#himeko post

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“Smooooch, how could you??”

Himeko pulls on one of Smooooch’s ears, which stretches comically without causing the stand any actual harm- But Smooooch is struggling to escape anyway.

“What’d I doooooo?! Sachi, heeeeeelp!!”

“Sorry, I kinda also wanna know what you did.”

“So meeeeeaaaan—!!”

“I’d say I thought you were more responsible than this, but since you’ve only been with Sachi… You can’t play favorites like that!!”

“Huh? Huh?”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know! Kanade-chan told me herself you bit her, but she didn’t know how to fight monsters at all!!”

“Who?????”

“Yeah, actually, who?”

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(Bd-WovenHearts - Endless Possibility) There is what can only be describes as a Creechur making a mess at the grocery store. Locals can only see a floating backpack, shopping list and money.

A girl we haven’t yet met observes the situation from a distance. By all accounts, this seems to be the kind of petty mischief created by something she would normally take care of, but… It’s got a shopping list. This is clearly purposeful.

Still… She should probably intervene anyway for the sake of the poor employees who will have to clean this.

“Umm… Hello…? Do you need help with that?”

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There’s something about having someone with her who’s less experienced in their shared field that makes Himeko feel… Strangely good. Needed.

Superior?

…Maybe not that far. But anyway, as a senior magical girl, she should really figure out what happened here.

“So, um… Which mascot was it?”

“Mmh?”

“The one who bit you, and didn’t teach you how to fight… Who was it?”

“Uh…”

Kunio falters. If Himeko finds out… Would the rat spill the beans about him?

“I♀… Don’t know it’s name.”

“It didn’t tell you that either? Surely it told you something! Unless… Was it Teddy? Ooh, I’ll have to give him a piece of my mind… A little bear with button eyes, was that the one??”

“No, that wasn’t- Oh-”

“It wasn’t… Then what did it look like?”

Shit. He really can’t get out of this. He’s already said things that won’t line up if he insists he’s never seen the mascot, and he can’t think of any excuse not to tell her.

“…It was a rat. With a crown.”

“Smooooch?! That doesn’t sound right… But, um… I’ll talk with her, and we’ll get you properly prepared for the next time something like this happens!”

Kunio nods, and silently returns to eating his parfait.

…He can’t really taste it anymore.

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Kunio feels

Wildly out of place.

He doesn’t belong in a cute cafe like this, and as irrational as it is, it feels like everyone can tell.

And he definitely doesn’t belong in a cute cafe, in a chair across from Abe Himeko, a girl who definitely does not like him.

Over the course of the year that they’ve shared a class, every time Kunio has looked her way, she’s looked back with a little more contempt, which isn’t really an unusual reaction… But as far as she knows, ‘Kanade’ isn’t deserving of her scorn, and the thought that she may realize at any moment and make it known to the other patrons- and then their schoolmates- that he’s some kind of pervert or something is turning his stomach.

…But not enough for him to turn the waiter away, and now he’s sitting in front of an extravagant parfait he wouldn’t have ever dared to order before.

………….

It’s really delicious.

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In the heat of the moment, Kunio couldn’t think of any excuse to refuse Himeko’s offer that didn’t sound somehow suspicious, (This was an incorrect assumption, Himeko would have totally accepted that he had somewhere else to be, but it is how it is when overthinking things,) so he he made a much more suspicious excuse to leave her line of sight long enough to try to get back into his regular clothes.

If he could will himself back to normal, surely he could will himself only back into what he was wearing before, if this Butterfly thing is any good.

…Luckily for everyone, Butterfly is able to oblige, treating the hypothetical audience to a much more underwhelming transformation sequence.

“Okay, I’m♂… Uh, I’m♀back,” he mumbles, feeling very self-conscious as he returns.

Himeko would find it more unusual that Kanade’s hair looks exactly the same if she also didn’t look exactly the same under her robot suit. Instead, she smiles and gestures for her to follow.

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After confirming that Kunio is, for the most part, uninjured, the girl in the robot suit relaxes.

“Ah… I’m really glad everything ended up okay…!”

“Uh… Yeah, I’ve♂… Never done anything like that…”

Even with her face covered by a cold, emotionless robo-doll’s, he still can’t look her in the eye.

“Wait, s-so… This was your first ever battle?! Where’s your mascot?! They should’ve definitely been here…!”

“No, um… They were, uhhhh… Busy.”

“Busy?? That’s… That’s super irresponsible! At least you have a weapon, but… Thank goodness I showed up…!”

In a flash of light, the other girl unsuits, her robotic shell folding up in a way it shouldn’t physically be able to and disappearing into the mouth of a small, boxlike creature.

Kunio… Has seen this girl before. Every day. In class.

She holds out a hand.

“I’m Abe Himeko! Alias, Barbie Girl! What’s your name?”

…What’s the point of an alias if you’ll just give your identity out to anyone in a funny dress? Oh, wait, name… He hadn’t considered this at all. Obviously he can’t use his real one… Name, name…

“Kaaaaa…. nade. It’s Kanade.”

“It’s nice to meet you…! Here, um… As the more experienced magical girl, let me… Treat you to some post-battle sweets…!”

Hopefully that will make up for the shoddy mascotting that was done today, thinks Himeko. She’ll have to find out who dumped this poor girl in a fight without teaching her to use her powers and… I dunno, do something.

Shit, thinks Kunio. Fuck.