#mob ask

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🐙 “Jade, I’ve returned from the City of Flowers. Here. a loving souvenir from your generous dorm leader :))”

"Welcome back, Azul. As you can see, we are still in one piece, despite you abandoning us." There was no light behind Jade's eyes, an easily forced smile gracing his lips. A crash rumbles loudly from the kitchens behind him. "Well, almost one piece. Floyd has been in quite the mood ever since you left us to go galivanting in the City of Flowers. I'm afraid that did not go over well with retaining customers, fufufu."

Azul almost angrily recoils. "What of the revenue while I was gone, then?"

"I'm sure in your infinite wisdom, you will make up for the lost profits quite quickly." Jade reassured. "More importantly, you say you've brought a gift home?"

He reaches out to the bag in Azul's hand, before his generous Dorm Leader could think better of it after hearing of what happened to his customer base while he was gone. Jade quickly unwrapped the necklace that was inside the delicate mesh bag and held it up by the cord, examining the strange lattice pattern. "Fascinating. Is there any meaning to this? Or is it just a worthless trinket?"

The smug glint that raced through Azul's glasses was not subtle at all, and Jade caught that almost immediately. There was something about the necklace, but Azul had no plans of divulging.

"Would it not ruin the mystery and intrigue to tell you?" "Or perhaps you do not know either." "If you wish to think that, fufu." "I haven't seen evidence to the contrary, fufufu." "Fufufufu." "Fufufufufu."

Floyd grumpily kicks the kitchen door open to the main floor of the lounge to see Azul and Jade passive aggressively chuckling to each other, gifts in hand. "Ugh, creepy." he muttered, giving them a wide berth as he left the lounge, suddenly forgetting why he was cranky in the first place.

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I'd join your club since it seems nice, but I've seen enough horror movies to know that's not a good idea.

"Are there that many movies revolving around the gathering and studying of flora?" Jade's eyes sparkle with interest, bypassing your evasion of his invitation out into the Night Raven College forest.

His latest hiking backpack was overfilled with examination and excavation tools, notepads for sketching, as well as his own small canteen, pot and firestarter for when it was time for a snack. He doesn't look the least bit intimidating, of course not. He merely wishes to impart upon you the bounty of the mountainside.

"Perhaps you would be so kind as to explain to me how these movies you have on land would portray an excursion such as this?" He reaches out a hand with his usual perfect smile. "Oh, and I know the perfect place to do so. I found a quaint cabin in the woods recently..."

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My aunt once ate mushrooms from her rotting bathroom. The dog wouldn't eat it. Fun fact: there are cases of plants growing in bathtubs because of soaps and scrubs with seeds.

"Fascinating." Jade nodded along with your story. "Mushrooms are rather resilient, are they not? They grow and thrive in such bizarre environments.

"And thank you, you've given me such food for thought." Jade chuckled, heading to his closet to fetch his lab gear. "If it is at all possible to grow my mushrooms even closer to my room, instead of at the alchemy workshop, I would most definitely like to attempt to do so."

As he leaves to fetch his mushrooms, you wonder how Floyd would react to coming back to seeing their bathroom overrun by mushrooms. You figure you should slink out before he shows up and you find yourself in hot water.

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How do you feel about Azul going to the City of Flowers and getting to see rare plants that you've probably never seen before?

"Heh." Jade preens with a smug grin.

"I took the liberty of researching the plants that are native in that area. Unfortunately, Azul refused to take this lovely guide that I had created for him, with sketches and depictions of rare plants from my various textbooks that he may be able to inquire about for me..."

He drops a tome on his desk, almost as thick as a textbook. He seems quite proud of his work, despite Azul spurning him.

"Fufufu, while it is utterly ridiculous and thoroughly unfair that I was not chosen to go, I am quite certain Azul will not be seeing any rare flora that would pique my interest. Alas, those went extinct quite a long time ago... I'm sure no mage would think to revive them now..."

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Have you tried eating grass, Jade-senpai?

"Indeed. It was one of the many things I tried once I came to land."

Jade placed a finger on his cheek. "In the ocean, seaweed and other edible algae are used in many dishes. At first glance, I believed grass to be the land alternative of the same flora."

He sighed. "Unfortunately, I cannot say that the flavor was quite to my liking."

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"Jade-senpai, please wake up. You stayed in the laboratory room after class and dozed off... You're okay, right?"

Jade slowly lifts his head up from his desk and peels his dark strand off of his cheek. The side of his cheek that had been pressed up against the table was red and had marks leftover from his hair.

"I can't ever recall ever falling asleep in class like this before. I wonder what could have caused this..."

Jade blearily tucked a few fingers under his chin, recounting his day step by step. "I woke up at my usual time, after getting the proper amount of sleep, as usual. I attended history, then flight, found a new species of mushroom on the way to lunch, crumbled it up and added it to my risotto in the cafeteria, then came here to alchemy."

"Quite the regular day for me, hm." Jade shook his head. "I couldn't possibly determine the cause. I suppose I just must have been more tired than I thought."

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Ne, ne, Jade! About the chara sheet, what do you think about the Pomefiore beauties? Everyone knows that you've been a temporary member of Pomefiore!

Even though we know you were just being your shady ass self in kahoots with Azul

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"Ah, yes, Pomefiore." Jade reminisces. "What a wonderful experience my brief tenure under Vil-san's wing was. I've already spoken on Rook-san here, but as for the other two..."

Vil-san

"Having stood by Vil-san's side for a short while, I was able to witness just how much of a machine he truly is. While Pomefiore seems to be viewed as the dorm for narcissists and soft-hearted individuals, it only takes one step into the life of a student there to confirm that that is not the case."

"Even if it was for my own reasons, working with Vil-san was quite an invigorating experience. I have nothing but respect for him."

Epel-kun

"Oya? Epel-kun... Oh yes, I suppose I learned a little more about that little fireball during my visit to his hometown."

"Like a chihuahua, the smallest thing can set him off yipping at your heels. How enthusiastically impulsive, and yet endearing. I'm sure we would not have gotten as far as we did in that race without his constant attention."

"Now, how entertaining would it be to if he were able to set free that fire within him more often at NRC? I'd say quite entertaining. Fufufu..."

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jade-san... are you afraid of heights? Hehe that's actually kind of cute. Don't worry, I'm not going to 'accidentaly' nudge you off your broom. Nooo~ I would never😏

"How can they possibly expect fish to fly??"

Jade's voice has a slight tremor to it, as best as he tries to hide it. He swallows a few gulps of air, then exhales, repeating until his land legs have returned from his last attempt at flying. His knuckles are still white from gripping his broom too much.

He fixes a beady stare at you, contemplating a retort. Finally, once his heartbeat had returned to normal, Jade places a hand on his chest and gives you a light bow with a chilling smile.

"I do hope I can provide you with the same hospitality you have shown me, when you are flailing in the depths of the ocean. Fufu..."