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First and foremost, we need to make sure that the baths are secure. I mean, you never know what kind of dastardly perverts could be poking around at this time of night, trying to sneak a peek at whoever's inside! 
... I mean, you know, besides Ogami and possibly Yoneda. I wouldn't put it past the decrepid old sunnuvagun. And in any case, it's not like whoever's in the bath area is going to SEE Ogami when he pokes his head i-
[Ogami]
K... Kanna!?
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[Ogami]
Dammit! Abort! Abo-
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[Ogami]
Curse you, libido! CURSE YOU!!
[Libido]
What? I didn't do anything, assface, that was all you.
[Ogami]
... y'know, I think this personification of my libido says something fairly frightening about how unstable my psyche is becoming.
[Libido]
Eh, I wouldn't sweat it too much. I mean, at least your conscience hasn't--
[Conscience - Good Half]
GO INTO THE BATHS! IT MIGHT HAVE HUGE GUTS, AND HUGE GUTS MEANS RI-
[Conscience - ??? Half]
(Glorp?)
[Conscience - Good Half]
SHUT UP, NANCY BOY! SHUT UP OR IT'LL BE THE PLATYPUS BUS SPORK TANK SQUEEBOoooohglbhfgsx.
[Ogami]
... huh, so THIS is what temporary insanity feels like.
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[Ogami]
Kanna... what're you doing?
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[Ogami]
I, uh, kind of have a hankering for potatoes now. Is that normal?
[Libido]
Whoops, sorry about that- some of your wiring's still messed up from all that physical abuse you've been takin' lately. I had to jury-rig some stuff down here.
[Ogami]
... so... my sex drive's been replaced with the munchies.
[Libido]
Look, it's the best I can do on short notice, alright? At least I fixed your waste-management systems so that they WON'T go haywire anytime you think of Kohra--
[Ogami]
GYAAAAAAH!!
[Libido]
... right then, I guess it's back to the drawing board.
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[Ogami]
B, but... why're you doing something like that in just a towel...
[Kanna]
You just don't get it, Captain. It tastes great when you chug it down in one gulp right when you come out of the bath.
Clad in a towel, with one hand to your hip!! And there's a lot of etiquette around drinking milk right after a bath.
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[Kanna]
See, Captain, it's an element of turning people on!
[Ogami]
... isn't it eighty or so years too early for that kind of stuff?
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[Ogami]
Ha, haah...
[Kanna]
That's right! Let's have a milk-chugging contest! Hey, how about it?
[Ogami]
Ah, aah... sure.
Yeah, talking with Kanna generally leaves you with the feeling that you've been run over by the conversation.
[Kanna]
Alright, here we go!!
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>KANNA used GODAWFUL JOKE!
>OGAMI evaded the attack!
>OGAMI used MILK DRINK!
>OGAMI stockpiled 1!
>KANNA used GODAWFUL JOKE!
>OGAMI evaded the attack!
>OGAMI used MILK DRINK!
>OGAMI stockpiled 2!
>KANNA used GODAWFUL JOKE!
>OGAMI laughed!
>It's super effective!
>OGAMI lost his MILK DRINK!
[Ogami]
DABBIT, KADDA, IT'S COBBING OUT BY DOSE!!
[Kanna]
The battlefield is an unforgiving sunnovabitch, Captain!
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[Ogami]
A'right! How's that?!
[Kanna]
Bfwaaaah! Not bad, Captain!!
I didn't even think that I'd ever lost at this before.
[Ogami]
Hahahahaha.... though you can't really say that I've just gotten out of the bath.
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[Kanna]
Well, we can change that easi--
[Ogami]
No picking me up and slam-dunking me into the bath, Kanna.
[Kanna]
Aw, c'mon, it won't break ALL your bones! Just the piddly and unimportant ones! Remember the LAST time I did this to you?
[Ogami]
Kanna, my spine and three ribs are NOT 'piddly and unimportant.'
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[Kanna]
Yeah, that's true, ain't it? Ahahahahaha!
Now then... guess I'd better get changed.
[Ogami]
Yeah... I should probably get going, too.
[Kanna]
... er, y'know. You DID kinda catch me in the middle of changing...
[Ogami]
Ah, that's right! Sorry, I'll get out now!!
[Ogami]
Maybe it's because she drinks all that milk... that she's so fine...
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[Ogami]
...
[Ogami]
I-it's just not the same. I can't think of anything but chicken pot pie with a side order of coleslaw.
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[Ogami]
Er, no... that's...
[Kanna]
Right then... I'm on my way out. Seeya, Captain.
Sponsored by the Global Dairy Foods Association.
Well, that's that. As usual, Ogami's just wandering with no particular destination in mind.
... come to think of it, nine times out of ten, the nightly rounds must be the most boring activity in the world, ESPECIALLY during the time between chapters. I mean, the month between this chapter and the last, where absolutely nothing's been happening? Ogami was probably just peeking into empty rooms at random, or talking with everyone about last night's dinner, or about the day's activities...
And absolutely nothing important happens until one or two arbitrary days in the month, when all of a sudden, new pilots are popping out of the woodwork, demons are tearing down the Imperial Capital, and suddenly everyone's bustling and talking about their own personal lives and building their characters.
In any case, let's get back to Ogami's peeking into the costume room.
[Ogami]
Ah... it's Sumire-kun.
[Ogami]
Good work on today's performance. This month's production is "Cinderella," I see.
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[Sumire]
Yes, Ensign, I'm impressed that you remembered. It's not as if we've been doing it every day for the past couple of weeks, after all.
[Ogami]
.....
[Ogami]
Actually, it was a lucky guess.
[Sumire]
... Ensign, you really MUST learn pattern recognition one of these days.
[Ogami]
That's funny, that's the same thing Kohran says every time I walk into her room.
[Sumire]
... there isn't very much furniture left in that mind of yours, I see.
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[Ogami]
I see...
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[Ogami]
Sumire. You've gotta help me. I've been gastronomically emasculated.
[Sumire]
...
[Ogami]
... I just killed the mood, didn't I.
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(Thirty awkward, silence-filled seconds later.)
[Sumire]
The spell cast on Cinderella disappears at midnight- would you happen to know why that is?
"Because that's how the story is" and "That's just the way magic is."
[Ogami]
That's just the way magic is. A promise that could disappear at any time... that's magic.
[Sumire]
Something like magic that disappears at midnight is nothing more than a deception, after all.
I couldn't imagine having any desire for such magic.
[Ogami]
I see... that sounds like you, Sumire-kun.
[Ogami]
... real "magic"?
[Sumire]
.......
[Sumire]
..... I shall leave it at that. It would be uncouth of me to put it in words.
[Sumire]
Now then, I shall have to excuse myself here.
[Ogami]
Hmmm... somehow, it turned into a fairly difficult conversation...
... and that's all the time I have tonight. Sorry, guys.
NEXT TIME: ... ???
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