Re: Things at Amat

[ibarakasen]

... No. No I am not going to get up while sick and wander around looking for anyone by the name of Watanabe no Tsuna, nor am I going to mention anything about that, nor am I going to try to do impromptu poetry with any of them and-

NO! Hoshiguma is not allowed to get me drunk and...

NO no one is allowed to know anything about what I am besides a hermit!

Stop that, Mundane! I am not a demon, or ogre, or monster, or whatever else you want people to try to think of me as. I am not Ibaraki-douji nor am I the demon of the Rashomon, not like this. That's a long time past, you can pretend it never happened. It's not coming back. I know you're trying to wear me down, but it's not happening.

So stop.

[Denial denial, she's getting there eventually.]

Especially the drunk thing. [Grump grump grumpy hermit.]

Comments

[higan_retour]

Should I tie you up or something?

[ibarakasen]

... No. That's dumb on many different levels.

[higan_retour]

You're the one at risk of embarrassing yourself. I was just offering a suggestion of help.

[ibarakasen]

I hate being tied up. [Case in point: Up goes her wrist... and she rattles her chain.]

[higan_retour]

Then lock you in, occupy your time, some other means of detaining you. I wasn't being serious and literal anyway.

[ibarakasen]

... Not while I'm sick, Komachi. You don't want to get it, either.

And you know what that sounds like, right?

[higan_retour]

Eh? How what sounds like?

[ibarakasen]

What you just proposed.

[higan_retour]

And it sounds like what exactly?

[ibarakasen]

Well let's see. Locking someone inside a bedroom, "occupying" their time, doing anything in your power to waste time and keep them there?

I wonder, Komachi.

[higan_retour]

Was thinking more like a closet since rooms have windows you could crawl out of.

[ibarakasen]

... You've reached a new level of idiocy. Congratulations.

[I swear she really does love Komachi.]

[higan_retour]

Hey, you're the one with a dirty mind. And here you're trying to tell everyone how you're a good hermit.

[Sometimes you have to wonder if she does these things deliberately.]

[ibarakasen]

... And just when I though that was your peak, you go up again. Is there no end to it?

[Kasen is easy mode, though.]

[higan_retour]

It's just a joke, no reason to be so serious about it.

[ibarakasen]

Ah, so she finally peaks out.

Finally.

[higan_retour]

You're really harsh, you know that?

[ibarakasen]

Why do you sound so surprised? You do it to yourself.

[higan_retour]

You don't have to shove it all back on me.

[ibarakasen]

Of course I do. How else will you learn?

[red_the_nightless_castle]

Everyone in Gensokyo gets drunk. It's just how life works, here.

[ibarakasen]

Maybe for the rest of you, but no.

And I'm not talking about IN Gensokyo, either.

[red_the_nightless_castle]

...What's wrong with bringing the spirit of home with you when you go abroad? I did.

[Remilia, you got numerous minors and robots reeking drunk. That's not QUITE the same as the 'spirit of Gensokyo'.]

Why don't you drink? Are you a part of the landscape, or a Buddhist, or something?

[ibarakasen]

... Because even in Gensokyo I didn't drink and-

... I don't want to. I don't like it, and I don't like what it does to me. [Also she is a recovering alcoholic.] And I'm a hermit, besides.