Forty Ninth: Another Year

[miss_enma_ai]

[Phone]

Has anyone been here longer then two years?

[Ai  can be found in a few places today.

A. On her front steps, she's reading a  book she got back. If you can read Japanese you might be able to see the words 'Hell Girl' in the title.

B. In the park. Oh hey it's a little girl and some other people- ..and now it's just a little girl. /Ai is bored

Comments

B

[strike_you_out]

[A boy has appeared who is decidedly not one of Ai's illusions. Curious, Slugger looks up at the other "people", unaware yet that they aren't actually there.]

[miss_enma_ai]

[It's hard to tell. At least the people might look familiar though. Older man, woman in kimono and young man with only one eye visible. The young man smirks as Slugger looks at them. The other two just seem amused.]

[strike_you_out]

[After looking from one face to another, Slugger's gaze lands on Ai.]

Your friends?

[miss_enma_ai]

[She nods.]

My assistants and companions.

Phone

[badend_replay]

Perhaps, you could say that...? My second year concluded on May 21st. I am now beginning my third.

Why do you ask?

[miss_enma_ai]

...I started on my third year a few days ago.

I wanted to know if I was the only one who had been here this long.

C

[inthenertz]

[Man with a paper bag over his head, just staring at her after that one boat burns and sinks.]

[miss_enma_ai]

[Doesn't notice. Instead she just watches the boats.

Then raises a hand and throws a little ball of flame towards another one...and then watches it slowly burn.]

[inthenertz]

[Walks over.]

You know, it's funnier when you put bugs on the boats. They don't want to go into the water so they can't get off the paper.

[miss_enma_ai]

[Is still looking at the boats.]

I just like watching the paper burn.

[pants_yourmove]

[[In the park, as a coyote, because he does that now and then.

Who is that crowd with Ai. Maybe there's a...

Wait, where did they go?

Have a coyote trotting over to see what is going on.]]

[miss_enma_ai]

[She doesn't notice the coyote yet. She just continues to sit there. While the park around her seems to turn into a crowded sidewalk in a Japanese city. A building is behind her and people walk by talking and laughing.]

[pants_yourmove]

[[He ducks behind a car for a brief moment while it's there.

Dodging past people and trying to find cover as he makes his way to her.]]

[miss_enma_ai]

[Just watching the people go by/staring out in the crowd and watching the cars.]