The day after the log...

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

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*Yuri -- and quite possibly anybody else in the apartments around the two -- will find themselves awoken by the most ungodly sounds of crashing and breaking things. Investigation quickly reveals the source in the apartment's kitchenette. The stove is broken, and the counter looks like a boulder crashed on it. And in the middle of it all, keeping his hands to himself? Kotetsu. Glowing blue like a bug zapper.*

...Hey, uh... what do you say we eat breakfast out today?

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*And so, sometime after this little disaster -- with a now normal Kotetsu -- he's in a diner somewhere in town, a cup of coffee and a rather greasy breakfast in front of him, looking at his hands.*

Ah... I think I'm remembering now. Geez, what a way to remember that...

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[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

*Pfft. Great. This tool again.*

Oi, at least I was doing things back there. You weren't lifting a damn finger until someone lit a match under your ass. What, did you want us to do all the work or something?

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

The word "timing" must not mean anything to you.

There had been simply no need for me to step in until necessary. Or did you want to be thought as incompetent?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

No need?! Does the phrase "teamwork" mean anything to you? You shouldn't damn well need ANY sorta timing to help!

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

That kind of recklessness is what gets people hurt.

*Oh, not that he cares.*

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

And how much, exactly, do you care about people getting hurt anyhow?

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

Hehe . . . Not at all, I admit. But you should consider what I said.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Tch.

*He's not going to deny the bastard has a point. But he's not about to admit it out loud.*

I still say you could've been a bit more help.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

There's nothing I can do about what's passed.

*Moving on.*

So? Did another sentimental memory decide to grace your head?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Heh. I think it's something even a heartless bastard like you could appreciate. I remembered I'm a NEXT.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

A next what?

*He's not an encyclopedia, Kotetsu.*

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

That's "Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents" to you. I got my Hundred Power back.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

Does "Callegea" mean anything to you, Kotetsu?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Calle-whatsit?

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

No, is it.

Then you're going to have to explain what the Hundred Power is.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Heh. Simply put, I can make myself a hundred times stronger for five minutes. Pretty damn sweet, huh? Would've been damn useful back at that office building.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

*Saleh takes a quick moment to think the newly obtained information over. A NEXT, huh.*

. . . Yet, you're just a Huma.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean "human?" Anyway, so what if I am?

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

Huma don't possess such powers by nature. Rather, it's the Gajuma that are born with "extraordinary talents," as you call them.

Understand?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Look, this is all Greek to me, so obviously that's just where you come from. NEXT are all human where I come from. A little more superpowered, but that's it.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

Isn't that interesting. Though five minutes of burst strength seem a bit limited, don't you think?

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

Hey, a lot can happen in five minutes.

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

Yes, like how being run over by a battering ram would take mere seconds.

[thekoistiger.livejournal.com]

You're a real pain in the ass, anybody ever tell you that?

[hystaria.livejournal.com]

*Not that he can recall, but if the way he'd arrived in Sirocco was any indication . . . *

I can surmise as much.