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[ No she doesn't. She takes the second airplane out of the bag and holds it up to him. ]

Read.

Wha--

[ Oh god she really had the second airplane. Terry slightly turns red at the face--he can tell it's the dreaded one because he folded the wings a little differently than the others. ]

No! Get someone else to do it!

What, is it something embarrassing? If it is, it's better if you read it out loud, not somebody else, isn't it?

[ She pulls her hand back at little- not to spare Terry from having to read it, but so she can make sure he doesn't just grab it out of her hands and tear it up like the last one. ]

If it's embarrassing, why would I want to read it out loud?!

[ Kido??? ]

Oh my god, this is payback, isn't it? I'm still not gonna read it!

Because then it stays between us, instead of being shared among others, right? It can't be that embarrassing, if you threw it out the window for anybody to see.

[ It's payback and she keeps the piece of paper held up in front of her chest so he can't ignore it if he keeps looking at her. ]

I threw it out the window without my name on it, wrote in English, IN A JAPANESE TOWN, in hopes that no one would pay attention to it and throw it in the garbage!

[ AAAAAAAAAAaaaa

This is why he can't bully anyone. He just gets hit back tenfold. And it hurts. ]

[ It's karma for littering!!! ]

English is learned in Japanese schools all the time.

[ Which doesn't help her at all, since she never went and never learned. She would ask somebody else to read it for her, but she's mentally going through the list of people she knows here, and they're all pretty... unreliable...

Why isn't there anybody smart here? ]

[ Maybe Terry knew about the latter, so that's why he was banking on it. Just a little bit. He's still dumb though, when he could have just thrown it into the trash himself, but he probably couldn't do it for some reason. ]

Nothing I wrote in there sounds like "I have a pen".

[ aka the most generic stuff you usually learn in classrooms ]

[ ...Kido takes the piece of paper back, and smooths out some of the other crumpled pieces of paper lying around her, stacking them in her lap. Even if she never learned how to read English, and even if there's no Google translator around, that doesn't mean it's impossible. ]

I'll leave you to look after Hayato and Suzume tomorrow, then, while I stay in the library.

[ Just painstakingly translating this word for word. It honestly sounds like such a pain, to the point that she wonders if it's even worth the effort, but if Terry's this embarrassed by it, it must be good blackmail material. ]

[ Terry is never going to tell Kido that he has a google translator app in that phone, but not even that will make him want to take his phone back. He's also appalled that Kido is taking the other papers too?! What the hell!!! He is just internally screaming at this point and tries to swipe at least ONE of them. ]

[ lmfao once Kido sees him trying to grab the papers, she's even more determined not to let him have any. Years of being quick and efficient at housework pays off, with her removing the papers closest to him first, before going about the room. ]

Good patients should stay seated and not exert themselves. I'm counting on you to babysit tomorrow, after all, so if you strain yourself here, that'd be too bad.

[ ugh

Ugh!!!!!

He can't argue with that logic, and be would totally babysit them for Kido, but this is a situation he would like to prevent. And he's failing pretty hard now. ]

You... you'll regret finding out!!

[ this is his last ditch effort to save himself ]

I'll take that chance.

[ The papers go into the bag, and from out of it, she pulls out three cans of cat food to drop into Terry's hands. Payment for the papers. ]

I said I would bring these, so here you are.

Thanks...

[ He feels a certain kind of defeat and sighs, taking the three cans of cat food. He checks to see if they're the kind that he would feed, and yup, so he'll put them in the drawer.

He can't really attack Kido either. He wouldn't want to!! He would probably get punched anyway!! ]

Where should I meet the kids... at their house?

Oh. No, I said I would come pick you up, so that's why I came today. I'll be bringing them both to school, and get you along the way, so I needed to know whether I should come here, or comb through the park benches.

[ Or wherever Terry will be living after this. ]

Oh, right.

[ After such a bland answer, he feels his excitement levels raise, totally forgetting about the papers earlier. ]

I really did get better in time for the festival. . I can't wait for tomorrow.

There's three festivals almost back to back this month, so hopefully that's enough to keep you being better.

[ She finishes putting away the papers and pats him on the head. Be good and save dying for the dungeons where he at least has some excuse for it. ]

So you'll be staying here overnight and we'll come get you in the morning? You need to be ready to leave by 7.

Yeah, I'll be ready by then--

[ Wait, it just occurs to him, by that wording... ]

You're going with me to all three festivals?

Why is that what you jump to!? You don't need supervision to go out!

[ ............actually, he should need supervision, because otherwise he will die ]

Of course I don't.

[ He probably does. You're right. ]

I wasn't thinking it like a supervision kind of thing...

Hm...

[ It's now a supervision thing. ]

It's not embarrassing to walk around that sort of place by yourself, you know.

[ Like how middle school girls need to go to the bathroom in groups of three? Like that. ]

But if that's the sort of thing you're worried about, I'll go with you.

Of course it's not embarrassing! And I'm definitely not worried!

[ Terry may get embarrassed a lot lately, but going alone to social things is definitely not one of them. Honestly, the one's who are more worried are probably his friends... ]

I just thought it would be more fun to go with friends.

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Oh.

[ A very normal answer, and Kido shouldn't be as surprised as she is. ]

Yeah, going with friends would be nice. It can be us and Rei and... hm...

[ ...On hindsight, Rei is the only person Kido really really likes. But maybe she's giving Terry the chance to list some friends, not that her mind is blanking on more names. Maybe Mondo? She hopes they don't run into Hibiki. ]

[ Honestly, yeah. He'd invite Mondo and Hibiki too. Maybe even Leon. And a whole bunch of other people. But. ]

I'm fine with that.

[ He figures that he'll see the others at the festival or something anyway. ]

[ lmao if Terry had mentioned Hibiki or Leon, Kido would have immediately bailed ]

Alright. Then, I'll see if I can talk to her today and-

[ ...god, Rei's still living in that haunted inn, isn't she? Kido can't go there. Impossible. ]

...I'll try to catch her tomorrow, if I see her.

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