>>2605204
And the bad rolls continue

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>>2605204

(3-1)*2 against 6*3 - Ikuno wins against charm attempt

Futoshi takes stress damage of 18/2 = 9
20-9 = 11 Spirit remaining
---
Reserved Bookworm Ikuno
1) Athletics - 2
2) Loyalty - 2
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 3

Spirit: 5
---
---

Late Afternoon

"Eh, Ikuno-chan, can't you be less mean? We're both children in the Garden, should we get to know each other a bit better? Can't we be f-"

Your attempt at trying to reconcile yourself with her isn't particularly successful. With more strength than should be expected from a girl her age, she flings 'War and Peace' at your face. You wince as a rough edge of the book scrapes against your forehead, harshly grazing across it. Ikuno begins harshly attacking you, specifically railing against the fact that you are a boy.

"You're disgusting. You're also entitled. You're just like that filthy Pierre from that book. You think that just because you're a boy that you can barge in where you want and do what you what. You think you can try and be any girl's prince on a white horse just because you've got a pee-pee. Honestly, you disgust me. You and all the other boys who want to play knight in shining armour.Constantly getting in my way. Why can't I be the Prince Charming for once? Why don't you go annoy someone else? Crawl back to the common room to Code 556 and ask for flowers or something? Disgusting. Get out of here before I throw another book at your face."

It would be an understatement that Code 196's sudden denunciation of you bit into your pride - no, it outright mauled it. You manage to breathe in deeply, somehow managing to cry. You're a boy. Boys don't cry. Isn't that right?

[] Take a chair and throw it in her face for that {Both you and Ikuno use Athletic roll.}
[] Get out of the library and get ready for dinner.

>>2605214
[] Get out of the library and get ready for dinner.
Hahahahaha get fucked kiddo.

Ha! Owned.
[X] Get out of the library and get ready for dinner.

>>2605214
>[X] Get out of the library and get ready for dinner.
I knew this was going to happen, but of course people wanted to try and be charmers even with the disadvantage.

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>>2605228
>>2605222
>>2605231

Night -

You're managing. You've been through worse. You can cope. It's not like you're getting pruned. You can cope.

You quietly pick up 'War and Peace'. Just as discreetly, you crawl out of the library, out of Code 196's vicious glare and you make your way to the canteen.

---

Same old glop. Same old chewing. Bread, ham, potato, peas, soup, orange juice. You don't know how the other kids manage to graze on it when it's so meagre. It should've been as simple as "bite a piece of bread, take some peas, potatoes, soup, finally meat, then orange juice and repeat". Bite a bread, force in some peas, take in some potato, slurp a bit of soup, have a bit of meat, wash it down with orange juice. Bread, peas, potato, soup, meat, orange juice. Eat all your vegetables or get pruned. So damn simple.

Of course, you manage to be the first one to finish your dinner. You make your way back to the commons and retreat to the corner. Maybe this is just the way things are. Everything is a mixture of light and dark, a bit of good and bad. Good things don't mean anything unless there's some bad. You're waiting for the good times.

You clean up. You make ready for sleep.

You get into your bed. Another day, another disappointment.

---

You wake up. You get breakfast, this time without any conflicts over what spread you get.

Finishing breakfast, you hear a commotion as. Code 016, Hiro, arrived in the canteen. Once again, the children gather around him, as if he were a magnet for them. Code 326 and 015 were especially trying to get as close to him as possible. 196 was following 015.

Why did he in particular have to be popular? Why did he have to pull in the children while you repelled them? If Papa created the Children, why did you have to be so low and Hiro so above you?

---

Child Prodigy Hiro

1) Athletics - 4
2) Loyalty - 4
3) Skill - 4
4) Cunning - 4
5) Luck - 4
6) Will - 4

Spirit: 15

---

[] Retreat into your corner.
[] Go back into the library and mark a place as your corner.
[] Attack Hiro.

>>2605235
[] Go back into the library and mark a place as your corner

>>2605235
We need a source of Favour from somewhere, and that means either interacting to Kokoro/Master or befriending/seducing someone else with lower stats and then forcing them to befriend/seduce us.
[X] Retreat into your corner.

Like a crouching lion, we must observe our prey.

>>2605235
>[X] Retreat into your corner.

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>>2605243
>>2605280
There's something patently awful about Hiro's presence. He's a reminder of just how lowly you are. You are nothing compared to him. The moment he came into the room, you were reminded that you were just a common beast, whereas he was something more...

...Maybe all the previous negativity is getting to you. Hiro didn't do any wrong to you. Yet. But you certainly bet that you could not enjoy being one of those who idolised him. It would just remind you of how far removed you were from him. You guess that it would be for the best to stay in your corner and prevent yourself from acting brashly.

And so morning passes. It is now noon and you are left to your own devices.

[] Nap away.
[] Go to the library and mark out your own territory.

>>2605291
[] Go to the library and mark out your own territory

>>2605291
Well, hope we at least got some stress recovery from that.
> [X] Go to the library and mark out your own territory.

>>2605291
[] Go to the library and mark out your own territory.

>>2605291
[X] Go to the library and mark out your own territory.

We need to find a book in the library that will influence Futoshi to change.

As he is he's full of self loathing and learned helplessness who will just form an uncomfortable codependent relationship with his pistil, which will fuck him over in the long run.

We need to change his temperment, he's supposed to be a child soldier, maybe we need to read something that will make Futoshi more agressive or at least turn that misery and self pity into resolve, or anger.

rage can be one hell of a motivator and a pistil is more likely to respect us as a hotheaded pilot then a quiet pathetic one.

>>2605291
> [X] Go to the library and mark out your own territory.

>>2605486
Inb4 we find Naomi reading Mein Kampf. Genocidal Naomi tulpa when.

>>2605291
>[] Go to the library and mark out your own territory

>>2605486
Also would not hurt to eventually get him to exercise and build some muscle so he can defend himself.

>>260591
That is good
Another thing is to improve 214 Futoshi self-steem so he can stop overeating

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>>2605315
>>2605319
>>2605486
>>2605500
>>2605910

You decide to make your way to the library, dragging along your copy of 'War and Peace'. You take extra care to be vigilant given what happened there yesterday. Your forehead is still slightly sore from the impact of a tome crashing into your head.

You quietly make your way into the library. Only Code 015 appears to be here. She's reading a book. A cursory glimpse reveals to you that it is about 'War' and 'Art'. It's telling of your low status that she barely even notices your entrance.

---

Future Seitokaichou Figure Ichigo
1) Athletics - 2
2) Affection - 3
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 2

Spirit: 5

---

You go into a corner and stack some books. It's now the inviolable Futoshi Corner of the Library. If anyone tries to invade it, they're going to get through your little book fort, Code 196 included. Speaking of which, 196 is nowhere to be found.

[] Mind your own business and look for an interesting book to read.
[] Mind your own business and sit by yourself.
[] Charm Ichigo into having a discussion about the book. {Cunning: Mechanics page 75 of Maid RPG}
[] Trade 'War and Peace' for her book.

>>2606234
>[X] Mind your own business and look for an interesting book to read.

>>2606234
[] Mind your own business, BUT sit in the general view of Ichigo.
Maybe if she gets used to our company she won't be so mean.

>>2606234
[X] Mind your own business and look for an interesting book to read.

Let's look for something easier to read and with more value to Futoshi.

War and Peace is concerns itself over a lot of subject's not very useful to Futoshi at the moment.

What would be a good book for Futoshi to become influenced by?

Maybe something that teaches him something about traditional virtues. Being tough and strong, and how achieving greatness leads to happiness and respect.

>>2606509
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>>2606247

Talking with girls absolutely goes nowhere. The extremely difficult books that Papa stocks in the Garden's libraries are of far more value than talking to a girl could possibly ever give. You ignore the presence of Code 015 entirely.

You tiptoe through the bookshelves. You clumsily cause a small stack of books to fall.

You look at the small pile before you. There is an assortment of books. You feel drawn by fate to them:

[] "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius {+ 3 Will}
[] "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein {+ 3 Skill}
[] "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli {+3 Cunning}

>>2606585
OOC: Select one book and only one book.

>>2606585
[X] "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein {+ 3 Skill}
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGKNaIXtBZQ

>>2606585
>Talking with girls absolutely goes nowhere
GOD DAMN IT BOY NO!
Then again maybe this IS just what we want.

>[] "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius {+ 3 Will}
It's the best trait for a kid like us. Maybe now we can grow a spine.

>>2606585
>[x] "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius {+ 3 Will}

When in Rome...

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>>2606605
>>2606598
Afternoon.

Stiff Upper Lip Code 'Futoshi' 214

1) Athletics - 2
2) Loyalty - 2
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 5

Spirit: 50
Favour: 4
Binge Eater for Stress Explosion

~ 8 years old

---

'Marcus Aurelius'. Sounds like an important man. He probably has some important things to say. Indeed, there is a marble bust on the front cover. This man probably came before you most likely. You wonder what words of wisdom he has to give to you.

You begin reading it.

---

You've gone midway through the book. It is surprisingly accessible for one of Papa's books. It's not too full of unpronounceable garbage and you are already beginning to feel what message it is trying to give you: 'stop worrying too much'.

That in itself creates a bit of a problem. First however, there is your rumbling belly to deal with.

---

Code 326 is nowhere to be seen. Are they pruning him?

Never mind. None of your business.

As you finish your lunch, the problem created by Meditations rises to the forefront again. You really aren't too particularly concerned about the bad things happening around you - a great burden has been lifted off your shoulders. It is precisely because of this that you don't see any particular sentimental value on what to do - not that it's a bad thing, although it certainly reminds of you the occasional other child emotional husks that get come back into the Garden after 'maintenance'.

The question was where to go and not give a damn about the things happening around you. Where would you calmly mind your own business in your little corner?

[] In the commons
[] In the library
[] In the flower garden

>>2606695
>[] In the flower garden

>>2606695
>[X] In the flower garden

>>2606695
>[x] In the flower garden
We can think about 2deep4us stuff while looking at pretty flowers and bugs.

>>2606695
>[X] In the flower garden

>>2606695
[X] In the flower garden

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>>2606749
>>2606738
>>2606719
>>2606780
>>2606875

You decide to go to the flower garden.

You be honest, it was more "invade" the flower garden. Maybe "invade" was a little excessive, but your presence wasn't exactly that wanted. The flower garden belonged to the girls - as an unspoken rule. Of course, you knew about your somewhat repellent nature.

In the end though, you suppose that if they wanted to glare and hiss at you, then that was their problem. It's not like you were going out of your way to attack them or anything. Just set up a little Futoshi Corner and mind your own business - that was the usual procedure and given your past experiences, it had worked wonderfully.

And so you set up a little Futoshi corner for you to rest and let your mind go adrift.

...

Your little session of not-giving-a-damn is interrupted. You notice Code 556 coming approaching you by herself. She hands you a flower. The other girls seem surprised by this development

"Want a flower, Futoshi-kun?"

This wasn't a simple request. At the core of it, it was her insisting on doing a favour for you by giving you a flower, so that she could be allowed to be that all-loving young flower girl she was - functionally, she was trying to charm you into accepting her pity - at least that was what you perceived.

---

All-loving Lass Kokoro

1) Athletics - 2
2) Affection - 4
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 2

Spirit: 5

Kokoro Using affection of 4 to charm 214

---
[] Take the flower {Gain 2d6 favor}
[] 'No thanks.' {Resist with Will}

>>2606879
Is it possible to ask her why she's really doing it for or is what we're reading so far the actual analysis?

>>2606879
[X] 'No thanks.' {Resist with Will}
As many Greco-roman philosophers would say.

Disregard women, acquire virtue

Also when we say no thanks make sure its perfectly neutral, we just amicably do not wish for the flower but we appreciate the thought.

>>2606879
[x] Take the flower {Gain 2d6 favor}
It is a simple thing and costs us nothing.

>>2606879
>[X] Take the flower {Gain 2d6 favor}

>>2606973
>>2606879
This guy has the idea why so stand offish guys?
>>2606911
We can ask after we take the flower too

>>2607006
If we take the flower she might just leave us with it instead of staying around to answer our question.

Rolled 5, 2, 1, 4 = 12 (4d6)

Refuse flowers
>>2606932

Accept flowers
>>2606973
>>2606998

I appear to have misread the rules as per page 69. Apparently victims of such attempts have to roll too, although they may pick any attribute. Thus I will assume we are picking an attribute of 2 as an attempt to concede.

The first two above rolls will be Kokoro's attempt and Futoshi's mandatory resist. The next two rolls will only be relevant is she succeeds.

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>>2607088

4*5 Kokoro charm attempt against 2*2 Futoshi lowest attribute resist. Kokoro succeeds in charming. Futoshi must take flowers. Futoshi receives 9 favour. Total 7 favour

---

Stiff Upper Lip Code 'Futoshi' 214

1) Athletics - 2
2) Loyalty - 2
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 5

Spirit: 50
Favour: 4
Binge Eater for Stress Explosion

~ 8 years old

---

You weren't particular interested in refusing Kokoro's attempt to give you her flower anyways. Your cheeks feel warm as your childlike inhibitions - fear of the 'cooties' crumble easily. It's nice to be cared about by someone. You don't have to be alone anymore. Your stubby hands tremble as your reach out. You delicately grab Kokoro's flower.

She giggles ever so slightly as she gazes on you holding the flower.

Kokoro is always so pleasant to be near. It would be nice if you could spend all the time you had near her...

[] Stay in the flower garden and dote on her from afar.
[] Leave the garden for the commons.
[] Leave the garden for the library.

>>2607155
Ask her why she gave us the flowers.

>>2607155
>[X] Leave the garden for the library.

>>2607155
[x] Leave the garden for the library.
Time to ponder this whole "kindness" thing.

>>2607155
>[X] Leave the garden for the library

>>2607155
[X] Leave the garden for the library.

We could look for a book on the nature of friendship.

One of the ways Futoshi could improve himself is getting a basic undersanding of how healthy relationships work.

As a stamen we have to work with our pistil and that means not being so dense that we can't properly communicate.

Futoshi becomes heartbroken partially because he never really asks how Kokoro feels.

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>>2607167
>>2607168
>>2607226
>>2607242

You decide that after having dinner, you're going to spend time in the library. After all, it has a more well established Futoshi Corner. Less people were going to stare at you and you'd be given more space to get gather your thoughts.

---

...Bread, peas, potato, soup, salmon, orange juice...

---

You make your way to the library and settle in your little corner.

A familiar and unwelcome presence flows through the room. You peek and see that Code 196 has taken her seat at her side of the table. Thankfully, she doesn't notice you in the library.

Code 015 enters the library. You immediately notice that Code 196 is suddenly excited, like a puppy before its master, as she rushes over to Code 015's side.

Other people can be happy alongside each other. Good for them:

[] Observe them from behind a bookshelf.
[] Mind your own business.

>>2607291
>[x] Mind your own business.

We must still find ourselves and who we truly are. Standard 2deep4u stuff.

>>2607291
[X] Mind your own business.

>>2607155
>[] Leave the garden for the library.
This isn't running away from a pretty girl
It's a tactical retreat

>>2607291
I'm wary of 'mind your own business' being another 'do nothing' action in disguise.
>[X] Observe them from behind a bookshelf.

>>2607291
>[x] Mind your own business

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>>2607301
>>2607338
>>2607383

You mind your own business. You let yourself be with your thoughts. As your mind idles about, you notice some questions, some very interesting questions popping up into your head:

'Why did Papa create me?'
'Why did he create me to be hated?'
'Does Papa really love me?'
'What is Papa's plan for me?'
'If Papa created me, who created Papa?'

Such interesting questions - questions that you personally don't feel too foolhardy to ask, begin to crop up. You put them to the side, but they start to loom in your mind.

Code 196 leaves. Apparently, Code 015 is now alone in the library.

It's now night. It was time to go to sleep.

You notice Code 016 is missing. Strange. 326 disappeared earlier in the day as well.

---

Morning:

You have the same usual breakfast. Again, it's playtime.

[] Stay in your corner in the commons and observe
[] Go to the library
[] Go to the flower garden.

>>2607416
>[x] Go to the library
Perhaps we can finish up War and Peace?

>>2607416
>[X] Go to the library

Let's look for something to make us a better stamen, maybe look for a book that teaches us something about being a soldier and what it means to be in a war, after all the (supposed) purpose of the parasites is to protect humanity from extinction at the hands of the Klaxosaurs.

>>2607416
>[X] Go to the library

>>2607416
[X] Go to the flower garden.
Miku is an easy target for befriending and earning favour, and she is already friends with Kokoro so win-win.

>>2607416
>[X]Go to the library.

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>>2607448
>>2607474
>>2607565
>>2607608

You make your way to the library. In the the Futoshi Corner you went.

From the Futoshi Corner you noticed something odd happening.

---

Future Seitokaichou Figure Ichigo
1) Athletics - 2
2) Affection - 3
3) Skill - 2
4) Cunning - 2
5) Luck - 2
6) Will - 2

Spirit: 5

---

Code 015 was the only one currently in the library. That book she had been reading earlier was closed, on the edge of table able to fall off. She was pacing around. Clearly she was anxious about something. It was especially strange giving that you'd never pace around before and especially so nervously.

You take a closer look at the book. It is titled the "Art of War".

"-ro." You hear Code 015 mumble under her breath.

[] Take her book off of the table and read it.
[] Charm her anxiety away and have her trade her book for 'War and Peace'. {Cunning against Affection}
[] Leave the library for somewhere else.

>>2607650
>[x] Take her book off of the table and read it.
We are not a cuddly ball of comfort, we are a fat child who is trying to learn how to be a human being.

That and we really should finish that damn book.

>>2607650
>[X] Take her book off of the table and read it.
Hey, she left it there.

>>2607650
>[X] Take her book off of the table and read it.

>>2607650
>[X] Take her book off of the table and read it.
Well trying to do social combat versus her strong stat is just suicide

>>2607650
>[X] Take her book off of the table and read it.

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>>2607729
>>2607696
>>2607657
>>2607655
>>2607770

You approach the table and take the book, 'The Art of War' . 015 is completely preoccupied with repeating 'Hiro, Hiro, Hiro' as she paces around madly, almost walking into you. Whatever, you head back to the Futoshi Corner.

You make yourself comfortable. Opening 'The Art of War', you enter a world quite different from your own. In particular, you are caught by surprise by a particular part of the prologue:

> But the girls only burst out laughing. Sun Tzŭ said: If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, then the general is to blame. — So he started drilling them again, and this time gave the order "Left turn," whereupon the girls once more burst into fits of laughter. Sun Tzŭ said: If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers. — So saying, he ordered the leaders of the two companies to be beheaded

That seemed rather harsh. However, there was a clear message here - in military affairs, all must obey whether or not they were boys or girls. A girl could lose her head as easily as a boy - at least, that was the first thing that came to mind.

Returning to the matter of you visiting a world you've never seen before through books, you got across some interesting names, especially in the section about 'The Art of War''s commentators: Cao Cao.

The name began to resonate with you, as if it had been waiting for you your entire life: "Speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao will appear." You felt like a ghost went through your body. Making a mental note to never forget that name, you moved on. {+2 Luck}

---

> "All warfare is based on deception" {+1 Cunning}

> "There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare" {+2 Skill}

> "It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." {+1 Skill}

> "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." {+1 Skill}

> "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." {+2 Skill}

> "The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy." {+1 Skill}

> " All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" {+ 1Skill}

---

Finishing your first skim of 'The Art', you suddenly gain an extreme amount of confidence. You have the potential to be undefeated

1/2

>>2607786

---

Budding Strategist Code 'Futoshi' 214

1) Athletics - 2
2) Loyalty - 2
3) Skill - 10
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 4
6) Will - 5

Spirit: 50
Favour: 4
Binge Eater for Stress Explosion

~ 8 years old

---

You with newfound confidence, you leave 'The Art of War' and head to lunch.

Whatever comes, you feel like you are unconquerable.

---

Noon.

You finish that same old orange-juice-and-salmon lunch.
---
It is now afternoon.

You notice that there is chatter about the fact that neither 326 nor Hiro are here. The main problem was that it came out of the blue. Kids that went rarely ever came back.

[] Sit and observe from your corner in the commons.
[] Go to the library.
[] Go to the flower garden.

>>2607788
>[x] Go to the flower garden.
It's time to tip-toe through the Tulips motherfucker!

>>2607788
>[x] Go to the flower garden.

>>2607788
[] Sit and observe from your corner in the commons.

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>>2607793
>>2607790

You decide to go to the flower garden.

---

Aside from Codes 556 and 390 messing around with their usual clique while said clique occasionally glares at disgust at you, there isn't much of interest as you spend the afternoon with your thoughts to yourself.

You hear a racket. It's coming from near the entrance, which was opposite the labs where children kept getting taken to.

As you peer from the threshold, you see that Hiro has returned from wherever he has been last night. The other children swarm him, but for some reason he doesn't seem to be as outreaching as before. You see that Code 326 is chucking a metaphorical fit over something, having thrown his toy ball and made a mess of a flowerbed. Judging from his jacket, he's back from being in the labs.

You gaze intensely at Hiro's appearance.

Oh yeah. The caretakers did something to him alright. He seemed like one those other kids who got Elixir injections and stopped crying and smiling. Creepy.

If 016, Hiro, idol of all the Children in the Garden could not avoid such a sorry fate, no-one could...Could you?

None of your business. Such is life in the Garden.

{END OF 8 YEARS OLD CHOICE --> NEXT CHAPTER IS 12 YEARS OLD}
[] "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." {Focus on understanding about the world you live in}
[] "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." {Focus on developing your relationship with the other Children}

>>2607808
>[x] "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
Why is everything so damn FUCKED?

>>2607808
>[X] "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

>>2607808
[] "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." {Focus on understanding about the world you live in}

>>2607808
>[x] "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

>>2607808
>[X] "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." {Focus on developing your relationship with the other Children}

>>2607808
>[X]"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

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>>2607824
>>2607819
>>2607815
>>2607814
---

You don't know whose bright idea it was to put literature riddled with historical references in a library full of Children who they clearly did not want to develop independently - at least, this was the conclusion you'd reached after doing a significant amount of research by yourself.

As the end of your days in the Garden approached, every day drawing closer to the transfer to a proper Plantation, the library's Futoshi Corner became a sort of little house of wisdom. Gathering a wide collection of the literary canon together, you'd begun the painstaking task of organising them into a chronology - literature, fiction or otherwise, did not exist in a vacuum. Every piece of literature that existed in the Garden's library was a product of its own time. From that, you extrapolated that before the era of the Plantations and Klaxosaurs, humanity had at least 4000 or so years' worth of written history and fictional literature - stretching from the Epic of Gilgamesh, to Shakespeare, the Golden Bough to Starship Troopers. Throughout the ages, as suggested by the research, there had always been a dominant figure - but they were never called "Papa". Indeed, there existed a past when Adults protected Children rather than the other way around, a past when Children were not raised in the Garden. You recorded your findings in your diary, which you took close care to keep away from the caretakers' eyes.

On the piloting side of things, ever since that day that he returned with blank eyes, Hiro's aptitude in the neural combat simulations had begun an awful drop into the level of the inferior higher-digit Parasites. Code 326, even as he grew into a rather bitter individual, ascended the simulation rankings - as did you. Although the Caretakers took notice that in raw piloting skill you weren't necessarily a double-digit's, they highlighted your tactical capability - unprecedented for a triple-digit and possibly making you an NCO candidate. Apparently, it was approaching Code 056's. 666, was of course, 666.

The more time you spent in the Garden library, the more those who frequented it became familiar with you. You somehow managed to begin to talk with Code 196 on a civilised level with basic, if forced, politeness. Code 015 also learned to accept you in your corner that you weren't reminded of how repellent you were in her presence. The library had become a sort of second home. Days in which one of you three were absent were considered unusual.

---

You were transferred to P13's Mistilteinn along with Codes 015, 016, 056, 196, 326, 390, 556, 666 and 703 at roughly the age of 12.

The transfer to Mistelteinn, Plantation 13 as pre-parasites, created a small hassle. Again, you had to mark out your Futoshi Corners. That in itself was not a problem, but the change of libraries to base yourself in ruined social dynamics. 056 had begun shifting her main place of recreation to the patio, playing with cats. 1/2

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>>2607861
In shifting her place of recreation, 056 unknowingly dragged along 196 too - to an extent. The fact was, 196 was a bookworm - a rotten one at that. Although she tried her hardest to get a book and then head outside to where Code 015 was, the fact also remained that you were pretty much permanently based with your Futoshi Corner in the library - to her, probably a fat pig pretending to read blighting one of her more important resources.

To be fair, it served your purposes as well. You simply could not afford to have anybody you could not trust catch wind of your historical research. There was no one worth trusting.

This was especially the case given that you had begun to build a timeline to see where the current state of affairs started. Starting from roughly 2025 Anno Domini, historical references in literature, both fictional and non-fictional, begin disappearing --- fading off, leaving you floating in a year you do not know. It was as if history began dying there. In particular, references to a certain intergovernmental organisation - inferred but never mentioned in name - that was until then prominent from 1945 Anno Domini began disappeared - much like the other Children from the Garden... It was all so difficult to work out what happened to it. Two years and nary a measure of progress...

[] "One person alone probably can't work that out."
[] "I will find the truth by myself."
[] "Time to get some fresh air."
[] "I could do with a snack in the commons."

>>2607872
>[X] "One person alone probably can't work that out."
Lets end up as Hiro’s confidant.

*015 not 056

>>2607872
>[X] "One person alone probably can't work that out."

>>2607872
>[X] "Time to get some fresh air."

>>2607872
>[] "Time to get some fresh air."

>>2607872
>[x] "I will find the truth by myself."

>>2607872
>[X] "Time to get some fresh air."
We need to get /fit/ at some point. We've gotta find a fitness book or something like that in the library in the future.

>>2608008
Probably need also look into some dietary books or something too. Maybe figure out someway to still have our comfort snacks, but healthier options.

>>2607872
[] "Time to get some fresh air."

>>2607872
>I will find the truth myself

>>2607872
[] "I will find the truth by myself."

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>>2608385
>>2608184
>>2607991

Truth by self

>>2608098
>>2608008
>>2607916
>>2607915

Fresh air

>>2607905
>>2607878
Find another person

---

Perhaps it is one of your inborn vices that you prefer solitude to the company of others. Perhaps it was not inborn, but rather the product of many years of enjoying being with nothing else but your thoughts. Either way, the result is the same - you don't think there will be anybody you can come to trust with your findings in the short term. Maybe that will change, but as things are, the folks you've been teamed with are a bunch of uncritical Papa-worshipping dullards who couldn't openly question the state of affairs if their lives depended on it.

As you begin making your way through to the porch, you come across Code 196. She throws at you a glare, an all too familiar "do not talk with Ichigo" glare. That at least told you that Code 015 was out on the porch. It just so happened that the most convenient access outside was through there.

Who was she to dictate which routes you would take?

Seitokaichou Figure Ichigo
1) Athletics - 3
2) Affection - 5
3) Skill - 7
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 3
6) Will - 4

Spirit: 15

---

Indeed, as you make your way outside, Ichigo is minding her own business on a side of the steps.

As fortune would have it, you almost trip as you went down them, slightly startling Code 015. You regain your balance...

[] "What books did you even read while in the Garden's library anyways?"
[] Continue onwards.
[] Charm, Cunning: "What books did you happen to read while in the Garden's library anyways?"

>>2608841
>[X] "What books did you even read while in the Garden's library anyways?"
I’ll give it a shot. Worse is we get nothing but the usual and continue on our way.

>>2608841
>[X] "What books did you even read while in the Garden's library anyways?"

>>2608841
>[x] "What books did you even read while in the Garden's library anyways?"
Our Cunning is still in the shitter unfortunately but that's life for us.

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>>2608898
>>2608958
>>2608960

"What did you even read while in the library anyways..." you incidentally grumble as you picked yourself up.

Ichigo momentarily paused as if registering that you just tried talking to her - indeed, you'd never seriously attempted a conversation with her while in the Garden.

She regained her relatively composed demeanor as she paused a second to her answers. She utters in a noticeably diplomatic high voice - she was putting up a front, a manufactured 'Ichigo' to talk to Code 214, who she was cautious to reveal more sincere facets of herself to:

"Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' was wonderful. Rowling's Potter series was also nice. Tolkien's books were some of the best..."

Maybe you were reading into it too much, but these were sort of books you predicted Ichigo would be discussing to a stranger - utterly harmless, but revealing, in that it shed light on the type of hero - daresay Hiro figures - that she was so utterly obsessed with.

"...Hi- -Harry is such an interesting protagonist you know. The way Rowling gives him black hair to shoe how moody yet humble he is..."

How tedious. Harmless garbage that revealed not too much about when they were written in...

[] "Well, I've got to get going." Nothing can come of this.
[] Will: "Surely your reading level is a bit higher than youth fiction?"
[] Charm, Cunning: "Not a single novel with a portlier protagonist?"

>>2609131
>[x] Will: "Surely your reading level is a bit higher than youth fiction?"
Time to be the bowling bawl of doom.

>>2609131
>[X] "Well, I've got to get going." Nothing can come of this.

>>2609131
>[X] "Well, I've got to get going." Nothing can come of this.
If that’s what she wants to read, who am I to stop her?

>>2609274
Also, if I can add on, maybe just add a thanks for the information. Even though we’ll probably never read them ourselves, she did actually give us an answer. So even just a quick “Thanks” to the end would be for the best, I feel.

>>2609300
Yeah, lets not be unpleasant to someone that has not been unpleasant

>>2609224
>>2609274

"Well, I've got to get going." You diplomatically close the conversation.

"Bye." Ichigo politely replies.

It's all so tiring. Here was Code 015, someone who was one of the likely candidates for squad leader of P13 and all she does when asked about books - a very relevant question - is answer back about some youth fiction.

You almost felt insulted. Either she really was that uncultivated as a person - which you know she was most likely not, given how you saw her trying to decipher the Golden Bough - or was she was so socially weak that the thought of being perceived as erudite filled her with terror.

And this was what the caretaker folks considered leader material - not a very honest young lady.

You dismiss your thoughts. You sense that you are clearly overthinking a porch conversation that only happened as a result of random grumbling on your part.

You make for the meadow - or what counted as a meadow in a Plantation. As the sunlight shines through the glass dome above Mistilteinn quarters, revealing harsh, dry, dead land against your foreground, you are reminded that long ago, humanity used to live in large expanses of green, flowing fields. You dismiss the the thought as being rather dreary.

You come to a crossroads. It seems that your fellow Parasites have already begun to make Mistilteinn their home. 016 stands brooding, staring off into the desert expanse. You see a greenhouse and peer 556 organising gardening tools in it.

[] Try and have a conversation with Code 016.
[] Barge into the greenhouse.
[] Head back into the mansion.

>>2610240
[] Try and have a conversation with Code 016.
Maybe we can learn something?

>>2610240
>[x] Try and have a conversation with Code 016.

>>2610240
>[X] Try and have a conversation with Code 016.

>>2610240
[X] Try and have a conversation with Code 016.

One of hero's motivators before getting mind wiped was questioning the weird state of the world, maybe we'll help jog that memory, or gain insight

>>2610294
>>2610281
>>2610277
>>2610333

---

Burned Out Prodigy Hiro

1) Athletics - 4
2) Loyalty - 1
3) Skill - 1
4) Cunning - 4
5) Luck - 4
6) Will - 1

Spirit: 5

---

You approach Hiro's side, making your presence known well beforehand.

It really spoke of APE's power to able to reduce a person like Hiro to this level. Before that fateful day, he truly shone, like the Morning Star. Afterwards, the Garden lost that brief moment of light that 016 had brought to it. Dreary, tedious, dark days dragged on, like a mass crucifixion frequented by African vultures, those children deemed unsuitable as Parasites, the condemned. It was as if a messiah had been stillborn, a victory thrown into the jaws of defeat.

Hiro's near-empty staring into the barren distance spoke of something that you believed to be a desire to be free - free from APE, free from from the duties it imposed on the Children - at least that was what you guessed. You'd probably never know what such a bright star like Hiro was thinking, even it he were burnt out.

If you were him, given his situation with 703, you think the first thing on his mind was the risk of being "expelled and never returning" - synonymous with "pruning" and "disappearing" amongst other things.

Would you ever be able to relate? Every child ran that risk, but it would've hit Hiro especially hard - he was doted on by the Caretakers. He was special, in the true sense of the word.

It was a mystery. What did Hiro want?

---

Budding Strategist Code 'Futoshi' 214

1) Athletics - 2
2) Loyalty - 2
3) Skill - 10
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 4
6) Will - 5

Spirit: 50
Favour: 4
Binge Eater for Stress Explosion

~ 12 years old

---

[] You can't do anything for him.
[] Fraternise (Bromance equivalent of Charm), Loyalty: "We've always counted on you being the one to break through the birdcage with us, you know."
[] Fraternise, Cunning: "You can get out of here if you follow my plan."
[] "You wanna break out of here?"

>>2610370
>[x] Fraternise (Bromance equivalent of Charm), Loyalty: "We've always counted on you being the one to break through the birdcage with us, you know."

>>2610370
>[X] Fraternise (Bromance equivalent of Charm), Loyalty: "We've always counted on you being the one to break through the birdcage with us, you know."

Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d6)

>>2610374
>>2610401
Rolling for fraternisation.

2*1st roll of Futoshi against 1*2nd roll of Hiro

Rolled 4 (1d6)

Rolling 1d6 for Afternoon random event or not

>>2610417
>>2610434
At the risk of sounding like a dumbass, are we supposed to roll too or are we unable to do that for the time being?

>>2610434
No random event.

>>2610437
I roll dice.

>>2610417

10 Futoshi against 2 Hirom Futoshi wins fraternise roll

You whisper to Hiro:

"We've always counted on you being the one to break through the birdcage with us, you know."

As if you had pierced through his quasi-fugue state, he momentarily - and knowingly - met your eyes.

'You looked at me.' Went your joyous thoughts.

"Futoshi Corner. Library. Nighttime." You inform him.

---

It was lunch.

Somewhat excited by the prospect of conspiring with Hiro, you weren't that much of a gourmand. For the most part you kept to yourself.

It is now afternoon. Where to waste time...

[] In the library. Prepare your diary for Hiro.
[] Cunning: Eavesdrop unnoticed on the chatter in the commons. {DC 8}

>>2610458
[] In the library. Prepare your diary for Hiro.

>>2610458
>[x] In the library. Prepare your diary for Hiro.

Gotta get that prepared first before we continue onwards.

>>2610462
>>2610470

You ready your notes for Hiro.

The question here is how to organise them and how to deeply impress him as possible. That 4 years of research was quite a lot and could be read in different ways.

[] Focus on presenting a great narrative of human history.
[] Focus on how APE disrupted the 20th and 21st centuries.
[] Focus on the status of Children and Adults before the Plantation system.

>>2610485
Without the first the second will not have as much impact.
And without the third the first will not have any strong effect.
Perhaps we can appeal to the Child/Parent relationship since Hiro in the past was supposedly a very gregarious child. Could this punch through his emotional torpor?

[x] Focus on the status of Children and Adults before the Plantation system.

>>2610485
[] Focus on the status of Children and Adults before the Plantation system.

>>2610485
>[X] Focus on the status of Children and Adults before the Plantation system.

>>2610485
>x] Focus on the status of Children and Adults before the Plantation system.

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>>2610498
>>2610512
>>2610569
>>2610642

You decide in tonight's meeting with Hiro to focus on informing him about the status of Children and Adults. In doing so, you aim to try and incite anger from Hiro. Perhaps then, he might be more receptive to your point of view, whatever it is - you definitely were a ticking time bomb of discontent against APE, but could you really call yourself a rebel yet?

You immediately went to the task of preparing the notes, alongside the argument that you sought to impress onto Hiro.
The seeds of a hitherto unsown fruit would be planted into Hiro's mind. Fertilised by the ashes of his time at the Garden, perhaps it will grow into something magnificent under your care.

---

"How did Children and Adults live co-exist before the Plantations?" That was to be the backbone of your questions. Your three points to share with Hiro - Children and Adults did not exist as separate castes before - Children mingled with Adults, being under their direct protection and tutelage - Adults formed contracts with each other, the name of which you did not know, to formalise this process of protecting Children.

The first point, regarding the lack of a clear distinction between Children and Adults - the world has always been divided into a ruling and a ruled class, but rather than the current system of Children and Adults, in the ancient world, there were Masters and Slaves - in the medieval, Aristocrats and Serfs - in the later Modern era from the 18th Century onwards, Plutocrats and Workers. Even amongst both the ruling and the rule, both sections of society shared a division between Children and Adults - being of either Caste then did not mean clear sets of different obligations and rights. Serf Children lived with Serf Adults, Plutocrat Children lived with Plutocrat Adults - they ate from the same table and lived in the same home. Only from Modern history onwards was there a clearer distinction between Children and Adults and even then, rights heavily favoured Children - indeed, reforms in Victorian England led to the prohibition of Children being used for labour...

The second - not clearly separated as castes, Children learned skills with Adults. From ancient to early 21st century human history, Children enrolled in institutions called "Schools". The apogee of this system was the "Public School System" mentioned in various texts - a single Adult would teach a class of 30 or so Children skills and provide emotional counsel and support to them.

The third point - pairs of female and male Adults often lived with one, two or more Children, with more Children tending to be the norm in earlier eras. Inferred from the behaviour of those Adults who engaged in this contract, the contract was one that focused on exclusivity to one another and was meant to foster the emotional and intellectual development of children.
---

Hiro arrived, keeping his promise. You recounted your notes to him and his interest in your research deepened.

1/2

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>>2610666
2/2

Indeed, you had Hiro's complete and utter attention.

[] "It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before."

[] "The only way to break through the birdcage and stay free is to be also break those who make the birdcage."

[] "The Adults should be protecting us, not the other way around. That was the way it had always been."

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>>2610668
>[] "It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before."
Good job with the quest so far QM, this shit is great

>>2610668
>[x] "It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before."

No amount of destroying the here and now will change anything for the better unless there is something to replace it.

>>2610668
>[X] "It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before."

>>2610668
>[X] "It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before."

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>>2610693
>>2610673
>>2610671
>>2610701

You take the opportunity to further beseech Hiro to harden his thoughts and heart against APE.

You grasp his arms, staring through his sullen eyes, as if an advisor begging his lord to do what was necessary.

"It is not enough to break the birdcage. We must return to the way things were before. Before, there was no APE. Before, Adults did not rule over Children simply because they were Children. Before, Children did not chafe under a monstrous tyranny that encompassed the entire globe. You were the chosen one Hiro. You must take back the past for all Children. You must realise your role in all of this and embrace it wholeheartedly."

You stared deeply through each other - on one hand, here you were inciting him towards something that could get the both of you, nay, the whole squad pruned - on the other hand, you were desperately begging for the double-digit future stamen to heed your advice and reclaim all the Children's birthright.

"Why this cripple? Why me?" Hiro breaks off his gaze and extricates himself from your grasp.

"Because you are a symbol, Hiro. You are a symbol for all the Children. Where you go, they will all follow. It matters not if you are not actually capable of soaring into the sky - it is only necessary to stir the other Children to."

"Then what do I do, Futoshi?" Hiro asks of you.

"We lay low. We continue planning. We keep our losses low. Then we'll fix things, waiting for our opportunity. We'll reclaim our birthright as Children. You keep yourself safe. I'll advise you." You instruct Hiro.

Hiro nods slightly at your counsel and leaves the library, presumably to go to sleep.

With those seeds planted, it was just you and the night that were left. A warm feeling of joy animates you, pleased with this success.

Just you and the night...

[] Go to sleep
[] Cunning: Go snooping around the around the girls' side of the mansion. {DC 8}

>>2610712
>[x] Go to sleep
Go the fuck to sleep

>>2610712
>[X] Cunning: Go snooping around the around the girls' side of the mansion. {DC 8}

>>2610712
>[] Go to sleep

>>2610714
>>2610720

You vaguely contemplate sneaking into the girl's part of the mansion in order to gather their chatter and gossip - when you become a full Parasite, one of them is going to be your Pistil...

It's probably not worth the risk. You could just as well eavesdrop on them in the morning instead.

You got to bed and sleep without much hassle, ignoring the trifles Code 326 and 666 are trying to raise against you and each other. If they had problems - it was their problem.

---

You manage to catch a good night's sleep. You wake up early. 326 and 666 seem to be sleeping a relatively troubled sleep. Must be your snoring. It was their problem.

[] Sleep in until breakfast.
[] Go snooping around in the commons {DC 6}
[] Go to the library.

>>2610728
>[X] Go to the library.

>>2610728
>[] Go to the library.

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>>2610732
>>2610739

You enter the library with a view to turning into the Futoshi Corner as soon as possible.

Your desire to have things done simply is, necessarily, by whatever malevolent cosmic forces that existed in the universe, thwarted. A nasty glare coming from under an all-too-familiar forehead felt as if it were grazing against your own.

Aurelius truly was a remarkable man to have imparted such a degree of calmness onto you that you'd been able to tolerate this for four years or so counting. The arthropod-like presence of Code 196 makes itself known - green eyes truly belonged from her.

You gave your usual deadpan, that eternal fortress against that jealous green dual metaphorical trebuchet with which she launched flustered projectiles of contempt.

Seriously, just a momentary exchange on the porch. Well, the issue lied with Code 196 herself, but in all honesty... it was tedious.

---
Jealous Bookworm Ikuno
1) Athletics - 3
2) Affection - 3
3) Skill - 8
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 3
6) Will - 3

Spirit: 15
---

[] Retreat to your corner and continue with your own business.
[] "Would you like to have a civilised discussion regarding Code 015, Code 196?"
[] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

>>2610753
>[X] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

We do have more Skill than her.

>>2610753
>[X] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

I wonder how our talk with Hiro with influence his behavior with Zero-Two?

>>2610753
>[] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

>>2610753
>[X] Retreat to your corner and continue with your own business

>>2610753
>[X] Retreat to your corner and continue with your own business

>>2610753
>[X] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

So, any particular reason why there has been such a push to charm this one girl?

>>2610818
Cucking the Ichigo?

>>2610825
Is it really such a thing when she doesn’t like this character like that though? Seems pretty one sided.

Plus this character has been one of the harshest towards us. It just seems odd that people still keep wanting to charm her to me.

>>2610753
>[X] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

>>2610818
>>2610831

Depending on how things turn out she may be our pistil.

In canon Futoshi's original pistil Kokoro decides to switch partner's and as a result Ikuno and Futoshi become partner's even though neither would bother to give the other the time of day.

Also the reason why she is so pissed is because she's in love with Ichigo and can't become her partner because of how the franxx work. Also because Ichigo loves Hiro and not her.

And finally we'll need all of our comrades on board if we decide to actually rebel so the more the merrier. Aso getting Ikuno to calm her tits and not be such a jerk would be helpful.

>>2610753
[X] Charm, Skill: "Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?"

Rolled 2, 1 = 3 (2d6)

>>2610754
>>2610756
>>2610761
>>2610803
>>2610883
>>2610885
Charm

>>2610777
>>2610797
Retreat

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>>2611134
Nothing escapes your gaze if you're actually bothered enough to give it. Nothing escapes it, not Hiro, not humanity's past, not even Papa. You've decided to pry into Code 196's mind and get an opinion regarding Stamens out of her - and she will give an opinion, whether she wants to or not.

"Have you got an idea of who you want to be your future Stamen in the Franxx, Code 196?" Your question completely catches her of guard - a mixture of horror and stress seem to paint themselves on her face. Your question was like like the gaze of Medusa. She hesitates to answer.

"You realise what happens to parasites who can pilot in the Franxx, do you?" You press the question on her. Oh, how you could relish that breaking down of her every day.

196 finally attempts to answer your question:
"I-I never..."

You give her an 'encouraging' stare:
"I want to be the stamen."

You smiled internally. That answered your questions. That also gave you some useful ammunition to keep her in check. You supposed you could torture her further by pressing specifically which one of the boys of P13 she wanted - or rather 'did not mind' - being her stamen. That wouldn't be very nice of you but.

"Well answered. Well answered. Do you know who I want my pistil to be?" You stated.

That utter shivering of terror on 196 was so sweet. You could get used to spooking her.

[] Give an unnerving silence.
[] "I want her to be professional. I most certainly don't want her to be too aloof. I want her to actually put her literacy to a meaningful purpose."
[] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."
[] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."
[] "You know what, I just want to have fun killing klaxosaurs."

>>2611175
[] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."
[] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."

>>2611175
>[X] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."
It be nice if anyone actually did in all honesty if you ask me.

>>2611181
This, with higher priority to the caring part.

>>2611175
>[X] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."
>[X] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."

>>2611175
>[] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."
>[] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."

>>2611175
Supporting >>2611181

>>2611175
>[x] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."

>>2611175
[X] "I want her to be relatively level-headed. I want her to confident with command. I want her to have enough power to carry me where I want."
[X] "It would be nice to have a pistil that cared about me."

Is it truly wrong to want to have your partner not go full retard?

>>2611181
Supporting

>>2611536
>>2611321
>>2611308
>>2611181
>>2611349
>>2611230

Care/Command

>>2611373
>>2611207
Care

---

You decide to voice openly to Ikuno about what your preferred type of pistil is:

"The thing I'm look for in a pistil is a relatively level-headed girl. I want her to calm at all times. I want her to confident with command, because where I intend to go, I intend to use tactics rather than brute strength alone. I want my pistil to have enough power to carry me wherever I want, whenever I want. And above all, I want a pistil that cares about me. Whenever I'm tired, I want to be able to lean on her. She'll have eyes for me and eyes for me alone. She'll never look at another stamen. It would be so wonderful to have a pistil like that, don't you think?"

Whatever you said, Code 196 then promptly stormed out of the library The beginning of tears were already beginning to drip down her face...

You ponder for a moment what it was all about.

Of course: 015. Code 196 probably projected those qualities onto 015.

Jealous little bookworm. Well, more books to read with her away. Couldn't exactly complain too much.

---

Breakfast passed. The usual chatter came from the boys. Hiro and you somehow managed to share some small talk - Code 326 glanced at you talking with Hiro. Maybe it was intentional or maybe it was accidental - either way, unless it was talking to 056, you supposed Hiro starting a conversation with anyone else was a noteworthy event.

Ikuno was noticeably absent. The chatter from the girl's table was noticeably hushed. Even as you ate, you already began to feel a glance of reprehension or two from their table.

Honesty, restarting Garden antics after all these years?

Now, where to spend the last hours of the morning...

[] In the library.
[] Plotting with Hiro.

>>2613009
>in the library


We plot with hiro at night when the others sleep or are too busy with there own bullshit

>>2613009
[x] In the library.
Reading Rainboooooow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OchyYnlHTdo

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>>2613014
>>2613035
You decide to spend your time in the library. It's finally free of a not-exactly friendly presence, at least for the day. No need to stay too confined in the Futoshi Corner. Might as well revel in your temporarily conquered space for a little bit as well. The Futoshi Corner expands a bit, seizing vital lebensraum, as it invades the rich expanses of Code 196's little library tsardom, in a wonderful Drang nach Osten! Maybe now you go spread yourself in a slightly more comfy reading position.

Ka-thonk! The heavy doors of the library are forced open.

"Code 214. What did you say to Ikuno earlier in the morning?"

The sight of Ichigo storming into the library, with all her shortness... to be frank, it could be a bit unnerving...

---

Seitokaichou Figure Ichigo
1) Athletics - 3
2) Affection - 5
3) Skill - 7
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 3
6) Will - 4

Spirit: 15

---

[] Ignore Ichigo and remain silent.
[] Charm, Skill: "It seems the subject of my discussion with her has just entered this room."
[] "Pistils and stamens."

>>2613066
[X] Charm, Skill: "It seems the subject of my discussion with her has just entered this room."
We have no reason to lie.
It also helps that Skill has been our bread and butter this entire quest so far.

>>2613066
>[] "Pistils and stamens."

>>2613066
>[X] Charm, Skill: "It seems the subject of my discussion with her has just entered this room."

>>2613069
>>2613090
Charm, Skill Ichigo

>>2613086
Pistil and stamens

10*1st roll of Futoshi against 7*2nd roll of Ichigo

Rolled 6, 1 = 7 (2d6)

>>2613094

>>2613066
>[X] Charm, Skill: "It seems the subject of my discussion with her has just entered this room."

Skill all the way, baby.

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>>2613095
6*10 - 60
7*1 - 7


Futoshi wins against Ichigo
---

"It seems the subject of my discussion with her has just entered this room." You give a slight smile, clasping your fingers as you try your breath. "Specifically, I was talking about the type of pistil I would be interested in as my partner in the Franxx. We're in the same squad together. Both of us are possible NCO candidates. You're intelligent enough that you want to hide behind youth fiction novels. You were enough of a positive influence in the Garden that things didn't completely go down the gutter over the years. On the basis of the facts, I think we'd make an excellent stamen-pistil pair, wouldn't we?"

Ichigo was plainly shocked by the sudden and very honest nature of your argument. For some reason she was reddening.

[]"Nevermind the joke." A double-digit pistil would just be bottlenecked by a triple-digit stamen.
[] "Just imagine the achievements that we could accomplish together."
[] "I think Code 016 would approve of it. He'd want the best for you."
[] "I want to ride with you, Ichigo."

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>>2613107
>[x]"Nevermind the joke." A double-digit pistil would just be bottlenecked by a triple-digit stamen.

I have no idea what this fucking means but I'm picking it anyway in the hopes that we end up channeling an AuTism Field big enough to make her run away in blush mode.

>>2613107
>[X] "Just imagine the achievements that we could accomplish together."

>>2613107
>[X]"Nevermind the joke." A double-digit pistil would just be bottlenecked by a triple-digit stamen.
We end up cucking Goro at this rate, luckily he has the gun hidden in his drawer. And personally I hope we can remove the /u/ from Ikuno and end up being her partner.

>>2613107
>[x] "Just imagine the achievements that we could accomplish together."
How far can we change the connon of this setting? I don’t know, but I’d like to see!

>>2613107
The charm was successful so she automatically fails against us if we go into social combat.
[X] "I want to ride with you, Ichigo."

She accepts or she stress explodes, her choice really.

>>2613107
>[X]"Nevermind the joke." A double-digit pistil would just be bottlenecked by a triple-digit stamen.

Rolled 1 (1d6)

Rolling a 1d6 for afternoon roll.

>>2613132
1-4: No random event

>>2613132
>>2613121
>>2613115
>>2613111
Joke

>>2613116
>>2613113
Accomplish

>>2613118
Ride

---

Some fish were better sent back into the water.

"Nevermind the joke." You declare.

At this point, beet red, Ichigo acknowledges your argument as a joke, immediately fleeing from the library, quite very possibly confused by what transpired there.

Well, you got your peace in the library for the time being.

It really was a meaningful question however: Who did you want to your pistil? The Franxx could not be piloted alone.

---

Noon comes. Lunch is noticeably peculiar - Codes 015, 056 and 196 are not present.

The remaining ones' chatter: consisting of 016, 326, 390, 556, 666 and 703's is all rather hushed.

What it your problem? Who knew...

---

Your afternoon is free.

[] Continue passing time in the library.
[] Idle about in the commons.

>>2613137
>[X] Idle about in the commons.
Lets do something different for a change.

>>2613137
>[x] Idle about in the commons.
Let's see what is going on among the people.

>>2613137
>[x] Idle about in the commons.

>>2613137
>[X] Idle about in the commons

>>2613141
>>2613142
>>2613143
>>2613146

You decide to rest in the commons, selecting a part of the couch that was particularly sunny.

As usual, you remain undisturbed by Code 666 and 326's bickering. Hiro seems to be outdoors.

The prattling of the girls is noticeably constrained. It seems the absence of Ikuno and Ichigo has made a considerable difference.

You could feel a couple of glances of disapproval - or rather, concern, occasionally grazing your skin.

Female gossip is truly faster than the speed of light.

[] Go to the library. The silence is too much.
[] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>>2613155
>[] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>>2613155
>[X] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>>2613155
>[] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>>2613155
>[X] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>[X] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere. {DC 8}

>>2613155
>[X] Cunning: Continue resting in the commons despite the atmosphere.
Are you still alive OP?

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>>2613804
I update irregularly.

>>2613159
>>2613161
>>2613162
>>2613163
>>2613518
>>2613804


Anyways, rolls and moving on to new thread.

>>2614352
NVM, permasage hasn't kicked in yet.

6* Futoshi Cunning 3 = 18. Futoshi succeeds.

---

There's no doubt that the mood in the common room is somewhat hostile is you scratch below the surface, at least on the part of the girls. Hushed whispers, glances, fear, suspicion, seem to be animating the chattiness of the afternoon. There is so much that the girls want to say, probably about what transpired between Ikuno, Ichigo and you, yet being the creatures they were, they didn't quite have the heart to speak it out loud.

...Not the least when the potential subject of such a discussion was sitting right in front of them.

There was an element of not wanting to rock the boat - maybe even fear. Your presence was beginning to be more than repellent - relaxing like nothing happened was beginning to make you become a more noticeable and assertive figure.

---

Late afternoon

You have dinner. Not much happens. You clean yourself up.

---

It's nightime.

[] Go to sleep.
[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666 {DC 7}
[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 056 and Hiro {DC 9}
[] Cunning: Snoop and eavesdrop around the girls' part of the mansion {DC 8}

>>2614388
[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666 {DC 7}

>>2614388
>[X] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666

While I quite like being such a smug little shit, we need to start making friends.

>>2614388
>[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666 {DC 7}

>>2614388
>[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 056 and Hiro {DC 9}

/qst/ is a slow board anon, permasage doesn’t mean jack shit here. Just continue till this thread hits page 8 or so.

>>2614388
[] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666 {DC 7}

>>2614388
>[x] Cunning: Eavesdrop on 326 and 666 {DC 7}

Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>2614399
>>2614401
>>2614484
>>2614551
>>2614610

>>2616737
Boys be too aware for us to handle it seems.

>>2616737
1*3 cunning against DC 7

Futoshi fails

---

You attempt to eavesdrop on 326 and 666, both of whom who share your room. You sneak to the entrance of the room.

You lean onto the door.

"...-o and Futoshi-" you hear 326's voice.

Zorome, in his pyjamas, manages to jerk the open.

"Oi! You listening in on us?"

You slacken your face, pretending to be a moron:

"Eh, tired. Tired, tired, tired." You fake an attempt at clumsily crawling into your bed.

Zorome tries to press it, harassing you by tugging at the sheets, but it doesn't seem too serious for him to keep at it. He eventually finds another thing for his little mind to yap on about, as Mitsuru cracks a very forgettable dry joke.

You fade to sleep.

Had it been the girls', it might have went rather wrong...
---

The morning sun rises.

You wake up first. It seems neither Mitsuru nor Zorome have slept well. Maybe you should get earplugs.

[] Sleep in.
[] Skill: Go to the library. {DC 6}
[] Loyalty: Go into the woods. { DC 6}

>>2616853
>[x] Loyalty: Go into the woods. { DC 6}

What do the spooky woods hold for us this time?

>>2616853
>[X] Loyalty: Go into the woods. { DC 6}

The only thing we are sure about is that we won’t try to NTR Zero-Two away from Hiro right?

>>2616967
I'm pretty sure that we'll fucking die if we ride Zero-Two. At best I would rather have her be a intellectual partner or a Hiro-Wrangler, because holy crap did we place a fair amount of responsibility on Hiro.

>>2616982
By the time the 2 of them meet again, we should end up trying to help in restoring Hiro’s memories somehow, or end up telling Zero-Two about Hiro sudden personality shift (aka the mindwipe). If we can score friendship points with Zero-Two early on and find out a way to restore Hiro’s memories faster than canon it will help out our rebellion plans.

>>2617007
I like this plan. Hopefully it won't go completely down the shitter.

>>2617011
If we end up letting everything go as in the anime we’d have to deal with the forced drama of Nagai again.
After the whole grand crevasse it will become harder to rebel, eventhough everyone gets angry with Papa we also end up stuck at parasite camp.

Anyhow what is your take on what we should do when Zero-Two and Hiro had their first ride? Try to prevent Mitsuru’s ride with Zero-Two? Figuring out a way to have Zero-Two know for certain that Hiro is her darling. Un-do Hiro’s mindwipe somehow. Shutting down Ichigo’s attempts of getting in between Hiro and Zero-Two. Somehow don’t get too invested in Kokoro, removing the /u/ from Ikuno?

>>2616853
[] Loyalty: Go into the woods. { DC 6}

>>2617101
Well unfortunately I've never watched DITF outside of what some anons talk about here and there, so I'm fumbling blindly in the dark on that front.
As for having Zero-Two know for certain that Hiro is her darling, we may have to get her to open up to us which is going to be hard for certain since she is most definitely hiding behind a fake personality. Undo'ing Hiro's mindwipe is something that is probably not going to happen by our hand but rather the relationship between Z-2 and Hiro.
As for shutting down Ichigo, well we just got to channel our superior fatness and intellect to get her to blush like a madwoman, shouldn't be too hard to do.
Kokoro? Well nothing says that we can find a different grill to ride.
As for removing the /u/ from Ikuno, we gotta get it into her mind that the girl she loves does not love her back, and actually take charge and be a MAN.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>2617130
>>2616967
>>2616864

>>2617271
I'm going to assume that we either failed or barely succeeded. Either way I'm expecting something interesting to happen.

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>>2617271
Futoshi's loyalty of 2 * 3 = 6
Bare success.

---

You decide to take a random stroll through the woods.

You take a fork in the road, but stop to stretch a bit.

The freshness of the the vegetation makes for a very nice contrast with the dusty, woody, dry tomes you usually spent your time by. Just as you decide to resume your little stroll a familiar - though given the amount of time that had passed since you last heard it, noticeably slightly deeper - voice addressed you:

---

Faithful and Pure Maiden Kokoro

1) Athletics - 3
2) Affection - 10
3) Skill - 3
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 3
6) Will - 3

Spirit: 15

{NPCs can defend with their highest attribute, in this case Affection}

---

"You weren't very nice in the library to Ichigo and Ikuno yesterday, were you, Futoshi?" Code 556 spoke.

It wasn't a particularly moving rebuke. Indeed, had it not been that familiar voice, you might've just registered it as noise.

[] Ignore her and go to breakfast.
[] Skill: "Military affairs require candidness and honesty." There was nothing wrong about discussing future parasite pairings the way you did.
[] Charm, Skill: "I don't suppose you want to evaluated as they were, don't you?"

*Futoshi will get a bonus of +3 after Attack Power is calculated due to quoting the art of War.

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>>2617382
Wait no scratch that, the're both based off Skill

>[x] Charm, Skill: "I don't suppose you want to evaluated as they were, don't you?"

I'M STILL SPOOKED

>>2617382
> [X] Charm, Skill: "I don't suppose you want to evaluated as they were, don't you?"
When neither of us have any favour, there's no reason not to.

>>2617382
> [X] Charm, Skill: "I don't suppose you want to evaluated as they were, don't you?"

Rolled 2, 4 = 6 (2d6)

>>2617402
>>2617407
>>2617412

First roll of Futoshi against second roll of Kokoro

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>>2617459
Welcome to fail. Population: Our Fat Ass.

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>>2617459
2*10 + 3 against 4* 10, 23 against 40

40 Kokoro attack power divided by 10 Futoshi skill - 4 stress damage.

Spirit: 46

Futoshi loses charm attempt against Kokoro

---

You harden your expression, furrowing your eyebrows as you try to pierce Code 556 with your gaze:

"Code 556, do want me to expla-"

Code 556 interrupts you, calling you out.
"Futoshi. You've been terribly aloof these last few years. You've become less tactful and Ichigo and Ikuno are suffering because of that."

Her words, very slightly, stung your feelings - indeed, you were less amicable...

[] Charm, Skill, -1 Roll penalty*: "Your emotional thinking was always your greatest weakness."
[] She has a point. Maybe you ought to apologise to Ikuno and Ichigo.
[] Cunning: "All of people, Code 556, you have no right to judge me."

*Futoshi will get a bonus of +3 after Attack Power is calculated due to quoting the art of War.

>>2617502
>[x] Charm, Skill, -1 Roll penalty*: "Your emotional thinking was always your greatest weakness."

Even if it's been weakened. Our Skill stat is still the strongest stat we have.

>>2617502
> [X] She has a point. Maybe you ought to apologise to Ikuno and Ichigo.
Kay whatever the charm on those two still worked.

>>2617509
IDK, she may just end up following us just to make sure we say sorry and will bully us with her Affection stat until we say the exact words and no more than that.

>>2617502
>[] Charm, Skill, -1 Roll penalty*: "Your emotional thinking was always your greatest weakness."

>>2617512
It doesn't really matter. In MAID what we've done is seduce them. We can win any social combat versus them even if our affection/ loyalty sucks.

Rolled 5, 1 = 6 (2d6)

>>2617504
>>2617513

1st roll -1 of Futoshi against 2nd Roll of Kokoro

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>>2617527
Huh, that's neat. I've completely forgotten about the seduction mechanics.
I still want to at least put up something of a fight before we keel over.

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>>2617513
>>2617504

Weakness criticism

>>2617509
Apologise

---

>>2617535

(5-1)*10+3=43 against 1*10=10 - Futoshi wins at Skill Charm

---

You detach yourself from Code 556's words or rather their emotional impact. You take them to to their logical conclusion, priming them to be thrown back right at.

"Your emotional thinking was always your greatness weakness, Code 556."

"Kokoro! Call me by my name Ko-" She struggles against your attempt to reduce her to a number - which in the end, everybody would be if you didn't do something about it.

"Code 556, you held the children of the Garden together when we were in our darkest moments. When Hiro returned that night, changed, broken, you kept us hopeful. You comforted your fellow children, quelled their fears and kept them going on when the only thing left for them was despair. In face of the Elixir injections, the prunings, the kidnappings and the harassment the caretakers inflicted upon us Children, you kept our morale up. Thus in preserving our spirits, you truly were a Madonna. However, it is precisely because you were this inviolable Madonna that you are completely unworthy of being the future Pistil of any Stamen worth their salt."

You conquered Code 556's utter attention - she was bound by your words. Now, she would learn - you would tax her mind.

"The three main reasons why you are an ineffectual Pistil are thus - your compassion yields to unwarranted mercy - the hopes you promise are at times too lofty to be realised - your humility tends to self-negation.

Firstly, you've always been too kind to the imperfections and blunders around you. When you did your first neural simulations, you were hesitant at times to defeat the given enemies, those virtual klaxosaurs. Thus you've let compassion get in the way of the end objective - you conflate means with ends.

Secondly, whatever comfort you gave to the fellow Children in the Garden could not save from their fates. You told many of them that they would make it, that they would survive. That has been tested and we have witnessed the results - Squad 13 is indeed a tight-knit group with bonds that could only have been born from surviving together.

Thirdly, given all this, what are you but a comfort blanket? You've nurtured things quite a lot, but in the end, they don't make it anyway. It's a very fitting thing you are good at gardening - the flowers don't survive. Yet that is the only thing you have - a fatuous obsession with nurturing things that reduces you nothing more than lowly soil.

You're too kind, you're too weak and because of these two things, you're a nobody.

With all of this, I don't think that you are worth becoming the best Stamen I could possibly be for."

Her face was softening, undermined by your words - which were somewhat overly harsh in hindsight.

You couldn't afford stay in the forest. You decided to return to the mansion for breakfast by yourself, leaving Kokoro with her thoughts.

---

It was breakfast.

1/2

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>>2617592
It was breakfast.

Kokoro was noticeably absent. Ichigo, Ikuno and Code 390 were present at their tables. Code 390 was trying to liven up the mood, with occasional interjections but to no avail.

You could've sworn that Code 056 gave your a concerned look at least once or twice.

You finish your breakfast.

[] Go to the library.
[] Go reflect on the porch.
[] Take a nap in the bedroom.

>>2617601
[x] Go reflect on the porch.
The weather is usually beautiful this time of day.

>>2617601
>[] Go reflect on the porch.

>>2617601
>[X] Go to the library.

>>2617601
>[X] Go reflect on the porch.

Who do we roast next?

>>2617601
>[X] Go reflect on the porch.

>>2617601
[X] Go reflect on the porch.

>>2617649
Everybody. We may end up acting like a complete dick but the plantation squad needs to address and overcome their flaws and that needs a wake up call.

>Ikuno needs to realize that while she may love Ichigo she needs to learn how to work and at the very least form more then a cursory bond with a stamen, a friendship will suffice.
>Hiro is dead on the inside and needs something to rekindle his drive.
>Kokoro is too kind and needs to grow some resolve.
>WE needed to stop being a fat fuck who was too full of self loathing and dependenacy to be useful. Although now we need to rally the children together and that may require a more even handed approach than just roasting them. Although it is fun.
>Ichigo needs to be more honest with her real emotions and learn to ride (and maybe love) someone else.
>Goro needs to learn to be more assertive and lay it out on the line like a fucking man.
>Miku and Zorome need to chill the fuck out and start acting more mature.
>Mitsuru needs to stop being an aloof prick and just care more in general.
>Naomi needs to develop more as a character because she didn't appear on screen long enough to really show any personality except maybe being passive aggressive.

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>>2617622
>>2617649
>>2617682
>>2617689

You decided to go and take a seat on the porch, with a view to letting your thoughts wander in the sweet, fresh sunlight, dancing through the leaves of the woods.

Were you excessive? Were the words you had with Kokoro, Ichigo and Ikuno wrong? Were you bringing Squad 13 to breaking point even before you would become full Parasites in three years or so?

The answer, for the most part, remains the same - you're only acting how you the way you could. Maybe it would be beneficial to think about them further at a later date, but as you saw it, you were pretty content with your actions. Surely anybody else in your position would've done the same.

You hear footsteps on the porch - loud, hard, heavy, masculine, yet distinctly gentle.

---

Goro

1) Athletics - 3
2) Affection - 3
3) Skill - 3
4) Cunning - 3
5) Luck - 3
6) Will - 10

Spirit: 15

Code 056 seated himself next to you:
"Good morning, Futoshi."
"Yes, Goro?" You reciprocate.
"Ichigo told me about your joke with her in the library yesterday. I wonder how sincere you were in saying it was a joke?"
"And?" You ask with curiosity.
Goro takes a deep breath, as if exasperated:
"You've come to the porch - knowing who sits on the steps most frequently - and seated yourself for a very specific purpose, haven't you?"

[] "Yes."
[] "Yes, indeed."
[] "Yes. She is my rightful conquest."

[] Storm off to the library in abject disgust.

>>2617690
[] "Yes, indeed."
The hidden option is maybe a little too extreme, It's not like we penetrated the citadel and carried off as a war bride.

Also
>Goro is gonna be either actually aggressive or passive aggressive because we agitated his lady love or because we implied we want to ride with her.
Boys we may have inadvertently started the first love triangle.

>>2617690
>[X] "Yes, indeed."
Don't say too much to Gobro, we need him as an ally.

>>2617690
>[x] "Yes, indeed."

>>2617690
>[X] "Yes, indeed."

>>2617690
>[] "Yes, indeed."