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Wandering Minion

The monster--not that he was aware he was a monster--came strolling out of the forest, wringing his hands and looking a bit overwhelmed at his new surroundings. He was a very large bipedal bug, one that looked somewhat similar to the illustrious Lord of the Bugmen. He was also clinging to a small fuzzy bunny that he must have found in the forest, and said fuzzy bunny looked like it would rather be literally anywhere else, even with that hawk that the big bug had saved it from.

There was a curious chirp out of the bug as he started to approach the town. What's this? Who are these people? Time to find out!

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The annoyance only grew at that sharp note of worried panic. What? Fine, he was going to head in that direction.

The Darkroach perked up and picked up his own pace; he could feel Hajime drawing nearer.

It was very rare that Tachibana missed the Network, but really, a single live streamed image would have done a far better job than his panicked attempts were doing. If he wasn't quite so freaked out, there were a tonne of different communication methods he could have used, but at the moment.. panic was about it.

...and yet he found himself following the Darkroach. Just. Just incase it attacked something.

The Darkroach kept ambling on towards town, and Hajime quickened his pace until he was rushing out of town, and eventually...

...yeah. The two would come face-to-face. "What the hell?!" Hajime was just as surprised to see the Darkroach as anyone, and as for the Darkroach...

...it started jumping up and down and cheering a chirpy sort of cheer, and it even set the bunny down. The bunny took off running like a bat out of hell.

"That-- that's not how they normally act..." It was the most obvious thing to say but there wasn't much else Tachibana could think of. Other than: "It's... not yours... is it?"

"I didn't have anything to do with this," Hajime insisted, looking like he might start kicking the Darkroach's ass as it approached him, chirping merrily. "...it thinks it's mine."

Also this was highly unusual Darkroach behavior, and Hajime would have expected it to be a little more rampagey and a little less..huggy. Because it was now trying to hug him.

That was a good insistence. A reassuring insistence. An insistence that was... honestly doing a lot to calm some of Tachibana's barely held back panic that there would be more suddenly emerging up from Hajime's shadow or that something horrible had happened to Kenzaki or just... something horrible had happened period.

"Is... is it from another world...?" That... was the only thing that he could think of on seeing a Darkroach acting like a small child. Because what. What.

"How should I know?" Hajime appears to be trying to keep something in check as he flatly lets the Darkroach (which is taller than he is) hug him and sort of...sobbing-chirp at him. "It's not making normal Darkroach sounds."

"If anyone would know, it'd be you," Tachibana countered, but far more befuddled than angry.

"...There wouldn't be anyone from where you and Lyall were from that would... cause someone else from that world to be turned into this, is there...?"

"No one would have been turned into this, there's not enough to a Darkroach to justify that." He could only hope, anyway.

The Darkroach tilted its head this way and that at this line of questioning, shrugged, and went right back to chirping at Hajime.

"They usually buzz."

More chirping.

"I don't know what's wrong with this one."

More chirping.

"It wants a cookie."

"... a cookie....?" Tachibana repeated, utterly bewildered.

"A cookie," Hajime said flatly. "He won't shut up about one." He said something to the Darkroach in the Undead language, and the big bug visibly flinched back and whimpered before Hajime said something else, and it perked up again. "And it really doesn't want to fight anything afterwards." He sounded very uncertain about the whole thing.

"...it doesn't..." Tachibana repeated, blinking. "...like it was actually spawned from you and not just from the Stone...."

"If it had spawned from me," Hajime pointed out, "it would still want to fight. Ryo wants to fight sometimes. This one just panics at the thought." He scowled. "And I would have known if I spawned anything."

"But you didn't want to, when you won," Tachibana pointed out. He was there, Hajime. It was the reason that he didn't seal you, remember?

"And I haven't won anything here," Hajime pointed out.

The Darkroach gave a sympathetic sort of chirp at that. Keep trying, you can win someday!

"This place runs on stupidity and rumor, you could have won a baking contest or something stupid, I don't know!" Tachibana returned, starting to get a little frustrated. "There has to be some reason it's here!"

There was a bit more chirping at that.

"He says he got lost."

"...Lost?" Tachibana repeated.

"Lost." Hajime sighed. "I think he's from a different world, and he got...lost from there, somewhere." There was a pause. "Maybe we can send him back."

Blink. Blink blink.

"...how?"

Hajime's scowl just intensified. "I don't know, some magic bullshit or something like that, there's plenty of that here. Maybe magic shoes--he could click his heels together three times and wish for no place like home"

A small snort escaped. "If either of us knew how to work that sort of thing, we'd be somewhere else," he pointed out.

"...it could work differently with more, I don't know. Childlike innocence at play." Come on, work with him, Tachibana.

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