recolle | OPEN POST ♞ THE BIRD IN THE BASKET

WHO: Makoto Naegi and anyone else!
WHERE: Literally everywhere in Recolle
WHEN: 03/06
WHAT: There's a crane. There's a crane in the mailbox. There's a crane on university grounds. Help. This is the accompanying network post.
WARNINGS:

ONE

After getting that murder weapon from Retrospec, Naegi thought he wouldn't get anything as bad as that. He means, that's the worst of the worst, right? Nothing can really top that. But this? This... this is definitely bad. Not murder weapon bad but still pretty awful.

It's a giant red-crown crane. It's a giant red-crown crane and it's stuck in the mailbox. It's stuck in the mailbox and Naegi, being the good kid that he is, is left with the terrible duty of getting a wild animal out of it. He honestly doesn't even know where to start and when he tries to move closer to try and help, he just gets pecked twice on the forehead instead.

Pecked really hard.

He stumbles back and just holds his forehead in his hands while the bird still trashes in the mailbox.

He's... he's already done.

TWO

Well, after a minute of dealing with the searing pain of an angry bird pecking you despite you wanting to help, Naegi still tries to figure out a way to get this poor crane out of the mailbox. He takes a deep breath and gets right in there, willing to withstand the Pecks of the North Star to try and shimmy the bird out. However, it would be a lot easier if the bird didn't act like he was trying to take it out so he could eat it or something and trash around like a headless chicken.

"H-Hey, i-it's all right! I'm just trying to help you!"

He says as if the crane can understand and can suddenly realize that this human is, in fact, helping and not trying to kill it. It's going to be a long and difficult fight, resulting in someone losing an eye if this keeps up.

Please help.

THREE

Probably an hour after Naegi gets the bird free, he now doesn't really know what to do with it. There's no way he can take it home because he's pretty sure you can't keep cranes as pets (and he doesn't really want to) but the thing is...

It won't stop following him now.

For a bird that put up such a fight when it was in the mailbox, it now seems to have no problems with Naegi. The thought process is probably like this: "yes, this is a good human. This human saved its life. Gotta follow this human to be safe. Maybe it will be fed. Good human." Something like that. Anyway, Naegi is exasperated by this turn of events and he keeps looking back at it as he walks.

"I'm telling you... You really can't follow me home..."

He sounds so defeated though and that's probably because he knows that he's not going to win this fight. The crane is determined and that's that.

FOUR

Wanna know how determined this crane is to following him, though?

Well, Naegi is at Recolle University, trying to attend class, pick up some supplies from the mentoring office, actually be in the mentoring office to help his mentees, and do some studying at school and this goddamn crane is following him. Throughout the entire school... Naegi is just pretty much trying to ignore it and going through his day like it's completely normal.

Feel free to meet him anywhere on campus grounds because this crane isn't going to leave him alone...

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[ naegi moves his head so he can just barely see her phone. with the distance between the two of them, he can't really see the details but he can definitely at least see enough to see

Wow, she's really cute!

[ the crane stops halfway when he kind of yells (also he's in a library whoops) so he then just speaks in a softer and quieter voice ]

She's really tiny looking as well.

She's not very big at all, no.

[ Comes with the territory of being pug-terrier, honestly. ] She's reeeeallly cute though, yeah!

[ he nods in agreement because all dogs are cute. he will want to see more pictures later but in the meanwhile, the crane is back to making its way over to naegi and it's gotten pretty close now. it's definitely close enough to peck him if it wants but it's actually not doing anything at all ]

Hey, I think it's working. It's not attacking me so far.

So this was your pet, in another world...?

[ Just to like... check or something... ]

I don't think so. I was just an average person in my other life so I don't think I could ever own a pet this exotic or endangered...

[ "an average kid" who took part of two murder games ]

I do remember handling one when I was in middle school, though? It came on school grounds so I had to remove it.

... If that got counted because of that, they really have a loose definition of what's "ours," I guess.

[ That said, wow, rude to the bird... wait though, to have this bird on his school grounds...? ]

Where was your school?

Yeah, I don't know if Retrospec made a mistake or if they're really starting to give us things based on us interacting with it at some point.

[ he hopes it's a mistake but he knows it's not. will smith pose to the murder weapons he's getting ]

It was somewhere in Japan. I don't really remember where exactly, though.

Japan... huh...

[ She tilts her head ]

Is this species native to Japan?

Um, I think so? I did some quick research and it's mostly in Japan but I think it also goes to China and Korea?

It's definitely not native to North America so I'm a little worried about it staying here with me... It's really far away from home.

At least, depending on the region of Japan, it might be used to temperate climates...?

[ She'd need to do more research. ]

I think I read that cranes also migrate in the winter so I wonder if he'll know where to go from here when the seasons change.

[ this is very concerning... this is far too much responsibility for naegi ]

But, uh, asides from that... thanks for teaching me how to kind of get along with it. At least now I know how to have it come near me without losing my eye or anything like that.

[ She lifts her left arm, the prosthetic one ]

Well, if you do lose an eye, I know a good doctor!

[ b a d joke ]

Seriously though, if you're going to look after them, we should be doing some more research on it.

[ As for the thanks, that just sort of rolls into and over her. She accepts it, but doesn't so much more than a little nod. ]

[ it may have been a bad joke but it still gets a small chuckle from naegi but then that turns into confusion because... ]

"We"?

[ wait she wants to help do boring research on a crane?? ]

Well if you're going to be a bad crane owner, I should do a little myself, right?

[ Inhale!! Puff out chest a bit. ]

[ he pauses a bit but then he lets out a small laugh and smile ]

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I don't know if I can repay you for your help though.

Didn't you already? That way you emphasized the "we..."

[ She smirks and leans in a little, around the bird (which might be dangerous, oops) and bats her eyelashes ]

Did you think I was asking you on a date or something?

Huh?

[ oh god why is she leaning forward and batting her eyelashes-- wait what a date?? ]

N-No, n-not at all! I wasn't thinking anything like that! No way I can go on a date!

[ ... might have been able to word that better but he's so easily flustered when it comes to these things ]

You can't?! Oh no, will you combust?!

[ Yes she says this in mock-shock ]

N-No! Uh, not really but maybe of embarrassment?

So you do think I'm cute!

I-- ye-- I mean--

[ he wants to bury his hands in his face ]

Yeah...

[ Laughing, her point proven... time to back up and then rock back on her knees before taking that chance to stand properly.

Winning. ]

[ he's definitely burying his face in his hands for a moment to take a deep breath and stand up. let's CHANGE THE SUBJECT ]

A... A-Anyway, let's get to researching!

[ we could probably handwave them doing all the boring researching and whatnot! ]

[ Well what the hell, she has an hour to spare. She can study sociology later.

... So.

Crane research in the background it is.

[ crane researching! ]

[ wanna kind of wrap up the thread here? end of the month and all. i will definitely hit up natalia's inbox sometime in april so naegi can either scream at her about more crane things or something else \o ]

OPEN POST ♞ THE BIRD IN THE BASKET

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