WEEK 1 || ACT: MINGLE

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Monday comes onto the snowy town, though it still looks as if it's 'night' as ever.

Then again, you are underground. That's just to be expected, considering no natural light can get down here in the first place. The Monsters around you are just as friendly as ever, and there's so much to explore.

But, there is also that ever-looming threat. Still, it doesn't seem like anyone here could do such a thing as summon something to eat this world....right?

Well. You still have time to figure it out.

...In fact, you'll have nothing but time.


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[ugly_split_ends]

...I'd think good on you for living the dream, in that case.

[Or be jealous.]

So it's a relationship without romance? ...Wait, is it entirely physical?

[dereban]

It's definitely not like that!

What I meant was - that - there is romance, but... the 'emotional tension' wasn't that we were fighting over romantic things, but rather completely unrelated things!! I'm not just gonna go for a person just for their body, otherwise I'd be dating more people by now!

[ugly_split_ends]

Hehehehe... you're pretty confident, aren't you? You do have a sort of "cute girl next-door" look, but could that translate into having so many boyfriends you could show them off like rings on each finger and satisfy every kink you have each night?

[dereban]

... I'm not that kind of girl.

And since when did I fulfill the 'cute girl next door' trope...? I'm supposed to be the 'mature model type'. Besides, I care more about personality. I'm picky.

'Sides, if I wanted a harem, I'd want both boyfriends and girlfriends.

[ugly_split_ends]

Yeah... but you just assumed you could do it. It's like saying the only thing keeping you from walking on the moon is that you haven't decided to become an astronaut yet.

[she tilts her head] ...Is that even a type? How old are you, again?

...Seriously?

[dereban]

[She is so glad that her false confidence is working...]

It's definitely a type. Iori always said that I was the 'cool beauty', after all. The.. one with the raw sex appeal. Honestly, she was the one who fit the 'girl next door' more than me.

[An idol, really.]

I'll be turning eighteen at the end of November.

And seriously. Girls are nice, too. Not that I've... met the right girl.

[ugly_split_ends]

...Hm. You have a point. A "cute girl next-door" wouldn't be so frank about her kinks. Still... 'mature'? That makes me think 'old hag.'

[Hisses through her teeth.] Nggggh... so you're younger than me? Yet you're the one with the boyfriend? Well, whatever. The relationship Master and I will have will surpass any romance possible, fact or fictional.

...Girls do nothing for me. I tried writing a girl/girl novella once, as an experiment, but...

[She just shrugs.]

But when you mix in polyamory on top of inter-gender relationships... that could invite a whole new layer of jealousy. Kink, too.

[dereban]

There's a difference between mature and an old hag, you know. Although it's not as if I talk about that sort of thing all the time...

[But she'll be slightly shameless to mess with people.]

Mm. [Not going to agree, not going to disagree.] Well, writing is very different from reality... at least, in my opinion.

[She remembers all the fanfictions they wrote about the crazy threesomes, moresomes, and non-existent ships during the gameshow.]

It definitely adds a lot, but... mm, just that alone doesn't do it for me, I guess. I need to actually care.

[Feelings matter.]

[ugly_split_ends]

No matter how you say it, "mature" conjures images of a woman in her thirties, at least.

... Of course it is. Writing is all d-delusion. Reality can never live up to it. No... my theory is the more about real-life romance you know, the harder it is to write.

[dereban]

... Really? I always thought of it as like, early to mid-twenties.

Hmm, I thought it would be the opposite.

[ugly_split_ends]

That's stupid... what do you call a woman in her thirties, then? "Middle-aged?"

W-Well you thought wrong! L-Look at me! How many romances do you think I've experienced?! No one in their r-right mind would want a relationship with me.

[dereban]

... so.

You also think that your so-called 'Byakuya-sama' [spoken in the same tone that she did, earlier] is in their right mind if they wind up together with you?

1/2

[ugly_split_ends]

Hhhhhengh... D-Don't mock me! Byakuya-sama is special... he cares about me. I know he's waiting for me. He's just waiting for the special moment! All I have to do is show I can be the perfect underling... then the perfect romantic interest... then partner... then l-lover...

2/2

[ugly_split_ends]

Aa-ah...!

[Touko gets another spaced out look in her eye as another fantasy comes to her.]

Byakuya-sama... you mean so much to me... of course I'll be your wife. N-Nothing would make me happier... I'll serve you in every way... emotionally... physically...

Oh, a vow that I'll always obey you? In the bedroom too? If that's how you want it... ahahahaha...

[dereban]

[...wow, this is bad.

Like worse than what she has, that's for sure.]

Oooi.

Earth to Fukawa. Well - at the current moment everyone's worlds are kind of in a 'frozen' state, so 'waiting' isn't exactly an issue here.

[ugly_split_ends]

Huh? --Oh.

N-Not just like that! He's waiting for me to prove myself worthy of him. If I can take back an accomplished mission here, I'm sure to get some brownie points.

I mean, it's practically the same goal. The SCP Foundation is trying to save the world, and so's the Future Foundation. ...I think.

[dereban]

Well, I guess that's true... although it might be difficult to prove it.

[ugly_split_ends]

I-I'll just get them to write me a note or something! [...] It'll be fine. Parallel universe stories where it ends with the protagonist returning home with nothing but memories and a "The real treasure was the friends you made along the way," moral are just the height of pastiche. I won't let it happen like that.