Seventy-Ninth Explosion

[deusexhormones]

[Voice]

All that snow and not even a single yeti! Not even a yuki-onna?! I mean come on, this is the perfect chance for an interesting experiment and it's not even used?!

Oi! Oi! Did anyone see either of those? Maybe Jack Frost? I mean there was a Jack O'Lantern a while back, so there should be something like this for payback for all this stupid snow...

Rena! Where the hell're you? [A pause, and then someone might hear Shiki whine-yelling something in the background. And then Haruki groans audibly before he tags on, as an afterthought-] Neku, you too. How's things there?

SOS-Brigade, report! Statuses, now!

[and then there's a chirp from Sekai in the background and he closes his journal]

Comments

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ Her face contorts with emotion. Rena... ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

She's from a rural town in 1983. What the hell do you think?

[emp3thy]

Here could be different.

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ Fina looks at Minato and asks quietly: ]

Do you think someone here could help her...?

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Here no one from that damn clinic is going to touch her.

[That is almost growled]

[emp3thy]

Then what is your plan?

[He wasn't suggesting the clinic, anyway; he knows Haruki's feelings on that.]

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ But Fina doesn't and looks down again after he growls that. He's actually quite scary at the moment. ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

My plan? What; I'm supposed to micromanage her life?

[...Anger, rising]

[emp3thy]

It sounds like you want to.

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

Minato...

[ She's worried there may be another outburst in a minute. ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Yeah and you're the dumbass who seemed to think it's perfectly okay to do that with Shiki.

[GLARE]

[emp3thy]

[Just... ignoring that entirely because it has no basis in truth]

Does Rena-san know?

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ Fina looks confused by that accusation. ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Obviously, I told her the truth. [...A pause, and then there is some significant need to clarify:] But she... doesn't like that truth. See, it's the belief in her village that the disease is some kinda magical curse from their village deity.

[emp3thy]

So hearing that upsets her. [...] And if others knew, they'd have to lie to her.

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

... Poor Rena.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

Yeah. So that's that.

[...] I'm going to take her home.

[emp3thy]

I won't stop you.

[Though Caine might.]

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ Fina doesn't look confident it will be that easy either. ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[To be fair, Haruki isn't either. It's why he's biting his lip again]

...Tch.

[Standing...]

[emp3thy]

She's in the bedroom. ...Caine-san has the key.

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ Fina looks uncomfortable as she watches Haruki stand up and Minato telling him about that. ]

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

[...Tch] Who the hell's this Caine guy anyway?

[emp3thy]

A police officer.

[silviteadvocate.livejournal.com]

[ This is where Fina looks confused. ]

... Minato, what's a police officer?