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All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 42

Iconic lines.

This is a subject we’ve already touched upon in our ongoing lecture series, “Learn Anime With Hachiman-sensei,” coming soon to an educational channel near you. Still, while the matter at hand was treated with all the exhaustive seriousness this well-loved series is known for, there was a facet left unexplored in the original lecture.

That is, what is the effect of an iconic line?

Of course, upon the audience, that effect need not be elaborated ...

Wake-up Call – Chapter 43

Gunshot wound perforating left triceps. Profuse bleeding. Brachial artery damaged. Blood loss from major artery likely to become lethal in—

“Tay! Tay, stay with me!”

Her eyes are closed, her face a mask of silent pain as she lies on my wooden floor, the pool of blood spreading—

Lethality of blood loss—

I take off my shirt in a hurry and go to apply pressure on the wound like every first aid guide will tell you to do, except the gu...

Self Insert of the Dead – Chapter 7 – Saya’s Not That Kind of Zombie

Going back to the police sniper’s stash for an eventual terrorist attack—

‘I’m pretty sure that’s not what all those weapons are for, Lee.’

I’m American, Takashi. Everybody’s a terrorist until proven otherwise.

‘Don’t you mean innocent—’

Oh, sweet summer child…

Anyway, going back to the eventual mass shooting location while holding Saeko’s hand is the kind of thing a younger me couldn’t have dreamed about...

June 13th to 19th Schedule

So…

I fucked up.

One of my most unpleasant traits, and one that I’d hoped to spare all of you from, is that, when I feel down, I’ve got a certain tendency to look for ways for the world to “punish” me. It’s not a masochistic thing, just… feeling like I don’t deserve good things and making sure I don’t get them. I will retract from social interaction, purposefully say the wrong thing, delay on my projects, do things at the very last minute after losing ...

All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! – Yui’s Lily Garden – Chapter 6

Meat and potatoes, and a salad.

Mama has never been that good of a cook, other than a few select dishes she likes enough to have perfected over the years, but nobody can screw up meat and potatoes.

Yukinon seems to agree, going by how she’s systematically and silently demolishing her own plate.

That, or she’s still too embarrassed to talk, which would explain why she isn’t meeting anyone’s eyes. Not even Sable, and he’s tried to pull his usual �...

All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 41 – Rematch: Round 2

I am in Hell.

“This… This offendsme on a deep, personal level,” Haruno says, vaguely pointing at the TV with a wide, sweeping gesture that…

That makes her naked breasts bounce.

It’s… very eye-catching.

“You’re the one who chose the channel,” I remind her.

“I thought it would be interesting to see what it is you modern types go for in competition, but… this.”

This, the thing her disgusted face sne...

Periodical Cicadas – Chapter 7

Emma’s living room is silent, her whole family staring at me in a way that I doubt I would have been comfortable with even before I stopped visiting—

They are silent. Let’s leave it at that.

Which, given Noah’s here, it seems like a small miracle.

Of course, going by the way the resident motormouth is currently vibrating as he alternatively stares at the disfigured, bleeding man lying on top of a sofa covered by a transparent, blood-stained plastic sheet t...

Wake-up Call – Chapter 42

Taylor ran me a bath. Just as she promised.

What she did not say was that she wouldn’t get in with me.

Which may have accounted for me being sulky after about half an hour of hopefully soaking in warm water and mountains of bubbles, looking at the door and expecting it to open at any moment with a naked Taylor coming in.

…

She was picking out movies.

Half. An hour.

Just… Picking movies.

Because she wanted us to cuddle on the ...

Self Insert of the Dead – Chapter 6 – Occasionally, We Should Remember the World’s Gone to Hell

Author’s note: Warning. Some of you know I can get… creative when it comes to horror. And this is a zombie story. Just… make sure you’re in the right mood to read it.

And please don’t blame me for any inadvertent trauma. I can’t afford the legal fees.

Hiro – 1 – Dawn of the Dead

Joining the survival club in college had been mostly a joke, maybe a way to have an excuse to go out...

June 6th to 12th Schedule

All right, I think calling the past week an utter mess won’t be a surprise to anyone bothering to crosscheck what I post with what I say I’ll post. This time around, I’m sorry to say I’ve got no excuses, I’ve just been feeling particularly… unproductive. Batman stalled me a lot as I kept second-guessing what I’d already written and the tone, because, apparently, I’ve gotten so used to writing in the first person and present tense that writing a traditional, omniscie...

April Seventeenth – Chapter 3 – Bruce 2

The Batman existed as a paradoxical being. He was a man devoted to keeping order, to suppressing those parts of society that should never flourish in a lawful, functioning world, yet, at the same time, most of his life was spent in the middle of those anomalies and aberrations. Bruce Wayne lived in chaos to preserve order.

Except that wasn’t quite true, because, even as most of his time was devoted to the latest menace, the latest peril to threaten his loved ones, Gotham, t...

All Right! Fine! I’ll Take You! – Yui’s Lily Garden – Chapter 5

“Yui, I’m ho—home?” Mama asks, keys still in her hands, the door to our apartment open behind her, her long, pink skirt slowly settling down after her last step.

And she just stands there, staring at Yukinon and me kneeling on the wooden floor between the entrance and the side of our pastel green sofa, rolling Sable to one another, the silly dog thoroughly enjoying all the attention even if we’re basically using him as a substitute for a ball.

Not that he has ...

All Right! Fine! I Will Take You! – Chapter 40 – Rematch: Round 1

“I’m… I don’t have anythinghere to prepare; this is just unfair!” Iroha complains as she paces barefooted inside my bathroom while I try to chase her, hairbrush in hand, wondering how she keeps dodging me in the enclosed space.

At least she’s somewhat dressed in Hachi’s undershirt and her panties; the last thing my already stretched thin sanity needs is to be watching her pert derriere bounce around while I hold a hairbrush. Really, I don’t want to go...

June’s Poll Results

Well, to no one’s surprise, Konosuba won by a landslide the Plot Bunny Poll (I’m tempted to just give it a monthly slot so that the poll actually does something, let’s see how much work I can get done). As to the other poll… Yeah, this one’s been a surprise.

For the first time in a long, long while, Wordsworth hasn’t won any monthly poll. Which, on the one hand, weirds me out, but on the other, it lets me think a bit more about the next few chapters witho...

Wake-up Call – Chapter 41 – Armed and Mastered – Epilogue – A Hoard Is Treasured

They look so cute together…

I shift my attention to do a quick check of my alarm systems. The Birdcage is operating as usual, the enforced order of Teacher’s and Lustrum’s regimes maintaining the casualties lower than they were before they arrived, even if for entirely different reasons (and I hate every second of it, every instant I’m aware of this atrocity I’m forced to be complicit with, every cycle of my processing power wasted on evil when I could be doing good...