3rd Broken Illusion

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ Phone ]
Whoever messed with the punch at the dance? Good going, idiot. Maybe you thought you were making things "fun", but all you managed to do was ruin an evening that could have passed without incident otherwise.

This town's bad enough. Why would you do something like that? Gah. [ U MAD, TOUMA?

Seriously, he didn't even want to be there, but it messed Misaka up badly, and thus subsequently cut something short that Mikoto was looking forward to. Even if the vomiting saved his ass. That's what has him all pissed off. ]

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[ Action : 840 Hastings : Open ]
[ Now that he's gotten that bit of frustration out, Touma was back to being restless. He's currently milling about the house, trying to find something to do. The drones are off doing whatever it is that drones do out of the house. He is used to living (mostly) alone, so he's doing stuff just to have something to do.

This includes but is not limited to:
a) Cleaning his room, or organizing all the books in the house.
b) Raking the yard and bagging up the leaves.
c) Washing the car -- and contemplating getting driving lessons. ]

(ooc: Back-dated to Sunday, and action is open to anyone passing by the house, or stopping in to visit himself or Morgiana. o/ )

Comments

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ Old? Well, okay, she definitely looked older, so he can eliminate that, but the math still isn't adding up.

But something strikes him as odd. ] Why are you concerned, anyhow?

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Hmpth.

So now of all times you're finally going to question it?

[Pause.]

It's none of your fucking business, hero.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Would you stop calling me that! I have a name. [ And he's not much of a hero right now, anyhow. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

I don't give a shit about your name.

And don't change the goddamn subject. You called 10032 the one brat that wasn't droned. And said shit happened to her with the punch.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

That makes two of us! [ Though if he had it, you know, for future reference, that would be nice... ]

Yeah, she got drunk, threw up, and Mikoto took her home.

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's not something I hear every day.

[Geez Touma you made it sound like a much bigger deal than this. A disgusted sigh.]

...That's all?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

That's all? The one thing she seemed to look forward to since I got here and some jerk had to go spoiling it by spiking the punch for someone who's probably never touched a drop in her life and now she has a taste for it and who knows how that's going to influence her life from now on?! [ Totally not covering up for the OTHER THING that happened. No one needs to know about that kiss. No one. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

You sound like you're blowing this way out of proportion.

One accident isn't going to make her the goddamn town drunk or anything.

[Like he cares about your secret.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

It still ruined her night. That's not something I'll be able to just make up to her, and it even got Mikoto angry at me. [ And you know how she can be. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Did the bitch zap you?

[Because now that he has no redirection field he's all too familiar with that. Then there's the time he scared her into zapping him to death on purpose. Woops.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

No, thankfully. [ Because without Imagine Breaker, he would have been burned to a crisp. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

[Snort.]

That's surprising.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

She was more worried about the collateral damage than me. It was at the dance, after all. Her night was trashed enough as it was.

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Her oh-so-important shitty dance.

[He already got a lecture from Mikoto on how important it was to normal people and he doesn't see the big deal.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Right. It was important to her, and her sister, which is the whole reason I was there instead of staying home like I planned on in the first place.

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Always trying to please people, aren't you?

[He's rolling his eyes! Not that you can see it.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

What about it? [ It's partly that, and partly just survival instinct. Saying no to Mikoto in a state like this is just plain dumb. But, really? He doesn't have any good reasons to stomp on their dreams in the first place -- he just thought that the tension was a natural part of their dynamic, and flipping that around right off the bat would be a dead giveaway. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Well, that's part of your role as a hero, I guess.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ And he's about to ask what the deal was with that "hero" nonsense... but he feels it lines up with what he does remember, as well as his instincts, so he just lets it go. ] I guess.

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Better you than me.

[Maybe he's not so jealous of you after all you have to deal with homecoming and puking drunk girls.]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Heh. Maybe. [ It only goes downhill from here. Wait 'til his luck, literally, runs out on him. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

There's no maybe about it.

They deserve that.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

...deserve for it not to be you, or for it to be me? [ Because one of those is only slightly less weird than the other, coming from a third party that claims to not care, but keeps talking about them anyhow. ]

[redirections.livejournal.com]

Both.

Not that I'd ever do shit like that.

[Why would he want to go to a dance when he has a nice couch at home and some cans of coffee?!]

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Right. [ Sigh. ] Glad we established that. [ Or something. He doesn't even feel like breaking the logic behind half of that down. ]