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[duelacademynpcs]

::For Professor Kantei and Principal Yoko (seperate threads if either is interested), you 'lucked' out on the school's night security detail that rotates since for whatever reason, the school's budget request for night security guards keeps getting misfiled enough that they can only handle the school late enough that there needs to be a gap filled by volunteers.

One day, that budget request will be properly filed. Tonight is not that day.

You've been paired up with Mrs. Yuuki! It'll probably be fine until the part-time security guard gets here.::

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[sakaki_family_values]

You know, I never thought being a principal would come with security guard duty.

*Yoko is walking around the school halls, but she also has a dog with her, that seems to have come from nowhere. It's a corgi that's walking by her heels obediently.*

[danse_etoile]

One day, the budget request will be filed properly so we don't have to, I hope, but today is not that day. I'm not sure WHY it keeps getting misfiled.

... Where'd the dog come from.

::Waving a big flashlight with a handle about, since. Japanese school. Save electricity bill by keeping the lights off.::

[sakaki_family_values]

Oh! This is En!

*She motions to the corgi at her feet.*

He's one of the pets we have at home, but I was thinking of bringing them in now and then to act as emotional support animals for the staff and students.

And since I knew I was going to be doing this little security detail today, I figured he could also be a guard dog.

*She lowers her voice to a whisper.*

Though to be fair, he's not a great guard dog.

[danse_etoile]

Ah. I know the feeling, my husband has two cats at our place and neither are great at guarding the place.

::Whispering back.::

I'm sure he'll do fine. Isn't that right, En?

[sakaki_family_values]

*En looks up at Asuka with a goofy, happy grin and gives a little bark.*

Well, if anything, if there are any strange goings on tonight, he might pick up on it before we do, though I'm sure everything will be fine.

[danse_etoile]

The teachers have a sign in our communal office that's... roughly 150 Days without Incident, I'd like to keep that going myself, so I hope there isn't. Like. An incident or anything.

::Waves her hand.::

[sakaki_family_values]

I feel like you're tempting fate a little saying that, but yes, let's hope we can keep that going.

[danse_etoile]

I think we both are ma'am, so let's hope we didn't draw the eye of the Kami of Irony.

[sakaki_family_values]

Let's hope not.

So, while we're walking around here, maybe we can get to know each other better.
You said you have a husband?

[danse_etoile]

Yes. Yuki Judai. We're both Alumni of the main Duel Academy High School. We both joined to become Pro Duelists, I ended up finding teaching was more my interest, and my husband...

Had a time of it, there.

Ended up Dueling as a Pro for I think a decade before cashing out to run an NGO for Duel Spirits full time.

[sakaki_family_values]

Oh, yes. I believe I've heard his name before. He runs... SAI, is it?
My son, Yuya, occasionally volunteers to work with the Duel Spirits there and last year my other son, Yuto, adopted an Ancient Gear Beast from there too.
My husband has also been visiting it every now and then. He's taken a keen interest in Duel Spirits since he retired.

[danse_etoile]

Yeah, I remember your husband's career ending injury. Sorry that happened. And yes. He runs SAI with me as a board member, I think. The top of SAI is a bit patchwork. We ended up merging with the Arcadia Movement after Isabel Marias went missing, with the now Empress being a long time philanthropic backer.

[sakaki_family_values]

Yes, his injury was a big shock to us all, but life goes on, as they say. Yushou is keeping himself busy.

From what I've heard, SAI seems like a really great place.

[thefrozenstorm]

I'm starting to think that either of us have to be the ones to file that budget request, at this rate...

*Seku isn't a stranger to being given this particular duty, which is why his tone is so dry tonight*

[danse_etoile]

Yes. No offense to Mrs. Sakaki, but I figure her specializations lie more in dropkicking someone.

But the person in charge of budget and accounting also is very cagey, and I think might have a secret lair in their office.

::Is less of a regular than you are, but she knows how much of a PITA this is.::

[thefrozenstorm]

I was going to say that maybe we could block the door to their office until they agree to push through the budget request for proper security, but they might have another exit we don't know about, in that case.

Or at the least, I wouldn't put it past them.

*he lets out a bit of a sigh.*

Hopefully the part-time guard'll get here soon.

[danse_etoile]

Hopefully, and it's not like anything's come up since The August Revolution.

::Shrugs.::

So should be mostly mundane.

[thefrozenstorm]

Hopefully, but it does make the time pass slowly...

*he's still listening out, though. His hearing is really good, so he should be able to pick up on anything that might be off.*

[danse_etoile]

How's your wife and daughter been?

::You think you hear a caw from a direction it shouldn't be coming from.::

[thefrozenstorm]

Been fi--

Wait, I just heard something. *he WAS going to try to dodge the question, but thankfully something picked up in his hearing range to cause enough distraction.*

[danse_etoile]

Any idea what?

[thefrozenstorm]

It sounded like... a bird? A crow, maybe? There shouldn't be any birds in the building...

*He starts walking in that direction.*

[danse_etoile]

Unless one of the students left a window open...

::Follows after you, her short work heels clicking.::

[duelacademynpcs]

::You know this place probably well enough after years of working here, Seku.

And that noise came from a direction that doesn't exist.

And THAT is the half-open door to a hallway that wasn't there yesterday.::

[thefrozenstorm]

*pausing as he comes across the door. the hallway. scanning through his own memories to try to determine this.*

... Something's wrong, here.