kamiyandisease | Chapter 01: The Calm Before the Next Storm

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Chapter 01: The Calm Before the Next Storm - Starry Sky [Video/Action]

[Someone is feeling a bit adventurous and daring tonight! If you’re walking by or looking out your window of House 4, you’ll find that one misfortunate loser who just so happens to be sitting on top of the roof. For a moment, he looks a bit uneasy because plenty of bad things could happen when you’re sitting on a rooftop! But regardless, he still simply wants to check out the beautiful view. Touma will awkwardly rub the back of his head before he starts speaking.]

Um... Quick question! I'm not breaking any laws by lounging on top on a rooftop, aren't I? I don’t get a chance to do this often, so please let this spirited youth be able to treasure this opportunity as long as he can-! [Hopefully, he won’t go crashing through the rooftop and into someone’s shower or something. He shakes off that thought immediately.] Anyway… It’s good to know that the stars here are much brighter than how they are back home. Whenever you live in a city, it’s tough to appreciate how precious nature really is. [With that said, he moves onto the next subject!]

I’m not very sure how to feel about that last experiment… But Halloween is coming up soon, so we should all be on our toes for what’s gonna happen. For those who have been here for a long time, do you think you could give this speculating Kamijou-san a little insight on what has happened these past few years? If I wake up underneath a pile of treat-or-treating candy or end up getting chased by zombies, then at least I’ll know what to yell out when the random event flag raises itself.

... Is anyone else up at this time or am I simply musing to myself?

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Haaaah? I'm not telling you to become obnoxious like that... Absolutely not. I couldn't really picture you doing that at all. [That raises a question for him, though.] What was your school like, anyway?

.... [Touma reads this and he'll follow up with his own serious tone. Again, he remembers how he lied to Index... Even if she forgave him, he still can't fully forgive himself for that. What kind of friend could he call himself?] Lied to and manipulated, huh? I've already been through that, but that didn't mean that I fully given up on people right then and here. I'd rather trust people at 120 percent than trust no one at all. I don't see how anyone could possibly live like that.

That's good. I'd have to start questioning your wild imagination if you would be able to picture that. [ Then she.. frowns a little, maybe for a moment, but shrugs it off again just as quickly. ] It was the kind of private boarding school. You know, a place where they ship spoiled rich kids off to so society won't have to deal with them until they're at least more grown up. And to spend the time a little, they bother each other endlessly instead since just school would be too boring for them.

It's not that hard. ... At least not impossible. [ But even as she says it, it's not completely true that she manages to live that way. After all, even if she doesn't fully realise it, she does slowly start to trust people sometimes. But from her own point of view trusting nobody is exactly how she lives. ]

Eh? Who said that I had a wild imagination? It's perfectly healthy like any other teenage boy. [Keep telling yourself that, Touma.] That sounds more like a prison than an actual school. You don't seem all the spoiled to me. Quite the opposite, in the fact.

... [He cannot fully buy that at all.] I don't believe that. Humans aren't made to live on their own. If you show me a lonely person, then I'll show them a fun time.

No, if there's one thing I have learned by now about you, it's that your imagination is definitely above average. Not that it's exactly a bad thing, but you shouldn't go too overboard with it or people might start to think things and all. [ it's okay, she will just tell him the opposite.. ] And.. well, I like to think I was one of the exceptions in that school. Maybe that's why they decided I was the excellent target to pick on.

[ for a moment she goes quiet. ]

... Do you really think you can help anyone at all with that?

...??? Eh? Um, thank you... Wait, think things-- [Oh. Oh. She meant it like that--] Gah! How can you say such things with a complete straight face?! That's scary! [...] People had picked on you? [Ouch. That hits a sensitive spot for him.] ... I'm sorry. I wasn't there to do anything for you, so... Maybe things would've been different if I could've been there.

If it can make them ten times happier than they were before, then I would do everything I could to help.

There's no need to apologize over 'what-ifs'. They don't matter either way. Things just happened the way they did, and there's no changing it.. That's all. [ Luckily she can just casually shrug a little about it by now, even when thinking back on it. It was rather unpleasant back then, after all. ]

And that would be why I'm.. a project of yours?

E-eh? From how you're saying that... It's like I'm going to perform an experiment!

It comes pretty close to that, doesn't it? Especially when you're just going to go ahead and give it weird titles like the "Opening Up Ushiromiya Ange Raising Project". Soon I might just start to feel like a lab rat.

[ not that she seems to be complaining, exactly, it's more just her usual deadpan. ]

Hoooh? Then please let me grab my labcoat and lay yourself out on the operating table. I will put on my golves and grab my tools and we were begin with today's experiment.

[Said with a straight face and sparkle.]

Sure, sure, Kamijou-sensei.

[ ~~what is that sparkle doing there~~ She mostly says it with a straight face too, since.. well, that's the deadpan fashion in which she does all her sort of humor. ]

So which part of me are you going to dissect, huh?

... Eh? Isn't it natural for scientists to start at the chest?

[Of course he says this as casually as possible without even realizing how awkward that soudned.]

[ She probably realises that he doesn't realise it, but.. hey, she will mention it all the same. Even if she knows he didn't mean it that way. ]

... I see, so Kamijou-san is even more of a pervert than I first imagined. Poor me, being lured into a pervert's trap like that..

... [dfldsfa] WHAT THE HELL KIND OF COMMENT IS THAT?! SCIENTISTS ALWAYS DISSECT ANIMALS BY THE CHEST! HAVEN'T YOU GONE TO A BIOLOGY CLASS WHERE YOU DO THAT!!?

I haven't even made a jab at your thigh-high stockings! That's practically begging to fuel a pervert's fantasies!!

I haven't been to a biology class like that, but all the same, that's suspiciously specific and over-the-top denial. Along with the comment about my stockings..

Could it be that you're trying to confirm your identity as a secret pervert that badly? Maybe I'll have to start warning people about it.

[Putting his hands to his head and starts tearing up.]

Uwooooh! Such misfortune!!! I'm not a secret pervert! Absolutely not! Only an idiot would bluntly reveal his preferences out in the open! And besides, you're the one walking around like that and making yourself an easy target--!!!

Considering from the fact I've already made the first pervert who tried to work his tricks on me nearly cry, I think I'm far from an 'easy target'.

[ but okay, she will stop trolling since otherwise it's just a bit too sad. Besides, there's something else she's curious about.. ]

... Hey, you got through that experiment earlier this month alright, right?

Huh? Yeah, I'd say so... How did you hold up? Did anyone show up to rescue you while you were dressed like a princess?

Who said anything about a princess?

[ If only she had been, even something utterly ridiculous and embarassing like that would have been better in her eyes than what actually happened. ]

I was something more common than that. But it was a pretty bad experience all the same.

Ehhh? It would've been interesting to see you in a red dress, but... [Alright. Seriousing up.] What happened?

[ Normally she might have remarked something about that first part, but.. we're seriousing up here, os she knows it's not really appropriate. ]

You know the fairytale of Hansel and Gretel, right? That story sums up what happened better and more quickly than I can explain, pretty much.

[Touma does a clueless headtilt at that... Was it a childhood story? Index probably would know this more than he could, but...]

Um... To be honest, I can't say that I've touched that story before. I don't know how it begins or ends, but...

[Consider your personal space gone, Ange. He's going to suddenly put his hands on her shoulders and look her dead in the eyes.]

--Next time, I'll definitely protect you. I don't know the circumstances, but I know should've been there to do something. I'm sorry that I wasn't there and left you all by yourself.

[ wait, what-- For a moment she freezes, mostly out of surprise at that sudden touch and his words. Because she had never expected to hear those words, and especially not since only a little while ago Keiichi said-- ]

... What's it with you guys and apologizing for things you couldn't even help? [ Her voice becomes a bit softer at that, less harsh than her usual bluntness. ] I'm used to dealing with that kind of stuff by myself. It's.. not a big deal.

[His grip tighten a little bit, but he's making sure that he isn't hurting her. His voice is mixed with anger and worry. He's angry for not being there to protect her, he's angry for her getting into that situation, he's angry for her being so easy going about it... And above all else, he's worry for her well being.]

Idiot! Quit saying things like "It's not a big deal!" and "I'm used to dealing with it!" You keep acting like you're carrying around the weight of the world when you're still a young girl! So quit acting like you have to do everything on your own! I don't know if you're trying to cover for others in hopes of them not getting involved in your troubles, but that's being egotistical! All you have to say is "Please help me" and people will do their best to lend a hand, understand? Have some faith in others!

[ Her expression shifts a little. First it's more surprise, even bordering on shock, but.. then she frowns a little more, and for the first time it seems her pokerfaced attitude shatters a little. ]

Aren't you the one who's trying to force yourself into my business?! I've been alright all this time up to now, I've always made it out alive, so it's okay, right?! [ She's raising her own voice by now as well. ]

If there's anything I ever wanted help with in this place, then it's--

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