23rd sigh

[sosnarrator]

(... It's odd. Definitely odd. Here I am, performing the same menial tasks she always assigns me, yet... The anger, the frustration, the need to shout "Dammit Haruhi, why don't you get someone else to do your dirty work!?" isn't there. On the one hand, it's somewhat nice not feeling all the usual stress, maybe I've finally just resigned myself...

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[cramschoolgod]

[Sasaki's eyes narrow when she sees Kyon--]

Kyon, what on Earth are you doing with that?

[sosnarrator]

[And he puts down whatever it is he's carrying to reply...]

Hm? Oh, Haruhi wanted me to move some stuff over to the new clubroom.

[cramschoolgod]

You look like you're a cross between a lumberjack and an alligator. [Good God, what's he carrying.]

And you look awfully pleased to do it. Hmm.

[sosnarrator]

Yeah, for some reason, Haruhi's stupid requests don't seem quite as irritating as usual?

[cramschoolgod]

Perhaps it's due to the clear imbalance of hormones that you have been exhibiting for some time.

[sosnarrator]

And what might you mean by that?

[cramschoolgod]

By that, I mean that Hirai told me about your prom misadventures. I have no doubt something like this is at work with your absurd activities for Haruhi as well.

[sosnarrator]

I can honestly assure you that that is completely unrelated to this.

[cramschoolgod]

Really. In what sense is that so? You are giving out, firstly, misleading impressions everywhere, and secondly, an extremely good impression of a man deep within the depths of psychological denial.

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[cramschoolgod]

...And that theory is discredited, I might add!

[sosnarrator]

Seriously? I'm feeling a tad less irritable. How do you get to that from there?

[cramschoolgod]

I'm not referring to the conditions around Mother's Day, Kyon. I simply mean that if you continue to go around lugging things happily for your brigade chief, as well as kissing rather stupidly naive girls like Hirai, not to mention past drooling over Asahina, you'll also continue to develop the image that you have already been developing. And, additionally, given a few shared tendencies between Hirai and Suzumiya, it seems you have a type, one which involves a great deal of denial on all sides.

[sosnarrator]

Haruhi's a friend, nothing more. A rather difficult and high maintenance friend, but still. Besides, Miss Asahina isn't even here now. As for Sh-I mean, Yukari, that's none of your business.

[cramschoolgod]

I am simply noting some patterns that a concerned friend might notice, in your erratic behavior [you moron]. I know your tolerance for impositions is extremely high, but it is decidedly out of proportion. Even when I last saw you again in our world, the signs were decidedly clear of this decidedly deluded state- I tested you both.

And incidentally, Hirai appears to be somewhere around thirteen years old. In case you hadn't noticed, no one has even informed her of the details of reproduction yet. Quite aside from any other considerations in the matter, there's a questionable status to that.

[sosnarrator]

She's small for her age. She's in the same grade as we are.

[cramschoolgod]

Despite that, the appearances are unpleasant and the implications are worse.

I didn't know your situation was so desperate as this, Kyon.