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[pipa]

hehe

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[camena]

Ruby said that would make it more of a charity than a competition... Which is fair enough...

But I'd still take a competition without erasures before this.

[pipa]

I guess some people might still be very bad at that kind of competition...

[camena]

[ she opens her mouth to say something. then closes it. ]

That's gonna be the gamble of every task. We don't know what they'll be or who's good at what. I don't even know how to prepare.

[pipa]

And they don't really seem to like giving out hints...?

Just ominous statements.

[camena]

They're not so bad. Maybe it's more that they just... Can't?

[ her frame of reference for 'unhelpful and ominous' is a much higher bar. ]

[pipa]

[ she sighs ]

I get it, but I'm not good at puzzles...

[camena]

Me either. And I'm tired of them, honestly.

[pipa]

These kinds of things are never straightforward...

[camena]

If I'm ever in charge of something like this, I'll just make it super straightforward.

[pipa]

You just do one really intense game of hide and seek.

[camena]

Yeah! I'm good at hide and seek!

[pipa]

Me too! The Reapers would never find us!

[ assigns reapers 'it' in this scenario ]

[camena]

I think we'd be playing against each other, not them.

[pipa]

I see...

How would we decide who's hiding?

[camena]

Rock paper scissors?

[pipa]

What if the whole contest was rock paper scissors?

[camena]

That kind of tournament can take a long time.

[pipa]

It can't be longer than seven weeks.

[camena]

That's... true...

You can put more effort into hide and seek than rock paper scissors, though. There's more, like, strategizing?

[pipa]

Ah, that's true! The other one is mostly luck, isn't it, unless you're really good at it...

[camena]

Maybe if you could read someone really well, that might help. Like, I could probably beat Ren more than half the time.

But with strangers it'd be harder.

[pipa]

Ah, that's true!

Who's Ren?

[camena]

My best friend back home. He plays rock more often than not. [ ok ]

[pipa]

Rock is so popular nowadays! I know Kazuki is really into it, too!

[camena]

[ well that's a different kind of rock but— ]

So I bet I could beat him at rock paper scissors too. Good to know!