Alright! How'd you find the first one? Was is good? Eheh… hmm… if there's a problem with this fic like, there are glitches, dingbat fonts and other stuff, it's [maybe] because of the fact that I saved this as a HTML file not .doc. so there! If ever there are glitches, apologies minna-san. Gomen nasai. *Bows*
Disclaimer: As usual, Weiss Kreuz belongs to Project Weiss and Koyasu Takehito.
A/N: Please read and review minna-san. ^^ If you don't want to review it, well at least I hope I brought some laughs! ^^ Moreover, I would like to apologize for the wrong title I've given. I said it was " Getting a Weiss Life" but actually, it's "Getting A Life." Thank you!!! To all the reviewers, thank you! ^^
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Getting A Life ~BunjyGuM_Boy~
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Legends:
KEN - slang words, loud etc…
OMI - addresses everyone with "-kun"
RAN - 'hn.' And all the statements are calm. He rarely uses [!]
YOJI - has a cigar, talks about Kimi or talks with Kimi a lot.
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["It's been 3 months since my daughter started her journey with us. Ha! It's like… (counts) bah! Just like yesterday… when I had to read those fairytale books just to lull her to sleep. And yah… just like yesterday too when I had a fight with the other 3 guys because I thought of giving her up… after fighting for her from Kritiker, hn...stupid me. (lights a cigar) and here we are; my beautiful 15-year old daughter helps in the flower shop. By George! I've never seen so many filthy, young boys here in the shop! (drops his cigar and steps on it.) Why those little scumbags!]
"If you're not going to buy anything, GET OUT!"
The other three Weiss members shot there heads upward and looked at Yoji almost instantly, making their heads soar.
"Uhem… Kudou, I believe you used MY line." [pout]
"Look! Just look, Ran! Those little imps are not buying anything!"
"Hn. That I could see…"
"Uhm, Yoji-kun… Ran-kun… I think they are trying to buy something."
[while wiping a vase] "Omi, I think it should be 'buying someone.'"
"ARGH!!! THAT'S IT! GET OUT!!! ALL OF YOU, GET OOUUUUUTTTTT!!!"
Ken, Omi and Ran shuddered as the thunderous voice of Yoji echoed inside the shop. The three opened their eyes just in time to see all the boys running and pushing each other out of the shop.
"Ne, ne, otoosan! Why were you so mean to those dudes?!" [clutching a fist]
"Kimi! They were harassing you!"
"Helloooo!!!! They were flirting but I was avoiding! Like what you said!"
"Earth to you kodomo! You were not averting from deadly, misleading gazes and-and… you were flirting back!"
"Just like a Kudou!! Always a Kudou!" [holds Yoji's neck and shakes him vigorously]
[carries Kimi by the waist and slings her on his shoulder] "Aw!! Aww!! My hair! Kimi! Damn it!"
"Oy, oy! Here it goes again." [rolls his eyeballs]
"Ken, Omi let's uhm-…"
"Yah, yah… we know Ran, 'stop those two before Yoji gets bitten by Kimi again'"
"YYYYYAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!! MIAMATSU, I DIDN'T RAISE YOU TO BE A DOG!!"
"Oops… too late!"
"Let's just close the shop, ne, Ran?"
"Sure…" *yawn*
"Er- Ran-kun are you o-.."
"I'm fine. Take a break all of you and Omi, fertilizers has been delivered inside the house I want you take them here. Ken, help him."
"Aw, Ran! T.V! I need my t.v.!"
[Ran looks and walks towards the apartment]
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[Weiss Living room, 1:30 p.m.]
"Ken-kun! Stop watching t.v., just for a while will yah!"
"Tsk, Omittchi I'm sorry but I wanna see these guys from London play!"
"But that's a replay! And you have to help me."
"Duh-uh! I know! But I just told my friend I'll bet with him on who's gonna win. Ahehehe… of course I'm a sure winner!" [evil grin]
"That's low, Ken-kun!" [angry]
"Aw, c' mon! Can't I be evil just for a little while?"
"Whatever!" [walks inside the kitchen and sees Ran]
"Ran-kun! Ken-kun doesn't wanna help me!"
"…"
"Er- Ran-kun?"
"snore…"
[Omi] "^ fine…" [goes out the kitchen] "Yoji-kun! Help me bring the fertilizers inside the counter of the shop will yeh?"
"Can't Ran do that?"
"I'm asking you."
"Can't Ken do that?"
"Are you Ken?!"
"Can't-…"
"If you don't wanna help then FI-…"
"Ay, ay! Easy kiddo! Geez… your heart might swell up and it's really a pitty if you die too young yeh know." [wink]
[blush] "Whatever, Kudou, Yoji! Just help me!"
"Sure! Eh, matte… where's Kimi?"
"Huh? I think she's in the shop."
"But we've closed the shop after those IMPS tried to make a move on her."
"You do know that those 'imps' you refer to, didn't dig that you were the dad of Kimi, ne?"
"Wee~eell… I knew they'd think that I wasn't… maybe all they know is that she's my erm- um… younger sister?"
"Yah… maybe."
"Omi-nii! Otosan!" [smile]
"Ay! Where have you been?"
"Shop."
"WHICH shop?" [eyes her]
"The shop… our shop." [smile; tries to hide a lollipop]
"Hn. Yah right, Kimi! Up! Go up or watch tv with Ken."
"Where are YOU going?" [raise eyebrow]
"Shop… our shop." [mimicking Kimi's voice]
"You're mean, otosan!" [pout]
"Nee… just kidding, love! [kiss] You behave okay?"
"Hai!" [walks out of the room]
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[Flower shop, 2:45 p.m.]
"Damn, Omi! This manure is heavy!" [grunt, grunt]
"Yoji! How many times do I have to tell you! That's not just plain manure! It's fertilizer!"
"Fine, fine just get this shit out of here."
"YOJI!"
"Okay…okay… I'll shut up now." [grunt, grunt, mock, mimic, grunt, grunt]
"What's up with Ken [grunt] not helping [grunt, curse] you?!"
"He wants to be evil."
"Reaaa~aally? Well two can play THAT game." [grin]
"Aw, Yoji! Be mature!"
"WHAT?! Be manure?! Excuussseee meh!"
"BAKA!!!"
"Hey, [laughs] just messin' with yah!"
"Aw-… hey! There! Put it over there!"
"Surey! [puts down fertilizer] So… how's everything with your life, Omittchi?"
"Huh? [smiles as he sees Yoji smiles] Well… it's really easy to grow up but the pain… of [puts down a sack of fertilizers] every mission still lingers." [saddens]
"Wakarimasu. Watachi-tachi onaji no kanjiru" ["I understand you… we all feel the same way."] {*}
"Hai. So desu." ["Yah, that's true."] "But, hey… Yoji. I never did have a chance to thank you."
"Huh? For what?"
"For Kimi." [smiles]
"Ah, for not giving her away, ne? Me and my stupid mind!"
"No! For just well… simple care and love you give as a dad to her… we part-take in it that's why she's well, Ken and I, we feel that she's our inspiration, yah know. Like she's the reason why every mission seems easy afterwards because we see her here, safe…"
Yoji couldn't help but smile with what Omi said. He felt relieved that neither Ran, Omi nor Ken never mention that seemingly 'obvious' mistake he did just minutes before the whole humanizing pill took over his daughter.
"Yoji…"
"Eh?"
"Kimi's the best thing that ever happened to us… all of us. Even Ran! He… he told me once that his sadness caused by his parting with his sister was a little altered because of Kimi's presence. He said that she reminds him so much of-…"
"Aya… Fujimiya, Aya, right? [Omi nods] Why can't he just go to her and tell her everything! It's not like she's gonna slam the door at her oniichan just because he became a bounty hunter for her!"
"True… and Ran knows that. he's the one who's actually thinking pessimistically. That's why he can't make a move."
"Ha! Wonder if… Aya's just as 'playful' as Kimi."
"-_-^ The question is, were you, Kimi's exuberant father, ever like her when you were young?" [stands near the wall]
"First of all, that's young-er. Second… she's not ever like me! She's me! Like, one and the same, dude! Whenever I see those saffron eyes of hers, I see joy, power and determination. Whether she's doing a chore, her assignments, or just for a little girly-girl gossiping session, I never did fail to see that same look on her face when I was at her age." [sits on the floor]
"Ahum… but tell me, why is her eyes Saffron?"
"Hmm… good question. I think it's in the humanizing pill."
"But that pill contains some of our genes, right?"
"Yappers!" [winks]
"Then… how could she get Saffron eyes? No one has Saffron eyes from the 4 of us."
"Omittchi, it's not just our genes. Our parents are in this too!"
"Yoji, haven't you read your book in biology. These genes can shift. Therefore, when mitosis occurs, our genes shift and-…"
"There! You know you're wrong. The exact same thing comes out from the splitting of cells."
"Ah! Chigaimasu! ["You're wrong!"] We have the exact same number but we don't have the same gene or allele."
"Then you just proved my point, Omi." [smiles mildly]
[blush] "Oops… bu-but there! See! My dad had brown eyes, mom had brown too! Ken's mom had green ones his dad had erm-… I dunno."
"Look, we don't have to compare and compute with this okay… gosh how I hated Biology! We can just ask Manx for this… I think she knows more than we do, anyway."
"Right on!"
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[Weiss Apartment, 4:26 p.m.]
"GO PUNITSKI!!!! SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOO-…SONOFABI'… The goal was right under your nose!! How come you're in the league! I can shoot better than you fat ass!"
"Ken-nii, what's all the noise?" *yawns*
"Look! Look at that loooossseeeerrr!!! He can't even score a decent one!" [clutches a crumpled newspaper]
"Aw, Ken-nii! I thought that's a replay?"
"Neeh…this is a new one, dudette." [grins]
"Aha… you're weird."
"Ha! Ne, little lady, wanna watch with me? Here! [gesturing for her to sit on the sofa]"
"Nah, some other time Ken-niichan! I wanna tease someone." [grins]
"Ha! Ran's inside that kitchen!" [snickers]
"Meannie! But I'm up to it!" [laughs and gives Ken a high-five]
Kimi readied herself. Every time there's a spare time for the boys, she always makes sure that she gets to annoy Ran everyday; however, because of Ran's too much love for the younger girl, he never gets annoyed and in end, Kimi gets to be the annoyed one. She sees the target, sleeping; both arms on the table while supporting his head. ["Score!"] She said to herself as she walks closer to her 'victim.' She readies her weapon of choice -feather- and levels her head to his. ["Count of three, Ran-nii will scream as I shout and I'll tickle him… *pauses and thinks* hey… I never heard Ran-nii laugh before… this is my chance! Alright! 1… 2… 3!!!"]
"BOO!!!"
Ran's head immediately popped up between his arms. The rush of blood made him feel dizzy as he tried to hold his head with his numb hand. On the other hand, a certain girl's hand was in front of him, and it was holding a feather. Ran glared and slowly turned to face of the owner of the hand, but before he could do that, the same hand moved from the table to his ears and apparently, trying to make him feel ticklish by inserting that piece of chicken coating deep in his right ear.
[while ducking] "Kimi-chan! Ya-yameru! Tsk!" (Yameru - stop)
"Ran-nii!!!!!!!!!" [trying to poke his side/ribs with her left hand's finger]
"Kimi! Stop it! stop it!" [squirms and jolts up every time the hand and feather gets the best of him]
"Aw… [poke poke] laugh, Ran-nii! Laugh!" [poke, poke]
Ran moved backward and stayed near the kitchen wall. He looked intently at Kimi's eyes and saw her [as Yoji said…] determination in what she's doing to the older man. Ran raised an eyebrow but she greeted it with a smile… then he glared right at her but she grinned as him instead of just giving up.
"Kudou… I'm warning you. Stop this nonsense of yours. I want to rest!"
"Aw, Ran-nii… when did I ever stop whenever you tell me to stop?"
[grins] "So… you want me to play your game?"
Kimi looked at him firmly. Based from him eyes, she could tell that he was rooting for a challenge; however, Kimi knows the consequences that could happen whenever a prey follows the predators lead. And judging from her prey right now, she knows very well that she could easy turn to a more helpless prey… but, was Ran really helpless from the very beginning.
"Uh-oh."
Without any warning, Ran attacked her but Kimi was quite fast enough to dodge that. Apparently, she just didn't seem to notice that Ran knew exactly where she was moving to.
"Got you." [held her by the back of her shirt]
"Wahhhh!!! Let me go, Ran-nii! I was just kidding! I was just playing with you!!" [squirms wiggles]
"You weren't playing WITH me… you were annoying me." [raised her higher]
Kimi's head faced Ran and she was sniffing but no tears came from her eyes.
"Gomen ne, Ran-nii. I won't attac- erm… annoy you when you sleep anymore." [sniff sniff]
"Ehem. I don't believe you." [raises eyebrow]
"I promise! Ran-nii, I promise! I'll be a good girl! Please put me down now." [smiles]
"Hmm… I don't want to. I think I'll hang you in the laundry room then I'll let Yoji decide on what to do to you." [evil smile]
"Ra-Ran-nii!! Don't joke like that it's-… it's not fu-funny…" [sweatdrop]
[moves closer to her] "Who said I was kidding?" [walks towards the exit to the laundry room]
"RAN-NII!!!! NOO!! KEN-NII!! HELP ME!!" [from outside Ken said, "that's your fault, not mine!"]
"RAN-NII!!!!! RAN-NII!! DON'T! DON'T!! I PROMISE I'LL BE A GOOD GIRL!!!!!!!" [ fidget, wriggle, wiggle]
"If you say so." [drops her]
"Ouch! Ran-nii!! Why'dyahdothatfor?!!" [sits on the floor and shouts]
Ran crouched to where she was and she was looking straight to his eyes. She couldn't help but blush a little as her face was an inch apart from Ran.
"You'll be a good girl?"
*nodnodnodnodnod*
"You ruined my rest, you know that?"
*nodnodnodnodnodnodnodnodnod*
"What will you do to repay me with what you've done today?"
"I-I-I… I can sing so you can sleep again, Ran-nii! Ehehe…" [sweatdrop]
"Nope."
"Erm- uh… I can erm-… cook! So that you won't cook later!"
"Er-nope."
"Aww… what do you want?"
Ran gave her a very evil grin that could have matched Kimi's twitching lips if it wasn't evil enough, though. Ran raised both his hands up to head level and smirked at the younger one in front of him. Kimi knew exactly what he was going to do so she started to move backwards but that only made Ran have the upper hand with his plan.
"Oi,oi Ran-nii! Th-tha-that's n-not fair!!" [tries to back away more]
"You're not fair to me… why should I be fair to you with your silly games?"
"No!!!"
And so it started. Ran tickled her and tickled and so on and so forth until Kimi couldn't breathe anymore. She was actually crying already; she got to poke Ran for a few times but when both her hands were clipped by Ran's one hand, she was a certain looser.
"Wah..a! Ra-Ran-nii… yameru!!! Yam-yameru!!" [cries]
"Uh."
Ran immediately stopped when he saw Kimi crying but she was also hysteric.
"Kimi, Kimi-ch-…Kimi-chan?"
"…"
Her face was against him and her hair was all messed up like she was… harassed.
"Kimi, I'm sorry I-…"
But before he could touch her, she leaped on him and made him unbalanced… and fell on the kitchen floor.
"Ran-nii…" [grin]
"Kimi… damn it." [glare]
She was lying on top of him but Ran didn't really realize that not until Yoji and Omi came inside the door and gazed on the unsightly scene they were looking at.
"I thought I told you to behave, Kimi." [smirk, grin, grin, tries to show a straight face]
Between his smirks, Yoji can't decide whether to cheer her up or be like a normal father and slap Ran across the face for assaulting her daughter but hey… his daughter's the one assaulting the boy.
Both Ran and Kimi sat up and separated quietly. Omi covered his eyes and fled to his room but all was sure that he was smiling.
"Yoji I-… I didn't… what you saw we-…"
"Okaaa~aay, Ran! I understand." [wink]
"Baka."
"Fine, fine. Let's just all wrap up here, ne?"
"Yah… so what time is it?"
"It's about… 5:20 p.m., Ran. [looks at Kimi] And you young Kudou… up! MY room."
"Otosan… it was a game! Here me? A GAME!!!" [scowls]
"I hear you loud and clear but you will talk to me about this, dear. I wanna hear you get away from this one, this time. Now, march!"
"Tsk… whatever!" [goes up]
"Ran-…"
"I'll fix dinner."
"Aha… but wait a sec'… you look so… tired?"
"Yeah. Didn't get much sleep last night when we went out for that hunt."
"OMG! You were the one hit by that tank, right?"
"Yes. Now do me a favor, Kudou and go up yourself."
"But Ranners! You should rest! To think that you were the only one hit last night-…"
"I was trying to shove Omi off but instead that stupid oaf holding the tank played with me instead."
"Alright, alright! Just… don't stress yourself too much, now ne?"
"[nod]"
Yoji looked back at him one more time. He thought of how late Ran woke up that day and how he reacts so slow to every single thing that people do. He even remembered when a woman in her mid30's shouted at Ran for being to slow at wrapping the roses she ordered, but he just continued on wrapping and didn't seem to understand that the woman was already cussing at him.
The red-haired youth gave a thumb's up to Yoji as he smiled so that the older blonde can have a reassurance. As Yoji turned to leave, Ran said something that made the blonde turn back.
"Ran I-…"
"Thank you Yoji, that's all."
"Chotto matte, (wait a minute) is this a routine? First Omi thanks me then you then Ken?"
"[smiles] Hn. I do think this day will end with you being thanked by your teammates."
"Hah! For Kimi, ne?"
"[nod nod]"
"We've had her for 3 months! Why thank me only now?"
"See, you haven't failed as a father…yet." [grin]
"[laughs] Aha… so desu. Kritiker will get my daughter if I fail as a father. Yes Ran, I always put that in mind."
"I know, Yoji. That's why I give you my appreciation for not being a lousy dad for 3 whole months."
Yoji sits on the chair beside Ran, but then he stands up again and faces the window to peek outside.
"Fujimiya."
"Eh?"
"Up until now, I cannot forgive myself for thinking… even just for a minute, I-…I, I admitted the fact that I had to give Kimi to people who can do a better job than me." [faces Ran] "And just because of that, I'm striving to be a better person and a better single-parent everyday."
"Yoji, those kind of decisions where rushed from you. You just didn't want to hear her pain… we all didn't want to see her suffering."
"True. But then again… I was just hiding."
"Hiding? From what?"
"From her. [lights a cigar] See, I felt like a failure more than ever when Asuka died in front of me. Ha! I had a bullet inside my ribs but she took 20+ bullets for me… just for me to escape. [sits beside Ran] Inside that building, when I saw that baby I was-… I was moved. That child could live if I forget my own pains. I was stabbed, bruised, cut, fractured and worst of all, my hair was a mess! [flips his hair] [Ran: -_-^] But hey! I realized that if I think of myself again, history would repeat itself and in time, I would be out of that building and I would take all the guilt again… of seeing an innocent soul die because of me-…"
"But see Yoji, you didn't let Kimi die. You took her here and-…"
"Surely… and that's why I feel like the biggest failure ever made."
"Yoji yo-…"
"Ran, I fought for that kid...we all did. But when Shwartz got her when she was a toddler, I felt like the whole world just sat on me and I was helpless! Then that humanizing pill struck her a-a-and I just couldn't take the pain and BOOM! I thought of giving her up I-…"
"Yoji, we are human. Try to remember that, will you. We are frail and fragile like any other person! You weren't hiding from Kimi, you were-…"
"…hiding from myself."
"[nod]"
"Yeah… I realized that afterwards. Well, [stands up] go ahead with fixing dinner dude. I'm starvin'!"
Ran stood up and was already getting the raw materials he needed for cooking, when Yoji spoke.
"You're not my teammate, by the way. Same goes for Omi and Ken."
Ran was startled, he thought that Yoji took it as something bad or he had said something to disappoint the lanky blonde.
"Yoji I didn't mean th-…"
"…you're my family. This is my family… [faces Ran from a distance] and no one has the right to take you, Omi, Ken and especially Kimi away from me." [smiles then leaves]
He paused for a while as to regain his normal emotions. He looked back and smiled and started getting his materials again.
*yawn… yawn*
Ran really can't blame Kimi for disturbing his nap, she just wanted to play… hn. Like Aya… just like Aya.
*blurry eyes, teary eyes, yawn…yawn*
He really can't see what he was doing anymore. His brain was freezing and he felt so cold! He tried to stop but he knew that if his motion or pace keeps on getting slower, he won't be able to do anything and thus, leave the other four starving. He just can't do that… nor can he do the cooking, actually.
*dizzy…*
The youth can't do it… he just can't! He had to stop, but his will power just won't let him stop entirely. He was feeling very bad now. Ran's insides were shifting and he had a mixed feeling of coldness from his outer body temperature but his inner body temperature was hot.
He moved away from the sink where he was washing the vegetables; however, as he stepped backwards, he felt more dizzy.
"What the hell…is this?"
He grasped his head as if it was going to burst any time now.
"Ke-Ken… Yoji… tasukete…" ("Ken, Yoji… Help…")
He held onto the edge of the sink where the faucet was running wild as he started to splash water everywhere. His movements were uncontrollable! His vision was poor and his head made him feel as if he was spinning so fast.
"Tasukete one-…gai."
Ran tried to get up with the support of the sink, but as he moved towards the door, his hand slipped fast; so did his feet caused by the water splashed on the floor.
"Uh!"
Fujimiya dropped on the floor, his back on the ground. His vision was barren and his breathing was unbalanced now. He felt like dying for he was really cold now.
He moved his head slightly just to sense if someone went inside or someone was present or near but his concentration was ineffectual too.
"Please… no…"
With one last try he tried to even just sit up straight… but that option just made it worse.
[PAK!]
Without warning, the movable table in the kitchen counter was hit by his arm. He thought that he made a simple mistake but then he realized that, that table was immensely smooth and one hit could make the equipment slide off easily.
"NO!"
His voice was loud enough for him to hear but he knew that it wasn't loud enough for Ken to hear it from the living room.
Ran tried to move away from what might fall from the table but then again he was no immobilized and he felt a surging pain from his foot, which slipped earlier.
"Please… move… move!"
His last hope was to make his mind think of moving but it really didn't help.
[SLIDE…]
And so it happened…he really couldn't see what was sliding off the table but he knew that it was a utensil. He tried his luck in calling for help, making his body move, and even as far as grabbing a concrete thing to cover himself but nothing really seemed to work.
And so at one last stroke, he faced upward and saw shimmering lights above him. He tried to think if it might injure him but the answer came too sudden as he felt tiny pieces of metal puncturing different parts of his body.
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"Yoji! Ken! Kimi!!!"
It has been 10 minutes before Omi came back to the kitchen to see how Ran was doing. Thinking that he was going to react quite the same way, Omi had a big, fat smile plastered on his face. But that surprise just turned into a shrivel and his blue eyes watered and his voice was shaking as he saw Ran on the floor with knives all over his body and blood mixing with water on the kitchen floor.
Omi knelt beside him thinking that he was dead. But since he was a student in medicine now, he checked for pulse and all of the S.O.P needed before he called 911.
"YOJI! KEN! TASSUKETEEEE!!!! RAN'S DYING!!!!"
Ken sprung to life and Yoji had to leap from his room down to the first floor (he could've done it better but he slipped and had his face kissing the floor… so much for smooth landings.)
Yoji followed Omi and Ken's raised voices and saw Ran all 'murdered looking'. He could speak… he just got all confused and his pain was getting the best of him again until he fainted before Kimi did, as she was shortly behind Yoji unexpectedly.
T^B^C
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Okay… ehehe [scratches head] chapter 8 will be a continuation [of course] of this chapter. So I won't give a sneak peek for it.
Um, for the {*} part, I'm not sure about the sentence structure of my Nihon-go there, gomen nasai for the better Japanese speakers out there. I kind'a erm-… forgot my lessons. [Please! It was last year and I haven't brushed up on my participles yet!]
Ahahha!! Thank you for reading this! ^^ I hope you'll wait for the 8th chappy! Thank you again and God Bless!
Happy Holy Week! Don't forget to pray, minna-san!!! ~Bunjy~