Wait. Did she dream that entire interaction up?

"I'm glad you didn't die... I would have missed you."

"Huh... That's the girl you mentioned before, right? The one you said needed a special... Tea?" That was close, right?

"But dying means you got hurt! And it must have been really scary!"

"You do!? That's amazing!"

Casually admiring the girl with the pretty purple hair.

//coming back just so Kyoko can fawn over a pretty girl is such a me move

"Have you seen her? Oh gosh, what if she's actually a princess?"

"A girl with really pretty purple hair. She looks so pretty and dignified. Like a princess!"

That girl looks just like a princess!

POINTING in Japanese. "Oh my god! It's been too long! How have you been?"

GASP-

{♡} *nerdy snort while pushing up glasses* 🤓☝️ Um actually those would be graphic novels-

{♡} I swear if I suddenly see a precure muse with your tag on it-

{♡} My school had a fantastic contest once. I submitted a princess tutu thing I did. It lost to a stick figure holding a knife that said Dexter on the bottom.

{♡} IM SEEING MY CHILDHOOD LEFT AND RIGHT ALL OF A SUDDEN AND YOURE INVOLVED EVERY TIME

{♡} I'm just going to have to fight charms at this point

{♡} Guess Sanzo is stuck with a chaotic monkey all by himself

{♡} ooooh someone wants to make a Gojyo and Hakkai so bad oooohhh

{♡} What kind of Goku would I be if this wasn't my first in character post

{♡} You didn't see that

{♡} I gotta finish his pinned and follow people. UMMMM go love on @bornfromstone.bsky.social because he's just a little guy. But first!

{♡} I'm just imagining Charms sitting there grinning evilly like "one of us one of us one of us"

{♡} Vain stop making accounts challenge

{♡} I lost to peer pressure again

{♡} Guess i found someone to scream about Saiyuki with

{♡} Me: i have enough accounts now Me: sees a sanzo Me: staring longingly at my old goku account from twitter

Did her expression give him hope? The people she interacted with at LME would have said something different. Sawara, for instance, thought she looked like someone who had already given up on love whereas President Lory would have said she was missing the fundamental emotion. But her tragedies +

It took all she had not to spew out her own pessimistic views on love despite being the kind to enjoy watching others experience it. Especially after seeing his expression. "I don't see why not," she managed after a moment. "There are many people who want to be loved." +

She gets to dress up today!

"Well..." She trailed, thinking on her knowledge of childhood stories, "usually curses go away with either true love's kiss or by learning a specific lesson in the stories... Maybe it's something similar to that?"

"I see..." So many people were cursed... By a land of tragedy? That sounded less like a fairytale than she initially thought. "There's got to be some way to break the curse, right? There's always a way in the stories."

"What do you mean?"

A crazy long story? A cursed spring? This sounded serious. Without hesitation, she sat down, prepared for the harrowing tale of his curse.

As soon as he mentioned asking about the curse, her eyes lit up. She had been curious about it, there just hadn't been a good time to question it so far. But now it seemed she was free to ask anything! "So how does it work? Did a witch curse you? Is it like one of those true love's kiss type +

She fidgeted the whole time he held Corn, her expression shifting to one of alarm briefly when he talked about putting some kind of spell on it. But, once he explained it and handed the stone back, she relaxed, her gaze softening as she looked down at it once more. Corn always protected her... +

But I didn't murder anyone!

I can't believe I'm being framed for murder.

Like hell it is!

Wait! Her prints aren't even on the sword!

She didn't even do anything!

W-wait! They can talk about this!

WHY IS HE CHASING HER? IS IT SO SHE WON'T REPORT THE MURDER?