>>20475337

That aside, though, you're not too sure what you think about the latest revelation of just how much of a horrific excuse for a human being you are.

Said revelation was so smugly and snidely provided by a white-haired, sharp-faced young man in a labcoat, pointedly standing at the other side of the elevator platform currently bringing you, him and your subordinate back up to the surface of a rather overtly-fortified Research and Development facility in Kamchatka, Siberia.

Said young man being the director of this very facility, and you suspect, the beau of your very attractive and very capable former partner, who in turn - because of some PR disaster you were directly and solely responsible for, in your recent and freshly-forgotten past - was stricken from the active duty roster and exiled here, away from the city, away from her calling.

Now, you're not too sure what it was exactly you did.

But you're sure, at least, that it was horrible enough that your former partner had been made to suffer for it. Stripped of her rank, her very purpose, her very reason of existence. As a Magical Girl yourself, with your life measured in mere moments every time you venture out on a sanctioned assignment - one tends to hold on to such things with a death grip, a drowning man's desperate clawing at flotsam. It is all that is ever left for you, and you cannot imagine having it taken away along with everything else that you've lost.

Just how much have you forgotten? You have forgotten Kharn's existence in your life - six months' worth of memories, gone, just like that. A half-year blank, along with the other gaps in your mind. How can you conveniently forget a friend, after you've all but reduced them to a...a glorified secretary?

>>20475341

Your irritation at your unreliable memory - and the hot, cloying flush of guilt - is only eclipsed by your confusion.

Confusion from the fact that Kharn did not kill you the moment she saw you step down from the chinook's embarkation ramp.

It would have been the very least that you deserved.

You would have done exactly the same. Hell, you probably wouldn't have waited for the damn chinook to land.

Instead, she's greeted you like a long-lost friend. Comrade, she called you. Brought you into the prison she'd been exiled to, gave you lodgings. Gave you food, drink, whatever you needed. Treated you with nothing but a cheerful, polite familiarity and the warmth you've rarely seen coming from anyone else other than your personal goddess of luck and victory.

For someone referred to the Betrayer - for someone who looked like a finely-tuned killing machine than anything else - Kharn seemed to have forgiven you for whatever you've done to her. Forgiven you for ruining her.

You're not too sure why, but she did.

Whatever it is you've done to Valnikov Kharn, you are at least sure that you will never forgive yourself for it.

>>20475354

The rest of the trip resumes in silence - and it feels like an eternity before the grated steel platform underneath your feet rumbles to a halt, various machinery clanking and grinding around you as the heavy doors in front slide open. You squint slightly as the dimly-lit darkness of the elevator is banished by the remaining hours of sunlight reflecting off a snow-buried world it's opened to - and Midori, who is now holding your hand, shivers by your side as she pulls her own jacket tighter around her with her other.

With Souji well out in front - he didn't wait until the doors themselves were fully opened, seemingly loathe to spend another moment in the elevator with you - you follow him out to the base' concrete courtyard.

The bear-hunting, you gather, is being taken very seriously. Quite a few of the winter camo-garbed soldiers stationed around the base are milling about in their gear, some talking rather boisterously with each other while sipping from steaming mugs. Quite a few are gathered around a rather massive tracked vehicle - practically a flat-bed truck on treads - and they are arguing in hushed tones as they crouch over the currently-exposed engine.

Most, if not all of them, seem to be sneaking glances at the very center of the courtyard - where the object of your guilt, Kharn, is loudly and rather feverishly arguing with a jacket-clad Misaka, your arms dealer curiously without her stuffed Terminator toy.

>>20475379

You figure the reason for this is that the real version - that is, the nine-foot tall walking tusked monstrosity with spikes all over - is standing ready beside her, his previously-detached right arm now in the process of being reattached. Tools of varying complexity and outright outlandishness are spread out in an olive drab tarp beside Tiny Pete's massive feet - and it's then that you only see that some of the details in the huge robot's armor is in fact bronze reliefs of screaming demonic faces.

Whoever had built Tiny Pete had quite the sense of taste.

You remove your gaze from a particularly metal relief of a horned god sitting on top of a throne of skulls and focus it on Kharn. Your former partner has also changed her attire - that is, the half-worn cardigan removed fully, with a brown leather hunting jacket worn loosely over her rather curve-accentuating blouse. She also has what looks like the M91/30 variant of a Mosin Nagant slung over her shoulder, carrying it with an almost negligent familiarity.

Both her and Misaka seem to be rather snippy about something, snapping at each other in clipped, venomous Russian. You can faintly catch some terms here and there - trunking, servos and other things - but besides that, they may as well have been fighting over just how much more spikes to add to Tiny Pete's frame. During a particularly-heated exchange, Misaka lifts off her goggles to snap at the taller woman, brandishing a glowing welding torch at Kharn's direction - the latter merely repeating just what she'd said a moment later, in an obviously tense tone.

>>20475394

Souji shakes his head at this, and says something in the local language, his rough voice carrying over the chatter. Both girls look up at him, and you immediately see relief blossom in Kharn's face while a scowling disapproval comes over Misaka's. Misaka is quick to disengage from your former partner as she quickly finishes up with Tiny Pete's arm - before stomping over to her older brother and giving him a solid kick in the shin.

This sends Souji hopping on one foot, grasping his injured shin with the other, and some of the gathered soldiers laugh and jeer at this. More angry russian is spat as Misaka gesticulates wildly, pointing at Kharn, then at Souji, and then crossing her arms together.


"Looks like family trouble, Matsuda-sempai," Midori murmurs beside you, and you can't help but agree. You've decided to stay put a few meters away from them. It wouldn't really do to interrupt something like this.

Souji's attempt for a placating, apologetic tone lasts only for a few moments before he is now in a shouting match with Misaka - and Kharn is worriedly squeezing his arm, murmuring something in a rather contrite tone. A couple more moments of this, and it's then that the Director pulls his arm from Kharn's grasp, throwing both his hands into the air and then turning on his heel to stalk back into the base.

"Don't let her get hurt." He grumbles underneath his breath, his lab coat unfurling behind him as he passes you by.

>>20475403

You murmur to the affirmative, glancing at his retreating back before turning to look at the remains of your little party.

This bear hunting trip is off to a barely-auspicious start.

Well, at least both Kharn and Misaka seem to brighten up as they finally see you. Misaka in particular breaks into a run after exlaiming your name, all smiles, and she nearly tackles you into the snow-covered ground as both you and Midori make your approach.

Kharn offers you a warm smile, her crimson-pinned black eyes glowing from behind her glasses. "Ah, comrade Murderface. I trust your sleep was a peaceful one? I heard from Midori that you seemed to be having a nightmare of some sort. Is everything alright?"

Well, yes, of course. You just dreamed about her tearing you apart with a giant chainsaw, after all.

How do you respond?

"Everything's fine, what's the plan for the hunt?"

We should probably try to confront and apologize to Kharn for the past in private when we get the chance.

>>20475450

This, definitely. Kharn doesn't seem to hold a grudge for whatever we did, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't apologize and ask her forgiveness.

>>20475408
It was a bad dream, but it had a happy ending.

Please call me Chiaki, I don't remember much but I know that Murderface would be incapable of being Warmaster, but maybe Chiaki could handle the responsibility.

>>20475408

"More or less. Might have been something I drank, or didn't drink."

Must be some really tough bears that we're hunting, if it requires three MGs, an escort of soldiers, and Tiny Pete.

>>20475408
"So, what does everyone have? Are we all using hunting rifles or are we bringing bigger guns?"

>>20475482
Wait, what if Kharn has forgotten as well?

>>20475482

Kharn might have retired voluntarily due to some revelation she had upon discovering Murderface. Either she doesn't resent Matsuda's role in her (voluntary?) fall from power, or it's a very cold rage that she's nursing underneath all that warmth.

>>20475491
Either the bears are extremely tough, the bears are extremely screwed, or there's more than bears in them woods.

>>20475408
Well live

We better be using a smoothbore elephant gun. Nothing More modern then that.

>>20475408
"As right as it can be, really. What was all that about?"

>>20475491
>"More or less. Might have been something I drank, or didn't drink."
This, followed by
>>20475450
>what's the plan for the hunt?"

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>>20475516

There's all sorts of crazy bears in Siberia this year. White bears, brown bears, and ferro-fibrous bears.

>>20475450
This. Good option.

>>20475491
>read this
>realize there was a bear meguca in Madoka Magica, and another that uses teddy bears as weapons in Kazumi Magica
Oh boy.

>>20475531
>elephant gun

Siberian safari fuck yeah

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Bears? I'm hunting bear-wrestlers!

> the M91/30 variant of a Mosin Nagant slung over her shoulder
Ain't that the one Vasily Zaytsev was using?

Anyway, I'm pretty sure Pete is here mostly because Misaka wants to give him test run after repairs.

Also - Deculture, I would hate you for making the thread at the time like this (5AM here) if I didn't already love you much more for making it in the first place.

>>20475876
Speaking of which, what time is it for Deculture right now?

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Chiaki and Faust at the Xmas party

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It's time!

>>20475590 >>20475450

You manage to work up a small smile of your own, as strange as it feels to do so, before you reply. It must have been something you drank - or didn't drink - and it was nothing really worth worrying about, much less bringing up in conversation. You say this as you reach down and pat Misaka's head, her face still buried in the bulk of your jacket, her arms tight around you. It doesn't feel like she's crying, but with how the jacket itself is thick, you can't be too sure.

You give her another pat on the head just to be sure, and rest your hand there. Physical contact had always been a balm to Misaka's tantrums, but you get the hint that there's more to this than just her usual antics.

"Ah, I see. This I understand." Kharn says after a moment, her smile widening. "And you are still as secretive as ever. Always holding your cards close to chest, even if friends only want a small peek to find out which card to palm to you, eh?" She shakes her head, her long black hair swaying with the motion. "It is good to see that you still have your wits about you, but I would like this time and place for you to be able to relax even a little bit, I think." Its' then that her smile turns into a rather cheeky sort. "Even if you, ah, have been relaxing enough to sleep in the same room as your subordinate."

Midori opens her mouth to indignantly reply, her cheeks crimsoning, before you nudge her into silence with an elbow to her side. Kharn is clearly just ribbing the both of you, after all. If there's anyone who you can trust to not jump at conclusions right away, it's Kharn, making that little jab purely jest and nothing else.

You let Kharn amuse herself before you ask her about the plans for this hunt.

[1/2]

>>20475895
About midday

>>20475977
So he's Australian?

>>20476007
SG

>>20475975

"Ah, yes, of course." Kharn nods, before gesturing with one of her clawed hands towards the massive tracked vehicle that is now being refueled, the smell of diesel stinging your nose. "We will be using this to get to the hunting grounds, which is a few kilometers to the north, into the mountains. I have already sent an advance party to get the horde's blood riled up, as it is. This way, we do not have to wait for the bait to work before we can start killing."

It's a bit amusing how she uses 'killing' instead of 'hunting'. An interesting personality quirk, for someone with black skeletal claws for fingers and metal-plated limbs for legs and feet.

"We will be escorted by a ten-man team - just in case we are overwhelmed, or if we need more bait to work with-" This part she makes it a point to say quite loudly, bringing some hooting from nearby soldiers. "-and after we have killed enough, we will be taking the same route back, with our quarry, on the same vehicle. Or before sunset arrives, whichever comes first." KHarn nods again, with finality. "That is all, I am thinking, unless I am missing something...?" Her sentence ends with a querying note, and it's then that Misaka slowly disengages from you, her eyes slightly red. She scowls up at Kharn, before turning back to you, all smiles once more.

"Tiny Pete will be coming along, too." Misaka says, her voice slightly hoarse, probably from all the yelling earlier. "This one needs to make sure that repairs are taking, and combat routines are uncompromised." She must have seen the look of concern on your face that she blinks up at you, before pulling her goggles down to hide her eyes.

[2/3]

>>20476066

"A-anyway, Murderface, it is okay, isn't it? Misaka can bring along Tiny Pete to your bear hunt?" Three slits of bright green light encased in olive drab resin looks up at you pleadingly. "B-big Brother said that it was supposed to be for you, so...Misaka has to ask if it is okay..."

You blink at this, and Kharn stares pointedly at you before shrugging. Even Tiny Pete, with his tusked helm and crimson eye lenses, is looking at you with expectation. The other troops are looking as well, some of them looking at Tiny Pete with unabashed astonishment and excitement. Boys astonished at seeing a walking robot, even though you're positive that they have bigger ones walking around here somewhere.

What do you reply?

[]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.
[]Let's leave the walking tank back here in the base. A bear hunt is no place for Tiny Pete.

>>20476087
>[X]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

I don't see a problem with it.

>>20476087
This is the celebratory bear hunting and vodka drinking vacation party specifically to thank Misaka for her fantastic work with the rifle on Kirika.

Of course Tiny Pete can come! That's what Misaka wants!

>>20476087
[X]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

Ruffle Misaka's hair.

Of course Tiny Pete can come. He saved our life, it would be hideously rude of us not to let him join us in glorious bear hunting.

>>20476087
>not taking tiny Pete

Shoot whoever votes for that. We're taking him.

>>20476126
This.

Piledriving and hair ruffling are necessary.

>>20476132

Pretty much. The dude tanked a Bloodthirster for us.

>>20476087
>[x]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.
Make remark on Zaytsev's gun, because it is the same type (given QB's connections, it might even be the very same gun) and Chiaki is enough of a gun freak to recognise that.

>>20476087
Make it a German Suplex and he's in.

>>20476087

[X] Sure, Tiny Pete can come.

If we say no, Misaka will throw a tantrum that no amount of head-patting will stop.

>>20476087
[X]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

>>20476087
>[]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.
And why not, really?

[]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

And even if he doesn't, we need a drawfag on this.

>[]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

Answer with "Is the snow white? Of course Tiny Pete can come!"

Is there any reason NOT to take Tiny Pete with us?

>>20476202
It'll annoy Kharn for reasons unknown.

>>20476207
Kharn doesn't seem to care, really.

>>20476194
By the end of this day, snow shall be crimson~

[x] Take Pete.
And let's hope he doesn't scare the bears away.

Well, just beat Mass Effect 2, looks like a good time to go to be-
>New MGNQ

>[x]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

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>>20475915
It's not a perfect shop, but now it's Chiaki & Faust. Or at least closer to.

[]Sure, Tiny Pete can come. As long as he piledrives one of the bears for me.

...did she say bear horde?

>>20475916
>>20475744
>>20475531

reminder

Well, how many bears will Tiny Pete piledriver?

>>20476087
Yes. It'll be interesting to se what he can do against something that isn't a crazy nightmare-demon.

>>20476546
Choke-slamming a dire bear. I can see it.

>>20476546
Provide an eloquent real-life demonstration of the Chunky Salsa rule?

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>>20475895
Speaking of time zones, i found this yesterday and was amused.

I wonder what Kharn meant by her saying this?
>"Ah, I see. This I understand." Kharn says after a moment, her smile widening. “And you are still as secretive as ever. Always holding your cards close to chest, even if friends only want a small peek to find out which card to palm to you, eh?"

It was just a dream, albeit a disturbing one. And probably one that will make us ask that Misaka and Midori, and others whore are not combat specialists, stay far away during the Gold Weapon training.
Also. You know if Souji has been told about us... I wonder why he's consistently insulted or been hostile to us.

I mean, Kharn was surprised that we didn't shoot his knees out just when he gave his "I'm not impressed" first impression.

What was this guy thinking, mouthing off to somebody who he has only heard stories of violence about?

>>20476661
He was being the stupid older brother of Misaka who probably survived this long by being able to avoid getting hurt due to whatever powers that he has

>>20476621
I call bullshit, Mami's drills never un-drill.

>>20476248 >>20476114 >>20476102

You smile down at your arms dealer - and despite her strangely-wrought goggles covering half her face, Misaka has never looked more like the child she was. It's easy enough to forget that, considering here ease of handling a rifle twice as long as she is tall, and that she had single-handedly brought something like Tiny Pete to lumbering, demon-smashing life. But she is still a child, a little sister you've never hand.

You ruffle her hair and tell her that yes, Tiny Pete can come along. But only if he performs certain wrestling maneuvers on any bears he comes across during the hunt.

Misaka all but positively beams at this, whooping before jumping up and throwing her arms around your neck in an embrace. "Thank you, Murderface! Misaka will not forget very kind, very pretty, and much BETTER big sister Murderface!" Misaka turns around to glare at Kharn, goggle-slits flaring, and the taller woman blinks at this, looking rather mollified. The arms dealer sticks her tongue at your former partner, before letting go and then fussing around Tiny Pete once more.

You glance towards the huge, walking monstrosity - and you have the strangest feeling that he's looking right back at you. You give it a nod, and after a moment, it nods back, courteously, before turning around to face Misaka as she continues to double-check his systems.

Kharn manages to work up another smile before shaking her head. "Now, this one is surprising. Murderface, you...you will make a good mother, someday. But most likely not right now, as you spoil children far too much." She laughs, slightly, ignoring Misaka grumbling at her from behind Tiny Pete's bulk. "But there is at least a tender side of you. At least you have not forgotten that."

[1/2]

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For the curious, Misaka is wearing these glasses.

>>20476715
We're not spoiling her. Misaka earns every concession, head pat and hair ruffling we dole out. She always does a good job.

>>20476703
Take it up with the artist? It's on the first page of results in your favorite 'booru.

>>20476767
This. Misaka has saved our arse on more than one occasion, she deserves those head-pats

>>20476765
>Yuri goggles, maximum power!

>>20476810
The yuri goggles are always at full power

I didn't think we HAD a tender side.

Really, the whole amnesia thing felt like that moment when the Grinch suddenly feels his heart grow 10 sizes and helps save Christmas.

Some of the stuff we've done were examples of incredible personal restraint and tolerance -- such as not shooting Sayaka in the face when literally the first thing she did to us was try to stab us in the back at Mami's house, and then blame us for not having gotten here sooner. (Did she also object to our busting in through the door into the room Mami was fighting the Witch? I can't recall if that happened or not.)

Also, when we had every reason to suspect Sayaka of betrayal (the "bluebird") and being the one responsible for Mami being kidnapped by Kirika. And when Sayaka called it our fault that we didn't do this properly, further blaming us. We had a Golden Weapon in our hand at that time, too. And we ended up sparing her and asking for a truce.

I half-suspect that Sayaka's intention in suggesting to Mami that they warn Kirika, was because Sayaka was hoping that Kirika and Murderface would end up killing each other. So that "You didn't do it properly, Murderface!" comment of her's felt REALLY obnoxious.

...

Really, how has Sayaka not provoked us to murder her, or even shoot her, but ended up with a picture of Butler!Kyoko we had?

And what is it with stupid people constantly mocking or screwing with somebody who had long held a reputation for psychopathy and hyperviolence?

Is it some strange game of Chicken played with Darwin Awards or something?

>>20476860
I think it is more people being overconfident and not expecting that sheer rape we could bring should they push us far enough

And Sayaka has been alternately lucky and actually showed she can avoid being a bitch at times to end up with the butler Kyoko picture

>>20476803

Yeah. She saved our lives against Kirika, and Tiny Pete saved our and Kyoko's lives versus the demon.

Also, Misaka makes some of our weaponry.

Keeping that in mind, a few head pats are simple enough.

And besides, we get to see Tiny Pete wrestle a bear! Who says we're not also indulging *ourselves* here?

>>20476715
[x] Demur. You did forget it, you think. You're just glad -- and fortunate -- that you found it again.

(Yeah, I know, it's not really vote time.)

>>20476860
Well, we are currently avoiding the shield due to Elder God corruption, so if we want to ballistically implant lead in someone's brain we have to do it the fair way, which sort of neutralizes our biggest advantage over everyone else.

>>20476929
While I agree that we generally should avoid using the shield, because of Pinky, we do need to keep her from getting impatient with us.

I say we use the shield to dispense a random weapon, just to see what sort of fun we can play with the bears.

>>20476715

Tender side. Right. Your tender side usually comes up only to shooting someone in the kneecaps because you don't feel like shooting them in the face. Mostly for convenience's sake than anything else, really.

But as it was, you had no reason to refuse - Misaka had saved your life twice, after all, if you count her providing you with Tiny Pete at your last mission. It'd be quite petty of you to refuse.

"Understandable." Your former partner smiles, nodding. "Now, ah, let us get you kitted out, yes?" She looks you up and down, her crimson-pinned eyes narrowing at your heels. "...Oh, very stylish, Murderface, but I think you will have difficulty treading snow with those, hmm? Come, let Midori attend to Misaka for a while, and let us get you armed and ready for this murder-make. It would be remiss of me to simply let you face the horde without proper gear, after all."

Horde. Why is she calling a bunch of bears a 'horde'? Why would a bunch of fat, meandering piles of fur qualify for such a descriptor?

You ask her this before nodding at Midori, who give you a smile and quickly acquiesces, moving over to Misaka's side but not before bumping fists with Tiny Pete, the terminator returning the gesture. The snow crunches underneath your feet as Kharn leads you around the tracked vehicle, where a table full of high-caliber rifles and ammunition is set up. This, along with equipment that you would expect from anything OTHER than a simple bear hunt, makes you wonder just what sort of bears you'd be facing.

Because, grenades. And C4. And other things you only see in an operator kit.

What are you hunting, a goddamn crime organization made up of bears? A bear mafia?

[2/3]

>>20477005
Either these bears are voracious engines of destruction, or these are not the kind of bears that we expected.

>>20477005
It's a good thing Tiny Pete's coming along, I guess.

>inb4:
owlbears

Money's on some form of "oh, genetic experiments gone horribly wrong. So we let them loose to hunt!" So Bear-anids.

>>20477071
Or worse, robot bears.

>>20477043

We're fighting the dreaded double-bear.

Instead of eyes, it has bears! On each arm from the elbow up, is a bear! And each of its feet are also bears! And when it roars, all the other bearmouths join their voices to form an unholy and unbearable cacophony!

>>20477043

Clearly these are Warbears. Being fired from Soviet APCs. Into the air.

Kyuubears

You know, before all this starts, we should really check our soul stone. That dream is really bothering me still.

>>20477043

Shit. Are we facing down the bear cavalry?

>>20477071
>>20477114
>>20477123
>>20477139
>>20477140
I can't bear this shit.

>>20477153
We checked it while Midori was cooking
Ours and hers were clean enough.

>>20477153
It was fine yesterday, we're not In Despair. S'all good.

>>20477169
That was before the dream. I say we check it again, just to be sure. I mean, we are already bringing Tiny Pete along...

>>20477158
Bears riding larger bears, all armed with Kalashnikovs.

I'm thinking it was genetically modified bears that escaped the facility, and now they have to regularly cull the population before it gets too dangerous.

>>20477005
>Secret weapons lab
>Bears that require C4 to take down

This has to be connected somehow, or maybe it's just former Soviet crazyness.
Taking an elephant gun looks like a good idea to me.

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>>20477164
Whatever they are, they're surely bear-y dangerous! But I'm sure it's nothing to pic related over.

Maybe along with an elephant gun, also take a howitzer (in case we get swarmed by bears) or something with ferocious firing rate. And maybe some kind of RPG or explosive, too?

Guys, you know that since we brought Tiny Pete, we have one more person to kill if we do go flesh of fallen angels right?

Actually, that is a good thing. One more person to stop us before we kill Misaka or Kharn.

>>20477005

"Ahaha! Nothing of the sort." Kharn chuckles. "But, ah, the bears here have been...quite difficult to put down, yes? They are multiplying, faster than we can hunt them. And there has been reports of some of them being quite big, big enough to rip a tank in half. And they attack in groups, or as we have started calling them, hordes." She gestures to the table of hardware. "As such, we leave nothing to chance. In any case, you are free to choose to take one - compliments of our base, of course." She winks.

You look down at the table of rifles.

Which one do you choose?

[]A Model M91/30 Mosin Nagant, similar to Kharn's but not as worn-looking.
[]A CZ-550, seemingly fresh out of storage and recently maintained. There is, however, stains of dried blood on the stock.
[]A brand new Remington 700 Action.
[]Go with what your Shield gives you.

>>20477330
[x]Shield Pot luck. If it's Golden, throw it back.

>>20477330
[X]Take all of them.

The only answer. We *are* gonna face a horde, after all.

>>20477330
>[]A CZ-550, seemingly fresh out of storage and recently maintained. There is, however, stains of dried blood on the stock.
Just means it's been used proper. But also
>[]Go with what your Shield gives you.

>>20477330
[x]Shield Pot luck. If it's Golden, throw it back.

Grab the nugget if we get something golden.

>>20477330

GAU-8 Avenger. Failing that, a Bushmaster 25mm autocannon.

Something tells me we're gonna need at least a Browning M2HB.

We should timestop sometime to allow Pinky to take part in the bear hunt. We can't have her feel too left out.

>>20477327
Didn't she manage to kill him in her dream?

Shield pot luck.

If it's golden, grab the Remington 700

>>20477330
[X]Shield -Storm bolter-

>>20477330
>[x] Remington 700 I guess

The shield may hack up a golden weapon. It may also catch Kharn's attention enough so that she will want to see us in action with it. This can lead to not fun times.

>>20477330
Torn between
>[]A Model M91/30 Mosin Nagant, similar to Kharn's but not as worn-looking.
as Kharn probably has a good idea of what's most effective in hunting bears out here, and
>[]A CZ-550, seemingly fresh out of storage and recently maintained. There is, however, stains of dried blood on the stock.
since it shows signs of being well-kept and probably reliable in functioning. Hrmmm.

Not the shield. We can't take the chance to make the dream come true.

>>20477330
[X]A CZ-550, seemingly fresh out of storage and recently maintained. There is, however, stains of dried blood on the stock.

It's a fucking elephant gun. We want it for this.

Also peruse through our shield for a bit, see what shiny new toys pop up.

>>20477330
Shield

>>20477387
Sounds good, it can be a way to show her we still do think of her

>>20477394

Yes, but we can try not to recreate that scene. In the hope of avoiding it.

>>20477330
[x]Go with what your Shield gives you.

What's the worst that could happen?

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[x] Open this.

>>20477330
Cz-550

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>>20477387

>>20477456

Just make her promise to just shoot at bears.

>>20477387
Yeah, no.

>>20477474

Let her know that what bear, not human, only bear, that she kills count towards our kill tally, and we really want to win this bear shooting contest.

We might even share porn with her afterwards as a gift.

This way, we do not have to reveal that the people we are hunting with are important to us.

>>20477330
[x]A Model M91/30 Mosin Nagant, similar to Kharn's but not as worn-looking

Fuck every other weapon, we in Russia.

>>20477330

[x]CZ-550

Also, see if any of them come with scopes.

>>20477456
That is the best spider ever

>>20477539
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozn31QBOHtk

>>20477489
>We might even share porn with her afterwards as a gift.
We should have done that when she appeared in the plane. With the message for her to not come back until she learned the trick with the tongue.

>>20477562
I wanted to do that as well.
The reaction would have been brilliant,

We need to do it next time she appears.

>>20477330
[X]A Model M91/30 Mosin Nagant, similar to Kharn's but not as worn-looking

I love nuggets.

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>>20477330

Mosin.

>>20477330
[x]Shield Pot luck. If it's Golden, throw it back.

>>20477330
A moist nugget

We trust Kharn's choice in weapons even if we can't trust her in many other things due to cryptic warnings

>>20477511 >>20477362 >>20477339

After a moment's consideration, you pick up the M91/30 Mosin Nagant, mirroring Kharn's choice of rifle, and she is visibly pleased at this. "Ah, an excellent choice, comrade Murderface! I was expecting you to pick this one--" she reaches down to gently place the curved tips of her claws on the bloody stock. "--because, ah, this is the most prudent choice for this hunt. A proper elephant gun, a large caliber that can topple even the biggest bear in this parts with one shot. But where is the challenge there?"

She gives the massive rifle a pat. "This is also Souji's own hunting rifle. As you can see, it is a bit...unused, but I have made sure to maintain it always." Kharn stifles a giggle. "The bloodstains may look rather legendary and heroic, but that is when he broke his nose due to the stock breaking his nose. He was holding it wrong, and did not probably brace himself for the recoil." She shakes her head and sighs. "He gave up hunting after that, which is a pity. He is just as good as his sister in marksmanship, if not better."

You stifle a smile yourself as you sling your new rifle over your shoulder.

If that's the case, then, what does Souji do for amusement here, besides his research?

At that question, your former partner crimsons. "W-well, I...I believe he reads books, a lot. Long, dry books that make you fall aslep at the first page." It's then that she smiles, again. "A-and going on internet forums and proving people wrong. Sometimes he takes a very long time, enough that I have to drag him to bed."

Right. That sounds like something he'd do, the basement-dwelling nerd.

[1/2]

>>20477869
Oh god he is a fa/tg/uy
Next we will find meguca wargame mini's in his room or something

>>20477869
>that is when he broke his nose due to the stock breaking his nose
Oh God my sides.

>>20477869

Proving people wrong on the internet

Deculture, it is almost as if you want me to spill my milk all over my computer.

>>20477897
We need to get a drawfag onto this.

Kharn dragging Souji away from a computer, as he flails around and yells "But I can't go to bed! Someone is WRONG on the INTERNET!"

>>20477869
>what does Souji do for amusement here, besides his research?
>At that question, your former partner crimsons.
Hmm.

>>20477869
>At that question, your former partner crimsons.
And she sharems a room with her, doesn't he? So no locking doors.

>>20477890
>meguca wargame
GET ON IT GUYS

>>20477869
>Long, dry books that make you fall aslep at the first page
What if they are actually books about megucas?

>>20477953
>>20477933
I don't think Kharn would be too embarrassed about that,
Maybe she joins him in his nerdy past times?

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>>20477933
Built mahou shoujo mecha

>>20477869
Kharn also reads porn of murderface I bet,
Since it has been around a while and has gone through the office for quite some time...

>>20477970
That's possible. Still, she was rather uncomfortable when the subject of their relationship was previously brought up.

>>20478011
True but I think she would be more embarrassed at the implications other than sex.
After all it seems the others are pretty open about what they get up to.

>>20477869

Besides the rifle, Kharn instructs you to take a box of soft-point rounds, amounting to around 50 shots - as well as a headset, tuned to the general frequency. You load five rounds into the scopeless rifle, place the remainder in your inventory, and pull the headset on.

It's at this point that you decide to rack your shield. The rifle's handy, but you'd like something to rely on just in case crowd control became an issue. Sure, you have the Golden Desert Eagle already in your inventory, but...you'd rather not rely on it until your treatment, whatever that was. Your nightmare might have very well been a warning, and one you decide to follow.

What comes out is...a rather oversized pistol that's a bit blockier than most. Unlike the golden, finely-wrought elegance of your golden desert eagle, you get this...sharply-angled, black stubbed monstrosity of a pistol, with a curved magazine jutting out angrily in front of the grip. The polished metal surface is covered with what looks like scripture, written in tiny acid-etched letters - at least, the surfaces not bearing ornate decorations of skulls, eagles, and skulls with eagle wings.

You turn the beastly firearm around in your ands, before pressing what looks the most like a magazine release, and the heavy curved magazine slides away into your other hand. The loaded rounds are not, in any way, recognizable - looking less like bullets and more...miniature rockets.

You shrug at this, before replacing the magazine with a rather satisfying crunch, and then stashing the gun in your inventory. At least it didn't turn out to be another golden weapon. You'd like to enjoy killing bears without worrying about going crazy, this time.

[2/3]

>>20478069
aw
sheet

>>20478069

I hate to admit it, but I am too newfag at 40K to know which weapon that is.

>>20478096
Pretty sure it's a bolt pistol.

>>20478096
It's a bolt pistol. Probably.

>>20478069
>Bolter
TIME TO BRING THE EMPERAH'S JUSTICE TO BEAR

>>20478096
Bolt pistol. Like a Bolter, but pistol sized.

>>20478096
Bolt pistol
Standard sidearm of space marines and special side arm for IG commanders / VIPs of the imperium

>>20478102
>>20478103
>>20478108

Thanks good anons!

>>20478107
That pun was just unbearable.

>>20478107

But will it bring Sajuuk to bear?

>>20478107
Beware the alien; the mutant; the bearetic

>>20478130
I know Chiaki's shield is pretty amazing, but I'm fairly sure a world shattering spaceship cannon won't fit.

File: 1345964974467.jpg-(59 KB, 700x400, sajuuk to bear.jpg)

Picture somewhat related.

>>20478141
That was a rather grisly pun.

>>20478158
Oh I don't know, I thought it was bearable.

>>20478147
It contains a full sized battleship.
A world shattering cannon is small time

>>20478179
And a wing of migs.

>>20478147

Watch as Deculture show Sajuuk coming from the shadow of the moon at night and meet bear diplomats. For tea parties.

>>20478175
>>20478158
>>20478141
>>20478130
>>20478107

You fuckers have just been *waiting* for the bear hunt, haven't you.

>>20478158
You've got my opinion on it polarized.

>>20478187
Oh yeah, i'd forgotten about that.

In case of emergency, deploy MiGs at bears.

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>>20478179
Well... just remember that thing is a bit bigger than a battleship. It's a giant ancient space ship. Where the ships can and are measured in distances of Kilometers.

>>20478179

What are the dimensions of Sajuuk anyways?

Planet sized? Moon sized? I briefly remember it being similar in size to the angel moons.

>>20478190
I just couldn't take it any longer.

>>20478190
We've been in hibernation, so to speak.

Can't we unmount the cannon off a MiG and use that?
Or better, unmount two for DUAL WIELD? Or give them to Pete so that he uses them as autocannons?

But what if we ask Misaka to convert the Migs to TSFs?

>>20478220
Dude, Bolt pistol. Its made for killing Orks and Heretics alike.

>>20478208
Wiki states 5 kilometres. Which is what, 3.1 miles? In length, that is.

>>20478150
I laughed then I cried a bit. First was still better IMO.

>>20478208
Five kilometers long.

>>20478069

"Have all you need, then, Murderface?" Kharn asks, and you nod before taking another headset for Midori. "If that is the case, then I will have these placed back in the armory. After which I will introduce you to the troops - it is time the realized who they answer to, now."

...Wait. Introduce you to these soldiers? But you're still not Warmaster, not officially! You're still in training!

"Nonsense. In training, yes, but also a Warmaster. The rank itself is official even when you are still learning to be one." Kharn grins claps you on the shoulder, and you could feel the brutal tips of her claws press lightly against your skin through your clothes. "Do not be so shy, Murderface. Relish your rank. Being Warmaster is to be in rarified air - breathe now and breathe deep, for you do not know when you will not be able to, any longer."

...Kharn is the only person you know that can sound reassuring and ominous at the same time.

"Ahahaha! Father has always said it is my best talent!"

After a few more moments of wondering if you should really pack as much C4 as you could into your inventory, it's then that you make your way back to the other three participants in this little hunt - and Midori smiles her thanks as you toss her the headset. She puts it on, while seemingly taking in your new look.

"Nice gear, sempai." The green-haired girl remarks, grinning. "You should probably look into making that your signature weapon, sempai. You kinda look cool with a rifle."

Cool, huh? Maybe you should. Mami's rifles have never failed to add to her style, giving her that extra, uneeded but definitely essential last bit of class whenever she fights.

[3/4]

>>20478302
Yes, we'd look delightful with a gold-plated rifle.

I wonder where we could find one...

>>20478283
>>20478246

Much shorter than I imagined it to be. Thanks anons.

>>20478272

I believe everyone share that opinion.

Unrelated, but I cannot resist posting this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2AhjhYWDUM

>>20478326
Don't even think about it,
Pancake goddess is off limits for murdering

>>20478408
>murdering
>not posing with her rifle in one hand while brofisting Kyoko as part of our campaign to introduce ourself as the new Warmaster.

>>20478408

Not now. Only when we have to. Absolutely have to.

Also Mami's golden rifle is one shot only. It has minimum tactical use against multiple enemies.

We need a hat.

[X]Reach into the Shield and withdraw a suitable hat.

>>20478440
Mami's rifles, yes, but the Incubator said that the weapons will change form based on the wielder. Golden FAL, anyone?

>>20478302

You stare silently at your subordinate, before making a note about teaching her to shoot today. Maybe a few shots with your supervision. With your work, she would need to be able to shoot just in case you yourself are unable to.

It's then that Midori notices you staring that she herself colors slightly. "W-what is it, sempai? Is there something on my face?"

You blink, and then shake your head. You ask her if she needs anything else, and she shakes her head, holding up her own smartphone.

"Got what I need right here, sempai. I don't really go for guns, so I'll just be taking pictures. Well, at least until the shooting starts, anyway. I don't think I can look at fluffy bears being reduced to hamburger."

There's...really not much else to take photographs of besides the snow and such, but you leave her to her devices. You glance towards Misaka and Tiny Pete - and your arms dealer gives you a thumbs up as she slaps the ceramite armor of the Terminator's right arm, which seems to be finally fixed and ready for action, by the way its massive fingers are easily flexing and crunching into a fist.

You turn to Kharn, and you confirm that your team is ready. She nods at this, before placing a clawed hand on your shoulder and loudly clearing her throat.

The rabble of the soldiers descend into silence, and for a moment, there is no sound except for the wind howling.

[4/5]

>>20478408
Uh, we don't need to murder Mami to get her guns. Hell, she probably doesn't even have them any more, one of those Culexus probably picked them up.
Or Charlotte still has them. Ain't that a scary thought?

>>20478491
>fluffy bears being reduced to hamburger
If only she knew...

>>20478491

"
"Soldiers of Kamchatka," Kharn begisn to address the soldiers, speaking no louder than her usual volume of speaking, and yet it carries easily throughout the entire courtyard. "Allow me to present Chiaki Matsuda, or as I refer and fondly remember her as, Murderface. She is the Officio's current Warmaster - a rank I once held, but no longer."

She pauses for a moment before continuing. "This is not any issue with me, for Murderface here, dearest of all my friends, is much more suited to the role than I will ever be. Please, recognize her now as the highest ranking officer present! Her authority is my authority, and present yourself with the utmost respect in the duration of her stay. Most importantly, conduct yourselves as befitting of soldiers, especially during this hunt. She is joining us, here, along with her own aide and the younger sister of our Director. Try not to make a mockery out of yourselves in their view."

A smile curls Kharn's soft, unpainted lips as the men start to laugh.

"Very well, this is not our first hunt. Remember, never venture out alone, make sure your quarry is suitably dead before even thinking of approaching it..." And it's then that your former partner's smile grows wider. "And if I hear a single bear joke out of anyone, I will kill them with my bear hands."

Even more laughter, this time, and Midori joins in, before clapping a hand over her mouth and looking rather embarrassed.

"Then those chosen to participate in the hunt, let us not waste any more time. The rest shall keep watch, and wait for us to bring home dinner." She claps her unnatural hands, once, the slap of flesh edged with metal slapping together. "You have your orders. Move."

[5/6]

>>20478696
She used our new name. Well well.

>>20478696

The command is not shouted out but it has the effect of a gunshot, and the entire courtyard bursts into action. Midori and Misaka being assisted into the cab of the treaded vehicle, while the soldiers make to board the flatbed. Tiny Pete, you hear, will be plodding in behind the vehicle.

Letting out a sigh, Kharn turns toward you, a soft smile on her face.

"It will be nice to kill things with you again, comrade Murderface. But, ah, you have been keeping something from me, are you not?" Her crimson-pinned eyes gleam from behind her glasses. "Come on, you can tell Kharn. Let us reveal our feelings before we bond in the act of murder."

You blink up at the expectant face of your former partner.

What do you say?

[]Nothing. Let's go kill some bears.
[]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.

>>20478696
>And if I hear a single bear joke out of anyone, I will kill them with my bear hands.
Hurr hurr hurr hurrrr

>>20478756
[x]Explain that we do not know what we have done anymore, but everyon except Kharn keeps making a big deal about it. We just want everything level.

But we can't apologise for something we don't remember doing. If we do remember, we will apologise if appropriate.

Professional.

>>20478756
>[x] Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.
And while we're at it, let's ask her what exactly it is that we did. Try to recover some of those lost six months.

>>20478756
>[X]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.
"I can't remember the details, but I know it's my fault you had to retire out here. For what it's worth, I'm sorry, and thank you for not hating me for it."

>>20478756
>[x]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.
"Souji told me that i wronged you. I'm ashamed that i could do something like that and just... forget."

Plot, hoooo.

[x] Tell her about Souji saying we are the cause she's freezing her ass off in Siberia and no longer a Warmaster, and say we don't remember what exactly did we do, but we will apologise for ruining her life when we remember

>>20478756

[]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.

"Look, whatever happened to get you sent out here... I can't remember what it was, but I'm sorry for my part in it. Is there anything I can do to make it right?"

inb4 "Do for me? You can die!" My paranoia has my ambush meter going crazy right now

>>20478756
[X]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.

Why do you treat me like a friend, like a comrade?

I don't know what I did but I know you losing your post is my fault, I know you being here is my fault. Why aren't you mad at me? I hurt you, maybe even betrayed you and you have taken me in, taken this broken thing that on rare occasions resembles a proper person and been kind to me. Why? What did I do?

>>20478756
[x]Quietly apologize for whatever you've done.

>>20478772
This.

>>20478828
I like this.

Although, i suspect that the answer to the question is "camaraderie between betrayers."

>>20478772
This is good.

>>20478756

Oh, and I don't suppose we can throw in the question:

How do you do that? The troops actually like you. If I'm meant to be warmaster, how am -I- meant to manage that?

>>20478756

[x]Nothing. Let's go make some heads explode, we can have tender hair-braiding girl time later after we get sewn back together.

Smells of Chikuwa...

>>20478958
Yes, yes it does.

Also, this >>20478772

>Lurker from /u/

Can this character fall inlove with another magical girl and adopt a daughter with her? Please?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHywA1KsYlU

>>20478991
>Chiaki adopting a daughter
That would not end well for anyone involved.

>>20478958
Kharn themed Chikuwa image maybe?

>>20478991
Silly shipper, we'll have you arrested for disrupting canon!

>>20478991
Let's first work on not being splattered by our friends because we went crazy and tried to splatter them.

>>20478991
Puella Magi don't tend to live long enough to raise children. Other than that, lesbianism does seem to be mandatory.

>>20478991
Chiaki, relationships, love. Are you trying to make me snicker?

Our girl here is a broken shell of a human being who maintains a facade of sanity through force of will, pills and metric fucktons of alcohol.

If someone, other than our angel of pancakes and the maiden of the armory, touched us in an affectionate manner we'd freak out. We've been trying to get Chiaki on track towards being a better human being, but she is still not emotionally capable of handling a relationship.

>>20479058

Tell that to Kharn and Mami

>>20479074
And look at the lengths they're going through to hide their deviant straight-ness?

>>20479058
Not mandatory, but highly recommended. Sayaka in PMMM was straight and ended up killing three people, one of them being Kyouko.
Meaning lesbian magical girls are often more emotionally stable than straight ones. I don't know if this is true of all magical girls.

>>20479112

One might say that while lesbianism isn't mandatory, such relationships might be a bit more successful in some ways. There are no magical guys, so your partner would invariably be a normal person, and would have a harder time understanding the horrors and stresses of such a job.

Other magical girls, on the other hand, know what you're going through, and it's easier to comfort one another and not expect too much.

On the other hand, if one of them dies, their partner is probably going to go berserk and/or witch out pretty quickly.

>>20479100
Can't use their reactions at the pilot and Souji as proof of their most abhorrent straightness. Not yet, at least.

>>20479149
Mami has a boyfriend, he was a security guard we met IIRC

>>20479144
Full of suffering whichever way they take. Meguca in its purest state.

>>20479179
what's a meguca

>>20479165
Thought that was fanfic.

>>20479199
It was confirmed in-thread during the flashback sequence, IIRC

>>20479196
A Puella Magi.
wiki.puella-magi.net/Meduka_meguca

>>20479210
Semi-confirmed. Mami had a secret significant other, but not much more was said.

And we probably punched him.

>>20479179
>Full of suffering whichever way they take

Not if they are Asexual Magical Girl's that like being solitary drifters.

>>20479220

And threatened to murder him if he ever upset her again. It won't scare him off, so we might very well get to gank him at some point.

>>20479179

That reminds me of Buddhism for some reason.

>>20479210
The only reference I could find to her getting, or having, a boyfriend in those threads are ambiguous at best.

>>20479254
Yeah, her romantic interest was referred to as "partner", if I remember correctly. It leaves the gender wholly ambiguous.

>>20479274
I believe the whole thing ended with Deculture softly rebuking him via having his character suckerpunched.

>>20479303
So does that mean Mami is single, or a lesbian. Because either one means wholly different things for our ability to procure pancakes.

>>20479351
>single
We make her gay for us.
>lesbian
Continue like normal.

>>20479359
This could be our route to a permanent pancake solution.

What if he dumped her (relatively common when normals find out his girlfriend is a magical girl) and her telling us to punch him was her way of getting back at him?

We have a pancake solution. Continue as current.

>>20479372

Oh, look. Another train. Though I'm quite happy to hop on this one. We need to arrange for an 'accident' to occur to Mami's partner, then convince her that cooking will cheer her up. Then we ride the pancakey comfort train all the way to cheerful oblivion.

>>20478828

As the massive treaded truck rumbles to life and begins to slowly make its way out of the base, some of the soldiers - and Tiny Pete - making to follow it on foot - it's then that you reach up with both hands to lower your headset, pulling the microphone away from your lips. Looking up at your former partner, whose wide, curiously-hued eyes are considering you with equal amounts of kind patience and childlike curiosity.

You clear your throat, breathe deeply, and ask her why.

Wincing inwardly at how weak - how vulnerable - your voice sounds as it trembles with every word.

Why? Why does she treat you like a friend, like a comrade, welcoming you with open arms? With her knowing full well that you are the reason why she has been exiled here, away from her friends, her life in Mitakihara?

Why does she treat you like this, a broken thing that only on the rarest occasions resemble a proper person - what have you done to be treated with so much kindness despite your horrific betrayal? Why does she not hate you, despise you, despite having all the right reasons to?

What did you do?

What did you do to deserve someone like her?

Kharn is silent as she looks at you, a stunned expression on her face. A moment, and it's then that she reaches out with her own brutal hands - and you inwardly flinch at seeing both brutally-clawed, unnaturally-elongated fingers come nearer.

[1/2]

We should, at some point, mount and ride Tiny Pete into battle against the bear hordes.

Also, pancakes are love. It might be more effective to get Midori to learn how to make them...

>>20479552
You do know that once she sees how we look at Mami and her stacks of pancakes I think she'll learn.

>>20479576
She'll never be able to make them as good though.

>>20479589
Of course she won't. But she'll try.

>>20479597
The danger is that she'll independently invent the whiskey pancakes.

I really don't want to see a two-month timeskip where we come out all jittery from having nobody but pinky and a tiny snowman we drew on the wall with syrup to talk to.

>>20479432

You close your eyes as you feel them rest on your shoulders. You open them again to see Kharn smile down at you.

"To see you like this, Murderface, it convinces me that you have truly forgotten. But you did not wish to forget. Something has made you, even when you have held onto your memories like a dying soldier clings to his gun."

Kharn leans in close, and you feel cool, soft lips press upon your forehead in a kiss.

"Perhaps, back then, it would have mattered. It does not matter now. I have long accepted my fate, and wear it as armor. My title as my weapon. Whatever had happened back then is history. If you have forgotten it - then why should I remember?" She draws back to look at you, and shakes your shoulders slightly. "All I will hold onto, Murderface, is how I enjoyed being your partner. You and our dearly departed mutual friend."

You blink at this. You...had forgotten someone else? Someone...who had already died?

Kharn nods after a moment. "It is better to find out now, than later, eh? Ah, but do not worry, she died a peaceful death. Painless. I made sure of it." She taps both your shoulders. "But we should not speak of it, not right now. Later, perhaps, when our bellies are full of vodka and our hearts brimming of regret. Then, I will tell you what I can. For now, we hunt."

You nod numbly at this. You have...forgotten too much. Simply too much.

It's then that you shriek and jump forward as you feel Kharn's cold, steel hands give you a slap on the behind.

[2/3]

>>20479597
>>20479589
Not only will she try, she'll ask us with every attempt.

Or, she'll steal some of Mami's delicious pancakes as a base sample, and invent by her lonesome.

But, since pancakes are love, they'd never come out as good unless she makes them for us.

So, we'll have pancakes forever, or never. Whichever.

>>20479617

"We are being left behind, Murderface!" Kharn's order is laced with laughter, none of the wistful melancholy in her words earlier. "Look, even Misaka's machine is ahead of us! We hunt!"

She runs forward, at the tail end of the hunting party, and it's with a grumbled curse that you give chase.

Your past, as you've found out, are much like pieces of a broken mirror.

You try to pick them up, but you only end up cutting yourself.

>>20479629
Clearly, we need to slap her on the ass at the most unexpected moment as recompense.

I recommend when she lines up her second shot.

>>20479552
Nah that is Misaka's trick.

>>20479617
That poor Culexus. I feel bad for her already.

>>20479661
What Culexus? Isn't she talking about Homura?

Has someone thrown this on the archive yet?

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>>20479629

And that's it for this thread!

The continuation will be tomorrow, regular time!

Sorry for the slow response time, the network has been less than accommodating.

Feedback as always is appreciated! Thank you for Nicehatguy for this thread's chikuwa sign, as well!

>>20479629
Is it just me, or are we giving ourselves a harder time than the people we've screwed over. Apparently we're the reason Kharn lost everything and she's forgiven us.But we still haven't forgiven ourselves for doing things we can't remember.

We need to move on with ourselves and stop living in our past if we want to stop being so self-loathing. Because at this point Chiaki is one hell of a downer to be around.

We would probably get long with people better if we weren't so depressing.

>>20479712
Thanks for running!

It was a good thread. But your posts were HUGE. I'm surprised you wrote so much between gaps.

>>20479688

Nah, we've been told that Kharn, Murderface and an as yet unnamed culexus were friends in the old days. It looks like our next flashback will be the story of the three of them.

>>20479688
Murderface used to know a Culexus. She's not around any more.
Now we know why,
>>20479713
You can't just drop life-altering events and pretend they never happened. We're dealing with this shit, and we're actually doing sort of okay at it.

>>20479713
Not really, everyone who hates us hates us because of how we used to act, we are just realizing what a cunt we were so we are trying to make amends which is part of becoming a better person

After all everyone seems to be happy with us getting better

>>20479712
Thanks for the thread. Can't wait for super-bear hunting, it's going to be amazing.

>>20479713
If we weren't so depressing we'd probably have shot off Souji's kneecaps. We do need to find a more middle-ground kind of position, but for now I'd rather we be able to hold a depressing conversation without murdering our acquaintances.

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>>20479712

Thank you for running the quest, Deculture! It was interesting to enjoy it at such a different hour than usual. You're the best!

>>20479725
Deculture has HUGE POSTS. That means that he has HUGE... uh... I think i have this joke backwards.

>>20479712
Thank you for questan at a time i can actually attend.
Unrelatedly, have you considered doodling an 'official' Midori, since she's the only one without a canonical appearance?

>>20479725

Sorry about that! I thought this particular point needed a bit more attention than usual!

Someone who knows how and won't screw up the tags should archive the thread, that doesn't seem to have hapened yet (or at least I don't see in on suptg under the usual tag)

>>20479688
>>20479661
... What if the Culexus was Homura?

>>20479713
And then there are bitches like Sayaka that rub on our face stuff we don't remember.
There's also the fact that our past will haunt us until we come into terms with it.

>>20479712

Thanks for running! Ummm, the only criticism I could level is a lack of choice, but I'm guessing that the choices we did make will be important later on. We're not moving forward very fast, but we are learning things that need to be resolved before we can properly move along. /being unnecessarily whiny

>>20479786
But we're Homura.

>>20479786
Everything points at her having been a Vindicare.

>>20479776
If tell me what put as tags and description I will archive it.

>>20479712
Cheers for running this today, I've had to deal with some heavy shit I wish i didn't have to, and this was a welcome distraction.

>>20479800
>>20479802
It was a joke, admittedly one that didn't really come across as one.

>>20479713
We deserve to be self-loathing. We can't just run from our past or forgive ourself.

We've hurt the people we care about and even though we don't remember how we did it we still need to atone.

If we want to improve who we are in the present we can't ignore who we once were. If we want to be more than just Murderface, if we want to really be Chiaki we can't ignore the past.

>>20479803
It's really damn simple. Just copy-paste the relevant tags from the previous threads.

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>>20479786

Maybe, but doubtful. The diary entries seem to hint that Homura as we understand her isn't around, and that Chiaki is some sort of bastardised version. That is my interpretation though, make up your own mind.

Compilation of the first three courtesy of some awesome anon...