The truth was out there.

Tome had known this to be true since the day she had been born! Well she assumed so, anyway, she didn't actually have memories of being born….but she didn't need them to know that the truth was out there and that she was the only one who knew it! But not in a crazy way. A sane way. Because she was sane and everyone who thought that she was crazy…well they were the crazy ones!

Anyone who made fun of her had to be crazy. There. Simple.

"Beam me up, Kurata! Take me with you back to planet loser!" Oh, wow, that was a new one. Tome had no idea who it was who had taken the time from their busy schedule to shout at her as she walked to work/hanging out with sane people but she knew that they were insane. Crazy. Also they obviously had nothing to do with their lives so they bothered her.

"You're not even worth dissecting!" shouted Tome. She could yell louder and she did yell louder and therefore she had won. Whoever shouted loudest won and there, as the loudest yeller in Seasoning City, she had won. That was her actual title, she had been voted loudest in her entire graduating class back in Salt Mid…

Not that she missed Salt Mid.

Not that she missed the stupid blue sailor dress and the 8:20 start time and the Telepathy Club and her days spent doing shit all with everyone….not that she ever laid up in bed at night and wished that she could have done back to those days….she was in high school! She didn't have to look back at all of that. She had high school adventures coming to her! Like getting the new telepathy club off the ground…and Inukawa! She at least had a boyfriend which was more than the people who made fun of her had….

She had a lot going on in her life.

Like now! She was going to her unpaid internship at an exorcist's office! What did she care what a bunch of boring, basic, nothing ever happened, plain white ride without even any soy sauce people thought of her? She was Kurata Tome and she had a lot going on and…and if people didn't have anything better to do in their lives than make fun of her then that said more about them than it did about her. Like her mom had been telling her for her entire life. People only made fun of others because they had nothing else going on in their lives.

So there.

She had a lot going on in her life. She had so much going on that it was making her dizzy! She had a job and friends and a boyfriend and she knew that the truth was out there and she searched the skies tirelessly….so yeah! She knew that she had a lot going on and she didn't need someone else telling her…or not telling her…or whatever! She had things going on and now she had to….to do those things….

She really hoped that this wasn't one of those days that were spent doing a whole lot of nothing.

They had those days a lot of the time. She was the only normal person…well there was Reigen but she was Reigen. She didn't have any powers but she more than made up for it. Tome…well she didn't need powers or whatever. She played an integral part of team spirits and such and…and she totally was! She was and whatever she needed to help with she would and…and yeah! She had a lot going on and she…she was not a loser.

It was everyone else who was crazy.

So she headed over to the only sane place that she knew. She could see the Spirits and Such sign like a lighthouse in a storm or a fog or something like that. She walked faster as she saw it. She walked fasted because she wanted to get inside….and not because outside was full of assholes who had nothing better to do than make the same tired old jokes that people had been making since she had been in elementary school.

Which said more about them than it did about her.

Really. That said so much more about them and how much they sucked than it did about her. She wasn't crazy. She just knew the truth. There was something out there bigger than her, than this city, than this country, than this whole world! There was an entire universe up there above their heads. A universe with people in it completely unlike them. Beings that lived their own lives out there on alien worlds completely unaware that they were being watched by beings on other worlds who wanted….well to meet them….or whatever…or at least just to have some confirmation of the truth….because it was out there…and Tome knew it.

She really did.

But she didn't have time for the truth now. She had work to do. She made her way to Spirits and Such and opened the outer door. Maybe Mob would be there today. She always had something going on…well she used to. Back before she had met Hanazawa. Honestly, she had at some point turned into one of those girls with a boyfriend, not that Tome wasn't one of those girls with a boyfriend, but Mob had turned into one of those girls where it always came back to their boyfriend. She got it, Hanazawa was rich and hot and lived in his own apartment…and maybe if he actually did something in that apartment Mob would have stopped bringing every single conversation back to him….

Not that she didn't love Mob, she did, she just…well things had been…she sort of missed the way that things had been.

Back last year. Back when they first met. Back when it was just the two of them in the Telepathy Club, well Mob was in the Body Improvement Club but still, and they had just spent their days doing shit all…or at least they had the option of going back to those days that they would spend doing shit all. Now they went to different schools and…yeah they were friends…but at least Tome…well at least she'd had allies and…and not that she didn't have friends but…well at least there had been people near her that got her. Not just the guys. At least there had been someone…well like her…who got her. Not that Tome was trying to move to one of those all women islands or anything like that, guys were awesome, but it had been nice to have had an ally in the building she was dragged out of bed every morning and forced to spend most of her day in….

But at least she had allies in this building.

"I think you might have gone a little crazy there, Rei…" Tome heard Reigen's voice before she even made it all the way up the stairs. Crazy? Something crazy was happening? She wanted in on the crazy! She didn't care what it was! She practically tore the door off it's hinges as she opened it and…well that was…

How in the hell did that count as crazy!?

"Rei, you did good. Reigen, I've been saying for years that we needed more color in this place. Rei, you're awesome." Said Tome as she sat down at Rei's desk. She was making paper birds again, in all colors of the rainbow, and she was having Mob and Serizawa hang them. So this was going to be one of those days that they would spend doing shit all. Perfect.

She had missed those days.

Sure she would have loved if something crazy had happened but…but this was good two. Sort of like the Telepathy Club part two, this time with adults and psychic powers and the occasional exorcism job. Sure she would have loved if someone walked through that door with a cursed conjoined twin sticking out of their head and the theme from the Exorcist playing but, well, that wasn't an everyday thing. This was an everyday thing. Her and her friends just hanging out doing shit all.

What else could a person possibly want?

"Thanks! See? I knew that someone you like them. I was in crafting club today and they were all 'Rei, we're doing traditional birds' and I guess that traditional means white paper or something but then I looked into the future and I saw that you guys would like them and-" said Rei

"It's not that I don't like them, I just have no idea where we're going to put them." Said Reigen. She motioned up to the ceiling that Rei had already covered in paper lanterns…and that had been a fun day. They hadn't really done anything but it had still been fun. Just folding things…normal people fun. Not seeking the truth of existence. Just…them having fun. Normal people fun with espers.

"We could put them over the windows, Master, we haven't put anything there." said Mob. Where had she-oh, there. She'd been sitting behind Rei braiding her hair. Great, Mob was finally back. Maybe Hanazawa had finally figured out that Mob was just as human as he was and they had finally consummated their relationship like normal adults and now Mob could stop agonizing about it.

"Then how are we going to see out the windows?" asked Reigen. She said that in that way that she said things before she agreed to them. She had the softest spot for Mob. Well Mob and Serizawa, but in different ways of course. They were…well they were trying not to look at each other…and now that was interesting….very interesting….

Something had happened!

That was what they should have been discussing! Not where to hang all of those paper birds! They should have been discussing whatever the new development in the long when will they of Serizawa and Reigen…not that Tome didn't have anything else to talk about…that was just the most interesting thing that had been happening around here. God, Tome was about to lock them in here until they got married or whatever they were going to end up doing. That might work….she could pretend that the lock had broken…and then while they were waiting for a locksmith they could talk about their relationship and finally get through all the tiers…

But how would she even sabotage the door, though, so it looked like an accident….

"We could just….get by without windows?" asked Mob

"Or peep holes! We could make peep holes." Said Rei

"Fine, you can hang the birds…but we're not doing any renovations. The landlord would kill me….and he already has it out for me since last time." Said Reigen. She looked at Tome when she said that…and how was she supposed to know that the landlord would have had a problem with her spending the night on the roof watching the skies? She hadn't been hurting anyone and she had figured out how to get down off the roof eventually!

"I still stand by the fact that I didn't do anything wrong!" said Tome. She would submit to torture, a lie detector test, anything! She hadn't done anything wrong. Nobody got it, that was all. Nobody got it that she was doing very important work! Well she was. She was always doing very important work and…well she had gotten off the roof eventually!

"Right. Well you three watch the front, and no drilling peep holes, I have a client coming and I need to get the curse removal room sanitized. Serizawa, you want to help me?" asked Reigen

"I'd love to!" said Serizawa and….yup. Something had happened. Reigen practically ran away, as well as anyone could run in those heels, when he said the word 'love'…and now this would have to be discussed. They had no choice but to discuss this. Serizawa disappeared after Reigen and now…well now they had to get to the truth of it. Of what they had just witnessed….or what was probably happening between them…they had to get to the truth!

Because it was out there! The truth was out there and, well, Tome was tired of looking for the truth by herself so…well that was what friends were for, right?!