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[frequent_flyer]

[No one else wanted to take charge, so here he was, looking into the video feed with a resigned expression.]

...Does anyone have any musical experience or know how to start a band? I need to uh... commission a song or something...

[He looks completely at a loss, not sure what else to say about it, awkwardly shutting off the feed.]

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Private Voice

[frequent_flyer]

[That was a good point...] I could probably write a song if I had to... it can't be that hard, right? And you could help me!

[If only he knew...]

What about you? Can you sing?

Re: Private Voice

[trainwrecking]

W-wait, no, I never said it was easy..! Your creative ideas are kind of, um, out of left field? Remember Wright Brothers?

And I'm not usually uh... you know, artsy.

[Except in his imagination. That's where all of his creative fuel goes.


As for singing?]

Ehh, not recently.

[Well that was a slip. He has vague memory now of living in an old, empty home without a thing to talk to but the appliances, the walls, or the echoes of his footsteps in the halls: it stands to reason that he would have started talking to himself idly. Even now, the habit persists in his socially awkward tics and introverted nature. Why talk to the group when he can think and have monologue in his own head?

That said, maybe, just maybe, when video games weren't enough to keep him stimulated after an awful day at school or prestigious, part-time pro jobs, he'd end up singing (to say nothing for the quality of his voice, mind you) in that old family house.

But only in private.]

Private Video

[frequent_flyer]

[Unfortunately for Otonashi, Hinata picked up on that past tense. Not recently meant that he'd done it at some point.]

Otonashi-kun! [Oh how he wishes you were here so he could grab you, Otonashi. He's in a dragging sort of mood.] Go with me to the karaoke bar.

Private Video

[trainwrecking]

Hah?

[Funny, that. He feels the aching need to dig his heels into the floor, as if the threat of being grabbed or tackled or otherwise thrown around like a ragdoll is not only expected, but imminent.]

Eh, wait, what-- right now?! I-I don't think you understand what I meant--! I can't go up in front of a crowd of people right now and just... no, no no!

[Baby's first karaoke bar experience?]

Private Video

[frequent_flyer]

Fine! Then we can rent out a private booth! You don't have to do it in front of anyone but me!

[It sounded as if he'd been to a couple before... or maybe his voice had.]

Why not right now? Are you busy?

[trainwrecking]

Now wait..! I...!

[He raises his hand in protest, but quickly realizes the futility of it. Fumbling with thoughtful gestures, he finally seems to resign to it.

He had been saying it was a 'we' project.]

... N-no. I'm not busy. Send me the coordinates to this, ah, karaoke place...

[frequent_flyer]

[If Hinata has to suffer this ridiculous project, then so do we all. Soon enough, the coordinates would pop up in Otonashi's inbox.]

I'll see you there~!

[trainwrecking]

Ahaha... heh... Yeah.

[His team spirit appears to be lacking again. Ah well. At least he cares.]

See you soon.