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Koromaru's my first pet so I've kind of been making it up as I go ehehe

but definitely taking them to the dog park, and taking lots of pictures of them, and spoiling them with toys!

Koromaru's kind of a special dog so I train with him too

what sort of training?

[ color her interested, damn. ]

he's really super smart

like

smart enough to use a weapon smart

so we spar sometimes...

you spar with your dog.

[ ............ ]

regardless of if Potato is that smart, i think he'd be too small to do anything but play with.
i don't have any weapon experience either anyway, for better or for worse, though i did wield a sword last month for a while.
and also made do with everything else under the sun.
(my power from those QR codes was the ability to make anything into a weapon. it was very useful.)

you'll understand once you see him in person

oh that IS pretty useful!! Too bad none of us could keep the powers and weapons

did you want to learn, though???

[ does she want to use a sword properly...... ]

perhaps. it may be useful to, at any rate, just in case anything like last month happens again.
do you have any experience? the best i get is "my family has fencers, and i went to a lesson once to get them off my back about it."

I remembered how the other Minako fought with polearms a while back

I can spin midair too! ♪

like a figure skater? it sounds very athletic and impressive regardless.

something like that

I'll have to show you sometime (๑•ω•)و✧

i'm looking forward to it!!
perhaps i'll show you some of my moves as well...
they're only dance moves, though. i hardly think i could use them in a fight.

well maybe not dancing the way you think of it, but it could definitely help in a fight

flexibility and good balance, all of that kind of stuff!

the balancing part did come in handy when we were faced with platforms and a spike pit...
it was a little frightening, but very fun.

[ ...actually while she's thinking about her august adventures. ]

do you mind if i get your opinion on something, Minako?
it's not very important, but i'd like your input regardless.

?? sure of course, what's up?

is it murder if one preemptively strikes a foe who is sure to be hostile and leaves them to bleed out in a locked room

[ ......this has been bothering her for a while and she keeps meaning to ask Goro his opinion too but things have been busy for the two of them. Minako's an adultier adult though, so maybe she... knows...... ]

[...y i k e s.]

is this something that happened during August??

yes.
let me explain:

in our second week, we were trapped in a very large laboratory, where human experimentation was happening. i went with two others to investigate one of the laboratory rooms, as we were looking for potions to fuel an escape pod out, and found it missing...
getting to the room, by the way, required jumping from platform to platform after finding the correct levers to lift up a path. that's where my earlier comment came from.
regardless, we followed the trail to an office, where we found a man named Dr. Halliday. or rather, a creature formerly known as a man named Dr. Halliday. he had been turned into some sort of llama-man hybrid, with a heavy emphasis on the llama portion.
one of my teammates shot him in the leg, and he attempted to attack us; i threw the companion i received from the qr codes at him and knocked him out.
from there, we retrieved the potion and a few identifying items from the doctor...
we retrieved llama blood for one of the other potions from him as well -- i cut a gash for the procedure, though it was deeper than i meant for it to be -- and eventually, he awoke and my teammate again shot him, but in his other leg.
to cripple him, essentially.
the door shut behind us and locked, so there's no way for him to leave, and there's no way for him to move either...
i suppose he would have starved to death even if we had not hurt him, yet...

perhaps i'm merely so shaken by this because the doctor used to be human
i didn't mind during the convention because those monsters were more game-like? they didn't bleed that is nor leave bodies when they were gone
but he was very real and bled and would have definitely left a body
my apologies minako this is a lot i don't wish to hurt people and i have felt terrible about this for quite some time
even if he was more llama than human in the end he still suffered the same fate under the surgeon's knife and perhaps he wasn't a good person at all but that's still no excuse for leaving him to die
though i don't know what we could have done to keep him from doing so but

i may be overthinking this.

[ ....she might be. ]

[Holy shit.]

god

Elizabeth, I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that

but I don't think it was murder

you have to WANT to kill someone for it to be murder, and I know you aren't that kind of person

from everything you've told me, it sounds like all of you were acting in self-defense

and...honestly?

as cold as it might sound?

I...really think you were probably doing him a favor

I can't imagine he was living the way he wanted to, if he was stuck in some place in unreality, more llama than human

[ ...it feels much better to read those words, and she does so until she's satisfied. so it might be a bit before she replies, but— ]

thank you.
you may be right... i was a hare for a small amount of time, and it was quite nice, however i would not have wanted to be one forever.
it was delightfully lucky that we changed back once we were on the space station, though i lost my cosplay as a result.

yeah, I didn't see it for myself, but one of my teammates got turned into an animal too, trying to figure out one of the puzzles. I'm glad everyone was able to change back

I think the longer we have Retrospec, the more we'll come across uncomfortable situations and bizarre knowledge...so it's best to keep an open mind and be a little forgiving of ourselves

spoken like a true expert.
you've been on Retrospec for quite some time now, haven't you.
...would you say that August was the most difficult month we've had so far, or was there another that was equally taxing?

ever since the first month it came out

or at least the first one in recent history, still can't say for sure if Retrospec has been around longer than we realize

August was definitely the most difficult in an emotional and mental way, considering all of the things that happened within the individual teams, and then the revelations of what it all meant

I don't think a single Retrospeccer came out of it not feeling affected

it may be blindly optimistic of me to hope that last month is the genuine worst of it and that we won't have another month on the same level of it or worse
but i do hope regardless.
i believe i can handle "terrible, but not as bad as August"

as long as we aren't cut off from our friends and loved ones like in August, I think I can handle it too

there's strength in numbers, and hate it all we want, all of the Retrospeccers together make a pretty big number!

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