[EP66] I wonder.




(Selanio and Selan are hanging out on the green. Selan’s working on her Japanese homework while Selanio’s just lying there, relaxing.)

Selan (writing): haya… ku… o… ki… su… gi… ma… shi… ta.

Selanio (yawning): Znachit tak…

Selan (still writing): Ni… hon.. go… de… hana… shi… ma… shi… chiisai yo… u.

Selanio: Skolko seichas vremeni?

Selan (looking at Selanio): Ima niji han desu yo.

Selanio: Ah, spacibo.

(Stesha has walked up to them, but they haven’t noticed.)

Stesha (sitting down): Do either of you understand each other at all?

Selan: I think he asked what time was it…

Selanio: Selanio is pretty sure she said it was two.

Selan: Two thirty.

Selanio: Close enough. The hell do you want, Zitomira?

Stesha: I just thought you two sounded dumb is all.

Selan: We’re multicultural, jerk!

Stesha: Whatever. Anyway, I thought I’d apologize for the whole, you know. Shooting her in the chest thing.

Selanio: Like you’re sorry.

Stesha: I was abusing my powers, I shouldn’t have done it.

Selanio: Abusing your… pffft. Like you even hurt her.

Selan: Hey, it hurt! It just didn’t, you know, leave any sort of damage.

Selanio: This is what I said.

Selan: Buu.

Stesha: Look, just accept the apology already.

Selanio (sitting up): You know, you’re not acting like your smarmy self.

Selan: Hey, yeah. You aren’t smiling way too much.

Stesha: I just got out of my least favorite class, then had to go smile, smile, smile at that damn teacher after class and tell her about how she was a damn inspiration to me and how I’m going to turn things around and work harder just to get her to turn my F into a D. Why the hell do you think I’d be in a mood to pretend to be friendly to people that I know aren’t going to fall for it?

Selan: Good point.

Selanio: Why are you even bothering apologizing?

Stesha: Because I don’t want you to kill me in my sleep.

Selanio: I make no promises.

Selan: You know, generally when you apologize for something, you should be a little more, you know… sincere?

Stesha: I’m sincere. I sincerely don’t want my ass kicked by this freakshow.

(Selanio punches Stesha in the face)

Stesha (on the ground): I should’ve seen that coming…

Selan: Seriously.

Selanio: Go away, jackass.

Stesha: Fine. (He gets up and walks off)

Selan: Sheeeesh. What a loser. (She writes a little more on her notebook) Selanio, don’t you think this kanji looks like a guy with a big head?

Selanio: No.

Selan: I think it looks like a guy with a big head.

Selanio: I think you’re weird. u_u

Selan: Buu. Anyway, Selan has to get to her social studies class.

Selanio: Yeah, yeah.

Selan: You should go home and work on your homework! I know you have some.

Selanio: I don’t want to.

Selan: Do it. u_u Anyway, see you.

(Selan leaves. Selanio lies there for a moment then, seeing that there’s nothing to do, decides that he might as well go home after all. He walks off, but as he’s passing between two buildings, he runs into Stesha again.)

Selanio: Zitomira.

Stesha: Oi, lemme talk to you for a second.

Selanio: No.

Stesha: Why do you bother hanging out with her?

Selanio: What, Selan?

Stesha: Yeah.

Selanio: You should be one to talk, you were the one that kept hitting on her. -_O

Stesha: I was just scoping her out is all.

Selanio: Whatever.

Stesha: Look, she’s not like us.

Selanio: ‘Us’?

Stesha: You know what I mean. (He looks around) She doesn’t have… powers.

Selanio (suddenly wary): … I don’t either, jackass.

Stesha: That’s a lie and you know it.

Selanio (narrowing his eyes): What do you want?

Stesha: What makes you think I want anything? (He smiles) I’m just trying to warn you, Selanio. Selan isn’t one of us.

Selanio: That… that’s right, she isn’t! So what?

Stesha: She’ll never understand you. It’d never work out, a god like you and a mortal like her.

Selanio: What makes you think—

Stesha: You ought to seek out someone like you, someone with powers. Lady Ira, perhaps. Surely you know how to contact her, don’t you… Baron?

Selanio: What makes you think Selanio has any interest in either Selan or Ira?!

Stesha: I wonder. (He puts his hands in his pockets) Oh, and just so you know; I wouldn’t dare to reveal your identity to anyone. But if you go telling anyone of my powers… well, I suppose I wouldn’t be able to make any promises then, hm?

Selanio: Pfft. Like anyone would even care about your powers.

Stesha: Right. n_n So don’t go opening your mouth.

Selanio: Fine, whatever! Just get out of my sight.

(Selanio pushes Stesha out of the way and stomps off. Stesha watches him intently as he goes)

Stesha: See you around, mate~ n_n

--End: Episode sixty-six