afterliving | 004 - [audio / action ] Rock! Rock! Rock over Afterlife!

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Guuuys! If you were crazy enough to not go outside already, then grab a scarf or something and come out here, it's amazing! Kind of weird considering we just had a beach and now it's all... arctic? Antarctic? Anyway! There's penguins! Come out and see, it's so great!

[ From the sound of it, he's already outside, broadcasting with his cellphone. And boy does he sound excited. ]

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[ Honestly, it's things like these that make Yamashita forget he's dead. The weirdness of the happenings alienates him each time, but only for a moment, and then he's just into it. It's a good thing sometimes to have a simple one-track-ish mind. He can just honestly enjoy himself now and forget sorrow for a good while.

Wrapped in a lot of clothes that look kind of out of place, Yamashita can be found outside close to a group of penguins, kind of attempting to get closer and pat them on the head. They mostly walk away from him though, presumably thinking 'what a weird enthusiastic kid'. ]

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Who said anything about stealing?!

[Smoking is bad, but you shouldn't run around batting cigarettes out of— wait, this is a completely different scenario. Why would a penguin, a normal penguin care about anything like that? Unless it were a fish, maybe. Food aggression was something prevalent in animals ~~and Shouma~~ after all.

Stop making him think about weird things.]

...How did you find them?

What do you mean, 'how did you find them'?

[ Yamashita tilts his head to Shouma awkwardly. His friend sure asks the weirdest question - then again it's not so weird coming from someone who spends way too much time inside and on his own. He really should work on getting Shouma out even more. ]

I went outside! There's no way I wouldn't go and enjoy this snow. And it's not like they're hidden or anything, I had to run into them sooner or later.

[Shouma is really not aware of anything ever. Why would penguins be hiding if they were on a lemonade quest? Why didn't he put a jacket on before coming out here?]

I'm surprised they didn't attack you.

[No he isn't, he's just being a smartass at this point.]

But someone should....do something about them. [Not him.] Isn't it bad to have wild penguins walking around campus?

Is it?

[ Yamashita doesn't even see the problem. He's developed a tactic of just rolling with whatever the afterlife threw at him and it worked quite well. The school festival had been horrible, but this winter was all kinds of enjoyable for sure. ]

As long as they don't end up making a big mess or anything, it should be fine, right? I kind of like watching them from so up close.

[Yamashita has become so accustomed to rolling with things that he doesn't see just how menacing these guys are. Typical.]

...I didn't bring anything to keep up with them anyway.

[If they were talking about defecating. He didn't bring anything that would help trap and remove them either, though.]

We're just supposed to watch them?

[Animal-watching never ends well.]

I haven't really thought about that... You think there's a reason they're here, something we're supposed to do?

[ Yamashita looks thoughtful for a moment. The penguins could be part of some masterplan plotline, but right now he really doesn't see how that would work. ]

Given most things here settle themselves, just watching and playing sounds like an okay thing to do though.

[Shouma has a feeling that if it were up to Yamashita, he'd deem a lot of problems to be solvable by just taking it easy. At the same time, he hasn't any plans of his own.

But he's had his fill of watching penguins act ~~cute~~ abnormal long ago.]

I'm going back.

[Flat and definitively.]

Huh? Already?

[ His expression pretty much turns to a pout for a moment, but he obviously doesn't object as much as he could have - Shouma is, after all, not dressed very appropriately for the weather. ]

There's nothing else to see.

[Shouma's treating this like a day at the aquarium. Maybe it'd be interesting to see what the lemonade-penguins get up to, but more than anything he's very invested in being a party pooper.

...Plus, it's cold out here.]

Mhm, if you say so...

[ He's kind of disappointed, but after recent encounters he doesn't really want to make Shouma angry by insisting on him staying or doing something else. At least he came out (even if Yamashita doesn't know the real reason) and that counts for something. ]

See you around then!

[Maybe next time Shouma will be more open to the enjoying the glitch — this one was less menacing, in a way, but right now it's 2-0 and being a grumpy killjoy is winning.

He only offers a slight wave, continuing on his way. He should have just asked Yamashita for a picture...]