AOI: Ah, Naegi! G’morning!! MAKOTO: Good morning... Is everyone already here? YASUHIRO: Togami-chi and Ishimaru-chi aren’t here yet, ‘right? MAKOTO: Togami-kun I can understand, but it’s rare for Ishimaru-kun to be late. CELES: Ishimaru-kun went all the way to Togami-kun’s room, to call the late offender here personally. SAKURA: He should be back soon. We shall wait for a while longer... CELES: I usually don’t mind waiting, but there’s a single problem. MAKOTO: ...problem? CELES: I am thirsty. MONDO: I wouldn’t call that a problem... CELES: Yamada-kun, can you please make me some tea? HIFUMI: ...Huh? CELES: Milk tea, if you please. HIFUMI: Why me...? CELES: Your round body is exactly like the owner of a cafe I often go to. MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: That’s why she chose him...? CELES: My throat is really perched. Can you please hurry up? HIFUMI: S...sure, right away... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Yamada-kun went reluctantly into the kitchen, unable to refuse Celes-san’s order. MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: And then, a few minutes later... HIFUMI: Sorry to have kept you waiting!! MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Yamada-kun returned holding a tray with both hands, the scent of black tea drifting in the air around him. CELES: Hee hee. I’ve been waiting. TOUKO: Since you already made tea... shouldn’t you have made some for everyone? HIFUMI: You are my mortal enemy! I vehemently refuse! HIFUMI: Heh heh. It’s all according to the rules of cause and effect... TOUKO: Grr.... CELES: Well then, I think I shall try it... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Smiling, Celes-san held the tea cup to her lips and took a sip... CELES: ...oh, my. MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: She tilted her neck a little, and... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Suddenly, she threw the tea cup she was holding against the wall! * CRASH * HIFUMI: Eh--!? What did you do that for?! CELES: This kind of milk tea is not to my liking! HIFUMI: Eh? Um, I don’t really understand... CELES: Let’s say you go to a regular cafe around these parts and you order a cup of tea. CELES: Sometimes they ask “do you want it with milk?” or “do you want it with lemon?” CELES: When they do, I answer that I want milk tea. CELES: But when I do that, they bring a small vessel full of milk along with the tea to my table. CELES: I’m the type that prefers milk to be added ahead of time when making milk tea. CELES: The tea’s scent is overwhelmingly better that way. CELES: Furthermore, if I’m supposed to add milk or lemon just before drinking, isn’t that nothing more than simple seasoning? CELES: Having that kind of tea as its own choice on the menu is simply unacceptable! CELES: That’s why I will drink nothing but “Royal milk tea”, where the tea is boiled down with the milk. MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: If I had to describe our response to her speech... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: I think the best way would be “total and utter bewilderness”... HIFUMI: Um, I went to the trouble of making tea, and this is what I get!? CELES: I realize making the tea my way is a pain... CELES: After all, isn’t Royal milk tea more expensive than simple milk tea in places offering both? CELES: I’m sure it requires more skill to make, but... CELES: If there’s no skill involved, why is it even on the menu? HIFUMI: We don’t really have a menu here, you see... CELES: JUST HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET ME MY TEA, PIG BOY!! HIFUMI: Ehhhhhhhhhh!? HIFUMI: Yes ma’am! This pig boy will be right back!! CELES: Hee hee. Intimidation sure is useful. AOI: It was... quite a change of character, though... MONDO: Shit... she let it slip for just one second... CELES: Hee hee hee hee... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Celes-san lives up to my first impressions of her... She’s not someone who can be dealt with easily... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: And then, just as we were nervously contemplating Celes-san’s break of character... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: The cafeteria’s door swung open and one of the the people we’ve been waiting for came in... MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: But... KIYOTAKA: Everyone! There is something strange going on...! YASUHIRO: Eh? What happened? KIYOTAKA: Togami-kun won’t come out of his room... KIYOTAKA: I pushed the intercom button many times, but he’s not coming out... MAKOTO: Maybe he’s... not in there...? KIYOTAKA: In that case... should I even say that... what if something happened to him....? MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: I understood straight away what he meant. MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: He didn’t need to say anything else... everyone in the room understood perfectly. MAKOTO: W...we should go looking for him. Let’s split up and search... KIYOTAKA: Hey, I was just about to make that suggestion myself! TOUKO: Always with the competitve spirit... even at a time like this... AOI: I’ll try going to his room one more time. AOI: I’ll keep pushing the intercom button until there’s a response. SAKURA: Well then. The rest of us shall split up and start searching. YASUHIRO: Yeah, before it’s too late... ‘right? MAKOTO: ..............
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KYOUKO: So... you came here as well... MAKOTO: ...eh? KYOUKO: If we think back to what Togami-kun found interesting yesterday... KYOUKO: We should be able to deduce where he is right now. Isn’t that right? MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: What was it that Togami-kun found interesting yesterday...?
MEMORY #34
AOI: Ah, Naegi! G’morning!!
MAKOTO: Good morning... Is everyone already here?
YASUHIRO: Togami-chi and Ishimaru-chi aren’t here yet, ‘right?
MAKOTO: Togami-kun I can understand, but it’s rare for Ishimaru-kun to be late.
CELES: Ishimaru-kun went all the way to Togami-kun’s room, to call the late offender here personally.
SAKURA: He should be back soon. We shall wait for a while longer...
CELES: I usually don’t mind waiting, but there’s a single problem.
MAKOTO: ...problem?
CELES: I am thirsty.
MONDO: I wouldn’t call that a problem...
CELES: Yamada-kun, can you please make me some tea?
HIFUMI: ...Huh?
CELES: Milk tea, if you please.
HIFUMI: Why me...?
CELES: Your round body is exactly like the owner of a cafe I often go to.
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: That’s why she chose him...?
CELES: My throat is really perched. Can you please hurry up?
HIFUMI: S...sure, right away...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Yamada-kun went reluctantly into the kitchen, unable to refuse Celes-san’s order.
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: And then, a few minutes later...
HIFUMI: Sorry to have kept you waiting!!
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Yamada-kun returned holding a tray with both hands, the scent of black tea drifting in the air around him.
CELES: Hee hee. I’ve been waiting.
TOUKO: Since you already made tea... shouldn’t you have made some for everyone?
HIFUMI: You are my mortal enemy! I vehemently refuse!
HIFUMI: Heh heh. It’s all according to the rules of cause and effect...
TOUKO: Grr....
CELES: Well then, I think I shall try it...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Smiling, Celes-san held the tea cup to her lips and took a sip...
CELES: ...oh, my.
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: She tilted her neck a little, and...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Suddenly, she threw the tea cup she was holding against the wall!
* CRASH *
HIFUMI: Eh--!? What did you do that for?!
CELES: This kind of milk tea is not to my liking!
HIFUMI: Eh? Um, I don’t really understand...
CELES: Let’s say you go to a regular cafe around these parts and you order a cup of tea.
CELES: Sometimes they ask “do you want it with milk?” or “do you want it with lemon?”
CELES: When they do, I answer that I want milk tea.
CELES: But when I do that, they bring a small vessel full of milk along with the tea to my table.
CELES: I’m the type that prefers milk to be added ahead of time when making milk tea.
CELES: The tea’s scent is overwhelmingly better that way.
CELES: Furthermore, if I’m supposed to add milk or lemon just before drinking, isn’t that nothing more than simple seasoning?
CELES: Having that kind of tea as its own choice on the menu is simply unacceptable!
CELES: That’s why I will drink nothing but “Royal milk tea”, where the tea is boiled down with the milk.
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: If I had to describe our response to her speech...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: I think the best way would be “total and utter bewilderness”...
HIFUMI: Um, I went to the trouble of making tea, and this is what I get!?
CELES: I realize making the tea my way is a pain...
CELES: After all, isn’t Royal milk tea more expensive than simple milk tea in places offering both?
CELES: I’m sure it requires more skill to make, but...
CELES: If there’s no skill involved, why is it even on the menu?
HIFUMI: We don’t really have a menu here, you see...
CELES: JUST HURRY THE FUCK UP AND GET ME MY TEA, PIG BOY!!
HIFUMI: Ehhhhhhhhhh!?
HIFUMI: Yes ma’am! This pig boy will be right back!!
CELES: Hee hee. Intimidation sure is useful.
AOI: It was... quite a change of character, though...
MONDO: Shit... she let it slip for just one second...
CELES: Hee hee hee hee...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: Celes-san lives up to my first impressions of her... She’s not someone who can be dealt with easily...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: And then, just as we were nervously contemplating Celes-san’s break of character...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: The cafeteria’s door swung open and one of the the people we’ve been waiting for came in...
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: But...
KIYOTAKA: Everyone! There is something strange going on...!
YASUHIRO: Eh? What happened?
KIYOTAKA: Togami-kun won’t come out of his room...
KIYOTAKA: I pushed the intercom button many times, but he’s not coming out...
MAKOTO: Maybe he’s... not in there...?
KIYOTAKA: In that case... should I even say that... what if something happened to him....?
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: I understood straight away what he meant.
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: He didn’t need to say anything else... everyone in the room understood perfectly.
MAKOTO: W...we should go looking for him. Let’s split up and search...
KIYOTAKA: Hey, I was just about to make that suggestion myself!
TOUKO: Always with the competitve spirit... even at a time like this...
AOI: I’ll try going to his room one more time.
AOI: I’ll keep pushing the intercom button until there’s a response.
SAKURA: Well then. The rest of us shall split up and start searching.
YASUHIRO: Yeah, before it’s too late... ‘right?
MAKOTO: ..............
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KYOUKO: So... you came here as well...
MAKOTO: ...eh?
KYOUKO: If we think back to what Togami-kun found interesting yesterday...
KYOUKO: We should be able to deduce where he is right now. Isn’t that right?
MAKOTO'S THOUGHTS: What was it that Togami-kun found interesting yesterday...?