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[forehead]

[Laying on the floor in the lobby: one (1) new journal. In front of it? One (1) blue penguin with the number 3 written on her back, staring at it intently. After a while, the penguin flips the journal open, just in time for it to pick up a young girl's voice:]

-doesn't look like the hospital...

[the penguin meanwhile leans in closer as those exact words are written down]

Kyuu...

Hmm? San-chan, what's that? [the young girl makes her way over to the penguin, crouching down next to her] Someone's notebook...? Ah, San-chan, it's not nice to read other people's belongings!

[but the penguin just keeps staring before finally...]

Kyu!

[...it starts attacking the book with its beak, pecking and ripping bits of paper out lightning fast.]

Kyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyukyu!!!

S-San-chan!? S-Stop! You'll ruin it! San-chan!

[and that, Paradisa, is how you managed to get a girl on the floor, arms wrapped around a weird penguin as she tries to stop it from destroying a journal she doesn't even realize yet is hers in the castle lobby.]

Comments

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[kamenriderdeno]

[Just...watching.






WTF.]

[forehead]

[hey

hey

hey bro

that penguin?

it's stopped and is looking at you now]

action

[takethat]

[This is a cool time to be strolling around the castle lalala]

....









Is that a penguin?

[kamenriderdeno]

[...ahwhoops.

He'll be taken aback by this for a moment, before half-bowing suddenly.]

Uh, sorry! I...I didn't mean to stare.

[Just...

...i mean come on dude LOOK at that thing]

1/3

[forehead]

[hells yeah imma penguin the best damn penguin you'll meet peace yo]

[forehead]

[SIGH]

Yes, but she's usually much better behaved than this!

[...wait a minute]

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[forehead]

...Wait, you can see her?

1/2

[forehead]

[oh Himari notices him now too- however she's still in the mindset that only she and her brothers can see the penguins so she's a little confused-]

[forehead]

[Until #3 picks up the journal and throws it at his face]

San-chan!! Stop being such a bad girl!

1/3

[kamenriderdeno]

[Huh what's that penguin doing wi-]

[kamenriderdeno]

[OH GOD MY FACE]

[kamenriderdeno]

[And he'll stumble back a step or two, then lose his balance and fall into a seated position, rubbing his forehead with a little grunt.]

[forehead]

[Himari will rush over because she feels AWFUL

YOU WILL BE DEALT WITH LATER MISBEHAVING USUALLY INVISIBLE PENGUIN!]

Are you okay!? You're not hurt, are you?

[kamenriderdeno]

Ah...no, I'm fine...thank you.

[He'll stand up, shaking his head once and smile.]

That's, um...an interesting pet you have.

[forehead]

Eh?

[well that caught her by surprise. She looks over at #3, who is picking up all the little pieces of journal paper she ripped out idly, and then back to Ryotaro]

You can... see her?

[kamenriderdeno]

Uh...yes, I can.

Is that strange?

[forehead]

Um...

[...well it's less strange than the fact only the Takakuras could see them in the first place]

A little. Most people [re: everyone else] can't.

But never mind that! Can you tell me where I am? If I'm not back in my room when my brothers come to visit they'll be worried!

[takethat]

Y-yeah, I can see her.





..why, is she... not usually visible?

[kamenriderdeno]

Oh! Well...that might have something to do with the cas--

[Newcomer. Right..

He'll pause for a second.]

Um...you're new I take it.

Well, this...might sound a little strange but you're not actually in your own world anymore.

It's difficult to explain exactly what's going on, but...the short version is you've been taken against your own will to be here.

In fact everyone here has.

[Yeah, you're kinda the first person he's had to introduce to this whole castle thing so he's not sure what to say exactly.]

;action

[petitfours]

[Across the lobby, Hunny is drinking hot chocolate and watching this unfold with a sort of bystander's interest. When the penguin starts ripping up the journal, though, he puts down the cocoa and sits up straighter in his seat.]

❀ Do you need some help with that?! ❀

[forehead]

Only to me and my brothers usually. [not that she ever saw anything weird about this tbh]

[forehead]

[absently:] N-No, I think I'll be okay so don't tro-

[uh oh now she's trying to rip out whole pages again BUT THEY KEEP COMING BACK THIS WEIRDS THE POOR PENGUIN OUT SO MUCH UGHHH]

San-chan, please stop!

[forehead]

[blink blink

wh.........at.......]

Huh?

[while she's busy being confused, #3 waddles over to pick up the journal again]

[adorbs]

[asgklhagaklh what is she even watching? but this girl sounds really worried so Nanako will kind of... inch towards her]

U-Um! The journals are really strong, so I don't think your penguin will really hurt it...

[takethat]

...so... it's an invisible penguin most of the time... except to you and your brothers.

[Really, he has heard stranger, but not by much.]

Well, it's a... um... cute penguin...?