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[seeinside]

Gooooood evening! Is this the private inbox of Maruki-kun?

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[placation]

You've reached Dr. Takuto Maruki, PsiD. I'm currently away from my phone, likely cooking for a handful of ingrate housemates (not you, Kurusu-kun.) Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

[ He typed it all out and hit send himself. He's just fucking with the good doctor.

WHAT DID AKECHI SIGN HIM UP FOR. ]

[seeinside]

[ Since when did texting have AIM away messages voicemail? Might just be a thing this place has, who knows. Anyway! ]

Sorry to have caught you at a bad time! To keep this brief, I've begun running tests on the effectiveness of the medicines offered in Stellari and Somnius but only have my own altered youkai body as reference. So, I'm recruiting humans to help test them with me!

[placation]

Ah, I'm here, Takahashi-san! Sorry about that, old habits from counseling die hard...

So you're looking for guinea pigs, huh.

[seeinside]

Exactly!

Akechi-kun gave me your name in a list of people who would be likely to help out.

[placation]

How helpful of him! That's great to hear. Isn't he a pleasant boy?

[ Brat. ]

But I don't really need any medicine right now... there's nothing wrong with me, as far as I can tell. So it wouldn't have any effect, right?

[seeinside]

If the medicine meant to treat symptoms works as intended, yes. Which we don't yet know if they do.

There are also many other kinds of medicines: stimulants, tranquilizers, expectorants, diuretics, emetics, just to name a few...

Oh! And the necessary symptoms to test painkillers are easy enough to create ourselves.

[placation]

[ HOLD ON WAIT WHAT ]

Don't hurt me just to heal me, Takahashi-san! What sort of medical advice is that?

[seeinside]

If I can fix you right back up, what's the problem?

[placation]

What if you can't? I don't want to be encumbered in any way. This reality is too dangerous for that.

[seeinside]

I can fix bone fractures or lacerations just fine without any medicine involved.

Though you're right, something that dramatic would put you out for a little while...

[placation]

[ Oh–

Oh, wait. He got flustered and forgot his own capabilities. He might be stupid. ]

I suppose if worse comes to worse, I could just heal myself...

Let's back up, then. Tranquilizers!?

[seeinside]

[ How about we don't yet, because, ]

You can heal yourself, Maruki-kun? How??

[placation]

Ah...

It's difficult to explain. With the way things go in this reality, you'll inevitably find out for yourself, even if you're not the reason that I have to be healed. Things never stay calm for long, and I have a tendency to find myself in the fray.

Let's let it be a surprise!

[seeinside]

I do enjoy surprises, but you can't just dangle something like that in front of me and expect me not to bite!

If confidentiality is what has you worried, we can call it a proper examination and I won't tell a single soul. I swear on my license! Please, please can I see??

[placation]

No, my concern isn't confidentiality... At this point, my abilities are an open secret here. I appreciate it, though!

Actually, that's a good point. You didn't notice anything odd when you examined me before?

[seeinside]

Then why be so shy about it?

Not at all! I looked everywhere I could, too, and you only read as a statistically average human being.

[placation]

Well, that's a relief, at least...

I'm not shy about it. [ A lie. ] It's just not something I bring out when I don't have reason to. [ Also a lie. ] For the time being, will a photo suffice? I promise that if I ever need to be healed or to fight around you, it will appear very quickly.

[seeinside]

For the time being, I suppose.

I don't like getting into fights, but something to look forward to might keep my morale up if things do end up coming to that.

[placation]

[ THAT'S SUCH A WEIRD RESPONSE? HELLO?

Oh, don't be weird about this...

Well. Whatever. Maruki needs five or ten minutes to go through his camera roll. Surely he has at least a few photos of–

Ah. Yep. There it is. A photo of Azathoth out in the middle of an expansive snowfield on the farm, Omori amidst its many tentacles, building his snowballs.

Sent! ]

[seeinside]

[ Oh hey, he knows that little gu--OH!

OH!!!

What a strange and fascinating creature!! Its lustrous center seems so small and vulnerable compared to the myriad of tentacles expanding off it from nowhere and into nowhere, and yet somehow it exudes this aura of magnificence, of power, like an otherworldly cousin of a sea angel given life on land! ]

Maruki-kun, they're beautiful!! I can't believe you want to keep such an incredible specimen of anatomy away from me!

[ MUKI HE NEEDS TO SEE THIS IN PERSON??? ]

[placation]

[ He should have expected a youkai to be nonplussed by INNUMERABLE CLAW-HANDED TENTACLES, but that level of enthusiasm is...

Hm.

Akira really is a strange one. ]

No one has ever called Azathoth beautiful before...

Oh, no. Now you're really going to hurt me to get me to summon it, aren't you?

[seeinside]

Azathoth? What a charming name!

I don't want to hurt you but I do want to see it! I want to see it so badly!! What it's like in motion, its reflexes, its musculature, how dexterous and durable its claws are, the process in which it heals! Oh I know it's truly something to behold!

[placation]

[ .......... !?!?!? ]

Takahashi-san, it sounds like you want to examine Azathoth even more than you want to examine me.

[seeinside]

Don't get me wrong, I'd love nothing more than to examine you both! If I had all my eyes it would be no problem at all, but now...

Maruki-kun! Please keep speaking with me so I can work towards getting them back!! I want to give you and Azathoth the attention you deserve! I won't accept anything less!