[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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[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.

[dereban]

It's not like I'm one, either.

[ugly_split_ends]

...What's that supposed to mean?

[dereban]

Basically what it says on the tin? I'm being rather blunt.

[ugly_split_ends]

When have I done something that forced you to be a mind-reader?

[dereban]

Never.

[She puts her palms up, flat.]

But you never know, right? There's a lot of weirdos here.

[ugly_split_ends]

...Like the one right in front of you?

[little sigh]

I'm saying I can't read your mind and know instinctively when you're being sincere or playing a trick.

[dereban]

Eccentric isn't necessarily bad.

[She comments on that in a way that doesn't show strong feelings on the matter one way or another.

But after that, she shrugs.]

That's just the kind of person I am. I will admit this much - I don't like the idea of people being able to read me.

[ugly_split_ends]

It's not an admired trait, is it?

[Definitely a rhetorical slant to Fukawa's words.]

...That's problematic.

[dereban]

[She... shrugs?]

Is it really?

[Questioning the second statement, not the first.]

[ugly_split_ends]

In a variety of ways. ...At the very least, that's got to require a lot of effort on your part. Like a never-ending poker game.

[Was Fukuwa definitely the right person to criticize? No.]

[dereban]

I'm used to it.

[Playing this kind of role, anyway.]

So it's not hard at all.

[ugly_split_ends]

Heh... it's a contradiction already, though. Telling me you don't like revealing parts of yourself to others is itself revealing a vulnerability.

[dereban]

It's not something you can poke at, though.

[Besides, the only parts of herself that she reveals are what she wants to reveal.]

[ugly_split_ends]

...Huh? You're saying you'd be hurt if I criticized you?

[dereban]

I think anyone would be hurt by criticism... although it depends on what kind.

[ugly_split_ends]

D-Don't be stupid! People only care about criticism when it comes from something relevant... t-there's no way you should care at all what I think about you!

[dereban]

... Well, like I said it would depend on what you said, really.

[ugly_split_ends]

Nnnnnnngghhhh! And yet, it's enough!

I can't handle this... I've got to g-go!

[she starts to turn to leave]

[dereban]

[...well.

She'll watch her go but not say anything more.]