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[color=firebrick][b]"I don't do hidden cameras, Nyxia! Too Korean for my tastes."[/b][/color][/center]
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Usually, this softball level of heckling from Nyxia would warrant, at worst, a caustic quip from the self-appointed Supervisor, but today she seemed especially moody. Fortunately, Kiyo's idea of escalation in this situation seemed to be a derisive snort, a sneer at nobody in particular, and giving Nyxia the silent treatment. It wasn't enough to disturb the flow of their meeting, but anyone who looked into Kiyo's eyes at that moment could have convinced themselves that the room had dropped a couple of degrees in temperature. Roche's comment and Suki's rebuttal seemed to snap her out of whatever thoughts had her in their grip. Another buzzing fly of an involuntary desire was swatted away.

The only person at the club meeting who might [i]not[/i] already know about the new groups was Nyxia, but Kiyo wouldn't imagine Roche had hidden it from her, so she proceeded with the announcement knowing it would be redundant—ignoring the inevitable, intentionally obnoxious yawn from Nyxia. [color=firebrick][b]"I did, but it's fine. It wasn't the official announcement or anything. So, I guess this is that. For anyone who missed it, we'll be in groups of three for the time being, for additional safety. I'll be joining Suki and Tsubomi, and Shuuko will be joining Roche and Nyxia. Haruna, you'll be with Willow and the girlboss herself, Rei. Yup, do your best~"[/b][/color] she added in that monotone voice again, doing a lazy, singular fist-pump. [color=firebrick][b]"Come talk to your senpai if Willow's teasing is too much, okay~?"[/b][/color] She yawned again, like she had no interest in actually fulfilling that role, but Haruna would be able to tell that she actually wished she would. Suki and Ember probably knew it, too, but she had bought their silence with food. Hopefully.

That just left the matter of the monkeys. [color=firebrick][b]"The monkeys show up anywhere my minions do. It's like I said, as if they're being hunted. I'd say they show up anywhere you'd expect a magical girl to be, buuuuut they kept their distance from the big boss during our last outing. So, they're intelligent enough to know their limits, and they targeted the eyes I had on Shuuko, as if they didn't want me to know she was about to be attacked."[/b][/color] Her eyes flicked down to look at Haruna. [color=firebrick][b]"In light of that, I wouldn't be so quick to trust a strange magical girl in town,"[/b][/color] she stated, hypocritical in the extreme given who she was talking to—but if she had the humility to notice, she probably wouldn't have said that. [color=firebrick][b]"I mean, it's pretty common for newbie dark girls to come to Hibusa Town for some space away from the light girls, but still be too scared of Rei to actually approach us. I always try to reach out—it'd be [i]nice[/i] if us dark girls could have one big Sisterhood—but if they don't wanna, they don't wanna, y'know?"[/b][/color] Her eyes widened and flicked about, as if she were thinking. [color=firebrick][b]"Think you could find her again? Tell her I just wanna talk. I'm not exactly the most dangerous member of the club, y'know?"[/b][/color] She batted her eyelashes as if she were innocent. "As long as you aren't an interesting light girl" could probably be inferred without being said.