[Hanako] Chapter 10: Work Plans

[Throndir]

The collar activated, as the electricity triggered. The pain was excruciating. Aldric followed up, grabbing on to your collar, and pulling you closer to his face.

"Do not do that again." He said in a threatening voice. He let go roughly a moment later, and turned back towards Alwin.

"Unfortunately, with how the contract is... I'll have to wait until it's dried... How much longer will you be staying here in Elstergen?"

"I was planning to leave tonight, after this meeting actually... But I suppose I can wait til tomorrow." Alwin sighed.

"I'll send a courier to send it to you tomorrow morning." Aldric suggested, to which Alwin nodded.



Soon enough, with the business completed, Alwin along with the rest of his guards left the estate, making their way back towards the city. Once it was confirmed he was gone. Aldric got on his knees, in something similar to a dogeza bow, and bowed towards you.

[Asta]

Hanako was in the middle of taking off her collar when Aldric started prostrating himself before her. "Hey hey, get up! You did exactly what you were supposed to do. I should have thought about it and showed you how to forge Klein's signature before we had the meeting."

She chuckled a little. "Good thing we served tea, right?"

She went around removing the collars from everyone else that had volunteered to have them put on, thanking each person as she went.

"All in all though I'd say that was convincing. Plus we can look over the contract at our leisure now."

[Throndir]

Aldric eventually raised himself up, being a large fat man, he had trouble doing so, but with the aid of his fellow actors who were simply grinning at Aldric's actions, he eventually righted himself.

"Y-yes well... I wasn't entirely sure about you being a hero, to be perfectly honest, even though I was told about it before hand. Seeing you snap these collars back into life, and now, taking them off again like it was nothing though..." The fat man shook his head, and he grinned a moment later.

"Quick thinking about the tea though. But yes... All things considered, I think we did a pretty good job. But..." He turned towards Minette. "Minette, could you get me example of his signature?"

"... Yes..." Minette said slowly, then headed off.

Aldric swept his hand through his hair.

"You know... acting was so much easier when your life and others aren't on the line? Haha..."

[Asta]

"I can imagine." Hanako said. "It's been a departure from what I'm used to I can tell you that."

She went about mopping up the spilled tea and finding a place to spread out the papers so they would dry faster. "I'm pretty good at forging his name so if you need pointers on it I can show you."

There was still a lot of daylight left, so while Hanako waited to see what Aldric was going to do she thought about the list of things she needed to take care of as well. If he doesn't need help I should probably work on my own training I guess... Probably need to see what's coming up tomorrow too.

[Throndir]

Location: Herr Klein's Estate - Lobby
Date: Day 9 - 11 AM

"That would be useful... But let's see how far I get first!" He laughed. "I don't want to be taking up your precious time after all. The next time I'm needed is tomorrow though isn't it? I had Minette go over with me on the calendar..."

"Anyways, I'll be practicing the signature. It's not like I need to learn how to fire one of those 'firearms', so I'll focus on that. Do come by sometime with the plan for the meeting with the slaver though. As I was told, they usually come by early in the morning."

You have 4 hours of training left in the day. You could do Forced Training rules if you wanted. You could also spend time helping Klein learn. All other NPCs will continue to learn how to use Fire Arms, Carol will continue training others how to use the mana transfer magic.

[Asta]

"Sure, I'll come find you later." Hanako said, and decided now was as good a time as any to go down and do some shooting practice.

She made her way downstairs and joined anyone that was down at the range in working on her marksmanship.

Gonna do two sessions of expedited training on firearms:

Rolled 1d20+7 : 19 + 7, total 26

Rolled 1d20+7 : 3 + 7, total 10

When she was finished she sought out Minette for some financial advice on the upcoming meeting.

[Throndir]

Location: Herr Klein's Estate
Date: Day 9 - 3 PM

Trainings
Firearm Proficiency: 3/8

Location: Minette's Study
Date: Day 9 - 3 PM

"Hanako..." Minette said when you came into the door. There were times when Wendy was in here with her, or perhaps Aldric, or any of the other soldiers, but this time, Minette was alone. She seemed to have been looking over records, and was doing some record keeping and accounting work.

The accountant smiled softly, picked herself up, then casually wrapped her arms around your waist.

[Asta]

Affectionate as always. Hanako thought, wrapping an arm around Minette in return and then ruffling her hair.

"Hey, I dropped by to ask a few questions about the meeting tomorrow but it can wait. Let's hang out a bit first. How are things?" she said, with a smile. It was good to spend a little one-on-one time with her close friends that didn't have to deal with life threatening situations. Though the day was somewhat stressful, now that there was nothing going on the memory of that morning's intimate moments drifted up from the back of Hanako's subconscious and made her blush a little.

[Throndir]

"It's been going... well..." Minette said timidly.

"Since the meeting with the Flensberg official is done... I've been... thinking about this morning... With all of us... together." Minette smiled softly, as she thought about it. She continued to hold you close, and there was just a faint blush on her features. She had her hat off, it was lying on her table, and her ears, that looked like it was part of hair, twitched.

"That was... fun." Minette finally said.

[Asta]

"Yeah it was, we could probably do it more often if you'd like." Hanako said, not exactly without hidden motives. "I was just thinking about it myself..."

It was a rare occurrence to see Minette without her hat on and even more so to have ears up. Hanako couldn't help but feel compelled to let her hand drift slowly towards them as she ran her fingers through the girls silky white hair. Eventually it got to the point where she was simply playing with them the way you might with a cats.

"You know, these are kind of fluffy..." she said absentmindedly.

Crazy fluffy.

[Throndir]

"It... tickles a bit. But it feels nice." Minette said softly. The demihuman's blush wasn't nearly as much as Trudy's can be, but she felt relaxed. She took your hand then, and brought you over to one of the couches in the room, sitting herself down, she patted a spot next to her.

"Come sit with me..."

[Asta]

Hanako did as requested and sat down. Thinking about it, she realized this might have been the first time she had been alone in a room with Minette while they weren't working on something. As a result, Hanako couldn't keep from noticing the doll-like features of the girl next to her.

I don't think I noticed before how cute she was up close. she thought, not that she hadn't thought of her as cute before.

[Throndir]

She began to wrap her arms around you first in a gentle hug. Then after that you felt her start to dig her hands into your back.

"It's been over a week so far... Don't let the stress get to you..." She said said, continuing her gentle massage. "And..."

"If there's anything... you need... I'll be here too for you, along with Trudy."

[Asta]

Hanako relaxed into Minette's gentle kneading. She hadn't realized that the short visit from the official had left her feeling sort of tense, perhaps an after effect of shocking herself with the collar. Either way, the massage was quite welcome.

"Thanks, I don't really think I could have made any of this work without your help. You two have been a real source of stability in what's been kind of a crazy week. I think I really needed this morning." she said. "This is pretty great too."

Hanako gave a contented sigh and let her shoulders slacken even more.

"That feels good..."

[Throndir]

As she continued, Minette began to hum softly. She had a comforting voice as her humming went high and low. Finally, she stopped, then, still sitting behind you, she asked in a quieter voice than normal.

"Hanako... Have you... ever kissed anyone..?"