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[ totally not late secrets thread!!!!!
Anyway. Koharu is scurrying back toward the dorms after raiding the cafeteria but oh no! Alack! The red strings got her!!!! And—another? Wowie. ]
—Waugh!
Anyway. Koharu is scurrying back toward the dorms after raiding the cafeteria but oh no! Alack! The red strings got her!!!! And—another? Wowie. ]
—Waugh!
[ On this fine afternoon Koharu can be found outside on the school grounds, not too far from the entrance. She sports a water bottle in one hand—given how miserably hot it still is outside—yanking at the collar of her button-up to fan herself out; naturally, the blazer of her uniform is tied around her waist. ]
It's times like this that I can't wait for summer to be over...
It's times like this that I can't wait for summer to be over...
[ To think they were so close to making it to safety! It seems Nei was on her way back to the dorms, too, but gets snagged in the strings right in the dormitory hallway. ]
—Ugh! Not again!
[ And then she turns to check who it is this time. ]
Dove-chan!
—Ugh! Not again!
[ And then she turns to check who it is this time. ]
Dove-chan!
[ She tries to free her arm from the strings, to no avail; Koharu only briefly struggles before resigning to her fate. ]
Ugh... Sorry, senpai. I thought I was being careful.
Ugh... Sorry, senpai. I thought I was being careful.
Oh.
... It's just hard to think of any good ones. I don't think I'm that secretive of a person or anything...
... It's just hard to think of any good ones. I don't think I'm that secretive of a person or anything...
[ Nei impatiently clicks her tongue. ]
Just say the first thing that comes to your mind! Fine, I'll go first. We're going to be stuck here forever if we wait for you to come up with something!
[ Since she'd made mention of her work to Dove before, she decides to expand on that a little more: ]
Do you remember that I hunt monsters, at home? Well, it's all a secret. The general public doesn't know about them, so everything I do is covert.
Just say the first thing that comes to your mind! Fine, I'll go first. We're going to be stuck here forever if we wait for you to come up with something!
[ Since she'd made mention of her work to Dove before, she decides to expand on that a little more: ]
Do you remember that I hunt monsters, at home? Well, it's all a secret. The general public doesn't know about them, so everything I do is covert.
[ Oh. While she was, admittedly, stalling a little, Koharu hadn't expected her to actually give up and go first anyway. ]
You manage to hide that there's monsters around...?
You manage to hide that there's monsters around...?
[Cadence's hair is always wild, and the oppressive heat has made it worse, somehow as drenched as the oil-slicked feathers of a bird and ruffled at twice the volume. Her vest is absolutely plastered to her. She flops down into an available, if rickety seat, swinging one leg over the other. She fans herself with a stack of papers. The actual bird is nowhere to be found, right now. It was basically melting into an ink puddle anyway.]
So, you haven't loved the season passing well? [Heh.] Come summer's end... It'll be time to face how much time has really passed.
[The dizzying thing about a hazy summer day is that it sometimes feels like days have never passed at all.]
So, you haven't loved the season passing well? [Heh.] Come summer's end... It'll be time to face how much time has really passed.
[The dizzying thing about a hazy summer day is that it sometimes feels like days have never passed at all.]
[ Alas, Koharu isn't a poetry girlie. The response does give her pause, though, brow furrowing slightly in thought. ]
It has been about a month now, hasn't it. [ Yikes. ] And only another month until the fall season hits...
It has been about a month now, hasn't it. [ Yikes. ] And only another month until the fall season hits...
[Nobody here is a poetry girl except for her, and for a normal person, that might be excruciating. For a normal person!
But, she nods in agreement, voicing the mood she thinks she catches in Dove's pensive expression--] Sheesh.
I wonder if "classes" will go back in session then. [And what that means...It's clear she's not talking about the half-pipe dream school she keeps talking about setting up with the kids here.]
But, she nods in agreement, voicing the mood she thinks she catches in Dove's pensive expression--] Sheesh.
I wonder if "classes" will go back in session then. [And what that means...It's clear she's not talking about the half-pipe dream school she keeps talking about setting up with the kids here.]
Oh, no.
[ Funny how attending actual classes here of all places is coming up again. ]
I really hope not! I don't want to think about trying to do homework on top of dodging all the yokai...
[ Funny how attending actual classes here of all places is coming up again. ]
I really hope not! I don't want to think about trying to do homework on top of dodging all the yokai...
You sound like you saw another ghost.
[Any desire to give the "students" her a good education that she might have, fanatical as it is alongside her infection, Cadence still... has to agree. The lingering spirits here like "games" and "punishments" too much.]
Back home, did school give you a hard time, too?
[Any desire to give the "students" her a good education that she might have, fanatical as it is alongside her infection, Cadence still... has to agree. The lingering spirits here like "games" and "punishments" too much.]
Back home, did school give you a hard time, too?
Huh...
[ There's too many different kinds of undead yokai to keep guessing which one it'd be closest to, so she simply takes Nei's word for it. ]
Fighting monsters in secret sounds like something right out of a TV show... I know it's got to be super dangerous, but I bet you look really cool doing it!
[ There's too many different kinds of undead yokai to keep guessing which one it'd be closest to, so she simply takes Nei's word for it. ]
Fighting monsters in secret sounds like something right out of a TV show... I know it's got to be super dangerous, but I bet you look really cool doing it!
...
[ An immediate response doesn't come; Koharu takes a notable moment to think, as if mulling over what words to choose carefully. Then: ]
I... don't attend school. Cupids don't live like humans do, so...
[ An immediate response doesn't come; Koharu takes a notable moment to think, as if mulling over what words to choose carefully. Then: ]
I... don't attend school. Cupids don't live like humans do, so...
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