menial | 4 ~ I have never believed in Santa, ever. [audio]

...So, it's getting close to the end of the month again, but nothing weird seems to be happening. Or am I missing something? Anyone know if we might just be getting a reprieve or something? Or maybe I just shouldn't look the gift horse in the mouth.

['Because I don't believe in the Malnosso being Santa Claus to us.'

However, that's not the main purpose for this post; instead, he goes on with a filter he worked for a while on. Ideally, Asakura won't suspect it at all.]

[filtered to Shiki, Minato, Winry, Rise, SOS Brigade members who have interacted with him before, and other close-enough CR (PM me if you're not sure) // 55%]

Yo. If you guys have seen a girl with blue hair who smiles a lot, by the name of Ryoko Asakura... Well, I guess I've got something to ask of you if you do attract her attention, but I'd rather not put it on the journal, so please talk to me if you've met her.

['So what if that makes it seem like I might have a crush on her? Better that than someone hacks it and realizes that I know what Asakura is.']

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No, probably not. And isn't it everybody else's job to make sure she doesn't find out anyway?

That's the idea. Just for safety if nothing else.

The problem is that Asakura, while putting up a good front of being a regular human being, keeps on thinking things would be more interesting if I were dead.

I have no illusions that she has any particular interest in me. It would be because I was relatively close to Haruhi. Hence why you should know.

...are you telling me she's trying to murder you? Because of Haruhi!? [Yep. Jumping straight to that conclusion.]

[Hey, it's right.]

...Well, I don't know about actively, but she has in the past.

Great. So what are you going to do now?

Tell everyone else that might be in danger.

To be honest, I doubt that at this point I would be of most interest to her. Or at least I hope so. Other than that, I don't particularly have any options.

Is she going to try and kill the rest of us that are too closely associated?

I would hope not. But it seems to be a possibility, right?

Right. So how do we defer her?

Well... Ideally, Nagato gets here. Otherwise, it kinda depends on this powercap the Malnosso have.

...Other than that, I have no idea.

Just remember everything's halved. What can she do with half of her strength?

Uh...

Well, I don't know. They seem to be able to do just about anything within a local space, when given "jurisdiction" over the data in it. So... half of anything.

...so if I were to find her and confront her myself, what would happen? Just out of curiosity.

I would really try to refrain from that if possible. She might freeze your body and proceed to stab you with a knife.

...but if I'm frozen wouldn't the stabbing be ineffective?

Not frozen like ice. Just keeping you from moving at all. I don't know. She can also erase doors and fling tables and spikes at you. I don't know what half of that translates to, though.

...sounds like all of the things I'd like to do with my telekinesis. Ugh! Totally not fair...but I mean it's dangerous-sounding, so maybe I'll take your word for it.

Probably a load more than that, too. I don't claim to understand it in the least.

But unfortunately there isn't anyone else to ask, right?

Yeah. That's about the size of it.

Well...great. Thanks for the warning, I guess. Now I know what to look for.

For what that's worth, yeah.

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