(in which we are soaked)
It's a real blue evening, dude. The sky's blue, and so are you.
S'actually a really nice evening! This good ol', monochrome blue atmosphere. Winter's coming, yo…! Dim, airy blue clouds hang in an even bluer sky… over the blue land. Now listen up, here's a story, about a little guy who lives in a blue world...
Anyway! It's pretty damn cold out. The evening was temperate and nice-feeling before, and it's still nice in the like… crisp air sense, but u~h… now that I'm a nazi dude, the air's less kind! More specifically, this nazi outfit doesn't resist the cold! On the upside, the officer coat an' pants are pretty well-off on padding, so I can at least brave the elements. I don't feel as cold as I should for this time of year, but it's pretty brisk.
"Comet Pizza…" Maria read off the job location again! "I could go for some pizza."
We're on the way to the good pizza, dude. An' y'know, I didn't know pizza actually existed here. Then again, the place is sort of a hell hole, with dubious mixtures of technology and weird bullshit. Pizza being introduced- pro'lly from outsiders like me- isn't very far-fetched at this point…!
'What is pizza?' Genkan-... oo~h. Ho ho ho~...!
Also, yeah, whatever this switcharoo situation is, it's still going on! Genkan is only here with us in spirit, dude. She switched party member positions for the walking sequence…!
"Pizza's like…" Aw, man yo. How do I describe it!? "A feeling. It's the internal feeling, dude…"
"It's a sort of, um… Italian food, I think." Maria explains it for realsies, kind of. "I've had it a few times. It's pretty messy, but it's good."
'Messy…' Oof. Genkan doesn't like the sounds of it…!
On that note, I point to Maria friend. "Do you know what an Italy is, yo?"
...After a soft moment, she shakes her head. Duhuhude.
Ha-chan's looking really soft, as she passes alongside us and examines the bland buildings to the right. "Why're houses brown…?"
"Why not, dude." It's the question that cannot be answered. "Anyway- it's not too messy! I'll show ya, too!" If we don't have to play a game of molest-or-be-molested with the pizza folk. Dominoes on pizza pasta, son…!
We should be arriving at it soon, dude. Then, we shall find out, the good stuffs! Also- I get to eat something that isn't a multivitamin, which is a plus!
"...You look cool!" Ha-chan compliments my nazi outfit again. This is like the third time…
I don't really know what to make of it either…! "I'm freakin' glad…!"
Putting this uniform on was actually, like… it took some doing! I was reminded of the like, one or two times I wore a suit as a kid for occasions. You got the dress shirt, you got the buttons, the tucking it into your pants, the pants fitting, the belt, the freakin'... tie. This thing took like a solid thirty minutes to equip, so I'm not taking it off unless I've got a really good reason!
The hat's easy to adjust, though. 'Cause it's a hat.
Aw, here we are. It's a weirdly modern-but-not looking pizza place, with a lit up sign, bu~t really sorta crappy walls and roofing. On the other side, it has roofing at all, which is an accomplishment. This place must be classy, dude!
It's also a sign in Japanese, but Maria's moving for the door, so it's probably the place…!
Di~ng, do~ng. Ooo~. One of them funny pager things goes off, as some generic villager girl stomps outside. Aw…!
"This looks like the place…" Maria lowered the job posting she held in her hands. "Should we ask about the job first?"
Probably, dude. "We can pro'lly buy the pizza later, so yeah yo."
'We're probably not going to get one if we immediately become employees.' Genkan spells doom in my mind…! 'Not that it matters.' Oh well, yo. We should get this done before it's time to fall over and sleep…!
Di~ng, do~ng. The beeper goes off once we step in!
From here, I can see over one 'a the dividers, and the cashier girl raises her head at our entry.
"What's a pizza?" Ha-chan- freakin'... we already went over that!
"Food." Maria wasn't gonna repeat herself, either!
"I like food." Snuggle fairy…
Anyway, let's stand in the door for an awkwardly long period of time so the pager goes off again.
...Eventually, Maria looks up at me curiously! "Brad?"
"Shh~, yo…" I grin at 'er! "I'm waitin' to play my idle animation!"
...She's confused, dude.
Di~ng, do~ng. I've done it now, dude. The beeper's angry.
The cashier looks back up at me again, and also looks confused.
"Come on…" What- yo, wait…! Maria actually goes on ahead, 'cause she caught on!
So I follow along 'er, and after we walk through the moderately busy pizza parlor, we reach the cashier's counter.
And, man, this cashier looks like a freakin' hipster tripster. She's got the modern sorta tomboy hairdo and everything…
Fw~sh. She's even blowing a bubble! ...The village has bubblegum?
Well anyway… "We're here on conscription, dude." I inform the cashier girl.
Pop. Her bubble thing pops, and she chews it back in… "Whah…?" Freakin'...
Maria holds up the job posting. "Here. Um, lookit. We're here to… work."
Snatching it from her, the cashier looks it over. "...Don't look the part. I'll get boss girl anyway." Yeah- uh, I'd figure. Not sure about the whole nazi pizza delivery man marketing campaign…!
'This place looks uncomfortable.' Genkan- you haven't even experienced it yet…!
"Hey, bo~ss!" The clerk girl turns, and calls out ta her boss. "We got o~ne!"
...Aw. Dude! This little feisty blonde girl marches from around an open doorway! "One wha~t!? We didn't- oh…" Once she gets close enough, she rolls her eyes and waves us off. "Hold on, lemme get her…" An' then she just walks away. Wat the frik.
...We're just kinda standing here, now. 'Check on Hana.' Hmm? Why-
I turn, and Ha-chan's leaning over some other random people's table…! Yo, no! "Ha-chan- yo…!"
My yell stops her from taking a guy's hat off. Slowly, she steps over to me without any words, 'cause she knows what she did and seems happy about it…!
"I'm gonna lug ya." Freakin' snugglepuss, dude. "Ya that bored…?"
"Yea~h!" She exclaims her boredom! "This place is really pretty- but I wanna do things!"
"Like wha~t?" Aw, dude. Indoor voices, dude-
"I don't kno~w!" Ha-chan has no indoor voice. Help…!
When I turn back to the counter, I see Maria staring up at a, uh… a really tall woman.
Clad in a navy yukata, unlike the employees here who're all in like, red and black to fit with the exterior, this big, black-haired pale chick grinned down at us. Her teeth were like that of a shark. Like, really. Not even in the anime way, those were some pretty sharp freakin' teeth!
She's also straight up taller than me, which makes her a freak of nature by default. After tracing us with a gaze that was definitely predatory, she looked away. "Not the muscle I was lookin' for…"
"Hey, hey, yo." What, you sayin' you don't want a nazi in your parlor? That's nazist, dude! "I got muscle, yo!" I- ah, fuck it, rollin' up this sleeve's too much work…! Behold my cloth sleeve!
I flex a sleeve-concealed bicep at her. Wow, I can't even see my non-muscles rise. Especially not through all the suit that's on me right now.
She's understandably unimpressed! "I see." Grinning wide again, she gives us a nod as she navigates away. "Give 'em a large for their trouble." Ooo~...!
The clerk rolled her eyes. "...Any toppings with that?"
Toppings, huh. Hmhm. I check with Maria, to make sure…
She just stares at us. I guess it's up to me then, dude.
"I wanna be on top!" Ha-chan, baby… yer mental!
"Cheese." I give the cashier a cheesy grin…! "Extra chehee~se, dude."
"Mhm." She nods blandly… "Be ten minutes."
Hoh. Well, I guess it's time to pick a seat.
This one near the front-left of the shop looks nice. Dude, let's sit down…
I take a seat. Where I took a seat was like, one of those neat round booths with the circular table, and cushy red chairs made of plastic or some shit. Most of the tables around here're respectably clean. Here're're're're're…
"Hear thee, hear thee…" I beckon. Maria sits down to my right, and we fill in across the whole fun seat. "Food."
...She gives me a ginger stare in response!
...Ha-chan gets up onto the seat, and sits on the back part. She's a rebel, yo.
'Time to wait.' Genkan narrates the good period in my thoughts. '...Let's have a conversation.' Well, that's freakin' upfront! 'Seeing you in a suit is strange.'
We've been unable to be in the same place at one time, so far! "How've you seen me…?"
'It's more like, I can see from your eyes, sort of. Didn't you experience as much?' Oh shit, yeah. Makes sense! Yeah- it's fucking weird. You see what they see but also not.
"I can see you…" Ha-chan replies to my vocalness! "Hello!"
"Hi." I greet 'er! "And, ye." I reply to Genkan at the same time!
'...I can't help but think anyone else would have paused when I said they looked strange.' Genkan thinks appearance bothers me, dude…
"'Cause I am strange, yo…!" Ho ho!
Ha-chan has scooted closer to me, still on the seat's back. Freakin'... fairy legs.
'We've at least sat down to eat.' Genkan laments on the daily activity… 'We also really, really need to bathe.' Bathe…? O~h, right. That's a thing that people did! 'We'll have to do that after we… separate our bodies, or whatever this is.' Yeah, probably!
"We gotta bathe." I face Maria, and deliver the news.
...She furrows her brows. "I- I… completely forgot. Do I smell…?"
Wat. No. "Dude- the real question is if I smell…!" I've been on the run far longer than all of you! I can't even remember the last chapter I took a spa break!
"...Probably." Maria assumes I do! "We really should go do that. Water's not easy to come by, though…" What.
'Yes, you smell.' Genkan gets me good…! '...And, Maria sort of does too, but not nearly as you do. I'm sure I've started to smell by this point…' We smell, dude. We stink!
"The smelly smell, that smells… smelly." I wiggle my brows at nothing in particular!
...Maria smiled at that! Aw.
Also- I bet I smell like shit after being gutted that one time like a day ago. The smell of human blood, dude.
Well, we're gonna get smellier tonight, dude. Also- wait, I'm not gonna let this one thing go though! "What was that about water bein' hard to get…?"
...Maria focused on me again, realizing I was talking specifically to her. "Oh. Well… it is."
"How." Water is the lifeblood, dude. "People drink to not die."
"It's mostly in wells, and people keep jars and buckets in the house." Maria discusses how hard to find water actually is here…! "So, you're kind of restricted… by how much you can carry and store. And- when… the wells aren't full, we have to buy from people who still have some."
…
Reaching into my sack-
drip. drip. drip. I take Deep Blue out, and hold it over the table. "Wha~t was that about water bein' hard to get?" I grin at 'er…!
...She starts to grin back! "Well- for us, anyway. I don't- where'd you get that…?"
A little tweety fluff gave it to me. "Soft people gave it to me…" I stare down at the table.
...Genkan doesn't let me write it off! 'Wha- what does that actually even mean?' Freakin'...!
"The fluffles sold it to me, yo!" I clarify, lookin' off to the left as if Genkan was there! "They held me down at fin-point and boxed my ears off, dude!"
"...Huh." Maria nodded at that like I was speakin' craziness…! "Sure."
Clack. I set the hanger down on the table as it slowly leaks. "Hey, yo. I'll take ya to one of their shops sometime. They actually exist…!" We passed their stands a few times, even! "We'll do that tomorrow 'er somethin'..." Come to think of it, Reimu'll probably have her arms full with this switchy-witchy thing, especially since it's affectin' her.
'I do remember seeing those… dust vendors, as we traveled.' Despite Maria's skepticism, Genkan remembers…! Pepperidge Farm also remembers, dude. '...They were weird.' Well, tell me somethin' I didn't know…
...Maria gives me a determined stare! "Sounds made up." Oof…!
...I wag a finger at 'er, yo. "Keep sayin' that, yo…" She'll see, dude, she'll see. She's also pro'lly joking for the most part, anyway!
Aw, yo! The pizza's arrived! I've pretty much just been staring at the girls, the ceiling tiles-
"Enh…" Ha-chan just fell into my back, after slinking around behind me!
I look to the side for absolutely no reason, and see this freakin' macho man begin serving a table. What the frik-
Also holy shit. The girl who's placing our pizza down's as quiet lookin' as a mouse… but she's really freakin' big! Like… curvy as hell! "He- here…" She's sorta brownish, and has long, brown hair that covers her eyes with even bangs. She's also got a big, fluffy braid that goes down her back...
'Cow girls…' Genkan explained what she was to me! 'While… vulgar in body, they're usually timid in personality.'
...Cow girl, huh. No wonder this place is rich. In a land where water's a hot commodity, milk must be some classy shit! Wait- don't they have, like, more farms here? You do have to feed cows water, so they don't die before they make milk. Man yo, resources are bunk…
"Dah- thanks…!" I give her thanks as she just kinda saunters off.
Aw. Well, we've got our pizza now, yo. Let's open it up!
I fold the fluffy box open. Aw, dude…!
"Yes, du~de!" A nice, big fluffy slice. I haven't eaten food food consistently for so long that this looks pretty damn appetizing!
"Omf…" I eat… the slice, dude. What's it taste like? Tastes like cheese pizza- yeah, I ain't got any purple prose for this shit. Can't teach color to a blind man, you can't directly translate the experience of eating a pizza over text! Haa~nh!
I swallow the good bite. Ye~s, dude… I am growing stronge~r!
Di~ng, do~ng. Shop beeper goes off for reasons! I glance at the door, but otherwise...
Maria's taken a slice, and has begun her chowing. I pause to see her initial response!
...Aw, yeah dude! She's into it!
"What's this…?" Ha-chan- Jesus- leans over my head like a freakin' monkey- this feels weird…! Her boobs're pressin' into my back!
Taking a slice from the box, she holds it up to her face… and then takes a bite.
...I kinda creen to see her chew and stuff-
"Nnu~h…" After she swallows, she sticks her tongue out an' whines. Freakin' yeah okay, yer hate of processed foods comin' back in full force.
'These are some pretty mixed opinions.' Genkan takes note of our two-to-one like-dislike ratio. '...I guess I should try it out, at some point.'
Aw, yeah dude! "Hmhm…!" I've got an idea, yo. "Hey- yo, Genkan. Y'want a bite…?" I hold it out to her, as she's not here!
'It's very greasy looking. I'm not into messy foods.' Genkan freakin'... you just said- waugh!
"Freakin'- too messy…!? S'freakin' good, yo! An'- take it from me, I don't like messes either… but this is one of the few good messes!" As far's food's concerned, anyway. You may be surprised to find that I'm a picky eater, dude. Picky icky icky.
That's it dude. I set down the slice in the box, and close my eyes…
Fwiosh!
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO: GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Wha- aah…
Well. Here I am, I guess. The atmosphere of the pizzaria is… ironically, not as heavy as the fog on the windows made it seem. I expected a sweatshop, but this is decent. As decent as human interior design gets…
...Hana's breasts sink into my back, and... what is it with fairies and being clingy?
Ignoring her, I reach forward and take the slice Brad bit from. Let's see how this tastes…
'In retrospect, I coulda slipped a slice into the bag…' No- that's… actually a terrible idea. 'Wait- are ya just gonna bite, from my slice…?' Of all things for you to be awkward about.
I bite into it before he can say anything further. Considering the last time he ate was a few days ago, the taste shouldn't really be-...
Hmm. It's actually pretty good. Very flavorful. The cheese is actually very regulated by the cooking process, and the sauce… and all of this grease.
Speaking of, my hand has immediately become slick with grease from holding this. Not to an excess, but... it's unpleasant.
'Ya don't mind my mouth germs, but you mind grease…' Germs? If he means saliva- or whatever filth he might pass on-... it's not like the food's had any time to age. It's still hot. Plus, his bites are surprisingly efficient. And, as a being of the cold, my body has a natural degree of resilience to pestilence… so I've seldom worried much about it. It's never really mattered, because I don't do a lot anyway.
I swallow my bite, and speak quietly... "Well, not only is the food still quite warm, it's been mere seconds since you've bit into it."
'...S'true!' Regardless, he doesn't really want to argue those kind of pedantics, apparently. I might want to think more about that later… as if I'd remember, at this rate.
"As for the food…" I begin quietly, before raising my voice, because I'd begun a little too quietly. "It's not bad. Really flavorful. Also, really different from regular cheese." There's no kick to any of it, because it's an actual meal, and not just raw cheese.
"Yeah…" Maria agrees. She must feel excluded, with all of these head games of ours. We could use a way to include her, somehow…
"May I take… your orde~r?" The clerk girl up ahead takes the order of a small, black-haired cat girl. Brad didn't pay that cat any mind, but she'd spent a good… three or more minutes simply staring us down. Strange.
"Cheese pizza." She made her order. Maybe she's simply weird. It really doesn't matter.
After taking a few more bites of the pizza… I think I like it. I need some kind of napkin for this grease, however. This i~s…
"I need napkins." I finally declare. "This won't do." ...It's sort of a weird way of phrasing it, but it really won't.
'Dude.' Brad has an idea. 'Freeze the grease.'
...While Maria looks around half-heartedly for some napkins for me to use-
fwash. I freeze the grease on my hand, and fleck it off by opening and closing it repeatedly.
"I'm ashamed I didn't realize that sooner." I'm too used to foods that leave non-freezable disasters on my fingers. Perhaps if I freeze the crust, I won't have to deal with the residue entirely…
"I… don't really care about the grease." Maria has a different opinion on it, however. "I just wipe it off."
"I'd like to not sully my kimono even further. I also don't like how it feels." It's very… annoying, in a way.
...Taking another slice, I press back against the rear cushion, smushing Hana into it behind myself. "Uu~..."
Fwiosh!
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO: BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Hoh- shit-
Woah- fairy on my back! Ha-chan decompresses into me…! "Brad-ku~n!" Wh- ha- don't nuzzle the back of my neck…!
"Yo ho ho! Aw…" I add to the ambient noise of the bar! Freakin'... Ha-chan. Her cuddling is so… funny. To feel, I mean. I should stop focusing on it before I get uh, bothered...
"Thank you! This is great!" Alright- calm down, generic guy across the divider from me!
...Maria's lookin' across the lane between us and the central tables.
I look too, and this black-haired kitty's starin' into us.
"Aw, dude. Friends…" She's really tiny, and really snug.
"She's… I guess." Maria's mixed about her, for some reason. Kittens on the horizon, dude.
...After a moment-
"Gehehe~!" Yo what the frik's that-
Thump- thump- thump! Woah! A pretty busty tall girl just skips past us! She had these ultra messy black pigtails, and also like shark teeth, I think. Again. This restaurant's run by literal loan sharks…!
Well, she wasn't as tall as that other sharky girl… just almost as tall. Like, six feet tall, about. Jeez. Also, she's in their black-red uniform. Specifically, it's like a… long-sleeved shirt for the winter, and black pants. I think she had a visor on. Did she have glasses…? She skipped by awfully fast, and the jiggles…!
'What is with this restaurant and its curvy staff?' Genkan's the first to ask the good question.
"...Yer one ta talk about curves!" What's the curve of a triangle, dude.
'...The question still stands.' She ignores my statement!
"Why're we talking about curves…?" Maria raises her brows at me!
...Well-
Oh shit, the curvy shark girl's back out again…!
"Alri~ght!" She plops down a pizza fer that little kitty girl! "He~re ya are, little ki~tty! Aaw…"
...Oof, dude. She slid into the kitten's little… table station, and began molesting her. S'a curious-lookin' situation! It's like one of those tables meant for birthday parties...
"Gahaha~! Even this drink's like, half 'a yer body volume…!" Poor kitten, dude. She's getting snuggled and nuzzled…!
I gesture to the thot across the way, dude. "That's why we're talkin' about curves…!" I'm sure Maria will understand!
"...Oh." See, yo.
'Where will we go to rest, tonight…?' Genkan questions our next locale… 'If I remember correctly, you did buy those inn room portals from that one guy…'
Oh shit, another thing I forgot to add to my inventory. Tiny Tim's motel shit. I basically bought 'tents' and immediately forgot about them! Just like I always do with tents in RPG games…!
Maybe they'll see some use when we're in like, a volcanic wasteland, or some shit. "I'll save the tents for a rainy day, yo. I think we should be able to hit up a few places…"
Can't we still get into Marcus's bachelor pad? That'd pro'lly be alright. Or, we could hit up Maria's not-mom and see what kind of kinky victorian asshole shenanigans she's getting up to with son stuffsalot. I don't think Maria wants to see them ever again though, so~...
"Maybe I should steal a door, so I can use a tent anywhere!" I grin into the air!
"Wh- what." Maria doesn't follow!
"Tiny Tim." These are all the words she needs to know.
An' it all comes back to her, dude. "Oh. Oo~h…"
'Just so you don't get us stranded, what places do you have in mind…?'
"...Off the top 'a my head, aa~h…" Let's try to include Maria in this conversation. "Yo Maria- I'm thinkin' 'bout where to fall over and sleep tanight. Right now I'm like… thinkin' 'a Marcus's, Keine's, or uu~h…" We could always break into Fred's house again. I don't think my party'd approve, though…!
"...Why Keine?" She asks me. Hoh, hoh hoh…
"...Why not?" I gingerly ask back, dude. "S'not like we got a home!"
"Well… yeah." Fidgeting a little, Maria looks snug… "But… should we really um… trouble her?"
Yes. "I dunno yo- it's a random chance whether or not we arrive atta bad time…" We'll find out when we get there!
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Oh- whoops. Well, this works…
I steal another slice. I'd finished the others letting them talk it out. Freezing the grease really helps.
"...I guess that works." Maria comments on the housing situation, probably. Personally, I don't think I mind. Keine is… Kamishirasawa, if I remember correctly. She seems trustworthy enough.
"Owo~..." What…?
I look up, and that well-endowed delivery girl with messy black pigtails is nearing our table. She seems to have abandoned the little cat girl, and has taken to harassing us. "What's thi~s?"
'Here come dat girl…! Oh shit- whaddu~p…!' Thankfully, Brad's not here to be seduced or anything.
"We're eating." She'll probably go away if I'm rude enough.
She leans over the table towards me, provocatively. "S'just, I didn' see ya here the first time I came 'round, cutie. Enjoyin' that pizza~?"
"I would enjoy it more if you were gone." Why is she trying to come onto me. Is she psychic…?
"Aww, ma~n…" She leans to the side a little, as if to emphasize her bosom. "Everyone's bein' so mea~n ta me this eveni~ng…"
Her gaze switches to Maria. No.
I raise a finger-
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Hehe~y!
...I came back to steal a slice for the show.
"Holy shit!" The girl's jaw drops at me and- woah…
She's got freckles, dude! And big shark teeth, except prettier, and with braces on. Shiny, yo. Big round glasses, an' blue eyes.
Visually, she's one hell of a combination! "You turned into a dude…!" Gleaming dangerously at me, she starts to near the slidey bit of our seat…!
Takin' Deep Blue off the table, I- aw yeah dude, it's nice and wet. "Nah yo- I spilt something on my seat- ya don't hafta-"
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! ...The water hanger drops onto the seat beside me, now that I'm back in action.
"So, like, what's with tha' whole switachroo thing, huh…?" What- why is she still advancing-
Ignoring the water and the hanger entirely, she slides in through the seating, and…
This is new for me. Well, sort of. Me and my sisters have dabbled in questionable decisions, but this is the fastest some pervert's tried to come onto me. The freckled, bespectacled busty girl hugs onto my side, my arm pressed into her tightly bound cleavage. Tightly bound because, she's wearing a shirt.
"Livin' the double life dream?" She looks very casual about the question she softly asks me.
"...I'm finding it hard to understand your attraction to me." Not only are we strangers, but you want to sully me after knowing me for ten seconds.
She brings her soft cheek up towards mine, looking wry about it… "I'm findin' it hard t'understand why yer such an ice lady…! Gahaha!"
If there was no chance of us spontaneously becoming a thing before, it's becoming somehow even less probable.
Pap.
The little kitten girl has come up to the table, and slammed her hands on it. Here's hoping that they're actually lovers, and this is some very stupid dramatic situation.
"He~y, kitty!" The over-assertive woman calls out to the cat girl who's approached us…
"Where would I find a nazi uniform?" ...That's… not what I was hoping for, at all.
'Aw, dude…!' I think Brad said something about 'nazi' something or another when putting on his outfit. ...While normally I'd switch him in for this-
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwish! "Hoh- shit…! Someone who knows about the nazi regi~ huwoah shit…!" Bad plan bad plan bad touch-
The messy-haired staff girl pulls me in and- why are these boobs. They're like the size of my head. And- she's fucking strong…!
"An' there ya are!" Awah- the girl just shoves me into her soft body, and uh- I think I'll just stare at Maria helplessly 'cause freakin'...
...Jesus- why's she got the strength of like ten 'a me-
"I asked a question." Okay kitty girl- who cares…!? I'm getting molested!
"Freakin'- where I got it?" I answer anyway because it's a distraction from this really soft pale girl trying to rape me. Wait- where'd Ha-chan- freaki~n'... she's supposed to cover for me here! "I got it on a farm…!"
"A farmhand, ah?" Oh- oh god- what's she doin' to me-
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! That's enough of that-
"M~wah!" O- oh…!? She- she kissed me… on the cheek, but- really…
I glare her down, and she just smiles back at me. If this wasn't the human village, I'd be very tempted to just freeze her here and now. She at least sort of means well, so I won't go so far as to attack her… yet.
"Let me speak to him." What is with the cat girl…
Let's return a glare. "Do you think that's an option?" Surely she must see-
"Yes." ...She sees. She's just being difficult. How is she keeping a straight face…
I guess… I'll chance it for now.
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Oh god who what- why-
Getting hugged by a strange sexy woman is so wei~rd…! "Gahaha~! Yer like, two people at once! That's awesome…!" Quit freakin'- no, get ya hands off-
Right- beat up kitty girl to end this! "Down- down rich road!" My personal space is go~ne…! "At the end, s'a farm! Ask ta test a black suit- ya didn't hear it from me- freakin' what the frik…!"
"Hehe…" The freakin' chick starts to near my ear with her face- and whah-
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! Alright- that's- whu- aah…
"Aaw…" She breathes into my ear instead. "Ya switched. Bu~t…"
Wrapping an arm around me, she tries to take control of me entirely-
But, I smack it off. She was trying to hug across my chest. "Get off." I'm not in the mood. I'm never going to be in the mood, not with you-
"Haa~h." She- she breathes into my ear. Really, why…? "I know ya cold types like ta play ice queen all ya want… but be hone~st."
The cat girl seems to have abandoned us. I look to Maria-
"We sell massages y'know…" The friendly, mature girl- alright, no- she needs to get off!
Holding onto me, she pulls on me. I pull back and- what? What is this strength- hold on!
She presses our chests together, hugging me close. Let go… "Gehehe~... not as big as me~. Y'know, they say they grow if ya-"
fwash. Ah- right! I've… channeled my ice magic towards her.
...She blinks, before looking around, then down. "...Ya froze my ass! Gahaha~!"
Since she'd scooted onto Brad's water hanger and ignored it, I just froze the water it was producing. Ideally, she should be stuck now.
I'm still trapped in her arms, however. "Sti~ll…" Her eyes pan down to my chest. "You look so so~ft."
If she touches them, I'm going to go ballistic. "Let go of me."
"But why~...?" She whines as I slowly keep trying to pull away… "My shift's almost u~p. We can go like, hang out at your place… keep each other wa~rm!"
"I'll freeze you." In case you've forgotten. And-
Ahah. I have succeeded in slipping from her arms.
Crack! What- her butt snapped the ice that bound her to the seat…! "Aww~! Wow- you're really cute when ya just compress like that…! I need ta hug ya." Even with Brad not here, this happens…!
Fwish. By the time I scoot up to Maria, I have enough room to make a chunk of ice between me and her. The problem's not as big as it was when she was in my personal space.
...Maria's been gorging on the rest of the pizza while this has been going on. I don't blame her…
Oh. Hana's come back, one of the short managers pushing her out from around the back counter.
"No~ no, no. Fairies are a business I wa~nt little part in." Folding her arms, she steps back to guard the way into the back rooms. "This is a pizza joint, not a strip club." You really, honestly had me tricked.
'Ha-chan save me!' Brad says… something? 'Jesus take the wheel!' Wait- he's not-
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! It's Julius Belmont mode, son!
Shu~nk. The big girl starts sliding the ice block outta the way and into the table! "Gimme a tip, bo~y!" Oh shit!
Standing up on the cushy seat-
Clack! Woah shit- that was dumb, but it worked! I did a like, double retard jump over the pizza, and landed on the table…!
"Woah…!" Maria cringes back at what just happened next to her!
"C'mere!" Oh holy fuck- why is she about as acrobatic as me-
I leap off!
Clack. An' I land hard on my legs…! Oof-
"Yeah!" Ha-chan agrees with my energy, sauntering up to me! "Let's jump around! Finally!"
CLACK. Holy shit that girl made the table rock as she just freakin' leapt and landed past it, near me- what the fuck-
Ha-chan's right there! I run towards her to try and hide behind 'er-
"Gotcha~!" Shit…!
The tall girl's arms wrap around me, and she presses me inta her freakin' soft body. She's like, as tall as me…! And- is she holding me up- yeah, she totally just freakin' hoisted me off the ground. "Gehehe~! Yer so light…!"
"Ya~y…!" Ha-chan comes for me!
Getting just held up by a really pretty soft girl is some weird shit…! Must refrain from liking the situation too much-
"Brad snuggles…" Wha- no. Ha-chan just… glomped onto me. Holy fuck…
I'm… not really handling all this stimulation very well! "Ma- Maria…!" I'm pincered and in a bad spot! "Help!"
...She sipped from her cup of water, just kinda grinning over nervously!
"Aw, yeah!" The busty glasses girl looks over at Maria. Her loud voice vibrates through my body…! "Make it a foursome!" Freakin' what the fuck's wit' this-
'I thought you knew what you were doing.' Genkan, don't start soundin' disappointed now…!
Oh, hey. The manager boss lady came up-
"Tips…" Whah. "If you're going to fuck someone, again, do it outside." Wait… is her name actually-
"Aww~, ka~y." Holy shit. She just lugs me over her shoulder- oof. Fortunately, this position feels too awkward on the gut to be stimulating in any way… "C'mo~n. Let's go cra~sh…" Grinning, she eyed over Maria and Ha-chan…
"The last time I crashed, it hurt." Ha-chan, baby…!
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO ====
Di~ng, do~ng. We're now… outside the pizzaria.
"...Um…" Maria's bein' quiet in the back as she follows us. Ha-chan's like, buzzing around 'Tips' like a moth, and Tips herself is still carryin' me like a freaki~n'...
"...So." Here we are, dude. It's night time now, and pretty freakin' cold. "Help, dude."
"I'll help ya." Tips replied to my monotone plea with a monotone response…! "My bed's a lil creaky, but ya get used ta it…" Woah no.
...As we start progressin' into the road, Tips beginning her saunter-
"Hmm?" Oh, look, a girl- oh that's the shark-toothed boss girl. "What're you doing with my daughter?"
...Tips just kinda passes by her, and- freakin'...! "Was that directed ta me!?" I yell back ta her! I'm- I'm being carried along, here! Wait- why's she carrying a boy, too!? Some muddy beat up boy…
"Well, yeah!" She calls back as we walk away… "What're- ugh…" Aw. We're outta range, dude.
"Dude- if you put me down, I'll give you a nickel." Let's make a deal with Tips, dude. What if I gave her… a real tip. Like, is this some Japanese mythos shit-
"Whazza nickel…" Oh fuck. "Ya can try and gimme a hickie, if ya wa~nt. I like ta give 'em back..." Good.
"Um…" Maria actually speaks up, once we're like, a few houses down!
...Tips just looks at 'er.
"Would you put him down… please?" It's a good, honest college try dude.
"Nope." Worked about as well as anticipated!
...At this point, we're almost to the square. Freakin'... I'm not lettin' her actually reach her home!
"Y'know…" Another idea, dude… "What i~f…" We were to purchase fast food and disguise it as our own cooking. Ho ho ho, delightfully devilish, Brad!
"Ya finally warmin' up to the idea~?" She questions me!
"What if we found ya someone else to fuck, yo." Let's not even pretend that's not where this was going. She wants to take me home and rape the shit out of me, and apparently everyone else in my party!
...Ha-chan stops in her face, and looks confused. "What's it mean to fuck someone? How?" Ah- t'uh- pftwuh…
...Tips just blinks at 'er. "I don' even know if yer like… innocent or if yer fuckin' wit' me."
"She is a fairy…" Maria actually weighs in, 'cause Ha-chan killed the entire power balance for the scene!
"...How would you fuck someone?" Ha-chan, no. Help!
Brandishin' a renewed smile, Tips slows a little to look at 'er. "Well- honestly, I'd pro'lly be up fer some straddling. I wanna blow his mi~nd." Sweet… fuck. I'm looking for creative new ways to describe the mixed dread.
Pap. Oh- woah, she actually put me down.
"O~kay…" Running her hands over her tight employee outfit, more specifically over her breasts, she sneered down at me. "Ya got thirty minutes ta find me someone, who ain't one 'a these groupies 'a yers. If ya just piss around, I'm takin' ya home wit' me." She a freakin' oni'er somethin'...!?
Well, she's not quite as powerful as one, but she's better at things than a freakin' human. "S'your choice, guy… Brad, was it? Do they call you big Brad?"
Alright- pivot around, and uh…
After pivoting around, I realize thirty minutes is no time at all! Also, Genkan's been really quiet, which is scary…!
...While I contemplate, Ha-chan clings to me. "I'm gonna snuggle you…" Oof, dude. Oof.
I've had enough getting boobs pressed into me from weird angles tonight. Well, not really, but I desire a more stable… instance of it, or something! Not getting raped with Genkan in my head would be a good start…!
"If yer just gonna spend the thirty minutes standin' there snugglin' someone else, I'm gonna cut yer time short…!" Tips threatens me and props her arms on her hips…!
"Yo- let's go!" I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going…!
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO ====
We have reached the square, which was about a limp and a tumble away from the road segment we were on. Dude, we should bring Tips to Keine so they can rape each other. Actually- maybe that'd be a bad idea…
Hello, job board. You are not relevant to my current lifetime situation! Or, do I find Fred, and-...
Wait. If the job board works a lot like the four-chins… by which I mean, anonymous shit, then u~h…
Tips looks amused at my current contemplation, but doesn't say anything…!
I mean, it's not like we could actually find anyone who, uh… actually no, there'd totally be jobs for people who just want to get laid. Maybe not directly. Or- actually actually, the youkai climate might make those not exist…
I should just have Maria read me off a random town job. We go there, and Tips rapes the shit outta them! Then we can wipe this freakin' chick off on 'em like a ba~d boogie…!
"Yo, Maria…" Turning to the magi-friend, I address her…
After looking around idly, she steps up to me. "Hey…" Aw.
Pointin' at the board, I give her the good task… "Read me some jobs, yo. Real generic, in-town ones. Also, anyone looking to bone."
...At my request, she smiles sorta halfway, and looks up at the board. "...Well, uh… there's a lot of jobs. But…"
...Hoh. We wait for a few moments…
"Where'd ya get that suit from, anyway…?" Aw shit, now this Tips girl's askin' me about my nazi outfit. "Ya work for the village, 'er someone?"
Ah, yes, the nazi village officers. "Have you ever eaten a fluffle." I return a question relevant to the conversation. Maybe if I'm just that retarded, she'll not want to rape me…!
...She reluctantly nods. "I mea~n… some of 'em look like loaves. S'not actually a great idea. Ya mean the dust fuckers, right?" Freaki~n'... she just rolled with it!
"Um…" Oh, hey, Maria, dude… "This one job… a girl wants someone to fix their computer."
Computer. What the fuck… "Whah? Computer?" That might actually be interesting. But- freakin', Ti~ps… y'know what, if she's actually a problem on a real cool job, I'll test my new guns on 'er. But until then, I've kinda committed to doing this pacifist-style!
"Yeah…" Nodding, Maria looks magical. "That was pretty interesting-"
"Let's take it, dude!" I rip a random job off the board! "Let's waddle on, dude!"
"Waddle!" Ha-chan echoes this sentiment!
...Maria rips the actual job off the board a moment later! "Wha- hey, wait…!"
After I trot ahead a few steps, I actually wait for her. "...Well." She's caught up, dude. "You picked the right road. It's um, in an alley. I think… I know where this might be." Aw. Alright, yo.
So Maria takes the lea~d. Luckily, Ha-chan's backed off me enough for me to just move and stuff. She's still got an arm, but hoh. Getting poked and prodded by people's so wei~rd… I'm not a touchy feely kinda dude, not at all. Oo~f.
Almost immediately onto 'school road', or the road with the guard HQ on it, we take a left into some alley. Tips is just kinda tailing us menacingly, yo…
It's really dark back here! Oof…
"It's dark…" Ha-chan's feeling it too, dude.
"Good…" That was Tips sayin' that, by the way!
"Um…" Maria turns to us, dude. "Right here, I think. One of these houses."
...It's a like, kinda tubby house. Wait-... it's actually got three front doors, evenly spaced out from one another. The building itself's actually kinda long…
Let's knock on the middle door!
Knock knock. Who's home, dude…
...An' we wait a little bit. S'gettin' freakin' late, yo…
Crea~k. Ho ho. The door swings open, and this girl answers it…
She's got averagely messy hair, really tired eyes, and a really tiny t-shirt. Like, a not-even-trying t-shirt. And those pants're just barely hanging onto her hips… she's super duper skinny!
"...Is this…" Maria looks down at the job post. "Abby?" Abby, huh. Her t-shirt has English on it…
"Yeah…" She looks over our party curiously! "...I was expecting… one person."
"We can fix the computer." I thumbs-up, for the good reasons. "Because I am the computer man." Wahaha.
...She blinks a little, before gesturing for us to come on in. "...Well. Okay."
And uh, woah. This place is actually rather cozy, and… huh.
It's a long-ish, but tiny room. There's a small window in the back, and the place is unlit for the most part, but there's a candle burning on a table to the right… and one lightbulb plugged into this small, greyish-bluish, luminescent battery pack thing. It looks like lunar tech…
There's a generic laptop on a coffee table on the very left, pretty much unplugged. Next to it's just… a mattress on the floor, with a blanket and pillows. Pots of water are stacked on some shelf in the midst of the room.
I need ta stress: the laptop's just unplugged. Computer trouble, dude.
"That's, u~h... the laptop, huh." I nod at the pink laptop in the darkness…
...She furrows her brows at me! "...You know what it is?"
"Oohoo~!" Tips barges in behind us, and looks around! "Aww~, yea~h! Jus' like my place! …'Cept fer the flat thing, and the tech." She gestures to the light and computer stuffs!
"Wo- woah…" The tired-lookin' girl sizes up the busty, messy-haired chick! "...Who're you?"
Just like with us, Tips leers down at the chick. "...My name's Ti~ps. I'm here ta give ya a special delivery…"
...As she steps over, she reaches for me, but- I get outta the way dude! "No~, yo…" I brought you here to not molest me!
"C'mo~n." She whines at me and smirks…! "I wanna play doll house wit' you two…"
"Do- doll house…?" The tired girl's eyes light up in excitement! "Um…"
...I see that Maria has wisely hung near the door. Ha-chan didn't even follow us in…!
"Anyway- what's this 'bout a laptop personal computer!?" Freakin'- lemme just- ahah!
Takin' out Deep Blue, I let it drip in my hands! "...I'm here ta fix its pipes!"
...She rapidly looks between me an' Tips. "Is- is this, like…" Her focus settles on me! "Are you really a nazi?" Freakin'...
"How do ya- wait…" Hold on a moment. Tight clothes, minimal style and a computer… "Are you an outsider, dude?" Ho ho!
"...We- well, yeah." She looked away! "Wait- aren't you?"
"Yeah, dude. I fell outta nazi Germany, now I'm here. What a life." One day yer workin' for the angry moustache model… the next you're workin' for angry loli models!
"...Well- um…" Looking between me and Tips again, she feels at her clothes. "What was that about, um… doll house?"
"Ooo~...!" Steppin' up to her, Tips bares her teeth devilishly…! Like a freakin shark, son. "Finally~... someone real interested."
Pivoting over to me, Tips just freakin' beckons me. "Alright- we startin' now? Get over here, Bra~d."
I slowly moonslide towards the front door… "No, yo. We had a deal…!"
"Wait- you inta chicks 'er dudes?" Tips turns back to the outsider chick…!
"I- I mean, at this point…" When'd she get flushed…!? "I- I… want you both!"
...Tips beams at me. "You heard her! C'mere an'- hey!"
Bam! I slam the front door shut!
Turnin' to Maria, I give the good talk. "We gotta go."
She blinks at me! "...I- I half thought that, um-"
Bam! Tips slams the door open-
"We gotta go!" Let's go, dude! Run, run awa~y…! Maria bolts with me, becoming suddenly panicked! We gotta fly, dude!
"Get back here!" Oh shit! Y'know what this is time for, dude…
I limp to a half-hobble, half-jog as I dig through my bag, lettin' my water shit fall into it, and let's see…
Bomb hanger! And- wow she's fast alright son. Okay- one… two…
Crouch, and- hit the ground as I fall-
Boom!
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO ====
...That escape ended up being more mundane than anticipated. Tips eventually decided enough was enough, once I freakin' cleared a roof to get away from her. S'probably not everyday someone explodes themselves to desert her…!
I'm not even really badly beat up, 'cause it was just one blast jump. I kinda wanted to like, shoot a million darts now that this hanger's the Bee-Fitty Fore Bawmber, but hoh…
'To be honest, I'd begun… reading my novel.' Genkan wasn't paying attention, for awhile! 'Imagine my surprise, when I come back to you falling through darkness.'
I fell into the darkness, dude. As for where the hell I am…
Maria looks up at me, since I'm standing on a house roof. "It's sa~fe!"
"I'm gonna do it, dude!" I yell back down at her! "I'm gonna jump!"
...Yeah, she doesn't even react. I don't think anyone does building suicides in the village, because everything's one story tall. How weirdly sad…!
Well anyway, I jump down- a~nd jump again before I hit the alley ground.
...From out of nowhere, Ha-chan slides away from Maria, and- yeah.
You know, I pro'lly sound like a broken record talking about how soft boobs are, but really, it's like the fluffiest pillows're being pressed into my chest, and combined with the like real life person motions of Ha-chan, and it's just oof. And it always throws me off…!
By which I mean, Ha-chan decided to snuggle me for no good reason, yo. She's nice and warm, too, which helps because it's like negative twenty jillion degrees tonight. I can see our breath! For some reason, she's not really reacted to it, but I think she just forgets it's cold sometimes. An' Maria's cold resistant, so she's just actin' natural...
'You try ironically hard to avoid horny women.' Jesus, tonight's just been an all-out assault…! Is it the nazi outfit!? Y'know, it might be the nazi outfit… 'Pardon my timing, but… it's something I can sort of observe.'
"Let's move, yo…" Oh- hey, Ha-chan actually parted from me like a sane person when I tried to move. "Ho ho. Let's… head ta Keine's!" I am freakin' dead in the head, dude…! I need sleep! S'been a long ass day!
"Are we still heading to, um… Keine's?" Maria asks me a question fer clarification…
I just said it too, so: "Ye." I give her a nod, dude.
Vuu~m… Oh, yeah. Seikatsu both still exists and is healing me, her cloaking kinda loose 'cause of the active healing going on. If you stare hard enough, you can see 'er! ...In case anyone forgot, she was the portable dispenser! With scan and hide, and medibeam.
I should've seen if I could wipe Tips off on Seikatsu. Oh well, yo.
As we move into the village road- Keine's house being like… actually, where the hell is Keine's house. Wait- I know where Keine's house is! We were there not long ago! So yeah, we're moving towards it!
"I half thought you were actually gonna…" Maria makes an effort not to look at me while she speaks to me. "Like…" Wait, is she talkin' to me or- "Ha- have sex…"
...I dunno what to say back son. It's one thing to fall into these situations and fall out of them, s'another to have a peanut gallery!
"Yo~. You know how I do, yo." She was with me during fairy rapemania twenty fifteen: the sequel. "I like to avoid committing to anything!" As lewd-minded as I am, I'm ironically distant from actually going anywhere with anyone, because ratings and uncharted territory. Humans fear the unknown, son.
"Well, this was different." Counterin' my reasonings, Maria looks over at me ta speak this time. "I- I mean… you looked like… ne- nevermind." Whah.
"Wat." What, I got a freakin' fluffle on my face'er somethin'...?
'She means-... actually, that would be peculiar to say.' I must have a fluffle on my face, dude…!
I hold my arms out! "What, yo…!?"
"Like…!" Maria's gettin' incredulous! "The- the thing when people're like… it's a guy thing. Like..." She points at her skirt! "Your pants were sticking up…!"
…
"So- I had a boner!" I hold my arms out even more! "That was like, unavoidable…!"
How wouldn't I!? Between porcelainskinmcpaletits and Ha-chan, I was hard-pressed- alright that pun was accidental. You gotta trust me on that dude…
"Well- okay…!" Maria shakes her head vigorously!
…
Ha-chan opens her mouth-
"A boner is an erect penis." I don't even let her try dude. "So don't ask me… what a boner is! 'Cause it's a dick!"
"Oh my go~d…" Maria covers her face!
'What's going on…' Genkan's gettin' lost, too! 'What incited this.'
"But- but…!" Giggling a little at our mixed incredulity, Ha-chan goes up and does it anyway, somehow. "Why's it named after a bone…?"
"Pfft- hehe…!" Maria whips her head over to her! "Why~!?"
"That's what I'm aski~ng!" Ha-chan yells back at 'er…!
"'Cause dicks get hard!" There's no other way to put it! "Like rocks, or wood!" I gesture to my currently inactive crotch region-
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! ...That is… enough of that, I'm afraid.
I might be too late, because Maria is melting. "Whahahy~..."
...Hana smiles wryly. Dear, no-
"So why do-"
Fwash. I freeze Hana's mouth before she can be a little maniac and keep this discussion going.
Looking over at me, she pans her head back and forth, as if confused as to why she can't talk, despite the sheet of ice over her lips.
'Why do people wanna know about my dick, dude!?' I-... yeah. I just shake my head. I'm going to go with 'they don't know better'.
We're just about to Kamishirasawa's place, now. It's actually near the school, which is only a little odd. It figures, everything considered.
It's where it's exactly placed that's sort of weird. Walking along the school's exterior perimeter, we eventually reach it through the alleys. It's sort of… back and to the left, behind the school itself.
'...Y'know, it would've been awkward to have sex with someone wit'cha in my head!' I would imagine. It would be awkward to watch. Or, I could just interrupt at any time and ruin it. Which, was what I was planning.
Although, this still raises the question of why he's so reluctant to go that far. Considering he's reckless and vague towards so many other things, it stands out that he only cares as far as sex is concerned. It's not about superficial prudence over the topic either, especially since he was literally joking about it just now.
I… should probably give him an answer. "It would have been more awkward if I decided to interrupt you."
...Maria looks over at me like I'm insane. At this point, she's probably correct.
'An' then she woulda had sex wit' you while I was in your head…!' You know, I'm not even sure how this works. Ideally that wouldn't be what would happen…
We're also at Keine's now. Her quaint, two-floor home. I hadn't gotten a good look at it last time, for… obvious reasons.
Knock knock. I'm also exhausted, after the mangling of our sleep patterns. We did make money, somehow. It was mostly a relaxed, recuperating sort of day. Barring that last part, where Brad got kidnapped by a busty… waitress? I'm not sure what the point of her was, at the restaurant. Professional customer harasser.
It's no mystery why I'm tired, despite today. I'm attuned to sleeping.
Crea~k. Ah…
Panning her front door open, Kamishirasawa gazes out at us. "...Hello, Maria." Opening the door fully, she pauses. Only after a moment does she give us a nod and a smile. "...What's the news, today?"
That recoil of hers. Likely recalling the other day. Fortunately, we're not here for the same reason.
"We're, um… here to sleep." Quietly, Maria explains our purpose in being here. "We don't have a home…"
...For a moment, she raises her eyebrows in concern. "No home…? But… don't you have a foster family, Maria?"
...Since she says nothing, I do. "They're horrible, and we probably aren't going back there."
"Wha- well, mr~m…" Sounds like Maria was trying to keep that undercover, for some reason. And-
"Ah- nh…" What. I bumped-... that robot. Seikatsu is surprisingly out of the way most of the time.
...Kamishirasawa pauses at the way the air flickers for a moment, before inviting us in. "Come on inside. I've got a guest bed or two, for you."
So, we go inside. Her house is well-lit with candles and magi-lights, even at this time of evening…
"What's this about the foster family you were placed with…?" Right when we get inside, she begins to fret over Maria's home situation. "This is the first I've heard about this."
"...I- I think I'll tell you tomorrow." Maria actually looks pretty done. "I'm… sleepy."
"...Okay." With no choice other than to accept it, Kamishirasawa leaves the conversation at that. "Who's your friend, by the way?" Gesturing over to me, she seems to tiredly prop herself adjacent to the room's main table…
"A- ah…" Now addressing me, Maria smiles and gestures. "She's my friend, Genkan."
'I'm Sora, he's Donald, and that's Goofy!' Brad's simply indecipherable, sometimes.
"...Hello." I greet her kind of softly. The fatigue's setting in for me, too.
"How long have you known her?" I can't help but feel that she's getting a little suspicious, for some reason. Perhaps understandably…
"...Maybe a week." Was that for her, or me? I answered anyway. Too tired to care. "Or something. We've been running around…"
Letting her gaze shift, she restlessly pushed herself from the table. "I suppose it's getting late for me, too. You know, I thought you both ran around with Brad."
Funny story. 'He die~d, dude. Fell in a bed and lost his head.' ...I feel like… 'saw red and lost his head' would have been- you know what, let's not think about it too hard…
"It's a long-"
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! "Yeah- hey, funny story that!" I stumble out of the dead realm! "Yo ho ho!"
...Keine just kinda nods! "The perfect possession incident's reached even you, I see." The~... perfect possession incident? Hoh, shit! Is like, an actual incident going on?
Movin' around her room, I near the table and look over it! "Aww. Japanese homework." Paper and shit, dude.
...Ha-chan kinda sleepily stumbles up to me, no longer being as passive as when it was just the others! I like how Keine just ignored her.
After enough idle time of me lookin' around the room and everyone bein' slow and tired, Maria begins to move. "Where're the… guest beds?"
"There's some to the left…" Keine points to one of the deviatin' rooms… "About two in there. I'll chat more with you tomorrow morning…"
Clack. Placin' some folders and stuff down, she begins to stomp for the staircase herself. Hoh…
'Maybe I should be out, to put Maria to sleep faster.' Y'know I actually dunno what happens if I fall asleep in the dream land. And slash or if my host person falls asleep!
"...Perhaps." I admit ta her. Maria looks back at me, and I look back at her, dude.
"Make yourselves at home…" As she scales the stairs, Keine offers us hospitality! "There are drinks on the counter, by the way…"
Oo~h. Drinks, dude! I could use something after flailing through the air, and eating that salty pizza.
The counter, huh. Movin' through the dividing bit between the main room and the kitchen-y areas, I come to some jugs, and-
Keine's got a fridge back here. A real-lookin' one! Like, a retro as fuck stove, and then just a modern fridge. I know where her budget went! I don't think I can blame her, either…
For some reason, the appliance row ends before the wall, as if a staircase was supposed to be behind them, but there's not. I can tell 'cause the ceiling's got a weird seam beneath it.
There is a door further beyond the appliances, though! But first, what's this pot stuff. I have a hanger that makes it, so…
By 'pot stuff' I mean she's got Legend of Zelda jars on her counters, with wood covering the tops.
Sliding the top off one reveals-... vaguely luminescent water. She's filled it with rads, dude! Well, it's a sparkly, clear kinda glow, so maybe it won't fuck up my DNA or something.
Stepping up to the water gratefully, Maria immediately lunges for a jar. "She's even got purifying pads…" Purifying pads? The fuck're those, dude…
Removing the top of her jar- "Mmh…" -she began sipping fast.
I guess this is some hippie water cleaning magic… except it actually works! Neat!
Tilting my head back, I begin sipping through my own jar-...
This is a hell of a lot different than hanger water. Wow. It's pretty good! Not as much metal to it, which makes it a little flavorless, but it's also welcome… and pro'lly a good thing!
S'also woken me up a little. Maria looks a little more alert too! It'll probably wear off.
Keine's probably drank from these, I realize; and probably Mokou. Aah, whatever. I'm sure their germs are fine...
Ha-chan, on the other hand, is not so alert. "Let's… let's snuggle."
...I compact like Genkan, as Ha-chan nears, and slowly wraps her arms around me. "I'm tiny…" I begin my tiny defense.
"Mmm~." Oof…! Ha-chan just freakin' tightens onto me!
...Setting down her jar onto the purifying pad- whatever they are- Maria begins moving for that room. "Let's get to bed… so we can get up, before noon." Oh, shit…!
As I set the good water down-
Fwiosh!
==== GENKAN'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! ...I pick up the third jar. I'm curious as to how it tastes.
"Nnh." Wha- ah. Well. Hana's buried herself in the fabric between my breasts.
'Dude, welcome to snuggle university.' Excellent.
Lifting the jar up, I take a sip from it…
...Yeah, it's pretty good water. Nothing special about the quality, but very pure. It seems the village does have ways to keep the water clean. This is the first I've seen it utilized, aside from perhaps somewhere in the back of the bars we've raided. I've never paid that close of attention to the appliances or counters, beyond smacking things open to look for anything illicit.
'We should've thrown more pots around.' I don't know where Brad's train of thought has taken him, but it's somewhere very different from mine. 'Dude, next time we raid a house, we throw their pots at the walls for money.' That's stealing. And vandalism.
...Anyway. "Hup…" I lift up Hana into my arms, and begin carrying her to the room Maria went to. I think I'll just put everyone to sleep…
Not that Hana's got much further to go. Yet, she seems to be resisting it. "...Gimme Brad-kun." Ah. That's potentially difficult.
'Dude, tell 'er he's not here right now.' Let's not say things that could be taken the wrong way...
"I'll see." I look the curled up fairy over…
Floating through the open door- compacting so I can fit between the floating and archway- I make my way to Maria, who's near the one of two beds.
'You should pick Ha-chan's nose.' Wha- why. Where do you keep concocting these ideas.
At my pause, Brad dares to elaborate. 'Like- they say you can pick yer friends, and ya can pick their- I mean your nose… but you can't pick your friend's nose. We're gonna prove them wrong!' Who's they…?
It's a completely terrible idea. Nothing good could come of it.
...Maria's fluffing her pillow. As a whole, the room is… plain. Wood furniture; a particularly big and comfy shelf along the side wall. There's a window outside that I didn't quite-... actually, I'm not sure how this room exists relative to the exterior.
Since Maria's not going to turn this way any time soon…
I raise one finger. Fortunately, none of my nails have suffered recently, even if they're rather easy to control. It'd still take a day of regenerating to organize and groom them, if they got torn up.
Bringing it to Hana's drowsy face, she seems ignorant of the oncoming sin. '...Are- are ya-'
It's actually rather unspectacular. I insert my index finger into Hana's nose-
"Who- whohoh!" She wiggles in surprise, mouth going agape in shock-
Maria turns to us.
My hand is already at my side, wiping my nail on my thigh…
'Pft- ha- ha- ha~h…!' It can't be literarily described, I'm sure. Brad's actual natural between of laughing and chuckling is a sort of gaspy series of inhales. It reminds me of Flandre, except it's not loud, doesn't echo and doesn't overpower whipping wind. 'Y- y'actually freakin'...!'
Him going 'wahaha' is less of a sustained laugh and more like a 'hah' sort of thing, then. "We- well…"
Fortunately, Maria didn't see anything wrong with that series of events, looking up at me again when I make a noise. She's now on her knees on the bed, sitting on her legs. "You must be really tired, huh..."
"You… could say that." That's all it ever was. ...That may be the excuse I'm going with for that whole exchange.
...Curling up even more, Hana looks up at me and gives me a really smug smile. "Yo- you stuck your finger in my nose…"
Maria ignores her clear delirium. Flopping over on her bed, she spreads out. "Nnn~..."
'Aw, yeah dude! Ha-chan's tellin' fibs, dude!' Poor Hana. I've assaulted her.
It doesn't seem like she cares anymore, however. I'm going to put her down before she does too many weird things to my bosom as I hold her like this...
Creak. There we go. I've flopped her down onto the mattress. She's peaceful.
Moving around the generic blue mattress, I come up towards Maria as she stares at the ceiling. Once I near, she looks over at me. "...Hi."
"Hi." She looks restless, despite how tired she also seems. "...If you may, I'll help you sleep."
...After blinking at me for a few moments, she accepts. "Sure…"
'Y'said that like you were gonna molest her, dude…!' Did- did I…? No, I didn't. Don't instill doubt into me, you.
Sitting up, Maria looks up at me as I lower myself a little. Then, I embrace her.
"A- ah…" Much like anyone would, she presses herself into me. Her littler body is warm against mine…
With my arms around her, I let my excess cloth flow. Controlling it is second nature to me, as it is for any of my sisters. Once it wraps around her limbs, it eases their burden by taking her control away, binding her tightly…
She closes her eyes, a cheek sinking into my collar. "Wo… wow…" She jitters a few times in my embrace, from comfort. What I'd give to experience a little of this same bliss I seem to instill so readily...
Um. This feels more awkward than it did before. At least, for me. I used to think very little of the twitches and pleasured melting of my… friends, here. Now it all seems just a little…
'Ho ho ho…!' Yeah. A little 'ho ho ho'. At least it's sort of a normal tradition for us, now. We've lied in piles before, too. 'Maria's nice and snug.' ...Admittedly, she's a really cute girl.
Drifting off pressed against me, Maria gives in. "Mm-... nn…"
There's something adorable about putting people to sleep. In a non-combative sense, that is. Normally, there'd be morbid beauty in the comfort through extinguishment… but now that idea is far more morbid and less so beautiful; at least, as far as Brad and Maria are concerned. I can't think of bringing myself to harm them.
Do other humans care about random humans? I mean… it's not good to kill random people, surely, but it's not good to care excessively over them either. If we don't know each other… there's no good reason for it.
These two have sort of dominated my time. I wasn't doing anything important with it, anyway. We could use more days like this, except perhaps a little more slowly. I wonder if Brad's ever actually sat down and read a book before…
Creak. I drop into bed, letting Maria come with me, in my arms. Thinking's burnt my remaining will to continue…
'Nighty night, dude. I have no idea what will happen to me up here!' ...Hopefully nothing bad. Me falling asleep is... an inevitability, so… I guess… we'll just see what happens.
"Good night, Brad."
…
'I should see if I got any earrape to play from my 3DS.' Brad serenades me with worrying sentiments as I drift off… 'Oh shit-'
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO: MARIA YAMADA'S PERSPECTIVE ====
…
Mmm-... nn~h.
I'm… awake, now.
Sitting up- aah…
I'm trapped in… Genkan's embrace, still. And, it feels so good. No wonder I want to drift off again.
The room's aglow with the dim twilight of a new, fresh morning. Low, orange rays sprinkle in from the window. It's still before dawn outside, and a rustic tint paints everything.
I love mornings like these. It reminds me of curling up in my little room, with a good book or novel. For what little free time I got, between managing the bakery and doing the daily chores…
Oh, here I am. Thinking about the past again.
It's so… surreal, compared to everything that's happened. Storming a factory, nearly getting crushed to death, running from robots… fighting machines. Watching Brad almost die. I'll have to keep an eye on Genkan, for sure. Oh- wait, that… purple monster thing almost killed her, that one time. Nevermind.
We've all had at least one brush with death, and it hasn't even been one week. Or, maybe… it has…
Genkan's breasts are good pillows. This… would look weird if anyone saw us, probably.
...I don't really know what kind of life I'm heading for. I hate this place. I want my mom back. Why couldn't they just leave me be? What have I worked for up until now? Why can't I just… live and read? And practice magic…? How much more did they want me to give? Would the village just… take all of me, until I died? Or something killed me, for no reason…?
I… hate this place. I want my mom back!
Stop.
...Am- am I crying? Ah- backtrack, backtrack… okay.
Just… think about Genkan, I guess. And sleep.
I'm sure not getting back to sleep now, but the least I can do is not cry. I don't need… to have an awkward talk about anything.
Ugh. That was a dumb move. But, morning will come soon. I'll probably be fine by then.
...Soon.
…
It's a good thing Genkan's nice and cool. She's right here; I should be thinking about, um… how soft her chest is. Not all the things that make me sad.
It's a little selfish of me, to only think about the bad things. A lot of really cool and new things have happened recently, too.
Patchouli was really nice and helpful. Brad's really just dragging us around for no reason, which is nice, and Genkan… likes us, I think. She probably would've abandoned us by now if she didn't. It's really hard to tell, because she never says a lot. Whenever they switch out- this whole 'incident' thing, it's really~... jarring. Total, near quiet, compared to Brad's boisterousness.
I'm calmer, now…
Oh. The lights are coming-
'Ya up yet, Genkan?' -ooh what in the name of...
...Brad's awake? But-... did he switch out with Genkan? No, I'm still… I've still got a face full of yuki-onna breast. Which- oh god, Brad can see me like this…!
Where is he!? Loo- look out…!
...Lifting my head, I look around, but… I can't see him.
Hana's here, though. She's just across from me, hard to see, but tucked next to Genkan. She must feel good…
"B-... Brad?" I'll bite, I guess. Where is he…
'Woa~h. Maria's up…'
He put that sort of weirdly. Is he talking to someone? Genkan? She's asleep.
"Brad…?" Um. Well.
...Nothing.
Alright. Let's get up, I guess.
"Nn- nnh…" Parting from Genkan's ultra-soft embrace… is more bearable than usual, because I'm all rested up. Yesterday was a little worrying, but… relaxing, compared to our usual insanity. Nothing I've ever read in a book was like what we've had to face so far.
So-... let me just… slip out of-... her kimono…
This is the first I've fallen asleep in Genkan's deliberate embrace. She wraps tightly. It's like she doesn't wanna let go…
Oo- ah. Well. I undid what bound me, but now she's half-naked. I think I'll steal the other blanket to cover her.
'What's goin' o~n du~de…!?' Is he stuck in a wall or something…
Teacher- er, Keine must've turned the lights off. Let's see, um… ah. Found the mana connection.
After channeling my mana to one of the magic lamps for a brief moment, the room's bathed in slightly discolored, white light. I kind of liked it darker.
What- what's this…? Oh. There's a sack on my waist. It's empty-...
Oh. Oh. Genkan's bag thing… is gone. I now have a bag thing.
'Aw, shit…!' Brad's nowhere to be seen, but… 'I'm a Maria now!' Oh no.
...I don't really know how to feel about this. Somewhere between ironic dread, and… dread.
"Brad-..." This must've been how Genkan felt. I guess this is karma. "Are you… in my head?"
'No, yo. I'm in your spleen. Dude- I'm your new spine!' Okay.
...The outside's become a navy blue in all this time I've spent screwing around. This is weird.
"...Okay." It takes me a moment to vocalize my… vague horror, I guess. Not quite complete. Well- I think that, but it's really more funny than anything… "I wonder."
Brad was able to borrow Genkan's big ice attack, and she's borrowed his bag. Do I only get the bag too? Let's see if any new powers have awakened in me…
Holding my staff out-
fwoom. A small tuft of flame appears from one motion, and-
zap- zap. In another, it's lively sparks of electricity. Uu~m…
My elemental balance rests on something… vague. Airy. Wind magic? It's a sort of cloudy… white tuft, before my staff's tip. I guess I'll see what this does... wait, it's a prefab. Whah.
I hold up an arm over the staff, and cast it down. The incantation rushes into my mind, and I yell it. "Scent Pillow!"
Splat.
A wet, white pillow, soaked into a blob, splashes against the wooden floor.
…
I- I just… bring my hand over my face. Oh my god.
'Aw, dude! You can cast the good spell!' This has negative utility. It's also… really embarrassing.
What else can I use…
Fwi- fwish…! O- oh! My staff's tip lights up with holy light…!
"Lumen!" I yell out the holy spell-
fzzt. ...Ah. It needs holy energy to feed off of. Not… so useful. 'Oof. You are not… a lumen girl, yo.'
...Out of curiosity, I near my wet pillow on the floor. O- oh, geez. I can smell it from just being near it. Yu~ck. That's… my scent. Except, too much…
Let's destroy it. First, we neutralize it… "Ice Shard!" Thrusting my staff at the mess-
Ka- fwi- fwi- fwish! In a moment, the first, weaker flash freeze appears over pretty much the whole pillow, and then the damaging, outward ripples of additional frost set in. Once it's done-
Fwa~sh. I've frozen it. 'It's a Maria-cicle now…!' Let's not think about that.
I raise my staff up high, neon yellow energy pulsing through the air before it. "Lucky Star!"
Di~ng! Ah! So- that's how non-elemental magic works. I mean, I already knew, but-
The star arcs forward on its own! And then-
DINK! CRA~CK! It bounced against the frozen pillow! Broken fragments of the horrible thing now slide and disperse across the floor, an airy, icy mist fading into the early morning air.
'Now the fluffles can feast, dude.' Why~.
"honh honh ho honh" On cue, they're here. Somewhere. The ice shattering must've stirred them…
"I- I must've woken them up, with the ice blast…" I relay my thinking to Brad… because, why not, really.
'You've disturbed the dust nuggets…' Oh no~... 'Now they've stirred, dude. Now they're dusty…!'
Here comes one now.
"honh hoh" It scuttled up to my shoes. "ima scuttlebug"
thump. It headbutted my shoe-boot.
...Lowering my staff-
Zap! I give it a little zap.
"nooo" It cringed back from my prod, giving me a uh… I guess offended look? The smile they normally have is obscured. Maybe it's glaring at me… "sto~p"
…
Zap! I prod it again.
"sto~p" It doesn't flinch that time. Now it's just sad.
…
Zap-
fwoof. After poking it enough, I've killed it. Um… 'Aw. Electroshock therapy, dude.' Maybe... you could call it therapeutic for me.
The others have somehow slept through the noise I've been making. Brad notices, too. 'Y'should like… freeze another pillow, and then make a rea~lly big bomb! Like, a super bomb dude! The bomb to end all bombs!' I don't wanna die at five AM.
I don't actually do bomb making… unlike my extended family. Well, there's Brad's bomb hanger, but I don't think I want anything to do with that.
fwoo- fwoo- fwoof. On the big, nearby dresser, a fluffle whirls onto the top from the small space behind it. "im home"
...Stepping up to it, I hold my slightly heavy staff to the side, and… just kinda scrape it along the top-
"Waa~l!" It wails after I poke it! So I tug on it-
thud. The fluffle thudded softly against the floor after I displaced it. "nooo~"
...I think I'll spare this one with that. I don't know if killing them's right or not, but no one seems to care, and they're kinda like… bugs.
It seems to recognize I've spared it, standing on its little finny legs and tilting to look up at me. "im very snug" I'm sure you are… "can we cuddle"
"...No." I shake my head. I'm not gonna hug it.
Not liking that, it tilts its head forward at me, obscuring the plastered-on smile decal. 'You made it angry…' Well, good.
...A glance outside reveals that everything's a few degrees brighter, color returning to the dim alley outside Keine's. I think that's the sun, for real now.
"Nnn…" Genkan lets out a gentle noise. She seems to be waking up now…
Creak. Displacing Hana by accident, she sits up-
I cover my eyes, 'cause I think Brad can see through them, and… I accidentally loosened her kimono a lot. Her chest is exposed… 'Wau.' It seems to have worked, I think.
Let's stare out the window instead. It looks like it's gonna be a nice day…
There's more fluffles behind me, now. The one I hurt before has become many, and they all stare up at me expectantly. "im here" The fluffle from before speaks. "we are a region"
...Fwish. I aim my staff forward, frosty energy billowing from the tip. "Blizzara!"
Fwa~sh! Big, chunky, round splashes of ice and snowflakes explode from the tip of my focus, and my arms jolt back-
Fwa- fwa- fwash! The particles of cold meet the small herd of fluff stuff. Some of them are frozen, and others scatter and scurry. "Waa~l!"
"What…" Let me just… take a glance- okay, good. Genkan's got her boobs covered, again. "...Good morning, Maria." She's still rubbing the sleepies from her eyes.
"Good morning." I don't think we have any plans for today. Actually… didn't Genkan want us to bathe? Ooh. We should do that like… now. I don't actually know anywhere to reliably bathe. There's a few magically-supported bath houses, bu~t… they're really expensive.
'Aw. A fluffy good morning…' Fluffy...
Also, Brad's in my head. Taking a bath with him in my head's gonna be impossible. Wait, does Keine have a bath? She really probably does.
It might be possible if I'm blindfolded. It'd be nice if we somehow blindfolded Brad beforehand, too. Blindfold everyone.
"Are you awake too, Brad…?" Genkan doesn't realize what's happened yet. "...I guess not." We should probably tell her, before she worries-
Fwiosh!
==== BRAD'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! "...I dunno how it happened!" Holdin' out my arms, I step towards the bed! "We got switcharoo'd…!"
"What…" Genkan's eyes widen, for a moment! "That poor girl." Wahaha!
'Wh- where am I…!?' Maria's freakin' out on the other end! 'There's a dark castle thing! And- whah…!?'
"Don't worry, yo!" I hold my arms out to mediate the frozen fluff stuff behind me. "Yer just in the dream world! ...Y'just gotta look out for the skoolatoons, dude… an' the gorillas in the mist!"
'The what!?' Look out, dude!
"There are no such things." Floatin' up behind me, Genkan shakes her head. "...What's with all the broken ice?"
Bending my knees, I gingerly lift a frozen nugget. It looks like it got blown away, dude. Like, the hair's all thrown back inside the ice…!
I hold it up to Genkan. "Dude, it likes you."
She snorts. "Re- really, what happened here. Not that I can't guess…"
...Once we become silent, I start trying to nuzzle the frozen nugget into her face-
Fwiosh!
==== MARIA YAMADA'S PERSPECTIVE ====
Fwiosh! O- oh! It was as easy as thinking about it…!?
Cra~ck! Woah! What happened!?
Oh… my switch made the frozen fluffle fall. It's a bunch of pieces on the floor, now…
"We should see if Kamishirasawa is awake." Genkan ebbs us forward towards vague productivity.
...She stares at me expectantly for a moment. Am I supposed to say something? "...Um. Sure?"
'Oh, man, it's gonna be especially jarring when we switch now.' Brad says stuff in my head… 'From total mute, to complete obnoxious background noise!' Now that he says that… it will be pretty fun.
Click. Genkan swings the door open head. Let's get today moving… and I should ask about that bath. Both Brad and Genkan have spotty memories, and while I'm not much better… I'd like to think I pick up on things they sometimes don't.
In the main room, Keine has a spread of morning foods set out, where there used to be paperwork and things.
"Good morning, everyone." Already seated, she gives us a warm greeting. "I've prepared us all breakfast."
'You should've brought some fluffles to the table.' What- no, why. I'd ruin the food.
Salmon, rice, and green beans. Also, strawberries. This is… an actually fairly luxurious meal, considering what can usually be made in-house. You'd have to go out to a restaurant for something besides bread, pancakes or basic things like fruit.
"Wow…" Did she make all of this herself? This is a lot of money to just… spend on us. I think. "Did you make this all… by yourself?"
Humbly, Keine shrugged. "...Well, yeah. It's nothing, really." I think she's just saying that. I'll take her word for it, though…
"We appreciate it." Genkan thanks her too, giving her a small bow. It's cute whenever she does a little motion like that; 'cause it contracts with her otherwise sort of… regal presence, I guess. Aloof…?
Let's eat this food before it gets cold.
"I've got some for Brad here, too." Keine gestures to a plate at an empty seat. "...If he can eat it, somehow."
'Put it in my bag, dude.' Um. 'Actually- I'll put my hand through to try and take it, and you can give it ta me at the midway!' I dunno if that'll work.
...Leaning over the table, I take Brad's plate, and just kinda~... um…
Keine stares at me like I'm insane, as I slowly guide the plate into the bag. Uu~h…
O- okay, I got it inside. Something took it…
'...Oh shit, chopsticks.' Have fun with that, I guess. Actually, why'd he mention chopsticks…?
This looks good. I'm gonna dig in…
'Dude, don't we say a pre-meal thing here in Japan land…' I dunno what Brad's talking about. 'Like… eat a duck in mass.' What.
...I approach my food apprehensively, because Brad's scaring me. In the ironic way, I mean. I can't ask him what he's going crazy about, 'cause food.
"Mmh…" It's really good food, too…
'Oh shit- haa~nh…!' Brad's making it sound like his food is eating him.
"I guess that's how you got the food to Brad." Keine's smart enough to work out what I did. She was my teacher for awhile, after all...
"Yeah…" These strawberries are pretty good… "What's this whole, um… incident about, anyway?"
...Lowering her arms and swallowing her food, Keine elaborates on the situation. "We~ll… recently, I don't know if you've noticed, but more people than you three have been switching around. Incident resolvers, random people, and others have been getting thrown around in a… new, not entirely intrusive magical system. It's potentially abusable, but no one's really powerful enough to meaningfully abuse it. Except for a few people…"
"...A few people?" Interested, Genkan looks up from her mostly finished meal. It's not really a huge meal, but it's very healthy for what it is. "How could it be abused?"
Keine's also nearly finished entirely, too. "Someone with enough power could… forcibly possess people, and even invoke their powers to a limited degree against their will. For the most part, master and slave relationships are purely voluntary, and interchangable at any time."
Ma- master and slave relationships…? 'Master and slave relationships…!?'
"...Master and slave… relationships." Genkan echoes this idea, too…!
At her questioning stare- all of our questioning stares- Keine responds quickly. "Don't… ask me. That's just kinda the term that got popular for it. Usually, the person in the 'master' role can afford to be out all the time, while the slave only comes out occasionally. Likewise, they both inherent one another's powers, to varied degrees."
'How's the will part work…? Is it possible ta switch noobs?' Brad asks something in my head…
So I relay it, since it's a good question. "Is it possible to… switch people?"
Keine nodded. "Yeah. It's as simple as willing it. Both the act of swapping, and the act of delinking the slave-master relationship. As long as one hasn't bound the other by force."
'That sounds broken.' ...What do you mean, broken? 'Dude, let's switch between all three of us while switching active positions at the same time to teleport across Gensokyo's airspace.' What gave you that idea…!? 'Break into locked houses by clipping through the walls!'
"So someone's abusing it, aren't they…?" Genkan frowned ahead. Since she'd finished her food, she brought up her arms, resting them on the table and interlocking her pale, snowy fingers. "In the village?"
...Keine bowed her head. "Well, yes. The girls've been pretty good about trying to clear them out, but the square's been a battleground throughout the day."
'...We must keep missing the action entirely!' We did do jobs all of yesterday, pretty much. It makes sense that we managed to miss all the action that could've gone on.
"For the people affected, their dream selves have been running around, making messes." Keine informed us-...
Wait. Wait…
She looks over the both of us. "I'd keep your eyes open. For yourselves."
...Genkan looks at me with wide eyes.
'Oh shit.' Uu~m. 'Oh, shit…!' Uu~m!
"Additionally…" Oh, no. She's got more news… "A certain pair has been going around town, swindling people by forcibly possessing them. If you see them, you're to be extremely cautious. They're a truly disastrous pair. I'm telling you to keep an eye open for them, not fight them."
'We're gonna fight 'em, yo.' No we're not...
...Looking down at her unfinished food, she sat back. "One is blue, giving off a dark aura of misfortune, and the other is outfitted in pricy goods and jewelry, giving off an aura of light. They're goddesses."
'...We're gonna fight 'e~m?' Brad's statement is half ironic and half unsure…
Genkan stands up. "I suppose we must be going, then."
Wait hold on. I stand up from my finished, empty plate. "Ah- miss Keine…"
She meets my gaze, as I stare down at her still-seated form. "Hey?"
"I was wondering if you had a bath we could use…" I ask of her. "Because, yeah…" It's sort of weird to elaborate on it…
...After a couple of blinks, she gives me a nod and a smile. "Sure thing. It's rather small, but it's flame-heated and rather cozy. You might wanna do something about Brad, if he's still paired with you…"
'I vote for the blindfold everyone-including-Genkan option.' I really don't know about that. Not that I particularly need to see to wash myself, but… no matter how you split it, it'd just be awkward. For me, at least. I'm pretty sure awkward things are Brad's lifeblood. I- I didn't even say the blindfold stuff out loud, either.
She did say there was a way to separate. That might be the best option, until I'm-... we're all done bathing. As weird as it sounds, I do wanna finish my turn with having Brad pester my subconscious by running its course instead of just abruptly ending it.
I stand up from my chair. "Brad, I'm gonna kick you out of my head while I take my bath. You can come back later."
...Genkan's just giving me a puzzled stare. I- I mean… I guess it did sound weird. Wh- whatever, I guess.
'Aw. I'm getting temporarily evicted…!' Now… let's see how this works.
Um. Ooo. Idea…
I lightly tip my head to the left and use my palm to start patting the right side of my head, as if to knock him out like he was something in my ear-
==== FREAKIN GENSOKYO ====
END OF CHAPTER 86
PERSPECTIVE HOLDER: Maria, the Actually Ordinary Magician
WEAPON: Pine Frost Staff - Made with pine wood and an icy reagent.
STATS:
Twenty five percent ice resistance.
One hundred percent freezing resistance.
Negative fifty percent burning resistance.
SKILLS:
Ice Shard - Advanced ice magic. May freeze enemies. Creates ice magic in their body, and freezes the air around them.
=o=
SKILLS:
Fire - Small, homing fireball of doom. May ignite foes. Kind of weak...
Fira - Slightly larger homing fireball of doom. May ignite foes. Bursts broader than the preceding spell.
Blizzard - Spread shot of big snowflakes. May chill foes.
Blizzara - Big spread shot of myriad ice chunks, with magical snowflakes whirling around inside them. May freeze foes.
Thunder - Random spread of bolts in an area. Basic electric spell.
Thundara - Random spread of bolts in an area which explode on impact with the ground. May stun foes.
Charm - Boosts magical attack of self or an ally moderately.
{Scent Pillow} - Bad. If I wanted to smell myself like that I'd-... act- actually, forget I said anything...
{Lumen} - Low-tier holy spell that I can't make much use of.
{Lucky Star} - Non-elemental magic which does very random damage. Crashes against a target and just… hurts them, basically. Sort of similar to danmaku. Low mana cost.
INVENTORY:
Casual Freeze Clothes - Casual, neon villager garb. Bright yellow shirt with a blue snowflake stitched onto the front, a bright blue skirt, and a tan vest.
STATS:
Fifty percent ice resistant.
One hundred percent freezing resistant.
=o=
Wood Staff - Training foci for magic. Not very good for much else.
Magical Lens - When coupled with magic, this lens shoots non-elemental lasers. Gift from Marcus Kirisame.
[Travel Bag] - Item that grants inventory by holding more items. I feel stupid mentioning this. Eight slots.
Two Mana Potions - Alchemical blends which restore magic energy.
{Brad's Inventory} - So much stuff. Expends no inventory space.
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Brad, the Fluffle Slayer, Fairy Slayer, Accidental Human Slayer, Robot Demolisher, Ph. D in Plant Hangers, Scarlet Liberator, Village Liberator, Eientei Crucible, Sinker of the Flufftanic, Factory Disassembler, Assembler of the Legendary Air Ride Machine, Sky Climber, Amateur Espionage Practitioner, Illegal Fairy Harborer, Conscientious Party Member, Winter Warrior, Village Revolutionary, Has Forgotten What Half of These Titles Stood For, Holder of Too Many Titles - A friendly, non-villager human with a lot of stuff. Mischievous but nice. Weaknesses and resistances vary depending on the situation. Skills vary. Element varies...
NON-EQUIP SKILLS:
Lucky Star - Non-elemental magic that does very random damage to one target. The star is summoned from above, and simply coasts into people.
Scent Pillow - I don't know why Brad knows this...
World's Wimpiest Fireball - Brad can cast fireballs…?
Lumen - Low-grade holy spell that eats mana. Requires a source of holy to actually be cast. Homes in on an enemy and deals a burst of mediocre holy damage.
Double Jump - Allows the user to completely cancel their falling momentum and jump again. I think I might have this too, but I'm not brave enough to try...
Perfectly Possessed - Under the incident's effects. I suppose I am, too…
{MP Haste} - Mana regenerates faster. Um…?
{MP Rage} - Brad's mana regenerates when he gets hurt. That's not a great tradeoff, honestly.
{Magic Finale} - Every purely magic spell is doubled up with an automatic second cast, with power relative to remaining mana. Starts at about thirty percent power, and ends at an extra hundred percent. Does not work for physical skills.
{MP Boost} - Brad has moderately more mana. That's… it.
PRIMARY WEAPON: Fallen Comrade - Amalgamation of dark hangers, and Hard Winter- I think. The name's rather somber. What was Brad thinking of when he named it?
STATS:
Slightly debuffs target's physical attack on impact.
Fifty percent darkness resistance.
Attacks are darkness elemental.
Sickle end may make opponents bleed.
SKILLS:
Revenge - Skill that increases in strength when health is lower. Power doubles for each deceased party member. Power is increased by fifty percent for each defeated party member. Fairies count as defeated rather than deceased no matter what. Power and effects depend on current weapon. High accuracy.
Bloody Mess - User bleeds faster and longer. How terrible...
Jack Hammer - Wh- wait, really…?
Generic Buff - Channeling mana into the hanger gives the user a marginal increase in physical stats. Moderate increase to physical defense and offense.
Pulse - Basic dark magic, which creates an influx of dark magic in an enemy's form and stresses their whole body. Reduces magic attack.
Gaia Seed - Basic earth magic which intensifies Earth's pull a little. May make targets slightly tired.
Gaia Bloom - Advanced earth magic, which intensifies Earth's pull, with multiple instances of hazy earth magic. Makes the target tired.
Tundra - Crate-sized spike of ice that erupts under people and throws them off balance. I suppose it'd hurt if you fell on it. Basic ice attack.
Ice Shard - Advanced ice magic. May freeze enemies. Creates ice magic in their body, before initializing fully by flash-freezing the air all around them.
Combo Plus - User artificially gets an extra hit. Can be canceled out of.
Combo Jump - User cancels out of combos easily.
Frost Trail - User leaves frost in their trail while jumping.
INVENTORY:
[Bag of Holding] - I have it now, too.
==o==
WEAPONS:
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Youkai Inconveniencer - A holy plant hanger. I mostly see it used as a flashlight.
SKILLS:
Flash - Blinding magic. Works best on dark-elementals, but also works on youkai. Humans don't resist it, so it still works on them, with reduced efficiency.
Flashlight - It's a flashlight! Might blind dark youkai, I dunno…
Shine - Basic holy magic. Generates a holy orb in the target's body, randomly battering them with a raw holy gush.
=o=
Fairy Harp - I think it's a harp? It's also a plant hanger. I don't… get it.
SKILLS:
Gust - Basic wind magic. Pushes the feeble. Does that include me…?
Fairy Dust - Weapon status effect replaced with fairy dust. Wind attacks with this weapon get fairy dust all over the enemy, reducing accuracy and senses.
"Sick Ill Harp Cords" - I'm not sure what Brad meant by 'ill'. I know 'sick' is slang- so maybe it's just doubling down on that. Either way, this skill's almost entirely useless except for the one time it wasn't, with the fairy statue.
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Red Scare - A red and crimson plant hanger comprised of purplish-red gems and crimson metals. Boosts the power of fire skills. It's scary, alright...
STATS:
Danmaku confuses the target.
Danmaku degrades the target's luck.
Danmaku may berserk the target.
Ignites things with physical impacts.
May berserk targets on physical impact.
SKILLS:
Hellfire Plume - A jet of hellfire. Berserks the targets, and isn't put out as easily. Obeys fire resistance like any fire. If I see this used in the village, I'm gonna have a heart attack...
Fume - Makes hot air fume from the earth below. Might sear the feeble.
Berserk - Non-damaging fire spell which berserks a target for awhile. Can be removed with water or ice stuff.
Danmaku Adaptability - I should learn how to shoot danmaku, some time. I've never had a chance...
=o=
Vortex Hanger - Wind elemental plant hanger currently attached to the Yin-Yang flail as a crafting material. Boosts the power of wind skills. How can food be fast? Maybe it's based on really cheap restaurants which just quickly make something for you to take. Actually- I think people call it that. I always preferred bakeries...
=o=
Deep Blue - A blue and silver plant hanger comprised of mysterious fantastical metals. Boosts the power of water skills.
SKILLS:
Why does it leak? - Really, why. If Brad knew just how valuable this was, he'd probably own his own house by now.
Geyser - Basic water attack. Gush of water erupts from the earth and might fling the feeble...
Valve - Controls the water flow. How does- you- nevermind, I won't bother thinking about it...
=o=
Bee-Fitty-Fore-Bawmber - A mechanical plant hanger enchanted to make big booms on contact. Very… weird looking. Made of many metal bits and ends, and isn't very comfortable looking.
STATS:
Danmaku explodes, dealing knockback and splash damage.
Accuracy falls moderately when used to fire danmaku.
SKILLS:
Boom - Brad makes himself explode, just about. I can't imagine that happening to me...
Danmaku Adaptability - It's not that I can't shoot some danmaku, but I don't know a lot about it.
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Million Bucks - A basic green cast-iron plant hanger, from the aged cellar of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. It's a gift from Flandre Scarlet…!? Has an obsolete map of the cellar's maze, etched by Flandre herself, along with some shoddy enchantments. Um… okay.
STATS:
Lowers user's defense slightly.
Attacks are electric and holy elemental.
Attacks travel through matter
Attacks become magical rather than physical.
SKILLS:
Panic Attack!? - Run faster when health is lower. That… actually makes a lot of sense.
Magic Attack - Physical attacks are converted to magic attacks, and fluidly pass through objects. How does that pair with Magic Finale…?
Combo Jump - Allows the user to transition to jumping while mid-attack. Why?
Aerial Plus - Forced aerial support! It's vaguely easier to hit aerial foes with it… apparently.
Air Slide Plus - Lets the user awkwardly air slide. Um… good.
Glide - Replaces Brad's double jump skill with gliding.
High Jump - Increased jump height while running.
=o=
Fragile Flower - A cute hanger with floral designs and light colors. Really weird pastel colors… it looks cheap.
SKILLS:
Enfeebled - Wielder has halved physical defense and offense. Ooo~...
Cleanse - Basic healing skill which cleanses one target of all debuffs or status problems.
=o=
Dream Hanger - Non-elemental hanger. Black and unassuming metal. Currently balanced, and easy for Brad to use. Has innate magical properties to it.
STATS:
Increases accuracy slightly. Genkan may've said that, but um… I don't see it.
Ten percent instant death resistance. Don't remind me. Actually- I think we do need death resistance.
=o=
London Operating Cross - What's this?
=o=
Yin-yang flail-o-copter - What's this!?
Market Gardener - The weapon Brad used to ward off Shimokoa. Gives critical hits when he's blast jumping. Oddly specific, and very difficult-sounding to use. Why not, just… let him cast fireballs, or something? What is with all of this stuff!?
NERF longsword - 'CAUTION: Do not jab at people or animals'. I can see why. This might seriously hurt someone, if you poked them in the gut.
NERF longsword, again - There's two, even...
==o==
ARMOR:
Camouflage Kimono - This kimono means business. Doesn't actually help him hide in the brush.
STATS:
One hundred fifty percent ice resistance.
Fifty percent freeze resistance.
Fifty percent dark resistance.
Negative fifty percent fire resistance.
Negative fifty percent freeze resistance.
=o=
Kaguya Houraisan Disguise - Pink dress with lots of white ribbons. Wha- ah, what...
STATS:
Seventy-five percent time resistance.
=o=
Yellow Racecar Helmet - I thought his 'weapons' were weird...
STATS:
Fifty percent sun resistance.
One hundred percent freezing resistance.
One hundred percent blinding resistance.
One hundred percent electrical stunning resistance.
=o=
Lunarian Prototype Space Suit - A suit meant for combat in deep space. Has an oxygen tank, but that's only useful if you wear the helmet to go along with it. I remember Brad wearing this a lot earlier, and it… was really annoying.
STATS:
One hundred percent electricity resistant.
One hundred percent freezing resistant.
Randomly casts Zero Gravity when it feels like it.
Zero Gravity - Area of effect spell which removes gravity from debris and the feeble!
=o=
Lunarian Prototype Deep Space Helmet - Why's it look like a fish bowl...
STATS: (alone)
Fifty percent blinding resistant.
STATS: (paired with Lunarian Prototype Space Suit)
One hundred percent electricity resistant.
One hundred percent resistance to burning and being actively poisoned.
=o=
Testing Oxygen Tank - The oxygen tank used by the Lunarian Prototype Space Suit. Lasts for two and a half minutes. Not meant to actually be used outside of testing, but it's possible. Refills automatically in breathable air.
=o=
MP Prize Pin - A badge that allows the user to drain some of the enemy's mana, forcing it to become mana prizes on the field. For awhile only the user(s) of this badge may pick them up, but after a grace period anyone can.
STATS:
Extends prize grabbing range. What's a prize? Sometimes, bubble things come out when Brad physically attacks things. Is this that?
=o=
Sun Badge - A badge that looks like the sun. So much random stuff...
STATS:
Fifteen percent sun resistant. I need to smelt this into a weapon…!
Fifty percent resistance to blinding and electrical stunning.
Replaces the on-impact effect of all weapons with Sunfire Flare. Yuck…!
SKILLS:
Sunfire Flare - Flash of light that blinds everyone. Doesn't work on the sun-resistant.
=o=
Stock Outfit - Blue, long-sleeved shirt with a huge V-neck button-up collar. Blue sweatpants. Most balanced outfit.
STATS:
Negative five wind resistance.
May make the wearer tired.
=o=
Retro Patchy Hat - Patchouli's old hat. I feel like she misses it, in some way...
STATS:
Moderate increase to magical defense and offense.
=o=
Moon Crescent - Patchouli's moon hat ornament. It's cute, really.
STATS:
Immunity to silencing.
Twenty five percent moon resistance.
Moderate increase to magical offense.
=o=
Anti-Magic Amulet - Deep blue, crystalline necklace given by Patchouli in exchange for a blue dragon's bone. Brad should do something with this...
STATS:
Sharply increases magical defense.
=o=
Cow Costume - What…!? Oh, no!
STATS:
Increases breast size by twenty five perce~nt…!?
Increases max health by fifty percent.
Wearer is immune to dispelling.
=o=
Autumn Dress - This has to be to balance out whatever the thing above was. ...Colorful, pretty autumn dress. I'd like to see Genkan put it on. I think it'd look really pretty on her...
STATS:
Wearer is immune to tiredness.
Wearer is immune to holy weakness.
Wearer is immune to stunning.
=o=
Iron Cross - World War… two? The entire world… had two wars. Maybe Gensokyo's better than I give it credit for...
STATS:
Randomly summons explosion backup. Wha- explosion backup. U~m...
Fifty percent bomb resistance.
Stagger immunity.
=o=
Officer Hat - Who'd send you letters about it…? Over this hat? What's wrong with it?
STATS:
Fifty percent darkness resistant.
Wearer is immune to instant death. Phew...
=o=
Officer's Coat - A rather authorative looking suit. Looks weirdly fitting on Brad. It's kind of a change, to see him go from a kimono to a suit.
STATS:
Fifty percent darkness resistant.
Wearer is immune to being cursed.
Slightly boosts defense and magic defense.
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Reimu's Outfit - Shrine maiden clothes…? I'm running out of surprise to experience. Actually- he showed us this once, too.
Reimu's Ribbon - ...It is a really cute ribbon.
Hakurei Arm Sleeves - I don't really know how they perplex Brad. If he sat down for a minute or two, he could probably figure it out.
Remilia Scarlet's Mob Cap - Twenty five percent dark resistance. Wait- this is that vampire's…! Why does he have some of everyone's clothing!?
Monk Robes - Now he has buddhist stuff. He really does have nearly everyone's things...
Gravity Boots - Boots that reduce the user's gravity. More accurately, it pushes against the ground with either spacial or magnetic force. Reduces the effectiveness of space statuses on the user. Looks really scary to control...
==o==
CONSUMABLES/OTHER:
Eighty six thousand, nine hundred Yen - Wo~w…!
Four Health Potions - Regenerates the user rapidly over thirty seconds. I could never afford them, myself, and surprisingly few people carry them.
Mega Potion - Youkai-like regen for thirty seconds… applied to a whole party. Expensive and pretty potent, considering the scale. Brad's ironically focused on party synergy...
Four Mana Potions - Nearly tops off my mana pool, actually. They're pretty good.
Three Panaceas - Cures all status effects. It doesn't work on debuffs regarding basic stats; like raw reductions. It does get rid of things like tiredness, weakness, so forth.
Akihito's Broadsword - Brad has an actual weapon, and never even thinks of using it.
Butterfly Dream Pills - Does Brad have nightmares…? Wait-... the bottle's never been opened. Wha~t...
Rope of Red Bikinis - Oh my go~d...
Some Fancy Key - A key lent to him by Brittany. I'm not sure if I buy the whole 'she is me' thing. They look similar enough, but I might just be missing the joke.
Youkai Exterminator Badge - For some reason, I don't think he does a lot of youkai exterminating. How'd he even get this...
Yellow Star Gem - A star-shaped yellow gem. It's glowing, brimming with raw, non-elemental magical energy. A real wild-card reagent best used as a catalyst… but, knowing Brad, he's gonna just… stick it to a plant hanger.
Sweet Sleep Pillow - Doremy's nice cuddly pillow. Really soft. Random chance to survey you on pillow quality while you're sleeping. Wait- that last part's kind of creepy...
Genkan's Sweet Sleep Pillow - I'd still like to try one, 'cause pillows are nice.
3DS - A who?
Another 3DS - Three-... Ds? Three D.S.? Three of these? Is- is it the breast size…? There's nothing magical about these devices, but I can detect very weak… energies in them. What mysterious devices.
Picture of Sendai Hakurei no Miko Sleeping on her Side and Facing the Viewer while Drowsy - The lower I go down this list, the more Brad seems like some kind of urban legend parents tell their children. Would it be, like… 'don't horde things or you'll become him', or is it just like… 'don't go out at dark or he'll put you in his bag'? Honestly- what is this!?
Masturbation Pillow - and I'd thought I'd seen it all
Dark Knife - ...By comparison, this is completely mundane. I'm not even curious about it.
Combo Technology - We got this the other day. I heard about it between some people in school- when I went to it- and from my… foster people. It sounded made up, but I guess it's real.
Wasp Stinger - That was a seriously big wasp. I'm not guilty about frying it. Wasps only exist to screw your day up. That's all they do.
==o==
RANDOM CRAP:
Tables and Furniture - Are-... are we-... are we done yet…?
==o==
Genkan, the Yuki-onna - A bitter yuki-onna from Gensokyo's wildlands, mostly active in the winter, and on particularly cold days. Heals from ice damage. Commands powerful control over frost, and has a wide variety of ice-affinity attacks. Weak to fire and burning. I think she's pretty cool. Pu- pun aside. Down to earth, and willing to set aside the… thing that's going on amongst her 'sisters'.
SKILLS:
Ice Control - Freely use ice to make stuff. Inherent one hundred percent ice resistance. Negative one hundred fire and burning resistance.
Freeze - Instantly freezes one to two enemies. Low chance of working on stronger foes.
Creaking Freeze - Generates a spinning, magic snowflake in an enemy's body, which instantly freezes them after a moment. High accuracy. Really cool spell...
Tundra - Precursor to Glacier. Weak spike of ice that serves more as a warning. Physical ice attack.
Glacier - Erects a massive blade of ice from the ground, dealing incredible physical ice damage.
Triple Glacier - Same as above, except with more sudden scope across more targets. Less accurate. More costly.
Ice Spin - Not the skill Brad thinks it is. Creates a ring of initializing frost around a wide area, with a high chance to freeze.
Ice Shard - Advanced ice magic. May freeze enemies. Creates ice magic in their body, and freezes the air around them. I feel like, despite our versions looking the same, her's is more powerful.
Snow - Make it snow locally. Very minor ambient ice damage to everyone on the battlefield, including allies. Has a low chance to instantly freeze someone for no reason. Kinda cute...
Yuki-onna's Embrace - Hug. Binds target close to her. Makes the target tired, severely lowers accuracy and magical defense, and makes them comfortable. Skill may only be performed by my kind. Negative facets reduced by ice and freezing resist. Someone with over a hundred resistance will be buffed and healed by it.
Yuki-onna's Entombment - Final, optional stage of the hug. Guaranteed instant death inflicted by the draining of vitality. Heals the user for the heat taken from the target. Does not work well on bosses or the instant death resistant. Instant death proc is nullified if the target's ice or freezing resistance is over fifty percent. Skill may only be performed by her kind.
INVENTORY:
Absolute Zero Kimono - A better version of the stock yuki-onna kimono. Outfited with new royal blue and cyan trims. I really like the updated colors.
STATS:
One hundred percent ice resistance.
Effects vary when not worn by her…!
=o=
Two thousand yen - Her pocket money.
Bagged Money - Reimu gave us a bunch of money we never opened. Since Brad has eighty grand now, it might be awhile before we bother...
Peppermint - Ooo.
Fans - Regular fans. Helps her spread out frigid air, but she mostly holds onto them for personal fashion, apparently. They do accent her image.
Ninjas of Love - Oo~h. Um. I've… actually read that. Ehe… heh.
Viking Rune - Reusable rune that summons a viking monolith. 'Whiterock' was very brief, but apparently vikings were ancient warriors who hailed from frozen lands to the north. Once summoned, it greatly increases everyone's physical attack prowess, before firing a frost spark with massive freezing capabilities. Very costly to all party members. Uses two inventory slots.
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Hana, the Electric Fairy Maid - Really cute fairy who stalks Brad, and doesn't know what sex is. Healed by electric magic. Immune to electric stunning, 'cause yeah. Weak to earth, poison and darkness. Quick to become ill from poison.
SKILLS:
Little Zap - Basic electric magic. Zaps a target twice with static from above.
Random Electric - When pressured, uses random electric spells.
Electric Control - When using her actual, charged power, she's able to stun opponents into submission by touching them.
Electric Elemental - Three hundred percent electric resistant. One hundred percent resistance to electrical stunning.
INVENTORY:
Hana's Fairy Maid Uniform - Stock standard uniform from the mansion! Cyan-tinted in places to match her hair color. Looks really nice on her, although I guess a stock maid outfit would too~... actually I don't know. The cyan's really like… part of my image of her now.
==o==
Seikatsu Kikai, the Human Salvation Robot - I… really don't know a lot about her. She came from somewhere in Eientei, worked on by Eirin herself for a moment.
SKILLS:
Medibeam - A slow-healing beam, which takes a couple minutes to rejuvenate someone. Feels good to be targeted by…
Cloaking - Seikatsu becomes invisible.
Scan - Returns data on a foe, including name, biological info, stats and strategies. All of us can call on this skill.
==o==
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
thu- thud, thud
here we GO DUDE
MARIA YAMADA, spell slingin' at a RAPID RATE,
not the kinda fella you wanna pass in an ALLEYWAY
also dream people running around like lunatics
uh oh spaghettios etc
\ ;3
and then we got… the GODDESSES
this should pave me a pretty neat direction to write towards, combined with some other things i've got in mind
"what happened to portraying a more normal human village" well we're getting there but s'gotta follow a progression yo, an' i've got some CARDS UP MY SLEEVE
now for this COLLEGE SHIEUT to end so i can spend a month doing coding research insanity for work and other low-grade jobwork rather than spend ten million hours doing pointless math and other trivia-based chores that suck and i hate them etc etc etc
but over the summer the pace should RELATIVELY ACCELERATE, my pace for doing things able to fall into my hands again, and two months is infact a lot of time, especially when it becomes all of my own devices once again
maybe i'll get to game again who knows dude
but this show GOES ON DUDE
as always, see you all next time!
