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[color=a187be][b]Shinjiro Karasawa - In front of Harumi's Apartment Building[/b]

"Course he can't. Well, arright—"[/color] our plucky hero said with a brief roll of the eyes and shrug. "Lessee how hurt I really am."

Bending down at the knees, the eternally hotblooded young man gripped the package firmly. He'd understood some time ago, during one of his two moves in fact, that big awkward stuff was lifted with legs and not arms or back. Bending over gave dudes a hernia with heavy crap, and he didn't need that on top of last night. As a friend once put it, he was "pretty dumb, but not stupid".

Not that he was all too jazzed on the idea of being called dumb, but, you know, spirit of the sentiment or whatever.

He pressed his feet into the pavement, as though pushing the Earth away—

[color=a187be][i]Hohshit[/i][/color]

No dice. No liftoff. Just a tilt.

...

Hey, wait. Curbs were only, what, twelve centimeters high?

[color=a187be]"O-kay, think I got a plan here, Hat-chan."[/color] he announced, sizing up box, curb, and distance between them simultaneously.