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Posted: July 18
From: Li Tieguai

Good afternoon, everyone. Please excuse my change of name: this is Cho Hakkai.

I appear to have reappeared. Although I don't want to give undue hope to anyone who's recently lost a god or shinki, I'd like to announce that my classes will be continuing as usual.

To those who were living upstairs at the school the past few days, I expect you to help me clean up the mess. You know who you are.

[There are animal cracker crumbs everywhere.

And apart from that he's just not going to mention the events of last few days. At least he wasn't an actual child, but....]

Does anyone have an idea what might have caused it? I'm certain I felt something in the air for a few hours before it happened.

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[returnedfromtheline]

[HAKKAI-SAN you're back?! And back to normal?!]

I'll be there. As usual.

[(I'm not crying, idiot, jerk, dork)]

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[reformedsinner]

If you weren't I'd have to lecture Yato about looking out for your education!

I hope everything's back to normal for you too?

[He remembers a very small, distinctively bright blue-eyed boy going by Yaboku...]

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[kokuyoyo]

I hope you know that you disappearing made all our work seem pointless for a moment.

[yeah he's grouchy about that]

[....and fuck off about the animal crackers]

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[reformedsinner]

Since I'm no longer a shinki, it could be argued it's still pointless!

[He's helping.]

I have brooms set aside in the corridor for you and Ken when you have time.

[Voice]

[sonofson]

[Excuse the loud excited voice echoing from being too loud and too close to the mic]

Hakkai! You're really back?! Really, really back?

[There is pure delight over here. Should he go check the school for him? He's going to go check the school for him!]

That's great! I missed you and I know a lot of other people did too!

[Voice]

[reformedsinner]

Yes, I really am! I'm sorry to have worried you, Goten. You're welcome to come by the school for your classes, too, you know.

[And while the boy's there, he'll have to see if he can talk him into practicing some reading and writing as well. After his older admission, the preference for voice chat on the BBS reads a bit differently....]

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[toremainbehind]

Welcome back. You've caused a bit of a fuss while you were gone.

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[reformedsinner]

I've heard I missed quite a lot in those few days! Someone was destroying temples?

Text from Hestia

[small_reservations]

That explains a bit. Welcome back.

I hope you don't have any objections to me helping out with that cleaning. It was my shinki's fault, so it's kind of my responsibility.

jack because of course he will

[kokuyoyo]

[!!!!]

There's no need to do that. I don't want to trouble you.

[AXEL-SAMA, NO....]

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[reformedsinner]

Of course not. Although if you can help to convince him to do it, that might be more useful than helping to clean!

Thank you for the welcome. It's good to be back.

In a way.

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[fuuthewind]

[If there was a gentle breeze today its gone. The wind has gone incredibly still once the post is made public and a certain wind god is cursing his luck.]

It's good to see you again, Hakkai-sama!

[-Sama, Now that he's apparently a god? Or at least that is what the name change is implying. Still, despite Fuujin being absolutely livid by Hakkai's reappearance, Kaede is at least seems pleased to see him.]

It is good to hear you are well. Were you affected by the changes that happened as well?

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[reformedsinner]

Why, it's good to talk to you again, Kaede! I hope you've been well?

Please, there's no need to be so formal. I'm still the same person -- although I was affected for a few days. It all seems to have worn off.

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[erogappa]

[ He usually avoids the BBS, and for good reason. But after everything that's happened over the past few days, it's probably a good idea to check in with the community at large and see if there's anything big going on.

Or anyone he needs to talk to. ]

I couldn't find her.

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[reformedsinner]

She's been dead for years.

She was never

[-- it's funny how the text breaks off in the middle of a sentence like that, where his hand flinched on the send button, isn't it? Don't mind him.

He's just abruptly remembering a certain face, from a certain zombie attack, and having the awful realization that She was never here isn't the truth after all.

It'll be a few moments. He needs to sit down.]

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[glacierflower]

I hadn't known there was a school here, besides the training, sometimes. What do you teach there?

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[reformedsinner]

Personally, I teach remedial kanji and a few different levels of math. Our other regular teacher teaches reading and the English language.

We may be able to tutor other subjects on request, depending on our understanding.

[bartenderizing]

ya know a lot of shit happened when someone said you disappeared

i almost didnt realize who you were the other day. if so much wasnt the same idve thought you were just a relative or something

[ The closest he could get to explaining it, while not completely what he means, is that Hakkai had the same sick sense of humor. Whether that was humor or not was another story, but Shizuo wasn't exactly the investigating/analyzing type.

Hell, he barely remembers that he was going to tear Hakkai a new one for just that. No, wait, he shoots off a second text as he realized. ]

oh yeah

did you know that sharak was the type to use guns on people shes training?

[reformedsinner]

Some people change more than others as they mature! And then there's the fact that I'm no longer a shinki, of course.

My goodness, did she really use a gun on you? I did not know that.

[At the time. He currently has a better appreciation of Sanzo peculiarities... and, to be fair, he wouldn't have offered the warning either way.]

[misterfrumpyface]

I felt it as well, and yet I was unaffected. As for what may have caused it, I fear I haven't the slightest clue.

Welcome back.

[reformedsinner]

Thank you.

Sensing it didn't have an impact on who was affected, then.

I wonder if our locations at the time it took effect did? It must have been sometime during the night after the training session at Bishamon's temple.

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[mermaiding]

[To those who were living upstairs at the school the past few days... Oona huffs as she turns on the video (she's not going to bother with the tediousness of texting), looking petulant]

Cleaned up already! Did not make mess. [SHE'S NOT CLEANING UP A MESS SHE DIDN'T MAKE and that she can't just push off to someone else to clean instead.

She's also not aware that Hakkai = Gonou right now, oops. But aside from her hair being much, much longer and the addition of numerous scars, Oona still looks about the same... and sounds about that same]

Make others do it!

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[reformedsinner]

[She unquestionably looks the same, and her language skills are, although better, still not quite fluent. Hakkai hesitates for a moment before recording a video response for her. He's sitting in the meditation garden behind his temple, with greenery shifting in the wind behind him, and there's a small white dragon curled possessively around his neck.

His limiters are clasped on his ear, and, thanks to that, his face is almost identical to his younger, human one. All that's changed are a few worry lines around his eyes, shorter hair and a monocle.]

Don't worry, Oona. Chikusa is helping clean already.

From: Kairi; Video

[pure_radiantics]

Ah... welcome back.

[ She's surprised he's a god, but obviously he knows that. He remembers his time here, but also remembers his past? This is... strange. But she can't think too hard on what this could mean about her own past, of course. ]

Thank you... for taking up your classes again. [ Even as a god and not a shinki now. ] I'm sure many of us will appreciate it.

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[reformedsinner]

It's my pleasure. I enjoy teaching.

[Surprise, and a certain unsettled note, is obvious on her face, but he'd expect as much. For shinki, hearing this can't help but make them start to think about their own pasts.

He'll stick with text, himself, to avoid giving her any hints that might make her think of something dangerous.]

I hope you've been well, Kairi?

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[kagenonadeshiko]

hakkaisama could you bring me a class schedule please
what would you like for dinner
it will be done by the time you get home

[Ayumu thinks it's silly to talk to someone she lives with like this but she's trying to practice using her phone and isn't really sure what she's doing. But she needs something from the school and he's there so why not?]

[reformedsinner]

Yes, of course. Are you cooking? I'll leave the menu up to you.

[He'd been planning to make dinner after he got home from classes, but...]

Video - From Yoon

[handsome_genius]

I don't know who did it, but whoever it is will have to answer to me too!

[He is legitimately, honestly angry.]

I was there every day up until... [He counts on one hand.] three days ago! Keeping the place clean just like I told that Yuri woman I would.

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[reformedsinner]

Like you told Yuri?

Oh. You mean the school. Please, don't worry, they're already cleaning up.

[His god did help encourage him, but Chikusa's taking responsibility: it's fine, really....]

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[solaris9]

[ Since he doesn't know that there was a period when Hakkai wasn't around in-between his shinki and god times, Goku is kind of alarmed by this announcement of disappearing. ]

Hey Hakkai! It's me, Goku.

You disappeared?

I got small for a couple days...is that the same thing?

[ Maybe for Hakkai, he shrank until he didn't exist anymore for a while? Can that happen? ]

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[reformedsinner]

Hello, Goku! I got smaller for a few days myself. You met me when I'd just come back from disappearing, but unfortunately, I didn't have the time to tell everyone about it before all of that.

How are you feeling? Are you settling in well?

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[nailed_navigation]

It is good to see that you have returned, and will be resuming your teaching.

[reformedsinner]

Kazuma, hello. Thank you.

I'm glad to be back as well.

[Even for Kazuma, that message is extremely bland; Hakkai wonders how it must look to the older shinki to have new shinki return as gods.

Bizarre, he supposes.]

And thank you for all the assistance in getting my bearings as a shinki, for that matter; I will have to see if I can pass your advice on to my new shinki.

[smilingbullet]

<(｀^´)> You should tell people when you show up sooner（｀Δ´）！

[ Even though...he sort of knew once he remembered Hakkai, and realized that "Cho Gonou" was him... But he had worried and thought he might continue to not remember and stay as Gonou. ]

Anyway I'll come help clean a bit. Also, I owe you a meal.

[ Just. Don't talk about that whole thing about him being a kid, he's trying not to think about it at all since it might make him wonder about Things. ]

[reformedsinner]

Please forgive the delay! I've been indisposed.

[He's been seventeen. Which is, really, close enough.]

You don't owe me a meal, but I do have a short shopping list if you insist....