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[awakenerd]

Who: anyone
When: day 57, afternoon
Where: anywhere it's a mingle

[This is a mingle but there is a comment in a Chain Chat to the whole train!]

Rean: A while ago some of us were discussing a festival where every team puts on a production, game, booth, whatever, maybe based around team bonds or interests.

What do people think? Maybe it's a good time to to talk about it again?

[Feel free to discuss with each other! Or just mingle as usual.]

Comments

[awakenerd]

Uh, no, you really don't have to be sorry. Actually it was really--enthralling.

[overworker]

R-really...?

[No, Towa, now is not the time to be hopeful.]

W-well, he probably would have shown you sooner or later considering this is the concert that inspired us to consider putting on another one...

[awakenerd]

You were really great. All of you. I'm... Not exactly surprised but still.

[overworker]

Thank you... Still— I wish you could have seen your own class’ performance instead.

[awakenerd]

Was it anything like that one?

[overworker]

Nooot exactly. But you guys did an amazing job. Honestly, if I had to compare them, I'd say it was even better.

[awakenerd]

That's hard to imagine, considering the evidence.

[overworker]

No really— Crow and Elliot really put their hearts into it.

...

And there’s definitely no comparing me to someone like Emma...

[awakenerd]

Hold up a minute. Do you really think you aren't that attracticv?

[overworker]

...it’s hard not to be aware of the things that I’m lacking. It isn’t that I necessarily think I don’t have some good qualities, however— I wouldn’t call them “attractive” necessarily...

[awakenerd]

I would. Honestly Towa, you're very attractive. You know there's way more than one type of pretty.

[overworker]

R-Rean...

[As much as she adores Crow, it’s a very different thing to hear something like that from Rean. Her own views aside, she trusts him— he wouldn’t say those things if he didn’t mean them at least a little.

Boy is her face warm. She knows how red she must be— but she can’t help smiling. It means that much to her.]

...even if it’s just this once, it... makes me really happy to hear you say that.

[awakenerd]

[He's blushing just a little himself but it seems important to tell her!! Crow's not wrong. She needs to know she's beautiful. It's just difficult to find a way to say that that isn't objectifying.]

I'm glad. Because I really do mean it. If you ever need to hear it again I'll tell you, too. You're beautiful, Towa.

[overworker]

[Well it’s working. She considers pinching herself for a moment. This feels too good to be true.]

Aaaa—

[Instead, she lifts her hands over her face for a moment. Wow!! Wow... okay. She’s okay. No, she’s way better than okay. She only just barely manages to get herself to say it but—]

I wouldn’t mind hearing it more from you..

[...]

Thanks Rean. You’re really sweet.

[Towa real quick leans up on her toes and gives him a quick kiss on the cheek before her nerves get the better of her.]

1/3

[awakenerd]

[awakenerd]

[Oh. He's going red, cupping his cheek where she kissed him as his expression passes through stunned and flustered.]

Way to totally disarm a guy Towa.... I'm not sure that's playing fair at all.

[awakenerd]

But if it makes you happy, I'll say it as often as you need to hear it.

[overworker]

[Ah. Seeing him make a face like that because of her— it feels really nice.]

I couldn’t help it. Any girl would be completely charmed if you’d said those things to them. I never thought I’d get to hear something like that from you so...

[This may be the best moment of her life.]

[awakenerd]

[He's flustered now. How did this become like this? He may be old as the hills but talking to cute people emotionally is both where he thrives and where he dies.]

I'm really sorry if it's something I've never said before. I can't even imagine that it's not something I've thought before I lost my memories either.

[overworker]

O-oh no, please— you don’t need to apologize!

[The fact that he sounds so certain of that without his memories is flustering her more.

Honestly I would be more surprised if you did notice me. This is already way more than I ever expected.