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Mayu Arita | Death Parade

[idolwild]

...Eh? Outside...?

[Somewhere in the middle of the woods on Route 29, there's a puzzled-looking girl in a school uniform wandering around like an absolute tourist, her head cocked back as she looks around at everything and her mouth hanging slightly open, like she's taking in every single nuance of what are, by all appearances, a set of incredibly ordinary trees.]

How did I get outside...? I thought I...

[She frowns a little, pulling at the pink scrunchie on her wrist in absentminded thought.]

...Well, at least I'm away from that grouchy guy. Mnyah!

[She sticks out her tongue at the thought, despite the fact that honey there's literally no one watching right now — but unfortunately, the moment doesn't last for long, as all of a sudden something abruptly seems to hit her like an oncoming bus.]

A-Ah, wait—! Where's Harada-kun?! Harada-kun! HARADA-KUUUUN!

[And with that, she will just be...running around here and there, yelling for some guy she knows (apparently), and paying absolutely no mind to the fact that she's running off the path without actually making sure she knows how to get back on it.]

[shuttermouse]

[ Chie just happens to be sitting in a nearby tree with her back against the trunk, one leg pulled up and the other dangling over the side of the branch. She peers down at the yelling girl when she runs past and in a spur of the moment decision she decides to throw a Pokéball at her.

...At least she's aiming for her back and not her head, um. ]

[idolwild]

[Either way, it thumps resoundingly off of her shoulder, prompting a yelp — that, admittedly, is mostly from surprise, and not pain — and an abrupt halt.]

Huh...? Owww...

[It takes her a minute of looking around in bewilderment, but eventually she spots the fallen ball and bends down to pick it up, uncertain.]

Where did this come from?

[shuttermouse]

[ Chie watches her curiously as the girl looks around, her PokéGear half-raised in case she feels the urge to snap a shot despite the camera function not being good enough for her tastes. Eventually, she decides to speak up and reveal her presence: ]

Oh, I threw it to see if it'd work on humans.

[idolwild]

...

[With a faint noise of confusion, she turns toward the sound of the voice — and it's when she sees the person in the tree that things finally start to add up.

...And given that they're adding up to a pretty dick move, um.]

Don't just throw things at people! What kind of a jerk are you?!

[shuttermouse]

Sooorry. [ She says defensively, lowering the PokéGear she's holding. ] I won't do it again.

[idolwild]

You better not! Ugh, what bad luck, I keep meeting people like that...

[Luckily, the flare of temper doesn't seem to last for long.]

Um...but since you're here — do you know where this is?

[shuttermouse]

Route 29, in a region called Johto. [ She idly swings her leg back and forth, thinking about climbing down - but then decides that she's rather comfortable where she is. ]

Who's that Harada-kun guy person were yelling about earlier? Your boyfriend?

[idolwild]

[And then, suddenly, the two competing interests that suddenly emerge:

> who the hell doesn't know who harada-kun is, does this person just live under a rock

> she doesn't know who harada-kun is, and therefore she doesn't know that he's not her boyfriend...

Ehehehehehehehehehe...]

Really? You don't know the idol group, C.H.A.? They're world-famous! It's Chiba-kun, Harada-kun, and Ariga-kun, C-H-A!

[shuttermouse]

Nope! [ She shakes her head. ] I've never heard of them before.

[idolwild]

...Well, what have you been listening to?

[Mayu, fuckdammit.]

[shuttermouse]

Lots of old stuff, like the Beatles. Sometimes I listen to Ikuma-kun when he plays the guitar, but he's just a local guy trying to earn some extra cash playing songs near the train station.

[idolwild]

The...Beatles?

[ :|a ]

Well, what is it about them you like?

[nullorvoid]

[...He really shouldn't be surprised by this.

There are probably a lot of reasons why that girl shouldn't be here right now; he can think of at least two very large ones right off the top of his damn head, and a third that has everything to do with the fact that he's not exactly expecting to be outside all of a sudden, either. If the sudden weird-as-hell locale change had to happen, he would have expected it to happen to another arbiter, not...her. He would have expected Clavis before her.

But here she is because of course she is, and thankfully he didn't bear witness to the display of blatant maturity before she abruptly realized that she's short a Backstreet Boy, and it would really, really be in his best interests to let her get horribly lost, wouldn't it.

Just let it go, Ginti. You don't have to - ]

Oi. Get back here.

[Nona's gonna kill him if he doesn't get involved. He can't even die and Nona's gonna kill him.

Either way, his tone is incredibly sharp, and he doesn't seem like he's going to be loosening up anytime soon.]

[idolwild]

[THE BIGGEST LETDOWN OF HER ENTIRE LIFE: HEARING A FAMILIAR VOICE AND IT'S NOT HARADA-KUN.

Even worse is that it's that guy. Jeez, what a grouch.]

You too...?

[Well, at least she's doing as directed and coming over, Ginti, but it's...probably not the way you would've liked, um.]

Hey! What's going on?! What'd you do with Harada-kun, where is he?!

[YOU KNEW EVERYTHING THE LAST TIME CLEARLY YOU KNOW EVERYTHING NOW SO COUGH IT UP ALREADY]

[nullorvoid]

[...Yeah, definitely should have let her get lost in the damn woods.]

If I were responsible for bringing anyone out here, you really think that you would be my first choice?

[idolwild]

Rrrrrrrrrgh—

[What an excellent day this is shaping up to be, jesus christ.]

...So you didn't do it? Then how did this happen? I don't remember...

[nullorvoid]

[Absolutely. Best day of our...well.]

Yeah, I don't either, and I don't think I have to tell you why that's a problem.

[...]

What do you remember, anyway?

[idolwild]

Um...now that you mention it...

[... :|a]

Oh! It was the intermission! And I went to the bathroom to wash up so I wouldn't be all stinky for the second half...

[nullorvoid]

Intermission...?

[what are you even talking about, you absolute idi- ...oh

oh, wait, that's

...that's actually pretty convenient, good job on doing one thing right in your miserable life, mayu]

That's being generous, if that's what you're calling it. But yeah, that's about it as I go, too.

[idolwild]

[By the law of averages, something had to go right for her eventually.

...NOT THAT SHE'S OF THE OPINION THAT IT'S THIS, BECAUSE OH MY GOD WE'RE GONNA MISS HARADA-KUN'S SECOND HALF BECAUSE WE'RE STUCK IN A FOREST

...

FULL OF BUGS]

Huh?! What do you mean by that?!

[nullorvoid]

Does it matter? There are other problems to be thinking about right now.

[LIKE, YOU KNOW

THE FACT THAT WE'RE STUCK IN A FOREST

...

FULL OF BUGS]

[idolwild]

[Ugh, god, why couldn't she have gotten stuck with someone else. Like Harada. Or that guy with the earrings who was super hype about the concert.

Anyone else.]

Yes, it matters! Don't just say things and not—

[But then she stops abruptly, eyes going wide as she nervously raises a finger to point at...something behind him probably.]

W-W-Why's that bug so b-big?!

[nullorvoid]

Oh, what now -

[Seriously, he is not here for spider-killing duty, what the hell is your problem and what are you even pointing at.

...He is probably not at all prepared for the size of the insect she's talking about, is he.]

[idolwild]

[Spoilers: it's a Heracross. Five feet of big doofy smiling beetle bug.]

Get it away get it away get it away get it away!