". . . and you should always look out for tall people Shu-chan, because
they might be giraffes in disguise and try to trample you." Rambled Ryuichi
to the sleeping Shuichi., little suspecting that Shuichi might be
subconsciously inducting the information. Of course Kuma knew, but then
Kuma had suggested Ryuichi keep talking in the first place. . .
kekekekeke. . . and Yuki WAS rather tall.
Vive la subliminale!
If nothing else, the one sided chatter distracted Ryuichi from the latest bout of discussion with Kuma regarding whether girls could be princes. After all, Kuma was a huge fan of Revolutionary Girl Utena, as many people will recall, the main character did after all have very nice hair. Despite this rather strong argument, Kuma was not swayed.
It was a good thing indeed it never occurred to Ryuichi that by Kuma's own logic, Shuichi was a boy and therefore not a princess. Lucky because Kuma HAD watched that HBO special on gender-changing operations just a week before and was incidentally still in possession of the penknife.
Meanwhile, K was wondering what he had done with the aforementioned potential weapon of masculine reduction. It was not a matter of needing the knife. K always kept a variety of weapons about his person and the little knife would not be missed in the respect he had at least six others on his person at this point in time.
No, he was more concerned that A. someone had gotten close enough to take it or B. the knife was still secluded somewhere on his person and would be a source discomfort later when he rediscovered it. At least this was his two main lines of thought until he came upon Sakano trussed and gagged in the stair well.
While K always suspected Sakano might be into . . . 'that' sort of thing, he had no intention of interrupting while he had the knife-mystery to solve. In fact he was some distance away before he realized Sakano had been quite alone and not involved in some kind of bondage scenario.
In fact, if K had not been so distracted by the pen-knife enigma, he might have been more perceptive of the fact that none of his charges had shown up for band practice, perhaps that that was Suguru being taken away in an ambulance only minutes prior, perhaps that that person hiding in the bathroom might have been Hiro come to think . . . perhaps . . .
. . . but then if K had been particularly astute at this point in time he might have gone back and untied Sakano and asked what was going on - but experience suggested if one didn't shoot first and ask questions later, one might not get to shoot at all.
Of course, experience also suggested if Shuichi was not at work there were only two people who could be to blame. It had to be either A. Yuki Eiri. Or B. Seguchi Tohma. A, because it was always Yuki and B, because he was short and short people were always suspicious. Since Yuki wasn't here at the moment, K decided to go have a productive discussion with the venerable Seguchi Tohma.
As fate would have it, at the same time K decided to go put a few bullets in Tohma, Ryuichi decided Mika could be in one of three places (unless she had cloning technology, then technically she COULD be in more than one place na no da).
She was either with Tohma (tch. . . you'd think they were MARRIED or something the way she hung all over him na no da), or had to be with Nori- chan (since she was the only other person in the building that Kuma knew by name). Of course there was also the possibilities that Mika wasn't in the building or on her own in the building, or in the building with some stranger which would technically make it 5 possibilities, but math wasn't Kuma's strong point (no fingers) and Ryuichi wasn't supposed to talk to strangers.
But it was way too many places to look anyway - there was only one thing to be done!
Pulling out his cell he sent Mika an SMS.
MIKA WAN2CU LUV RYU1
Kekekekeke. Perfect. She would never suspect anything. Now they just had to sit back and wait for Mika to message them back and say where she was.
While they were waiting, Kuma also sent a message that Ryuichi didn't see but mostly consisted of 3-4-3 3-4-3 3-4-3 which made no sense to Ryuichi at all - but then typing wasn't Kuma's strong point either (no fingers)
Vive la subliminale!
If nothing else, the one sided chatter distracted Ryuichi from the latest bout of discussion with Kuma regarding whether girls could be princes. After all, Kuma was a huge fan of Revolutionary Girl Utena, as many people will recall, the main character did after all have very nice hair. Despite this rather strong argument, Kuma was not swayed.
It was a good thing indeed it never occurred to Ryuichi that by Kuma's own logic, Shuichi was a boy and therefore not a princess. Lucky because Kuma HAD watched that HBO special on gender-changing operations just a week before and was incidentally still in possession of the penknife.
Meanwhile, K was wondering what he had done with the aforementioned potential weapon of masculine reduction. It was not a matter of needing the knife. K always kept a variety of weapons about his person and the little knife would not be missed in the respect he had at least six others on his person at this point in time.
No, he was more concerned that A. someone had gotten close enough to take it or B. the knife was still secluded somewhere on his person and would be a source discomfort later when he rediscovered it. At least this was his two main lines of thought until he came upon Sakano trussed and gagged in the stair well.
While K always suspected Sakano might be into . . . 'that' sort of thing, he had no intention of interrupting while he had the knife-mystery to solve. In fact he was some distance away before he realized Sakano had been quite alone and not involved in some kind of bondage scenario.
In fact, if K had not been so distracted by the pen-knife enigma, he might have been more perceptive of the fact that none of his charges had shown up for band practice, perhaps that that was Suguru being taken away in an ambulance only minutes prior, perhaps that that person hiding in the bathroom might have been Hiro come to think . . . perhaps . . .
. . . but then if K had been particularly astute at this point in time he might have gone back and untied Sakano and asked what was going on - but experience suggested if one didn't shoot first and ask questions later, one might not get to shoot at all.
Of course, experience also suggested if Shuichi was not at work there were only two people who could be to blame. It had to be either A. Yuki Eiri. Or B. Seguchi Tohma. A, because it was always Yuki and B, because he was short and short people were always suspicious. Since Yuki wasn't here at the moment, K decided to go have a productive discussion with the venerable Seguchi Tohma.
As fate would have it, at the same time K decided to go put a few bullets in Tohma, Ryuichi decided Mika could be in one of three places (unless she had cloning technology, then technically she COULD be in more than one place na no da).
She was either with Tohma (tch. . . you'd think they were MARRIED or something the way she hung all over him na no da), or had to be with Nori- chan (since she was the only other person in the building that Kuma knew by name). Of course there was also the possibilities that Mika wasn't in the building or on her own in the building, or in the building with some stranger which would technically make it 5 possibilities, but math wasn't Kuma's strong point (no fingers) and Ryuichi wasn't supposed to talk to strangers.
But it was way too many places to look anyway - there was only one thing to be done!
Pulling out his cell he sent Mika an SMS.
MIKA WAN2CU LUV RYU1
Kekekekeke. Perfect. She would never suspect anything. Now they just had to sit back and wait for Mika to message them back and say where she was.
While they were waiting, Kuma also sent a message that Ryuichi didn't see but mostly consisted of 3-4-3 3-4-3 3-4-3 which made no sense to Ryuichi at all - but then typing wasn't Kuma's strong point either (no fingers)
