Arbitrator

The grand arbiter has arrived...



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    She exhales slowly, eyes drawn to the live video of Kanade's face, waiting for any sort of reaction. "She said that you enjoyed talking about me. Is that correct?"

     

    "Huh?" Kanade's face lights up - the emotion in her face torn between embarrassment and affection. Her eyes can narrowly track down the detail of a soft pink spreading through her cheeks. "Saki... told you that?"

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    To Mafuyu, love is a foreign emotion. It was one of those emotions she had not acknowledged, nor has she acknowledged anything diverging from the topic of love. The only thing she's felt is a familial love that has slipped away from her. She assumed she wasn't able to feel romantic attraction to someone, and wouldn't be able to even into the near future.

     

    Yet, after an unknown feeling of bitter envy flares up when Kanade begins to get more 'affectionate' with someone, it trickles into her sleeping mind.

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    27 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    Yuki’s hand jostles her shoulder roughly. “Mizuki.”

    “Ah—Yuki!” she yelps, jolting upright. Her eyes burst open expecting to be greeted by the sight of her older sister and her signature pink bracelet.

    Except, there is no pink bracelet. And that’s definitely not her sister.

    “Mafuyu?” Mizuki gasps, incredulous. Her gaze sweeps over the girl from her dark purple hair to her shoes. “You scared me! A warning would have been nice, ya’ know.”

    “Sorry. You weren’t getting up,” Mafuyu says, taking a step back. “Good morning.”

    “Good—“ Mizuki yawns, covering her mouth—“morning.” Like puzzle pieces slotting into place, her surroundings slowly assemble together. She’s not in her bedroom at all; she’s still on the highway bus she and her friends boarded yesterday. A bus which has stopped and that they need to get off of because as painful as getting up early is, waking up to only be back in Tokyo would undoubtedly be worse.
    Meaning, their month-long trip around Japan has begun.

    Or: Nightcord at 25:00, a journey around Japan over summer break, and how they grow even closer.

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    26 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    Years after graduating high school, Leo/Need is fully devoted to going pro. In an attempt to boost her confidence on stage, Ichika tries a new outfit. After the show, her girlfriends show her just how much it worked—just not in the way she had anticipated.

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    25 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    “Okay, I think we need to have a talk,” Honami starts. She inhales, then blurts out, “What are we?”

    “Leo/need…?” Shiho says.

    Honami looks like she’s five seconds from driving her palm into her face. “Not the band! I mean like… us! Because apparently you—“ She motions to Saki— “are telling Kohane-chan it’s our six-month anniversary, you—“ She glances at Shiho— “are convinced we have a week to go until two-months, and you—“ She turns to Ichika, then hesitates, seeing the look on her face. “…I don’t think you have any idea what’s going on.”

    “I really… don’t,” Ichika admits helplessly, running her fingers through her hair.

    Saki sputters. “But you’re the one who first asked all of us out!”

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    Or, it’s Saki’s birthday today, and also her group’s sixth-month anniversary of dating!

    Except… Shiho thinks it’s been two, Ichika is convinced she’s just pining, and Honami believes they’re all trapped in a situationship. Yikes.

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    25 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 19

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    In this moment of serenity, Ichika feels a wave of affection rushing through her, her heart bursting with love as she turns her head back to the stars.

    I love you all…I hope we’ll be able to stay together forever. Maybe, one day, we’ll be able to look up at them with each other as something more than friends.

    A few moments pass before Ichika realises that it’s uncomfortably quiet, and that she’s getting the prickly feeling that she’s being stared at. Looking back down, she’s greeted by three faces of disbelief, ranging with different intensities. The thing that bewilders Ichika even more is the redness on their faces.

    Did I say something I wasn’t supposed to?

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    25 Jun 2026