TWENTY-FIVE

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[ALL ACTION, ALL THE TIME.

Once, this curse was old, familiar, but no less nettlesome to Ishida Uryuu. He had gone and returned without those memories - but that did not make him naive. Practicality demanded a search of the network each day. He had had the opening shift at the crafts shop, but happily the devices were portable

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[championess]

[Oh, but, when you're as confident, you don't need to use the shadows to hide. So for Tatsuki, it's just a coincidence that she's wandering around the same path as he. It's not a coincidence that she bumps into him -- that's just distraction]

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[What is with everyone being so distracted today? He, highly alert, cannot always manuever himself so well. Here, he's trapped between a rock and a hard place, literally if one counts a concrete wall as rock, and a tree as hard. He tries to twist and jump back, but alas, tree, and there is collision.]

Arisawa-san, [exasperation overruling apology] Couldn't you have been more--

[But the mistletoe has grown, and Uryuu's miniature lecture is impeded by that alarming creeping impulse.]

[championess]

Ishida, I thought you left home-- [And there is is, the impulse. Oh, God, out of all people--]

You're the one not lookin' around you!

[anti_buttons]

I am returning from work! And I've been very careful.

[ Unlike with Doumeki, Uryuu has at least felt attraction toward girls. He's also kissed this girl before, though it was a curse and his memories of that are like looking at someone else's memory, perhaps on a videotape. In any case- his ability to resist it is lower, and is inclination, especially because, well - he might as well get it over with and free them, right?

He aims for her cheek.]