[CONTINUE] Week 1 || Act: mingle

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Monday comes onto the snowy town once more, 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, despite this being your second 'time' trying this monday.

...Though....are there a few less Monsters here than there were before? ...Nah. You must be imagining it.

You still have a mission - and after the events of the last trial, you want to do your best to stop whatever is causing this.

But, hey. You really do have nothing but time now to figure it out.

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[ugly_split_ends]

...There's going to be another 'party' before this mission is over, isn't there?

[dereban]

Possibly.

[ugly_split_ends]

Uggggghhhhh....

[dereban]

Not a fan of parties, huh...

[ugly_split_ends]

O-Obviously! Don't pretend to be ignorant!

[dereban]

I'm not.

But you don't have to come if we do throw another one, you know.

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What, am I supposed to let you talk about me behind my back?? Or do you just want a head start on forgetting me, next?

[dereban]

... I'm not going to do either of those.

I don't want to forget anyone. That's why I have a page for everyone in my notebook.

[ugly_split_ends]

... You're keeping a spy-book?

[dereban]

I wouldn't call it that.

At this point it's... notes, and a memory scrapbook.

[ugly_split_ends]

So, a diary.

[dereban]

Close enough, yeah.

[ugly_split_ends]

Good for you.

[Not a mocking comment, but a soft little statement. She stops to chew her finger before her next utterance.]

Hey... can I ask you something? Did you ask me for writing advice for any specific reason?

[dereban]

No, not really.

[ugly_split_ends]

You sure about that? Hehehe.

[She can't help but grin.]

[dereban]

I'm... fairly certain?

[ugly_split_ends]

Well, if you say so.

Personally, I have a guess.

[dereban]

And what would that guess be?

[ugly_split_ends]

If I knew someone who had a boyfriend, and that person's boyfriend was a terrific chef, then I think I wouldn't be surprised to learn that someone would also try learning how to cook something. Just to show she was interested. She might even try asking another chef for tips.

This feels like a similar situation.

[dereban]

Ah... ahaha, well. I mean it's true that both Atsushi and Ichigo are basically literature nerds and I don't really fit in the same way...

[Because what she likes is vastly different.

She was always into technology, watching other people, gathering information and using it for her own personal gain. And the reasoning behind her falling in love with those two idiots was well - different, she supposes.

But-]

... I really didn't ask with that in mind.

[ugly_split_ends]

Mmmgh. A likely story, Miss "Likes-to-Obfuscate." But, fine. Maybe it was subliminal? Or maybe you just didn't know what else to say. Or maybe you thought "God, what a worthless girl. I'll pretend I'm interested in writing, though, just to make conversation."

[dereban]

... I'm sorry that I've turned into Obfuscating-san.

[There's sarcasm there.]

I never once thought that you're worthless, or had any disinterest in writing, you know. My interests do lie mostly elsewhere, but it isn't as I don't... like it? We kind of have a reading club back on site two, and I just personally have innate... curiosity?

[ugly_split_ends]

Sorta what happens when you play tricks.

Right, right. I got it.

[dereban]

I don't do it all the time, you know...

[ugly_split_ends]

Ugh. "Mind-reading," isn't on the list of things I know how to do.