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[hr][right][color=gray]April 8th, yesterday’s day before the day after tomorrow.[/color][/right][hr]Kanna scratched out a line between the names [i]Himawari[/i] and [i]Totsuka[/i]. Damn, no prior connection. Maybe this really was the fickle hand of fate, moving the inhabitants of Utsubyo around like a child playing with their dolls. If that was the case, she wasn’t sure if she ought to shake that hand, or bite it. There’d been a whole half a year where the most exciting thing to happen were the weasels behind Family Mart. What the fuck was up with that, Fate?

Still, there was something here. Was it directly relevant to Totsuka’s outburst? Debatable. But hearing from Shiori’s family that she was a good person [i]“deep down”[/i] was at once surprising, and entirely [i]un[/i]surprising. That was usually what people said when they didn’t want to admit someone was a through-and-through asshole, but Kanna had never gotten that impression from Shiori. Rude, impersonable, with a temper like one of those lobsters in the tank at a sea food restaurant, but not [i]irredeemably[/i] bad. 

[center][i]Shiori nice?
Bad talk—but talk Ogre?
“Not super close”[/i][/center]

[color=92278f]“Yeah, you’re tellin’ me."[/color] Kanna circled the bit about her not being a good talker. Shiori was never boring, but rarely reliable as a source—not that she was dishonest, just that she was often more likely to deck you than give you something to work with. In a way she and Akari were similar, but Akari had the whole [i]“giant”[/i] thing going on that was usually intimidation enough. 

[color=92278f]“So you’re saying it’d be [i]out[/i] of character for her to hang around someone who’d do, y’know,[/color] she flapped one of the newspapers lying on a nearby desk. [color=92278f]“That?”[/color]

Neat. A character witness from some random nobody wouldn’t count for much, but this was family, and Kanna had a feeling that Ichika was bound for a better reputation than her cousin. If it came to it, clearing Shiori’s name—at least officially—would be easier with a few good words from her.