001 - dear future (reprise)

[keptwaiting]

[ He was dead. Yamashita thought he was fairly certain of that. After all there had been a bang, crashing glass, sharp pain, a short moment mid-air, people screaming... Yes, laying on the pavement like that, with each feeling slowly numbing through a strange fog, even a cheery boy like Yamashita had been sure he was dying. It's not like he had comprehended what that meant, but the feeling of 'this is it' is not something easily pushed off when you were sure your heart could stop beating any moment. 

So when he wakes up, Yamashita feels off to say the least. Alive? Dreaming? Is this reality at all? ]

Ah...?

[ It's a school. That kind of hallway is just too much of an universal sign for learning facilities as that it could be any other way. He sits up, rubbing his head. No blood, no injury, no pain. He's wearing a school uniform too... Strange. Yamashita gets up to examine the scene, looking through the hallways for people. Too bad he's arrived after classes ended and most NPCs aren't around anymore. With careful but feathery steps he runs through the school, dramatically bursting into rooms and leaning around corners. ]

Hellooo~? Is anybody heeere? I'm looost, can anybody help a poor guy out?

[ He'll be wandering about all over the school and campus, feel free to encounter him at any place, just specify where! ]

Comments

[strawberrytart]

I was training to be a patissiere when I was alive. My boyfriend and I had just gone to London to open a shop there when I ended up here. So the food is just something that I'd do no matter where I was.

[keptwaiting]

[ Aaaaaah, that's depressing to hear, too, oh no! And her boyfriend even... young love torn apart, it's so tragic he can barely stand it. Yamashita laughs a little awkwardly, because he's unsure how to react to this. What is etiquette even, when you're dead. ]

It sounds nice to have something you can stick to even past death!

[ No that still sounds awful. ]

Argh, this is a mess, what am I even saying...

[strawberrytart]

It is! It's comforting.. I'd hate to ended up loving doing something that's impossible to do here, like skydiving or video games.

[keptwaiting]

[ Enthusiastic nodding and then.... stop. ]

Wait... Video games are impossible?

[strawberrytart]

Well there aren't any here as far as I know.

[keptwaiting]

What kind of school is this?!

Doesn't the designer know that video games are a part of the most common student pastimes? That's messed up, forcing students to study and then taking normalcy away otherwise! A destruction of natural balance!

[strawberrytart]

I don't know, I've never really played video games.

[keptwaiting]

Hmh.... Maybe it's different for girls?

I mean, I don't play them all the time either, I'm not an otaku or anything, I'm just an ordinary boy and sometimes I get bored!

[strawberrytart]

Well I never really had time for them. We went out a lot as a family even when I lived with them before I went to St. Marie's, so between that and school and Natsume's piano recitals, plus going out with friends I never really had time.

[ Also that was when she was in like middle school and video games weren't really a thing where she's from, they were amazed at the internet having search capabilities okay.. ]

[keptwaiting]

I'd say it's a pity, but actually it sounds like you had a lot of fun anyway.

[strawberrytart]

Of course~! I got to eat lots of sweets too~