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"Come on Ruiko, we're going to be late!" A short-haired girl with flowers on her head yelled to her friend as she turned a corner carelessly, and found herself running into a film of plastic before bouncing off and stumbling back.
"Kazari! We're really sorry mi-" The other girl with longer hair with a flower-shaped clip in it, Ruiko, began to apologize as she caught her friend before recognizing the monster her friend ran into, "The Skittler?! Didn't Veggie-Man kill you yesterday?!"
"Ah, people are starting to recognize me." The plastic monster beamed, before realizing this wasn't the first time he'd met those two girls, "Wait a second, I recognize you too! One of you thought I was 'the Kandyman' a couple days ago, glad to see you're better at paying attention now."
Relieved that neither of them had been pelted with skittles yet, Ruiko's curiosity got the better of her and she asked, "So... how are you still alive, anyway? The report said you got disemboweled, thrown into a trash-compactor, and then shipped to a landfill."
"You're surprisingly well-informed." The Skittler remarked in a bit of surprise.
"I keep tabs on all the interesting events in town!" Ruiko answered with pride.
"If you studied as hard as you did internet 'research' you wouldn't be on the bad side of our homeroom teacher nearly as often." Kazari grumbled quietly, though she was also grateful that her friend had pacificed the monster for the time being.
"Interesting." The plastic monster said, "Long story short: I was only mostly dead, I got healed and given power by divine intervention, then lost most of the powers almost immediately afterward. Now I'm trying to find something to wash off the lingering stench, then refuel on skittles. Sorry to say I'm actually out of stock right now, so you'll have to wait a bit before I can give you your fix."
"How do you get more skittles if they stopped getting produced?" Kazari asked, hoping to pad the discussion until she or Ruiko could come up with a way to make the monster leave of his own accord.
"Good question: I can turn processed sugar and flavoring into new skittles, but I have to find the raw materials first." The monster replied.
"Maybe we can help each other out!" The long-haired girl said as she put together a plan, "We're going to be late to class, but if you let us take a picture or two with you can have proof that a monster held us up on our way in, which would be a good enough excuse that Teach wouldn't give us a bad time!"
"What's in it for me?" The candy-wrapper asked.
"I'll give you directions to a shop that would have enough hygiene products for you to feel as good as new!" Ruiko answered.
"Wait a second, that would be aiding a rob-!" Kazari started to object before her friend put a hand over her mouth.
"Who's to say he won't pay for everything? I wouldn't know!" Ruiko said mischievously.
"Alright then, we have a deal." The Skittler said, extending two ribbons with which to shake the girls' hands.
