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[ This time it's to the girl that Red nods to, and then he turns to face that of the ice, its possessive need reaching them in the way that a chill carried through the air would from a far more ordinary wall of cold. His eyes close and his breathes, his shoulder twitching in what appears to be an involuntary way, Red rolling it after more consciously. Hatred for the ice, a rejection of its want. It's an emotion he's forced on himself plenty, but the days spent recovering after the Elios mess makes his body feel wary of it. But, he won't let it get to him.

Just some should be fine. When he speaks up, it's a little louder, to get over the noise of the drilling near to them. ]

Have you ever channelled hate into an object before? We can help each other out if you need it!

[ Otherwise, they really can get going with this. ]

Um, no, I've never done it before...

[ Hatred, along with despair, were two emotions that Komaru didn't like to dwell on, what with them resurfacing bad memories that she would like nothing more than to forget. It didn't help that the person she could say that she hated was present in this city, but she could at least channel her energy on that person to help her out with the process. She had to do it, for the sake of helping with the cleanup. She had come this far, after all. ]

I really wouldn't mind the help, though. Have you done it before?

[ He nods, and with that he comes closer to her, angling the instrument in his hands to point forward, but leaning it, as if inspecting it. There on his, there's a faint red glow at the top of the nuzzle that hadn't been there before. ]

They've made these to pick up on hate, so they should work without much concentration... as long as you can focus on something, it'll put that emotion into the fire when you release it!

I can help you keep it up if you think it'll be hard to do; it's a skill I learned a while back, helping a person keep feeling a way. You don't even have to think about something too awful--it's better if you don't. Me, I prepared before I came here...

[ His face scrunches up, the red glow now brighter than before, and the disgust on his face leaks into his voice as he shares between them-- ]

I took a bite out of a pickled egg.

[ fuggen GROSS. ]

Ewwww, that's so disgusting!

[ She just has to get that complaint out there, even huffing her cheeks a bit, before she stops to mull over his words. So something as simple as that would help with melting the ice, huh...? It was relieving to know she didn't have to think about truly horrible things, like the ordeals she went through. She feels a little more confident that she'll be able to do this now. ]

But that sounds pretty simple. My turn. Let's see, um...

[ She thinks for a moment before a thought finally comes to mind. Oh, this one is gonna be good. ]

Manga artists who draw their characters with small eyes are totally disgracing the art of shoujo manga! That's completely unforgivable!

[ KOMARU. ]

[ Komaru, that's--! ]

Who would do that!? What's the point!?

[ DISGRACEFUL. He probably has no opinion in reality on small eyes in comic books, but the level of dislike already swishing in him and her own reaction causes it to come out instantly, and he might as well think that it's a injustice to all shoujo manga everywhere.

He's ready to salt about anything, and that level of salty dislike between them, he can keep that up, the winds carrying the desiring love in the air unable to reach them now. ]

Know what else is bad? Videogames without checkpoints that are so hard, everytime you die you get sent back to the first stage! And stupid long passwords sixty characters long! [ But that kind of hate dips into another area, when he bemoans: ] And I miss them!

[ Huff!! ] Stupid videogames!

[ Komaru are you ready for this ice, it is definitely time to hate on some ice. ]

[ Red, you're speaking her language??? ]

Ugh, I know! Like, I'm already bad at those kind of games, and the fact that you have to start all the way over if you die just makes me feel even worse! And then it gets to the point that you don't even want to finish the game anymore, so then you end up with a pile of unfinished video games! And...And! When you finally decide to start playing it again, you're completely lost and don't know what to do, so you'll have to either use a guide or start over!

[ Stupid video games indeed!! She could rant about this all day, honestly. ]

And you know what else is worse? Math, and other complicated subjects like computer science! Why the heck do we have to learn those subjects in school anyway? [ Though, she may just be salty because she's bad at those subjects... ] It's not like we're gonna need them in the real world or anything!

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