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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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Then there would have to be a motive, don't you think?

That's a great deal of effort and power to use just for a distraction.

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maybe it was worth it for them. its not like im the smart or detective type you know.

its just my gut that says this is someones work

i cant give reliable reasons or clues that point to it being that way.

[ He did admit to probably not being the 'book type' when they had first met. Somehow Shizuo demoted himself even further. ]

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Intuition can be based on subconscious hints!

Of course, it can also be based on bad assumptions, which is why it's important to question a gut feeling before you act.

[Not that it's necessarily bad to be honest about your strengths, of course.]

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yeah well thats the best i can explain it

it just doesnt seem right if its random through natural or accidental means. between that and other shit before it happened

[ Strength is something else- he's just honest about his weaknesses. Though Hakkai probably has the best experience with Shizuo's intuition-based assumptions. ]

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The timing alone makes me think it isn't accidental. Considering past events.

["Something strange just when new arrivals appear," after all....]

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yeah. after i arrived it seems like theres always something followed by dead bodies whenever new people show up

[ Which turns out to be the case this time as well. It's why he had tried warning some of the new arrivals during Tanabata. ]

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They don't all come with dead bodies, but enough of them have, yes.

[bartenderizing]

seems like its been all of them. thats probably the timing of when i showed up more than anything else

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From what I hear, Tanabata was fairly quiet, although I stayed in that day.

[bartenderizing]

quiet but a festival is busy as it is isnt it? i heard there were 2 more bodies found not too long after everything was cleaned up

[ Which he knows about mostly because he's been paranoid that this would hit someone he knew. Like Yona. ]

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But those bodies weren't at the festival grounds, were they?

[Murder is one thing -- and those murders, from what he's heard so far, have been rather individual and selective.

They're not widespread ayakashi releases, or shambling corpses. Which makes him consider the festival a quiet time by comparison.]

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the ones that were found the day of the festival were at a park. more were found a few days later at another park

[ And then the ones that were found out about today. ]

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I have to say, it doesn't sound like the sort of thing that's usually associated with arrivals. Unless they were ritually sacrificed?

[bartenderizing]

no clue

maybe because its just that busy or something

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Did you see the bodies?

[bartenderizing]

just the ones that showed up the day of the festival

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Would you mind describing them for me sometime? Not here, but I'm sure I'll see you near the school.

[He knows where all those abandoned temples he marked are, after all, and he can follow the sound of crashing, yelling and gunfire.]

[bartenderizing]

sure? its been a while so i dont know how much it will help

[ Though the not-so-subtle hint of 'please stop by the school sometime relatively soon' was received. ]

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Well, it can't hurt. Thank you.

[bartenderizing]

what times are best?

[ He knows that it's not reasonable to just drop by to pass on this information, or whatever else Hakkai wanted to know. There are classes the guy runs. ]

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Tuesday or Thursday afternoons. Text me first?

[bartenderizing]

sure sounds fair enough

dont expect it tomorrow though. ive got something thatll probably take most of the day

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Certainly.

[He's tempted to ask... but no, maybe later. Not, in any case, on the network.]