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[maidhem]

OHMIGOODDDDDD I THINK I BROKE HIM!!!!!!!

[Attached to the sudden message to the network late at night is a photo of Kei Shiragaki underneath a massive pile of boxes that had toppled over at a storage unit somewhere in the middle of town.

Felicia, panicked, did the first thing that came to mind:

Post to Retrospec.]

I swear to god if this is that doll I'm going to scream. Maybe it really was cursed. Maybe we shouldn't have tried to take it from it's lair...
[Following this is more rambling, babbling text message that string together into something nonsensical. Someone, help this girl.]

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[maidhem]

....No, we didn't.

[Felicia said after a lengthy silence, looking between the two men and the pile of boxes.]

That's the other reason I reached out on Retrospec. We might need an exorcist if we can't find it.

[adoringpast]

Exorcist?

[ THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND?! and he's staring at y'all with an incredulous look on his face ]

You can't be serious. Even if we can find someone like that, the stupid doll might've walked away by now because of you guys dawdling about.

[livingimpaired]

I'm an exorcist.

[ A long pause. ]

In my past life. I have no idea how to do it now. [ A muffled chuckle. ] There's no reason to get so panicked. I'm certain that we're all well and cursed now anyway, so there's nothing to particularly worry about now that it's already happened, is that not so?

[angealwings]

I don't have much experience with curses. Or exorcisms. [ Boxes, Sena! Talk and work at the same time. ]

But I do know that attacking during a rescue operation is far too standard a tactic to assume that easily that we have nothing to worry about.

[ Army. ]

[maidhem]

It's okay! I've got your back.

[Suddenly, Felicia whipped out a pair of knives to show to the men, a proud smile on her face.]

There's also a pair of shuriken where those came from!

[adoringpast]

[ right, listening and working at the same time while throwing weird looks at the three. though he did almost lose his grip on his end of another box when felicia brought out a couple of knives just like that. ]

Wh-- Don't just whip them out like that?! I thought only Kei-san was the only one affected, but apparently the rest of you had hit their head pretty hard on something because I cannot believe you are all deluded enough to just accept this curse like it's no big deal.

[ tfw you're the only one in the group who has no special abilities... again. terrific. at least kei's slowly being unboxed as he whined. ]

But whatever. You guys have fun breaking the stupid curse, because I'm going as soon as Kei-san's free. I'm not going along with this any further.

[livingimpaired]

[ Muffled: ]

I already said that it isn't like anything can be done. [ A beat. ] But I do also appreciate people are willing to accept a curse rather than I simply make an error in which box I grabbed.

[ There may be some muffled chuckling under the boxes. ] Hm? Though, I am going to ask that no knives be around Mizuki Sena. As his uncle, I'm a little wary of it.

[ And finally: ] Ah, I'm starting to see some light. That's a positive. I was starting to think I was simply supposed to get used to being in a makeshift tomb.

[angealwings]

Yeah, after last month, I'd say discounting the possibility might be unwise. As would be discounting the possibility that it was the wrong box that was grabbed. Or, [ yeah, looking at Sena here, he'll remember what he means, ] a mild earthquake at just the wrong moment.

Felicia, would you please put those away? If there is a curse going on, chances are that you will hurt yourself before anything that needs hurting.

[ Come on. Common sense and all? ]

Clear out of here first, all of us. Figure out what actually happened with people better equipped for it. How's that sound?

[ Technically, Andrew doesn't have any extra abilities, either. Nothing more than his strength and training. And experience. Not yet, at least. But he's damn well going to use those. ]

[maidhem]

I'm a professional with these, [Felicia explained, pouting some as she relented and slipped the knives back to safety.] But okay...

[A sigh. She didn't have much in the way of extra abilities compared to others; just a little ice and the skills of a professional ninja maid, but that wasn't nearly enough to prepare her for a doll's curse.]

It's either that doll or my Dad being a bigger hoarder than I thought. It's a little easier to blame the doll, though.

[She wouldn't blame Kei for this. It wasn't his fault, after all. It was her father's.]

What plans do you have, Mister Andrew?

[adoringpast]

[ just because she's a professional at it, it doesn't mean that she can just whip those out anytime? what the fuck.

sena's tuned himself out of the supernatural talk once more because it's still so hard to believe that a fucking doll would toss out curses like this, so he'd still insist that maybe it's just a really wild earthquake like what andrew said. but whatever, he's getting back to work until kei's finally unboxed, to which he's kneeling down to help his uncle sit up. ]

You break anything? Don't move so suddenly.