Not-a-stripe 02: A new challenger gets off her lazy butt! Life in the scallywags!

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[Morning - 1669 Nelson Street - Open to household]

[If you are looking for breakfast this morning, you may be a little bit disappointed. Since drones are the majority of the household and the 60's style of 'living' was very unfriendly to a free spirit like Taiga, the constant demands of the drone children and the creepily jovial drone 'husband' wore

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Afternoon - Mayfield High

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[Kotomi just finished her first day as a chemistry teacher, yay. She's got piles and piles of papers in her arms, and is scanning over a lab report when she walks by Taiga's room--

--and slooooowly peeks in.]

Re: Afternoon - Mayfield High

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[Taiga's writing would slow down a little bit as she felt someone nearby. She'd sloooowly turn her head to face the pair of eyes peeking inside.]

Can I help you?

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Is there something wrong? [She noticed the quiet cursing.]

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[She then suddenly tosses all of the papers into the air and screams out.] THIS WHOLE TOWN IS WROOOOOOOOOONG!

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[She then sits still for a few seconds with a blank expression before realizing how silly she was being at the job, so she coughs a bit and turns to face Kotomi.]

Aaah...sorry, sorry. It's been a stressful first day.

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[Blink-blink. She's kind of trembling now.]

Well, er, it is a bit unsettling, yes. [She slowly walks into the room, adjusting her armful of papers.]

Were you not a teacher back home?

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[D'aaaw, how adorable. Taiga felt kinda bad for flipping out now.]

Actually, I was! I taught the same thing I did here, too. It paid the bills well enough and the students were enjoyable. But, er...

Neither is the case here, you see.

[She eyes the papers she was holding.]

Eh? You teach here, too?

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Oh, I can agree. The gender-different wages are terrible, and th-the...[she lowers her voice so that no one outside the room can hear]...the students, the drone ones, are rather creepy.

[She nods.] Chemistry.

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Agreed.

Aaah...that's terrible. I'm sorry about your situation.

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[Kotomi shrugs as best as she can.]

It is not "terrible" really, but...it is odd. The last I remember is graduating highschool myself, and here I am again...

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[She was really starting to remind Taiga of somebody.]

Hnn. This town is absolutely merciless.

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[But this was depressing so now she'd try to cheer herself and this girl up!]

Bah, I've dealt with much worse than well-behaved students! And we non-drone teachers need to stick together, don't we?

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[She giggles a tiny bit, and bows.]

I am Kotomi Ichinose. Er, not...Kotomi Velvet.

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Fujimura Taiga! Or, er...Taiga...something-or-other.

[She never bothered memorizing her not-name. Which is an achievement of its own, really.]

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Wonderful to meet you. Have you been here long, Fujimura-san?

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Hmmm...let's see if I remember right...

Nearly a month now, I think. It's been a trial to adjust.