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[screwreality]

[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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[screwreality]

[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.

[hairpine]

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

[screwreality]

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.]

[hairpine]

[She's not stupid, geeze.]

I'll do it.

[screwreality]

[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.

[hairpine]

So are you.

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

[screwreality]

[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.]

[hairpine]

[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.]

[screwreality]

[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.」

[hairpine]

-- 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.]

[screwreality]

[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.

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[hairpine]

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 -]

[hairpine]

... 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.]

[screwreality]

["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.

[hairpine]

[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.]

[screwreality]

[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.

[hairpine]

[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.]

[screwreality]

[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.

[hairpine]

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.

[screwreality]

Good. Don't apologize. I could care less about them. Their closed-minded bias makes me sick.

However, I only meant about making me eat. [Said the exact moment Michi knows she won at it, because he apparently does not use forks. And, subjectively, it looks like he's disemboweling someone while they're still alive and eating them. Objectively, it feels the same way and looks a shade or two more acceptable.

He continues talking evenly, while evenly ripping pieces apart.] Maybe we'll get lucky and this event will make them realize we're people, too. Ah, but it's impossible. We're just the villains who made people suffer, right?

[hairpine]

[.... She just. Sits and watches him eat for a bit. Like. Oh

Okay.]

It's important to stay well-fed. And -- I don't know. I would be happy to be recognized as a human, but it does seem unlikely.

[Maybe the approach is wrong. Violence is not the answer!]

Ah, but it's all right. I have you and Mr Liam and Christopher and Father. If everyone else thinks that I'm a monster, then that's all right!

[screwreality]

[He is completely oblivious to how freaky it is and gesture with a piece of torn leg muscle in one hand- wait, that's just the presence, ugh stupid Minus.]

Details. [Bluh, food, he's going to miss just dying and reviving himself whenever a bit. Just a tiny bit.] Mm. Unlikely. Close to impossible. We're too 'unnatural' for them.

[Shut up Michibrackets, violence was totally the answer in this specific case. And her follow-up earns a faint smile. Still weird to look at the genuine ones, he's infinitely more tolerable when he's lying.] Is it really all right?

[hairpine]

[A short, short pause. She could be happier if everyone ever accepted her, but -

Well, she's turned down every chance she had to be a normal person, anyway. She accepted his first offer and rejected his second and now she's just stuck. But she did it to herself.]

Yes. It's all right.

[screwreality]

[The only way he knows how to help is by making offers and Michi rejected the only thing he has left to give. But Michi's already made it pretty clear that this... weird... thing, is good enough for her.

And so they will both explore the disease of friendship together and he will try to stop making terrible offers to her.]

Then it's all right.

[hairpine]

[And normally this would be the part where the audience goes 'awww' at their display of fluffernutters friendship, except this is a Minus and someone who may as well be. Minus, not a Minus.

Not the point of this anyway. She's Michi, ever selfishly thoughtful, so she has to ask -]

... Is that all right for you as well?