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Sakuraba Masami 桜庭雅美 (sakurabamasami) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2010-06-16 21:17:00

Entry tags:

masami, renju

Who: Masami, Renju
What: Discussion
When: Some point after Seiko's dungeon
Where: Butterfly Room
Why: Issues need to be talked about

It was rare for Renju to want to talk to Masami in private - or at least, it was rare for her to specifically request doing so in the butterfly room. Not quite sure what was going on, Masami made her way there after class, though she had to stop when a certain hot-blooded, loud kouhai found her and asked if she was going to kendo practice.

After telling him that she had something else to do and wouldn't make it to practice, Masami left the somewhat disappointed, but no less hot-blooded kouhai and made it the rest of the way to the butterfly room without incident. She stepped in. "Sonozaki-san? What did you want to talk about?"

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-17 01:59 am UTC (link)

Renju was on the couch, puzzling over why the Kozuedoll was suddenly acting so coy around her (well, "coy" was a rather strange word to use for a doll anyway, but still), when Masami's arrival interrupted her train of idle thoughts.

"Sakuraba-san." She shifted over on the couch a bit, giving Masami room to sit on it if she decided to do so. "I'm glad you could come. I'm sorry to have pulled you away from kendo practice; I should have checked the schedule first." She had after the fact, and had mentally kicked herself for it after. Still, this was important, or at least she thought it was.

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sakurabamasami
2010-06-17 03:02 am UTC (link)

Masami took a seat on the couch. "It's no worry, Sonozaki-san. I don't go to practice all the time anyway, especially not when both Shirou-kun and Ito-sensei are around. The two of them together can be pretty... exhausting, just to be around."

Masami was still curious as to what Renju had called her here for, so she jumped straight to the point again. "So umm... what did you need me for?"

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-17 03:42 am UTC (link)

Masami was even more straightforward when it came to these things than she was. Well, it wasn't entirely unexpected from a fellow member of Team Let's Just Move On, at any rate. Renju cut the rest of her intended pleasantries and, nudging away the Renjudoll that had wandered up to her, tried to figure out exactly how to phrase something that was really, no matter how she did it, going to be an awkward topic.

"There have been a few things recently that I've been concerned about." She sounded like a teacher now. That wasn't quite right. "Do you recall what happened when Toru cast that effect on you in Seiko's place?"

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sakurabamasami
2010-06-17 03:56 am UTC (link)

Renju's tone made Masami feel almost as if she was being reprimanded by a teacher. Maybe that quality about her was what made her such a good voice of reason for the team.

A pensive look crossed over Masami's face as she tried to think back. "...Not really. That effect... it's like you can't really think when you're afflicted. All I remember is that everything seemed hostile, and I was... kind of compelled to just attack? But it's all really fuzzy," she explained.

"Like the time it was cast on me in Akuba-san's area. I don't really remember anything from that time either, just that something made me feel like I had to attack everything in sight..."

She wasn't quite sure what Renju was trying to get at with that question. Was she trying to figure out something about persona magics? "Why do you ask?"

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-24 12:44 am UTC (link)

So she didn't remember. That was going to make this a bit more difficult to explain. Renju shifted in her seat and sat in silence, ignoring the Renjudoll tugging hesitantly at the hem of her skirt.

"I was going to use those as an example," she finally continued, having figured out a slightly better angle to approach this at. "A better one would be when you fought my Shadow." It was something she was sure neither of them would like to think about, but she was starting to think that it might be necessary. "I believe we may have touched on this briefly after we returned, but the way you looked at the end was..." It was difficult to find a way to put it. "It seemed comparable to that feeling you just described."

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sakurabamasami
2010-06-24 02:49 am UTC (link)

Now that, Masami did remember, though she kind of wished she didn't sometimes. Renju's Shadow had been... probably the closest call the team had had in Paradise. Now it was Masami's turn to fall silent, while the Masamidoll jumped up onto the couch and poked her a couple times. Getting no response, the doll ran off toward the hand-butlers.

"Back then it was... well, it was a moment of desperation," Masami tried to explain, though it looked as if she was also trying to convince herself. Meanwhile, the Masamidoll had apparently become irritated at the hand-butlers and was now chasing them across the room, waving its letter opener katana as menacingly as a cute doll could wave a letter opener.

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lotus_beyond
2010-06-24 11:46 am UTC (link)

The Renjudoll's tugging was getting a bit more insistent; Renju brushed it away, not really paying attention to the dolls' antics, as usual. "All the same, I'm somewhat concerned, especially considering the way you were acting in Seiko's place." To be fair, she wasn't certain the two things had any sort of connection, but they were still both more emotion than Masami had ever consciously shown in her presence, and both negative.

A little more gently--or, at least, that was what she was trying for; she wasn't very good at 'gentle' yet--she went on. "I just want to be sure that there's nothing seriously wrong, particularly given the potential consequences." And there was the crux of the problem. If they could even forestall one person from going into Paradise, that was one less place they needed to worry about--and given what she'd seen of Masami, Renju had a feeling that her place might be one of the most dangerous.

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sakurabamasami
2010-07-01 08:26 am UTC (link)

The Masamidoll chased the hands an entire lap around the perimeter of the room before finally the hands stopped and bowed repeatedly to it, one of them scampering off and coming back to the doll with an offering of clothes. The doll, appeased, left the hands and went off somewhere unseen to change, emerging after a few moments in a doll-sized black kimono. Once again it hopped up onto the couch and began poking at Masami.

Masami herself, however, continued to ignore the doll and its usual antics with the hands. "How I was acting in Yukizaki-senpai's place? Do you mean... while under the effects of the spell? Or... that hat?" Masami didn't even want to think about that stupid hat; it was probably a mutual feeling amongst the members of the team who'd been unfortunate enough to be stuck wearing it. There was, of course, the unspoken third option of neither, but Masami didn't want to bring that up either. Besides, she'd done nothing bad while she had control of herself... right?

"Thanks for the concern, Sonozaki-san. I'm doing OK, though. You don't have to worry about me." Again, it seemed almost as if Masami was trying to convince herself with what she was saying.

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lotus_beyond
2010-07-06 03:03 am UTC (link)

Either Masami genuinely hadn't noticed any of this, and there was some major denial going on, or she was trying to hide it. Neither boded particularly well, and where a lesser soul might have been deterred, Renju felt spurred to press on. "Neither," she responded, pushed to further bluntness by the faint tinge of frustration she was beginning to feel with the situation. "Both of those were explainable." Mostly. Probably. "I won't speculate on the reason why, but you were acting somewhat... strangely in there, particularly around Sagaki-senpai."

She frowned and picked at her sleeve, feeling vaguely ill at ease pursuing the subject, and not for the reason others might assume. "It may be nothing, but I'd be more at ease knowing that there's nothing being suppressed that may cause issues later on." The Renjudoll, after a fit of frantic pointing and arm-flailing, had finally given up and was sitting on the corner of the couch cushion, sulking irritably.

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sakurabamasami
2010-08-10 03:27 am UTC (link)

Masami pushed back a feeling of dread, forcing herself to maintain that calm facade she usually kept. She couldn't recall doing anything... objectionable in Seiko's area; at least, nothing related to Renju. Mention of Tom, though, did stir up some feeling of irritation, however slight.

"...Sagaki-senpai? That's... it's nothing," Masami said. She was lying through her teeth. It was definitely something, but not something she knew how to deal with. However, given that one particular flashback they'd been shown in Tom's dungeon, she didn't think Renju was the right person to ask about it.

Besides, her own feelings weren't important compared to the task at hand. She could just keep herself controlled and do what she had to do, like always, right?

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lotus_beyond
2010-08-22 11:25 pm UTC (link)

Renju was beginning to have the vague, unpleasant feeling of getting further from the point than she'd been when she started, partly by her own doing. It was possible there was something going on regarding Tom, certainly, but picking at that would likely be useless or worse, and it wasn't the specific thing she was concerned about either way.

A short silence passed before she broke it with a sharp sigh. "Regardless," she answered in a tone that clearly indicated that she didn't believe a word of it, "even setting aside the matter of senpai, there are still the other issues to be considered. Even if you would prefer not to discuss it with me, it should at least be acknowledged. If not for your own sake, then at least for ours."

But she was starting to repeat herself, and getting the sense that she wasn't going to get anything accomplished beyond talking in circles. Frustrating, but there it was. She stood up, nearly bumping the Renjudoll off the couch, and offered a small bow. "That was all I wanted to discuss. I apologize again for keeping you from practice, Sakuraba-san."

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