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Characters: Huashi and anyone who takes interest!
Format: Prose preferred, but action tags are doable.
This log is: open
Location: On the steps of the main building
Summary: Huashi finally takes a look at the legend fragment she had Suzaku buy her before. Early afternoon first day of round 2.

Things had been both busy and not since she got Suzaku to buy her the link charm that connected her and Kotarou now, as well as a legend fragment. When she got it, she'd simply tucked it away, intending to look at it later. Well, that later got to be now, because while she was aware it probably would be useless, it was possibly a good idea to get a look at it.

"Okayyy... Let's see what it says, then..." Huashi muttered, both to herself and for Kotarou as she fished out the now slightly-abused scrap of folded paper out. It didn't look particularly special. The strange thing was, when she unfolded it, it was empty. And the text didn't appear afterwards either, but instead it apppeared above the paper, framed in a sort of box.

"Eh?" Huashi blinked, stared and stared some more. "That's different!"

‘This is a very simple story that everyone knows. A Knight journeys to save a Princess who is captured by the Demon Lord. One time, the Knight reached a fork in the path. One road bright and safe, the other dark and dangerous, haunted by death.’

"Pfft, anyone knows you take the dark road. That's how stories start!" But yeah, she'd been right. How was this useful at all?

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Huashi shrugged and waved the scrap of paper in her hand, watching as the box moved with the movement.

"Don't think about it too much! Just try to figure out how you want to get through the fighting instead!" That, to Huashi, seemed like a much more useful use of energies... and worries, if you were laid that way.

"...oh, right. The fighting..." She sighed, and nodded. She'd have to either way, wouldn't she... At least she could wait until tomorrow.

"I don't even have any weapons... Not that I could fight if I did."

Huashi grimaced and shook her head.

"I'd have helped, but Kotarou wanted to go with Kallen, so we did!" And, well... if Miwako really couldn't fight, Huashi wouldn't have wanted to risk Kotarou even remotely.

"Is there places you can ask? Or people?" She thought she'd seen something like that, before she fought Mikoto, but she'd had no idea how to do it, and Kotarou didn't either.

"Ah... that's okay." She was a little disappointed, but it wasn't like Huashi could change Players now.

"Um... I don't really know anyone. I mean, I've met a couple people, but..." But she'd mostly kept to herself. She'd be surprised if anyone else even remembered she was here.

"Aw, it'll be alright!" It was given in pure belief of the statement, but if Miwako wasn't planning on even trying to win, she'd need more than one Weapon at some point, or be able to pick up someone else after she lost.

Huashi really didn't know that many people, because she had also kept herself (with Kotarou) apart, more from suspiciousness than fear or nervousness, though. But the fact was, she had no one to even potentially point Miwako at.

"I dunno lots of people either, though... So I don't really have anyone to suggest," Huashi shrugged, feeling a bit sorry for that, even if it wasn't really something to feel sorry about.

"I guess if I don't find anyone, they can't make me fight..." She tried to smile, but it just came out shaky. "Um, thanks anyway, Huashi. And, um, good luck figuring that out?" She gestured to the weird box.