Mikio Seiji

( You hear her voice from beyond her grave. Where were you, son, when I needed you? )

BECAUSE I AM A MASSIVE FAILURE, HAVE A RECAP OF WHAT THE P!USERS SHOULD HAVE LEARNED FROM SEIJI.

THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN KNOWN TO ALL P-USERS SINCE PRE-KOZUEDUNGEON

He fidgets by the couch, tugging at the little finger of one hand with the other and shifting his weight from foot to foot uncomfortably. He had seemed a lot more confident in that place. Now there's too many people and not enough space and he's starting to wonder if this had been such a good idea after all.

The omgels are going after persona users exclusively and can sesne personae.

"T-they can sense it. The ghos- personae you use" He isn't used to using the correct term for them, and it is taking him a while to adjust to not trying to not be obvious. "They're going after you because of them. I think you can sense it too, sort of. But we- they can see more. Like those masks. And like if anyone has the potential to gain the power but won't yet." He smiles, weakly but almost earnestly as he allows himself to go briefly off topic and mock himself. "So really I kind of knew that I didn't share anything with Kojima-senpai."

They got lucky with Toru. They weren't aware who the p-users were until late may.

"Bu-but because they can see people who have the potential as well it's all kind of messy. Like-" He stuggles for an analogy and then nods. "Like if you're trying to listen to someone and there's a whole lost of noise. I think at first it was anyone they could find who had the potential that got thrown in. They didn't know who it really was." He counts off months on his fingers before nodding a third time. "It was in May...near the end of it I think. In May we got a list. A-and everyone on the list had the potential and I guess it wasn't just coincidence. I don't know where the list came from but I think it was from over here. If it was from...that side I didn't hear about it."

On the topic of Hikaru

"I just work there." He says, and refuses to say anything else about his boss. Fidget fidget fidget. "Or I did. I guess I might have got fired for not showing up."

Really, the omgels just want lego blocks.

"I think they're building something. Not- not just like building a house or something. Something huge. They said..." He seems almost comforted as he recalls the name. "They said it was called Millennium City, I think. It'd be a nice place, I think, where everyone would be protected and safe and happy if they were good and followed the rules. I don't know where they want to put it but probably on the whole world or something. That way the whole world'd be a nice place... I guess I don't know how it helps get anything built if people die."

once upon a time there was a little boy and his pet dog. they were best friends and always played together. they lived in a town called happytown where the only law they needed was that you always had to smile.

one day he went out to play with his dog. they had so much fun! then his dog was hit by a car. he cried and so they shot him.

his mother and father smiled at gunpoint all the way through the funeral.

the end.

i had to go get food for nee-chan again today. the shop person this time was acually nice about it. he even showed me how they kill them humanely.

they put them in a little bag and then lock them in a big freezer and wait. then they suffocate and freeze to death so they're dead and they're frozen so they don't rot or anything.

only sometimes they don't die and they wake up when they're being thawed and they're half frozen solid and that sounds bad.

but it doesn't seem like a bad way to die if that doesn't happen. you just sleep and it's calm and nice. better than being stabbed or something.

um

i was planning a trip back to the mainland for obon but, um...

my mother's grave isn't where I thought it was. but i'm sure i went to visit it there. and the hospital doesn't know anything either, they say nobody with the name mikio was ever treated there.

um.

maybe i was mistaken. it must have been a different hospital.

( Cut for ohnoetry )

i had a weird dream.

that i held hands with Kojima-senpai the prettiest girl.

and then her hand rotted because i touched her and there were needles in her eyes and she coughed up sewing pins and in between the coughing and the screaming and the crying she wouldn't stop asking why i was hurting her like that and i couldn't do anything to help because it'd just make her hurt worse if i did anything.

...i don't really feel closer to anybody.

um, i looked at books and on the internet and in newspapers and listenned to rumours and i think i found out where there might be ghosts in Iburi. i'm going to go look for them. does anyone else want to come with me? i thought a ghost hunt might be fun...

um, does anyone know where to get mice? the pet store's all out and my sister likes them... not-not albino ones preferably. those make her mad.

i guess she'd be okay with a gerbil but i heard a lot of them are really bad.

i don't want to be a problem for Nakanawa-senpai or Kojima-senpai. maybe i should switch the pencils with new ones...

umumum, you...don't have to read this if you don't want to. but if you do want to then that's okay, i don't mind. uncle said writing something like this might make me better at talking.

there's new gashapon machines at the department store, one's got the new set of cookiemon figures. i have the gingerbread man, muffinator and gumdrop slime twice if anyone wants them.

i should probably wait until i get paid to try it again, though. Anna-neesan'll be mad if i can't pay for her dinner.