>>5791824You’re curious about Masami. You feel like you had established a connection on your first day, but hadn’t been able to do anything with it. Two years, nearly, and she went from someone you thought was going to be your friend back to just being a slightly crabby girl who stayed on the outskirts of your cohort without really engaging with any single one of you unless it was necessary to explain how she thought someone was being annoying.
It really bothered you how she had told you outright, to your face, that she was lonely, and yet neither you nor anyone else has been able to do anything about it. It was just hard because she was so abrasive and closed-off.
You try to follow her out of the academy. She speeds up slightly to avoid you.
You start jogging.
She starts running.
You start outright sprinting, and she starts going out of her way to knock down obstacles in your path to slow you down while she parkours up into the rooftops to escape you.
You don’t really get tired anymore, but she was just a little faster than you. Well, damn. Looks like Masami escaped your friendship.
… Actually, no, fuck that. You just run harder, faster, and keep trying to chase her down. Eventually you reacquire her position as she flits into an alleyway, following her in. A brick wall corners her.
“You’re finished, Masami.” You say, taking a fighting stance as if you’re subconsciously aware that you’re a super villain. “There’s no escape.”
Her face is a bright red as she flies through a series of hand seals (I Inu Tori Saru Hitsuji. Boar, Dog, Bird, Monkey, Ram, you note.) and then brutally bites her thumb with her teeth, drawing blood.
“SUMMONING JUTSU! Go forth, my strongest warrior!” She yells, slapping her hand down into the alley floor.
A giant enemy crab spawns in a puff of smoke directly underneath her, giving her the momentum necessary to kick off of it as it appears, clearing the brick wall with a crab-assisted vault..
“Destroy him, Kanihako!”
The cart-sized crab waves a pincer menacingly at you at chases you out of the alley. There’s not really fuck-all you can do about it, but at least it was sort of slow. It stops chasing you after it’s beyond clear that Masami has escaped and puffs away in another gout of smoke.
Huh. Masami could summon crabs. Maybe more of your classmates have abilities you’re not really aware of? Regardless, maybe you’d give her your best crab you carved a while ago, it was kind of your favorite because it was the first one you did that turned out really well. Or you could carve her a figurine.
