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[cutiepanther]

You've reached Maki Nishikino. Leave a message after the beep, with your name and number so I can get back to you. Thank you.


[ Feel free to do text, action, voice, video or anything. ]

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[kakuto]

[Attached is a pic of one majestic Liepard]

Maki, look! Chocho evolved! Isn't she pretty?

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[cutiepanther]

[ Maki has a very unsteady relationship with Liepards, given how they are her evolution, and ONE PICKED HER UP AND TOOK HER HOME TO NOZOMI ONCE. So she's not super enthused about this text message! ]

Why did you think I had to know that?!

...She's very pretty.

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[kakuto]

She's so pretty and majestic just like you so I had to share it!

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[cutiepanther]

RIN!!!

[ Give her a few minutes to calm down from that. ]

...Do you really mean that?

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[kakuto]

Of course I do! I think you are a pretty person.

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[cutiepanther]

[ At least that kind of message is easier received over text, even if Maki is blushing. ]

Well...I think you're pretty too. You're probably the cutest girl I know..

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[kakuto]

[Ah.

She didn't really expect that kind of answer. There are so many cute girls in the city yet she doesn't feel that she belongs among them. Even the discovery of her powers helps enforce that she isn't cute at all.]

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[kakuto]

[It's took a while for a response, but Rin managed to pull herself together.]

You're definitely cuter though!

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[cutiepanther]

[ Maki is faster to respond, because she can't lose/accept that Rin doesn't think of herself as cute. ]

That's not true. [ She thinks of herself more of a refined beauty thank you. ] Your short hair, your attitude...it's cute on every level.

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[kakuto]

Makiiii, you're making my face all red!

But... Thank you! Nobody ever really tells me that, but it means a lot!

[Maki is still cuter to her, but she knows better than to say that.]

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[cutiepanther]

Just don't let it all go to your head alright?

[ When it comes to helping someone else, Maki has a surprising bit of confidence. ]

You're really cute, there's no reason you shouldn't think otherwise.

Voice, after Kyoko lies to Honoka

[honokairo]

Makiiiiiii!!!!

[Comes an excited voice over the Warp Band.]

Did you really have a party the other night?

[cutiepanther]

H-Honoka.

[ Wince. ]

Of course I didn't! That girl... she just showed up on her own in my house!

[honokairo]

...

[What]

......

She lied to me? And just walked in your house?

[cutiepanther]

T-That's right!

[ PEOPLE LIE HONOKA. ]

...Well, I did tell her once that I wished I could do something to help her but she said there was nothing I could do for her..

[honokairo]

Why, is she sick?

[Didn't seem sick.]

[cutiepanther]

No, its nothing like that...

[ Sighing. ]

It just seemed like she had a tough time, growing up. But I didn't invite her into my house either!

[honokairo]

Oh... [That's sad to hear. Honoka can't completely identify with having a rough childhood, as the only rough times she's had was the war. But she understands.]

Maybe she has a strange way of showing that she wants company. You know, like when people make fun of each other and are mean to each other just because they actually secretly have a crush on them.

[It works like that right]

[cutiepanther]

W-Wait a minute, Honoka! T-There's no way that's a real thing. Normal people don't do things like that! S-She definitely d-doesn't think of me like that!

[ You can't just say something like that and expect Maki not to freak out. ]

[honokairo]

You mean you've never had a friend just show up to your house without telling you before? She doesn't have to have a crush on you to do that, Maki! I was just using that as an example!

[She's freaking out that's cute]

[cutiepanther]

Well...Nico always finds her way over to my house without an invitation, but I guess I don't mind that much when it's her..

[ Wonder why? ]

[honokairo]

Oh, I didn't know you were friends!

[NICO DID NOT MAKE IT SOUND LIKE THEY WERE]

I'm glad you two are!

[cutiepanther]

I don't know if I'd call us anything like that..

[ Simply because they fight so often and Nico's ever said they were friend, unlike Nozomi who has made it clear they are friends. Or Honoka even. ]

[honokairo]

Why not, if she comes over and spends time with you?

[Isn't that what friends do...?]

[cutiepanther]

I-I don't know! It's not like we really get along all the time. We always argue about everything.

[ TWIRLING. ]

B-But I guess I could say that I don't always mind when she's here...