25th☆

[adropofjupiter]

[Phone]

Okay, I can't remember all your addresses, but who of us from Gensokyo have enough back to put up a good danmaku fight? With Mokou gone, I need to find an alternative.



[A: Action - Grocery Store]

[Marisa is pushing a cart around the grocery store filling it up with random food stuffs. There's literally no rhyme or pattern to what she's picking out, making it nearly impossible to figure out what she's planning to cook. Or for how many people.]



[B: Action - Church]

[Marisa is sitting in the second pew from the front with her boots resting on the back of the one in front of her. Looking bored, she tosses a star bullet repeatedly up into the air and catches just as one would a ball. Eventually, she'd be approached...]

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[adropofjupiter]

Uh, avoid talking to her when there's a full moon out. She's got her other form back. Kinda... not nice when all beasty.

[Marisa watches and approves of the tea. She adds what she needs to the tea and then sips it. Yes, it's hot, but she doesn't care.]

This is good. So... why'd you stay away from home for two weeks? I total understand a few days, but not weeks, ze.

[ex_seventh238]

[She nods.] Mm, I remember, that happened here once. I've spoken to her too, but before she was droned and came back. ...My. Thinking back now, it's starting to be hard to keep track. Mokou-san's left recently too, hasn't she? [fellow immortal, etc... u_u but well, Ciel's not going to show any outward reaction regardless, obvious enough.]

--?Mm, that's good to hear. It is from home, so we can't compare it to anything sold here. [small... head tilt.] Hm? I had things to take care of here, is all. Did anything happen, back at the house? [she totally has



no idea

what you're talking about, Marisa... .-.]

[adropofjupiter]

Ciel. It's been two weeks and you've only been at the house long enough to not get droned. You've been avoiding me and there hasn't been any kind of crisis or anything that would have you here for two weeks straight without telling me and Mion that you were going to be gone so long.

Even Seven says you were acting weird. So. Stop acting dumb. We need to talk about this and I ain't gonna let it go.

[ex_seventh238]

But you've been holding up okay, right? Sonozaki-san's rarely home too, so me taking leave for a while shouldn't be anything really unusual. [no she will continue to obfuscate stupidity for as long as humanly possible, also small teasip... mmm.] Besides, I'm more or less done, so I'll be home tonight to make dinner. What more is there to talk about?

[adropofjupiter]

The difference is I'm used to Mion being gone. Not you. You can't just go getting me used to you being around all the time and then just disappear on me!

[Okay, so there's more to this than Marisa was willing to admit. She has some heavily repressed abandonment issues. And then there was the whole Stabdad thing...]

What would I have done if he came back, ze?

[Wait. Getting off track here.]

But that's not the point. We need to talk about Tsuchinoko and that fight we had.

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[ex_seventh238]

[b...


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marisa she temp moved to the church, she was still around even if she wasn't there like how she used to be. it's. not that bad... AT LEAST IT SHOULDN'T BE

AND YES SHE'S STARTING TO SEE THIS NOW... o_o;;]

Then I would've come back earlier, naturally--! I might've been away, but I'm still aware of how things are going.

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[ex_seventh238]

[...]

Ah, there's really no need. It was a misunderstanding, right? We got that settled, so it's okay now. [she's going to look away saying that though. nothing to discuss here can we move along now]

[adropofjupiter]

[Sorry, Ciel. Even with all her magic, Spades still scares the crap out of Marisa. Because there are times when Mayfield takes the magic away again.]

...I still owe you an apology. And I don't do this apologizing thing often, ze. I've never seriously wanted to hurt you before then. Misunderstanding or not, I went for your soul. Not exactly an excusable attack, ze.

[That whole thing kind of defied what Marisa was commonly known to be capable of.]

[ex_seventh238]

...

[Giving a small sigh, she'll put the cup back onto the table. Not used to apologizing, no kidding, which is part of what makes this entire chat so surreal to begin with. But.. Mayfield, right?]

You reacted instinctively because you were genuinely scared. The results couldn't be helped, though the means was unexpected. Your attack was impressive, I'm not sure if I could've prepared adequately even if I knew. [just gonna answer calmly. no need to make a big deal out of a direct attack on the soul, right...]

[adropofjupiter]

[Abandon Marisa for two weeks again and she might apologize again, possibly for something she didn't even do.]

...not unless you can alter reality. [Since Marisa magically hacks it when she uses system cards.] Normally, I'd be all for the praise and all... but I kinda just want to be yelled at then forgiven. This [vague gesture at Ciel with her free hand] weird apathy toward it is kinda weirding me out.

I know Arcueid said hurting you is really hard and you don't generally care about it, but... you're still human. [right?]

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[ex_seventh238]

[ciel isn't THAT random, nor is she malicious. she just wanted to sulk for a bit on her own, alright...]

So it's like that... [looking pensive, but she doesn't linger on the 'how'.] But all it tells me is that you're very capable, not afraid to act, and care for your pet very much. I already knew about the first two, so like I've already said, there's no need to yell or apologize. If anything, hearing you asking to be chided is the weird thing here, Marisa.

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[ex_seventh238]

[...and her eyelids droop.] Ah, Arcueid. ...Well, I can't refute that. [being hard to hurt and not caring, that is. She didn't make a sound when struck, if Marisa would recall.

...

no comment about the 'human' part though, but Marisa's welcome to interpret her answer as one affirming her humanity too. Ciel wasn't clear on purpose.]

[adropofjupiter]

But being yelled at is normal, ze. That's what happens. I do something, get yelled at, then get forgiven. What's so wrong about expecting that when I purposefully poisoned your soul?

Don't you sit there and tell me that didn't hurt. Like really hurt. I could tell. [Even if she didn't say anything.]

[ex_seventh238]

[she breathes out.]

Haven't we yelled enough back then? I overreacted, too.

Of course it did, I'm not immune to pain, but that also caught me by surprise. Anyway, it wore of quickly, so there's no problem. [and man telling marisa to stop fretting IS weird. usually it's always the other way around... @_@]

[adropofjupiter]

[Then just yell at her and forgive her! Simple solution.]

Yeah. Over spices. At least my overreaction was in defense of something's life.

[ex_seventh238]

[...crosses arms and frowns

no she doesn't feel like going through this again but]

Which was never threatened in the first place, yes.

[adropofjupiter]

You still could've made that clearer, ze.

[Marisa still thinks pet's life is more important than spices.]

Anyways, Tsuchinoko's in his cage and I check it every day to make sure it's secure. I picked up food for him, so if you wondered why there's a ton of stuff that seems really random? It's for him. I'll go shopping [stealing] for him once a week.

[ex_seventh238]

[marisa will never understand the greatness of curry. MOVING ON]

Is it stored separately from where I usually put the groceries? As long as you provide for it yourself. I made it clear to Slick too, when he got these 15 puppies a while back. ...Speaking of which, do they still come back to the house?

[maybe she ought to make an adoption call or something...]

[adropofjupiter]

...am I supposed to? It's just regular food. I mean, you can make dinner out of it, if you want. Tsuchinoko doesn't eat much meat so there isn't much that needs kept cold.

If you mark things that are off-limits, I won't accidentally feed them to him. And yeah, the dogs still do. Not all of them, but I guess I should stop filling up that giant bowl in the back yard. Drone-Stabdad keeps telling me to feed the pet, so I just assumed he meant them...

[ex_seventh238]

Wouldn't it be less confusing? I suppose it's okay if you don't mind. I don't know its diet very well, other than what you've told me.

...That won't be necessary. [she's keeping her spices at the church from now on kthx] The drone probably does, but the number is excessive nevertheless. Get Merem to tell them off if the puppies start becoming too much, I'll sort this out better soon.

[adropofjupiter]

...not really. He'll eat anything that's not spicy, ze. He's just more inclined to leave meat for last. Only wakes up every few days, so he's not hard to take care of as long as he's in his cage. I don't care what Reimu says; he's too adorable to exterminate.

[ex_seventh238]

...If you say so, but that's a bit surprising. Hakurei-san wanted to get rid of it?

[adropofjupiter]

He is a wild youkai. Most of them don't make the best of pets and he does kinda eat a person out of house and home. I mean, you saw what he does when he's foraging on his own.

And Reimu's just mean.

[ex_seventh238]

Ah. [that's surprising!

...

except not, ciel doesn't brim with sympathy for youkais in general so she can understand Reimu's role as a miko/Marisa on that front] Anyway, you've locked him up and he's doing okay now, I would assume?

[adropofjupiter]

Yup! And it's not like he's going to break out of his cage as long as he gets fed. Wait until you see him! He's so cute.