Grey

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

I'm not saying Hide has a monmusu fetish, but a fluffy tail is a fluffy tail.

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

Unfortunately for Hideaki, he had arrived late to the increasingly nonsensical gathering and missed all the good stuff. Damn. But with that said, he probably wouldn't have been able to make neither head nor tail of most of the terminology indicating 'yes-we-are-totally-criminals-planning-to-do-criminal-things' being dropped left and right, anyway. So perhaps that 'unfortunately for Hideaki' should have had an addendum of 'but fortunately for his mind'. Either way, it was inconvenient for him to not have been able to get the tidbits of information from the careless speech of the gathered few, like the hints as to the ulterior motive of this assembly, the interesting organizational status of the amassed individuals, and even the very real hype over the baby clad in crimson changshan.

Yeah, he didn't get it either.

But anyway, as if some cosmic force had willed it, he had managed to arrive precisely when Asuka was acting infantile with the infant. Man, Hideaki was a really inconvenient person like that, wasn't he? However, while there were he wanted to say on the topic of Asuka and babies, he was unable to. After all, there were people here, which meant he was supposed to be 'happy-go-lucky Hide', not '200% asshole Hide'. That 'privilege' was reserved was reserved for his strikethrough internal monologue and making fun of Asuka later.

...Speaking of which, what was Hide doing with that cellphone, anyway?

Once he had done what he needed to do, Hide surveyed the shrine area, taking note of all the people there. Gathered here was an assortment of faces, each drawn by the curious firework that no one else could see. Most of the people here were familiar to the middle school student, if only in passing in some cases. Still, he wouldn't just chalk this whole thing up to coincidence. He directed his attention towards the two unknowns. Apart from the baby, however, the only unfamiliar face was-

'Wait... Is that...? It can't be...'

FLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAILFLUFFYTAIL-

Ahem.

This was now something within the purview of his interests.

(Maybe he should not have played so much MGQ)

Continue.

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

Was busy all weekend putting together a end-of-the-year video project for one of my teachers. Will throw something up sometime tomorrow.

A Certain Chaotic Academy

Chukklehed, my acquaintance, that is only true from a certain perspective.

A Certain Chaotic Academy

@NarayanKIs NK OK?

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

Birch just Arcableno blocked me..This means war! (Asuka)

@ChronoBovino

"Get in line."

-Hide

A Certain Chaotic Academy

Sasaki Kirima - Brakes x Zero = ???

Despite the pleas of his friends, despite their overwhelming emotional support for the emotionally unstable structure that was Sasaki, there was no stopping him. There was a simple reason for this:

Sasaki Kirima did not charge at Kei.

No. He had pounced at Kei, which is an action distinctly different from charging in one very important way: it involves jumping at the target. That is to say, throwing one's body into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet. Which meant that he was in midair, a location where most of the population has a hard time spinning 1080 degrees, much less alter their flight course while after having been riddled with bullets and mentally decimated, weighing... a lot, and just in general being as non-aerodynamic or flexible as possible.

Unsurprisingly, the newly introduced combination of unrelated external factors only indirectly acting on him would do nothing to prevent the heavily wounded, mind-addled titan from, well, soaring through the air like a big cat jumping on a gazelle. Or, to be more accurate, probably something like a big cat jumping on a wildebeest who some how found its way in front of a gazelle while a songbird watched since Bang had decided to get in between him and Kei, and Kotori was just... there. Floating with the power of her telekinetic force. Either way, even if he wanted to stop, this train had no brakes.

...

Poor Bang. Being Sasaki's friend was hard, wasn't it? But hey, maybe when he finally hit the ground one way or another, he would heed his allies' words.

I mean, if there wasn't a shattered sword sticking out of Kei or Bang at the end of it all, at least.

A Certain Chaotic Academy

I will be sure to pohst 2nyte boiz

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

The rest of Hideaki's festival experience following his departure from the student council food stand was a blur of repetition and mundanity. He exchanged trite pleasantries with his archery club associates and his classmates, purchased snack foods from competing stands - even with his increasing lack of appetite - simply to spite his childhood friend in the most petty way imaginable, tried his hand at some of the activities, and, at the end of it all, he was left with nothing but his own devices.

Though it might have been seen as lonely by some, Hideaki thought that such a solitary situation was ideal for observing the mainstay of the festivities. It was just him snacking down on a stick of yakitori as he waited for the scheduled fireworks to begin. From the hilltop patch of grass he had made his territory, the keen eyed archer surveyed the festival grounds. Even from this far, he could make out such minute details: Half-Ass-ka (truly Hide was a comedy genius of the highest calibre) closed down her precious stand even when he knew there was still some fucking stock back there and so did she god fucking da-

...And then there was the dude wearing Asuka's cat mask, darting about like a mad person as he was pursued by a greenet who looked like he was doing his best to emulate Assassin's Creed, with mixed results. Hideaki had to admit the whole scene was very televisionesque, complete with blunders and bystander bumping. A flash of light from his upper peripheral and the resulting boom attracted the archer's attention aloft for the ascending pyrotechnic display. Nevermind the events down below, there was a show to be seen above.

Wait.

That couldn't be right.

Hideaki took off his glasses and narrowed his eyes as a lazy, purple flare crossed the sky. The trailing firework was very out of place, definitely a far cry from the others detonating around it. He dropped his gaze to the festival, caught site of one of his archery club members, and went down to approach. "Excuse me, Koizumi-san, but did you see the weird firework?" he asked. When he received a negative response from his underclassmen and a question of why he asked, Hide answered, "No reason, just thought it was odd. Probably just a trick of the eye or a smudge on my glasses." Whatever it was, it looked to originate from the shrine...

...and, more importantly, a quick scan of the relevant area told him that he wasn't the only person who caught sight of the phantasm.

"Alright," Hideaki made his way towards the shrine, "I'll bite."

KHR! | The Enduring Flame

We're missing @Grey's char

Edit: and @TrixyTrix char too

@Vongola_Hasayo

Trix said a day or two ago that she'd be out of commission for a long while.

Meanwhile, I'm typing up my post for Hide right now.