4. in which discoveries are made, and an African child is saddened.
"I have discovered what gay means."
The announcement was made quite suddenly, though in an element that Ichigo later identified as possible dramatic irony, one who had carefully studied Orihime's face throughout the celebration and the subsequent days would realize that the voluptuous young girl had been deliberating over the affair for many hours.
"I have been deliberating over this affair for many hours."
She then realized that she was voluptuous, and blushed. She stuttered "Kurosaki-kun" twice for good measure. Then she tried to say motherfucker but was suddenly hit in the head with a dead bird.
She realized that the world did not want her. She began to cry.
Ichigo thought about his toes.
In a moment of lucidity through the black tears of a fallen angel she had cried as she cursed the sorrow that flowed through her veins. Orihime realized again that today was a day of many epiphanies.
She voiced her discoveries to Ichigo.
Ichigo wondered what would happen if his toes were swapped with his fingers overnight. He congratulated Orihime. Shinigami appeared from a sphere of time-space where the force of evil itself reaped the benefits of Canadian health care and all lamentations cried into the impenitent wind were for naught.
Celebratory music began to play, and Ichigo realized that his earlier thesis of dramatic irony was incorrect. Orihime looked to her left.
"Upon further contemplation, I have decided to drink this glass of milk as an act of protest."
She drank the glass of milk.
Somewhere in rural Mozambique, a small child began to cry.