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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['...Not really the point, anyway.']

I assume that's not what ... drew your interest.

['Surely this is the most awkward conversation ever.']

...It just happened, okay? Our first meeting just involved her replying to me on the journals and soon enough she was racing me in a lake after I got her to agree to wear a bikini to a lake party.

['I think that's too much information anyway, but only from a certain perspective, because in terms of what I'm really trying to understand it still is completely lacking.']

Well, as romantic as that sounds, I'm not sure it really explains it any better.

Kyon, who on Earth falls in love the first time you meet them except for idiots or perverts like Taniguchi? It just happened over time! It's not like I was planning for things to happen the way they did.

['Are you lecturing me on the process of love now, Haruhi? And is Taniguchi an idiot or a pervert in that question?

Probably both.']

I guess you certainly had time for it.

['I wonder what the "me" who was here before thought of this. Eh. If he was smart, he'd think that this simplified matters for him. Of course, he might be rightfully pissed off considering how much crap I go through at Haruhi's hands. And that? It's not because she's in a relationship, it's because it was hidden from me for months! What would I care if she were involved with ten blonde girls? Haruhi at home is one thing. That's my friend. That's a girl I... Well, she's just as frustrating as this one sometimes, but at least I know what's underneath her. Three years here might as well be like thirty years elsewhere. (Isn't that a lyric from a musical?) Everything I know in Haruhi is replaced in this Haruhi, be it her feelings on love, her feelings about the Brigade, and her feelings about...

Whatever.']

Well, don't worry. Could've happened to anyone.

Of course it could- does. It does happen to a lot of people and then they get obnoxious about it or fall in deep or... well the point is it's not an unusual thing.

[...Arguing for normality. Even shes sees the irony. But after bringing this up months ago to Winry and Winry telling her that she didn't need to have them say it and Haruhi concluding that she didn't either (because it would show weakness about... well, what she considers the two actual secrets here.]

But yeah, I've more than had the time.

And you would never do something like that, and that's the difference?

['Yeah, I admit it's not an abnormal thing, which makes your doing it all the weirder, as you perfectly well know.

I feel exhausted all of a sudden.']

Well I've certainly never been obnoxious about it.

['I suppose you wouldn't count not telling me for months as obnoxious.'

He will also think back to this conversation when she asks whether maid costumes are an art form or a fetish later.]

...I'm sure.

After all, when people are obnoxious about things, it just makes everything that much more complicated, not to mention frustrating. What's the problem with people just going about their lives and then if someone asks them "hey, is this so?" they can answer yes or not. The whole needing to announce things is incredibly tacky and outdated.

Don't you reannounce the existence of the Brigade every time you write in the journal?

['Different things, I'm sure. If you say so, Haruhi... whatever. I can't think about it now.']

No.

[Maybe]

...Okay.

['Sigh.']

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