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.']

Comments

[Written]

[so_shik]

What's the worst that could happen if you said no to her once in a while?

[Written]

[menial]

Well, I do. I have. I'm not Koizumi. It's just that with Haruhi as the calibration for what's reasonable and what's not, things like what you say always seem reasonable to say yes to.

[Written]

[so_shik]

Are you seriously calling me reasonable? Really?

[Written]

[menial]

What's the craziest thing you've ever done, excluding things that happened when you were dead and didn't really have other options and so on?

[Written]

[so_shik]

...I guess the craziest thing I've ever done is decide to stay here. [And begin a torrid affair with Haruki. And take up swordsmanship from Sokka, but that all falls under the category of "staying here", doesn't it?] That and I guess telekinesis could count.

[Written]

[menial]

"Decide" to stay here? And what's been so crazy about that? ['Not like you really had a choice, right?']

[Written]

[so_shik]

Would you stay here if you were given the option to go home?

[Written]

[menial]

Well, no, I wouldn't. You're saying you would?

But it doesn't actually make a difference, obviously.

[Written]

[so_shik]

I might consider it, yeah. More leaning toward yes than no...there are way too many pros here.

[Written]

[menial]

What are those pros, exactly?

[Written]

[so_shik]

The people here, the relationships I have with those people, running my own business...you know, those sort of things. I'm actually an adult here.

[Written]

[menial]

Well, you'll get there eventually back home, too, right?

Still, as far as people here, I guess they're not too bad, yeah. And you've got lots of friends from home here, after all.

[Written]

[so_shik]

Shibuya's way too big for me to have my own business. I'm nowhere near the level of the store owners in the 104.

I've got three and I've got a Joshua. But I definitely wouldn't trade them for anything...we've all been through so much. I guess you're right, in that case.

[Written]

[menial]

Well, maybe not at 19, but you could eventually.

Kiryu - huh, he's not one of your friends?

[what does he know... he knows nothing]

[Written]

[so_shik]

Have you ever met Joshua? Like seriously gotten to know him?

[Written]

[menial]

Not really.

[Written]

[so_shik]

You should sometime. Get to know him a bit and then come back and talk to me.

[Written]

[menial]

Yeah? He's only ever talked to me about stuff like "is life worth living, death is everything"... and about birthdays. I don't think somehow that'll get any more productive, but maybe.

[Written]

[so_shik]

...about birthdays? [Because the rest of that makes sense.]

[Written]

[menial]

Yeah, he said it was his birthday or something... Or no, he was being all mysterious about it being his birthday or not. He made a journal entry about it.

[Written]

[so_shik]

Joshua never is straightforward about anything, so if you're hoping for that kiss that dream goodbye. He's always super-vague and obnoxious and just...ugh!!!

[Written]

[menial]

Ugh!!! indeed. I mean, I definitely got that same obnoxious impression. So he wasn't your friend at home, huh?

[Written]

[so_shik]

Hah!

He might have been Neku's friend, but even that's debatable. [Now that she knows who Joshua is and what he did? Not. Impressed. Granted she's started to hate him less over the years but he's still a prick.]

[Written]

[menial]

Well, good. That bastard goes in more circles than an asteroid.

[Written]

[so_shik]

Don't take anything he says too personal. He's only serious with a few of us, and even then...he's complex. I don't like him very much, and I still don't understand his reasoning for most things, but I can get some of it.