KAZUNARI CATCHALL

[fleshedout]

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[dms]

[ i can't believe this is what makes kazunari pause. ]

Oh, you are SO cursed. That's hilarious! I'm totes getting screenshots of this!

[fleshedout]

you know, modern technology isn't all that it's cracked up to be if it doesn't have any way to denote sarcasm

[dms]

You could try the dreaded emoji, but those are too advanced for you, aren't they?

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🙄

anyways where are you

[dms]

Look, you got one down! Round 👏 of 👏 applause 👏
I'm out by the dojo. I needed a pic of the practice sword graveyard before they do anything about it.

[fleshedout]

i'll be there

[She is...actually not on fire because she's feeling peeved and she's showing that proudly. Hi, Kazunari.]

Why do you even need a picture?

[dms]

What do you care? You never have before.

[ wow what happened to all that cheer ]

[fleshedout]

[....]

[She folds her arms.]

Oh, so therefore I'm prevented from asking about you for the rest of time, then?

[dms]

Oh, no, ask away. [ waves a hand! ] I never said I'd answer.

[fleshedout]

[She stares at him for a moment.]

You may act like this as much as you want to me. No skin off my back. What I don't abide by is you acting like this to others. Kumon's worried about you.

[dms]

[ rolls his eyes ]

What are you, our mom? Sounds like that's Kumon's problem, anyway, not mine.

[fleshedout]

I'm not your mom.

[She says, bluntly.]

Are you his friend, or not?

[dms]

Being in the same troupe doesn't mean we have to be friends.

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Are you afraid of losing him?

[dms]

Eh? What kind of question is that? Nothing's going to happen to him.

[fleshedout]

He could die this week. If pattern serves.

[dms]

[ shrugs! ]

So he's cut from the cast. We'll see him again once the whole production's over, so who cares?

[fleshedout]

...

[Now she's really staring at him.]

"Production"?

[dms]

Yeah? I mean, it was totally cute at first how people took Kumopi's idea and ran with it, but it's going to get old if it just keeps happening the same way. Like, there's nothing fresh about it! How are you supposed to keep the audience's attention if you don't switch things up?

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...

[Is that what it is?]

[Her upper lip curls, slightly.]

Pretending its a production isn't going to magically erase the fact that people have died, Kazunari. Don't be an idiot.

[dms]

Oohhhh, right, sorry. Can't break the fourth wall! No, you're right, they're totes dead for realsies.

[ winks! ]

1/2

[fleshedout]

[She looks at him for long, long moment. How casual he is. How wonderful it must be, to imagine something like that.]

Kazunari...

2/2

[fleshedout]

[And then, just like that, her expression shifts into something furious, eyes burning, and she raises her hand to slap him across the face.]

1/2

[dms]

[ it hits. kazunari makes no effort to dodge - sumi might have been able to, but kazu's just an artist, not an acrobat - so he stumbles back a step or two with the blow. one hand reaches up to touch his stinging cheek, as if that might sooth it. ]

[dms]

[ and he laughs. ]

Good, that's good! Drama always was your specialty, wasn't it? The audience must love it!