awashlogs | [open] It's a (very belated) birthday log!

WHO: Kaoru, Shiho and friends
WHERE: Town hall
WHEN: Last week of February
WHAT: It's Shiho's birthday
WARNINGS: None probably.

I: Food!

[What is a party without food? Kaoru can't cook but she happens to know people who can! There's even a cake! She may have borrowed a table from another house for the purpose of keeping the food.

Though, oddly enough, there's also a small card (all of them different colour and sizes, some of them looked like they'd been gently folded then ripped along the fold) beside each dish with a number on it. There's also a list (all handwritten in pink), with the same numbers all listed on one side and lines beside it like something you should fill out.

On the top it says: Guess Who Made This Dish!

Are you here to play or are you just here to eat?]

II: Games!

[There is a hastily written sign on one side that says: NO DANCING.

But every party needs entertainment so beside there is a sign with game suggestions like: Truth or Dare, Never Have I Ever...or maybe you'd like to take your list from the food table and see if you got more correct than the person beside you!]

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[ Really? ]

Type? Am I not an untouchable immortal cultivator? [ I don't know why I try to troll you. I'm the only one who is gonna get roasted for doing so. But I couldn't help trying with this sort of set up. ] Couldn't this teacher's person be considered that?

[What kind of untouchable immortal anything have bargain-bin siri in their hearts? Or play Truth or Dare with teenagers?

She pouts.]

Even untouchable immortal cultivators can have a type! Are you telling me in all your years being alive, you've never considered finding love or companionship? [She says 'all your years' in a way that implied that the number she was thinking of probably had three digits or more.] Is sensei saying that an immortal cultivator is even sadder in this respect than a shut in who doesn't leave his room and needs his mother to feed him?

[Even if a shut in's type was probably 2D.]

[ There's really no need to roast me like this! I really haven't thought about it much! I mean, how could I? It wasn't something I put much thought into due to a lot of reasons! And now I absolutely can't think that way due to bigger reasons!!

He almost takes offense to that shut-in comment. Thankfully!! I never needed my mother to feed me! I had chefs! Is that better? Yes. Because he could order whatever he wanted to eat. Being a rich kid had its perks and that was one of them! Wait, I'm getting off topic. ]

[ Fuck it. ]

This teacher wants to focus on cultivation. There are plenty that are celibate. [ My fucking body isn't since this scum is SCUM! But I myself am pure as the freshly fallen snow, okay!? I've only kissed one girl outside of my family. At least! I! Vaguely! Remember! Doing! Such! ]

It helps to keep our attention on our continued growth.

[When he talked about celibacy she just looked at him pityingly.

Though, oddly enough, it wasn't him she was pitying. Luo Binghe.....your road to love sure is difficult. Is this why Shen Qingqiu never suspected? Not because he's stupid in these things but because he hadn't thought about it?

Truly, from the bottom of her heart she both pities his poor disciple who had even thrown away his dignity just to be able to embrace him.]

There are so many hours in the day! You can totally do both!

Besides, you still haven't answered me!

[ All girls are hands off! They're the protagonist's!

Luo Binghe has a harem of well into the triple digits! All the women just appear and disappear into it! He can't rightly say that, though. Who would say that they're leaving all the ladies alone because their disciple has claim? That would sound vaguely threatening and weird. ]

It's fine. I'm not lonely. [ That's what she's worried about, right? But this is a teenage girl on a birthday party, even if it isn't Kaoru's! He remembers his sister and already knows that he's shit out of luck. ] My type?

[ He lightly taps the side of his head with his fan. ????? My type???? More question marks to explode off the top of his head. I like all the sisters that were given even a little bit of attention in the harem, but I can't say that I was thinking of them as being my match. Now that I know Liu Mingyan and Ning Yingying... thinking of them as my type of girl feels SICK. AND. WRONG! I can't do that! No way! 0/10! Do not allow! So, uh? ]

... being obedient is fine? [ Ah! I don't mean that like!! ] That is to say, someone that listens to me. Obedient is just the word that came to me first, but that is what I meant in terms of the description.

[She is worried he'd be lonely. But mostly she's worried about Luo Binghe's future romantic prospects, right now.

She leans in closer when he looks like he's thinking though, her eyes wide and excited.]

Sensei... [She sighs but she's still smiling at him, just a little teasing but also a bit exasperated.] Are you describing your ideal partner or your ideal student?

[But she'll let him live this time!] I'll pick...truth!

Both.

[ He says so with more conviction than he thinks he should have. If someone asks a rhetorical question, answer it seriously and in a way they wouldn't be able to expect! That's the only way to survive such roasting! ]

Though, I know Lady Shiho will find a way to handle the matter... what do you want for your birthday when it comes around?

[While it'd work on most people, it wouldn't have worked on her!

But you know what does work? Suddenly asking her what she would want for her birthday. Because how is she supposed to roast someone who asks that!?

Her expression is surprised but then looks a bit like she wasn't sure what to say. On some level, she kind of wanted to try that thing Shiho and Aoi always did with their dads where they asked for something unreasonably expensive and then when their dads hesitated tell 'you don't love me anymore! Dad I hate you!'.

...but she's too embarrassed to do that!

So she just laughs a little. Because, regardless, she is happy to be asked that.]

Oh, is that all sensei wanted to ask? Anything is fine! It's not like we can go onto Am*zon and order something.

[ Listen, I just gave a bomb to the president of your fanclub because I couldn't think of what to give!

He wants to be able to do something that isn't extremely dangerous for Kaoru. Lightly tapping the fan against the back of his neck, he agrees that they can't access Amazon in this realm. And if we could-- would that be like Ultra Premium Pass to get it? Costs only 8000¥ per month!! Buy now!!

Shen Qingqiu hates the fact that he thinks his family could afford that! ]

Anything is not fine. While we may not have the means, there must be something you should be looking forward to as a gift. [ He's not one for parties or gifts, but he knows that for Kaoru, he wants her to look forward to her birthday and the present she's been hoping for. ]

[That sounds like the perfect gift for Shiho though...

Kaoru's family could afford it as well, and she'd be more than happy to pay the fees if it meant she could actually BUY STUFF.

She had a moment to reminisce about her disreputable youth...i.e. when she was 10. And she'd ask Minamoto all sorts of ridiculous and, often times, unreasonable stuff, because she was trying to prove a point. That if she just pushed hard enough he'd get fed up with them like all the others.

She's long since grown out of that habit though.]

But I really can't think of anything? [Nothing that she'd ask him for anyway. Except...] Both my mom and my sister are really busy with work. Their schedules are really hectic and not to mention they get into scandals pretty much every other month and then need to find some obscure place to lay low. So, before I met Shiho and Aoi, we almost never celebrated on my actual birthday and sometimes I might not even see them at all. So...I'll be happy as long as I get to celebrate with everyone.

[ He clenches his fist at her desire to have a birthday party with everyone. But I absolutely get you! I get you! I never wanted much of anything and thinking of a present is hard.

But the wish to be able to be with everyone, he smiles softly. As usual, he reaches his hand out to lightly pat her on the head. It's tough, right? ]

Then ... we'll all be together. [ Or try to be. Life was funny in when a person may suddenly disappear. He supposes that he's gotten quite used to it and isn't bothered at all if it happens. But still, it would be nice to have everyone together for such a celebration. ]

[She understands that she isn't asking for anything easy to give, that this place brings people here and takes them away just as easily.

So she's happy enough just to have this promise.]

I can't wait! [Though Shiho's probably going to spearhead the planning.]

[open] It's a (very belated) birthday log!

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