Arataka Reigen ☆ Amethyst Snake

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w0, monday

[hanaban]

[ I want Hanako to be there when Reigen receives 345830923 Ikea boxes delivered to his dormitory door ]

[spiritconsulting]

[absolutely. he bought a bunch of cute dorm room type furniture with the idea of trying to upsell it to college students, but it's all coming in boxes and looking very complicated.]

...Hmm.

[hanaban]

...Hm.

[ Thank god Hanako died before he had to deal with college Ikea furniture. It looks like a pain to assemble, but he looks interested all the same, poking at one of the little baggies of screws that came along with one of the boxes. ]

What'cha building? Your own house?

[spiritconsulting]

Not necessarily. I think there's a need in this community for high quality but affordable and personalized furniture. That's why I bought this - to fill that need.

w1, monday

[hanaban]

[ tap tap tap

Hanako follows behind Reigen until he stops somewhere around town, like a park bench or cafe, nowhere too private but just enough people that it's hard to hear individual conversations amongst the chatter ]

You wanted to talk?

[spiritconsulting]

[yeah. okay. so, shit. how does he manage to have this conversation.]

...So. You want me to try and use my power to take out the town? Who specifically - Mayor? Someone else? Everyone?

[hanaban]

Everyone!

[ Just—- bam!! level the entire place! ]

Isn't that what you said? At 1000%, your power would be so great, it'd be difficult to contain?

[spiritconsulting]

That's what I said. So your vision is that all of us get killed, too?

w2, tuesday

[hanaban]

[ *lost child psa blares overhead in the mall* ]

-—parent of Hanako... uh... Afterlife please collect your child at Cutting— [ sounds of something crashing ] Hey! You can't— [ frantic rattling noises

a yelp of pain

ungodly mic feedback


silence ]

[spiritconsulting]

[what if he just leaves the mall.

...no, fine, he'll head on down to the knife store to witness this.]

[hanaban]

[ PLEASE.......



Reigen arrives at Cutting Edge to see Hanako standing by the entrance flanked by two security guards. He's in handcuffs. ]

[spiritconsulting]

[frankly this is funny.]

...I see. Hanako, I thought that might be you. You're going to be in a lot of trouble for this. [to the guards.] I'm a business associate of this child's parents. I assure you they'll see to it that he's punished appropriately, and will be reaching out to pay for the damages.

week 3; thursday

[spiritconsulting]

[where is hanako. is he just fine now. seeing his dead body is definitely going to haunt him but i'm sure it's fine.]

[hanaban]

[ He's... fine. Yeah. Totally 100% fine.

He's probably milling around the dorms, shoving something into the bushes and overall just trying to keep himself busy so he doesn't have to think about anything. ]

[spiritconsulting]

Hey, Hanako.

[waving at him and just walking right up.]

What're you up to?

[hanaban]

[ a wince, a startle, and a ] -—nothing! [ that comes out a little too quickly to be believable ]

w3, saturday

[hanaban]

[ Ryuki carried Hanako off to the hospital immediately after trial, but it only took another hour or two for the drug to wear off and for Hanako to regain consciousness again. He looks fine, now, IV drip attached to his wrist that he keeps trying to pull his sleeves down over. He's still not used to a physical body... did you know, you have to feed and take care of bodies... ]

[spiritconsulting]

[it's really the worst, yes. his physical body is also not feeling so hot right now. but he does feel responsible for this, too. so he will come visit, knocking lightly on the door.]

Hey, Hanako. How're you feeling?

[hanaban]

[ Everybody stressing themselves out the last 45 minutes of trial... maybe it was better that he was unconscious for it. Adlet might've been midtrialed if he was, though. ]

I'm okay! I asked around, and the mayor isn't here.

[ or they're just not telling him ]

week 4; monday

[spiritconsulting]

[cool well let's get right to it. it's monday, he's hanging around, and then suddenly some comic book panels appear.

it's here at 2:46 to 11:06. reigen gets clearly fatally stabbed in the back with a psychic katana and then just gets up like nothing happened and no injury but a tear in his suit and starts wiping the floor with all of the other psychics in the rudest yet least violent way possible.]

...Huh? I didn't give them the rights to this.

[hanaban]

[ oooooooooooohhh my god. Without the voiceover context, Hanako grips the edges of the panel, entirely engrossed in watching Reigen lay waste to his opponents even though every fiber of his being screams to get away or he'll be ripped apart like a cobweb in the breeze. ]

Amazing... You're amazing... incredible...

[spiritconsulting]

[yeah this is.

he loves this kind of attention way too much. maybe the apple thing was mostly teasing hanako, but at a certain point he also just clearly wanted a little kid to think he was cool and that's really sad.

but he also has conflicted feelings here, because he is trying not to do this anymore, but isn't trying hard enough that he can just explain the misunderstanding. clearing his throat.]

...Well, you know. I was really at the top of my game that day. Guess those clowns managed to piss me off.

week 7; tuesday

[spiritconsulting]

[okay. well. at some point after he gets back he is going to find a cute little schoolboy who has been getting himself into a lot of trouble.]

[hanaban]

[ This cute little schoolboy looks like he'd just come back from a schoolyard tussle, clothes disheveled, cheek bruised, ugly dark marks that wrap around his neck— and then the way he beams when he spots Reigen, hurts immediately forgotten as he runs up to him. ]

Reigen!!

[ hiiiiiiiiiii he's still getting himself into trouble ]

[spiritconsulting]

[how adorable. i think he came here all confident like he had a plan in mind for how to talk to him about his killing spree but he's totally thrown off by seeing him obviously beat to shit. well, the beat to shit part he kind of expected but the neck thing is. distressing. he may be a murder ghost but also he is a child, and danny is also a murder ghost so maybe he should relax.]

...Hey, kid.

[putting a hand on his head distractedly, rustling the cap.]

Let's get you a remedy, huh? I got an extra.