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[Today is a terrible day! You do not know why it's a terrible day, but it is. Everything's ominous and you've probably walked into ten tables and door frames and couldn't find your favorite coat and perhaps even got robbed by a hobo. Either way, your luck is terrible! Enjoy it! Or not. Because it'll get worse.

Meanwhile in Michi's residence, a corpse has disappeared. Corpses do not usually get up and wander away. This one did and is found standing in the middle of the street staring at nothing. It is almost as terrible as your day is, and you simultaneously run away and get closer.

Both of these are terrible ideas, but there is no correlation between them whatsoever. You're silly to think that way! Go enjoy your terrible day! However you wish to.

But no really, to anyone who comes over there is nothing but terrible here. And up to three bingo squares. Have fun guys.]

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[It's a good thing her eyes are closed. Because it means she misses it. Michi leaks. He cracks. And it's a quick reflex to cover up the broken pieces and start trying to shove them back in place and he freezes up in one solid motion. His nails break the skin on the back of his hand.

Standing immediately, perfectly composed. Yes. Need to get back to work. Yes. Can't be a villain with feels.]

I'm sure you'll do fine. Excuse me. I- ['Have'. The word kind of cracks on the syllable, but he forces through it anyway-] have to get back. Good day, Michi.

[FLEE FLEE FUCK THESE FEELINGS HE'S DONE HE QUITS BYE GUYS--Wait no, turn and walk out casually. Chill as ice, yo.]

[.... Wait.

The cracking, the polite speech. Even being "honest" it doesn't sound like him at all. There is something very, very wrong.

So she gets up. If he's not fast enough she'll be trying to cut him off. If he is, she'll just catch up.]

-- Where are you going?

[He is not outright fleeing like he normally does. So she gets there first and he stands three feet away, staring out at nothing. Crimson beads well up at the puncture marks.]

I have a job to finish, Michi. Move.

[That last word is woven with his presence, like a command, strong enough to force a few thousand people to part like Moses' sea. ~~go break flee let him pass don't make him answer this again he's sorry just let him go~~ Standing perfectly composed. Totally cool here.]

[She winces, taking the full brunt of it, and it hurts a little like the sentence that started this mess to begin with.

But she just props herself up against the door.]

No!

-- Why are you running away from me? I'm not angry. I'm not angry with you. You are my friend. I like you. I am --

I -- don't know. I can't say for certain what is happening. Something is wrong with me. I don't know.

[As usual.]

But I don't hate you. I did tell you that when we first met. It is impossible for me to hate you. You and I are friends, so there isn't any need to run from me. Please don't run away from me! If I've upset you somehow, then I will do my best to right the situation, but --

[This is hard um

What would the real Michi say in this situation? The good one, who's cheerful all the time and doesn't have to deal with feelings or anything she hates she resents becoming this boy's friend sometimes she doesn't know what she's doing what is she supposed to do?]

... You've barely touched your breakfast. It's impolite to waste food, Kumagawa!

[Yes. Very smooth.]

["You haven't upset me."]

I'm not running.

["It's my fault, not yours."]

Nothing's wrong with you.

["I can't admit this. I'm sorry."]

So relax. Okay?

[Crimson beads leave stains on Michi's floor. This is proof that they're both amazingly smooth at feels.]

[Relax, he says. Easy for him to say, he doesn't have to deal with feelings. He knows how to handle his. She's just -- stupid and worthless and that's why no one likes her, isn't it? So she looks down at her feet, and that's when she notices it.

Yes. Yes good. A distraction.]

... You're bleeding.

[He is supposed to be honest he is supposed to be honest-- but it's still a completely unconscious movement that gets his hand to shoot behind his back. It's proof of his stupid and he's not showing it.]

I'm fine.

What did you do? If you leave your wound untreated, there is a relative possibility of infection.

Accident. ...But if you're worried, I can go clean it.

[Don't be fooled Michi, he will be using the moment he's out of sight range to flee like a coward.]

[She's not stupid, geeze.]

I'll do it.

[Dammit Michi- The exhaled sigh is infinitely annoyed. And not at her. Just. Everything. Bluh.]

It won't get infected. You're worrying over nothing.

So are you.

[So. So there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[Ow.

Low blow, Michi.

There's an inhale, probably to respond with something, but it doesn't come out. Attempt two? There is no attempt two. Michi's blocking the door. No escaping.

Which means he instead turns around completely to find the nearest window to throw himself from, HE'LL MAKE AN ESCAPE ROUTE.]

[Oh my god

TRYING TO GRAB HIS ARM or his shoulder or something to pull him back. Kumagawa stop. Like.

For real.

This is getting ridiculous.

This entire thread is ridiculous.]

[OKAY, THERE'S THE LINE WHERE HE GIVES UP TRYING TO BOOK IT ANYWAY, SCREW THIS, HE'S DONE, STOP LAUGHING AJIMU FOR FUCK'S SAKE-]

「MICHI-CHAN, IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY? TRYING TO KEEP ME IMPRISONED IS NEEDLESSLY CRUEL.」

-- Misogi, that is enough!

[His first name feels foreign and awkward on her tongue, but it doesn't matter. THIS IS SERIOUS. It is a serious matter and if she has to use his given name to get attention, well.]

All that I would like to do -- is eat breakfast with you before you leave to continue your work! You told me that you weren't lying, but you did try to run away just this moment, didn't you? If you don't hate me, then -- stop. Please, don't run any further. Please stop lying to us. You thanked me earlier today -- you must have been aware that he spent time with you as well, when you were away! Mr Liam and I are both your friends!

I-I -- I am not angry. But I may become so soon!

[Yes. That was good.]

[Those first four words make him freeze, and the rest of it just kind of fades out. Because that exact tone is used by someone else, heard less than a day ago, and her rant really amounts to nothing. Because no matter what she says, the feelings behind them are the same as Hers.

"Tell me what you want to say."

"Get up and answer me, you damn coward."

"Don't just jump to conclusions so easily."

"Without showing off, just say it without showing off."]

I'm afraid of you.

[Just say it, just say it, pretend it's Her, pretend it's Her--] I don't know how to act around you. How to help you, treat you, be nice to you, protect you, sympathize with you, understand you, listen to you- ["Without showing off."] I've never had friends. I'll... ruin it somehow. Break something of yours or of yourself. You and Liam and Sei and Mukae and Shibuki and Gagamaru and Ajimu- ["Relax."

Inhale, exhale.] ...I'm afraid of messing up.

I --

[Don't know what to say. Of course she's been feared before, but this --

Is different. He doesn't fear her because he's a monster, he fears her because he's incompetent and he doesn't know how to shot friends. Like she thought. Like she does, but she always pushes along anyway. Because she's selfish, too, and that's why everyone hates her -- but this isn't about her.

This is about him and them and for once, not Them. "Us." Him and her and their friends. So she takes a deep breath, honesty is probably what he needs to hear now -]

... I understand.

[.................. Okay. Good start.]

We're all the same. It's all right. I was very serious then, when I said that I couldn't hate you! ... Even if you were to break something, or to break me, then that's all right. As always, it's impossible for you to fail.

[Because none of us know what the fuck we're doing either.]

["Now Kumagawa-kun, was that so hard?"

Shut up, Ajimu.

But the relief attendant is right. Michi's wrong. He'll always fail. It's a law of the universe, and even trying to break that law today is going to fail. She knows it. He knows it. It's just an inevitability.

It's a lie but he's a liar, which means it's okay to play along with it. It's not like he believes she's right about it. ~~Tsu~n.~~] ...I don't hate you. I'm sorry.

[Shut up Kumagawa's brackets, we're in the middle of a friendship scene. Of course she knows, but like how she refuses to give up, she refuses to believe it. Not until it actually happens.

And it won't if she has any say in it. Which she doesn't. But she'll fix that one day.]

-- I should apologize as well. ... I'm...

[Feeling a constant stream of emotions for the first time in years and it's all your fault]

With some rest, I should be quite all right! This has been a very... [awful, stressful] interesting day! Tomorrow, I will be all right. I apologize for raising my voice, and for keeping you here.

[And she knows she probably shouldn't, but while she's apologizing for things, let's try and sneak a hug in there too.]

[Michi's brackets can continue being WRONG, so there. Pbbbbbbt.

Internally, that answer gets a wince. Externally, nothing changes. But there's no real way to express how sorry he is or how he knows she's freaking out or how he actually does appreciate her company.

Then she goes for a hug and he freezes instinctively, but he doesn't run away. In fact, the solution to the above issue is utterly solved when he gives her the most awkward one-armed hug in history in return.

#friendship] Finish your breakfast, Michi.

[THEY'RE RIGHT SHUSH
OPTIMISM

She doesn't hold it very long since they're plenty awkward right now without doing like. Friend things, so he can stop being such a tittybaby.]

Yes. Please finish your breakfast before you leave, Kumagawa!

[Normally she'd probably stand in front of the door until he listened, because no fuck you and what you want this is what's good for you, but. She doesn't, this time. She goes and sits down to finish her breakfast like he told her to, and now the door's completely unobstructed.

It's his choice.]

[NO THEY'RE NOT, SHUT UP!
REALISM

And he is not a tittybaby, rude much brackets, he just doesn't like people touching him if it's not beating him into the pavement. Or Ajimu. Or both. But at least he's getting used to it.

As for the blatant choice she throws down, the door gets a glance. It's an exit from friends and making people like you and leads to the goals of others and Her and her gorgeous thighs. And at the table is a girl who is trying to beat friends into him along with being healthy, bluh.

The choice only takes a second, and he sits down right next to her. Perfectly civil like there was never one in the first place.] Michi, at this rate you might get me keeping to healthy habits. I can't have that.

That isn't true. There's no need to trust or like or tolerate anyone else. I don't quite feel that it is appropriate to compare our situation to an "us versus them" scenario, but that is the case, isn't it?

It's likely that those people can't be trusted, but we can.

However, that is not a particularly healthy way of thinking! So, you see, Kumagawa, by encouraging you to trust myself and Mr Liam and the others, I've actually made you much worse.

I won't apologize.

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