PC: Denji

[overlimit]

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[sawboned]

[oh no he's weak to alphas, he stammers a bit at Rita's sudden, confident appearance, his own alpha impulses outdone]

H-hey? Yeah I got somethin' but...it's not as fun as the other ones so I don't really wanna do it.

[overlimit]

[that's... mildly concerning, okay]

What is it?

[sawboned]

It was like "de-" something the trial?

[overlimit]

[squinting at him...]

Show me.

[sawboned]

[he pulls out his phone and shows it to her, his newest assignment says "Derail trial loudly."]

[overlimit]

... Oh.

Yeah, that looks like a pain in the ass.

[sawboned]

[since she didn't read it aloud for him, he presses speech-to-text so he can remember what the word is]

Oh, yeah, "de-rail." What's that mean?

[also, for some reason, he just reaches out and gently takes her hand??]

[overlimit]

You know... like, interrupting everything so that people get distracted from what they're...

[speaking of that. her hand??]

[sawboned]

So I just gotta be loud and distract people at the trial...?

[he's starting to flush in his obvious way, and pointedly not looking at their hands—everything's fine what's up]

[overlimit]

Yeah. Like what Mabel did last time, when she accused Claude out of nowhere.

--If you decide to do it, don't do it that way.

[and she just

pointedly looks to their hands and back at him!?]

Wh... what are you doing.

[sawboned]

H-holdin' your hand, obviously. Don't make it weird.

[because I remembered it's emotion week, he's....very embarrassed! but also a little happy somewhere under all that because it's nice to hold hands]

[overlimit]

Don't tell me not to make it weird!! You're the one being weird!

[hello??? also embarrassed! kind of confused!]

[sawboned]

This place is weird! Dunno why, but started wantin' the hold hands if I talk to someone for too long!

[still, even admitting it's a magical compulsion, he hasn't let go]

It's not, like, bad though...and not like you gotta hold it back. [the effect certainly doesn't apply to rita]

[overlimit]

You should be a little bothered if you're being compelled to do random things!

[she says, like similar things haven't been happening to all of them for weeks, but like]

Did you skip school last week or something...?

[sawboned]

Nope!

Wait—are we allowed to? I just thought since everyone was doin' it we had to or, like, we'd get killed or whatever.

[overlimit]

No! You're not!

It's just, weird stuff happens to people who break the rules, and that's a pretty common one that gets broken around here.

[sawboned]

Thought so...well, not like I got much else to do and always wondered what school was like so [he shrugs] I go around the classes with people sometimes.

["has he stopped holding her hand?" you ask? no]