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It's a nice spring day in Azabu-Juuban, though there's an aura of anxiety on the walk home between T.A. Academy for Girls and Hikawa Shrine, given the recent disappearances - many of them girls from Ran's own school, though there's been some random people going missing, usually last seen getting on the Sendai Hill bus late in the afternoon, especially at the stop across the street from her shrine. Nobody seems to know who to trust, and most girls have started walking home in tight groups, though enough rumors are swirling around about Hikawa Shrine and Ran's strange powers that many girls are unusually reluctant to include her. There's an ominous spiritual aura overlaying the area - but nothing and nowhere specific.
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She's really gotta make time to figure out what is going on. It's hard though, between the way schoolwork is starting to pick up and her duties at the shrine. It's more work than an ordinary part-time or an after-school club, y'know! Her divinations up to now haven't picked up any of the ordinary sort of yōkai and she's honestly stumped!! You'd think something happening practically on her doorstep like this would be easier to track down!!!
Well. Suffice to say, she's got a lot on her mind as she heads to the shrine after school today.
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Her first warning something is seriously wrong is the brief screech of tires –
– And then she's being tackled out of the road. A tall girl lands on top of her, arms wrapped around her, as a bus speeds past them, right through where she'd been walking –
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She glimpses a face through the window, in the driver's seat – and then it's gone, though the bus leaves behind a distinct sense of wrongness.
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The girl holding her lets go and rolls into a crouch, offering Ran her hand. "You okay?!"
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Ran pats herself down and attempts to sit up. "I, uh, think so? That bus came out of nowhere..."
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She helps. "Just glad I saw it in time." Sharp look around. "C'mon, let's get you away from the road – I can carry you, if you're sore."
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She scoops Ran into a bridal carry and straightens, carrying her apparently without any issue, before hurrying away from the road with another paranoid look around.
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"The shrine, huh? I was headed that way myself." She takes off with a ground-eating stride.
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"One advantage to my height." They'll reach the shrine faster than Ran would have just from walking, actually.
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"I don't hear that one often." She shifts a bit so Ran's head is more comfortably resting on her shoulder, giving a good view of her face in profile and her pink rose earrings - she smells like flowers and good earth.
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Ran gets a really good view of tall girls' boobs, for one. "I bet kimonos look amazing on you. You can show off so much material."
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She laughs. "More of a canvas, hm? I should think about that for my next sewing project..."
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"I might need a second eye on that, though... Not a lot of patterns get published for all girls."
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"I'm looking forwards to it." They reach the shrine's gates, and the girl kneels to let Ran out of her arms.
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She bows back. "I'm Makoto." And then she straightens – and she isn't just tall. She towers above Ran, growing straight up like a strong oak. She looks a bit like a delinquent, with an exceptionally long pale brown skirt riding at her waist and a school shirt cut short enough that her midriff is visible in brief flashes, with no neckerchief and with her long sleeves rolled up to her elbow. Ran doesn't recognize the school uniform. "It's nice to meet you."
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Oh, she is extremely weak to that. Look at the sheer size of her, Ran could just climb her like a tree.
"Likewise," Ran chirps. "Um, I need to go change first but feel free to wash up? If you need anything I can help when I get back."
