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You're about to rattle off your orders but your head feels all sorts of fuzzy now. You feel the world shifting around you and-
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You are now <span class="mu-s">Casey Smith</span> and waow! Something weird happened! Nicole's posture is all sorts of wobbly and unstable all of a sudden! Your fellow friends are rightfully worried, what is she falls down and hits her head on the ground?
She's staring at her hands for some reason too. Weird!
"Feels like I'm-" She's about to say something but she stops. "No. You guys wouldn't understand."
"Well that's ominous!" Kiara tries to laugh but it sounds really awkward! "No, seriously, what impulse did you get this time? Worked with you long enough to know they're usually accurate enough."
"I don't think she's going to tell us." Clover shrugs. He's immediately proven right!
"It's nothing. So!" Nicole points at you! "Go bother the musketeer lady." !!!! "Kiara, keep an eye on her." Aw. It's not that you dislike Kiara! It's just you expected this to be something you could do alone. "Seath blah blah..."
She rattles off a few more instructions to the rest of the group. She digs into her inventory to give Benjamin some supplies like the good boss she is! Everyone scatters to do their assigned tasks like the efficient workers they are! That leaves you and Kiara!
You take in a deep breath of the cold, fetid D-Corp air and you realize something. Something that drives the heroic imprint of DELICIOUS GIRL R in your mind crazy.
This subdistrict and presumably every other subdistrict owned by D-Corp sucks! Almost intentionally so! You can feel it in your hollow bones and your 100% Grade A Quality skin! It's completely antithetical to your sensibilities as a worker! It almost reminds you of your City's H-Corp where they would kill each other over hats! Hats, you say! They didn't even look good on you!
"Hey." Kiara gently shakes your shoulder. "Look. I know we haven't really talked much but I suppose we gotta get buddy buddy real quick if I'm going to help you."
"Oh!" Friendship time? "It's alright! I don't expect to be friends with a lot of the people I work with! But if you're offering, who am I to say no?"
Kiara places her cold, metallic hand on top of your head. "You know, you're not good at keeping up the knight shtick, huh?"
"Oh! It's something I do for fun!" The actual reason you do it? You haven't really ruminated on it yourself. You don't like thinking too hard about what you do; You're Casey! Casey doesn't do things like that. "I'll be really good at it when we talk to the lady! I swear!"
"Hey, hey, no need to get antsy." Kiara's robotic giggle breaks up the weird tension you were feeling in your body moments ago. Oh, she's right. You need to show this no-gooder how to be a proper knight! "I'm here to make sure she doesn't cheat, okay? Otherwise I'm more than content letting you fight alone. I have enough processing power to detect ANYTHING."
"Ooo! An impartial referee who can see through any illusion or trick..."
