video; Ishtar, March 13th

[trustheart]

[The video feed is a first person view of a bunch of purple stuffed goats, mounted on wheeled platforms, chasing after someone who's running. Some of them have ribbons around their necks, some of them has attachments connected to their platforms for a variety of jobs. For those that know of them, they'd be recognizable as Hibiki's spy goats.

The camera moves to show Chris's face, who looks both winded and angry as she shouts at her device.]

THEY'VE BEEN AFTER ME ALL DAY! SOMEONE SEND HELP!

SHIKYOIN, DON'T THINK I KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

Comments

[reloves]

Wow! I didn't know you had that sort of talent at all!

[ Apparently she just misses the part where it's what the goats think and not an objective fact just yet.. ]

Why are you running away from then then?! You should helping them!

[trustheart]

But there's tons of them! And I'm not talented! It was just a joke that one of them took seriously!

[reloves]

Nonsense, I bet you're actually good! [ Minako may or may not be on the same level of intelligence as those goats, apparently. She sure seems just as willing to believe it. ]

Do you need me to come over and help you out? I can make sure they all patiently wait for their turn while you help them get fashionable one by one!

[trustheart]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I'm not sure Shikyoin wants me messing with her stuff more than I already have...

[reloves]

[ GASP. ]

You messed with Hibiki's things?! [ How could anyone ever want to do that!! ] Why?!

[trustheart]

... I was trying to annoy her. Look, I already know how immature it was.

[reloves]

Well, as long as you know... [ Then Minako won't lecture Chris. It's not like she's very strict or anything, and she does have a soft spot for people admitting they were wrong. ]

Why were you trying to annoy her in the first place? Did something happen between the two of you?

[ Inserting herself into other people's business without even batting an eyelash. ]

[trustheart]

She and I didn't get off on the right foot, argued over stupid shit a couple times, and I just decided to be really childish. I'm not proud of it and I wanna fix it.

[reloves]

Aw.. You definitely have your heart in the right place!

[ She doesn't even mean it in a patronizing sort of way. Minako just seems genuinely happy to hear it as she says that, even though maybe she should've.. thought that rather than saying it. The downside of having no brain to mouth filter. ]

I'm sure she'll forgive you and make up with you! Hibiki's heart is so big..!

[trustheart]

... You'd... you'd know better than I would, I guess.

[Chris has gotten the opposite impression, but she doesn't wanna make things worse and dig herself deeper.]

Either way, I think she'd prefer it if they got sent back as is.

[reloves]

[ Well, Minako thinks Hibiki might actually appreciate getting more fabulous goats than before.. But at the same time she can't be sure since she's never seen Hibiki talk about her goats before. Maybe she likes them as they are now! ]

Then it's easy, right? If they're following you around, all you have to do is go to where Hibiki is and they'll be back with her, safe and sound!

[trustheart]

[Her reply comes back a bit delayed.]

... Actually, a friend of mine managed to convince most of them to head back, and I... sent the rest back on my own.

So no biggy in the end, I guess.

[reloves]

See! It's just like they always say, "it's no use crying over spilled goats!"

[ ... She may not have gotten that one entirely right. ]

[trustheart]

... I am 100 % certain that no one in the history of reality, time, space, and the multiverse has ever said that, Minako.

[reloves]

What? Of course they've said that!

[ In Minako's wild imagination land, that is. She seems so fully convinced of it too as she says it. ]

How would you know they haven't?

[trustheart]

I know because no one has ever spilled a goat!

[reloves]

Then what if you were carrying a lot of goats in your arms and accidentally dropped one? Would that not be "spilling a goat"?

[trustheart]

No.

That'd be dropping a goat.

Also how would I be carrying a bunch of goats?!

[reloves]

With the power of love, of course!

[ Without even missing a beat. Like this answer is 100% both natural and logical. ]

[trustheart]

... why would I be tapping into the power of love for goats?

[reloves]

Because the power of love can help you do anything!

[ Hey, it's kind of true where Minako comes from, even if she doesn't realise that since she can't remember.. ]

Just try it next time you're doing something! Do it with the power of love, and it'll go amazingly for sure!

[trustheart]

... Minako, this is going to sound like a weird question, but. Do you have a girlfriend, and do you have a weird preoccupation with holding people's hands?

[reloves]

[ There's a good few seconds of silence, where Minako just stares.

Then-- ]

C.. Chris.. Are you asking me out?!

[trustheart]

... What?! Hell no!

I'm trying to make sure you're not a friend of mine from home with amnesia or in a disguise!

[reloves]

W.. W-What's with that "hell no"? Are you saying there's something wrong with me?! Aren't I a super pretty and charming girl?!

[ Totally missing the point. ]