IT'S A GOOD DAY TO HAVE A BAD DAY

[cascadingfailure]

Who: Day 373
Where: The Hotel Lobby
When: Day 373, late night

[ So how about that ruined lobby? Despite damage to the city usually being repaired overnight, barring acts of Heaven and Hell, it's still blown wide open and also the entire ground floor of the hotel is flooded.

The intercoms have fallen silent since the guest stars made their mark, but for some reason, they've started up again. They're having problems, though - they undergo a constant loop each time they buzz to life, first playing just thirty seconds of a song familiar to some which distorts and slows and slows and slows and slows until all that's left is

uh, this? Which speeds up until it becomes this this, and then just sort of breaks down. And then the loop starts over again.

It's...a mingle?! Do you really want to be here...? ]

Comments

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . The one where you stab yourself in order to revive.

[ Aha... ]

I was told it hurts quite a bit. I should probably still get it in case of an emergency or pinch. But I still feel reluctant about depending on something like that.

Though I... suppose that if someone were to attack me with a bladed weapon... depending on how they attacked, they'd be in for a surprise.

[doublefried]

[ blinks ]

Yeah, that's a heck of a power. All I can say is that it's better to have an ability and not need it than it is to need it and not have it.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ Mun meant regenerate not revive shh shh. ]

That's true. . .

[ Ugh. ]

I'd rather not die again, so I suppose having a method that could help would be a good thing. It just sounds unpleasant. Being picky isn't always an option though in this place.

[doublefried]

And if nothing else, if you do like, get stabbed for reasons beyond your control it means you won't be harmed by it. Being stab-proof is useful even if you don't use the power on yourself to heal, y'know?

[heavyliesthecrown]

Then the question becomes is it better to get slashing or stabbing as your heal method?

[doublefried]

If it were me, I'd go with slashing. If you have to use it to heal, you can cut yourself really lightly, but you can't really do a light stab.

[heavyliesthecrown]

And if attacked, a person would most likely attack with a slashing motion, I imagine...

[ At least he... assumes. ]
Perhaps I'll go with that, then.

[doublefried]

Yeah, a stab is a close-quarters surprise move. If someone is coming at you they're gonna be slashing.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Is swordsmanship a sort of fighting style you are familiar with, then?

[doublefried]

Kinda! I used to use one of my feathers as a sword.

[heavyliesthecrown]

UWAH~ I can barely imagine that, but it is something I would like to see! ♪

I have been training in how to use a sword since my arrival here. But the person who had been training me recently graduated.

[doublefried]

Oh, there've been a lot of those recently...

[heavyliesthecrown]

Graduations? That seems to be right. It makes me wonder if Gold-kun, B-san, and many others will have their chance too. I know they have been here quite a while.

[doublefried]

Yeah, I wouldn't wish a full year of this place on anybody... I hope if they graduate they go together.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Have they spoken about going to one or the other's world? I haven't really asked, but considering how important they are to one another... it would make me happy if they were able to stay together.

[doublefried]

I think B, C and the twins are all going to the same place.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Even despite the cult... things?

[doublefried]

I think he's gonna work from home on that end.

[heavyliesthecrown]

If that means he goes home too, then that would be ideal. It is vexing... having people who say they can not return. So I sincerely hope he does then.

[doublefried]

Yeah. I don't think he'll be going to HIS homeworld, but he'll have a home to go to.

[heavyliesthecrown]

This makes me curious though. Does this mean you would go to Morgana-san's world? Instead of back home to your own?

[doublefried]

It depends. I'm going to go visit him no matter what, but whether or not I stay fulltime depends on how much I have left to do in my world.

[heavyliesthecrown]

You mean your career as a hero? Fufufu... it is a very noble sort of career. I am incredibly well behaved you know? You will never find me breaking the law, so I have a great amount of respect for those who help keep a community safe.

Are wings like yours common in your world, then? Your special abilies, that is?

[doublefried]

I could tell just by looking that you're a good kid.

Where I'm from, everyone has special abilities just about. Not everyone, but like... four out of every five people? But everyone's are unique. So nobody has wings like mine.

[heavyliesthecrown]

In a community where so many people possess special abilities, it would feel quite disappointing I think to not possess one at all.

I am forever amazed by the fact that so many people here come from worlds that possess similar sorts of magic.

[ They are probably nearing their location. ]