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[maskinglayer]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, PriestOfHope. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 087.10.149.52 *** PriestOfHope has joined 087.10.149.52 <PriestOfHope> have you ever wondered what happens to your thoughts when you send them? <PriestOfHope> people say if a camera takes your picture it actually steals your soul! <PriestOfHope> maybe computers do the same thing... <PriestOfHope> oh this is jataro. i guess you can leave a message if you want.

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[Continued from here.]

...no, she didn't have Monokuma kids boo me. There weren't even any Monokuma Kids there when I fought that high school demon. We didn't face each other in my arena.

[Nagisa sighs and sets his laptop aside for now, leaning forward on his knees and staring at Jataro with those bright green eyes of his.]

You're wrong though. It's like I said before, if they really had killed you, Monaka-chan wouldn't have gone so far in covering it up. There would have been no need for that.

But even if I'm wrong and they were going to kill you... the Fog God saved you and brought you here. So, technically, you never died. And there's nothing that says you'll go right back to the same point in space-time if we ever have to leave Ryslig. There's not even anything that says we'll go back to the same universe. The possibilities are endless, and it's pointless to speculate on them.

Make sense?

[maskinglayer]

You didn't even get to fight her in your arena?

[He genuinely sounds bummed about that, as if it had happened to him. What's the point of fighting boss battles like that if you aren't fighting her in your arena!?]

Not really...I mean...some of it does. I guess you're right that I'm not dead, since she saved me. That part makes sense! But...is it really possible we won't go back to the same universe? Where else would we go?

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[He shakes his head. Nope. Did not get to fight her in the Sage Killesseum. Wherever that was. But, once again, he kind of dodges around the topic and instead focuses on the multiverse theory.]

[He shrugs.]

Another universe, perhaps? Like I said, the possibilities are endless, especially since we don't know how exactly she brought us here in the first place. Though, if given the choice, I'd like to stay here.

[maskinglayer]

Where'd you fight her then?

[Sorry, can't dodge it too easily. He's curious!]

I wanna stay too! Even if there are lots of adults here, some of them aren't too bad, and being a monster is great! And the Fog God picked us out of everyone else so I don't want to disappoint her...I really hope she can bring the others here too. I think they'd be happy too.

[Just imagine...the Warriors of Hope as monsters, living in a world where their parents never even existed in the first place! Where some of the adults aren't demons and they can kill people and it's totally okay!]

Kotoko-chan would be a really really cute monster! Maybe she'd be a pink fox! Or a pink bat! Or maybe even a pink frog! I bet Daimon-kun would be one of those cow ones. The really strong ones?

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In the underground factory. The place where Monaka made all of our Monokumas.

[JATARO LEAVE IT ALONE. Let's just talk about our friends instead. Nagisa smiles a little.]

I hope she does too. We'd all be better off here than back home. The bull monsters are minotaurs, ad I would really hope she wouldn't turn Daimon into something like that. The last thing he needs is super strength...

[Jataro, why would you even suggest that. Why.]

I don't think Kotoko-chan would like being a frog though, even if she was a pink one. She'd probably say it's not adorbs enough. Maybe she'd be a butterfly faerie...or a pink manticore. She'd probably like being a flying cat.

[maskinglayer]

...why'd you fight her there?

[That seems like a silly place to have a big fight. But...maybe it was cool? Maybe he was using tactical advantage!]

Oh! Did you take her there instead so you could use lots of Monokumas to help? She was a lot harder to fight than I thought she'd be...

[And you're really smart. Even though you could probably take her on your own, you'd totally make sure you had the advantage so that she'd no way beat you.]

Yeah the minotaurs! But I guess you're right...he'd probably be pretty scary with super strength.

[...........whine. Jataro lifts his hands up to the side of his head, ducking it down a little and curling up some.]

He'd probably put a big boulder or something in front of the bathroom while I was pooping so I could never, ever get out...or he'd throw me up really high onto a tree so I could never get down...or on top of a building...

[Save him, Nagisa. Save him from Masaru.]

text; un: mitsuhide

[ufufufufu]

Good news.
Kira lied to me.
You need not violently punish the young miss who told Nagisa that she was the park conduit.
What she told you was true.

<IBUKI> Night of 7/4!

[fretless]

OKAY OKAY OKAY
IBUKI KNOWS YOU HATE HER BUT PLEASE OKAY JUST LISTEN SHE NEEDS YOUR HELP (；´･Д･)
you are the sesl arts and crafties guy, right?? ヾ(•д•̀ ;)ﾉ so you can make cool things if ibuki asked, right???
because TANABATA IS COMING UP and ibuki cannot make that entire thing happen all on her lonesome but someone who is also super blankity blank level helping out could maybe make it happen?? (´oωo` )

PLEEEEAAAAASE JATARO-CHAN PLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASE

gift; 7/25

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[So, guess who lied when they said they wouldn't look at your tanabata wishes, Jataro? Nagisa. Nagisa lied when he said he wouldn't look. He absolutely looked, and decided to do what he could to make some of those wishes come true.]

[So, that fire truck you wished for? It's waiting for you in your studio on this fine summer afternoon.]

[Well...sort of. Obviously, Nagisa couldn't get an ACTUAL fire truck for a number of reasons, so he decided to improvise. Sitting on the table, in plain view when someone walks through the door is an antique toy fire truck, clearly made out of tin.]

[Obviously, magic Tanabata wish spirits made this happened, because Nagisa doesn't have a key for Jataro's studio! No way to get in. That permanently propped open window is way too high and too small for Nagisa to have crawled in that way. Gotta be wish spirits. Definitely not a nymph using their plant magic to control vines. Definitely not.]

[Enjoy, Jataro. And don't think this is the last wish he's going to grant...]

[maskinglayer]

[If Nagisa thought he wouldn't hear about this, he should think again. After admiring the truck and getting over his initial surprise of finding it there, the young artist runs into their shared bedroom, almost tripping over his own feet in excitement.]

Shingetsu-kun!! Shingetsu-kun look! Look!

[He's holding up the small truck, smiling bright.]

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[He had a feeling this might happen. The nymph looks up from his book, arranging his face into a look of politely interested curiosity. Jataro wants him to look at something? Oh, what could it be?]

Hm? Did you come up with a symbol for Fo-- [Oh wow, would you look at that! A toy truck! Clearly this is what he's supposed to be looking at.] Oh...is that one of those model kits?

[Did you get into model cars, Jataro? Is that what this is? That has to be what this is.]

[maskinglayer]

It's a fire truck! There really are wishing spirits here!

[He's so happy. So. Happy.]

One of my wishes was for a fire truck, and I found this in my studio!

[He moves over to sit with him so he can show it to him in more detail. Look at how nice it is...]

I've never done any model cars or anything before. Are they all nice like this?

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[Nagisa's eye's widen. Because this is, of course, news to him.]

Really? Wow...the magic here must be even stronger than we thought, if wishes like that can be granted. [Because after all the time he spent trying to tell Jataro that wishes like that just can't come true, he can't just NOT mention it. That would be suspicious. Clearly, the wish spirits of Ryslig are just better than the ones on Earth.]

[Nagisa sets his book down so that he can look over Jataro's truck. Not that he really needs to, since he's the one who bought it in the first place, but...]

How nice a model looks depends on how skilled a person is at construction. I'm sure any model you made would look at least as nice as this, if not better.

[maskinglayer]

[His smile can only brighten when Nagisa mentions them being stronger here. That's so cool!]

Maybe I'll try putting some together then sometime...I dunno if they'd be better than something wishing spirits could do though...they're magic! My art skills aren't magic.

[He's going to try though!! Jataro sits back, admiring the truck still before moving it in the air like it's driving a little. He's quiet, no excited rambling or anything. Maybe he's thinking about something? Or maybe he's just really focused on whatever fire scenario he's got going in his head. Surely that truck is going somewhere!]

<IBUKI>

[fretless]

There once was a boy who was a Halloween fanatic. He loved dressing up for Halloween, he loved pulling pranks and watching horror movies, and above everything else... he loved candy. One fateful year, while he went trick-or-treating, he visited a house. This house was creepy as hell! It was big, it was old, it smelled like a grandmother and it was owned by a happy, old rich couple. The boy came here thinking that he would be handed out big chocolate bars, because it was a rich person's house but when he knocked on their door... he was handed a bag of that shitty candy that nobody likes! Tootsie rolls, shitty flavoured dum-dums, those weird... peanut things... needless to say, the boy was heartbroken. He was so heartbroken that he died, right there on their porch and now, every Halloween he goes out and finds people to curse. He wants everyone to suffer the same way he did!

Everybody is already suffering from his curse!! Send this to ten people to break the curse, or to avoid getting cursed, or you'll be stuck looking freakier than usual for the rest of your life!!!!!!!!!!

<PriestOfHope>

[maskinglayer]

Why was he heartbroken about candy?
Lots of candy is good!
Didn't he just come back after dying too?
Fog-sama brings everyone back when they die...
Also, I want to look freakier!!
The scarier I look, the better!

<IBUKI>

[fretless]

no jataro-chan you don't get it, curses always work the OPPOSITE of how you want!! you'll probably look so freaky, you'll be super cute! like a little pug puppy!!
with all those horrible wrinkles and giant freaky eyes, no one can resist a pug!!!
and and, he only got the really bad candy! haven't you heard of trick or treating before, jataro-chan? its kind of a westerny thing but they go to people's houses and threaten each other for candy, and if you get really bad candy you get to play tricks on them!
but these ones were so bad, it broke his heart and he died!

<PriestOfHope>

[maskinglayer]

I've heard of it.
Mommy never let me go before though, so I don't know a lot about it. It always sounded fun though.
But she said I'm not worth it, and someone as awful as me doesn't deserve it.
I still think candy is good. All candy!
I like tootsie rolls...and the dum dums! The name is really funny and they taste really good.

<IBUKI>

[fretless]

really??

oh, oh! ibuki has an idea!!
how's about she takes you and nagisa-chan trick or treating, and you can have all the candies ibuki doesn't like! that way we both get candy we like and everyone is happy!
except for the people who give out stuff like pennies, we can trick them for not giving out candy at all ╮(＾▽＾)╭

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Hello, Jataro!

ummmmnmm....

Are there toys you think people need? I was going to ask Nagisa, but it feels like he wouldn't want these ones...but there's also clothes here, I guess, um

Anyway I don't know what to do with everything, but I got a lot of things because I was wearing this weird mask, and now I don't know what to do with everything...a lot of it is white though, so you could colour it, maybe??

[maskinglayer]

if they're white i could paint them!
though i could probably paint them if they were other colors too...
i think the material matters more than the color.
but what kind of toys? kids always want toys!
even shingetsu-kun would like them i bet.
he seems super um
sofistacated and stuff, but he's a kid too!
but if it's about what i like, i like all toys.
but trucks are the best.
no wait, robots are the best!!
robots are the best toys.
and monokumas are the best robots!!

[What do you mean you weren't asking what he, specifically, would want?]

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[AHA BUT THAT IS WHERE YOU FALL INTO HER TRAP JATARO-

She admittedly sort of feared what would happen if she directly said 'hey, what do you want'. This was clearly the Safest Method. In any case.]

Most of them are....soft?

They're really soft toys, most of them, but I think special paints and things for fabric exists, so that's probably ok...

I didn't get a lot of trucks and robots, but some of the things can be pulled around places?

Oh!

There's a motor-train too...

There's some things you can sort of ride, like rocking horse things, or little cars...

wait what's a monokuma

[Something he can probably make from that white teddy is what]

[maskinglayer]

a train!!
that's so cool!!
is the train big enough to ride?
or is it one of those little ones that go round around?
choo choo!!
oh um
well stuffed animals i can dye too, that'd be a lot better than painting them.
even with fabric paint!
rocking horses are fun, and so are cars!
do you have a wagon big enough to hold shingetsu-kun?
it'd be fun to pull him around!
can we come play some time?

[Amazing...it's like he's gotten so excited about the toys that he's forgotten everything she'd said in her original message...]

a monokuma is a black and white bear robot with a big glowing red eye!
they helped us kill adults back home, and we had a whole bunch of them, all controlled by our mage!
the beast monokumas were the best, but i really loved the junk monokumas and ball monokumas too.

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[Train Donation, Noted-]

It's only a small one! The tracks make it 'big', I guess...

I don't think I have a wagon, but you could probably use one of the pull horses...

I was supposed to be giving you these toys anyway, you wouldn't have to come here!! Though, the play room is all cushions and things to swing and climb on, so you can definitely come to play...

Maybe I should make a door in my room to the lake, so that you can just swim inside instead of having to knock on the door...that way none of the adults ever see...

[Important. Anyway. Well. That's sure a. Thing.]

I think you would have to ask Mana for those...not even EltheFourth has those...

FEB 2 - Jataro doesn't have to respond this is just to. Cement it.

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HEY HEY HEY!!!

SOMEONE HERE KNOWS YOU AND NAGISA SHE'S VERY PINK AND SHE TAUGHT ME THE WORD FOR SOMETHING EVEN MORE THAN CUTE I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A MORE THAN CUTE BUT IT'S ADORB????

she's where the mask party was anyway

[That's about all Jataro abruptly gets at some point on the second. He'll note that, hilariously, Nagisa receives the exact same message outside names.]