Day 267 [Open] Magical Jerky Cows and shuffling booties

[scary_music]

Who: Ibuki and you!
Open: Open
When: Day 267, noon-ish or so?
Where: In front of the new music venue: iBooty Shuffle
What: Ibuki wastes a whole bunch of shards on silly stuff...
Format: Action but will match
Warnings: Ibuki weirdness, and sudden heavy bad feels in the Colin thread.

UKYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[It was just another day in the Bastion, helping make preparations for assisting the Ura that were in dire straits. But then, during lunch, Ibuki's cry of disbelief and amusement rang out loud and clear]

[Because she used the monument to create "magical jerky cows", and renovated one of the new buildings on the Bastion into a music venue.]

[... after her initial cry, Ibuki can be found in front of iBooty Shuffle, leaning against one of the chocolate jerky cows and...]

[... just... laughing. That's all she's doing. Laughing]

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Y... yeah...

...

Yeah... Ibuki's fine...

[she takes another step forward]

Ibuki... may have overreacted a bit? A-ahaha...

... Um... um... maybe we should hug, and we'll feel better?

[hellpyre]

[Sniffling, Rin just nods a few times. Hugs would be good. Hugs would be very good.]

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Okay, okay. Rin-chan, here it comes. One Ibuki hug.

[Ibuki manages a wide smile, stepping in to give Rin a gentle hug]

[hellpyre]

[Rin accepts the hug, making sure to not return it too tightly since she doesn't want to hurt Ibuki obviously. That was what started this whole mess to begin with.] Th-thank you...

[emissaries]

[sigh] I can see that, but what is it?

[bulletofhope]

[ . . .

. . .

Is that him?

Is that really him?

Naegi blinks, staring at the mirror for quite a while... ]

. . . I look like I came out of an anime, actually... like, an actual anime protagonist and everything...

[ Well, that and you also kinda look like a certain spoiler character from earlier in your series, but shhhhhh. It's a secret to everybody. ]

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I see, I see...

Hmmm...

Hopefully not a clueless harem lead protagonist. Those are the worst.

[bulletofhope]

If I ever end up as bad as that kind of protagonist, I want you to just smack me upside the head until I come back to my senses, okay?

[ Because really. That's terrible. ]

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Ibuki will knock the stuffing out of you if that happens! Count on it, Makoto-chan!

It's a promise!

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[Ibuki gently strokes Rin's hair as they hug]

Hey, hey, no need to thank Ibuki.

Ibuki is thankful that you spared her fluffy hair!

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Magical jerky cows!

They're like normal cows... but with jerky!

This one has chocolate chip jerky!

[She peels off a piece, offering it to the Emissary]

Try it, try it!

[bulletofhope]

Good! That's the last kind of person I want to be.

[ Read: Hagakure. ]

. . . that said, I wonder if anyone will recognize me now that I have black hair?

[scary_music]

[Ibuki laughs at that]

Ibuki can give you a complete makeover if that's what you're aiming for!

Metal rocker Makoto-chan! Yeah!

[bulletofhope]

. . . maybe next time! Right now I think I'm happy with how this came out.

[ Naegi pauses for a moment and runs a hand through his hair. ]

Really impressed, actually...

[scary_music]

Yeah, yeah, you look really awesome now!

...

Still cute, though!

Awesome cute?

[She laughs again]

[bulletofhope]

[ . . .

Cute? Him?

. . .

Yeah, the only way he can respond is to pull his hoodie up over his head and hide his face right now because WOW so much blushing out of embarrassment, dammit... ]

[hellpyre]

H-heh... I usually have way better control than that. I'm not some crazy person with fire powers...

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[And she starts... playing with his ahoge again...]

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Mm... yeah, yeah, you don't seem like a mean person to Ibuki, normally!

But what changed? What happened?

Did Rin-chan undergo a shocking revelation recently...?

[hellpyre]

[Rin has a temper on her, sure, but she doesn't think of herself as a "mean" person.]

... not... really. I'm just... there's somethin' I'm really stressed out about it.

[scary_music]

Oooh...

Maybe, maybe Ibuki can help somehow.

Can Ibuki help?

Maybe she could serenade you with a song to help you relax!

[Death metal is relaxing, right???]

[bulletofhope]

[ NO NOT THE AHOGE WHY THIS

Naegi stares at Ibuki through his hoodie, a somewhat flat look on his face. ]

Again?

[scary_music]

Ibuki had to make sure it maintained its fluffiness!

Mission success!

[bulletofhope]

... that's good, at least?

Especially since I wasn't sure if my hair could handle the dye job...

[scary_music]

Oooh...

Was Makoto-chan doubting Ibuki's ability to know Makoto-chan's hair dyeability?