10 ~ comparing those worlds to this boring, normal life [audio/picture]

[menial]

['Well. It sure got cold pretty fast, huh? Which means that I'm rapidly approaching the one-year mark, so I should really be proud. Or something. After burrowing myself away to avoid complications from refugees, my antisociality has reached a certain limit.

Unfortunately, I also have nothing to contribute beyond the observation about the weather which I already blithely used up there! Not that people can read my thoughts, but if they could, they'd find out. Well, they'd find out a lot of things. But who would want to anyway? It would just go on and on without any point.

Anyway, I guess I'll poorly disguise my attempt to see who's up for a random conversation with some kind of opener. Hey, if I were at home, this would be a mind-scarring Omegle session or something. At least I'm pretty sure I won't run into the usual problems stranger-chatting over the journal.'

...and so:]

So I found this in a book the other day.



Maybe this doesn't work as well over the journal, but I thought it was cool, anyway. Or at least different from discussions about fire and eternal suffering, continued kidnapping, disappearance, reappearance, cross-dressing, and so on.

Comments

[menial]

There's an art club, huh? ['Doesn't speak highly of her capacity for that club if she didn't even see the face in this picture, but let's ignore that for the moment.']

Did you draw anything?

[happyends]

We all tried drawing something! In the end I made.. um, I guess you can say it's a landscape of sorts, but it's not any existing one!

[menial]

Oh. Uh, what is it, then? Something you just made up? Is it Mars or something?

[happyends]

I guess it's just a non-existing one? You see, I made the pink and the grass pink, and I don't think that actually exists somewhere..

.. Although.. I've never seen anything on Mars before. [ but since he said it-- ] Have you, then?

[menial]

Well, I used to think that girls with pink hair didn't exist, at least without dye, but I've been proven wrong about that, too.

--Uh, so I mean, I've never seen Mars up close, but I'm pretty sure that that's not the way it's different from the Earth.

[happyends]

[ wow, wait, what did you just say, kyon-- ]

I.. is my hair weird..?

[menial]

['Oh shi...']

... Madoka-chan, I should warn you in advance that if you make me feel bad, I very well might have to go beat myself ritually.

Anyway, it's a little weird to me, but I think it's nice-looking. It makes you look, um, cool.

[...]

[happyends]

[ I'm not sure if 'cool' is the right word for it, Kyon.. but despite that.. ]

D-don't go beat yourself..! N-no, I'm sorry, I don't want to do something l-like that to you..!

[menial]

['Oh my Haruhi. In retrospect I could have known that was a mistake.']

Joking! Joke. Joking, Madoka-chan! Please calm down!

[happyends]

...

Huh? That was.. a joke..? How?

[menial]

... Because nothing you do, I'm sure, would ever make me frustrated or unhappy.

[happyends]

Nothing at all..? W-.. well, I think that sounds a little nice since I wouldn't want you to be unhappy.. I'm just not sure if I can live up to it.

[menial]

Just don't worry about living up to it and I promise you will live up to it.