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Mafuyu brushed her hair, slowly, getting all the knots in her hair. She learned that the longer she took to get her hair brushed, it affected how many seconds it took Kanade to set up her chair on August 7th.
She grabbed the stopwatch on her dresser, and got into her uniform clothes. Slipping her shoes on, she walked out of the door and checked the stop-watches time.
Kanade wanted to try something ‘new’ for this week of school, so she started to actually go to the school.
10.
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Kanade ran over to where Mafuyu was, heavily breathing from slight exertion. “Mafuyu! I didn’t expect to see you out here!”
Mafuyu looked relieved to see her, and then clicked the actual function of the stopwatch. “Of course. You told me you wanted to come wait outside the street sign,” She shook her head. “Let's start walking. You didn’t want to waste time, right?”
“Ah..” Kanade looked back at her phone. Weird, Mafuyu didn’t actually read her nightcord text, but she knew all of what it said?.. “Uhm, wait–”
She stumbled trying to catch up with Mafuyu, and Mafuyu looked at the stopwatch and quickly pulled her in.
WOOSH!
A truck flew by, almost dizzying Kanade with the wind. Everything was happening too fast, something NEEDED to slow down. Focus on something…on something–
“Cool stopwatch, right?” Mafuyu held it up, Kanade’s mouth already open, about to say the same exact thing.
“Y-yea.”
“Quite an intricate design, I find it shows your..emotion… How are you-!”
Kanade slapped a hand over her mouth, and Mafuyu tilted her head, as if copying someone word for word and tone was normal.
“How’d you do that??”
“Practice.” Mafuyu blankly muttered, shrugging. She started walking towards the school again, looking behind at Kanade.
“Practice? You just practice what people are gonna say??..” Kanade followed behind weakly, holding her straps tightly.
“Mhm. It’s quite a talent, I picked it up after a bit.” Mafuyu looked prideful to say this, but she really wasn’t. In 6 days, everything will fall down. Everything with those dumb school kids. Mafuyu huffed, and then clicked her stopwatch again.
Exactly 10 seconds, Mafuyu thought. Time moves slower for her as the time-keeper, now.
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The rock flew a bit earlier than intended, and so Kanade felt the rock at the back of her head. FUCK!
“Ah? Who..threw that?” Kanade started to look behind herself, but Mafuyu quickly pushed her. Which pushed her into a pole, which the bullies laughed at– WHICH STILL GOT KANADE’S ATTENTION.
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I need to click the back in time action, this was too disrupting–
To the canon?
To the canon! I know.
You can’t spend all your days saving this poor girl.
I told you there's only one solution to fix her fate. Only one, and you’re going out of your way.
I’ll take as many shots in the dark as I can. Don’t expect half-heartedness, I gave half my soul just to have a mime in my head.
You don’t even realize Kanade’s calling you, do ya?
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“MAFUYU!” Kanade weakly yelled again, shaking her. Mafuyu shook her head out of it, and then smiled nervously.
“Sorry, sorry..” Mafuyu looked away, but then looked back at the stopwatch. It seems she’s 5 seconds off in totality, so she reset it and decided to rely on gut feeling for now.
“Lets keep walking, I think if we stall it might be bad news.”
6 seconds off, actually.