2026-04-16: A Couple of Lovable Headaches
- Log: 2026-04-16: A Couple of Lovable Headaches
- Cast: Kazusa Motojima, Pernelle, Yanagi Nagisa
- Where: Shimokitazawa - Peacock Silk
- OOC Date: April 16, 2026
- IC Date: October 26, 2012
- Summary: Kazusa, after much internal debate, visits Peacock Silk with much trepidation and excitement. She is flabbergasted to meet Pernelle and Yanagi as they are smashing capsule toys on the floor and filling the capsules with glitter for homemade glitter bombs to inflict upon the capsule machines of the city. Nonsense ensues.
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
Kazusa... doesn't really feel recovered from her experiences in the Cocoon. Sure, she's had a couple of weeks to rest and recuperate... but she also got plunged into the situation of 'less than a week until midterms and not having had a chance to study at all.'
She's also still discovering the multitude of things her other self did, and all the little ways that's made messes for her to figure out. She still doesn't quite remember everything...
... but she does remember Peacock Silk. Unfortunately.
But she's gotten some encouragement to visit again, and tired or not, she does need to keep moving forward, now that the emergency of studying for midterms has concluded.
Yep. Moving forward is very important.
Which is why, the first time she approached that side entrance she balked and decided to move forward to a cafe across the street instead to get some coffee. It's purely for the caffeine she needs to keep moving forward with, of course.
But finally she approaches again, reaching out for the door and slowly stepping inside. She's still in her Shujin school uniform, with long straight black hair, purple eyes, several silver bracelets on each wrist, and pink nail polish.
And she's looking around warily, her excitement to be visiting a high-end boutique dampened by being tossed out of said boutique once already.
<Pose Tracker> Pernelle has posed.
Peacocks, as it happens, do not have to worry about midterms.
Generally, they don't have to worry much about anything other than snacks and screaming at the sun. Unfortunately for the world, Pernelle, mascot of Peacock Silk, has the complexity of consciousness to require more stimulation.
Dozens of gachapon capsules are scattered across the floor of the boutique when Kazusa enters.
"While I admit they are decently -- mmmmlrf -- delicious doodads, they lack pizzazz." he explains to Yanagi in-between his efforts to grab capsules with a foot and rip them open with his beak, spilling their contents onto the floor. He pecks at the plastic kaiju piece to assesses it before roaring and stomping like he were such a monster himself and devouring it whole.
Swallowing sagely, he turns to Yanagi. "Fortunately, my stores are overwhelmingly overflowing with glitter. How is the crushing and combining of my colorful collection going?"
Without hands, he has needed to enlist help of mixing up all his ill-gotten glitter gains into a horrible alchemy to reseal in the gachapon balls.
"Ooooh I'm so excited. Once we are finished, I shall take off into the night like a holiday saint and refill those gambling gift gadgets and spread untold glee upon the land!"
He throws his head back, cackling in maniacal joy before cutting to a dead silent stop as he sees Kazusa enter.
"Valued customer!" he greets, offering her a resealed gachapon ball. "Your arrival is auspicious! Would you like a free sample of the new potential you?"
What Kazusa has very likely overheard is Pernelle describing a glitterbomb.
She should probably not open that.
<Pose Tracker> Yanagi Nagisa has posed.
It began when Yanagi had leaned back at her work station, hands shaking slightly from the detail work she's been putting into a custom necklace, and declared that she needed a break.
No, it began before that, when Pernelle arrived home with a bag (?) full of gachapon capsules.
Or was that after?
Well, it's one of those things, and neither is relevant to Kazusa either way. The past is an illusion; only the present is real! The present, and, to be more precise, the presents that Pernelle and Yanagi are so cheerfully crafting to send back out into the world. As he devours a hapless toy kaiju and asks her how it's going with his colorful collection--
WHAM. Yanagi giggles in abject delight as she slams a hammer into another one of those capsule toys, the shattered pieces of which she slides over to her be-feathered friend with the flat of the hammer's head. "It's going resplendently!" she enthuses. The capsule itself is preserved so that it may delicately scoop up a mountain of glitter, and she just as delicately presses the top back, as if returning life to the heart of a cracked egg. "All of Tokyo will revel in our creations! <3"
She is, herself, seated upon the floor, near-skeletal legs splayed beneath her and polished walking cane at her left, glitter sprinkled literally over her pale hair and autumnal orange maple-patterned dress. A more business-minded person might think to put Peacock Silk's business information in these gachapon capsules as a sort of quirky advertising campaign. Considering how much rage these "presents" are sure to cause, it's just as well that Yanagi is not that.
A patron walks in, tentatively. Pernelle drops into dead silence, and Yanagi lifts her head and brushes her bangs back. More glitter enters her hair, this time catching on one of her copper hair clips.
"Welcome, welcome!" she says cheerily, waving that hand high in the air at Kazusa. "Come join us! We're having ever so much fun!"
They're significantly friendlier now, aren't they? Though Kazusa (or "Kazusa") didn't precisely meet them before either.
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
Kazusa is peering around carefully, but she's more looking out for diosplays, clientelle, and propieters.
She is not looking out for gatchapon capsules on the floor.
So when she feels her foot hit something on the floor she frowns and looks down, kneeling to pick it up. "What the..." This... is not the first impression she was expecting. "Is this really...?"
'Valued customer!' Kazusa blinks and looks up, right at Pernelle, blinking in surprise. Her first thought is: Oh, cool, the rurmors about the peacock were real.
Her second thought is:
Kazusa jumps back with a startled yelp. "Wait did that peacock just talk!?"
That.
She clears her throat and immediately tries to compose herself, smoothing out her jacket. Her eyes settle on the offered capsule and she cautiously takes it. "Uh... thank you."
Her eyes slide over to Yanagi, who is sitting on the floor, with hammer and glitter, and then back down to the capsule in her hand. She feels anger rising in her chest and tries to quell it, taking a deep breath. "How... generous of you. I'll... be sure to appreciate it."
She looks between PErnelle and Yanagi. "... this... is Peacock Silk, right...?"
<Pose Tracker> Pernelle has posed.
The past is fake and Pernelle will devour it as he does a homunculus eyes, ha HA! Never mind that he is not permitted to do that. Inconsequential!
What is consequential is seeing Yanagi with a hammer. Pernelle dances back and forth from one foot to the other, wings spread in joy. "Yes! YES!" he cries in delight, giggling along with her. "Resplendently is my favorite way for things to go!" His dancing turns to tippy taps, his long neck dipping up and down to excitedly watch Yanagi scoop the glitter and close the capsule.
This plan is perfect. Pernelle has never had a more perfect plan in his life. His bones tell him so.
It is this knowledge of perfection so vibrantly brimming in his heart that he regards Kazusa expectantly while she holds his precious gachapon (trap) gift.
Often, to respond to Pernelle speaking is its own test. In this case, Pernelle already knew Kazusa would have passed it.
"All peacocks talk!" he declares happily. "What flabbergasts you now is your newfound forte in fathoming it!" Pernelle pauses, tilting his head side to side. "... Only for me, I think. Unless...? Hm. I cannot say with certainty that you will not understand all peacocks forevermore. Ah, life and its twists and its turns! So full of wonders."
He does another tappy dance to echo Yanagi: "Ever so much fun!"
As Kazusa asks if this is Peacock Silk, Pernelle straightens up, chest puffed. "Just so! I would be the noble mascot of no other establishment!"
<Pose Tracker> Yanagi Nagisa has posed.
Pernelle's tippy taps are Yanagi's favorite. It's so endearing, and the excitement is infectious! She might not be able to do tippy taps like that herself, but she can feel it in her chest and that's good enough. "Yes!" she cries back at him. "That's because you're resplendent! Have you ever had an idea that wasn't? I think not! It's in your very feathers!"
Maybe also his bones. Yanagi wouldn't know; her senses are keen and vast, but they don't speak to her.
Kazusa all but radiates confusion and perhaps disgust. Yanagi pays heed to precisely none of it. "He did!" she chirps, a much simpler and to-the-point answer compared to Pernelle's. WHAM. Her hammer smashes another gachapon toy. There's no real reason to crush the toys, not even to make them more bite-size for Pernelle, for whom such concerns are nonexistent. She just enjoys doing it.
She laughs and claps her hands, hammer dropped unceremoniously, as Pernelle breaks into another dance. He's so cute and colorful!! Only Kazusa's question distracts her, since it also distracts him. "It is!" She tilts her head and stares up at Kazusa, lead gray eyes owlishly (ha) wide. "Did you not see the sign outside?"
...as if somehow she's the weird one here.
"Anyway, I'm on break right now, and Saika and Tsumugi are out, so if you're here for a commission, you're out of luck!" she adds cheerfully. "But we can probably help you anyway. If we feel like it. Isn't that right, Pernelle?"
Scoop, goes another one of those capsules into the mountain of glitter. Click, goes the capsule's top. She holds it out to her friend, all flowers and sparkles, not all of them metaphorical. "Here!"
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
This is, perhaps, another test that Kazusa flet woefully underprepared for. But alas, there is no winding back the clock now. (Whether the past is fake or not.)
All peacocks talk, says Pernelle. Kazusa stares a little. "... not in Japanese, they don't." She wants to press her hand to her forehead, but both hands, tragically, are full. She gives Pernelle the capsule she picked up from the ground. "... you, uh, dropped this one."
She glances at the floor and mutters, "... this is a tripping hazard," to herself.
Pernelle is the mascot. "That's... great," she says, trying to smile pleasantly. Her eyes slide over to Yanagi as if looking for help, but she sees a woman sitting on the floor smashing gachapon capsules with a hammer.
So much for that.
But the sign? "Yes, I did. I'm sorry, I must have just..." More capsules on the floor, shattered pieces of toys... "... that is, I'm sorry to have interrupted your... work. Should I have made an appointment?"
The others are out, and Pernelle and Yanagi are on break. "Ah, I... see." she is a bit distressed, and probably not doing a very good job of hiding it, but she is at least really trying to not immediately burn any bridges to be a client of a high-end boutique.
She watches that capsule get dipped into the glitter and then looks at the capsule in her hand. Right. Not opening that anywhere near anything she cares about.
"Maybe I should come back when your break is over?"
<Pose Tracker> Pernelle has posed.
"I'm resplendent..." Pernelle whispers in awe, looking to Yanagi with the biggest and most roundest of eyes. Energy bursts out of him as his train feathers spring to life. "How veracious! It must be so if one so bright and brilliant as Yanagi declares it!"
He closes his train back up so the length of it can swish behind him in his cheerful wiggling. Some amount of glitter is being dusted up in it, but that only adds to Pernelle's incredible glamour.
WHAM! Pernelle gives a reflexive hop about a half inch off the ground, though none of the rest of him seems to move: maybe the percussive vibration of it simply lifted him from the earth? But he is vibrating in the aftermath, his train feathers rustling.
Yanagi has taken up the hammer and it is proving the best idea.
When the joy becomes too much, he gobbles up crushed kaiju like it were birdseed.
But! Kazusa! Yes, she is also here, observing this incorrigible chaos.
"Just so!" Pernelle says again to Yanagi. If they feel like it, and what evidently they felt like doing the past several minutes was smashing things with hammers and plotting vandalism. His wings ruffle happily to be offered another finished capsule, and Pernelle makes a kind of, 'eeeeeeee' sound to take it in his beak. He hops over to his own little satchel hanging form his perch -- a fabric pouch of a thing he can easily fit around his neck -- and delicately places it in the growing pile of crimepon.
Kazusa offers another back, and it receives much the same treatment. "You would return it fairly rather than sneakily steal such a treasure from under my beak?! How curious!"
Unfortunately, Kazusa's inability to hide her distress does not mean Pernelle responds to it by toning down. Perish the thought!
"You could abscond to return! Yes, you could. Or!" He spins around, abruptly and intensely looking upon Kazusa. Pernelle marches toward her with an up and down waddle of his body.
His head does not move, perfectly level the whole way.
"But! Why! Waste! Your! Journey! Here you have arrived, hesitant hatchling! Come now, speak your truth!"
<Pose Tracker> Yanagi Nagisa has posed.
Yanagi claps again as Pernelle spreads his train feathers. That's always when he's at his most resplendent! "Oh, not at all! It's self-evident, Pernelle. Even the meanest and dullest of the unawakened couldn't help but see!" she reassures him. She grins, eyes twinkling, and adds, "But yes, I'm also bright and brilliant enough to say it! <3"
So many Japanese people don't say things, after all. Much like how Kazusa is trying desperately to not say the things that are really on her mind.
"Are you sure?" she side-remarks with casual good humor to Kazusa of peacocks speaking Japanese. "Isn't one speaking in Japanese right now? Don't you think, as a peacock, he would know better than you?" She turns a blank, almost dead-eyed look up at her. "Or is this arrogance, and you believe you already know all there is to know?"
But then she apologizes. Yanagi has already turned away to smile anew at Pernelle and his delight over her offering. At least she still answers her question by saying, "Hmmm... You could have! But it's always nice to meet a new customer in person first. And you could leave and come back later, but I decide when I'm ready to return to work, and even I don't know when that will be." She pauses to tap her cheek with one finger in thought, head tilting to one side. "Mind, we wouldn't need to meet you in person first, because we already have, Kazusa Motojima." She tilts her head the other way and smiles anew. "But it's still nice! In theory!"
The hammer already dropped, Yanagi sparkles, an accent to Pernelle's level-headed (literally, and only literally) approach. "Speak your truth!" she echoes.
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
Pernelle wiggles, and more glitter gets everywhere. Kazusa is silently praying that she doesn't get any glitter on her uniform from all of this. (She very quickly glances down at herself to check. Whew. Seems okay so far.)
And then she blinks as Pernelle eats the crushed kaiju. "W-wait-- isn't that a choking hazard? That can't be edible, I don't care what kind of peacock you are."
Pernelle makes a point of her returning the pod she picked up off the floor, and Kazusa blinks. "... What, did you expect me to steal it or something? Please." Though if they're going to just be filled with glitter, maybe she should have snuck it out to save someone from a glitterbomb fate.
Too late, now.
PErnelle advances, though, and Kazusa takes a hesitant half-step back. She doesn't really think Pernelle is going to attack her, but... she also knows some birds will really mess you up, and she doesn't know if peacocks are one of those.
Kzusa is trying to follow the back and forth between Pernelle and Yanagi. She is not nearly that expressive and really isn't sure what to make of it anyway.
But when Yanagi challenges her in peacocks speaking Japanese, though, Kazusa freezes. She is painfully aware she doesn't know everything--such as, 'everything involving the supernatural.' "Okay, fine, I don't know everything, but--" She pinches the bridge of her nose. "Is this a supernatural thing? Do all peacocks speak Japanese now, just like there's an extra hour of the day for whatever weird reason?"
She has historically not been a very nice or tolerant person. In this case she's also pretty stressed. She's still trying to cope with her present situation. (In general, not just in the Peacock Silk.)
And there's a pause as she is named. "We already met... in the Atelier. Fighting the other me. I see." At least one of those battle participants is going to make a lot more sense in a moment when her thoughts catch up to her.
"My truth...?" Kazusa stares at Pernelle for a moment, and then at Yanagi, and then at the hammer and pile of glitter. Her most pressing truth right now is that this situation is weird to her and not at all what she expected of a high-end boutique.
But she doesn't want to say that since she already got kicked out once. And also she's supposed to be working on becoming a better person.
She sighs. "I just... wanted to browse and ask about the commissions, but if you really want my 'truth' or... whatever." She glances to the side. "... I wasn't ready to talk to a peacock because all this supernatural stuff is still weirding me out and I don't know how to handle it yet. So, sorry if I snapped at you."
<Pose Tracker> Pernelle has posed.
"Hmm, yes, I simply must trust your assessment on this!" Pernelle closes his eyes, nodding sagely. "Only a bore bereft of their faculties could ever think otherwise! Oh, Yanagi, truly, who would I be without your wisdom! Why, perhaps only half as resplendent! A tragedy beyond tragey."
He nods to himself knowingly. "So bright, so brilliant, so bold."
For Yanagi says what she thinks without reservation! Meanwhile Kazusa might be understandably having some reservations.
The understandable part is entirely lost on Pernelle.
"All of the world's wonders are edible if you only believe with all your heart!"
That's... not true at all?! But it is Pernelle's lived reality.
"Please? Oh! Forgive me. I shall not deny such a polite request."
Pernelle hands (beaks) the glitterpon right back!
"If you prefer, I could speak French!" Pernelle declares with another small tippy tap. He clears his throat and squawks out, "Croissant," in a terrible accent. Then, after a pause for dramatic effect, he puffs in pride at Kazusa. "The end!"
That's all he knows?! (No, actually, he knows eclair, madeleine, and vol au vent. Oh, and marmalade.)
"I cannot speak of other peacocks. I have only met one other." Pernelle's eyes narrow, and his voice lowers in dramatic gravity. "... Him. My nemesis from beyond the silver veil..."
Pernelle wallows in feelings of rivalry until Kazusa musters up her truth. His cheer returns to him immediately.
"A wondrous truth! Truly! We may be absorbed in our own affairs at present, but do not let that stop you from gazing upon the enchantment of our establishment!" Pernelle sweeps his wing out over the boutique before folding it back against himself to regard Kazusa.
"You needn't fret, curious Kazusa." Oh first names okay. "Not a soul upon this earth is prepared for the precious, piquant, and most poignant Pernelle!"
<Pose Tracker> Yanagi Nagisa has posed.
It seems okay now, Kazusa, but what about when you get home and you realize, to your horror, that you've tracked glitter halfway across the city? What then??
More presently, is this a supernatural thing, all peacocks speaking Japanese? Yanagi's bright smile returns, as if that flat darkness had never been.
"Maybe! <3"
This is punishment from the heavens for your sins, Kazusa Motojima.
"The boldest," Yanagi agrees fondly. "No one less could bolster your resplendence so!"
She also nods firmly and solidly when Pernelle declares the edibility of the world, for this too is her lived reality vis-a-vis what Pernelle can and can't eat. (He has ingested so many car keys to no ill effect. Suffice to say that he is no normal peacock, save for the fact that neither Yanagi nor Pernelle will say that.) In the same vein, she laughs in delight when Pernelle speaks French. "Oui oui! Baguette!" she chimes in. (That's two more words he'll know now!)
"Oh! You're getting along so well!" Yanagi chimes in when Kazusa goes please and Pernelle heeds her plaintive* request** for the glitterpon. "Use it with wisdom and elation in equal measure, Kazusa!" And, as she is named again, Kazusa puts together how Peacock Silk already knows her. Yanagi nods again. "That's right. You're better at this than you act!"
Her eyes soften with fondness as Pernelle brings up... his nemesis. "Only he could ever match your splendor, Pernelle, and for that he must die. One day you'll conquer him and reign supreme, once and for all!" she says encouragingly, knowing full well that he's talking about his reflection. Fun!
She quiets and listens when Kazusa at last does speak her truth, that truth being that she doesn't yet know how to handle all this and didn't expect a talking peacock. "You're forgiven," she replies. "You'll get used to it eventually. It's very important to have an open mind about it." She doesn't say anything about friends; she assumes, for better or worse, that Kazusa has those already.
As Pernelle spreads a wing to encompass the boutique, she nods in agreement. "Yes, please do take a look around! Many completed pieces that you can purchase right now are on display; there's a changing room in the back if you'd like to try anything on. If you would like to place a custom order, we can take it down and pass it along later." And once again, she smiles brightly, head tilting. "It's no trouble at all!"
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
Kazusa is having a lot of reservations. One of the biggest ones might be continuing to hold the glitter bomb in her hand. She definitely doesn't want to put it in her backpack, but she doesn't want to be seen rejecting a gift, either...
But yes, also witnessing the conversation, as well.
Kazusa is really hoping 'glitter in the house' is a problem she doesn't have to answer. Could she put these in a garbage can? No, but what if they break apart when they're overturned... and she doesn't even want to guess what kind of a mess that might make.
And Yanagi doesn't give a straight answr about peacocks speaking. Kazusa stares at her. "... great," she says, flatly.
Wasn't being locked in a Cocoon for a month punishment enough??
Kazusa stares at Pernelle. She very clearly does not believe. He seems to be surviving, and talking, despite his choice of diet. Is... is that really okay??? This is going to give Kazusa a headache to contemplate later.
A polite request. "What? That's not what--"
* Kazusa has gained Glitterpon! She now has 2.
She stares at the second glitterpon and definitely feels a headache coming on. "How... wonderful." She gives Yanagi a flat look when entreated to use them with wisdom and elation. "... right."
Better at this than she acts. Kazusa frowns, and for a moment her tone is much sharper. "What is that supposed to mean?" She's trying, but she only has so much patience.
"I don't really speak French, either--" And then... one word of French is spoken. Another stare, and then she mutters. "... well that's more French than I expected, I guess."
"You... have a rival. Ooookay..." She looks to Yanagi as if seeking... confirmation? Help? A way out of whatever this interaction is? No, there is no help to be found, it seems. She does not put together what the silver veil is, so all she can wonder is if this will make her an accessory to... bird murder?
A quiet nod as she's forgiven by Yanagi. "... it's a lot to take in," she admits, quietly. And there keeps being more, like a talking peacock. On the topic of friends... she might have more than she deserves and not as many as she really needs.
But she's invited to look around, and she nods. "... Right. Thanks." She bristles about being addressed by her first name only, yobisute, but decides she doesn't want to pick that battle right now. Not with all this glitter around. "... you can say that again."
Yanagi, at least, gives her something like what she expects, finally, the customer service spiel, an invitation to look around, and mention of a changing room. "Right. Thank you." She does start to take a look--though she is very mindful of the gachapon capsules rolling around on the floor.
But she does start to make the rounds, making small noises to herself as she reviews everything. She's secretly really excited, but she's trying to play it cool. (Unlike her Homunculus counterpart, who was very excited and made But yes, also witnessing the conversation, as well.ery little effort to hide it.)
After a few moments she tosses out a question. "... so, you guys helped make that... ruby owl thing, right?"
<Pose Tracker> Pernelle has posed.
Pernelle would love to track glitter halfway across the city. That's half the appeal of this scheme. A gift to Tokyo itself! And he is encouraged ever on by Yanagi. Truly, there is no equal in bolstering Pernelle's ambitions.
Such ambition is already being experienced well by Kazusa, handling his glorious (dangerous) creation. Two of them!
"Baguette is French?!" Pernelle gasps, eyes sparkling. "The French was inside me all along... Or at least for today. I found a stale one on the side of the street this morning!"
It's one of the more normal breakfasts he's had, clearly.
Yanagi tries to assure Pernelle his nemesis is no match, and Pernelle's long neck slumps, his head elegantly curving down to the side in the greatest woe. "Oh, dearest Yanagi, your faith in my must become my courage, for I have never met one of such terrifying beauty... But you are right! You are so right! I shall not be cowed by his glorious visage! I will destroy him!"
Pernelle stomps his foot to the ground. His claws make a gentle little click as he does so. Bird murder, Kazusa!
More importantly: Kazusa's truth!
"Absolution!" Pernelle cries as Yanagi bestows forgiveness. "A rare opportunity! Cherish that."
As Kazusa makes the attempt to be an actual costumer despite the circumstances, Pernelle resumes prying open gachapon capsules to refill with sparkling surprises.
"Ruby Saika!" Pernelle chirps between his efforts. "A tragedy that she betrayed us so. Nonruby Saika would never! Ah, but the story of her creation... a troubled but terrific tale! I died!"
And he will be more than happy to ramble verbosely on such things, to the point of near nonsensicality.
<Pose Tracker> Yanagi Nagisa has posed.
"I think so!" Yanagi tells Pernelle, who is realizing just this moment that she isn't actually sure. "I've also seen them in Vietnamese restaurants, so maybe it's Vietnamese..." (She's talking about banh mi.)
She doesn't even react about the stale baguette he ate off the street. By Pernelle standards, it is downright normal. Instead, she nods vigorously as he sags and is bolstered in turn to destroy his foe. Bird murder!! Also known as burder, or murder most fowl.
"Hmm? Isn't it obvious what I mean? I'm talking about how you don't seem like either of us, or perhaps just what we're saying or doing, but instead of saying so clearly, you've been making snide looks and talking in snide tones while pretending to be positive," Yanagi replies, eyes open and sincere as she looks directly into Kazusa's. "You're still doing that, but even so, I'm glad you've finally said the supernatural makes you uncomfortable, including Pernelle talking! Speaking your truth makes it so much easier to understand and be understood in turn!"
Absolution! "Yes, precisely!" she declares to Pernelle, clapping her hands. "She was being so annoying before that!"
At least Kazusa will always know exactly where she stands with Yanagi! Even if there are other things that she simply doesn't explain at all, like anything to do with peacocks!
That absolution, though, is why she can be sympathetic when Kazusa admits it's a lot. "There's no need to rush, unless you want to rush. You have the power to protect yourself, but how you use that power is up to you. You can boldly step forth and explore this new world until you're not uncomfortable anymore, or you can stay home where it's already comfortable and safe, or anything in between, though I don't really recommend the latter because it's boring."
An actual customer service spiel! Yanagi is capable of those, and Kazusa ought to have an idea of why she's only now gotten one. "You're welcome," she ultimately replies, and gets right back to filling gachapon capsules with copious amounts of glitter.
"Saika the Ruby Owl! Not to be confused with our friend, Saika, who does the leatherworking here," Yanagi adds, and will indeed pockmark Pernelle's epic tale (epic tail) with similar such remarks. Such as: "We did make her together!" and "It was great fun!" and "Now Pernelle and I have both died!"
...
At least if/when Kazusa decides to make a purchase today, Yanagi is well-disposed enough to her at this point to get up and run the register for her. Otherwise, there is indeed always the option to submit a request for a custom order and hope someone gets back to her. (Does she hope someone will get back to her at this point?)
<Pose Tracker> Kazusa Motojima has posed.
Kazusa would still be worried about eating food off the ground, but... it's at least something she counts as edible. Unlike plastic toys.
Bird murder. Kazusa will... maybe try to forget she heard anything if this comes up, somehow. Who would believe her anyway?
... There's no cops that are Persona USers, are there?
Absolution is offered, and Kazusa nods a little. "I'll... try."
But she will stop and stare at Pernelle as he cheerfully declares he died. "... I don't know what to say to that."
But she freezes as Yanagi calls her out. There is a flash of anger, which she bites back just as quickly, though her cheeks flush in embarrassment. She can't quite meet either Yanagi's or Pernelle's eyes. "... yeah, well. I never claimed to be nice. Or that good a person."
Things she's trying to work on, but nobody ever said change was easy, or fast.
Stay at home where it's safe. "... yeah, that's not going to happen." She's been pointedly trying to stay away from home as much as possible, lately.
But there is one more truth she has to offer, now that she's thinking of that experience in the Atelier. She turns to Pernelle and Yanagi and offers a bow. "Look, I know I'm not great, but... thank you for coming to rescue me. I hope neither of you got hurt on my behalf."
She will at least listen to the tale, and take some actual interest in the craftsmanship. ('The motorcycle design is... not bad. And I guess the energy whip was a cool idea.' she's not trying to be snide, she just has a hard time showing enthusiasm.)
She will leave a request, though. Despite (or maybe because of?) being called out.