[Group Intros]

[oi_theoi]

Who: New kids
When: Day 55, Morning
Where: Shrine area
What: Intros

[Welcome to Thusia~]

[ Top Comments | Kida Masaomi | m-21 | Kazamatsuri Shou | Watanuki Banri ]

Comments

[nothalfbad]

The person I need to protect is Roromiya Karuta.

[rootless]

I don't think she's here.

Rather, if you did well, there's no way she's here.

[nothalfbad]

What... What do you mean? Where is she, then?!

[rootless]

Where you left her. You died.

[nothalfbad]

No...

[rootless]

...I'm sorry.

[nothalfbad]

No, no! That can't be—!

[baaawwww]

[rootless]

[oh god no how do i--

C-CAN I CUDDLE YOU? I DON'T KNOW IF I'M ALLOWED TO DO THAT? BUT HOW ELSE DO YOU DEAL WITH CRYING?]

[nothalfbad]

[let me poof into a (fully clothed) human being while you figure that out]

K-Karutaaaa.

[rootless]

[unbothered by the poof

still bothered by the crying.

awk. headpat.]

Hey...

[nothalfbad]

[there's still a lot of that crying going on here, yep]

I-I told her I'd stay by her side! And because I wasn't strong enough—!

[rootless]

[...fuck it.

pulls into a hug.]

[nothalfbad]

[w-what??! super confused, but is still kind of a crying wreck, so he doesn't fight it]

[rootless]

[lets go pretty fast because GOD I SUCK AT EVERYTHING.]

-Sorry.

[nothalfbad]

[what just happened]

A-Aaah...

[rootless]

[ayakashidere and pings and roles and--]

It'll be okay. Somehow.

[nothalfbad]

How can anything be okay like this?

[rootless]

I don't know. But it does feel better, eventually. I promise.

[nothalfbad]

But she's still back there...

[rootless]

...Can you explain what happened?

[nothalfbad]

It's kind of a long story...

[rootless]

I have time.

[nothalfbad]

A while back... Karuta was attacked. She wouldn't wake up for a very long time, and when she did... she couldn't change into a human anymore. She had been cursed.

[rootless]

Ah...

[shuts up and keeps listening.]

[nothalfbad]

She started to feel like she was losing a grip on herself, too... she was really scared. But I promised to stay with her no matter what, because even if she couldn't change back, she was still Karuta.

... Then there was a raid.