doesn't matter.

What does matter, and is the entire point of this mission, is finding where they are now! And we can't do that if you're all just going to start bickering over every little thing!

I agree, but...I do think we should at least run some tests to be completely certain. It'll take a while, but we can get four people proven today.

Alright, how's this sound? Four of you volunteer and we'll get our investigation team sorted out immediately. If you don't feel safe, find some corner of this place to wait it out away from the others. In the meantime, I have to make some calls.

Yeah...that's a good idea.

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princesscolumbia · 4 months ago

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https://www.furinkan.com/features/articles/pregnant.html

About a week-ish ago, the above link was posted to the r/Ranma subreddit. I took a look at the article and the tl;dr seems to be as follows:

Once upon a time there was a person who put forth the question to Rumiko Takahashi on whether Ranma's transformation from boy-to-girl was complete enough that Ranma could experience all the consequences of such a transformation, the logical conclusion being, "Can Ranma get pregnant?" The rather infamous 'quote' of "I don't think about that, and neither should you," is purported to come from this question, which told the audience one thing: Don't fucking ask about Ranma's sex life or by Kami-sama, Takahashi-sensei will gut you! This stood as an uncontested truth until the pandemic when someone decided to try and track down the exact source of the quote, at which point they realized this was NOT said at a convention (as had initially been circulated via rumor at the time), but in an editorial that stood in lieu of a an interview that took place over a sit-down dinner between Takahashi and an editor who would wind up garnering a reputation for ginning up drama for its own sake. It's likely a heavily 'interpreted' quote that probably didn't have the intent to come across as cutting or biting and likely had a LOT of questions left on the table that could have been asked as a follow-up. So now that we've answered the question of whether Takahashi-san was actually a rude bitch or not (likely not), if you want to know whether Ranma can get pregnant you are a smelly sex pervert who most likely has cooties and should just drop dead and save us all the trouble of shunning you.

Am I taking liberty with my summary? FU~HUH~HUH~UCK YES! If you want to see what they actually say, follow the link and read. It's not tremendously long and, save for the author's unconscious purity cult bias, is a pretty solid piece of reportage into the infamous "quote," even if the question isn't actually answered. What follows is what I posted to Reddit in the comments section for that link:

I take issue with the foundational premise that the question of whether or not Ranma could get pregnant is inherently puerile or vulgar, which is not only the foundation of the original misquote but also the basis of the article's author's premise. Guess what, people f*ck, including at least two people you (yes, YOU) know. This should not be controversial. Now, I'll grant that, maybe...maybe in the 1990s when the question came up it might have been one of those giggle-behind-a-hand-in-shock kind of things, but we're entering a phase in world culture where uterus transplants for transwomen are being put through clinical trials to allow them to get pregnant. The rights of trans and gender-non-conforming folk are being trampled on the world over. Some transmen are choosing to become pregnant and have children. The hypocrisy of "cis het people get to talk about pregnancy without everyone assuming the question is about f*cking, but you'd better not talk about someone who's even a little bit trans or you're clearly doing it to be filthy, nasty perverts" is being exposed for the comp-het that it is. Asking "does this character who, canonically, transitions back and forth between one biological set of sex organs and secondary sex characteristics multiple times per day have to deal with all the concerns, consequences, and benefits of both forms?" is no longer the automatic, "You can't say that on TV!" that is used to be (and, honestly, never should have been). Soun, canonically, has f*cked. Nodoka, canonically, has f*cked. Genma, canonically (goddess help us all), has fucked. The operational premise of the primary conflict of the series is whether or not Ranma and Akane are going to, eventually, f*ck. The question of "What happens if Ranma gets pregnant?" should only ever be problematic if Takahashi at some point declares that Ranma is an ace transwoman and never wants to birth children, at which point it would be a thing that shouldn't be considered for hard/soft canon purposes because it would violate Ranma's choices in the matter. IMHO, in the reboot I think an episode where Ranma has to deal with attending both the boy's and the girl's sex ed classes would be tremendously funny. It would also have the knock-on effect getting people to think about things like "consent" and "consequences," something our current culture rather lacks.

This was auto-banned on Reddit because, apparently, saying the word "fuck," even with the self-censoring and used in the appropriate context, is a bridge too far for a subreddit attended by people old enough to know what sex is.

This isn't the first time I've encountered problematic behavior on the r/Ranma subreddit. When I pointed out that Ranma's basically saying that s/he just plain forgot about their gender and they only wanted the cure for Akane's sake, this is basically Ranma declaring that they don't care about their 'curse' and is genderfluid/NB, just lacking in the language that we have for those gender presentations (or non-presentation, as the case may be) that we have today, I got the clapback of, "NUH-UH! You're wrong! Ranma's a cis guy!".

(Yes, a cis guy. A cis guy who has 'his' own bras and likely has to carry around period products "just in case" and grows at least a cup-size canonically over the course of the show's run as commented on by Nabiki...and don't tell me Nabiki's not at least bi!)

This was on a conversation about whether Ranma was trans, which is a challenging question given the best word at the time for what Ranma is was 'newhalf,' a term that has come to be associated with sex workers and holds the same cultural niche as "sh*male" in American culture; it's a bit derogatory and is considered to be a slur that is used specifically in a sexual connotation. Couple this with the anime and manga being, at best, parallel continuities (there's SO many places where the two are different timelines I could probably do an entire series of posts just breaking down the differences) AND the fans stitching the two together to create fused variant timelines for their derivative works means that we just don't, at this point, have a solid answer.

Thanks to THAT episode of the anime:

Am I... Pretty? Ranma's Declaration of Womanhood (Peacock link)

...pretty much no transwoman on the planet is going to question that anime Ranma is a transgirl. The parallels to our own experiences that (femme)Ranma talks about during her dissociative state hit entirely too close to home and if a member of the writing team for that episode wasn't part of the queer community I will eat my bra with spaghetti sauce.

It's important to note, as well, that because of the anime, Takahashi is NO LONGER THE FINAL AUTHORITY ON ALL THINGS RANMA. If 'death of the author' is a thing, Takahashi committed honorable sepuku and gave creative control over to a writing and directorial team that is not her.

For the original manga, because Takahashi was unwilling to tackle those questions that give Purity Cultists hives (though why she'd shy away from the pregnancy angle when she was perfectly happy showing Ranma and her mirror clone working as prostitutes is a question I will probably never get answered), it's "open to interpretation" as to Ranma's Genderfluid/NB status, though IMHO the text is as clear as you can get it for the language of the time.

(In retrospect, it's obvious; she should be in the club)

In the anime, though, Shampoo and Ukyo are bi (and fuckin'), Ranma is a transwoman, and Akane is either lesbian or bi and strangled by comp-het to an obvious degree. Ryoga may well be trans as well, though his pig-related curse makes the matter questionable given his lamentations could be either about not having a girl body like Ranma does OR having a pig body, which would suck and result in severe dysmorphia either way.

This is because the anime team chose to tackle those questions, at least tangentially. Rumiko Takahashi, for all she is to be thanked for giving the world Ranma 1/2 (...and a few other things), handed off the baton to other creators. If we want the answers to the questions like, "Can Ranma get pregnant?", Takahashi is NOT the source for that.

That said, if she and I had the chance to sit down over a meal in San Diego during a convention, I'd apologize on behalf of the community for the monstrous tool who misquoted her and ask the questions like another content creator, not some asshat who just wants to stir up trouble for decades to come.

#ranma #saotome ranma #ranma ½ #ranma saotome #ranma 1/2 #akane tendo #ukyo kuonji #ryoga hibiki #rankane #shampoo #akane #tendo #tendo akane #THAT question #reddit #source: reddit

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causeitsagame · 1 year ago

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Fic: Aquila (6/8)

Pairing: Hajime Hinata/Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu

Author: @miggylol

Notes: HOPE Y'ALL LIKE TALKING

Previous Chapters: in the tag.

Excerpt: All of those conclusions ran rapid-fire through Kazuichi's eyes, and he further relaxed. "Huh. Well, gotta say that this is a big surprise, man."

"You're telling me," Hajime said dryly. "His first reaction was to get pissed off at me about it."

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The next morning at breakfast, Hajime tried not to be obvious as he studied Kazuichi. Sonia would easily notice such an appraisal, while Akane would ignore anything short of a bullhorn against her ear while she ate. Kazuichi fell somewhere between those extremes, but unfortunately, Hajime wasn't quite sure where.

At least Kazuichi hadn't resented Hajime moving over to the cottages, thanks to a brief excuse of not wanting to leave Fuyuhiko out there alone. All of them knew far, far better than to say this out loud, but Fuyuhiko would be the least able to extract himself if some collapse, earthquake, or other crisis left him trapped. He might have as much raw determination as the rest of them combined, but determination alone couldn't lift a toppled tree.

At those few words of explanation, Kazuichi nodded knowingly and said nothing more. If Fuyuhiko insisted on going off somewhere, then at least he would tolerate Hajime's presence while throwing one of his anti-social fits. That was a good compromise until Fuyuhiko stopped stalking around like an angry cat and was once again willing to rejoin the group.

The cover story worked, but the ruse did leave Hajime feeling a little guilty. The excuse Hajime had given wasn't really a lie, but eventually, continuing down this path would result in straight-up twisting the truth. That, he wasn't willing to do.

Even so, while Kazuichi was a good and enthusiastic friend, he was…

Hajime paused to consider what label to use.

Kazuichi was reactive. Fuyuhiko was the one whose body might work against him if a crisis erupted, but it was Kazuichi who was the most likely to fall emotionally apart, by far. Hajime and Fuyuhiko pairing off might earn well-wishes from him, for all they knew! But it could also trigger a spiral of self-doubt where Kazuichi looked at the survivors, counted up the odd number of their small group, and then obsessed over every harsh rejection Sonia had ever given him.

"You keep looking over there," Fuyuhiko muttered as he worked at an orange's peel. "Going to tell him?"

"I know we'd talked about just staying private for a while," Hajime murmured back as he also reached for one, "but it feels different now that Sonia knows."

As if she'd somehow heard them, Sonia smiled knowingly from her nearby table. Perhaps they were leaning in a bit too close.

"Yeah," Fuyuhiko admitted. "Fine. Let's get it done."

Hajime nodded, but settled in for a real breakfast, first. According to Sonia's stated plan, the other three were headed back to the fifth island, while he and Fuyuhiko had another day of work ahead of them here. He'd need some calories in him.

"Okay, let's do it," he eventually whispered, and stood. Fuyuhiko followed suit, and went over to catch Akane by the arm before she could rush off to the dock.

Almost immediately, Hajime heard Akane say, "Oh, huh. Is that all? Sure, whatever." That easy? Dammit, Fuyuhiko knew what he'd been doing by claiming the girls as his targets.

"Hey, Kazuichi," Hajime said, and also caught Kazuichi by the elbow before he could head for the boat. "Can I talk to you for a second?"

"Huh? Oh, sure, man. What's up?"

"It's, uh…" Aware of Akane studying him, clearly about to comment on the situation, Hajime pulled Kazuichi into a nearby hallway. Its walls were lined with faded, yellowed posters about the musical act that was making a three-month visit to the islands, advertisements for businesses over in the second island's charming village, and encouragement to take advantage of the world-class room service menu. A small framed sign reminded them that reservations were recommended for the restaurant.

"Seriously," Kazuichi said once they were alone. Unfortunately, he was tilting visibly toward concern. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no, nothing's wrong. Me and Fuyuhiko got to talking, and we might…" Hajime shrugged, striving for casual.

"…Stay out there?" Kazuichi prompted in the silence. "You both said the cottages are a lot nicer. If you want to bother redoing the roofs—or managed to find some good ones—then hey, more power to you! Maybe I can try to get those electric carts up and running, huh? That way, you wouldn't have to keep walking back and forth." A grin erupted, and he leaned in with an amused, conspiratorial whisper. "Or you could just run him here and back. Ha! I just pictured his face if you offered to carry him."

"Ha, yeah, probably best to avoid that," Hajime weakly chuckled, and tried not to flash back to Fuyuhiko's proximity-versus-strength test from the day before. It'd be unfortunate if he started blushing here in the hallway. "Maybe we will stay. They are actually a lot nicer. But mostly, I wanted to mention that he and I…"

Kazuichi waited as Hajime fell back into silence, and popped his eyebrows up to prompt him to continue.

Wow, Hajime apparently did not have any Ultimate Tell Your Friend That You're Well On The Way To Hooking Up With Another Friend in his quiver of talents. After a moment of thought, he held up two fingers like he was making a peace sign. "He and I are thinking that we might want to be…" The fingers crossed. "…He and I, y'know?"

"Huh?" A moment later, clarity struck, and Kazuichi blinked and shook his head like a dog throwing off water. "Wait, seriously?"

"Yeah." Again, Hajime strove for casual, like this was a typical romantic pairing instead of forty percent of their known universe changing the social rules.

Kazuichi stared back at him in continued befuddlement. Then, unfortunately, he slid into worry as he turned to look toward the hall of hotel rooms. His stricken expression clearly said that he was recalling the wealth of other hotel options and homes left by previous residents.

Would Akane soon want to relocate to the second island that had been most popular with American tourists, to take advantage of its protected swimming areas and climbing cliffs? Would Sonia relocate to the elegant sprawl of the fourth's island top-end resort? Had Hajime and Fuyuhiko moving out and pairing off only been the first step in everyone choosing a path that led directly away from him?

Now for this, Hajime did have talents to draw upon. He silently thanked the therapist and psychologist at the back of his mind for putting labels onto all of those shifting emotions. Rather than acknowledge Kazuichi's deepening worry, he lightly continued, "Weirdly, it happened after a dream I had. I—well, Izuru, but it felt like me—was watching him lead a fight against the Foundation. We talked about it, afterwards. And got to talking about other things."

That was technically a lie, but Hajime didn't mind bending the truth of the timeline if it made Kazuichi feel better. As he'd suspected, it did work. Weirdly. But it worked.

Kazuichi worked through that, nodding slowly, and calmed down as he assigned deeper meaning to Hajime's words. It wasn't that people were finding better options than him; it was that Kazuichi Souda was, against all odds, actually the one in a better position. And he hardly ever got to experience that.

Hajime had been Hope's Peak's world-shattering triumph, and then the mastermind behind very nearly bringing back Junko Enoshima. Fuyuhiko had been at the head of armies that ruthlessly brought cities to their knees before putting bullets into civilians' heads. Kazuichi had certainly brought his own horror to the world, with all the devices he'd made for manufacturing Monokuma robots and helmets, or performing executions, or detonating dirty bombs across European cities. But his guilt had a slightly different feeling than theirs, for Kazuichi had always been following someone else's orders. Hajime and Fuyuhiko's memories had no such padding, as slight as it was.

If they'd formed a connection based on that recalled bone-deep regret, then it was understandable. It was a good thing to support each other, even. All of those conclusions ran rapid-fire through Kazuichi's eyes, and he further relaxed. "Huh. Well, gotta say that this is a big surprise, man."

"You're telling me," Hajime said dryly. "His first reaction was to get pissed off at me about it."

"Hah!" Kazuichi covered his mouth as soon as he'd barked out the laugh, and looked with continued amusement toward the restaurant door. "Is it wrong to wish you good luck?"

"Yes," Hajime said flatly, instinctively wanting to come to Fuyuhiko's defense. But then he paused, and couldn't help but say, "Thanks."

Kazuichi's grin held a few seconds more, then ebbed a bit. "So, is this, like, serious?"

"I don't know," Hajime admitted with a laugh. "I have zero idea. I know that I can wake the pods up, but not when, exactly. It would actually be nice to have those electric carts handy, but I don't know if it's worth clearing the trails for them, yet. And I know that I'm… I'm something with him, now, but I don't know what the label is. I really don't know these things. Believe it or not, that's actually a nice feeling to have."

Kazuichi's grin turned lopsided and softer, and he reached forward to clap his friend on the shoulder. The contact left him looking speculatively at Hajime, then at the doorway to the restaurant. If Hajime had to guess, Kazuichi's brain was reclassifying the number of romantic options on the island, rapid-fire.

Hajime held up his crossed fingers again. "Me and Fuyuhiko, remember? Literally just started something?"

Kazuichi stepped back. "Right, congrats! Hey, I'd better get to the boat, okay? Sonia and Akane are probably waiting for me." The girls' names brought that speculative glint back to his eyes, and Hajime said a silent prayer that all of them would return from the fifth island with no drama. The two of them adding romance to the equation really might have changed things.

Once the other three were headed for the dock, and it was once again time to focus on animal control, Fuyuhiko shot a hopeful look toward Hajime. "So? How'd it go? He looked like he was in a good enough mood heading out, but…"

Hajime nodded. "Yep." He paused for the length of a few steps, then carefully phrased, "He even wished us good luck."

"Hey, there's something." Fuyuhiko grinned. "Obviously, Akane didn't give two shits. Like I expected."

"Yeah, I noticed you grabbed the easier people," Hajime laughed, and lightly elbowed him. "You owe me."

"I owe you? You could've grabbed the girls before I did! Not my fault you don't know how to negotiate."

"You owe me," Hajime repeated. "I'm making you catch the first animal before I start working."

"Lazy ass," Fuyuhiko grumbled, and went off in search of a rope. "I'm not starting with the fucking chickens."

Hours later, they'd located several favored grazing spots and managed to relocate more than a dozen goats. The animals complained while they were being led, but now they happily grazed, or investigated a barn that their mothers and grandmothers had long abandoned. "So," Fuyuhiko wondered as they studied the ranch. "What do you do with goats, exactly?"

"Do?"

"It's not really like you eat them like the chickens, yeah?"

"Of course you can," Hajime idly mused, running through recipes in his mind for appetizers, entrees, and dessert. "Braised, curried, stewed. And with some fruit, honey, and goat cheese, we could—" He paused, then corrected himself. "No cheese." At least, not for Fuyuhiko.

Fuyuhiko nodded, his mood improving after Hajime remembered that without being prompted. But then it plummeted, for his gaze shifted to the adjoining coop, now repaired and ready to once again hold a flock.

"Let's go catch some fucking chickens," Hajime prompted with amusement.

"They shit everywhere, you know," Fuyuhiko complained as they walked toward their next task. "All across the hotel sidewalks, all over the island. That's my biggest problem with them."

"I know. So you've said. Repeatedly."

That earned a sharp sidelong look. With a wry smile, Hajime shut up.

Ahh.

Romance.

At dinner that night, it felt rather like they were zoo specimens. Sonia and Kazuichi studied them openly with every bite, while Akane also made no secret of her curiosity whenever she reloaded her plate. "So," Hajime prompted, very deliberately. "Did you find anything at the police dock?"

"We did," Sonia nodded, but kept looking between Fuyuhiko and Hajime as she spoke. "They're set up for scanning for boats in distress out in international waters. We'll be able to track any approaching vessels from quite a long range, once the power supply is back there."

"That's good to hear," Fuyuhiko agreed, and speared a wedge of melon. "Stop staring at us."

Sonia obligingly focused on her plate.

"You too, Souda."

Kazuichi tried to act like he wasn't staring, and did a piss-poor job of it.

They'd calm down soon enough, Hajime told himself, and shoveled in some rice taken from the restaurant's stockpiles. (Across all six islands, he estimated that there was enough rice to last a group of fifteen people approximately eight hundred and fifty-seven years, if everyone consumed it with every meal.) This was the most exciting change for their group since Hajime confirmed that he had a strategy for waking up the pods, and it was no wonder that they were the center of attention.

It was still annoying, though, and so it was a relief when dinner ended and they could escape back to what they'd decided was home. "I sure hope we picked the right cottages," Fuyuhiko muttered as they sped their pace. Heavy clouds had begun to roll in overhead.

"We should be. I didn't notice any water damage on the floor from other storms." Still, those clouds were heavy and swollen, and so low that it looked like they might be able to reach up and touch them. Hajime's first instinct was to set off running to beat the storm. His second instinct was to offer to scoop Fuyuhiko up, as Kazuichi had laughingly suggested. He thankfully fought back both instincts, and they made it to the cottages with minutes to spare.

"Good luck," Hajime laughingly told Fuyuhiko as they each reached for their cottage door, three doors down from the other.

"Good luck," Fuyuhiko wryly echoed, and stepped inside.

When the rain started, Hajime held his breath for long, purposeful stretches, waiting to hear any traitorous plink-plink-plinks that would warn him he'd made the wrong cottage choice. None came. He slowly walked through the cottage's expansive footprint, lingering in a reading nook across from a wall-mounted television, and then in a small breakfast alcove, and finally before a small lounging deck above the water.

A glass door led to that small deck. For a while, Hajime watched the rain through it. There was no lightning, so thunder wouldn't wake him. The wind howled, though; they'd want to check the roofs again once the storm passed.

He wondered how long it'd take until rain on a tropical island stopped feeling out of place. For all that perpetual sun had felt suspicious while inside the simulation, it was pleasantly easy to get used to. Ah well, Hajime thought, and turned for his bed. (Across the islands, they'd located several thousand sets of bed linens. It'd be a lot of laundry to do, eventually.) Storms would refill the reservoir tanks.

With the sound of rain soothing him, Hajime flicked the overhead light switch conveniently placed next to the bed, and let the noises steer him toward sleep.

"Hey."

Hajime blinked awake, some minutes or hours later. Pressure gripped his chest as he struggled to see anything. After a few long moments, with effort, he could barely make out Fuyuhiko's silhouette at the cottage door. There didn't seem to be any rain behind him, now, but what scant light there was must have to fight its way through thick clouds.

His heart beat more freely as he focused on the shadow Fuyuhiko made against that backdrop. On most days, Hajime honestly could handle his years-ago memories, but he never did well when it felt like he'd woken back up into blindness. "Hey. What's up?"

"I thought about how it was even darker, tonight. I didn't know if it'd be a problem. And if there was a problem, I thought maybe it'd help if…"

Hajime bit down hard and didn't point out that he hadn't noticed how dark it was until he'd been woken up. "Yeah. Thanks. You didn't have to, but thanks."

"So, hmm, let me just…" Fuyuhiko murmured to himself as he walked carefully into the cottage, trailing his hand against the far wall for guidance as he went. The door automatically swung shut behind him and even the faint glow from outside vanished.

Memories reared up and clawed deeply into Hajime's mind, whispering that he was back there. He was fading. He was alone. But light soon erupted, and Hajime instinctively threw an arm over his eyes before he processed that it wasn't bright enough to hurt.

A lamp would keep him awake if it were close, but Fuyuhiko had cleverly chosen a small one around a corner, near the door that led out to the deck. Its light reflected dimly off the walls, and showed up over in the bedroom as only a faint golden glow like a faded memory of the sun. That was enough, though; when Hajime looked around, he immediately saw where he was. "Good idea," he admitted. "I should have thought of that."

Fuyuhiko nodded as he walked back to the sleeping area, unconcerned. "I did the same thing, at first."

"At first?" Here on the real island?

"After this," Fuyuhiko clarified, and gestured to the heavy scarring over his useless right eye. He'd left his eyepatch in his own cottage, but Hajime hadn't paid any mind to the injury until he pointed to it. "Heh. Should clarify that, I guess: after the second time I lost it." He grinned wickedly. "Losing an eye from the same socket three time's gotta be a world record, right?"

"Must be," Hajime agreed with dark amusement. At least it apparently wasn't a source of trauma, by now.

"Anyway," Fuyuhiko continued, slouching comfortably into an armchair next to Hajime's bed. "I couldn't see for shit, at first. My brain still expected to be seeing out of an eye that wasn't there, and so it was…" He trailed off and sat in silence. When he continued, his good eye directed enormous sympathy toward Hajime. "And so it was dark. Not all the way, but a lot darker than it should be."

Hajime nodded back, and found himself relaxing into the mattress. No, it wasn't the same thing, but it was a surprisingly strong relief to be understood even halfway.

"So, I left a low light on overnight in the bathroom," Fuyuhiko continued. "You remember how they had those glass walls? Wish I'd been able to turn it down even further, but it worked. It felt weird to be sleeping with a nightlight, but in case I needed to get up, I didn't want to trip into something and rip this back open." His thumb drew a line low across his stomach. "It worked for me, then, so I thought it might work for you."

"It's a lot better, thanks. Seriously, I should have thought of that." For all of the knowledge and abilities that had been forced into him, an ingrained social norm of 'only kids sleep with a light on' was apparently too strong to overcome. Hajime needed to get over that. There wasn't reason to follow everyone else's expectations, any more.

Silence took over. In it, Fuyuhiko's words echoed. When his stomach had just been stitched up, huh? Hajime frowned against his pillow in thought. That meant that Fuyuhiko had been struggling inside his cottage, feeling like he'd lost even more than half his vision… when Hajime had been completely alone with him at Hotel Mirai. Just like the two of them now. Huh.

Slowly, Hajime pieced together memories and really considered the aftermath of Peko's execution like he hadn't, before. Fuyuhiko had been left dying in front of them, drowning and choking on his own blood. They'd all been so caught up in adrenaline and fear that Hajime never really thought that deeply about what was happening to someone who still felt like a stranger.

"Hey. Fuyuhiko?"

"Yeah?"

Hajime hesitated before asking, "Tell me if you don't want to think about this, but… do you remember what happened when you got rushed to the hospital?"

A slight smirk edged Fuyuhiko's voice. "Which time?"

That put a smile on Hajime, too. "The first one."

"Yeah, I do. Not as well as the second time, but yeah." As he spoke, Fuyuhiko's voice sobered. "It was just me and him in that fucked-up hospital, and he was… laughing." Shuddering, Fuyuhiko rubbed his arms and looked surprised by the strength of his recollection. "That bear's fucking laugh. You remember it, right?"

"Right. Of course."

"I couldn't move at all, by that point. He said he needed to sew up some internal bleeding, and he…" Troubled, Fuyuhiko folded in on himself more. "He… twisted. Warped. I didn't understand what I was seeing, and probably thought it was just my brain dying off with the rest of me. But after what we learned at the end, I guess it must have been the Junko A.I. flickering in, a little."

Hajime frowned, picturing some horrific Monokuma/Junko monster looming over a barely conscious Fuyuhiko. "How do you mean?"

"He needed fingers to hold the scalpel. And after he warped… there were fingers. It looked." Fuyuhiko struggled for the word. "Wrong. Not that I could pay much attention to how that damn bear looked, but when I make myself think back on it, it was like I was being operated on by some glitch. Some hole in reality."

Hajime shifted uneasily. Scalpels had been mentioned, but no anesthesia. He didn't want to clarify. "Sorry for asking. Looking back on it now, I suppose I assumed he'd just… edited your code to not be dying, any more."

"Maybe he did that, too. But you know that sadistic prick would never give up the chance to slice someone open when he's got an excuse to do so. He'd want to hear them hurting." Fuyuhiko's gaze grew even more distant, and he looked suddenly, agonizingly sad. "I hope Nekomaru wasn't awake."

"Oh. Shit. Yeah."

"He couldn't have been," Fuyuhiko decided, though it sounded more like he was convincing himself. "Think about how the guy didn't have a care in the world, afterward. There's no way he would've been like that if he remembered that fucking bear ripping out all his body parts, one by one. He… he wasn't awake. There's no way. No way."

Whatever awful memories he'd earned on Monokuma's operating table now seemed irrelevant. Fuyuhiko's expression warped further for Nekomaru's imagined mutilation than it ever had for his own surgeries. Eventually, he laughed weakly and rubbed at his reddened eye. "You pick some dark fuckin' topics to focus on when you're trying to fall asleep, you know. That probably doesn't help things."

"Sorry." Hajime smiled lopsidedly at him. "You mentioning your stomach got me thinking, and… and this sounds really selfish," he admitted. "But it was easier to worry about what you went through. It was something else to think about."

"Easier to think about someone else," Fuyuhiko quietly echoed, and still sounded shaken by picturing whatever hell had happened to Nekomaru Nidai. Maybe, after everything, it felt wrong to worry about themselves. But at least they could still worry about each other.

They sat for another good while in silence, until Fuyuhiko stood abruptly up. "I'm talking about something else," he decided, and surprised Hajime by taking the far side of the bed. "And I'm talking," he repeated emphatically as he stretched out against the mattress.

Hajime let the brighter tone carry him back toward smiling. "We're not outside, now," he pointed out.

Fuyuhiko propped himself up enough to shoot Hajime a disbelieving look. "No, we're not outside, but what kinda fucked-up mood just got set? Anyway, I'm gonna talk, and you're gonna focus on my story and worry about me, until you fall back asleep."

"Okay," Hajime said uncertainly. Worrying about Fuyuhiko didn't sound like a good way to give him a restful night, but it seemed like a plan was in place.

"Kinkaku-ji," Fuyuhiko began. "One of the temples in Kyoto. You know it, right?"

"Never been there, but by name, yeah."

"Well, my parents decided that Natsumi and I needed to appreciate our cultural heritage. Or whatever. They were big on that. So, off we went to Kyoto, to see all the temples and watch all the people."

"And you were…"

"Four." Fuyuhiko laughed once. "So yeah, I didn't give a shit about anything I was seeing. We were at Kinkaku-ji when I started running around to burn off some energy, and fell hard against a stone staircase. Hard. Ripped the skin open down to the kneecap."

Hajime grimaced. "Ow."

"I was probably screaming loud enough to wake the dead. So I get rushed to the nearest hospital, and here's the thing: my parents had always told me not to trust any doctor I didn't know. Because otherwise, someone could dress up like a doctor and shoot you up with something, or convince you to go off with them, y'know?"

"Sure. I guess." That had certainly not been a concern in Hajime's own childhood, but he supposed it made some sense for Fuyuhiko's.

"So anyway, I'm screaming my fucking head off, and then a doctor that I don't know comes in to take a look at me." Fuyuhiko laughed at the memory. The warm, pleasant sound washed over Hajime and he felt himself smiling, too. "And so I grab a tongue depressor and try to stab him with it."

A laugh burst through Hajime's drowsiness. "A tongue depressor? One of those round sticks?"

"Yeah." Fuyuhiko laughed again. "It was handy to grab, but it didn't work very well."

"No kidding."

"So… that meant I just had to keep trying, obviously."

The imagined visual of a barely-out-of-toddlerhood, blood-drenched Fuyuhiko going absolutely ham with a tongue depressor on some bewildered doctor brought actual tears to Hajime's eyes. "Oh my God."

"They had to pin me down," Fuyuhiko proudly added. "And I never had to go back to another temple."

"I seriously don't even know how to respond." Hajime smiled up at the ceiling, noting how the dim light etched shadows around all of its beams and planks. It was good to have something to focus on. His gaze wandered downward, and Hajime sleepily amended: it was good to have someone. "Got any other stories?"

Fuyuhiko looked over to him and smiled, then began a calmer tale. "So I had this dog, once…"

Soon, Hajime realized that he'd missed a couple of words. Then, half of them. His breathing steadied and he slowly sank into calm, deep nothing. Memories stayed blessedly quiet as sleep took him, for the trauma that marked Hajime expected him to be alone.

By morning, the clouds were gone.

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toujokaname · 6 months ago

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Game master / Episode 16

Author: Akira

Characters: Kohaku, Hiiro, Aira, HiMERU

"Yes. HiMERU hates incompetence. It's pointless to get involved, and therefore a waste of time."

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Season: Winter

Location: Amagi's House

A few minutes later. In a room of the mansion, the final checkpoint of the courage test.

Kohaku: I took a lil look around the mansion.

Still, no soul in sight... Checked some nearby houses too, but they were all empty.

And that feelin' I've been havin' for a while's gone, too. What the hell's goin' on here?

Hiiro: This is truly an abnormal situation.

Before we knew it, everyone in this Amagi Village vanished. While we were following the designated route, they all disappeared without a trace.

Just like the staff of the paranormal program we heard about in the ghost story, they've all gone missing.

Aira: W-What's going on? Seriously, what's happening?

Is it because I called this place a backward village and made fun of it? Did I trigger the wrath of the Amagi God(?) of the Amagi Village and cause them to be spirited away or cursed?!

Hiiro: Calm down, Aira. This should be another phenomenon that can be explained rationally, logically.

The universe is governed by the laws of physics. There are no such things as apparitions.

HiMERU: HiMERU agrees with you as well.

Hiiro: Umu, I think Nii-san would also agree. He's a logical person, after all.

HiMERU: Then allow HiMERU to retract his prior statement and say that he has a different opinion from you.

Hiiro: Wait, why though?

Kohaku: Hehe. Still, we got caught up in somethin' strange, didn't we...?

Of course, this is part of the scripted setup by the producers, but doesn't it feel like more than just a prank?

Aira: I just don't get it... Even if it's a prank, it's being dragged out too long, and I can't grasp the intention at all.

I seriously think we got caught up in some inexplicable phenomenon.

Hiiro: Even apparitions must have some logic. Ghosts may be impossible, but the ones described in ghost stories remain in this realm because they have some kind of lingering attachments.

What could ghosts, or rather, apparitions, stand to gain by pushing us into such circumstances?

Aira: Like I said, it's a curse! We probably angered some divine entity by accidentally breaking a taboo in this backward village!

That's why we're being put in this scary situation! That's how it is, isn't it?!

Hiiro: Umm. We don't really worship any particular deity in my hometown, and so far we haven't broken any taboos to warrant such severe punishment...

Well, I mean, by inviting strangers from outside into our secluded homeland, we've already broken a taboo.

But if that were the case, we would've all been cursed as soon as we set foot in this village.

Aira: So, what's the deal? Explain it so that even an idiot can understand!

Kohaku: Ahaha, Rabu-han's like Crazy:B's Niki-han, huh.

Aira: Chances are you're not complimenting me, are you, Kohakucchi?!

Hiiro: Basically, this situation is highly unnatural. There's no logical explanation, it's too nonsensical.

To put it bluntly, it's a mess.

HiMERU: —Well, HiMERU's viewpoint does differ slightly.

Hiiro: ? What do you mean, HiMERU-san?

HiMERU: HiMERU has long harbored a certain suspicion.

He kept quiet until now, since he was warned in no uncertain terms by Rinne just before arriving here. Yes, HiMERU's nature is that of a person with a strong sense of duty who properly keeps his promises.

Kohaku: Settin' aside your usual self-praise, what's this suspicion about?

HiMERU: It's about that person called Akan.

Aira: Ahh, the producer in charge of Matrix?

I sorta sympathized, being an underachiever who got ridiculed by everyone.

HiMERU: Right. That AkanP is the organizer of this series of events, Matrix. The starting point of all the occurrences woven within this narrative.

And yet, for some reason, there's a bizarre lack of presence exhibited.

Like a ghost, hm?

Such incompetence is far too profound to allow for any meaningful actions—HiMERU thought that might be the reason.

Essentially, AkanP is no more than a mere faceless background character in this story.

Kohaku: Some brutal words ya got there... Well, HiMERU-han's been gettin' real irritated with that person, so I reckon his language's takin' a rough turn.

HiMERU: Yes. HiMERU hates incompetence. It's pointless to get involved, and therefore a waste of time.

"I've" spent my whole life discarding such worthless people without a second thought.

I thought that was the correct course of action. In fact, it's precisely because I carelessly reached out a helping hand to a completely useless fool that I—

Kohaku: Huh? HiMERU-han, talkin' in first person? That's rare.

HiMERU: —Pardon. Anyway, what HiMERU wanted to say is that AkanP is excessively incompetent.

Kohaku: Ain't that goin' too far? I guess Anzu-han's support was a factor, but Matrix seems to be gettin' a pretty good reception for what's been shown, right?

So, wouldn't ya call the project a success?

HiMERU: That's true. Perhaps that was unexpected for the mastermind behind this sequence of events—the culprit.

Kohaku: Culprit, ya say?

HiMERU: Originally, it was intended to be a much sloppier and utterly hopeless event. This Matrix, hardly anyone even took notice of it...

In other words, it didn't matter whether it succeeded or failed; it was meant to be an insignificant program.

Kohaku: Nah, ain't Matrix supposed to be a major event wrappin' up ES's first year? At least, that's the official story, right...?

HiMERU: What if that was just an excuse contrived retroactively?

The much-anticipated big event turned into a sucky project all because of the useless producer named Akan—

Kohaku: "Sucky"... Sometimes you talk real eccentric, HiMERU-han.

HiMERU: —And yet, contrary to that, was there not a fundamentally flawed plan to begin with?

However, with Anzu-san's involvement, that plan turned into something remarkably engaging.

As a result, ES took notice, and Matrix became a major event wrapping up the first year of ES.

Hiiro: In other words, according to HiMERU-san's conjecture, the order of events was reversed.

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Ch 110: Random Thoughts

Ok, let's go...

ooooh, what a cool face, Tsukasa! ♡ You're so beautiful. Always so enchanting. Captivating boy! ✨

So he was referring to Akane after all.

Uh, strong words coming from Akane to say he will put Tsukasa to justice. Hmm. Nice.

How cheeky. How smug. So full of yourself, huh? ~ What a reallllly good mood you're in. Well, regarding the situation, you're so pleased. Almost getting to finish what you've been after for so long. ~ those who tell Tsukasa to follow their rules have it hard. Not remembering old No.3. lol

I'm done talking about his super speed and powerful SHARP hands. His hands are a weapon alone. OH!

He is wasting no time, right into business at full force. How admirable.

But seriously... the words... oh! He's been growing really smug since ch 91, 92 and now... woooh... one time playing with puzzle pieces and throwing them in the air all gracefully and the other Kaku's gears... this side of his... easy on me...! I get it everything is in the palm of your hand. I get it you're pleased you're almost at the finish line and enjoying your success on getting what you've been working hard and patiently on for long. BUT!! OH! ... even that Tsukasa art with the clock. oh. should I be calling you Mr. cool smug Tsu? ♡ it's impossible not to remember him! OH!

Uhhh... just thinking of Kou threatening little Tsukasa to get at him one day is sooooo funny at this point. You sure you can pull that off? lol

LOVE how this boy aged. From an innocent hum to a REALLY smug, fully in charge and capable one. UH! you want to go after Tsukasa after the scary 'hmm' face he showed you before and after what he did to you after showing it? Have to say you're brave. ~

Speaking of you, shouldn't you really be after someone else by now? If we were to assume Tsukasa hurt your friend, which is a big No-No to you, no one touches your dear friend and gets away with it, after what nat did, how will you react? Go at full force at him, kay? ~ Not to add, that's also the fake 'senpai' who used you in a really ugly way to get what he wants and left you with nothing before. Get a much called for 'revenge' on an ugly target. ~ Let me see you going. ~

You're still on the safe side. You still have time to reconsider, Kou. For your own sake. ^^

Here we go again...

Love how this boy changes from cheerful, playful, carefree… to being deadly serious and focused in like a split moment. He just keeps on switching between the 2 sides. A thing to admire about him. ~

Ahem, he is 'playing' with you Akane. ^^ seriously, he cut Akane's side with his pare hand and drew blood out of him, he crushes metal with them, punches a whole through metal or whatever... his HANDS! what are they made of?! even though I said I won't talk much about his hands.. here we are...

He is having fun. He is enjoying himself. Little smug foxie. ~

The amount of self confidence he has always impresses me. My goodness it's limitless… but this chapter is on another whole level. SO SMUG! I love that mood of his. oooooh SO COOL!!!

To go on and take out parts of Kaku to throw them at Akane. AHAHAHA Wha a cool move! ~ It's hilarious. What a reallllly good mood you're in. do you have a thing against kaku? you're treating him like ruins of the clock.

The punch he gave to Akane's chin, it reminded me of the one Hanako gave to Kou in the pilot. The twins share some moves. cool.

Later on he moved to give Akane a nice spin around, how fun! I hope Akane enjoyed the ride! twister no.4 seems to have given Tsu a fun idea during their chase lol Again, Akane's reaction. Same as the one Hanako made when Teru destroyed the ceiling of the far shore train. Hilarious. Hilarious.

One of Tsukasa's coolest signature moves!!!!! Hits with an iron fist!!!!!

Unbothered Tsuuuu!!!!!! unbudging Tsu!!!! Amazing Tsu!!!!!!

Wooh, I think I need to stop on Akane's words to give Kou some kind of credit.

His unbothered side! Hmm. Even though that happened when Tsukasa was letting his guard down and all... it still counts in a way. The only one to 'graze' almighty Tsukasa so far.

Hmm, wonder if Tsukasa wanted to, he could use Kokujoudai regardless of what Akane did, the one not to be really affected by Mirai's seal, rules in boundaries don't seem to apply to him, hmm...

Who is distracted Akane? Tsukasa wasted no time to go with his signature move while you weren't paying attention to him. He just switches between going easy to serious that's all.

And once more, another Tsukasa signature move. Smashing heads into things. The ground, table, wall..... he is still more gentle than No.6 on the head smashing regard.

It's again, funny, the guys going to call Tsukasa guilty and voice to want to bring him to justice were brought to justice by him on their very court table. One with Tsukasa stepping on it and punching a hole through his chest, the other getting crushed into it. woooh. Tsukasa shows no mercy I see. What a fun court. ~

Seriously, he gave Akane no room to prove himself. It was a one-sided fight. Was it a fight? Half of it Tsukasa was playing.........

Again, he is so fascinated by the insides of other things. Why not tell us what's on the inside of you, Tsukasa? We're fascinated by that, too. Come on. you want to show us that once you're destroyed? while I'm a sobbing mess? How can i see with my sight blurry? ........

Anyway, the insides of Akane is flesh, Tsukasa. So, it's a relief he survived your attack. didn't you notice the blood when you hit his side?

Having Akane freeing Mirai and asking her to run (both for her safety and because she holds the yorishiro, I assume he knows it's there. Even if he didn't before, it's just a fact at that point with Kaku down and him knowing it's not within him), then for her to throw herself in front of him to get the hit instead and protect him with a selfless act. They do care for each other after all. How sweet, despite Akane going they tricked him and he hates supernaturals. He seemed taken aback by what happened to her... falling to his knees checking on her closely maybe?

Even though I don't really care for either Kaku or Mirai so far, I like her gesture with Akane. It was nice to see.

Love how Tsukasa still kept his logo of 'gentle with girls' so far. He got her not on purpose, and the time they fought before too. Still, I assume if he failed with Akane, he will be going for her. Uh......... if that happened I was going to say goodbye to gentle with girls Tsukasa. It was nice to know you. haha.

So, I was thinking for a whole month before the chapter will I go counting triple kill on Tsukasa's list when the chapter is out? It's fun to get it. Even if none of them is really 'over'. I was also hoping to see Tsukasa bloody like the time with No.3, he looked cool back then. Uh, for that to happen it had to be Akane's or Teru's? blood... since the others are just made of gears. But of course, I wouldn't want for Akane to reach that point of being badly wounded... I would be satisfied with a small amount... like if the cut to his side left a bit on Tsukasa's hand... uh... I would pay to be in Hanako's, Nene's, Teru's place or the owls and watch Tsukasa in action and going -far shore No.6 mode but X1000 COOLER like they were doing. Ahahaha, their reactions were so fun. even Teru's was funny.

Turned out the yorishiro is...

Within Mirai like I guessed. ~

And some people go saying Tsukasa killes for fun. Yeah, once his purpose is done, he didn't walk back to Akane, despite his comment on wanting to know what's on the inside of him.

Still, Tsukasa didn't go with the pattern I mentioned. If he did... we wouldn't have had all that fight so... makes sense. and I would have said goodbye to that thing

And, Tsukasa finally got his hands on the yorishiro. Mission accomplished. A yorishiro holding another. No.7's holding No.1's. Amusing. Tsukasa. ~

Though, from all the things, it turned out to be a "key"? I'm so sensitive to that. Come on.

...

Hmm... what meaning could that hold?

I can't help but to go back to the time Tsukasa had Nene going back in time to get Amane's key. And, now we see him holding a key. Something feels fishy. What purpose might the 2? keys serve?

Why did he want Nene to get Amane's key? What purpose does it hold? At this stage with his plan on its final stogies shouldn't what he meant to do with making that happen come to play... with what he meant for Nene to do? What he meant for her to have? Does she still have the key with her at the moment? like... if she was brought back to normal, will it be there in her uniform pocket? Will we finally see it in use?

Hmm, I do wonder what all that Tea-party-Nene plan Tsukasa came with serves.

she seemed to help him together with her servant carry it. So? Did Tsukasa just come to them and told them "hey, we'll do this for a thing I want, nothing on your benefit." and the 2 just agreed? They were active parts of the plan. If it doesn't serve them, if it doesn't mean anything to them, if it even stands in her way if what Nene is supposed to do will turn out to be an obstacle in her way, would she have agreed to help and make her servant help? That feels so unlikely for a supposedly 'careful' evil person as her. What did they want out of that, too?

Did she just go with "it will be my chance to get the naive girl's trust so I can manipulate her easily all I want later on? Sending her servant with her to be her guide and lead her in the nowhere, and maybe to get something out of it... what did it hold?

Was she oblivious to Tsukasa's purpose out of that deal and just carried out with it for her to get the Nene trust thing and for nat to achieve something maybe? .........

Were the 3 working together or did they have goals of their own in there? Are they opposing to the point what Tsukasa wants might step in her and servant's way? Hmmmmmmmmmm..............

Everything in the tea party arc is questionable at this point. Everything in it is just tricky, full of lies, ACTING.

Generally,

What kind of 'trust' do they have in each other? What a 'trio'. Funny. Really funny.

How NOT to be a trio. Hahaha, they aren't together at all. Never have been. ~

Hmm... having this...

What do these smirks hold behind them? What is he after? What are they (SHE) after? Ha, she is even dancing and waving her dress around in there, what is it that really pleasing thing she can't wait to get?

In No.6's case I think it was her want to get rid of Sumire together with setting the stage of getting rid of Tsukasa, too. Someone doesn't seem to have a whole lot of patience. Now, she wants No.1, No.7, No.3 out of the way in one go. How funny. How funny. This rush storm inside of you doesn't show on your face little thing. ~

Uhhhh, what a fake you are. ~ Hmm... even that whole show of "I can't disobey him" you put, is it for real? ~ you've been going your way since the very start and until now. ~ what a thing you are. ~

I wonder... can snakes have the color green? ~

A 'careful' thing like her needs to really be as careful when facing Tsukasa. ~ He is not one to mess with easily. I hope she gets that with her 'he can't see me' or 'things are over now. a "betrayal" is so easy.' ~

Tsukasa dear, you happened to comment on being proud of seeing her going her way back in No.6's case. Do you, also, feel the same way on the other cases? Like now for example? What a magical being you are. ~

He asked her about if she is happy with hurting others and she responded yes, her actions right after that chapter with Nene, Sumire-No.6, this arc with the whole school and Mit 2.0. Clearly she is more than happy. She is going at full force. What a thing. ~ What a thing. ~

Snakes and cats... hmm... has to be the cat to outshine at the end, huh? I just can't wait to see how her deal with Tsukasa will come to an end, especially with little koku being in the mix. I'm so sorry I committed a crime on your side in the past, Tsukasa. I hope you can forgive me.

Seriously, the 4 are funny now. a cat, a green snake, a dog and a puppy. Let me take the cat and puppy and take my leave. ~

Ok, enough of that. Lots of other things to focus on. With the 2 going their (her) way.

So, her dog can wonder around, is it because of her lame gift or because he is special? Not that I care. Nor that I care for his show off in ch 92 or even him in the cover of vol 19. so booooooring.

Uhh, so Nagisa and Tiara are frozen, huh?

That's senpai to you. Who would care to call you that? What a waste. Out of the rare times I wished Mit 2.0 will go with his "you're lame attitude" regarding him and the gift, I didn't get it.

Ok, so he doesn't use his blood ability unless it's really needed as he voiced out before, because it's it makes him feel gross. You already are with or without it, don't be so sad. ~

His speech to Mit 2.0, I wonder if they made that clear to him before or not? From his reaction he feels oblivious to the whole deal. If that was the case, then scolding him like that when you didn't tell him a thing is called hypocrisy, you so lame so UNcool hypocrite.

Ok, so he wouldn't do that to Mit 2.0 without a clear purpose. Is it to force him to create a yorishiro so they can destroy next by putting him in a life threatening situation?

Still gross, considering they only want to destroy it, regardless. Forcing Mit 2.0 to have a thing to care about more than anything, only to destroy it. Meaning they use him like some kind of toy from start to end. They will keep it around until its deal is done to them just to throw it away when it's over. Oh.... wait a sec... a toy...?

Yep, go at the right person at full force, Kou. Go ahead and show me what the whole of "my purpose" speech you gave while looking at Mit's photos mean. Show me where you stand now.

Mit 2.0, I really don't get him or Kou or their deal. At a moment he is all "I gave up, end me" then the other "ok, let's go to the festival"....... both forgot the main issue, the main problem, Mit 2.0's unstable existence. A part of what Mit 2.0/they reached now lies within his/ their ignorance of the situation they are in. So, despite nat's speech being trash, it have a bit of truth within it. Mit 2.0 and Kou could have done better if they just gave things what they are worth, instead of leaving them for who knows when.

So now, Mit 2.0 is in a real 'dying' situation. That will really show his real desire, and prove if his want to "be gone" is really that strong or not. A chance to be gone came to you, Mit 2.0.. will you accept it or resist it? Or will you go "if I'm gone, I want Kou to finish me" like you told him before? Will you end up creating a yorishiro at that point? What might it be? A thing to be your living line and at the same time so precious to you?

As Mit 2.0 peeked into all of his "old self" memories using his mirrors, a thing to be important to his old self, together with him, it's a picture of Kou, might end up becoming his yorishiro? It's in Kou's house though... if we needed a thing within the school, maybe even No.3's boundary... Hmm...

Again, it holds a meaning for both him and his "old self". Kou gave it to him and he held into it thinking of the hell of a time I went with reviewing the chapter, it keeps on showing in his arms then disappearing at a later shot repeatedly!. A moon rock, scissors, skitch book... it holds a potential of having this " 'first' precious gift" in it. The Penguin chain sadly got destroyed so... can it be repaired if he wanted? hmm...

Can it become Kou's lame traffic earing? For fun, both Mit kept commenting on it, it's from Kou, they called him referring to it, old Mit died in a car accident, we got an event of Kou gifting him a traffic earing... and were told in an early chapter it's something 'improtant' to Kou. Imagine that one will be the case. It'll be so funny.

I'm left with these options, I don't really think Mit 2.0 is capable of creating a human yorishiro (make Kou his yorishiro), that seems to be one specific task with specific circumstances I see Mit 2.0 to lack.

Now, thinking of old No.3's yorishiro that's still there. Do we need it or is it just worthless and forgettable like its owner? Seriously, the only character in this story to lack everything including an "existence" is that bird.

Hmm, looking back at Tsukasa's deal with making Mit 2.0 No.3... his speech all along was only directed to that, it's Hanako who went for the "old" yorsirho. .......

From what we heard from nat, it doesn't connect to Mit 2.0 at all.

Uhhh, thinking about Tsukasa making Mit 2.0 and making him stay by making him No.3 and then feeding him so he can keep regenerating, after that Tsukasa? What did you have in mind to do after that? You told him he can become human, he can have his wish, he's kept on living on that hope until his life became hell and jsut wanted to be gone, then kept going once more, you don't lie, right? How do you plan to grant his wish? Take responsibility, Tsukasa. He is not a toy you made to be played with by others. He is a being with feelings, wants and wishes. Either be as responsible to grant his wish, or I don't know.. try to do anything for him for him to reach a stable piece of mind and being. you can't leave him at the middle of the road. I'm sure you won't leave any of your work undone.

So, once Mit 2.0 is a full mystery will he take a new 'complete' form? not that I hold a thing against it but I feel his design in there is a symbolism of many things. some might be Tsukasa codded, even when his yorishiro is destroyed, he'll just lose authority over the boundary... would that mean he is a step toward becoming "human"? From what was said, it seems so. Uh, I see all that thing in lots of ways, one of Mit 2.0 might end up just accepting what he is, now having a stable existence, and give up on that wish. Why did he want to become human to begin with? If he can have that in his life already, is there a need for him to become "human" anymore?

On Tsukasa's side of the wish thing, having Mit crossing to become a full mystery, if we assumed he still wanted to be human, maybe once all Yorishiros are destroyed, if what she said is true..... looking at it in another way than all will be gone... if we reduced this all to the "lines" between life and death... if we assumed the world will be rewritten so the living, the dead (ghosts), supernaturals are equal and can live together... that means Mit 2.0's wish is granted along the way? He can have the life he wants without necessarily becoming human. Is that what he has in mind?

Also, if what she said is really going to happen, will Tsukasa be as pleased to go with it? I mean he goes about the rules, not the beings. It's like he is after rewriting the rules of the world to create and new one where all can be free to be whatever they want, not to blow away everything. How would that be possible with him wanting to grant Amane's wish? In saving Nene's life? And living a real life with her? what wish could he have while gone?

Uh, the whole Nene will die once the yorishiros are destroyed deal too... it feels like once he is gone, she is gone too. 2 in 1. brace yourself Amane. The DOUBLE PIAN you'll get if that were to happen! Boy............. we're similar huh

I mean from what we got so far, Tsukasa doesn't care for his own being, but Nene's life is a part of the deal. A part of Amane's wish. We need to change her fate, don't we? You going this way is clearly the wrong path, Tsukasa. Unless........ you have other things in mind. Regarding Nene's life and the world (maybe even your complicated situation). Things Amane, her and us are oblivious to. I trust you.

You're just playing with our minds and feelings, dear. But I can go with 'wait and see'. Amaze me. ♡

Ok, moving on...

The face of "it's over". ♡ Thanks for all you hard work so far. KEEP it up. *coughing* to hear... Tsukasa referring to himself as "Amane's" yorishiro for the first time ever... uh....

Unlike the time he talked with her... there is a whole 180 between her and Amane's reaction. See who cares for you, dear Tsu. Even when you want to be gone, there are people? not to care and use your want as an easy to achieve step in their happiness plan, and there are people! who can't live without you, ready to pin you down, keep a strong hold around you so you won't leave, you precious boy!

Don't go I want to be gone based on fake illusions in your head. Please realize how much worthy you are. Please unleash this want to stay with Amane you have deep down within you. Please... Amane.... I'm begging you to prove to this boy how irreplicable and precious he is. How your world is just dull without him there. Please Tsukasa... this time get it. Understand him, please.

Nene, please help them both get over this miscommunication issue they have! Help them understand each other! Be the hand to bring them together!

I can't with that...... I just can't.....

Hmm... now.. what am I supposed to get from his talk? Mit 2.0 will make a yorishiro? Won't and that leaves us with No.1's and him? Is he on board with what the 2 went to do with Mit 2.0? ...

It seems they want the 7 yorishiros gone, not only 6. And, it looks like he knows that, too. Hmm...

Well, yes, she said 7. They need to forse Mit 2.0 to make one. It's clear now.

Uhh, now I started to see Tsukasa this arc, no in the entire story as someone trying to live the moment to its fullest before he says his last goodbye. When little, before he got killed, and now... he wanted to do something special before he is gone for good, change Amane's life for the better, give him happiness. A thing to remember him 'foundly' with maybe? Having him wanting to end things with his own hands this arc...... with the last yorishiro.... Amane... Nene... all he did along the way from the very start till now.....

How could he be that good of an actor... or so collected let's say... shows nothing on him... in their birthday before he left... the time he spent after he came back waiting to be killed (not sure about his last year though) ... now... he plays and signs and... oh... how are you doing on the inside, Tsukasa?

If I went please don't leave Tsukasa, will you grant that wish for me?

Teru's internal monologue,

Poor Nene, looking at Akane, keepers having a hard time.

Hmm... I don't get him. At the start of the story he kept on going on how much the 7 mysteries are evil and dangerous, then kept going after evil Hanako, and then... he tells Akane they are needed to 'support' the school and they will be needing No.1 to stand up for 'Tsukasa' turned out Amane took his leave at the end or...? , looking forward to see No.1 really in real action. Having him voicing if the Yorishiros are gone the land? I assume the one of the school will fall down... kinda reminds me of vol. 19's cover... would that be what happens?

The pillars he had at mind almost took the shape of those surrounding the hole in No.6's boundary under the school as I recall it, would it be like... the core of the destruction to come? The hole that links to the far shore as I recall it? Hmm... can we see No.6 in action once more? maybe even all the 7 in one place when that time comes? each pillar looks like this one in Sumire's... uh... sacred shrines... sacrifices... yorishiros... unseating pits of powers to return to an original form of theirs... what a huge thing...

With Nene's supposed 'sealed' fate this thing is doomed to happen......

Speaking of that, how did Teru know Nene's life span and death is directly linked to the yorishiros? Hmm...

The Minamotos have lots of things under their sleeves. while he was talking in depth about No.1, he didn't seem to know much about Tsukasa's position and not to pay attention to her being mentioned before… hmm…

Following the origin of the school, was it built on that same land Sumire's village lies on?

It seems… that land… the red house… school… are all linked.

I mean, we have No.6's boundary being under the school, the hole there that he used to sacrifice Aoi once she fell into it can be linked to that original cliff, having the same thing of: Supernaturals are coming in and attacking the place, let's sacrifice a girl to stop that agenda in Sumire's village, the same thing happened in the school, therefore had No.6 who is an "expert" in dealing with that, used the same agenda. We dealt with the situation the same way. Had the severance happening, similar to the thing in the village, again, with supernaturals stopping coming out for a while. The mess happened out of having almost half of the yorishros gone, the protectors to keep the land safe from that happening.

We see the supernaturals coming from that hole, in No.6's boundary in general, also there in the red house, which is directly linked to the kannagi place.

A 'sealed' well near the 'red house' and Teru saying there is water and all under it… having it connecting to the far shore.

It makes since we're in the same place, land and all.

Having that nat saying to Kou "This guy's been a real thorn in our side. He is been stopping just about every single supernatural that tries to make it to the mortal world... before they even get the chance to wreak havoc there."

Hmm, feels legit connecting it to his old rule, that he still takes on himself as No.6, taking care of the hole/cliff and its supernaturals crossing in.

Hmm, now maybe his disappearance makes sense? He did his last job, got over his duty... he is free to go wherever.

Since he is told the whole system is not needed anymore to protect the mortal world, his rule is over... he'll do just that.

So yes, the school seven mystries - yorishrio system, Sumire's village system... are 2 sides of the same coin, deal with the same thing. One just evolved from the other.

After all, that makes sense why the school is full of supernaturals and all, Mit, etc end up within it.

Ok...

Talking about the keepers...

Could their uselessness come from the destruction of their clock as he put it before lol? Could it be that they don't care to defend their yorishiro or if it's destroyed? Could it be they can't use their time power for some reason? And that feels to not be it for the most part, since Mirai used her time power on Tsukasa and it didn't work, Kaku was taken by surprise and was down, Akane couldn't even turn his head around, the moment he did he was done. Tsukasa is not an opponent to be underestimated.

Their time power seems to take a little time for them to activate once they decide to used, even.

Could they hold up before his speed even for a few seconds just enough for them to activate it? Did they fight knowing it's a lost call? I mean he showed to be faster than the 3 of them to react.

Talking a little more about it,

With Mirai's case, she promised to move his time until he is 'dust', if she had succeeded, that will give a whole different story from how the situation developed. was Amane sure nothing will happen to Tsukasa so he didn't step in? Feels so. He wasn't scared Tsukasa will get it hard once he called his name, it's the opposite. He didn't make a move until Tsukasa said that "me" of his.

Thing is, when Mirai moved Tsukasa's time, did she really touch only the handcuffs and moved their time only or was it something else that its time moved? Hmm... when she moves the time of a 'being' no matter what she touches on them, it will be their time that will move together with these things. With Nene, with Kou he grew up completely in appearance, powers, not only his clothes. Tsukasa... assuming she only touched the handcuffs, they should be the only thing to age but...

Oh? now I see why she is shocked and why he only smirked. Missing with a being of 'his own time' are we? Hmm, it's amazing how there seemed to a somewhat of explosion, a huge flow of power to feel "reflected" once she tried moving his time. Unlike any other case she moved time forward within before, even with Kou it was a small smoke cloud nothing much.

The mystery of the red house... the thing of its own time, own space, own rules, connected to the kannagi place... it was hilarious how Nene came out of one on the taps

Hmm... what's on the inside of you, Tsukasa-kun?

Anyway, so Mirai's power of moving time don't work on him, Akane's of stopping time don't feel to work, the clock didn't affect him how about Akane, and Kaku... if he turned back time without Tsukasa noticing any moment that would feel to work somehow.

Are the keepers just trying to go with the flow so they will "observe", see how things will play out before Kaku finally turns back time so then they can finally get serious? Knowing how things ordinally developed? That feels smart.

Thing is... turning time don't erase the memories of those powerful supernaturals so... Tsukasa will also remember how things went and time was brought back...

Hmm......

... what do the keepers have in mind? It would feel only legit they have something they are plotting.

A thing of wait and see...

Would what Teru mentioned to Akane about Kou come to play soon?

We're dealing a lot with 'time' this arc.

And finally...

Mr. ^_^.

Recalling it, Tsukasa... she never agreed to anything let alone promised anything, you came up with the game and didn't let her even finish her line of "I didn't agree to th-". ^^

Ok... that moment....

...

Uh, have to say it feels cute how Tsukasa was going on a rampage up until it's Amane he's facing. He is just too gentle and "Amane?" ... oh...

And, sure enough, they are back in position, with the knife. What a complete setting.

Seriously, Tsukasa... he loves going and leaving him behind. Yeah, Amane... you have to pin him down to the ground and keep him in place. Nail him with a knife, take a tight grip of his hands, make sure he doesn't escape. Go ahead and be as selfish to even keep him locked in your boundary like a prisoner. Keep a ring around his ankle so he doesn't go far away. If you don't do this, he will keep disappearing because of some illusions in his head.

Uh, just thinking how the rooftop scene summarizes the twins' deal, with Tsukasa being gone for some time, reappearing back suddenly in Amane's life, then after sometime leaves him behind. "See you later". What a game, Tsukasa. Now I see why he pinned Nene down. "Stop leaving me behind. That's enough already. I can't take anymore." Then... the way he ended up against the door, or even the time Akane gave him a speech about what he did... Tsukasa had him hard with his act of "disappearing" to leave him all alone and broken, regardless of how hard he tries to prevent it from happening. ........

"Without you, the world is empty, meaningless. It's just hell."

Take turns. How does it feel? not that I think you didn't take her turn in your past. but still made the decision anyway despite you getting the feeling of being left behind. Just thinking she will forget someday and find happiness in other things. and then got angry at her for doing just the same as you did in your past. Tsukasa's comment was needed, you did the same as her, you gave up on your future and life to supposedly stay with me regardless of me agreeing or not. Even if I wanted you to keep living and chase your dreams and have a future. why can't she do the same as you did. too? you won't accept her noble sacrifice? You're unfair. Amane. You just go with things your way. So selfish. Tsukasa, sorry but... in your case this time I want him to be as selfish. Hold you down and prevent you from sacrificing yourself. Maybe the same also goes for the other one in your past.

Uh, to think that he went to try his best to voice his feelings out to Tsukasa yet all he got was a "so?" ........... 💢

Tsukasa doesn't get his feelings, doesn't want to be saved........

The time Hanako saved him together with Nene, Tsukasa asked about it. Mr. can't talk gave a cold answer, to receive a cold "so" later. Ehhh, who started the mess...

"You were there, too. So might as well save you." - "I won't be able to save you." now imagine how much effort it took him to voice that out after he failed the other time. and Tsukasa... not any of Amane's tries to 'save' you reached you....

??????????

Explain yourself, Amane.

In connection to the 3-loop...

It's twisted how this "what about what a person wants" plays with Tsukasa.

The first time he left Amane without "asking him what he wants", he assumed hearing Amane's speech that's his want/wish and tried making it come true for him. Amane didn't include him in there, so if he is gone it's fine, Amane is happy. In a way, that felt like what Amane wants (unlike Nene who Amane was sure not to want him to 'save' her the way he went).

Then, when 12... I assume influenced by Kou's speech, he made sure to ask Amane to voice what he wants. To choose if he wanted him to stay or disappear. But, Amane stayed silent it seems, making Tsukasa take action. Who knows, maybe once again Amane's lack of answer had him assuming he is "whatever" just like he got when little. He doesn't need him there to be happy. Him coming back home brought Amane misfortune, so he is better off without him. His unworthy little brother. He can be happy having his dreams and future without any care for him, after all... isn't that the reason Tsukasa sacrificed himself in the first place? Until Amane gave up on all that, did what he did so they can be together. Was that what Tsukasa wanted at that point? Or did he want the opposite for Amane? He wanted him to live? Amane went and decided for them both how they will end either way. Uh. Regardless, now it feels Tsukasa at least appropriates Amane's efforts in there? At least he doesn't show to be offended by what happened, he shows to love it? Even when he doesn't understand the message? I don't really follow him there. Maybe it's the fact of he saw Amane not holding back in general and that had him pleased. It's a logo of his. And, he accepted whatever Amane decided with open arms.

And now, it's the same. Tsukasa went with "that's what you want".

He makes decisions based on a "part" of what Amane wants. But, what he really wants is there inside of him. He needs to voice it out for Tsukasa to finally understand it.

Amane tried explaining he doesn't want a wish if it meant he'll disappear... but was met with a "so?" his feelings not reaching his little brother. It seems Tsukasa is still stuck in here... and just had a lag, can't move past that.

So, Tsukasa needs him to say it clearly. "I love you. I don't want you to disappear. I want you to say by my side."

If Amane did... would he reconsider....?

Will Amane's feelings finally reach him? Will they get past their miscommunication issue? Will they finally start to understand each other a little?

Hmm... from what does Amane really want to save Tsukasa??? What does he have in mind??? If I were to tell him to take a first step in saving him, it would be to start with Tsukasa himself, save him from himself, save him from the illusions inside his head, save him from his self-doubt, worth issues that come from within him. Then, move on to the surroundings.

Why can't Tsukasa really see your love or understand any of your efforts? A part lies within your lack of putting your feelings into words and maybe also, it comes from deep within Tsukasa himself. He is so self-defeated, fast to give up on himself, he doesn't see how amazing or precious he his. He is fast to see himself in the wrong image. Which is so saaaaad. How is he supposed to believe someone really loves him? For what? You love worthless me? Can't be. Why? If anything, you must be in love with a false image you made of me. I'm not how you see me. You care for me because you're my older brother. It's a given. It's like a duty. You care for little brother. Do you care for 'Tsukasa'?

I see before Tsukasa gets to understand the love of anyone else, he needs to love himself first. How are you supposed to see the love of others when you lack self-love? When you're full of self-doubts?

Save him from that, Amane.

Before you ask even though he doesn't really, he is that selfless. if Amane hates him it's fine what matters is that he loves him and ready to do anything for him and his wishes and happiness for anyone's love, you need to start with loving yourself, accept yourself. Do you do, Tsukasa? If you don't, how is it possible for you to see, accept other's love or even understand it?

Before Hanako or even Nene try to help you, the change starts from within you. Start with changing the way you see yourself and feel about things, so you can move a step forward. Otherwise you'll keep stuck in the same place.

How do you see yourself Tsukasa? How do you feel about yourself? Please show me.

Goodness, doesn't this issue exist within both twins? Amane, too... struggles with accepting love and has self-respect issues. Both of them need help. Both need to be saved. Nene, too... at times... anyone to love me is fine..... I just want to feel loved......... ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......

Their story is just tragic. One sees himself as really unwanted by whoever, not important in his twin's life and he is happy without him, even if he wanted to be with him he lacks the courage to do so, seeing he won't do right by his side, therefore keeps going with 'disappearing' from his life not finding the reason to stay anyway, can't get any signal his twin sends him to show the opposite, he wants to hear him tell his feelings, what he really wants, while the other struggles with that specific thing. Both are suffering. The one who rejects and the one who is rejected.

Tsukasa is miserable, Amane is miserable. Both are miserable. How many tears will they have me shed until they are happy?

One insists on leaving, the other tries with all his might to keep him in place.

Uhhh... how does it feel trying with all your might to have your moon not to disappear beyond the clouds so you can see him always?

Your beautiful unreachable moon... a thing to gaze at the grace of from afar, try so hard to catch. Make it all your. Your purpose. Steal the moon, Amane. Never let it go. You can do it.

How does it feel for you to be looking at your most precious moon in the eye, only to tell him I hate you. Oh...

A "I hate you" that holds I hate how you always go this way, how you're so fast to decide to give up on yourself, on us, disappear from my life to fill it with darkness and shatter my heart then come back to it to give it a light of hope and give my aching heat a chance of healing by having you close, then try to leave me again and again. It's painful to be left behind over and over again. I can't keep living with that. No matter how hard I try to keep you with me you insist on leaving, my feelings can't reach you no matter what I do. You keep rejecting all my efforts, refuse to understand my feelings. I don't get you. Stupid Tsukasa. You're so unfair. This side of yours, the way you decide things in this matter, this repetitive attitude of yours. I hate it so much. I don't want to play this game of hide and seek any longer. I hate it.

- let's play together like we used to? You said?

I don't want to play that kind of game. I'm sick of it.

If you love me, stop disappearing and leaving me behind. I don't want that. I love you, that's why I want to be with you. I want you here, with me. Always. Forever and ever.

How can Tsukasa see and understand Mitsuba's wish, his deal with Kou, if you're alike you can stay together forever, that's just a copy paste from his and Amane's, but can't understand theirs? Tsukasa.........

Why not shout all these out loud Amane? Might help you both.

He believes with the path he is taking, he is doing the right thing for your sake. Prove the opposite to him so finally we can have the 2 of you shine together.

All there is between you is pure love. Give it the chance to come out and see the light of day. Starting with gentle words coming out from deep down your hearts.

With the right amount of courage, determination, it will shine brighter the stars in the sky one day.

The twins. They are a lot. One powerful force.

May they reach their happy solvation.

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What a chapter...

As per usual, I might be adding more stuff later.

Thanks for reading.

#toilet bound hanako kun #jibaku shounen hanako kun #tbhk #jshk #ch 110

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harunayuuka2060 · 6 months ago

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Twst Unveil Event Part 6

Philomela: You want to change the location you've chosen?

Silver: Yes. If it is possible.

Philomela: Hmm... I would've granted your request; however, you're up next. It would be difficult for me to make last minute changes.

Silver: But... Didn't you say that it isn't a problem to you?

Philomela: ...

Philomela: *laughs*

Philomela: Clever kid! Alright! Let me hear your reason first!

Silver: ...

Silver: I realized that the location I've chosen is nothing compared to what Sebek and Floyd had chosen.

Philomela: Hm? You think that Enchanted Garden is nothing?

Silver: Huh?

Philomela: Listen here, Silver.

Philomela: It might seem that it doesn't pose any threat, but trust me. That garden is one of the places you should never underestimate.

Silver: ...

Philomela: Still, if you really want to change it, then I'll have to respect it.

Silver: ...

Silver: No, it's fine. I'm sticking to my chosen location.

Philomela: *smiles* Good.

Leona: Yuurin!

Yuurin: Leona-senpai?

Leona: What was that, huh?!

Yuurin: ...

Ruggie and Jack: ...

Leona: *looks pissed*

Yuurin: ...

Yuurin: I won the second match, Leona-senpai.

Leona: Yeah, congrats. But that's not the point!

Ruggie: Shishishi!

Malleus, Sebek, Epel, Floyd, and Jade: ...

Epel: Is Leona here to scold him or what?

Jade: He must've been worried.

Floyd: Eeeehhh~ So Sea Lion is here for me too~?

Sebek: It might be! Because you attempted to drown Yuurin!

Floyd: Hehe~ You're just jealous that our match was more exciting than yours~.

Sebek: WHAT DID YOU SAY?!

Malleus: Sebek, calm down.

Sebek: Krk... Yes, Waka-sama...

Epel: *sigh*

Yuurin: *has introduced Leona to Philomela*

Philomela: Ah, you look strong! You should join our wrestling competition next time!

Leona: No, thank you. I'm too lazy for that.

Yuurin: Philomela, can I ask you to prepare a room for Leona-senpai?

Philomela: Of course. But isn't he here to watch?

Ruggie: Nah. His heart is too fragile.

Jack: *nods in agreement*

Leona: *glares at them*

Ruggie and Jack: ...

Philomela: I see. So he's like Akane, huh?

Leona: Huh? What about Aki— I mean, Akane?

Philomela: She always worries for Yuurin. It never came across to her that her brother received blessings from the gods.

Yuurin: ...

Yuurin: Aren't we all, Philomela?

Philomela: Yes. That's why I will never understand your sister.

Philomela: Us from the Kingdom of Heroes have always been adventurous!

Philomela: Danger excites us!

Yuurin: ...

Yuurin: I have to disagree on that.

Philomela: That's your opinion. Haha!

Leona: ...

Leona: Let's change the subject.

Leona: Who's the next person to fight Yuurin?

Philomela: Silver.

Leona: Huh.

Ruggie and Jack: ...

Ruggie: *whispers to Jack* He's already crossing out Silver from his list.

Jack: *whispers back* List of what?

Ruggie: Yuurin's potential suitors.

Jack: ...

Philomela: Our third match is about to begin!

Philomela: Are you ready fighters?!

Yuurin and Silver: Yes!

Leona: *frowning*

Malleus: You do not need to worry, Kingscholar.

Malleus: Yuurin will be alright.

Leona: I don't need your reassurance, lizard.

Sebek: How dare you?! You should be grateful that Waka-sama is showing some concern to you, human!

Leona: I don't need it. And I don't care.

Malleus: *smirks* Well I hope Yuurin win against Silver.

Leona: ...

Leona: Huh?

Malleus: Silver has been trained by Lilia.

Malleus: There is a chance that Yuurin might lose this match.

Leona: Are you making me laugh?

Malleus: I'm only stating the possibilities.

Leona: Grr... *smirks* Then I hope your Silver won't lose.

Malleus: *smug face*

Epel, Jade, Ruggie, Jack, and Floyd: ...

Floyd: Looks like Damselfish can't afford to lose now~.

Epel: So is Silver.

Jade: Hm. Everyone, has anyone seen Rook?

Epel: Oh, Rook-senpai is doing some warm-up exercises in preparation for his match.

Jade: I see.

Yuurin and Silver: *have been sent to the Enchanted Garden*

Silver: This is...

Yuurin: ...

*The Enchanted Garden is a place straight out of nightmare — with heavy storms and lightning striking the ground.*

Leona: What the heck?

Philomela: Ah, one of the most beautiful places in the Kingdom of Heroes. Hahaha!

Ruggie: This is going to be difficult for both of them.

Philomela: I doubt it.

Leona: What do you mean?

Philomela: That place is being taken care of by a nymph, who Yuurin rejected.

Leona and the others: !!!

Silver: I don't understand. This is not what I imagined this place to be.

Yuurin: ...

Yuurin: It is a beautiful place. Though you'll get to see it after the nymph who's protecting it is no longer mad at me.

Silver: I see.

Philomela: ENOUGH TALK! START FIGHTING!

Yuurin and Silver: ...

Yuurin and Silver: *proceed to take their fighting stances*

Sebek: SILVER! DO YOUR BEST AND WIN THIS!

Epel: Sebek, can't you just watch quietly?

Sebek: Hmph!

Malleus and Leona: ...

Ruggie: Damn. These two look so serious.

Yuurin and Silver: *seems to be thinking the same thing*

Yuurin and Silver: *charges at each other, aiming to grab other's shoulder*

Yuurin and Silver: *fends off each other*

Yuurin and Silver: *creates distance then attacks again*

Epel: Holy shit—

Malleus: *smirks*

Leona: ...

Leona: What's going on? Why does it seem to me that Yuurin is slowing down?

Philomela: The garden is restricting his movements, providing an opportunity for Silver.

Leona: ...

Epel: Yuurin is slowing down?

Philomela: Yes.

Philomela: Watch closely.

Yuurin: *her steps look heavy whenever she moves*

Epel: Wait... Is the gravity... different for him?!

Philomela: Haha! You have a keen eye! Yes!

Leona: ...

Ruggie and Jack: ...

Yuurin: !

Silver: *has finally managed to grab Yuurin's shoulder*

Silver: *quickly pulled her leg and pushed forward; both of them falling to the ground* *then stayed on top of her*

Leona: That little—!

Malleus: Looks like the match has been decided—

Yuurin: *uses sweep; knocking Silver off-balance by hooking his hip with her leg, then used her other leg and upper body to create a momentum and flipped him over*

Silver: *is genuinely impressed*

Malleus and Leona: ...

Leona: What were you saying again, lizard?

Sebek: SILVER! THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO BE AMAZED!

Philomela: *laughs*

Yuurin: *doesn't waste any second and immediately applies the Ezekiel choke by gripping his collar with one hand and sliding her other arm under his head, positioning her forearm against his neck*

Yuurin: *applying downward pressure with the hand gripping the collar while using her forearm to compress his windpipe*

Silver: !!!

Silver: *tries to escape*

Yuurin: *doesn't budge no matter how he tries to move*

Silver: ...

Silver: I... give up.

Yuurin: *lets go of him* *sighs in relief*

Silver: *coughs; catching his breath* .

Silver: I need... to train more.

Yuurin: Just say when and I'll help you.

Silver: ...

Silver: *smiles* Thank you.

Philomela: Our winner— Yuurin!!!

Silver: I'm sorry. I lost.

Malleus: *smiles* That is alright. You did your best.

Sebek: Hmph! I told you to win!

Leona: Yuurin, how are you feeling?

Yuurin: ...

Yuurin: My body feels sore.

Leona: ...

Leona: You should rest a little.

Philomela: Yuurin! That was amazing! *picks her up and hugs her tight*

Leona: !!!

Leona: Hey!

Yuurin: ...

Philomela: One more match! *laughs*

Yuurin: Please let go of me.

Epel: I feel bad for Yuurin. His match with Silver must've exhausted him.

Jade: Honestly, I think it was more of the garden's fault.

Floyd: *nods in agreement*

Rook: Oh la la~.

Rook: *amused smile*

Rook: Our match will surely be interesting, Monsieur Tranquille.

#twisted wonderland #twst yuurin #twst silver #twst rook #twst floyd #twst sebek #twst leona #twst ruggie #twst jack #twst epel #twst jade #twst malleus #twst oc philomela #twst unveil event

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danaty-consolation · 1 year ago

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Hai there! Hope you're doing great!!! 🌹

First of all, I love your blog and I'll be honest, It's actually one of the reasons I came here to Tumblr in the first place (I think I found you first through that one Ataru analysis you posted a long time ago). Your blog was just the thing to satisfy my rumic cravings and I hope that we can be friends ❤

And second, do you have a favourite moment for each Rumiko Takahashi couple? I tried searching through your blog but I couldn't find anything which had the answer, sorry if it's already been asked before!!

Hope you'll reply!! X3

FIRST OF ALL, I ALREADY LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEST DETECTIVE CONAN GIRL IN YOUR PROFILE PICTURE ASKJBDAKSJ

Also thank you so much!!! It flatters me a lot you were the reason to be here on tumblr! (even tho the Ataru defense post has so many misspellings now in my eyes skjdbakjs)

The Rumic World fandom is light and cool so you will be happy here and yes! We can definitely be friends hehehe.

OKAY SO FOR ROMANTIC MOMENTS HUH.

With Atalum is this one for sure:

THE ARC WHEN HE ACTIVELY SHOWS HIS TRUE SELF AND GOES TO SAVE HER AND CARRIES HER BRIDAL STYLE!

Rankane is definitely this one even tho I have a lot of other favorites:

RANMA BEING HONEST TO AKANE AFTER SHE REGAINED HER ORIGINAL BODY AFTER SACRIFICING IT FOR HIM, HECK THIS MOMENT MADE ME CRY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

Inukag has so many good ones but I want to share this one specifically:

Forever be salty about how Sunrise handled this scene. THE SCENE OF COMFORT AND TRUST HERE, LIKE HE FEELS BAD FOR NOT BEING ON TIME I AM AKJSBDJKAS AND HIS HUG!!!! AKSJHBDAJKS

Rinsaku is a difficult one because so many cute protective Rinne moments but I will have to choose this one:

IS SUPER CUTE, THEY ARE SO IN LOVE HERE AND IT SHOWS SAKJBDKJASBDAJSDA

Maonoka has pretty good moments to but I need to choose this one:

MAO'S FACE HERE TELLS US EVERYTHING, HE LOVES HER AND SHE OF COURSE LOVES HIM. THESE TWO IDIOTS, MOSTLY MAO THO BC HE KEEPS QUIET OF WHAT HE FEELS VERBALLY LJKASDBNJSKLD

Yumana is super touching and adorable:

I LISTEN, I HAD TO CHOOSE THIS ONE BECAUSE HERE WE SEE MANA BEING HAPPY THAT YUTA IS ALIVE. HERE WE SEE MANA REALLY CARES FOR HIM AND SHE LOVES HIM BECAUSE WE HAD SEEN SHE IS JEALOUS BEFORE BUT DOESN'T KNOW YET WHY NSADKSA

Now to add the other Rumic world couples that I also adore:

Godai and Kyoko are such a mature couple in the end that still are growing together:

I GET SUPER EMOTIONAL WITH THEM OKAY, WE SEE THEM GROW TOGETHER AS PERSONS AND SEE GODAI EMBRACING HER WITH HER PAST AND EVERYTHING AND LOVING HER AND KYOKO. GOD, SHE GIVE HERSELF THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOVE AGAIN WITH HIM I AM ON THE FLOOR.

Now with Kosaku and Nun Angela:

LISTEN, KOSAKU IS A GLUTON AND A IDIOT, BUT HE IS SO STUPIDLY IN LOVE WITH NUN ANGELA THAT HE LITERALLY MADE HER FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM. MARIE LOVES HIM, SHE LITERALLY SAID GOODBYE TO HER LIFE AS A NUN FOR HIM. SHE TRULY LOVES HIM AND THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST LOVE STORIES.

Also this is also such a great way to show my love for every dynamic of the rumic world week skjdba

I am going to use this ask btw, hope you don't mind!

#rumicworldweek #rumicworldweek day 4 #I love a lot of rumiko couples akjbdskjaqsd

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nogenderbee · 11 months ago

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How would Isagi, Reo, and Chigiri be like with an s/o who can see the future?

Yeah, of course! Sorry for taking so long but I just couldn't find the motivation for pretty long time... but I still hope you like it!

♡˗ˏ✎*ೃ˚ 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕣 ₊˚ˑ༄

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ Isagi, Chigiri, Reo with an reader who can see the future

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ fluff

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ @miya-akane

Isagi was a bit stressed because today, his group was supposed to play against other group which he saw as a lot better than them. He knew all his training lead to this moment and that if they put them in this position, they must have chances of winning! But that didn't seem to stop his worries anyway...

So you used your abilities to something good and reassure your partner.

"Isagi, I swear it's gonna be fine. Stop worrying so much."

"I know I shouldn't... but I just can't help it. I'm sure it'll be fine once I enter the field."

"I'm telling you, you're gonna win."

Your partner smiled at you gently knowing you well about your gift, but he also couldn't rely on only your words.

"I'll do my best then!"

And he most definitely did his very best leading to his groups victory just like you predicted!

Who knows? Maybe it was your prediction who helped him be so confident?

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You had a bad feeling today... And what's worse, Chigiri had a game today... But you could feel that something bad is gonna happen to him and you just couldn't ignore that...

Before match, you ran up to him, worried look on your face even tho you were now more at ease when you saw him safely standing there.

"Chigiri! Did anything happen yet?"

"Huh? Why would it? Did you saw something?"

"Yes! Please be careful while running today..."

He gently nodded as an answer, seemingly trusting you words.

"I will make it my utmost priority, don't worry."

After a bit of chat, he had to leave. You were considering if you're interested should convince him to not go play this time but you knew he cared for that and will definitely take great care of himself and be more careful.

During match, he was about to take the ball but he noticed ground being a bit uneven and slowed down. He lost a chance and his teammates were slightly disappointed in him, same as audience... but both him and you knew that he just avoided an accident.

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You and Reo were discussing your plans for the day, apparently he wanted to take you to your favorite cafe and you couldn't complain, but you got that one feeling telling you it was not a way to go... so instead you suggested simple walk around the park. Although it looked like your boyfriend REALLY wanted to treat you today...

"Y/N I know you can foresee the future but don't you think it's a bit impossible for a cafe small like that to overflow with customers?"

"It's still possible... better safe than sorry, don't you think?"

He could only sigh and nod his had, agreeing to your plan with small "yes ma'am/sir/love".

But your walk turned to be a great one because when you were passing few meters from your favorite cafe, you noticed long line and you just had to smirk at your partner as he sighed, knowing well what you're about to say...

"Told you!"

"Yes, I'm sorry for doubting you and your abilities. I'll make it up, okey?"

You chuckled with a nod. Maybe it wasn't cafe date like you originally planned but it was still very admirable date! After all, it's the company that counts and you for one definitely couldn't complain!

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danganronpasurvivoraskblog · 11 months ago

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Good to see Sora and Akane working together. Kind of figured things would be a bit more awkward between them.

Yeah, I mean...! Why not, right!? Let's go "sister!"

Uuh...

No, wait, not sister, that's too friendly...Um...

Let's go, COMRADE! No, wait, that's too informal...

Let us go, my Sleep Paralysis Demon!

No, that's RUDE! Why did I say that-!?

Sora!

You...can just call me Akane, or Taira if that's more comfy. And you don't have to acknowledge the bond between us.

And I'm sorry I plagued your mind for so long. To be honest, I do really want you to live a life without me.

So...Yeah...Just don't try to accommodate me that much. Especially if it causes you so much stress...

...Nah, that's not really it...

I've spent my whole life being told and thinking about how you were the biggest piece of shit in the world, and that everyone else was scared of you...but you're actually pretty chill.

And...now I feel like the asshole.

...

Guys...Maybe it's better to have a real talk about it.

But right now, we need to find the others before things go south. Can we at least agree to be friends until then?

Yeah!

Ok...!

Wait! Before we do, I have one question! Answer correctly, and I'll have no doubts or regrets!

Huh? Um...ok?

*Sora points at Yoruko.

Is she hot as fuck!?

WHA-!?

...Um...Yes!? Absolutely!

You pass!

Oh COME ON! Well, at least I know where she GETS it from now...!

#danganronpa survivor #danganronpa #danganronpa another 2 #sdra2 #yoruko kabuya #sora #akane taira #ask #the day the world stood still arc #soruko

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Red Velvet - Chapter 6

MasterList / Akane’s profile / Last chapter here

Chapter 6 - Afterglow

When he finally managed to regain some coherence, he decided to take a look at his phone, just to kill time. There were several unread messages in his friend's group chat.

EggHead:

I'm heading to the airport

any sign of rihito?

GiantKiller:

He must be sorting things out with Miss Agata

Gigolo_Master:

he's taking too long

maybe something happened?

if it did, I hope it was something good 😎😎😎

EggHead:

I hope not

or I'll have to go back to give a statement to the police

Dickhead_Tokita:

huh

were you arrested again okubo?

EggHead:

nope

but maybe rihito is inside a ice-filled bathtub right now, after having his internal organs stolen

Dickhead_Tokita:

wait what do you mean?

is she a cannibal?

GiantKiller:

OKUBO YOU'RE SCARING US

Dickhead_Tokita:

what

wait is it true then?

Gigolo_Master:

ffs okubo just say it's a joke

before kaneda starts to cry and ohma believes you

Dickhead_Tokita:

damn it, is it true or not?

Gigolo_Master:

it's not, okubo is just dicking around

she's just a normal woman

and okubo you jerk

stop being an anxious wreck and just wait for rihito to appear

you being scared of this chick is annoying the shit outta me

we can’t be like that just because she's hornier than what we're used to

Dickhead_Tokita:

oh alright then

fuck you scared me

I was already thinking about calling raian to hunt her down

GiantKiller:

For god’s sake

Quit the organ trafficking nonsense already!

Dickhead_Tokita:

I'll be off, I have things to do

see ya

(@Dickhead_Tokita has left the chat)

GiantKiller:

See what you did? He got mad!

It's your fault, Okubo!

Ohma is well-connected

If he gets things wrong, we'll be screwed!

Gigolo_Master:

wait he didn't seem mad...

I'll talk to him, just a sec…

holy fuck he left the chat just cause he thought it was like turning off a phone LMAOOOOO

did no one teach that dumbass that you don't need to leave a group chat like that?

GiantKiller:

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This guy, I swear to God…

He's worse than my grandfather, I’m not even joking 🤣🤣🤣

EggHead:

LMFAOOOO

I can’t with this dude XD

@Mr_Iron_Fingers put him back on the chat when you see this

Lihito laughed to himself, a little quietly, because he hadn't yet fully recovered the strength to laugh out loud. It was a good thing he had turned off notifications on his phone, because otherwise he would have been forced to tear up his friends faces for ruining his fun. He sits straighter on the couch and starts typing.

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

for fuck's sake

I'm here and I'm fine

calm the fuck down

GiantKiller:

Thank God, man 😭😭

Gigolo_Master:

hey dude

what happened?

did you talk to her?

you were pissed the other day

GiantKiller:

Yes, we were worried about that too

I hope you two managed to talk it out 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Gigolo_Master:

Yes. You seemed to enjoy her performance…

oh yeah, add Tokita again cause the idiot threw himself outta the chat ¬¬’’

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

lmao alright

fuckin dumbass

but anyway

we talked

got everything outta my chest

then some things happened

and I kinda forgot about my phone, sorry

but everything’s fine, don’t worry

I settled things down with her

(@Mr_Iron_Fingers added @Dickhead_Tokita to the chat)

GiantKiller:

Again, thank God, man

Gigolo_Master:

Yeah. Okubo must be boarding the plane right now

he'll show up later

hey, ohma, rihito is alive and well

Dickhead_Tokita:

oh alright then

so the woman’s nice

GiantKiller:

Yes, Ohma. Okubo made a stupid joke, but everything's fine now

Dickhead_Tokita:

got it

Gigolo_Master:

and you don't need to leave the chat, man

disabling notifications if you're busy is enough

we thought you went looking for the Kure to save him or smth

Dickhead_Tokita:

not yet, I was all confused

I didn’t know if you were joking or not

but ichiro’s fine, so it’s okay

GiantKiller:

I don’t know about you guys, but I feel really good about having a friend who can call professional assassins to help us

Gigolo_Master:

or to kill us if we annoy him enough…

GiantKiller:

😳😳😳

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

It’s Rihito, Tokita!

ffs dude

and yeah, I’m fine

but I’ll warn you guys so I don’t scare the crap outta you next time we meet

I kinda had an accident

my arm's all bandaged

a motherfucker slashed it while I was in the hood

GiantKiller:

Seriously? 😳

Are you okay??

Gigolo_Master:

oh shit O_O

Dickhead_Tokita:

better your arm than a kidney

you were lucky

I'll leave now (not the chat)

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

you better not dumbass

and I'm not lucky, my arm's all fucked!

I might not be able to do any manual labor for the next few days

I'll leave ivan and komada in the lurch, damn

anyway, her ex-fuck buddy showed up while I was talking to her

dude was a fuckin pos, he was trying to beat her up and everything

I didn't let him, so he cut my arm with a fuckin pocket knife

then I broke his nose

that's what you get for trying me, bitch

Dickhead_Tokita:

Hell yea!

Gigolo_Master:

oh shit O_O x2

chick seems popular, just like me lmao

on the other hand, did you take care of your arm?

GiantKiller:

I guess so, if he said they sorted things out…🤔

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

yeah, like I said, my arm’s all bandaged

she helped me with that

guess that’s what you call gratitude LOL

a knight in shining armor, as they say

fuck

that sounded so fucking gay

forget what I just typed

GiantKiller:

We can’t, it’s literally written here on the chat 🤭

Gigolo_Master:

we'll let it slide cause we know that wasn't all that happened

your arm got slashed, not your balls

and since that chick has a "velvet mouth" and everything...

I've got your number 😏😏

Rihito looks to the side with an unimpressed face. Himuro liked to act like a respectful friend to all women, but he was the one who picked up on perverted nuances faster than everyone else in that group.

Dickhead_Tokita:

🍹🍹

I can't actually drink right now

but kanami said these emojis get the point across, so cheers, dude

GiantKiller:

Haha, good one

I’m a lightweight drinker, so I’ll drink some water

But just pretending is fun 🍹🍹

Gigolo_Master:

me too 🍹🍹

Cheers to Iron Fingers, who got lucky and fucked

…without getting too fucked up in the process!

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

LMAO you guys are so full of shit

and to answer you, himuro

now you get why I went MIA right?

daddy was getting busy here!

she let me breath a little and went to take a bath LOL

Gigolo_Master:

holy shit dude you just said your arm is all fucked up

you should've settled and went only for a “banana smoothie” or something, if you go right for the main course your pressure would skyrocket

you’d bleed all over her floor

GiantKiller:

Yeah man, I don't know the extent of your injury but go easy

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

but I went only for a "banana smoothie", guys

and for a "mango smoothie" too LOL

idk if she'll ask for the full package

but I can manage without pushing myself too much

don't you all say that I look like a bull?

bulls were made to be fucking ridden 🐂

Gigolo_Master:

y'know there's two ways to ride a bull right? LMAO

from above and from behind 😏

GiantKiller:

Oh my God 😳

too much details, guys

Gigolo_Master:

he's the one saying he's a bull

the joke wrote itself LOL

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

GO FUCK YOURSELF HIMURO

FOR FUCK’S SAKE

DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT STUFF

Gigolo_Master:

you’re the one who started with that bull shit, literally LMAO

anyway, we’re more relieved now, right, guys?

GiantKiller:

Yes, and so will be Okubo when he reads all these texts

Dickhead_Tokita:

👍🏼

call us if you need anything

but not now cause I’m eating 🍖🍖

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

yeah, I will, thanks

and egghead's such a worrywart

tell him that I’m fine, when he’s back

he needs to focus on his press conference

if he loses that championship belt I'll beat the crap outta him

GiantKiller:

He will see the messages when the plane's staff allows it, don't worry

At least you let us know you're alive, so we're good

Mr_Iron_Fingers:

alright then

she turned off the water

I’ll go now

talk to you guys later

…

Akane came out of the bathroom about ten minutes later, a towel tied around her torso, feeling refreshed. And she finds him sitting on the couch, looking relaxed and with his pants back up again, but his sweatshirt was still on the floor. He seemed to have loved the softness of the plushy upholstery, as he was looking at his phone, laughing to himself.

She looks at him for a second and decides not to bother, opening the bedroom door just a little, enough for her to hear his voice. She hears him letting out a tired groan, the sound of the upholstery creaking indicating that he was stretching.

"Hnnn... this porn-ish couch feels really nice..."

"If you want, I know where to find more of these, and even cheaper than this one," She says from inside the room "And less 'gay' too, since you worry so much about that."

She hears the upholstery creak again, louder this time, and was amused to imagine him jumping in surprise.

"Uh... that would be nice, 'cause the couch in my apartment is as hard as a rock, haha... and a discreet one would also be good. You understand, right? But look, this furry monster here is awesome! My back couldn't be happier..."

"Yeah, I got that, Rihito," He hears her laugh, and her hand appears on his field of vision, opening the door and getting out of the room, leaning against the door frame "And yes, there are pretty nice couches that look more sober. I've already found several, this one was just really 'me', y'know. And you can stretch out as much as you want in it," She was wearing a shirt with the phrase 'Don’t be scared, my tits are big because of my heart' written on it, and it was so loose that it looked like a dress on her. Her loose hair had lost the shape of those spring-like curls, now looking more naturally curled... and the heavy-ish makeup was gone; in its place there was only a pair of glasses shielding a pair of light brown eyes. She was still that blonde, dark skinned with well-painted nails Gyaru, but the look was completely different.

"... Huh?," He blinks, caught completely off guard when he sees her in that casual attire, without being all dolled-up... and with those glasses on her face "Uh.. jeez, is it really you? Damn, for a second I didn't recognize you, haha!"

She laughs "Well, every heroine needs a secret identity, right?," she winks at him again "Or did you think that I get all dressed-up to go to the bakery every morning? Come on, buying bread dressed like that, on top of being a waste of looks, is ridiculous."

He blushes a little at that, looking away.

"Well, can you blame me? You could've been committed to the gyaru style twenty-four seven for all I know! But it's okay, I was just a little surprised... and oh, so you actually were using contact lenses," He smiles, gesturing to her glasses.

"Well, yeah. And who said I'm not committed? It's my way of life, man," she approaches him, leaning over to look at him in a serious way, albeit not angry "And I go to work just like you saw me. This is my 'homey' look," she adjusts her glasses, looking like Kaede for half a second "Besides, it's a pain to keep adjusting glasses like a secretary, so the lenses are more practical. Why not commit to the style too?"

"Oh... fair enough," He nods, his mouth suddenly dry. Holy shit... did he have some type of fetish for women who wore glasses and was only realizing it now? That would explain his long-ago crush on Kaede... and why was he suddenly overcome with a sudden urge to hold Akane's face in his hands and kiss it, right there, on the bridge of her nose...

Holy shit, where did that outbreak of sissy thoughts come from?! He shakes his head, trying to smile to hide his embarrassment.

"But seriously, they look really good on you."

"Thank you," she smiles "I like to look good in everything I wear. From head to toe," she sits next to him, close to his good arm, and fixes her hair, sighing in a satisfied tone.

"Hehe... a total commitment, right? I like people with this kind of mindset," He leans a little towards her, smiling sideways "I'm into that too. That's why I never stopped bleaching my hair, not after high school or college..."

"Huh?," she blinked, surprised "Wait, you went to college? "

"Uh… yeah?" He turns to her, a bit confused "I majored in Business Administration in Teito University, no big deal…"

"TEITO!?," she shouts, jumping a little on the couch "Oooh yeah, that's just one of the biggests universities in the whole country, no big deal at all.. man, you're either a genius or a lucky bastard," she looks to the side "I think the former is more likely...," she raises an eyebrow smiling.

"Bro, why is everyone so surprised when they find out about this?," He snorts, grunting "And yeah, I'm just lucky, I came in last place on the call list. As I said, no big deal."

"But you still got in, man! That already makes you a bit of a badass, you know? I barely graduated high school, I even got held back a grade," she pushes him to the side, pouting a little "But that doesn't mean that, despite knowing a lot, you don't have things to learn... and that I don't have things to teach," She smiles, now looking happier "I hope you liked the lessons. I want you to become a 'Hot Blonde' from now on."

He blushes a little, again making that adorable expression of an idiot who wasn't used to receiving a sincere compliment, especially from the opposite sex. He scratches the back of his head.

"Haha, thanks! I almost got held back too, both due to low grades and absences, so you don't need to think badly of yourself for that, hehe. And...," He turns his head a little to the side, smiling lasciviously "And I liked the lessons. I really, really did. So much so that I would love to have a few more of 'em, just to reinforce the contents…"

Akane smiles, also in an adorable way "Okay...," she smiles even more, mainly because she had gotten exactly everything she wanted. A cool, fun friend, who didn't find her way of being strange or off-putting, and who also had good attributes... and who also wanted to bang her more often, of course. She then made a decision "Oh, since you gained a little bit of my trust... here," she gets up from the couch, going to grab her phone from the kitchen counter "My main number. Now you can send me a text to make an appointment, if you feel like it. Then we'll meet for a friendly Match of Kama-Sutra," she laughs at her own joke.

Rihito stares at her phone with an expression of absolute disbelief, his mind freezing like an overloaded operating system, taking a while to process what was happening.

Did... did he had just gotten a girl's number? Her real phone number, without it being a fake number given to mislead him, or a telemarketer number or some shit like that?!

Damn, he had definitely died and gone straight to heaven! His friends would raise bottles of sake in front of his grave in celebration of his success in the afterlife!

"Wow... here, take mine too!," He grabs his phone from the pocket of his sweatshirt on the ground, all smiles "This way we can keep talking. And I'm up for this friendly match. But I'll let you know that I have a great history of victories," He laughs mischievously.

Akane laughs too, leaning against him "Can I consider myself a Master, then?," She laughs louder "Alright, here," she gives him her number "I mean, you might also want to gossip about your friends to someone, or you might want to ask for tips about Gyarus in general. That's what a F.B. is for too," she playfully touch his arm with her elbow.

"F.B...? Oh, fuck-buddy!," He nods, now felling even more exultant "So we're fuck-buddies now? That's great to know, hehe. It's hard work, but I'm willing to do it," He jokes, lifting his chin a little and then laughing. And then he leans closer to her, one hand reaching up and caressing her thigh slowly. Yes, her teachings had really penetrated that thick skull of his "And of course you are a master. A master of the Leg Lock freestyle..."

She laughs loudly, her hand over her mouth "You bet! and you're going to be a master of the Hip Wrench style. Seriously, your strongest points are your hips and fingers, so don't be shy about using them. And don't be ashamed of it because no sane woman who has tried it will say anything bad about it. I guarantee you that."

He had to hold himself back from rocking back and forth on the couch, he was so happy. He tries to compose himself, clearing his throat and nodding, his hand still firmly on her thigh, "You can leave it to me, you'll be proud of your student. And yes, fingers are my ace in the hole, as you've already seen for yourself, hehe. I just want to know if the main part needs some polishing too. It turns out that we haven't gotten to that part of the subject yet, haha."

"In general, no," She says after pondering "Just the basics about not getting too carried away too soon is good enough. Oh, and varying rhythms is great. This way you can guess which one makes her moan louder. Some women cum with your pace alone but others don't, so you have to start slow. It's not an exact science, so it's really about following the rhythm of the dance. Oh, and of course, hearing “ooh, Rihito, harder” is always a great sign," she laughs again.

He laughs too, in a playfully tone "Hahaha! Okay, noted! Seriously, it was really worth it. I was pissed a few days ago, and a little upset... but now I understand that that's just the way you are. Honest as all hell..."

"Hnm-hmmm," she nods while siting on his lap, without really touching his body with hers "And honestly, I no longer have the patience to sugarcoat things beforehand, you know...? Yes, friendship, respect and mutual consent are still perfectly valid, but once everything is right...," she looks at him in the eyes, one hand on the wall behind him "It seems much more practical that way," the other hand puts his good arm around her waist, without actually teasing him. He could feel the difference clearly.

Rihito swallows a little, his throat dry again. What she didn't know was that he tended to get aroused by the smallest of stimuli... and it was better if she remained unaware, otherwise she would think he was as desperate as a virgin teen.

The truth was that he was happy to know he wasn't dealing with a woman who cared more about playing coy than delivering clear messages. He was a very simple man, after all, and mixed signals left him confused, frustrated and prone to doing stupid things that scared off the women around him... but it wasn't like it was their fault. The conclusion left him somewhat amazed.

"Yeah... I agree... and seriously, I'd give you a good shag right now if my arm wasn't fucked up. Leave it for another time, haha."

"Hm-hmm… we'll have other opportunities," she gives him a peck, then looks at his hair "Hey, can I take a closer look?," She asks; he seemed to care about his hair as much as she did about hers...

"Oh... sure, go ahead," He nods, lowering his head to let her take a look at his roots, his hands on her hips, but not holding her in place. He seemed to be following her lead, allowing closeness without sexual overtones behind it. It was a Herculean effort, but Rihito really wanted to improve, and there was no better time to start than now.

His hair was cut messily, unruly and spiky, arranged in a classic mullet at the nape of his neck. Amateurly bleached hair could become dry and brittle, and although she concluded that it would need moisturizing soon, this particular job wasn't done badly.

"Hmmm," she evaluates "It’s… actually better than I expected. You said you’ve been doing this since high school, right?," When he confirms, she nods "Yeah, the experience paid off here, and it seems to have good fiber (gosh, I envy men's hair at this point) but you'll need to take care of it later. And you better go to a barbershop soon, you need a haircut. And also touch up the hairdye, the roots are starting to show their color. Overall it looks good on you, and since you like this style, it's better to keep it well-groomed, right?"

"Uh... yeah, true. But I had never paid much attention to these things," He comments, and she notices that he had become limp on the couch, since she started running through the strands of his hair with her fingers with long, well-manicured nails. He had even closed his eyes, his tone of voice a little sleepy "I just bleach it, go to the barbershop and tell the barber to do his thing, nothing more. I'm not a woman or a fag to worry about this sort of thing, haha..."

"That's where you're wrong...," She squeezes his cheeks "A guy with good hair is a sign of good health and care with personal hygiene, you know? Or do you think we don't notice these things?"

"... Really?," He blinks, looking sincerely surprised "I thought women only care if the guy take showers or if he has a big dick…"

"Haa-ha-haaa!," she tightens her grip "Not really, my dear. The thughs from my hood are all macho and what not, but for what?," She pretends to do that classic pose with a comb in her hair, pouting a little "Their hair looks like stone blocks, but made of gel. And it sucks. In fact, I saw two of your friends who have wonderful hair too."

"Oh... if you're talking about the tanned guy, Himuro, that metrosexual jerk uses more products in his hair than all the woman I know," Rihito snorts "And the worst thing is that it's not even funny to make fun of him, he bangs more girls than everyone in our friend group combined. But... wow...," He suddenly opens his eyes wide, seeming to realize something "I wonder if that's why he... holy shit..."

"Huhum, exactly, darling. That's why we call him Hot Stuff," she laughs, now absentmindedly working his jaw with her nails, while looking at him "And the guy with black hair too, is he your friend or is he just Butch's boyfriend? I only saw him in a pic."

"Tokita? Yeah, he's one of my friends too, despite being an asshole who refuses to give me a rematch," He snorts again, but without so much indignation this time. He was still flabbergasted by his discovery "And yeah, he is Miss Kanami's boyfriend. How he managed to get a girl like that, being such a dumbass, is a mystery."

"Oh, so he's like you?," She laughs in his face.

"What- fuck, woman, you’re awful, y'know?!," He complains with a pout "One moment you soften my ego, and the next you kick it's ass. You're a master of this game of praising and criticizing..."

"Leopards are like that... I thought you liked it," she smugs "And you also have the potential to become hot, you just need to use what you have well."

Although he was slightly offended at not being classified as one of the “hot” ones, her making it clear that he had the potential to reach that level served to cushion the blow. He smirks, running a hand up her back in an insinuating caress.

"Heh, I'll try. If I'm fuck-buddies with a hot girl now, it's only fair that I work to stay at her level too."

"Of course…," she kisses him, a little more willingly, but then she pulls away, her hand patting his face "Now let’s eat, I haven’t had lunch yet because of that shit at the salon's door. I went to grab my lunch, and then I got back only to see Mrs. Jin kicking you out."

"Oh... I kind of already ate before coming here and...," He starts to say, but he's interrupted by his traitorous stomach, which growls loudly. His face heats up as if it had been placed in a pan of boiling water "Uh... but I accept the invitation."

Shit, he always forgot he usually got hungry after sex. He sits at the counter that was the house's dining room/kitchen. The funny thing is that he didn't even need to take half a step to get to that space, it was a hilarious observation, but he kept it to himself. She picked up the bags and began to pull the contents out.

"Good thing you brought cookies. We can share my plate and then have dessert. I don't think I can cook something quick and good enough for both of us, I didn't even go grocery shopping this week," she says, looking embarrassed "I didn't even expect you to come to my house either, but I'll prepare myself better next time," her cheeks get more flushed.

"It's okay, I'll settle for just a few bites. I ate before I came here. And... jeez...," He suddenly laughs, putting a hand on his face "I even made fun of Tomori, pretending I was going to steal some cookies from that box, and now here you are, offering them to me, hahaha! Her threats were of no use in the end!"

She laughs "Seriously, would you steal my cookies? Tomori would choke you if she knew," She arranges the food on the counter "She is very overzealous with her creations, and she takes the things she does really seriously."

"No, I just said that to annoy her. And yes, that girl gets pissed as hell if you mess with her orders, so I wasn't going to miss the opportunity, hahaha!" He shakes his head, still laughing "The good thing about having a friend who's dating is that you get some quality material for your jokes."

"Heh," She smiles "There you go. Bon appétit," she put a plate on the counter, and there were a rice cake, some side dishes and some biscuits on it.

He doesn't wait for a second invitation, helping himself and eating happily. And as he promised, he takes only a few bites, more to try it than anything else.

"Hnnn... her cookies are really good, aren't they?," He comments with a smile "We usually make fun of Okubo, saying that she won him over first by his stomach before any other part of his anatomy, hahaha."

"It’s one of the truths of the world," She responds, agreeing "That saying is real, after all. But I'm terrible at cooking something like Kanami and her, so I have to conquer it by being eaten myself," she laughs, her hand in front of her mouth "I think I have other good qualities too, but when they look for my bed, it's because of my mastery of the Kama Sutra," she winks at him.

He swallows a little too loudly, and picks up another rice ball, laughing again.

"Your Leg Lock is something worthy coming back for, not gonna lie. But it's nice to talk to you too. And you're a good listener. It's something I had to learn too...," He scratches the back of his head again "I talked a lot about myself, but I heard almost nothing from you..."

"What do you want to know?," she continues eating "It's not like I hide much, either," she adjusts her glasses.

He nods, seeming to think hard... and then he asks, arching an eyebrow, genuinely curious, "Is it true that Tomori and you were rival delinquents during high school? And that you fought each other before becoming friends? Because holy shit, I thought only guys made friends like that!"

"Yes, women too. Now, you've probably never seen two girls fighting. When boys fight, you just need to separate them, and that's it. They'll probably say shit about each other's mom's afterwards, but the fight is pretty much over after that. But when girls decide to throw hands... bro...," she puts her hands on her face "They go for the fucking kill! They wanna destroy each other because other tactics didn't work. When a woman decides to fight physically, it's because things have escalated to an absurd level. Scratching, biting, pulling each other's hairs, choking, that's all we have. It's wild, to say the least."

He laughs in disbelief, out loud; the mental image was quite a scene "Yeah, I can see that, hahaha! But it's too surreal to think of that cute girl trying to beat the shit out of someone clearly taller and stronger than her. You, on the other hand, look pretty badass. I had those scratches on my back for a few days to prove it, hehehe!"

"Yeah, I've always been a Gyaru, you know? Since birth, because my skin was always tanned like this, and then I went to the beach every weekend to increase it. I hate artificial tanning, you know. And Tomori went through a phase where she was basically Satan's spawn, and she liked boys like the ones from my neighborhood, she even got a tattoo, hehe... so I think you already know the story, but still... we started liking the same boy. He acted all grown-up and cocky, and we thought it was the coolest shit ever," she blushes with embarrassment "That was when we became rivals. And yes, when I finally got a kiss from him, that crazy bitch came at me with a fucking baseball bat. I didn't let that slide, of course. We beat the everloving shit out of each other and got suspended from school for that."

"Wow, so you don’t do artificial tanning? It's just excess melanin then, like with Himuro. In your case, it's hot as hell," He smiles a little mischievously, before continuing "And yeah, Okubo said that Tomori told him that she was unhinged when she was a teenager, but we didn't really believe it. At least until I saw the tattoo myself, one day when we were at Miss Kanami's house and she was wearing a skirt. I was so stunned that I kept staring, and Egghead thought I was ogling his girl. Dumbass almost punched me! Anyway...," He shakes his head "Fighting over boys, huh? That dude mustn't been worth it, if you became friends and he's nowhere to be found nowadays."

"You hit the nail on the head," she snorts "Especially a few days after, when we went back to school, and we discovered that the fucker had five… five!," she spreads her hand, pointing to each of her fingers "Five different girlfriends, one in each place. And they weren't just fuck-buddies, each one of them gave him a Valentine's Day gift and everything. And neither knew of the other's existence, dude was a piece of shit of the highest caliber."

Rihito, in another situation, would laugh and congratulate the guy for his courage and cluelessness. But he felt that was not the right answer. And he really needed to stop having those kinds of thoughts, if he wanted to be someone better and more interesting to the opposite sex. He simply shakes his head, his eyes bulging.

"Holy shit, five? Is he still alive even after being caught? Where I come from, a motherfuck would've his dick chopped off for something like that.

"Oh, but we didn’t let it lie. Tomori and I joined forces and beat the crap outta him, so much so that he ended at the hospital. We caught him outside of school, so the school board didn't find out. And he didn't say anything either, 'cause a man who got his ass beat by a woman would become even more of a laughing stock back then. But we gave him a black eye and if he hasn't had a child to date, it was because Tomori was the one who hit him in the nuts with her trusty baseball bat. Then after that we went to drown our sorrows at a Ramen restaurant. We've been best friends ever since."

He sees when Rihito shivers, closing his legs tightly, a hilarious expression of horror taking over his face, which has turned pale.

"Holy shit... I will never make fun of that girl again in my life. And I'm going to warn my pal about that too, damn it... but anyway...," He swallows hard, laughing with a certain nervousness "Friendship forged in fire, right? Few bonds are stronger than that, hahaha. I should've imagined it, but when she told me about you, the first image that came to my mind was of someone as tiny and cute as her... I'm glad I was wrong!"

"Hahaha... I can be cute too if I want," she smiles, adjusting her glasses out of habit "But my cuteness is much less... cute than hers. But we share many common tastes too. She and I love dancing, playing baseball (it's fun), going to the beach, going out shopping or to restaurants... one of our favorite pastimes when we were teenagers was buying clothes at thrift stores or getting materials to customize our own clothes. I still make my own to this day."

"Heh... yeah, I can’t deny that I thought you were cute when you were patching up my arm. It almost made it worth getting razored. Almost," he hardens the biceps of his good arm, the muscles becoming even more prominent "But otherwise, these are very feminine, normal pastimes. I even think she helped you choose that pink monster back there," He indicates the pink couch in the living room with his thumb.

"Hahaha, no, I chose it myself, but Tomori was with me at the store. That's when I got this apartment. Of course, we went to furnish it straight from the thrift store. Usually in stores you only find standard, boring things, but in thrift stores there are even custom-made things that people throw away on a whim, still in excellent condition. I just had to clean it, and then it was brand new. Now it's my favorite furniture."

"Yeah... it kind of became my favorite too," He gives her a wink, smiling naughtily "That vintage, 'straight out of a porn movie' couch..."

She laughs "Yeah, if you think like that... and as you've seen, it's pretty comfortable. But anyway... you know where I work, but what about you? You majored in Business Administration, so you're probably an office guy, am I right?

"Nah, I actually work at a fridge. Have you heard of SF Cold Storage? That's the place," He smiles "It's me and two other guys, just earning our daily bread and working out a little after the workday is over."

"Never heard of it, but maybe one day I'll pay you a visit," she nods "And wow, you're actually a pretty decent guy. I was prepared for anything, I knew almost nothing about you, and it's always good to be careful around these parts. But it's not like this is the middle of hell, it's a liveable place."

"Hey, I try! If I were to live solely on fight commissions, I wouldn't have enough to cover all the bills. And trying to be nice isn't a sacrifice, c'mon," He scratches the back of his head "I'm a perverted bum, but even a perverted bum has to know how the real world works... and seriously, be careful, okay?," He looks at her, suddenly worried "If this place is as dangerous as you say, you have to watch for fuckers like the one at the salon...

"Nah, he was an odd case, and I know how to take care of myself. I've lived here for years. Eight, I guess... yeah, something like that. And I have some friends here, from my high school days. Didn't I tell you I was a delinquent? Nowadays, these friends of mine are hard boiled thugs. They didn't even finish school, but everyone around here knows who I am. In fact, the jerk you beat the shit out of was one of them, but he had been kicked out of the gang when he tried to force himself on a random chick. The gang leader was fucking pissed, he was out of line with their principles. And as he was my fuck-buddy before that, he thought I wasn't in the gang's 'no touch' list and decided to try his luck. Thank fuck he found your fist instead of my mouth, hahahaha," she laughs devilishly "No, really, thanks for that. That bastard thought I would want swaps after I got rid of them... "

"Damn, girl... that's some crazy ass story," His eyebrows were high up, very close to his hairline "And it's a good thing that son of a bitch was kicked out of that gang, because me beating him up could cause problems for you... and for me too, now that I'n stoping to think about it," He blinks. And then he shrugs "Eh, fuck it, I can take care of myself too. And you're welcome," He smiles again "Again, it didn't cost me anything other than a few days taking care of my arm. Although the Hairspray Squad in that salon could take care of that fucker and leave him in an even worse state than I left him in."

"Yeah, you bet. We came together for that very reason. Like I said, decent men are in short supply here in the neighborhood," Akane sighs, and then smiles again "That said, I'm happy you came. I got a fuck-buddy and the rest of the day off. I think I'm going to buy something at the supermarket and take care of a few things... since...," she looks at his arm "I'm going to have to settle for just foreplay today."

"... You know you don’t need to, right?," He suddenly leans towards her, his gaze lewd "Since I'm playing the student and you, the teacher, we can continue in the same way. I promise I'll behave and stay quiet while you have fun with me," He smugs, showing those “little fangs” again "If I'm your fuck-buddy now, I have to play the part accordingly, hehe."

"Oh, but today’s lesson has already been taught," she pushes him back to make him straighten up "And look, can I be honest with you?," She cuckles in a sudden fit of shyness "I don't think I'll ever want to keep doing it the whole night long again. Not that I didn't like it, quite the contrary, but I was a wreck the next day, and I really don't have the stamina for that," she laughs coquettishly again.

He blinks. And then he laughed heartily, practically swelling with pride right before her eyes.

"Ahahaha, sorry about that! I kind of forget that not everyone has the stamina of a fighter. But remember that it was you who asked for it, and for an encore the next morning. I only met the demand," And again he goes to touch her thigh.

"I know!," she laughs again "I thought I could handle it, and I actually did, c'mon. And you must have seen that I was on a roll, even more so after I saw the whole package, if you know what I mean. No, it's not just your dick".

He laughs even louder, and she's surprised when he grabs her, his arms around her waist, and brings her close to him. But she realizes that he wasn't groping her or getting too carried away. It was a bear hug, pure and simple. She gasped for a second, her eyes wide and her glasses misaligned, but she calmed down when she noticed his intentions.

"Yes, I saw it, and it was that night that I decided I wanted to see it more often, because I also was on a roll because of you! I take back what I said at that time, you hit hard, but you know how to care for wounds a lot more, hahaha!"

"Oh, of course," she smiles "We hit to correct and we care to conquer, that's my ninja way, after all...," she laughs softly at the reference. And she stays quiet, still blushing, while he hugs her.

"... Did you just quote Naruto at me? Really?," He stares at her, then laughs again "But the reference was good, I'll give you that, hahaha! And you can hit when you need to, as long as the caresses at the end are pleasant... and...," He then realizes the situation they were in, with him grabbing her and keeping her pinned against his chest "Shit, my bad. I forgot again," He let go of her, all awkward."It was just a hug, I swear."

She pulls him back, but only to lightly bite his nipple. "Rawn," and she lets him go when he jumps, smiling to herself "We're even," purrs, adjusting her glasses.

He touches the area where she had bitten him, dumbfounded... and then he opens a huge smile, his slightly sharp teeth practically sparkling "Oh, you fuckin' minx... I'm going to have so much fun with you from now on, just you wait..."

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