WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

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Comments

[priori]

[ ... "good herald"? These people. ​]

I have no need for trinkets. That said... I presume this is an offering of some kind. Surely you wouldn't be so crass as to approach an X-Class and force them to pay for whatever good you flung into their face.

And it would be rude to refuse a gift.

[ He reaches for one of the head lamps (either one on the stand or the one on the guy's head, either way), though his hand doesn't move all that quickly. There's more than enough time to move away. ]

[akudamods]

H-Hmm!!

[The man rapidly recalculates in his head, forcing a grin and going down to one knee so he can lift up his own headband with both knees and offer it all deferentially.]

I am - in the esteemed Chuo Square to make a living, but there's nothing wrong with promotional goods when you are one of so many comrades!!

[His smile widens, hopeful.]

I can promise that my wards will come in handy. You never know when there'll be another night without stars.

1/2

[priori]

[ ... disgusting. ]

[priori]

[ He briefly considers kicking this idiot lower to the ground, then abandons the thought because it means touching them. Also, it's more effort than it's worth. ]

What do you mean?

[akudamods]

Why, I mean that sometimes, you can't see the stars. [He lifts his chin, trying to focus harder.] They say it happens when the Commissioner is trying to catch a criminal... I don't know that for sure. I am only a humble vendor, and there are many bright signs in Kansai.

But I DO know it's always handy to have a light in the darkness! [He raises both his hands to present the head-lamp in a "TADA!" gesture.]

[priori]

[ Hm. Lucilius observes the vendor closely as he speaks, even if ultimately he doesn't learn much aside from, well, what he's being told.

He was going to drop the light in the first trash can he found. But, eh. Whatever. He'll take it. This head-lamp is now going to live in his room with 200+ phones. ]

I suppose. [ Still seems useless and suspect, though. ​]

Was that all?