Our Reality (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Cultural Festival Part 3

"How should we go about finding the others?" Yuri asked.

"Well..." Shujinkou took a moment to remember what the girls' plans for today were. "Considering that Sayori has a lot of places to eat at and Monika was acting weird about her class's event, it would probably be best to look for Natsuki first. She should be at Carnival Games."

Yuri silently nodded her head in agreement and followed Shujinkou to the school's entrance. He opened the doors and the two were greeted with an assortment of carnival games. Ball and Bucket Toss, Whac-A-Mole, Fishing; there was almost every game imaginable available for students to play. But even though there were many fun activities to play outside, the Carnival Games section of the school was almost completely empty.

"Where is everyone?" Shujinkou wondered aloud.

"Perhaps there is an event somewhere else in the school that is stealing attention away from here," Yuri suggested.

"Maybe," Shujinkou replied, wondering what kind of event could make the Carnival Games section of the festival to resemble a ghost town. "I wonder if that means Natsuki is no longer around."

Suddenly, the two heard very familiar sounding cry of anger and cautiously followed it to its source. They turned around a corner and found an enraged Natsuki aim an assault rifle at a small target among a series of larger targets. She pulled the trigger and watched a small metallic pellet fly past her intended target, causing even more anger to build up inside her.

"Maybe its best not to approach her right now," Shujinkou nervously thought, staring at the rifle she was holding. He then noticed that Natsuki wasn't the only one that was annoyed; the student managing the game looked as if he was running out of patience.

"Can't you just aim for one of the easier targets?" he complained.

"Stop trying to rush me!" Natsuki snapped. "It's messing up my aim!"

"But you're going to make me miss the big event," the operator sighed.

Shujinkou wondered what the student was referring to when he mentioned the "big event", but just like yesterday, he didn't have much time to think as his train of thought was interrupted by another one of Natsuki's anger-induced cries. Curious to why she's had no luck shooting down the target she wanted, Shujinkou quietly walked closer to Natsuki and watched her fail to hit the target once more.

"That's it!" Shujinkou said aloud.

Natsuki immediately turned around and was surprised to find Shujinkou and Yuri standing behind her.

"What are you guys doing here?" she asked, lowering her rifle.

"We were just looking for you," Shujinkou replied, keeping his eyes trained the rifle. He knew that if he made her mad now, it would not end well for him.

"What for? You got nothing better to do?" Natsuki replied.

"What makes you say that?" Shujinkou asked.

"Your face just screams 'I have no idea what I should do,'" Natsuki pointed out.

At that very moment, two questions made an entrance inside Shujinkou head. #1: Did his face really give away the fact that he had no idea what to do and #2: Why was she only making an observation regarding him? In the end, he decided it was better not dwell on those two questions and move on.

"So how are you doing on this game?" Shujinkou asked.

"F-Fine!" Natsuki quickly stuttered. "I just need people to stop rushing me so I can win."

"Face it. You just suck," the operator said, very annoyed that he's being held up. Shujinkou expected Natsuki to snap at that blunt comment but, to his absolute surprise, she instead stared at her gun wearing an expression that mixed frustration and disappointment into one.