-Part 2

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But before addressing Kikka's ungodly screams that scarred a generation's worth of forest critters, we ought to dial back the clock for about... Five minutes.

Harui was still on her chair, waiting for her precious god tuna to bite her bait, endlessly flirting with Yukie who was off by her side.

Coincedentally, Midorin was also endlessly flirting with Nozomi, the latter of whom was busy going over their stock of wood for the campfire.

And of course, Satoru and Naoffy were off playing card games in the middle of the woods.

This all left Kikka to be by her lonesome self, silently scrolling on her phone from her seat around the table the old man had set.

She sighed.

"I'd kill for a Seven Star right now... Stupid forests and their love for catching on fire over the most miniscule of things... We should have at least brought Lucia-san!"

"Did you invite her?" Harui asked.

"I freaked out over how pretty she was and only made intangible sounds..."

"That's my girl."

"I'm nothing like you! I'll never get down to the level that makes me cry over how pretty a woman is!" Kikka declared.

Doing so would actually make her go down to the level where her nose explodes over a woman's beauty, but that's next arc.

"But... No one compared the two of you this time, Kikka-san." Yukie pointed out.

"Huh? Oh no... My mind immediately associated something she said with her saying I'm like her... T-that tanuki is living in my head rent free!"

The redhead leapt off her chair with a loud scream, her phone dropping on the grassy ground, but it wasn't that scream that called the boys over.

"Sounds like I got us a spacious place to live without worrying about the economy. Kishishishi!" Harui laughed.

"Don't be mean to Kikka-san, Harui. But... Bachi always wanted his own room." Yukie hummed.

Kikka fell to her knees, eyes glued to her phone.

"Oh no... Am I... Becoming more like the tanuki than I expected...? But how... I've always been so careful... IT CANNOT END LIKE- Huh?"

She finally focused on the notification she accidently clicked during her freak out.

"Uh-uhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

It was first a near monotone scream.

"UuhhhhhhAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Then the one that everybody in the vicinity heard.

Everybody dropped what they were doing and quickly surrounded Kikka, even the boys who ran out of the woods, one clearly closer to dying from exhaustion than the one.

"What the hell was that, Probie?! Did someone die?!" Harui asked.

"I... I might..." Naomitsu muttered between his gasping pants, leaning on Satoru and Nozomi to keep himself standing.

"Damn, your stamina really is a new tier off ass." Satoru laughed. "We came as soon as we heard, but it doesn't look like you have Fisher Tuner on the line."

"God, I wish it was that stupid fish!"

"Is everything alright, Kikka-san?" Yukie asked, putting a hand on Kikka's shoulder.

"T-t-t-t-the..." Kikka stuttered as she picked up her phone.

"What happened, Kikka?!" Nozomi asked.

"Come on, out with it, Kikka-chan!" Midorin exclaimed.

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