5 ~ Every one of my classmates shared the same look of disbelief [audio]

[menial]

['Well, it's been a while since Valentine's. Maybe I can show my face on the journal again. Well, so to speak. My tiny icon. Whatever. After having laid low for a while, it should be safe, right?'

And so this rather lackadaisical message appears on the journal.]

Has anyone ever had that feeling where you anticipate something bad happening for a while, but when it actually comes to pass, it's just confusing instead? And then disappointing.

Actually, I guess that would be a good way to describe everything... simply confusing. Anyway. I guess there are New Feathers coming around here, too. My advice for you would be to suspend disbelief and just move on with your life as soon as you can. Helpful, I know. Well, good luck.

Oh, and I guess Haruhi would want me to say... if you need to talk about your problems, the SOS Brigade is here. So there's that.

Well, I hope everyone I haven't talked to in a while is okay and all that, and later.

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Okay done. Yeah.

[installing]

I didn't do those kinds of things, honest! I've heard about that from other people!

Hahahaha...

[menial]

['It's too late for that, Rockbell! The images are there. The evidence is in! There's nothing else to be done...']

...Right. Let's... let's move on.

First all the arguing. Now all the embarrassment.

[installing]

A-anyway, I guess you didn't do that. That's- that's good.

[Who would be the third person in those images, hmm?]

So dramatic.

[menial]

['I plead the fifth. I assure you it was kept purely an affair similar in gender arrangement to the one you have now, though.']

...Yes. I didn't end up doing that, as you say.

Any more dramatic (with some bad lighting) and we'd have a Soap Opera

[installing]

[So Kyon thinks of all the lesbians. Interesting.]

Then you just... need time! It'll all blow over, and be gone by the next experiment! Trust me!

[menial]

['What I need more time for is to get this picture out of my head... However, I don't think it'll be gone by the next experiment. Or ever, even.']

...If you say so, Winry-san, maybe it'll be true. I'm sure time will make it easier to forget... all of this.

[installing]

[Winry, Haruhi, and Mikuru. You can't unsee the mental image.]

Trust me. You'll eventually have other things to focus your thoughts on.

[menial]

[Nor does he want to, just now.]

Maybe... Uh, yeah, I mean, definitely.

[installing]

And we probably won't have anything major like this happening again until... Halloween, I think? That's another big one.

[menial]

...What happens then?

[installing]

It depends on the year, but usually horror stuff happens.

[menial]

['The only words for this situation are... yare yare.']

Horror stuff. Because this isn't enough of a horror?

[installing]

More like... hallucinating your worst fears.

[menial]

...Can't say I'm all that surprised.

[installing]

We've got a while until then, though.

[menial]

Yeah. More time to get nervous, I suppose.

[installing]

Or forget about it?

[menial]

I'm sure it will follow an increasing-decreasing pattern, so that it'll be a nice surprise when it comes.

[installing]

Sounds like you have your stay all planned out. [Sigh.]

Have you been doing anything here? Like going to school or picking up a new skill?

[menial]

['You mean besides picking up the skill of coping with the wrench (appropriately enough) that you've thrown into my life, Rockbell?']

Not really. Guess my plan isn't that good.

[installing]

Why not pick something up? At least you can say you accomplished something, right?

[menial]

What's the point, exactly? Who'll I say it to when I get home and forget?

[installing]

You say that like you have better things to do here than learn something useful.

[menial]

Well, I for one find complaining to be a pretty good thing to do.

Also, and I say this merely for the illustration of a point, there are lots of cute girls.

[installing]

And what will you do about those cute girls, Kyon?

Stare at them? Because with your attitude dating them would be pointless.