menial | 2 ~ in truth, this sort of silly question holds no real significance for me [audio/action]

['End of the month. Check. Strange things appearing for no reason. Check. This would be, if I had the choice, the part where I run and hide from the experiment. However, the content that appeared is just bizarre.']

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"A fart will follow you into the car, ruining your date."

This sounds like one of those bad Western comedies. You know, the ones with lazy slacker heroes who're forced into wacky adventures...

['Wait, if I had to honestly describe my own life... As they say at home, the eye wax laughing at the snot*.'

And so he decides to leave it at that.]

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[Today, then, Kyon will be found wandering around in the Welcome Center and the plaza, annoyed, because, quite according to the horoscope, his keys are missing.

'This does not bode well. Well, I guess "against all odds, you will accomplish a basic task" isn't ominous so much as simply insulting. But "you will have a chance encounter with romance today so take a bath, for God's sake"... That one could be problematic. In all kinds of ways.']

[*ooc: Japanese idiom, something like "the pot calling the kettle black".]

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It's probably another experiment.

Doesn't seem quite as all-consumingly terrifying as it might have been.

It's not always terrifying. It'll probably be inconvenient if anything.

Also raises questions of free will, if you're into that sort of thing.

Either way. You should at least expect to act differently.

['But doing that would already be acting differently. Ha!']

...I guess. Not that 'taking a bath' would be acting that differently.

Expecting and being aware are different. You likely wont even notice once you start.

...Good news, as usual from you, Sanada.

...Sorry...

That's just how things are here.

Yeah. Not your fault. Just...

[Facepalm.]

...Anyway. What horoscope did you get?

Nothing appealing.

"You need a pet. Go ask someone to pet you."

...And is that, in point of fact, how you feel?

I'm not looking for a pet, if that's what you're asking.

...Don't worry, I wasn't offering, Sanada. One hundred percent straight here. I have no interest in you in that way.

I didn't mean it like that.

Right. What did you mean it like?

Never mind...

There might be complications anyway.

"Complications"?

There's no way to avoid it.

At least none that we're aware of.

...So you're saying you will soon be desirous of petting, one way or the other.