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[otogihorror]

Kakuya is a very strange person but if you call out for her anywhere in the Academy she'll probably hear you. Do you want to talk? Yell?

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[keyringwitness]

[It's nostalgic, in a way. The smell of cookies (peanut-butter this time, a kind that Yasu's pretty sure Kakuya hasn't tried) wafts from the music room, accompanied by a the light notes of "Fly Me to the Moon."

Yasu's stands straight, waiting for that characteristic cold with the same anticipation that most would feel for the sunrise of a warm day after a long winter. And when she feels it arriving, she says,]

Um... thank you.

Someone should say it, right? And if no one else will... I'll do it.

[otogihorror]

[As predictable as the turning of the seasons, a faint breeze passes through the room. It lingers around Yasu, caressing her cheek before Kakuya materilizes next to her. ]

Hehe... thank you... it's okay. Kakuya... doesn't care now if they... don't get it... Kakuya has Yasu. That's... all that matters.

Week 5 | Sometime after the trial

[violence_ensues]

[Okay... Okay. Okay. Adorabat can do this. She's talked to Yasu and learned a new hero lesson. She can do this. True heroes act even if they're scared.

Adorabat doesn't realize the following is necessary, but she flies on over to the music room and picks up the banjo, strumming it a couple of times.]

[otogihorror]

[There's a presence in the room now. Across the room, the fog shifts and Kakuya is on a chair. A thud echoes slightly as she sits.]

Kakuya is here... what... is it?

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat blinks. She was expecting to scream in terror at some sudden ninja appearance or something, so when she sees the fog shifting, and while she does get nervous, she manages not to yelp.]

O- oh... um... I came here to listen to what you have to say.

So... yeah.

[otogihorror]

Kakuya... wasn't trying to trick you. About the handbook...

[She has many things to say but this seems to be the most relevant right now.]

Kakuya was just trying... to show everyone... what Kakuya meant by saying... we're connected.

[violence_ensues]

[Adorabat takes her notebook out and stares at it for a small moment. She has to listen. This is what heroes would do. Yasu said so. She gulps and will reach over to the cover and tear it off DON'T LET ANYTHING BAD HAPPEN-]

[otogihorror]

[Nothing does! But it seems under the jacket of the handbook someone has slipped in a a postcard?]

I made this icon JUST for this post

[violence_ensues]

Huh...?

[That... was not what she was expecting, but it's good it wasn't anything bad! Adorabat the postcard, and upon seeing there's words on it, reads it.]

...Lubamet's Puboolay?

[wat]

[otogihorror]

It’s a… riddle. You… may not know the story so Kakuya will explain. There… was an old man… who cut bamboo… he found a child within a piece of bamboo… that is the story. So you… cut out the ‘bamboo’ and what do you get…?

1/2

[violence_ensues]

[Cut out... the bamboo...]

[LBAMET'S PBOOLAY...]

[Hmm...]

2/2

[violence_ensues]

[...Oh! ...Actually, wait.]

Is "bamboo" "e w" or "o"?

[Score at spelling bee: 33.]