Death Fourteen: DEATH IS NOT HAPPY

[likescats]

 [After seeing the town decide to treat death so lightly, making a game of it in fact, Death was not pleased.

And then he learned even better news. And now he's doing something he knows is a bad idea.

Thinking things over.

Mayfield have a phone call. And a voice just appearing in your head when you pick up the phone.]

DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY THINGS

Comments

B

[strike_you_out]

[While Death looks through the books, Slugger appears near the scythe where he stands beneath it, gazing up at the blade. He then slides a hand upward along the handle, which is much taller than he is despite how high he stretches.]

[likescats]

[Flipping through a book. Not looking up.]

BE CAREFUL WITH THAT.

[The blade is of course so sharp that there is a slight blue haze around the edges as it cuts the atoms around it.]

[strike_you_out]

[Sliding his hand back down again, his eyes are still fixed on the glowing blade.]

Did you get anything new?

[likescats]

IN A WAY.

A

[catslooklikeme]

[Hey there, Death, been a while since Nall has seen you last! Back then, you looked all human-y and he looked like a cat with wings on a daily basis! So please don't take offense when Nall does a bit of a double take when he sees you and your fine cat companion...]

Uh... hello there.

[likescats]

[Yes it has been a while.]

....HELLO.

[catslooklikeme]

[Oh wow does that voice sound familiar. Nall's about to comment on it when he notices the kitten on his shoulder.]

Oh, hello to you too. Uhm... is he a sentient animal?

[likescats]

HE'S A NORMAL CAT FROM THIS TOWN SO I WOULD HAVE TO SAY NO.

Action A

[splashpuppy]

[Well, the scythe is new, but Hajime is used to the rest]

Hi Mr. Door!

[likescats]

[Looking over.]

HELLO HAJIME.

[splashpuppy]

You're a teacher, right? Are you glad it's summer vacation?

[likescats]

I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT TO DO WITH MY TIME NOW.

I TAKE IT YOU'RE GLAD TO BE OUT OF SCHOOL?

Phone

[allnaturalmagic]

Life is a very confusing thing...

[likescats]

YES. IT REALLY IS.

[allnaturalmagic]

I suppose we aren't supposed to figure it out.

[likescats]

WHICH MAKES IT EVEN MORE CONFUSING.

[voice]

[deaths_heritor]

[She chooses to ignore Death's melancholy at first.]

No, Grandfather, it means we have two months to do whatever we'd like while all the students forget everything they've learned in the past year.

[voice]

[likescats]

THAT SEEMS LIKE A POOR SYSTEM. WON'T WE END UP TEACHING THE SAME THING EVERY YEAR THEN?

[deaths_heritor]

That's usually the way it happens. I'm of the mind that it's one of the Auditor's less grandiose schemes to slowly rot the world from the inside out.

[likescats]

MOST ODD....