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Rika and Naomi watch the empty road intently, while Saki and I relax in some of the chairs outside the front entrance to the inn, all four of us wearing jackets in an attempt to combat the winter weather. Over a limited but tasty breakfast this morning, Saki suggested that we head over to the shoppi...

Despite coming out on this trip to have fun, I still can’t shake the spectre of my family’s expectations. I’ve spent this whole train ride with one hand in my pocket, fiddling with my phone, afraid to check it. Only now, with a few minutes until we reach our station, do I finally take it out and fli...

“Hello?” “Hey Mom, it’s me.” “Oh, Natsume - I wasn’t expecting you to call so early!” I can hear a few muffled sounds in the background, and gather that she’s probably in the middle of something. “Yeah, sorry, I just... I just thought of something, and figured I should call you about it.” That’s a b...

Rising Steam “Absolutely not, young lady.” “Wha- Mom, come on, what’s the problem?” “The problem is that we miss you, Natsume! We haven’t seen you in months - don’t you want to spend the holidays catching up with us?” “I do, Mom, I do, but...” I have to stop myself from using my joints as an excuse...

Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to yet another secret santa! This is the fourth year in a row we’ve had one of these, and I’m proud to join a long list of participants ! As always, I was provided with a randomly-selected prompt written by another participant; in this case, my victim was long...

I thought a bit about why you brought up Katawa Kijo in this context, but I guess I did hint at several later developments quite early on in that story... Maybe it's just me, but I always considered it a story with deep lore. Some of that was background from existing magic systems, but a lot of it ...

Good to see this thing is still continued! Hopefully with more frequent updates now, wink, wink. Hopefully! There's the secret santa coming up, which will take over my writing for a month or so. But I'm graduating soon, which means more time for writing - until I get a job, at which point all bets ...

Okay, in that case it's just Emi running out of cash and choosing that exact bank to get more which is a bit hard to believe... Yeah, it is quite a coincidence. Just sets it up better for the reader, that's all. Also, if Naoshi was the one who shot the gun, he must have noticed Lilly teleporting ou...

A few logic quibbles, though: Fortunately, there are reasonable explanations for both of these! Unfortunately, you'll have to take my word that I had indeed planned them out beforehand, and simply left them out of the story because the reader lacking that information drives the suspense and progres...

With that scene over, I wanted to mention one last thing regarding the nurse's advice. Based on the small amount of research I did, back in 2007 (when this story is set), medical consensus was that untrained bystanders should not attempt CPR, lest they exacerbate the victim's condition. However, aro...

Well, homework still isn’t easy , but it certainly feels easier than before. I guess that’s yet another benefit of those study sessions last week. Mutou excusing my old unfinished assignments definitely helped too - it’s a lot easier to motivate myself without that mountain of catch-up work weighing...

>Cockpit Resource Management< The school grounds are pretty quiet at the moment - a few grey clouds have started rolling over, so nobody's risking lunch outdoors. Hisao and I were already running a bit late due to our talk with Mutou, but now we walk even faster, not wanting to get caught in the ra...

I really need to start doing these more than once a year . In fairness, I wrote a bunch of other KS stuff in the past year. About 32000 words, all of which you can find in my one-shot thread . But still, this is supposed to be my “main route”, and I haven’t been treating it as such. I’m still not en...

[I’m watching you.] The small whiteboard, with its infuriating message, was propped up against the bed, facing Shizune. Since being captured, there had always been at least one other person in the room - either the third-year or the fourth-year. Yesterday, however, the third-year had left during the...

Naoshi generally enjoyed mind games. Of course it was fun to try to figure out what was going on in other people’s heads - extracting motes of truth from the veneer of lies they put up. But beyond that, it was also fun to be on the receiving end; in some ways, it was a far more interesting puzzle to...