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[otakuro]

This is Atsuro! I'm not able to answer right now, which definitely means I'm doing something important and not grinding my team up to Level 999 in an all-night marathon session. I'll call you back as soon as I get this! Thanks!

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[bondsofsuffering]

[Atsuro will find a data chip/insert whatever cool COMP-compatible tech Hinoto-Ri has come up with for file storage here in an envelope in front of his door. The envelope itself has only his name and no return address, but should he open it, there is a printed note inside:]

Should I be unable to continue my work, I leave this to you.

[And if he decides to check the chip, he'll find backups of both the Astrology Master Document and the Event Master Document. How mysterious.]

[otakuro]

...

[Well that's not ominous at all. Ring ring, ring ring.]

Hey Hizumi, pick up. ...I'm gonna come and throw wasabi at ya if you don't.

[bondsofsuffering]

[Ah, that was fast. It figures that Atsuro would have caught on.

...

But... It probably won't matter soon anyway, so there isn't really a point in picking up, is there?

The call goes ignored.]

[otakuro]

[Not really terribly surprising which is why the next ring sounds a little closer.
Well actually not a ring since their doors don't have buzzers.]

Hizumi! I know you're in there.

I can tell because it's a good scene for a dramatic split screen showing me knocking while you wait until I go away; then there'd be a close up of us both looking melancholic. It's too cliche to not work.

[bondsofsuffering]

[Alas-- somewhere, out in the snowy expanse that is Hinoto-Ri today, Hizumi sneezes.

It was worth a try, at least?]

[otakuro]

This is a waste of perfectly good melodrama!

[Grumbles Atsuro as he goes back to his room.]

audio, 2/25 (i am sorry for desco being so terrible)

[tyrantball]

"Hat Guy! Sis says that you rejected her, so Desco is calling to make sure you understand something! It is only because Sis insisted that Desco has not had you shipped to the salt mines, so be sure to be extra-thankful to Sis!"

A slight pause before she continues in a bored, unconcerned tone.

"Also, feel free to go get seduced by the Ultra Gigolo; Desco doesn't care what happens to you anymore."