Our avatars are in a room together

Does he~?

Kitchen (Ai)

-Eeeeeeeeeeep! Did Sthesia read her mind?!-

"H-H-How did you...?!"

-...She doesn't realize she said it aloud...-

-...She relents. Sthesia heard her, so...-

"T-The uniform's a lot like what I would imagine a prince wearing..."

-And the color...-

"I-It's a really nice blue color too..."

-The type of blue she could imagine royalty wearing...-

-Naturally she's beet red as she's saying all of this.-

-She can picture him sweeping her off her feet... Just like one of those princes from those fairy tales...-

-...Sthesia, she seems to have lapsed into a bit of daydreaming.-

edited 12th Jun '18 12:39:06 PM by CrystalMemoria

Oh my God, you've really fallen for him, haven't you?

(She's snickering at the thought, Ai.)

Pigna would be speechless if she heard this! "Leos isn't that handsome, pfft!"

edited 12th Jun '18 1:31:49 PM by G2BattleConvoy

Kitchen (Ai)

-Ai snaps out of her little daydreaming session once she hears Sthesia. She went from beet red to blue tomato in no time flat.-

-Leos is handsome...-

"W-Well, h-he is very handsome..."

-WAIT, WHAT IS SHE SAYING?! Sthesia's just going to tease her more...!-

"I-I-I, mean, um...!"

-...Wait, 'Pigna'? Ai doesn't know who that is... Maybe she can try to nudge the discussion in a different direction through this...-

"W-Who's Pigna? A-A friend of yours?"

-She does genuinely want to know, but she also really wants to get out of this awkward conversation...-

-Sthesia, is she trying to change the subject? You're not going to let her get away with that, are you?-

Ohohohoho.... You're not changing the subject that easily, Ai~...

Pigna's a colleague, but what I'm interested in is why you have an interest in Leos...

(Who wants to bet that Sthesia would make a pretty good downplayed bad cop?)

Kitchen (Ai)

-Sthesia caught on about her just trying to change the subject...!-

"W-Well..."

-...She's... not entirely sure herself, to be honest...-

"...Y-You... remember when we first met, right...? When Leos and Aichi came downstairs... I felt something..."

-It was almost like a spark...? She's not sure how to explain it...-

"I-I didn't know what it was at the time, but I couldn't help but focus on him..."

-And it didn't even stop there...-

"I-I can't really stop thinking about him... H-He's such a nice guy, he's cool, he's heroic, he's brave, he's smart, he's handsome..."

-Really, it's all true.-

"A-And he's done nothing but help people... I-I can't really remember Aichi's memories anymore, but... I remember that Leos supported him so much..."

-Leos is a good guy. That's why she likes him.-

"A-And he's supported me, you, Misaki... E-Everyone, it seems..."''

-Maybe she's crazy, but that's how it feels...-

"A-And it's not even just that... H-He's been protecting the people here, too... H-He's risking his life for everyone... H-He's amazing..."

-She might just have a bit of an idealized image of him...-

-Hmm... What do you make of this, Sthesia?-

(Yeah, he does seem like that, doesn't he?)

Yeah... But Ai, he's...

He—

Kitchen (Ai)

-...?-

"...He's what...?"

-Ai's listening, Sthesia...-

You have to realise that he's probably not as perfect as you think he is.

You do know that, right?

Kitchen (Ai)

-'Not as perfect as she thinks he is'...?-

"W-What do you mean...?"

-This is the girl that had a very eerie hero worship of Kai (like her male counterpart)...-

"Leos is Leos..."

-And that makes him perfect, right...?-

edited 12th Jun '18 2:41:03 PM by CrystalMemoria

(sigh) I mean, no-one is perfect.

I'm just saying, Leos has his own fair share of flaws, and I mean that... as his best friend, I mean.

(...Hoo, boy.)

Kitchen (Ai)

-Ai hasn't seen Leos's flaws...-

-She knows that people have flaws. Morikawa has that strange obsession and stubbornness about Grade 3s, for example...-

-...And Ai has a ton of flaws. Countless.-

-...OK, maybe Leos has a few flaws, but they're surely nothing serious...-

"...What kinds of flaws?"

(sigh) He can be... stubborn. And he's not the kind of guy you would want to... anger, if you push his buttons.

Kitchen (Ai)

-So... Like most of her friends then.-

"That's not that bad... Almost everyone back home can be stubborn sometimes..."

-...Although anger issues aren't quite as bad with them, presumably...-

"I don't think Leos being stubborn changes anything."

-Sthesia, Ai's naive...-

edited 12th Jun '18 3:15:36 PM by CrystalMemoria

Ai... (sigh) You're lucky.

Kitchen (Ai)

-???-

"Huh...? How so...?"

(sigh) I mean that you don't know what some of the people in my world have gone through...

Kitchen (Ai)

-Oh.-

-...-

-...Oh.-

-Well... Ai feels like absolute garbage now...-

"Y-You and Leos have been through so much and I... I-I didn't even stop to consider..."

-She didn't really hear as much about Leos and Sthesia's universe, but still...-

-Here she was, not even thinking about the things they've been through...-

"I-I'm sorry!"

(Sthesia shakes her head) It's not your fault, Ai.

Kitchen (Ai)

-But she was still insensitive...-

-...And now she's depressed just thinking about their universe as well...-

-The things they must have had to go through...-

-She can't imagine it. Whenever her world is, for the most part, a perfectly normal and happy place...-

"...I... I know that you, Leos, and everyone else in your universe will be able to make things better."

-She doesn't really know the whole story (She's starting to miss Aichi's memories more and more...!), but she knows that Leos and Sthesia are trying to help their universe for the better.-

-The Meek is going for a stroll in the woods, walking alongside a stream-

Gertrude Blackbourne seats herself in the main room, watching The Telly, blanket draped over with Chips

-Oriana comes downstairs, looking...somewhat stressed-

"...? Oh, hello, Oriana!"

"Hey, Trudy..."