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close your eyes , you ‘ ll be here soon . . .
“…ah, ahem. Hello. My name is Kamishiro Rui, one of the dogfolk currently housed at a haven specialized in animalfolk care.”
“If you hear jingling somewhere around, that’s likely me.”
“I do hope we can be friends! I won’t bite you, I promise.”
. . . 一 二 三 四 五 分 ♪
I bet that tsukasa It would comfort some animalfolk .. I'll give you 25 dollars If you do that
“I don’t think me fake-crying is going to comfort anyone???”
“Also, what would I even do with 25 dollars. Why are you planning to wire me money to pull a prank on someone?”
Rui, please cry fake in front of Tsukasa, I promise something very funny will happen.
“I highly doubt whatever would happen is going to be funny.”
“…Is there a reason you’re asking me to do this? It’s quite the odd request.”
-> Saturday, 5 a.m.
Having just returned from his typical morning jog, Akito was quietly sitting on a windowsill in the commons, staring into the dark, starry night. It was a cold day, and yet the window was wide open, icy gusts of air seeping into the room. The boy paid it no mind, seemingly reveling in the frigid but calming touch of the wind.
Akito, who spent most of his time holed up in his room or far away from the haven getting into fights with himself, was quite the rare sight in a public area of the sanctuary. Perhaps the silent tranquility of the late hours and—at last—the lack of people for once was alluring enough to draw the normally reclusive boy out into the lounge for the first time in weeks.
With no one around, his expression was abnormally calm, almost peaceful, if not for a strange sort of sorrow in his eyes. Leaning forward on his knees, Akito clutched a small, fragile looking object between his bandaged fingers, other hand wrapped around an item emitting a burning orange glow. Gray clouds of smoke billow out of the open window.
...Wait, is that a cigarette?
There’s a faint sound of a door closing, and footsteps start making their way down the hallway, soft and barely there.
Upon growing closer, humming is apparently matching the dogboy’s movements as he starts to pass through the lounge.
“…Ah, I wasn’t expecting to see you still awake this early in the morning, Shinonome…” Rui gives pause once he sees the smoke slowly drifting up and outwards. “…kun?”
“…you got cigarettes in here?”
Akito flinches when he hears the someone else's voice, muttering a rapid series of curse words under his breath before immediately crushing the cigarette between his palms to extinguish it without a care for whether or not it burns his hands. He chucks the cigarette remains and the lighter out the window, fixing his posture into a neat sitting position with his hands folded on his lap.
Akito turns around with a polite and apologetic painted on his face as he prepares to convince the other that he was not in fact smoking, even though whoever it was probably already caught a glimpse of the cigarette and lighter in his hand. An artificial response tumbles out of his mouth automatically before he finally realizes who he's talking to.
"Ah, sorry about that. I wasn't expecting company, so your voice startled me a little, haha. It's great to see... you..."
Akito freezes in place, heartbeat stopping altogether as his breathing halts. The person Akito fears more than anyone else at the haven is not Mafuyu, who knocked him unconscious to treat his wounds without his permission, nor Kaito, who runs the haven and could have him thrown onto the street a. No, it isn't any of those people.
The person he fears more than anything is exactly who stands before him: Rui Kamishiro. Towering. Enigmatic. Cunning. Sadistic.
Dogfolk.
As if all his organs kick into overdrive, Akito begins to hyperventilate, the sickening pound of his heartbeat flooding his ears. He wants to run, he needs to get out of there, but it's as if his body is suspended in time, weighed down by chains of fear. With all his effort, Akito can only manage to back away slightly, nearly falling out of the window and cowering like a scared dog. Though his mouth has gone dry and his voice no longer sounds like it belongs to him, Akito wills himself mouth to scream.
"hah...hah...get...GET AWAY FROM ME!!"
“?!—“
Rui flinches back from the yelling in response, the slightest yipping noise of shock happening before he can stop it.
His hands are flying up on each side of his head to try and prove he’s not… what? Holding anything dangerous? He’s not sure of the movement’s meaning himself.
“I didn’t—mean to spook you or anything, Shinonome-kun, my apologies?—“
Growing panicked at their proximity, Akito registers none of Rui's words, instead only focusing on his hands, which are held up to the sides of his head in a display of harmlessness. Misinterpreting the gesture as Rui getting ready to strike, another spike of fear shoots through him as he shrieks out another terrified response, backing away towards the edge of the open window again.
"HAH-DON'T GET ANY CLOSER!! DON'T TOUCH ME OR I'LL-I'LL KILL YOU, YOU HEAR ME?? STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME, YOU- YOU MONSTER!! hgh... don't... don't... please..."
("don't hurt me. don't hurt me. please don't hurt me.")
The words die on his lips as he struggles to block the sensation from his brain of sickening helplessness as jagged teeth painfully bury into his skin, desperately closing his eyes in an attempt to intercept the memory, his breath going shallow and rapid. Akito opens his eyes and tries to tether himself back to reality, only to realize that he's falling backwards, heading straight for the cold ground.
"h-hah? SHIT!"
“…I—“
“—SHINONOME—!”
Rui doesn’t really register what he’s doing, the words of the other sticking to his brain more than the fact that he’s moving, already trying to weave around the furniture before he can fall.
(…monster monster monster you monster. )
He can’t exactly feel what the proper texture of Akito’s shirt as he closes his hands around some part of it with a panicked fervor, trying to haul him up as best he can. He can smell the cigarette smoke still lingering around.
-> Saturday, 5 a.m.
Having just returned from his typical morning jog, Akito was quietly sitting on a windowsill in the commons, staring into the dark, starry night. It was a cold day, and yet the window was wide open, icy gusts of air seeping into the room. The boy paid it no mind, seemingly reveling in the frigid but calming touch of the wind.
Akito, who spent most of his time holed up in his room or far away from the haven getting into fights with himself, was quite the rare sight in a public area of the sanctuary. Perhaps the silent tranquility of the late hours and—at last—the lack of people for once was alluring enough to draw the normally reclusive boy out into the lounge for the first time in weeks.
With no one around, his expression was abnormally calm, almost peaceful, if not for a strange sort of sorrow in his eyes. Leaning forward on his knees, Akito clutched a small, fragile looking object between his bandaged fingers, other hand wrapped around an item emitting a burning orange glow. Gray clouds of smoke billow out of the open window.
...Wait, is that a cigarette?
There’s a faint sound of a door closing, and footsteps start making their way down the hallway, soft and barely there.
Upon growing closer, humming is apparently matching the dogboy’s movements as he starts to pass through the lounge.
“…Ah, I wasn’t expecting to see you still awake this early in the morning, Shinonome…” Rui gives pause once he sees the smoke slowly drifting up and outwards. “…kun?”
“…you got cigarettes in here?”
Akito flinches when he hears the someone else's voice, muttering a rapid series of curse words under his breath before immediately crushing the cigarette between his palms to extinguish it without a care for whether or not it burns his hands. He chucks the cigarette remains and the lighter out the window, fixing his posture into a neat sitting position with his hands folded on his lap.
Akito turns around with a polite and apologetic painted on his face as he prepares to convince the other that he was not in fact smoking, even though whoever it was probably already caught a glimpse of the cigarette and lighter in his hand. An artificial response tumbles out of his mouth automatically before he finally realizes who he's talking to.
"Ah, sorry about that. I wasn't expecting company, so your voice startled me a little, haha. It's great to see... you..."
Akito freezes in place, heartbeat stopping altogether as his breathing halts. The person Akito fears more than anyone else at the haven is not Mafuyu, who knocked him unconscious to treat his wounds without his permission, nor Kaito, who runs the haven and could have him thrown onto the street a. No, it isn't any of those people.
The person he fears more than anything is exactly who stands before him: Rui Kamishiro. Towering. Enigmatic. Cunning. Sadistic.
Dogfolk.
As if all his organs kick into overdrive, Akito begins to hyperventilate, the sickening pound of his heartbeat flooding his ears. He wants to run, he needs to get out of there, but it's as if his body is suspended in time, weighed down by chains of fear. With all his effort, Akito can only manage to back away slightly, nearly falling out of the window and cowering like a scared dog. Though his mouth has gone dry and his voice no longer sounds like it belongs to him, Akito wills himself mouth to scream.
"hah...hah...get...GET AWAY FROM ME!!"
“?!—“
Rui flinches back from the yelling in response, the slightest yipping noise of shock happening before he can stop it.
His hands are flying up on each side of his head to try and prove he’s not… what? Holding anything dangerous? He’s not sure of the movement’s meaning himself.
“I didn’t—mean to spook you or anything, Shinonome-kun, my apologies?—“
-> Saturday, 5 a.m.
Having just returned from his typical morning jog, Akito was quietly sitting on a windowsill in the commons, staring into the dark, starry night. It was a cold day, and yet the window was wide open, icy gusts of air seeping into the room. The boy paid it no mind, seemingly reveling in the frigid but calming touch of the wind.
Akito, who spent most of his time holed up in his room or far away from the haven getting into fights with himself, was quite the rare sight in a public area of the sanctuary. Perhaps the silent tranquility of the late hours and—at last—the lack of people for once was alluring enough to draw the normally reclusive boy out into the lounge for the first time in weeks.
With no one around, his expression was abnormally calm, almost peaceful, if not for a strange sort of sorrow in his eyes. Leaning forward on his knees, Akito clutched a small, fragile looking object between his bandaged fingers, other hand wrapped around an item emitting a burning orange glow. Gray clouds of smoke billow out of the open window.
...Wait, is that a cigarette?
There’s a faint sound of a door closing, and footsteps start making their way down the hallway, soft and barely there.
Upon growing closer, humming is apparently matching the dogboy’s movements as he starts to pass through the lounge.
“…Ah, I wasn’t expecting to see you still awake this early in the morning, Shinonome…” Rui gives pause once he sees the smoke slowly drifting up and outwards. “…kun?”
“…you got cigarettes in here?”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
“Voice... Why does he want to record his voice...?”
“I’m not too sure why. I didn’t ask.”
“Maybe he wishes to do something music related with it. It’s his business, but I’ll be happy knowing he gets at least a little use out of it.”
“You can do that..?”
…do that?
“If—if you mean by building things, yes. It’s a personal hobby of mine to tinker around with… whatever I can find, really. Anything that could be interesting to take apart and build again—or from scratch, if I can create the proper blueprints.”
“If by music, I suppose a voice recorder could be used to record audio samples or even whole songs, though the quality could be measurably worse than if it was on a camera or higher-quality device…”
“I never knew that.... Is that how they can get music played by those little boxes?”
( She means phones and speakers. Has... She really never learned about recordings? )
“‘Little boxes….’ mm…”
“As in technology? Yes! Well, sort of?”
Rui counts off on his fingers slightly to keep track of what he knows, the bell jingling with the movement of his arm.
“It’s admittedly a complicated process of recording the audio and uploading it onto a flash drive or other hardware to turn it into a file, along with then posting it somewhere to allow for others to listen to it.”
“There’s quite a few steps as I know, though I wouldn’t recommend myself as an expert of songmaking, but I’m sure there’s a way to look up the process online if you’re particularly curious.”
“I... S-Sorry... You probably don't want to explain things I should already know...”
“I mean, it’s really no big deal for me, Emu-san. It’s nice to explain things sometimes, especially if talking about a topic allows me to find the weak points in my knowledge.”
“I don’t want toforce you to listen, but I assure you that I will do my best to explain what I know if you wish to ask.”
“Really..?”
“Of course. As long as you’d like to, I am willing to explain anything you have questions about—as long as I can answer with accuracy.”
“I will admit that I may… stray from the topic in my answering, so please feel free to remind me if I get off-track.”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
“Voice... Why does he want to record his voice...?”
“I’m not too sure why. I didn’t ask.”
“Maybe he wishes to do something music related with it. It’s his business, but I’ll be happy knowing he gets at least a little use out of it.”
“You can do that..?”
…do that?
“If—if you mean by building things, yes. It’s a personal hobby of mine to tinker around with… whatever I can find, really. Anything that could be interesting to take apart and build again—or from scratch, if I can create the proper blueprints.”
“If by music, I suppose a voice recorder could be used to record audio samples or even whole songs, though the quality could be measurably worse than if it was on a camera or higher-quality device…”
“I never knew that.... Is that how they can get music played by those little boxes?”
( She means phones and speakers. Has... She really never learned about recordings? )
“‘Little boxes….’ mm…”
“As in technology? Yes! Well, sort of?”
Rui counts off on his fingers slightly to keep track of what he knows, the bell jingling with the movement of his arm.
“It’s admittedly a complicated process of recording the audio and uploading it onto a flash drive or other hardware to turn it into a file, along with then posting it somewhere to allow for others to listen to it.”
“There’s quite a few steps as I know, though I wouldn’t recommend myself as an expert of songmaking, but I’m sure there’s a way to look up the process online if you’re particularly curious.”
“I... S-Sorry... You probably don't want to explain things I should already know...”
“I mean, it’s really no big deal for me, Emu-san. It’s nice to explain things sometimes, especially if talking about a topic allows me to find the weak points in my knowledge.”
“I don’t want toforce you to listen, but I assure you that I will do my best to explain what I know if you wish to ask.”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
“Voice... Why does he want to record his voice...?”
“I’m not too sure why. I didn’t ask.”
“Maybe he wishes to do something music related with it. It’s his business, but I’ll be happy knowing he gets at least a little use out of it.”
“You can do that..?”
…do that?
“If—if you mean by building things, yes. It’s a personal hobby of mine to tinker around with… whatever I can find, really. Anything that could be interesting to take apart and build again—or from scratch, if I can create the proper blueprints.”
“If by music, I suppose a voice recorder could be used to record audio samples or even whole songs, though the quality could be measurably worse than if it was on a camera or higher-quality device…”
“I never knew that.... Is that how they can get music played by those little boxes?”
( She means phones and speakers. Has... She really never learned about recordings? )
“‘Little boxes….’ mm…”
“As in technology? Yes! Well, sort of?”
Rui counts off on his fingers slightly to keep track of what he knows, the bell jingling with the movement of his arm.
“It’s admittedly a complicated process of recording the audio and uploading it onto a flash drive or other hardware to turn it into a file, along with then posting it somewhere to allow for others to listen to it.”
“There’s quite a few steps as I know, though I wouldn’t recommend myself as an expert of songmaking, but I’m sure there’s a way to look up the process online if you’re particularly curious.”
The girlcat approaches Rui with a piece of paper in her hand and sits down next to him
♡︎ ، hii How are you doing, Rui?﹙🍵﹚
@catgamernene
“Nene! It’s good to see you.”
Rui gives her a slight elbow in greeting as she settles down, eyeing the piece of paper but not mentioning it just yet.
“I’ve been doing quite fine myself. How have you been doing?”
She looked both ways Before answering and when she saw that there was no one around, she pulled him aside to a secluded spot
♡︎ ، I'm scared. So fucking scared Rui. This place actually brainwashes other people, Rui!! Freaking brainwash!﹙🍵﹚
Rui couldn’t hold in a yelp of surprise being tugged along, though did comply with the change in location.
“I— Nene, what are you talking about?? What do you mean brainwashing?!”
“I haven’t seen anything that could bring me to that conclusion. Did you see something weird?”
♡︎ ، I found Ichika interesting and I wanted to be her friend, Even though she talks a lot with humans, she's still very nice and cool. I went to talk to her and She accepted, but then she said " Do you really want to befriend a human like me?" And I was clearly confused because she's a catfolk. And I touched her ears and they are real, but she keeps denying that she's a cat and insists that she's human. ﹙🍵﹚
♡︎ ، There are only two options for this. Either she's actually human and is wearing the ears and tail of a DEAD catfolk, That would be fucked up even without brainwashing And the fact that this place lets her walk around with that thing is already a huge red flag OR THIS PLACE IS A FUCKING BRAINWASHING OF ANIMANFOLKS LIKE US RUI!!﹙🍵﹚
“Nene, Nene— I want you to breathe for a moment before you run out of oxygen.”
…what in the actual hell?
“I— if this truly was a brainwashing operation, why wouldn’t this place be trying to brainwash the both of us?”
Rui’s trying—while trying not to draw too many conclusions—to understand the string of words created into that bunch of sentences.
♡︎ ، yeah AND I THINK IT IS. ﹙🍵﹚
She showed the paper with various notes on it to Rui
♡︎ ، Here you can see all Animalsfolks, almost all that are more attached to the humans lost something That is of them determined race. Despite them being minor things, and After seeing Ichika's situation, I can't stop thinking about it.. Especially after something she told me﹙🍵﹚
“Human attachment conflating to… losing characteristics…”
He tilts his head to the side, ears twitching.
“…And, well, can you elaborate? On what Hoshino-kun told you?”
♡︎ ، She looked at me with a look that was half sad, half like something out of a horror movie (It's all in her crazy head) and told me "Don't you want to become human?" ﹙🍵﹚
“Perhaps he’s simply talking from his own perspective, and simply phrased the idea in the form of a question. You never know, Nene.” Rui shrugged, leaning in slightly to understand the scribblings and notes on the piece of paper.
“If he truly was in on the ‘brainwashing’ operation, wouldn’t he try to at least be more subtle about it? Flat-out asking something like that doesn’t exactly… scream brainwashing.”
♡︎ ، Perhaps she doesn't know that she was brainwashing... I know it sounds crazy and it makes sense that you don't believe me, but You know I think humans can't be nice to us, and this happening right after Tsukasa comforted me is making me suspicious.. If I get any new information, I'll let you know, But until then, please be careful and ignore humans for a bit, okay?﹙🍵﹚
She spoke, genuinely worried about Rui; after all these years they'd both been on the streets, she couldn't lose him
“I promise I’ll be careful to the best of my abilities, Nene. Be sure to keep me updated with whatever you find to be happening.”
Rui leans slightly against her in an attempt to prove he’s still there, and is still safe.
“…And if you ever don’t feel comfortable around here, you’re always free to hide out with me until you feel better, alright?”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
“Voice... Why does he want to record his voice...?”
“I’m not too sure why. I didn’t ask.”
“Maybe he wishes to do something music related with it. It’s his business, but I’ll be happy knowing he gets at least a little use out of it.”
“You can do that..?”
…do that?
“If—if you mean by building things, yes. It’s a personal hobby of mine to tinker around with… whatever I can find, really. Anything that could be interesting to take apart and build again—or from scratch, if I can create the proper blueprints.”
“If by music, I suppose a voice recorder could be used to record audio samples or even whole songs, though the quality could be measurably worse than if it was on a camera or higher-quality device…”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
“Voice... Why does he want to record his voice...?”
“I’m not too sure why. I didn’t ask.”
“Maybe he wishes to do something music related with it. It’s his business, but I’ll be happy knowing he gets at least a little use out of it.”
The girlcat approaches Rui with a piece of paper in her hand and sits down next to him
♡︎ ، hii How are you doing, Rui?﹙🍵﹚
@catgamernene
“Nene! It’s good to see you.”
Rui gives her a slight elbow in greeting as she settles down, eyeing the piece of paper but not mentioning it just yet.
“I’ve been doing quite fine myself. How have you been doing?”
She looked both ways Before answering and when she saw that there was no one around, she pulled him aside to a secluded spot
♡︎ ، I'm scared. So fucking scared Rui. This place actually brainwashes other people, Rui!! Freaking brainwash!﹙🍵﹚
Rui couldn’t hold in a yelp of surprise being tugged along, though did comply with the change in location.
“I— Nene, what are you talking about?? What do you mean brainwashing?!”
“I haven’t seen anything that could bring me to that conclusion. Did you see something weird?”
♡︎ ، I found Ichika interesting and I wanted to be her friend, Even though she talks a lot with humans, she's still very nice and cool. I went to talk to her and She accepted, but then she said " Do you really want to befriend a human like me?" And I was clearly confused because she's a catfolk. And I touched her ears and they are real, but she keeps denying that she's a cat and insists that she's human. ﹙🍵﹚
♡︎ ، There are only two options for this. Either she's actually human and is wearing the ears and tail of a DEAD catfolk, That would be fucked up even without brainwashing And the fact that this place lets her walk around with that thing is already a huge red flag OR THIS PLACE IS A FUCKING BRAINWASHING OF ANIMANFOLKS LIKE US RUI!!﹙🍵﹚
“Nene, Nene— I want you to breathe for a moment before you run out of oxygen.”
…what in the actual hell?
“I— if this truly was a brainwashing operation, why wouldn’t this place be trying to brainwash the both of us?”
Rui’s trying—while trying not to draw too many conclusions—to understand the string of words created into that bunch of sentences.
♡︎ ، yeah AND I THINK IT IS. ﹙🍵﹚
She showed the paper with various notes on it to Rui
♡︎ ، Here you can see all Animalsfolks, almost all that are more attached to the humans lost something That is of them determined race. Despite them being minor things, and After seeing Ichika's situation, I can't stop thinking about it.. Especially after something she told me﹙🍵﹚
“Human attachment conflating to… losing characteristics…”
He tilts his head to the side, ears twitching.
“…And, well, can you elaborate? On what Hoshino-kun told you?”
♡︎ ، She looked at me with a look that was half sad, half like something out of a horror movie (It's all in her crazy head) and told me "Don't you want to become human?" ﹙🍵﹚
“Perhaps he’s simply talking from his own perspective, and simply phrased the idea in the form of a question. You never know, Nene.” Rui shrugged, leaning in slightly to understand the scribblings and notes on the piece of paper.
“If he truly was in on the ‘brainwashing’ operation, wouldn’t he try to at least be more subtle about it? Flat-out asking something like that doesn’t exactly… scream brainwashing.”
( She's trying to leave a small drawing at his bedroom door without being caught— Hoping he's not there. )
— @timid-nyanderhoi
Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on perspective—the door creaks open. Curse Rui’s dog hearing, apparently.
He stares silently for a moment, eyes trailing from the other to the paper in her hands.
“…Ah. Emu-san. What a pleasant surprise. To what do I owe the honor of seeing you?”
( the feline-girl squeaked and jumped back a good two feet, before really nervously holding the paper out and an apology muttered out for being a bother. )
“….?”
Rui reaches out, taking the piece of paper from her with all the gentleness he could, putting a second hand to hold onto it as he look at what was drawn on.
“This is… really nice,” He couldn’t help but murmur, a finger tracing against the outlines.
( The drawing was one of him, though it wasn't immediately clear. She wasn't one who drew a lot. Still... )
"F-For you...”
“…Ah, really?”
…don’t sound too happy—
Rui’s tail twitches ever so slightly, continuing to study Emu’s drawing.
“I’ll… be sure to cherish it, then. Thank you for the lovely surprise gift, Emu-san.”
( She looked up a little, surprised. )
Rui glanced back, cocking his head to the side, before looking back down.
“I think the composition of it is quite wonderful.”
He peeks his head back into his room, the desk of scattered pieces and prototype sketches not a surprise to him.
“I think I’ll out it next to where my projects go. So can help be inspired to work on my own ideas with this.”
“Pro...jects?”
“Yes—well—I suppose just ‘project’ would be more accurate.”
“I would go grab one to give you an example, but I’m currently in the middle of building it.”
“It’s—ah, a voice recorder, if you’re curious at all. I’m not sure of what I’ll do with the first prototype, but I have plans to make a copy and pass it along to Hoshino-kun, considering he asked for one.”
The girlcat approaches Rui with a piece of paper in her hand and sits down next to him
♡︎ ، hii How are you doing, Rui?﹙🍵﹚
@catgamernene
“Nene! It’s good to see you.”
Rui gives her a slight elbow in greeting as she settles down, eyeing the piece of paper but not mentioning it just yet.
“I’ve been doing quite fine myself. How have you been doing?”
She looked both ways Before answering and when she saw that there was no one around, she pulled him aside to a secluded spot
♡︎ ، I'm scared. So fucking scared Rui. This place actually brainwashes other people, Rui!! Freaking brainwash!﹙🍵﹚
Rui couldn’t hold in a yelp of surprise being tugged along, though did comply with the change in location.
“I— Nene, what are you talking about?? What do you mean brainwashing?!”
“I haven’t seen anything that could bring me to that conclusion. Did you see something weird?”
♡︎ ، I found Ichika interesting and I wanted to be her friend, Even though she talks a lot with humans, she's still very nice and cool. I went to talk to her and She accepted, but then she said " Do you really want to befriend a human like me?" And I was clearly confused because she's a catfolk. And I touched her ears and they are real, but she keeps denying that she's a cat and insists that she's human. ﹙🍵﹚
♡︎ ، There are only two options for this. Either she's actually human and is wearing the ears and tail of a DEAD catfolk, That would be fucked up even without brainwashing And the fact that this place lets her walk around with that thing is already a huge red flag OR THIS PLACE IS A FUCKING BRAINWASHING OF ANIMANFOLKS LIKE US RUI!!﹙🍵﹚
“Nene, Nene— I want you to breathe for a moment before you run out of oxygen.”
…what in the actual hell?
“I— if this truly was a brainwashing operation, why wouldn’t this place be trying to brainwash the both of us?”
Rui’s trying—while trying not to draw too many conclusions—to understand the string of words created into that bunch of sentences.
♡︎ ، yeah AND I THINK IT IS. ﹙🍵﹚
She showed the paper with various notes on it to Rui
♡︎ ، Here you can see all Animalsfolks, almost all that are more attached to the humans lost something That is of them determined race. Despite them being minor things, and After seeing Ichika's situation, I can't stop thinking about it.. Especially after something she told me﹙🍵﹚
“Human attachment conflating to… losing characteristics…”
He tilts his head to the side, ears twitching.
“…And, well, can you elaborate? On what Hoshino-kun told you?”
The girlcat approaches Rui with a piece of paper in her hand and sits down next to him
♡︎ ، hii How are you doing, Rui?﹙🍵﹚
@catgamernene
“Nene! It’s good to see you.”
Rui gives her a slight elbow in greeting as she settles down, eyeing the piece of paper but not mentioning it just yet.
“I’ve been doing quite fine myself. How have you been doing?”
She looked both ways Before answering and when she saw that there was no one around, she pulled him aside to a secluded spot
♡︎ ، I'm scared. So fucking scared Rui. This place actually brainwashes other people, Rui!! Freaking brainwash!﹙🍵﹚
Rui couldn’t hold in a yelp of surprise being tugged along, though did comply with the change in location.
“I— Nene, what are you talking about?? What do you mean brainwashing?!”
“I haven’t seen anything that could bring me to that conclusion. Did you see something weird?”
♡︎ ، I found Ichika interesting and I wanted to be her friend, Even though she talks a lot with humans, she's still very nice and cool. I went to talk to her and She accepted, but then she said " Do you really want to befriend a human like me?" And I was clearly confused because she's a catfolk. And I touched her ears and they are real, but she keeps denying that she's a cat and insists that she's human. ﹙🍵﹚
♡︎ ، There are only two options for this. Either she's actually human and is wearing the ears and tail of a DEAD catfolk, That would be fucked up even without brainwashing And the fact that this place lets her walk around with that thing is already a huge red flag OR THIS PLACE IS A FUCKING BRAINWASHING OF ANIMANFOLKS LIKE US RUI!!﹙🍵﹚
“Nene, Nene— I want you to breathe for a moment before you run out of oxygen.”
…what in the actual hell?
“I— if this truly was a brainwashing operation, why wouldn’t this place be trying to brainwash the both of us?”
Rui’s trying—while trying not to draw too many conclusions—to understand the string of words created into that bunch of sentences.
The girlcat approaches Rui with a piece of paper in her hand and sits down next to him
♡︎ ، hii How are you doing, Rui?﹙🍵﹚
@catgamernene
“Nene! It’s good to see you.”
Rui gives her a slight elbow in greeting as she settles down, eyeing the piece of paper but not mentioning it just yet.
“I’ve been doing quite fine myself. How have you been doing?”
She looked both ways Before answering and when she saw that there was no one around, she pulled him aside to a secluded spot
♡︎ ، I'm scared. So fucking scared Rui. This place actually brainwashes other people, Rui!! Freaking brainwash!﹙🍵﹚
Rui couldn’t hold in a yelp of surprise being tugged along, though did comply with the change in location.
“I— Nene, what are you talking about?? What do you mean brainwashing?!”
“I haven’t seen anything that could bring me to that conclusion. Did you see something weird?”
