491/A First Birthday

A First Birthday
Date of Scene:	23 September 2023
Location:	Obsidian Tower - Dark Laboratory
Synopsis:	Since Takashi has never had a birthday party - and doesn't know when his actually is - Hotaru, with the help of Norie, Mamoru, and Fate - has decided he gets one. Today. Whether He Likes It Or Not.
Cast of Characters:	Takashi Agera, Hotaru Tomoe, Norie Okana, Fate Testarossa, Mamoru Chiba

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Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi Agera is working in his lab - the newer part of it, the place between spaces, a slice of a dimension that lies beyond the double doors that rest in the entry room that used to be the entirety of his lab. Now, it's a sprawling warehouse-like room hewn out of the dimensional mess. There's two seperate sections - one for the more common day to day work and a walled-off section for more dangerous projects. Takashi and Hotaru are working in the main side, with Takashi looking into the properties of a crystal Norie discovered as Hotaru stands just a slight distance away (since the crystal holds Dark Energy) - Hotaru has been bouncy and giddy and uncharacteristically happy. Not just because she's currently nearly six feet tall, either. But she hasn't told him why. He pulls away from the microscope he's working with and turns to her.

    "Okay, you've been in a good mood ever since you got stuck at that size but this is different. What's going on?" he asks. "Should I be preparing for some sort of emotional crash when you go back to normal height?" he says. She's still wearing Setsuna's lab coat, matching him. He turns and puts the little crystal into some sort of bubbling quasi-magic solution while he waits for an answer.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Hotaru Tomoe was happily rocking back and forth, that big grin on her face. It was big because she was big. And she was a SCIENTIST! The world's GREATEST scientist. Not smartest. Or most talented. Or most likely to not break the lab equipment because she has no idea how it works. But just greatest.

There uhhhh... was some... confusion. Right now. About this. Because... her being almost six feet tall was very confusing to many people. Not least of which was the witches 5. 'Majorina' was an acceptable answer. But also a confusing one. She'd even seen Mimette earlier and the witch had paused and just... turned around, abandoning whatever she was up to.

But she was pretty happy because today was a verrrrrry special day. "No reason~" she lied. And that was obviously a lie. "Okay, one reason, fiiiiiine. I've been working on a very special project and I think you're going to love it! It's just going through the finishing touches right now!" she said happily.

Finishing touches? Well... it needed to be charged. So she had Hematite hold onto it for now. And the food would be brought in by Norie and... "Hey, Takashi-senpai? Do you need me to get you anything?" Off the high shelves, she meant. Cause she could reach them nooooooow!

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana had been tasked with a very special job of obtaining food for Takashi's surprise party. THUSLY. She made a few orders ahead of time, made sure a cake of some kind was ordered by somebody and went to go pick all these up, duskporting around.

She arrived finally, ready to yell. 'Surprise', but arrives too early.

SHE WAS TOO EFFICENT AT HER JOB. >,<

She attempts to hide the food behind her back, which looks weird because she has bags and is holding a cake in one of those plastic domes with a tray.

She tries to sneak behind one of the bigger pieces of equipment. Being sneaky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5cpUa8zXIc

Fate Testarossa has posed:
    It's okay, there's about to be a big distraction that Norie can use to her advantage. Her name is Arf.
    Because Arf enters in the next moment.
    "WE'RE HERE!"
    Fate is right behind the redheaded wolf-woman looking a bit sheepish as they enter.
    "Sorry for the intrustion." The small blonde says.
    "I'm not sorry for anything!" Arf says brightly.
    Fate pauses though.
    Hotaru is looking... Bigger than she last remembered but is too busy being shoved into a seat by Arf to question it at the moment.
    "...?"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
And that's when Hematite duskports in, not too far from Norie, and sees Norie and the table, and Takashi and some lady, and WAIT IS THAT FIREFLY WHAT THE--

--and then Fate, who he's seen all of once but remembers, and a... a wolf-girl?? he doesn't recognise at all, both come in, and he absolutely uses the opportunity to take off his cape and drape it over the dark bubble he's carrying.

He whispers to Norie, "Is that Tomoe-chan??" incredulously. "Or a big sister?? Sorry, I'm Hematite! I forgot to say--"

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi normally keeps the lab secure - from prying eyes and also stuff outside - but those who are basically his adopted family are all able to pop in and out. At least as long as they don't fall off his side of the 'fence'. Hematite, Norie, Fate (w/Arf), Hotaru - all the people he's close to.

    That still doesn't mean he's unaware of what happens in his own lab, though - like when people Duskport in. But. He's figured Hotaru is 'up to something' and... he knows at this point he's just going to have to roll with it. His Doom Is Sealed. It's even more clear when Arf barges in. But at least she uses the main door. Takashi is about to point to something on a high cabinet when Arf does so. And when Arf steals his lab partner.

    "So is it time to tell me what's going on, or... should I just keep working while you all continue to prepare to do whatever has had Hotaru bouncing on her feet all day and the rest of you starting to swarm me?" he asks. "Is this an intervention? I need caffiene you can't take that from me." he's half serious when he says that, too.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Hotaru Tomoe sighed, and then... she looked solemn. And held out her gemstone and...

<Standby, ready!> it called out in its dark, ominous voice you'd expect from a horror movie. The kind of voice that sent chills down your spine. The voice you'd expect to hear right before you died.

"Luminous Titan, execute," Hotaru said.

The amethyst necklace around her throat glowed with an ominous, dark energy before erupting in a flash. A strange, crescent glaive formed over her and she reached up, grabbing it in both hands. Purple light washed over her, covering her wrists, torso and feet in purple, tainted light. A moment later the light on her wrists turned into metal wristguards, the piece over her torse turned into a dark purple and gray half-caped suit, akin to a one piece bathing suit, with a butt-cape, a belt and a V neck scarf. Then her feet were covered in metalic boots. Despite the ominous voice, her outfit was more akin to a super hero suit than the foreboding, ominous device she wore. <Firefly, engaged!>

And... she was Tolfly. "Ahem. Takashi Agera-senpai. It is with solemnity I say this. You have been in the organization quite a while. You have done a lot to help it, and we are all very grateful for what you've done."

... Wait, was he getting fired? Was THIS why she was so excited? But she liked him! Was she just happy he'd be 'free' of their influence?! Was this why she called all of his friends over?!

"As you have been with us for a while and our attempts to illegally gather the information failed," Wait, what? "Instead we've decided to do it ourselves. As such!" She held out her glaive towards his work and some... blankets fell out, covering it. What? She then held up her glaive, high in the air, and tapped the roof! AND THEN BALLOONS, GLITTER (hence covering his work with blankets first), BANNERS! "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TAKASHI-SENPAI!" she yelled out. That was everyone's cue!

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana is trying to hide, and also failing at being sneaky. But she figures Takashi could sense her anyways entering. So here she was. With the food, and a cake. Chocolate cake. Chocolate is decadent and evil and she isn't actually sure Takashi likes chocolate cake or not but it seemed appropriate.

"I think it is. I mean. I think something dumb happened." she muses to Hematite. "Oh, you're..." she's about to finish that went Hotaru gives the cue and with a resounding monotone goes. "Happy Birthday, Taka-senpai." she goes as she places the bags on the table, finally, and with the cake and starts setting up food things. At least most people here will know the resounding monotone is normal enough for her.

Fate Testarossa has posed:
    This is it. This is the moment. This is when it happens.
    Arf's tail wags, excitement VISIBLY mounting as the excitable wolf girl practically starts vibrating, waiting for IT to happen.
    Fate, however is as usual more reserved and calm.
    "Hello, Hematite." She does greet politely when he enters, but then scarlet eyes focus on the moment of truth. And then... IT HAPPENS.
    "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Arf crows.
    "Happy birthday." Fate is, at least, smiling just a little bit as they both clap.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Feito, aww. There's a tall black-haired Dark General smiling at Fate for a moment when she greets him.

"Ohhhhh," Hematite says to Norie, eyes wide. "Oh man. Well. I hope nothing makes me taller."

Then there's the spookiest henshin he's seen since Pyrite, and he blinks -- he'll have to congratulate Hotaru on that later, it was really cool. Norie's saying something, but then the surprise part is happening. "Happy birthday, Takashi-kun," says Hematite, smile wry. "This is mostly from Firefly, I only helped," he adds, taking a step closer and pulling his cape off the sphere of dark energy underneath it. The dark energy shrinks down to size, finishing imbuing an... action figure??, which floats from his hands towards Takashi.

'Happy birthday' he'd said about the lab space, too. 'Was that sent to the wrong person?' Takashi had asked.

This one's much more clear. It's a dark-energy powered robot the size of the Ginga Otome's Wawna.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi is. Speechless. And all of those who are assembled here know it's not likely for him to be speechless. Not for as long as he is, especially. The boy turns and looks at the blanket-covered lab - where did she find so many blankets, how did she get them into place, so many questions - and then the table and finally his gaze settles onto a bit of glitter that has rested on his nose. Which he scowls at silently for a bit.

    Norie puts a cake on the table, and he's just lost. "Don't you all - or most of you - know I don't have a birthday?" he asks. "IF you just wanted an excuse to get together and eat cake we could have absolutely accomplished that without all of the um... glitter." Even Hematite is here, which is unexpected. He only apologized to him for the useless comment this morning. Then again, Mamoru's always been good at forgiving. Maybe too good.

    Norie's voice is, in fact, known well enough by Takashi that he knows that her excitement or interest in a thing isn't tied to it. Unlike when he talks with a flat affect. "I guess... cake is good, still?" he says.

    "Did you do this now so you could eat more cake cause you're bigger, Hotaru-chan?" Takashi asked, looking at her suspiciously. This line of thought is cut off by the little... cloaky-wearingish robot that's put on the table. "What's this?" he asks, pointing to it. "I mean, I'll take it. And the cake. But you can stop saying it's my birthday." He says. He sounds more... pouty/grumpy about it than actually annoyed, as the little robot walks closer to him. Also, confusion. There's a lot of confusion evident on his face.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Firefly was grinning ear to ear. "EVERYBODY helped! Including you, Takashi-senpai! You taught me how to make it! And we know you didn't HAVE a birthday, but now you do, Senpai! Because we gave you one. A birthday is the day that everyone around you reminds you how happy they are that you were born. And so we're celebrating yours now! Just like we will Hematite's and Norie's and Fate-kohai's and Arf's eventually!" she said proudly. She had no idea what days those were but she WOULD find out!

"And I planned this out a while ago, it just happened to be when I was like this, which is so cool by they way. Eeee, my magical girl outfit even changed size!" she said happily, doing a little spin. "Weeeee! Oh, wow, I think the heels even got taller." How was she not falling over?

"And the robot is great! It can't fight or anything, but it CAN teleport you away when you're in danger of doing stupid things!" she said proudly. "We all worked really hard together to make you something EXTRA special because you'd have probably been upset if you got a bunch of tiny gifts and I knew how much you wanted that one girl's robot so I managed to scan hers and this boy had one and I ask-- stole a third design and then we all worked together to make this, the final version!" she said proudly.

It was a lil black and blue robot that looked like it was made for a villain by a twelve year old who thought villains could be cool. And who had access to WAY too amazing tech.

"Also, yes, I think me eating more cake while bigger isn't a bad idea. I've actually been a lot hungrier lately, I wonder if it's cause I have a full body now?"

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana has everything laid out quickly. Also among all the food is a box of donuts again, because of course there is, Norie ordered the food. The obligate donutivore has already stacked her plate with them and is sitting down and stuffing her face with donuts as she listens and eyes the robot.

"Well you have a birthday now, too bad, so sorry, won't happen again." she says in monotone. It's so hard to tell if she's trying to make a dumb joke or not with her tone like that.

"Why are you taller?" she asks to Firefly finally as she looks over to Hematite and ponders bringing up something, but decides against it, shoving a donut into her mouth.

"Bigger bodies need more calories." she asides.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Still a little awkward and a little raw from their fight, Hematite's kind of reticent here-- but he does grin when the miniature Cybody walks across the table to the flustered Takashi, denying a birthday left and right. "The glitter," he says solemnly, finally, "was not my idea. I'm going to track it everywhere too. The consolation is that we'll get it on the higher-ups, too."

He gives Hotaru a quick, lopsided grin when she almost word-for-word quotes him re: Taka and 'doing stupid things', though he's not sure it's just him saying so-- they might just agree.

He hopes Takashi doesn't put together that the robot will do what he normally does.

Then he slide-steps, when nobody's looking at him, to where Norie's put the food, and he glances at Norie. "Should I cut the cake?" he asks, though he's also already snagged a donut. He calls over to Takashi, "I'm still older than you."

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi narrows his eyes at Firefly due to her 'doing stupid things' comment. He doesn't actually argue, though. Which probably says something. "I'm not getting out of any of this am I?" he asks, looking around at everybody. Outnumbered, outplanned, out... excited. Takashi just shrugged. "Fine, at least cut me a slice of cake and pass me a donut." he said, resigning to his fate. He reached out and curiously patted the little robot on the head and its eyes flickered. "So it can teleport me, huh?" he asks. Well that's much more useful than a toy, at least. He figures getting a beneficial present from all of this is good, since he is doomed to have it happen. It may have looked a little bit too... anime-villany - but then again it was made by Hotaru, Mamoru, Fate, and Norie. For him. So it's not surprising. Entirely.

    "She's only taller for a little while." Takashi remarks. "One of the Green Witch's experiments got... either got in the wrong place or she put it there cause the old lady is a troll. She ended up swapped with the school nurse. Shouldn't be longer than a week or so." he explained. "She's... having a lot of fun with it." He said in an almost put upon way.

    "Yeah, I don't think I have any kind of magic or technology I can rely on to get rid of glitter." he admitted. "I'll be able to be followed by sparkles for at least a day." He grumpily stuffs part of the donut into his mouth. "Go ahead and cut the cake. All of this was your idea." he grumps.

    But when people look there is a small hint of a smile on his face.

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Firefly grinned over to Norie. "Majorina," she said. As if that explained everything. At least Takashi went into more detail. "Don't worry, it'll wear off in a week or so. As far as I can tell, it's not dangerous or anything. And it's so cool, I can like. Grab things off the TOP shelf! For real! I've NEVER been able to do that!" she said, oh so happily.

"And of course there has to be glitter. Glitter is like love. It gets everywhere!" ... HOW IS THAT LIKE LOVE?!

And then she hugged Takashi. VERY tightly. "Sorryyyyyy. It looks like you'll just have to accept... that people looooooove you. And waaaaaant you around. And liiiiiiike having you be with them!" she said in a teasing tone. "How awwwwwwful that you've got so many people who enjoy your presence. And I know you didn't want this... but sometimes loving someone means doing what they don't want because it's good for them."

She understood that more than most.

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana nodded to Hematite. "Go ahead and cut the cake. I got it all. Someone else can slice it." she says. "Taka-senpai should get the biggest piece." she asides as she moves aside and with her big plate of donuts shoves another one into her mouth. She closes her eyes and savors it.

There's other food here but she isn't partaking of it.

She looks over at Firefly and Takashi. "So. Does that mean the nurse is. Small?" she asks curiously.

"I wish to see this." she says, nibbling a donut with narrowed eyes. She then looks over to Hematite. "I'm gonna sparkle. That's okay." she says dryly. "It's probably gonna integrate into me. I hope that doesn't make me sparkle too bad." she says as she nibbles her donut. She looks over to the robot again and says. "It's so tiny." she says, "Can I touch it?" she asks.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Hematite gestures at Hotaru. "Definitely all her idea," he says with his first laugh all day, and then he nods to Norie too, and Cuts The Cake. Aside from Takashi getting the biggest piece, he's very meticulous about cutting the pieces fairly. Probably something to do with their upbringing.

"If you want revenge in kind on me, though, you'll have to wait until next year. It's already past mine," he says smugly, then puts a donut on Taka's plate along with the cake, and a fork, and he hands it over-- then blinks at Norie. "Dark sparkles? That actually sounds cool."

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi sighs and just full on facepalms. "Glitter isn't like love. It's more like an infection you can never ever get rid of. I'm gonna be finding glitter in here till the world ends." he sighs. Though, how long that is might be variable.

    And now Takashi is... the gears in his head are turning. Mamoru can tell, possibly Norie too - Hotaru's a little too excited. He's trying to figure out the sequence to getting out of this as soon as possible. Trying to find the 'right answers'. "I suspect..." he begins, looking to Norie "...the nurse is staying out of sight. She said she had someone who could pick her up and I didn't pry." he admits. "But yes. The nurse is small. Original Hotaru Size. Very Adorable." he notes. And then he shifts the robot over closer to Norie. "Sure. I mean, assume that won't break anything?" he says, looking to the other two.

    "Oh, your revenge will not come in the form of a birthday party. You or anyone else's." It's SAID in an almost villianous way, but there's a sparkle in his eye and a smile on his face that indicates it's more mischevious than malicious. "And Norie, let me know if you start to like, sparkle in the sunlight or something. We'll have to put a stop to that."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Firefly nodded. "Oh, yes, she is VERY small and it is ADORABLE! I hugged her and everything!" Poor, poor Setsuna. "And I'd like it if you were sparkly, Okana-san! You'd be so pretty!" she said with such giddy, happy glee.

She blinked a few times. "Wait, what? But I thought you didn't know your birthday, Darien-senpai?" she asked. "Did... did you lie... to me?" she asked, staring at him... with hurt little sister eyes.

And then grinned to Takashi. "Well, if you never get rid of it, you'll always have something to remember me by!" she said proudly. Then blinked. And... "I... I did not mean to say it like that..." she said gently.

And well, the robot WAS cool, she couldn't blame her for wanting to touch it.

Then... "And don't worry, Takashi-senpai. It won't be long. You'll jsut have to deal with our love and affection for a little bit longer, then you'll be free to get back to work. Promise," she said. Before taking her piece of cake. Yay, cake-u! Alas... now that she was bigger, but all the cake was dolled out equally... it meant she, statistically, had less cake. But she had a biggerr apetite, so maybe she'd finish a whole slice.

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana acquires a chocolate cake slice. "Thank you." she says as she looks over to Takashi as she huhs. "So she is small. and Adorable. and hiding." she says as considers going on a raid with a camera now. She daintly spoons a bit of cake into her mouth and then swallows. Delicious.

She does not voice her raid idea loudly. "Maybe I wanna sparkle a little bit." she finally says as she looks between Firefly and Hematite and swallows another bite of cake. "Maybe he found out only recently himself." she says softly. "Obviously. We know when Taka-senpai's birthday is now. Even if he doesn't want us to." she says

She looks to the robot and gives it a little pat on the head. Pat pat. ~.~

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Oh snap," Hematite says, wide-eyed at Takashi. Definite revenge. Definite unpredictable revenge. ...definite sweatdrop.

But there's cake! He puts his own slice on a plate and says firmly, "You're also very pretty without sparkles, Okana-san. And it's as you say--"

He looks at the wibbly-eyed Hotaru, now so much closer to his own height, especially in those heels, and he gives her a slightly admonishing look. Slightly. "I got a bunch of memories back recently. That was one of them. Believe me, you'd know if I was trying to lie to you, I'm absurdly bad at it."

Takashi Agera has posed:
    Takashi shrugs. "Well, I guess if you want to sparkle that's fine too. I just think it'd be a hindrance when hunting. Sparkles catching people's eyes off streetlamp lights and all." he says pragmatically. His eyes roam to Hotaru during her 'remember me' comment but he says nothing. Even he isn't going to kill the mood, it's obvious they worked hard on the present and the party. Mentally filing it under 'the things I do to have dangerous allies'.

    "Yes, you should try to find her before the spell reverses, just to get an eyefull of Meiou-sensei crammed into a body that's under five feet tall. Some things you never forget. Because they're hillarious." he says. "Unfortunantly I was too busy trying to get them out of there before anybody saw than pester her properly, so somebody really should."

    He leans back. Pay a little time and politeness for a lot of allies and aid. He can do that. "In all seriousness, thank you. It's not... something I wanted, the party, but the gesture is very nice." he says, nodding. "And the little robot is cool." he adds, looking over at it. "I suppose we can do this once a year."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Firefly grinned even more to Norie. Why wouldn't she want to sparkle? Sparkling was awesome! And the cake was great and... She then looked to Darien. "Ohhhhhh. I get it! That just means we have to surprise you with a late birthday party. Don't worry, you won't see it coming." Worse part was he likely would. She was NOT subtle... "And congratulations on remembering things again!"

"And don't worry, senpai. Every year we can make you miserable for a little bit, but you'll get something neat out of it. Also, I glitter bombed the witches 5 office, so if there is any magical or tool thing people can use to get out of glitter, you can borrow theirs after they order it." And it wouldn't even hurt his budget!

Of course, with her cake... 3/4ths eaten, she was actually full... and... "For our final act of affection... going to give you the rest of the day to not be disturbed by us... and to play with your new robot. Please don't break it, we put a lot of work into it."

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana says. "Just think of it a guaranteed day to get cake." she says.

"Well yeah but also. You know. Sparkle. Like my vampire light novels." she dreamily says closing her eyes. ~.~

She then opens her eyes and looks over to Firefly and crosses her eyes. "....oh dear." she says to the glitterbombing. She looks over to Hematite. "So you are. An amnesiac." she says softly. "It's okay. I lost a good portion of my emotional capacity." she says, eating a slice of cake. "How far back do you remember?" she asks curiously as she continues to eat her cake.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I try to stay away from the nurse's office," says Hematite, "but if anyone gets pictures, I'd love copies." Then his mouth's full of cake for a little bit, and is still full of cake when Hotaru promises to birthday him, and it's practically magic that he doesn't sputter. "Ah," he says after hurriedly swallowing, "thanks."

He glances to Norie and looks thoughtful. Losing a good portion of emotional capacity sounds like it would be very useful--

--what is he thinking? No.

"I used to remember back two years," he says to her, "but now I remember back ten, with only some parts missing aside from the first six, which have been completely gone the whole time. But-- we should let Tomoe-chan's last gift go into effect, probably. We can talk about this later, away from HQ, if you're interested?"

He is down for exchanging numbers, if Norie is interested in that, too.

Takashi Agera has posed:
    At the note of Firefly having glitterbombed the W5's office... takashi's smile became a lot more broad. "Okay, if I see Mimette tracking glitter and grumping about it I'll probably be at least as happy with -that- as I am your little friend here." he says.

    "Guaranteed cake sounds nice." He admits, though on further reflection he could get cake when he wanted... but would he, is another question. Much easier to have cake when someone else brings it, he considers. But at Norie's 'light novels' he just puts a big fork of cake in his mouth, and says nothing. Because if you can't say anything nice... stuff your face with food.

    "It's good to hear you remember some more things, though. That's even more time of me being awesome you have in your brain now. It was weird when only I remembered it." he admits. "A positive change."

    The cake is vanishing and the donuts are too, and soon it's time for the assembled to go their seperate ways. Takashi picks up the little robot and it floats out of his hand to hover by his shoulder. "Neat." he says. "...thank you. All of you." he adds, after a moment. "I'm glad I have people I can count on."

Hotaru Tomoe has posed:
Firefly nodded and then gave him one last hug, before pulling back a little bit. "Oh, she's probably going to be in a nasty mood later because of that." Sometimes it paid to be the big boss's lil daughter.

Though, then she glanced to Norie. "Vampire... light novels? And they sparkle? That sounds really good! Can I read some sometime?" she asked, grinning happily and... noooooo.

And then looked to Hematite. Ten years? He was....getting there, then. That was most his life! Heck, he remembered more years of his life than she did of hers, then! But... you know. Cause she was twelve.

"You can always count on us, Takashi-senpai. Because in the end? We're family," she said, and on that happy note she'd head out, so he could have his privacy, letting the others say their goodbyes... after she got the book names from Norie. She had some reading to do.

Norie Okana has posed:
Norie Okana is happy to share phone numbers with Hematite and the names of light novels with Hotaru. "Vampires in story sometimes sparkle. Because they're so pretty..." she says. ~.~

Well Happy in that she does so without issue. She gently finishes her donuts and cake and starts handling the trash politely. "We'll let you work uninterrupted now, Taka-senpai." she says softly.

She then looks over to Hematite. "We can speak later. I have my own research to do." she mutters. "N..not that I don't want to talk! Just I have. Things to do. Researchy. Things." she blushes.