7 ~ However, it took me quite a bit longer to realize [written/action]

[menial]

To those that knew it, it looks like the crazy RPG hit-points-and-magic stuff has gone home. Sorry for those who were close to it. I don't think it left any notes or belongings for anyone, but I'm sure it'll be better off where it came from.

['What a cartoonish Shift this was. Not that I will ever forget my valorous deeds, but can we get back to ... Actually, forget it. Nothing serious. If more Shifts that are par for the Haruhi-course happen, it can only be a good thing.']

Seriously -- everyone all right out there? Sounds like a more than average number of people have been leaving fair Luceti lately. Though I guess variation is itself average, in said fair Luceti.

...Anyone know where the name "Luceti" comes from, anyway?

['...You know what, I'd better stop rambling right there.']

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[ voice ]

[menial]

Ominous kind of name. What was so bad about her?

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

[ There's a lot of things she can name here, so at least she picks the least bad one to say. Then again, even that one is only relatively the least bad out of them, so. Yup. Just saying morbid stuff deadpanly. ]

She shoved me off the roof of a community building before.

[ voice ]

[menial]

...

That seems more like actively trying to kill you than just screwing with you.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

She's from my world. The phrases 'actively trying to kill you' and 'screwing with you' are practically exchangable for each other there.

[ voice ]

[menial]

....

Well, that's cheerful. Sounds like you have a fun world.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

You could say that again. [ there's almost an audible shrug in her words. ] I'm just being realistic and honest to myself, that's all. I guess it's good for some people here to realise that way they're pretty lucky with their own world.

[ voice ]

[menial]

I suppose so. A good reminder for lots of us, maybe. So you'd rather stay here...?

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

.. Yes. [ she's honest, at least. ] But that's actually more because of other reasons than the nature of my own world.

[ voice ]

[menial]

Other reasons? What would those be?

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

Some people would probably cry if I left. Like Keiichi.

[ making serious things sound deadpan forever. ]

[ voice ]

[menial]

Oh, Maebara.

Yes, I guess he probably would cry.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

You confirm it that quickly?

[ voice ]

[menial]

Well, I've met him.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

I didn't know he seemed that much like the crying type though.

[ voice ]

[menial]

... He seems like the type who, given the choice between going big and going home, always goes big.

Including on tears.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

... I won't deny that much. [ she almost sounds faintly amused. almost. ] That's pretty much spot on about him. He's not the kind of guy to do anything subtly, he's way over the top.

[ voice ]

[menial]

Which is why I can see profuse tears on his face in my mind's eye.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

So you aren't the type to cry if the girl you like would leave then, I take it?

[ voice ]

[menial]

No, I guess I'm not.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

You might break a girl's heart at that rate.

[ voice ]

[menial]

A girl who's left?

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

In theory. If she'd know you weren't even shedding tears over her.. [ she's not entirely serious, obviously. ]

[ voice ]

[menial]

Ah. So regardless of my tears shed, tears will be shed? How unfortunate.

[ voice ]

[repudiate]

It seems that 'tears being shed' is the unfortunate yet inevitable outcome, yes. What a sad kind of scenario.

[ voice ]

[menial]

How awful. Just one more Luceti tragedy, my nonexistent girlfriend.