/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>37431128
I feel less and less confident in this as I write so I'm just going to post it before I can delete it out of shame.

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You can't believe she roped you into this, messing with teacher is never going to end up well. But she did offer to make you anything you wanted at her smithy in return. She probably thinks you will just ask her to make a new pot for your mother or something. No, you want a real sword so you can brave the forest of magic and be a real hero!
For now however, you have to play nice with this weak tsukumogami so you can use her to start your adventures.

"Hey, are you even listening to me!"
You are shaken from your thoughts as the blue haired girl smacks you with her purple umbrella and looks at you with a big frown on her face.
"I said, do you think she will really fall for this, making a doll as bait is a pretty good idea, but shouldn't we make it look like one of her students instead?"
She points to the doll you just placed on a small rock, it's humanoid and slightly taller than a kid. It's wearing a white shirt with red baggy pants which are covered in patches that are sewn in to the fabric.
You take a small moment to marvel at the handiwork of the doll and almost wonder out loud how she got them made so well.

When you turn back to face the umbrella which just assaulted your face you put aside any thoughts of praising her. Instead, you explain your plan to her yet again.
"She would simply call out and get suspicious when her student wouldn't answer her, with this she will be tempted to sneak up on her friend and not pay attention to her surroundings"
You point to a spot between the rock and the road to the village.
"And when she falls in you can drop the doll in after her as a bonus scare, a guaranteed thing"

You puff out your chest a bit, being proud of your plan. A plan that is not entirely original, as you have seen something similar happen before.
One day you had been testing the edges of the village as a way to scout places for future adventures and you happened to see your teacher quietly sneak up on some odd looking person with scraggly clothes covered in patches.
They seemed friendly enough after the surprise greeting, but you never got close enough to hear what they were talking about. You weren't meant to be that close to the edge of the village anyway so you headed home after that, marking the area in your memory as a place to avoid if you didn't want to get caught by teacher.

And now you were back at that same spot, just because this weird girl had heard you brag about how nothing could surprise you.
How she thought that meant you were a master of surprises was still a bit of a mystery to you.

"Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Lets hope this works, I haven't eaten in a good while"
Both the umbrella frown at that odd remark, but quickly perk up.
"Okay, I think we should go hide. School is almost certainty over by now, and she should be heading this way today!"
As you are pulled along to the nearby bushes you hope she is right about her coming this way, you wouldn't want to repeat carrying the doll all the way over here too many times.

"Okay, now be quiet and don't let anyone see you"
The girl whispers to you, with her purple umbrella clearly poking out of the bush.
"And you better lay down that umbrella if you don't want to be seen"
You quietly hiss back at her in retort.

With that you both settle in to quietly wait and you are left alone with your thoughts as you stare into the path were teacher should soon show up.
For the first time you ponder why it doesn't bother you that this fairly pretty girl is right next to you, when you last tried to play with the girls at the village you couldn't get a word out. Maybe it's the freakish umbrella that seems to always be watching you or her heterochromatic eyes, but she seems more like a weak monster than a girl to you.
You wonder if being more scared of girls than of monsters is a good thing, it must be since a hero shouldn't fear any monster!

It's that time again, to say goodbye.
Surely now Kogasa won't be forgotten even if she won't see you for a little while.