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[Headless chicken babysitter #5 heading out to do the rounds and check on all the morons!! Namazuo is on the list because of course he is, after he showed that he has no idea how to survive in the wilderness at all...

So he'll be checking the line of swords who are waiting for repairs first, and if he's not there, he'll try Namazuo's apartment. WHERE CAN THE CATFISH BE FOUND TODAY??]

[While Sayo's asking everyone else, he decides to come over and visit. Hey, he's in the area and all, and maybe he can check on the reserved bedroom in that apartment for him and Kousetsu.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Depending on who's there, he could ask them about their preferred flavours.]

[Maybe Namazuo's watching TV right now. Maybe he's eating snacks, or taking a nap, or playing video games or something.

Whatever he's doing, the point is he's home right now, and may therefore see Nakigitsune walk in with a small shopping bag and drop it next to him.]

Here.

[If he opens the bag (which has a cute cartoon print on the front), Namazuo will find a fast food lunch set?

...Delivery complete! There is now a ten-second countdown before Naki turns to leave again.]

[It's lighter up here aboveground, but that doesn't make it any better; Leon's grim as he surveys the surroundings quietly, Chaltier in one hand.

"Something isn't right, young master..."]

I know, Chal.

[They should really find more people, but.....he doesn't even know where to begin. And there's the grating, awful sensation of metal scraping against metal on the outside of his hearing, and it's putting his nerves on edge--but one of those monsters is starting to take form not far away, so it looks like a brawl is going to happen.]

[it's the second day and Okuni's already too tired. Her bare feet drag on the pavement, her breath comes out in short, quick gasps, but she keeps herself up. She's not armed to fight off monsters cause she's still in her sleepwear, but she can still run -- which she does too many times for her liking because why are all these monsters roaming around trying to get her??? She's never done anything to them!!]

[For now, she's at the underground lake's edge, looking at the water and wondering if it really matters if it ends up making her go crazy because she's just really thirsty right now, you know?!?]

[She's not so fargone that she doesn't notice anyone who approaches though. Her head peeps up when she hears footsteps, and then she blinks. ah...]

Honestly, do all tsukumogami go to sleep late at night or can you magically summon clothes?

[WHY ARE YOU GUYS ALL DRESSED???? what happened to embarrassing pajamas???]

[... So. Like. What exactly do you say to someone who got themselves killed for you? He feels like he should be apologizing, except he really doesn't know how. And he... doesn't want to anyway, even as he feels like he should. But he doesn't want to encourage Namazuo's foolhardiness either.

Saving someone like him at the cost of his own llife...

That was stupid.

It was all stupid.

He doesn't understand why this has gotten so difficult--why it's so hard to dismiss what happened from his mind.

So ultimately, after agonizing over it for.... longer than he'll ever admit to.

Namazuo gets a single text.]

I did not ask for your help

[nailed it]

[Comparatively, Lili reaches out to Namazuo rather quickly.

After she'd experienced her first fitful night of sleep and tried to get through her day, but no more than 24 hours after they'd returned to the surface. How could she really manage to go so long avoiding the topic after the same sword that had helped her through that awful place was put through so much pain?

So it's after she's done with work for the day that she stops on her walk home, pausing somewhere to make a call and as soon as Nama picks up, he'll find her oddly sincere and concerned--]

You.

You're... You're well now, yes?

[Say yes.]

[It's been an off day for Lili.

Discovering than the one person that you treasure most has left the colony can do that to a person though. Yet she's done her best to keep her head held high because the idea of otherwise is unacceptable, she can't crumble now. It's... still a bit of a contrast from how she's been since the festival though. It had gone so well that she'd been on Cloud Nine. Now? Now, well-

She's leaving her studies behind in the living room of swordhaus for a moment, just a moment, and then she's going to retrieve one of the cake slices that she had left in the fridge, but she doesn't seem to look at where she's going. Rather, there's a bit of a forlorn sigh leaving her lips, right up until she's bumping right into another person. Then it's a surprised:]

Ah?!

[Sorry Nama.]

[It takes him like half an hour to finally decide to send this text, but ultimately all Namazuo gets is a short--]

Are you your typical self?

[he's worried...but he won't admit it.]

[HI NAMAZUO.

Leon wasn't looking for him, of course, but... well, they crossed paths, and Leon's not going to retreat or anything.

That'd be...pathetic. Obviously. A-ahem.]

Ah. You.

[Be nice, Leon, at least use his name.]

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