1st Lie

[fictionalize]

Characters: Kumagawa and you!
Setting: Various parts of the tower
Format: Any
Summary: BIG HUGE LOSER exploring the tower
Warnings: Screws, random acts of violence, some gore?

[Dormitories]

[First order of business is, of course, putting on his uniform. He can't wear white! It really just doesn't suit him. Even if he's not on the student council anymore and should really wear the normal uniform. Of course, this didn't really look like Hakoniwa Academy...

Plus, the last thing he remembered was having just rescued Shiranui, so this was pretty mysterious. Had he been hit by some kind of style?

Well, whatever! He's going to look for someone to harass. No matter who you are or how busy you look, there's an annoyingly smiley face bothering you]

「Hi, do you have a few moments to fill out a survey for the latest issue of Shounen Jump?」

[Cafeteria]

[Kumagawa is just. Staring at the oatmeal.

Yeah, no. He doesn't want to eat this.

You, who were passing by, gets a tug on your sleeve or other grabbable piece of clothing]

「...I don't suppose I could get the shiyo ramen instead, can I?」

[Floor 75]

[The snowy of the ruins of the castle here look like they've been through a more recent battle: there's blood and ichor everywhere, the bodies of dead monsters all over the place, ranging from the more mundane and even completely harmless to a few that look like they'd be quite dangerous. The most striking feature of the scene is how they were apparently annihilated: everywhere, there are giant screws stuck into everything, drilling through their heads, their guts, armor, carapaces, pinning them to the ground, the trees, even into the walls of the castle.

Investigate?]

Comments

[midnightblackandgold]

I'll look down on whoever I want to. And what do you mean by 'minus'?

[fictionalize]

「The bottom of the pile. The worst. The losers. The trash who can't rise up no matter how they struggle and flail and suffer. We're the losers who keep on smiling no matter what life throws at us, no matter how disgusting we become, no matter how the world looks down on us. We can't help it if we're miserable, that's just the way it is.」

[midnightblackandgold]

Oh. Good. That means you'll do whatever I want you to do since I'm a Plus and cool as all hell.

[fictionalize]

「Hahaha, well, I never said a Minus would obey a Plus. Rather, I hate you and I hope you die.」

[He says cheerfully]

[midnightblackandgold]

[Yeah... have your pants on fire, weird man.]

[fictionalize]

「Aaaaahhhhh!」

[He screams in pain and starts rolling around on the floor to try to put it out... if that's even possible.]

[midnightblackandgold]

[It's just normal fire, so the Stop Drop and Roll technique works. Marisa will just snicker at him.]

[fictionalize]

[Panting, Kumagawa crawls to his knees, looking down as his pants that now are missing large chunks and his nice, new burns]

「Ow ow ow... What kind of person sets someone they just met on fire?」

[midnightblackandgold]

What kind of person tells someone he just met that he hates her and hopes she dies?

[fictionalize]

「It was a joke, a joke! I just don't want you to boss me around. Or set me on fire again. You aren't going to boss me around by threatening to set me on fire, are you?」

[midnightblackandgold]

[She holds a finger up and a little flame appears on the end of it.]

Maybe.

[fictionalize]

「Fire's dangerous! You really shouldn't play with it!」

[He snaps his fingers and suddenly the flame disappears. Also, his pants are fine again.]

[midnightblackandgold]

[Marisa blinks and looks at her hand.]

...what did you just do?

[fictionalize]

「Hm? Oh, nothing really. Exactly nothing. I just made that flame "become nothing".」

[The fact that his pants got burned too. Though... he's getting this really weird headache now... not that he lets it show.]

[midnightblackandgold]

Don't do that again.

[fictionalize]

「Why not? Do what? I don't remember doing anything. Nothing happened.」

[midnightblackandgold]

Don't make me set your pants on fire again for being an asshole.

[fictionalize]

「What a scary person! I never knew such violent hooligans existed! I thought that kind of thing only happened in manga!」

[midnightblackandgold]

Get a clue, ze. Real life ain't pretty.

[fictionalize]

「Real life doesn't contain people with weird hats and fire from their fingertips either.」

[midnightblackandgold]

And yet here I am, ze.

[fictionalize]

「I guess this must not be real life then!」

[midnightblackandgold]

Only if you're not real either.

[fictionalize]

「A lot of people wish I wasn't real.」

[midnightblackandgold]

Maybe you should stop existing, ze.