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Appointment Post

If you have anything minor or some loose ends that needs to be taken care of with Kazuma, please use this entry to thread them out.

Just mark the thread accordingly like so--[Action, August 7th] and you can use this like a voicemail service thing. You can also reply to this OOCly if you need me for anything. Just mark that it is.

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Huh? [DUDE, SHE WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE THE JOURNAL ON YOU.] Oh... no. I'll be fine, but thank you. I've been there enough times to know where it is.

[But of course, she'll pay extra attention to making sure she's alone.]

Oh well, that's not what I...okay.

[WELL PARDON HIM FOR NOT WANTING TERUMI TO SUDDENLY SWOOP DOWN ON HER. But he'll go ahead and close his journal now and move to the living room to wait for Noel's arrival.]

[SHUT UP, DAMMIT, SHE KNOWS. And that's why she'll be careful! After all, with what they're doing? It's best if they're not seen together anyhow.

So...

Right.

Time to go, Noel.

It'll take somewhere around 15-30 minutes, but soon enough there's a knock on the door.]

[And Kazuma will be at the door a moment later to open it for her. He was...well, looking paler than usual. Who can blame him after Terumi's arrival.]

...Afternoon. [He opens the door a little more to let her inside.]

[...]

Hello. [Right. She was sure she was prepared for this, but now that it was finally happening, she can't help but feel the slightest bit apprehensive... regardless, she's letting herself in.] I didn't make you wait too long, did I...?

Not at all. I took the time to make tea for us. [Sure enough, there was two cups filled with tea sitting at the table in the living room and...is that some hard-boiled eggs sitting in a small bowl?]

It's...not like Miss Litchi's, but I can still make a decent cup.

[Considering why she's here, the tea is just about one of the least things she had expected to receive when she came here. And the eggs, too, she supposes, but they only help to remind her who she's potentially dealing with her. ~~Please don't tell her you swallow them whole, too...~~]

Th... Thank you! [If she's supposed to take a seat at this point, then she sure as heck isn't.] I'm sure they'll be just fine.

[Tea helps calm the nerves or so Miss Litchi had told him. The eggs are...well his own personal thing. He closes the door after her.]

Please, have a seat. I'm ah...sorry, for being so forward at the library a few days ago. I wasn't thinking properly.

Don't worry about it. [Even if you kind of scared her back there.] I wasn't exactly in the best mood, either.

[You would know, seeing as how you apparently eavesdropped on her and Ragna. 8| ...but that's in the past now.

Uh.

Yeah, she'll... awkwardly take a seat, hands reaching for tea cup and keeping it close to her form. It's kind of hot, so she won't immediately take a sip.

...]

[Hey now, he didn't mean to. Ragna is just loud :|. And Kazuma will seat himself in the couch off to her right side, an eerie silence between them]

...So it was Mr. Hakumen who told you about me? [might as well start there....]

[Hey, she was enjoying that silence... okay, not really.

Noel... nods. Sort of.]

That's correct. It, uh... was sometime after you first showed up, I think. After we first met. [You know. When she came close to sending you to the infirmary.] I'm not sure just how much I know, but... it was quite a bit.

[...]

Did you know Mr. Hakumen personally?

No...I've never seen him before I arrived here, but he kept hinting that he knew me. [And kept speaking in riddles and scaring him with his tallness]

Something about being a relic of the past and having two guardians...[He's pretty sure he still only had the one, Relius Clover]

Two... guardians? [Though she makes no move to suggest it, her first thought immediately goes to Terumi. For the first one, anyway.]

M-Maybe he called you a relic because of how far in the future he was. [Yes, Noel! You can think!!!]

That's...a strange way of putting it then. I don't know what he meant by two, because I've always been under the care of one person, Professor Relius Clover.

Relius... Clover?

[...]

...That's right. Are you familiar with him?

[Relius Clover... Relius Clover.

Something about the name rings a bell, but... it couldn't be, could it? Someone from that long ago...

...considering people like Mr. Hakumen, though, should she really be surprised?]

I... thought I did. [...] But maybe not.

[She can't put a face to the name. The only person she knows with a Clover in their name is Carl, but come on, man. Their world can't be that small!]

[...]

Well, anyway, what did...what did Mr. Hakumen inform you about?

[... ...

Great. Here she was, ready to unleash this whole explanation, and now that it's actually time she's completely lost.]

A... A lot of things. [...] Kazuma... can I ask you one more time? Are... Are you sure you're ready to hear this?

[...She's asking him again? Ready to hear what she has to say? Sure. Prepared to deal with the results? Not so much.]

After years of searching for the answers, I'm not going to just back away from something like this now. I need to know, Noel.

...okay.

[Deep breaths, Noel. You're not the one who's going to suffer here.]

What Mr. Hakumen told me... basically, you and I are kind of the same. [...] In a way.

...The same? You mean, you have trouble remembering things about yourself too?

[...oh, right.] I did. I... still do, a little, but I've figured some things out about myself. [...] Things that... I'm not...

[... ...]

...th-things that I wasn't happy about when I found out. [That she's still not happy about, but she doesn't want to make Kazuma dread this anymore. She's going to make sure that he's told the truth gently--something she wasn't able to have.] It's been over a year since then. I'm still not really comfortable with it, but... there's people. [Um.] People who are kind of like me, too, that I've met in Luceti.

[Her mind goes to Luke. Dammit, Luke, she wishes she weren't doing this alone.]

...you're one of them, Kazuma.

...[Noel's explanation was a bit vague. He's sure she didn't want to tell him everything all at once, all this anticipation was eating away at him. The way she was explaining this though, it sounded like....]

Are we...is there something that makes us different from most people? [Sans memory issues. It was rather strange to be considering Noel was like him somehow...]

Yes. [But okay, come on. This isn't twenty questions. This is... she...]

We weren't made... naturally.

[Private, February 9th]

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