Healing 02. DISASTER STRIKES!

[im_gonna_heal_u]

 Oh no, oh nooooooo!

[Konoka is flittering around, holding a rather neat paper. Glaring red letter are all over it.]

This is the worst thing ever! I know I can get Asuna levels of stupid, but flunking all of my classes?! I'm not an honor student!

Where am I going to find the Makeup Exam Tower? I don't even think I've done anything like that! Oh no, what will Secchan think...

[Konoka's been out of action for a while, having been practicing magic and preparing herself for the day that she could come back and be ready for her long delayed meeting with the Dark Assembly. But alas, in her hazy studying she sorta forgot the real aim of this place.]

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[im_gonna_protect_u]

[For someone who is worried about what Setsuna will think, Konoka is doing a crucial, fatal mistake on a monumental level.

The 'nooooooo', mostly. If anything can attract Setsuna, that is it. Especially in the Netherworld, where the rule of comedic catastrophy is in full effect at all times. A fluttering noise, a rush of wind, and a couple feathers mark her arrival (well, she hadn't been far, being a horrible stalker!), although she is now good enough that a)nobody saw the wings and b)she landed with them entirely gone.]

What happened, Konochan?! Are you alright?

[The paper? Setsuna isn't even looking at it.]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

S-secchan!?

[Well, Konoka's distressed and blabbing, so.]

N-nothing's wrong! It's not like I've flunked all my classes and now doomed to be an honor student!

[im_gonna_protect_u]

[Setsuna blinks. The special logic of this place makes this even more confusing.]

Would being a honor student not be good and honorable? It's good that you are one, then!

[Setsuna pauses, a look of frustration forming on her face - mostly due to her attempts at understanding demon logic. Sure, she had been here for a while, but that time had not been spent on trying to follow what the demons were thinking.]

Or was Honor student being bad? But why would it be honor student, then? This place makes no sense!

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Eeeehhhh?!

[But now she tried to think about it... and all of her dismay and panic was promptly taken over by confusion.]

Well, honor students are supposed to be jerks, and that's celebrated here, but... I wanna be more like me, so that means I'd have to be a delinquent too...

No, I don't get it.

[im_gonna_protect_u]

Being you is good enough...!

Maybe you could try to be a honor delinquent? If that's how it works here. I'm really not sure. They didn't even know what to do with me.

[Setsuna went to some classes dutifully, but of course wanted no part in the likes of torture, so she didn't exactly participate much.]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Eh?

[The logic is being processed...

She's got it!]

That's a great idea, Secchan! You're the best!

[I hope you don't mind that supertight hug, Setsuna. You're getting one. For serious.]

I'll be the best honor delinquent ever!

[im_gonna_protect_u]

[Setsuna is still in thought, wondering what to suggest to Konoka. Apparently, she is taking this very seriously. Therefore, the outburst takes her completely by surprise. She turns tomato-red instantly.]

W-what!? K-konochan what are you doing!? This isnt b- no, snap out of it Setsuna!

I-I'll support you? [This is added rather weakly, because, well, tight hug is kind of suffocating her. In a non-deadly way.]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

[Konoka cares not. 3 years has been wonderful to her chest, and even Secchan, lithe and thin as she is, has a little bit to bury herself into.]

You have to support me with love!

[im_gonna_protect_u]

[It is rather unfair to remind Setsuna of this, albeit indirectly - the would-be stoic swordswoman is doing her best to ignore it, after all! It's pretty hard when Konoka insists on, well, pressing the issue, so to say.]

Y-you know I'm there, ready to support you with anything you need! Just, uhm...

[Close enough to duty, so it's okay, evidently.]

[im_gonna_heal_u]

Yaaaay~

[Secchan is the best pillow, so the amount of caring about that inner turmoil is long gone.]

[im_gonna_protect_u]

[That still leaves Setsuna in a rather awkward position (mostly since she doen't know what to do with her hands). She ends up placing them on Konokas shoulder.

Not bad, no. That she is good enough to be a source of comfort for Konoka is, well, something really nice... Something she hadn't considered possible in the years prior.

...That thought, as nice as it is, makes her aware of the time, though. More specifically, the time they just spent hugging, in public...!]

K-konochan, s-shouldn't we start working on the honor delinquent thing for you...?