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“La la la~” sings a smiling girl on her way to school. Well, you’re likely familiar with this girl, for it is none other than Son Peppa! “Li-li-li!”

Skipping over mountains and rivers as she goes, she lets out a “Lu lu lu lu-lu!” to a nearby pair of birds. They warble along with her, before she descends back down to terra firma.

To review, Son Peppa has a lot of notches on her belt for a 16 year old. For one, she's the Champion of the World Martial Arts Tournament, having defeated Android 19, her father Son Goku, and Vegeta in a battle royale match! Then, she saved the galaxy from being swept up in Baby's tide of nanomachine infection! And best of all her achievements, she has a girlfriend, the rising star, Amaguri Cocoa!

And Peppa is in especially high spirits on this day of all days, for it is February 14th, and it is mandated by the World Government that every February 14th is to be celebrated as Valentine’s Day! Even the routine of lectures and busywork at school don’t make a dent in her Peppiness, and during PE she cartwheels into catching a baseball and tagging someone out, all with a ^-^ smile on her face! “Le le le, leee, leee~!”

Truly unstoppable, could anything possibly get in her way?

After PE, the students go back inside, and a freshly-showered Peppa climbs all the way up to her locker on the top-shelf to get her bag! For not only did it contain her school supplies and clothes, there’s also the precious thing! The precious thing she spent all weekend preparing for her dearest one! But that’s no problem, for after all, time flies by when you are, “In LOOOOOOOoooooh…”

"…oh?"

"...oh."

“Peppa, is something wrong?” asks a girl from underneath Peppa.

The other girls in the locker room glance over and see that Peppa’s frozen up.

Erasa goes over and pinches Peppa’s cheek, causing Peppa to gasp and cover her rear. “Hey, you’re still with us!” she jokes with a smirk. “So what’s up?”

The smiling Peppa turns to her friend and opens her mouth, “I- ah,” she swishes some spit around, and once more, “I’m fine?”

Videl observes Peppa’s stiffness, and points at her with a hairbrush, “Are you?”

“Am I what- oh, uh. Of course, I’m fine! No problems here!” Peppa turns back to her locker and rifles through her bag once more. “It’s gotta be here somewhere,” she mutters.

Her friends frown, but shrug and get back to getting ready.

Peppa goes back and forth through her bag, turns her clothes inside out, feels under her books to ensure it didn’t get smushed, and after checking to see that no one’s underneath her, she upends her bag onto the floor. Some capsules go rolling, but their proximity failsafes prevent any from going off in the middle of a crowded room. Peppa pays them no heed as she works at separating all the items in her bag from each other.

(Cont'd.)

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Videl gathers up a few capsules with titles “Lunch 2” and “PoPo,” and examines the sight of her young friend sitting in the middle of her belongings. “Did you lose something, Peppa?”

Peppa goes through her books and clothes once again, but to no avail. “...yes.”

To lighten the mood, Erasa teases, “Was it chocolate? For your special someone?”

Peppa says nothing for a bit, then gives a small nod.

“Ohhh, okay,” Erasa backpedals. “Well, when’s the last time you had it?”

“Always, with me today, in my bag,” says Peppa.

Videl probes, “And you didn’t take the chocolate out at all, for any reason?”

Peppa shakes her head, “No, I was gonna give it to Cocoa afterschool, uh, before her school.” Different time zones, but Peppa could teleport and fly supersonic so it was hardly an issue to have a long-distance GF. “I think someone-”

“Could be at the Lost and Found,” Videl suggests soothingly. “If you dropped it, someone would have recovered it for you!”

Erasa considers, “Or someone could have eaten it. Or thought you left it for them especially!” Videl smacks the back of her head, “Yyyeowch! Mrrgh… sooo, did you write Cocoa’s name on it?”

Peppa thinks. “Yeah. I did.”

Videl laughs, “There you go! And if you don’t find it at the office, I’ll help you look for it later!” She tops off the declaration with a punch to her palm, and heads off to class.

“Good luck finding the chocolate! I mean, it’s Your chocolate, so it’s not like anyone’s gonna mess with it. Anyways, ta-ta!” Erasa gives a peace sign and walks away as well.

Peppa waves back at them with a smile. “That’s right… It’s My chocolate.” Her smile falls, and her eyes finally droop open. She gathers up her things. “Shoes, check, shirt, check, shorts, check…”

(Cont'd.)

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Once she's fully dressed, Peppa leaves the locker room and passes by the coach’s office.

“Hey, Peppa!” she hears. “You got a second real quick?”

She stops, and turns to see Coach Freddie leaning out his office. “Yeah, Coach?”

The coach looks over his shoulder down the hall, and then over Peppa’s head. He spots students already coming in. “Can you step into my office for a bit? I’ll write you a slip, don’t worry.”

Peppa nods, and goes into the office.

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>You are about to go into a Q&A segment. This is where readers will get the chance to ask a character questions, though that character will also ask you questions that may stand in the way of your own.

>When deciding on a good question to ask a character, review what has been shown from the character in the text, as well as what is recorded about them.

To recap, Coach Freddie is a mundanely fit individual, who possesses no supernatural qualities or abilities. It is common knowledge that he works for the school, and he has no view of the locker rooms' doors from his office.

It is also evident that Son Peppa is short due to her Tuffle heritage, and has to hop up to get at things on higher shelves, and constantly gets overlooked by others unless she hovers above the ground.

Notes about characters can be added to by posts from you, the players, and saved in this pastebin: https://pastebin.com/piLLeFjV

---

Peppa hops up into a chair in front of Coach Freddie's desk. She looks out the window, and can't see anything below the wall from her angle.

Coach Freddie marks a stack of papers, straightens them, then drops them on his desk, scattering them.. After clearing his throat, he asks,

>“Do you know why your cousin Izumi hasn’t been showing up to PE lately?”
(This is news to Son Peppa.)

>"Has there been anything you’ve noticed from her in the last week or so?”
(Son Peppa recalls Izumi saying she needs to focus on studying.)

>"Has Izumi looked like she's feeling sick in class recently?”
(Son Peppa hasn't considered Izumi recently.)

And what are some questions Peppa has for Coach Freddie?
>Write-in

>>5953059
>Notes about characters can be added to by posts from you, the players, and saved in this pastebin:
Ah, sorry, this one works better.

https://pastebin.com/HV1rVRwe

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>>5953059
Oh yeah, format for Q&As is

Question
>Ask the character a question
Be careful on what you ask, as it may reveal information the questioned character won't need to ask you later, though a question that reveals plenty can also bypass some hang-ups the other character has.

Answer "Given Question" with
>The answer to given question (the truth) / Not that (a lie)
The parts (like this) are important as it can help with the intention of your answer matching up with what you say.

To simplify,

Question Character
>What's happenin?

Answer "What's happenin?" with
>Not much (truth)

Depending on the individual, you can ask them multiple questions while answering none of theirs, and some others may not answer a single one of your questions until you answer all of theirs.

>>5953059
Answer “Do you know why your cousin Izumi hasn’t been showing up to PE lately?” with
>No (truth)
"Has there been anything you’ve noticed from her in the last week or so?” with
>She's focusing on studying (truth)
"Has Izumi looked like she's feeling sick in class recently?” with
>I haven't noticed her being sick (truth)

Question Coach Freddie
>Have you seen anyone take my things?

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>>5953194
https://youtu.be/tJlAxq2WcVI
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ANSWER

>“Do you know why your cousin Izumi hasn’t been showing up to PE lately?”
Peppa shakes her head. "No, this is the first I've heard of it."

>"Has there been anything you’ve noticed from her in the last week or so?”
Peppa taps her chin as she recalls, "Last I heard, she said she was gonna focus on hitting the books."

>"Has Izumi looked like she's feeling sick in class recently?”
"I haven't noticed anything about her in class," Peppa answers, though inwardly she notes her cousin hasn't crossed her thoughts lately.
---

Freddy nods. "Thanks for helping me out, kid. So the thing is, your cousin has excused herself from PE to the nurse's office multiple times, and any more times are going to have to require a doctor's note signed by her parents."

>The Coach asks Peppa, "Can you do me a solid and bring this up to her? She may have her own reasons, and having an adult leaning in on this could make things worse. At this stage, I feel like a word from you may work better."
(Son Peppa isn't opposed to doing this.)

---
QUESTION

>"Have you seen anyone take my things?"
asks Peppa, scratching at that itch needling into her.

"Someone took your things?" Coach Freddie balks, and shakes his head. "No, it would be very hard for me to see that. The locker rooms don't have cameras for obvious reasons, and going from the locker room, any student has a bag they could carry something in." He sees Peppa frowning, and goes, "For what it's worth, if anyone tried to sneak in or out of the locker room, I would be able to spot them. There's a fish-eye mirror up in the hall."
---

>He asks, "When did this start happening?"
(Son Peppa has been aware of her things going missing for weeks now, but it was replaceable things like homework, and clothes. Thanks, Clothes Beam!)

>"Do you have an idea of who might be responsible, and why?"
(Peppa hasn't made any enemies at school. But given that the crime scene is the girl's locker room, she figures it would have to be a girl.)

>"What got stolen?"
(Peppa is willing to disclose that her chocolate was stolen and nothing else about it, as it's a private matter.)


(Now, Q&As don't have to be committed to, so even if the other character has more questions, you can always have the PC say "I should go.")
>A. Keep up with the Q&A
>B. No more Q&A needed
>C. Update the notes with new info (write-in)

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>>5953265
Answer
>Sure, I'll talk with Izzy about it (truth)
>This has been happening for weeks now (truth)
>No, but it's probably a girl since it's the girls locker room (truth)
>My Valentines Chocolate (truth)

>B. No more Q&A needed
>C. There's a mirror in the hall so people couldn't sneak inside the locker room
>Izumi is going to the Nurse alot

>>5953265
>>5953324
Supporting

Did the original QM approve of this?

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>>5953324
(Notes updated with new info!)
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ANSWER

The Coach asks Peppa, "Can you do me a solid and bring this up to her?"
>Peppa nods, "Sure, I'll talk with Izzy!"

Freddie asks, "When did this start happening?"
>Peppa shrugs, "For a few weeks now, but nothing big, until now."

"Do you have an idea of who might be responsible, and why?"
>Peppa shakes her head, "I don't have any enemies at school, but if anyone is trying to mess with me, it's most likely a girl since they got into the girls' locker room."

"What got stolen?"
>"My Valentines Chocolate."
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Freddie scratches his head, "A few weeks?" He whistles. "Thanks for telling me, I'll do whatever I can to help. He starts writing a slip, and asks, "So what kind of chocolate was it?"

Peppa goes stiff, and blushes. She frowns, and replies, "They took the chocolate I made for my girlfriend."

"Ah, damn." Freddie sighs. "That's rough. Well, I'm sorry that happened, here's your slip."

Son Peppa takes the attendance slip, and heads out of the room. The adult male couldn't do much.

"Oh, and Peppa!" the coach calls at her. "I'll keep an eye out for whoever stole it! So, keep an eye on your cousin, keep your noses clean!" He winks.

Peppa nods, and thumbs her nose, grinning. "Sure thing, Coach!"

---
Q&A complete!
---

And so, Peppa goes to the lost and found! To her pleasant surprise, she finds the package, and lets out a massive sigh of relief that lifts her little body off the ground!

She had been expecting the worst, but nahhh! Who's gonna mess with someone else's chocolate? Especially with the cute package she made with the clothes beam that has Cocoa's initials monogrammed in rose gold on cruelty-free pink velvet! All wrapped up with a bow using the fabric of her and Cocoa’s matching ribbons and a big "CACA" displayed proudly for only her and Cocoa to see- eh.

Huh, had she gotten a little too enthusiastic about embroidering? Well, nothing a little rip and mending with magic can't fix. There, good as new! Phwoo! Lucky she caught that before Cocoa saw.

Peppa skips off to class, but midway, she can't help but pause. Something niggles her about a blunder like that. It was big and right there… So, no harm in taking a moment to go over the details!

She reviews the card, same message of: “I hope my feelings will become clear to you with this. Please accept it. - Peppa” Good! No worries there, other than if Cocoa will like the candy. Oh right, the candy!

Peppa shiftily looks over her shoulder, then scurries off to the girls’ room to whip it out. The candy, that is.

...

The door to the girls’ room opens outward. Not being designed to do that, it falls over. Peppa walks over it.

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Ten minutes later, class is in session technically, but the history professor is still working out how to set up the projector and some things are doomed to repeat no matter what. So, the students are all having whispered conversations and lounging around.

But even with that downtime, something that doesn’t repeat, or happen, period, is Peppa showing up late to class. And there she is, standing in the doorway of the classroom.

Videl looks up from stabbing between her fingers with a pencil and spots Peppa. She waves the girl over while the professor is distracted.

Peppa instead goes over to the professor’s desk. She hops up onto it, gaining even the professor’s attention now, and holds up an unwrapped package. “Who did this?”

The class is silent for a moment. The air is heavy in the room due to Peppa’s uncanny behavior. She never makes a scene like this, which is why the sight of her, holding that?

“...pfft!” “heheheh” “AhahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA” So goddamn funny for her classmates.

Not to her though. “No! Stop it, stop laughing! I’m being serious!” shouts Peppa.

Her cousin, Izumi, giggles into her sleeve. “But Peppa, snrk, look what you’re holding!”

Peppa was in fact holding up a piece of chocolate shaped like Poop. “Look, it’s chocolate, okay?”

Peppa’s brother Gohan jokes, “I sure hope so!” Laughter.

Peppa shouts back, “Up, shut! I just wanna know who took my chocolate, so I can ask for it back!”

Videl raises her hand, which has Peppa direct some intensity at her. She flinches in surprise, but says, “Well, uh, what did it look like, Peppa?”

“It was wrapped in a package exactly like this one, except… well, it’s exactly like this one.” She sets the package down, gets on her knees, and clasps her hands together. “Please give it back?”

The mirth in the classroom dissipates, and the class goes silent. …but the silence continues.

The history professor pats her on the shoulder, “Miss Son, I’m sorry to hear you’ve fallen victim to a prank, but we can sort this out after class.”

Peppa trembles a bit, and is about to nod… when all of a sudden she hears whispering from the students. “Does someone have something they’d like to say?!”

A bespectacled girl, who has risen from her seat, lets out an “eep!” and blushes from all the newfound attention on her.

Peppa points at her, “Yeah, you! That’s right, I’m talking to you! You know where my chocolate went?”

The girl stammers out, “I, uh, I was just going to the restroom, desu...”

“Please hold it till we sort this out,” Peppa commands.

Videl briskly appears next to Peppa, and says, “Peppa, we can find it later! I’ll help you.” Then, she leans in and says through her teeth, “You’re starting to freak people out.”

“Who’s freaked out?” she laughs, then snaps her head toward the class, “I’m only making perfectly reasonable requests!”

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Erasa walks over with a compact. “Peppa, take a look here for a second,” she says, holding up the mirror for Peppa to examine.

Peppa looks into her own bloodshot eyes, pupils narrowed into pinpricks, and a momentary twitch emphasizes the bags under them. Hyperventilation through clenched teeth. She recoils from the mirror. “Nyehhh!”

She looks around at the class, and considers how she must look to them. She then considers what she must do to recover her chocolate from that intruder.

>>5953324
>>5953367
>>5953457
>A. Q&A with the class
>B. Drop it, wait till school gets out
>C. Update the notes with new info (write-in)

>>5953481
>B. Drop it, wait till school gets out
>C. Someone took the chocolate and replaced it with chocolate poop
>The chocolate's package was made by Peppa with the clothes beam
>This fake package looks the same but with CACA instead of COCOA
>Whoever swapped the chocolate left the replacement at the lost and found, could ask who brought it there

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>>5953504
(Notes updated with new info!)
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Peppa huffs. She just went through all the lockers in the school (thank you, telekinesis!) and nothing turned up! Confronting the people in her class about it is her last resort... but pressing the issue now could dissuade her friends from helping her out.

"Alright, fine." She bows, and apologizes, then hops off the professor's desk to go to her seat.

“Now, we shall be watching a video. Don’t relax just yet,” Professor Ivorgett says, looking pointedly at the class. “You will be quizzed on the information herein, so take notes.” He then tosses his laptop in the bin. “Gonna have to break out Ol’ Reliable, it seems.”

Peppa gets back to her desk, and notices the glasses girl she had called out before. "Uh, sorry for yelling at you before."

The girl flinches at being talked to, then shakes her head. "Oh, there's no need to apologize, desu!"

Peppa raises an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

The girl nods a bit too much. "Mmhmm!"

Peppa considers the girl seated behind her, specifically her glasses, those things are just ridiculous, they're all swirly, and you can't even see through them! Why would anyone wear those?

With Peppa looking directly into the girl's glasses, it looks like this:

O_o @_@

But try as she might, Peppa can’t see past the opaque lenses… that is, until the girl presses her glasses up, the glare leaving to reveal that the blushing girl's gaze is directed pointedly away from Peppa’s awkward ass.

"Uh, uh... I have to go! Restroom!" the girl says as she pushes away from her desk and scurries out of the room.

A chagrined Peppa turns back to the front as the professor heads up to the back, having doffed his suit jacket and shirt to let his chiseled form breathe for the work he’s about to do. The professor begins moving the projector’s crank, and Peppa looks back down at her desk as the lights dim.

She hears murmuring from the side, and spots Videl whispering with Erasa. When they notice her watching them, they hush. But why would they? What were they talking about anyway?

Peppa looks over at her cousin, Izumi. Her cousin is doing some flipcards, and- and pinching herself and wincing when she gets one wrong? Or... when takes too long to answer. The heck's with that?

She then considers the other girl in her class, Angela. She's texting her boyfriend, Pen. In class. While he's, like, right there. She hits send, and giggles. Then he checks his phone, snickers, and texts back. In response she squees, and her thumbs become a blur. Ugh, can't you do that at home?

"It's most likely a girl since they got into the girls' locker room."

She frowns, considering that tidbit while imagining the others doing that to her, and she looks around again, but now the room is completely dark.

The projector lights up, casting the world in black and white.

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chocolat noir
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>>5953324
>>5953504
Thanks for playing, y'all. We'll continue tomorrow!

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When there’s an incident, usually it’s forgotten about. No matter how much importance an involved party places on the events of their life, unaffected bystanders will only make superficial acknowledgments if they bother to react at all. An incident is something to be dealt with by those involved, and those who aren’t involved don’t get involved. A wrong can be committed, but those involved either make things right or learn to live with the consequences. This is accepted as part of the status quo, and this acceptance fosters indifference.

But sometimes, an incident drags the uninvolved into it because some incidents grow and grow, never dying. A Cancer that clings onto those who wish to be free of the pit, and pulls them down so there is no escape. A particular incident has managed to get its hooks on several high-profile persons, enough that the top brass has given you the assignment of looking into it and sorting it all out, and you’re fresh out of lemon butter.

By the way, as of this moment, you’re Inspector Momiji Hi-Fumi, Agent of InterPLE. Your personal history is insignificant, and the only reminiscing you care to get into is getting the dirty details of this case out of one Son Peppa, a figure seemingly at the center of it all. Having saved the world a few times, Peppa doesn’t seem the type to do wrong. And having wrestled an entire world before, she also doesn’t seem the type to let others get her down. But those are assumptions. You need the Truth.

You arrive at a speakeasy called “Ruban Rouge,” which is way seedier a joint than one would expect to meet a sprout like Peppa in. The door opens, and a vapor pours out of the room. You wave the smog away as best you can, then enter the building once the atmosphere equalizes. Inside, there’s an empty bar and someone playing billiards.

All girl, all monkey. She’s dressed in a red dress, keeps her hair tied up with a red-striped scrunchie, and holds a red pole within her hands. Legs that go all the way up to a human adult’s knee, as she is quite tiny. And to top it all off, puffed out cheeks so cute that even now you can barely hold yourself back from them!

The girl hits the cue ball, sending the balls rolling about in chaos. The only one that goes in a hole is the eight ball of all things, so the girl lets out a huff of defeat. “Figures.”

>A. Young lady, I'm here to question you about the incident involving Son Gohan. (Q&A)
>B. What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? Like, this joint is depressing.
>C. Update the notes with new info (write-in)

>>5953504
>>5953324
>>5953457
Sorry for the late start, y'all, was fretting over art and such, and refining some mechanics. One of the mechanics we've had so far is
(What the PC knows and how willing they are to share it)
You've done a decent job taking notes so far, and I encourage that, which is why I'm taking the training wheels off and letting you decide your own reasoning.

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>>5954222
So, I feel confident there's no need for (Parentheses) anymore, but let me know if they're still needed. And, to give you a running start, I will be updating the notes with all the knowledge the Inspector has.

https://pastebin.com/HV1rVRwe

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>>5954232
>Son Gohan is Son Peppa's twin brother. He was found severely injured on the premises of Orange Star High School. Injuries include: Cuts all over the surface of the skin, burns from flame and dry ice, lashes from a whip, and his right arm has been cut off.

>>5954222
>A. Young lady, I'm here to question you about the incident involving Son Gohan. (Q&A)
>Slam our files on the pool table
>TWENTY-EIGHT STAB WOUNDS!

>C. That glasses girl is suspicious.
>Videl and Erasa were whispering about something
>Izumi's study methods involve pain

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You march right up to the pool table, and slam your dossier on it. You calmly ask, "FOUND WITH INJURIES OUT THE WAZOO, YOUR OWN BROTHER GOHAN, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT?!?"

In response to the sudden query, Peppa's body springs up into the air, the fur on her tail standing on end. She looks at the files, then at you, her eyes wide. "Whuh, huh?"

"Don't play dumb! You go to school with him, you're in the same class, and since you're twins you practically have the same thoughts!" To emphasize your argument, you shake the girl by her shoulders.

"Stooop shakinnng meeee!" the girl pleads.

"Ah, you want off this ride? Shouldn't have got on it in the first place, shortstuff!" You keep up the simply stellar line of questioning, about to get to the bottom of this, just gotta wait for the goose to cough up the eggs, and buddy, they're gettin' scrambled-

Your middle leans a certain way, and you lose your balance, and your grip on Son Peppa. Once you get nicely acquainted with the floor, the whole of you gets some rearrangement, and Inspector Momiji Hi-Fumi now sports a cooler head!

"So sorry about that!" you say, bowing your head and wringing your palms together. "I need to get the facts of the case, but abusing you for them isn't doing anybody one whit of good!"

Son Peppa huffs. "So you're sniffing around trying to find a lead? Well, I'm as in the dark as you are. Wish it would stay that way."

"Aw, you don't mean that!" you croon. "Your brother's been hurt, and I'm here to find out how he got that way. You'll help me, won't you?"

Peppa looks at the files, then sighs. "Sure." She looks up at you. "What do you want to know?"

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QUESTIONING START
>(Ask Son Peppa questions about the circumstances surrounding her brother.)

>>5954386
Ask her
>Can you recall anything different with your brother recently?
>Does your brother have any known enemies?

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>>5954673
https://youtu.be/KvgCDk_tBiM

You pick up the folder containing all you know on Son Gohan. Best to start small.
>"Can you recall anything different with your brother recently?"

Peppa frowns. "He looked very different when I found him."

You clarify, "Before the incident on March 14, Age 766. Was there any change in him, what he did, who he did it with?"

The girl shrugs. "We haven't been talking much lately. There was the thing on Valentines, and he's busy hanging out with his new girlfriends." She blinks. "Oh yeah, that's new," she admits.

"Mmhmm... thank you." And as to why he was found in a gruesome state,
>"Does your brother have any known enemies?"

Peppa considers, looking up at the ceiling. "Well, there is Towa, and- wait, are we only counting living ones?"

You nod.

Peppa continues, "So there's Towa and the demons, and that's about it."

>Common Knowledge! TOWA
Towa is a demon scientist who has exacerbated many crises on Earth for the past few decades. Her MO is to either make villains who are presently threats to Earth even stronger, or send creations of her own to fight the defenders of Earth, and record data from these deathmatches as part of her scientific method.

You file that into that notes, and you notice Peppa looking up at you, a critical gaze. "Yes?"

"When I spar with Gohan, we do it in a deserted place. Less collateral damage that way. When he got, like that," she says, fighting down a bit of nausea, "Our school was still standing, and I hadn't sensed anything like a fight that day." She asks,
>"It is possible that some creation of Towa's took him out without a fight?"

(Here's a question that the Inspector may or may not know the answer to. And to gamify this a bit more, here's a second pastebin containing big questions that noted-down evidence can potentially solve.)
https://pastebin.com/QyCB76JM

>A. Continue Q&A,
>Question (write-in)
>Answer (write-in)
>B. That's enough Q&A for now
>C. Update the notes (write-in)

>>5954793
>A.
Answer "It is possible that some creation of Towa's took him out without a fight?" with
>That doesn't match her MO. There would have to be a fight if a creation of hers got involved, and Gohan would be dead if he lost.
Question
>Gohan has girlfriendS?
>You said you didn't sense a fight, so how did you find him after this happened to him?

>C. Incident happened on March 14, Age 766
>The high school wasn't the scene of a fight
>Peppa didn't sense a fight happen before she found her brother

>>5954793
>>5954886
Supporting, and also ask
>What happened between you and Gohan on Valentines Day?

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>>5954886
Nicely done!
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You shake your head. "From what is known of Towa, her MO involves recording the data from fights with Earth's best defenders, so if she was behind this, there would need to be a fight, one that would push Gohan and her new creation to their limits. And say Gohan did get instantly KO'd by a new creation of hers, there's still the matter of him getting brutalized within an inch of his life when he was down. Pains me to admit it, but for a demon out to prove her superiority, it's rare for Towa to go out of her way solely to be sadistic. If her aim was to field test something, she would give it the directive to kill and prepare for it to be killed in turn, anything else wouldn't advance her goals."

Peppa crosses her arms. "So if she was responsible, Gohan would just be dead? ...that's a cold comfort."

You nod. "Small blessings. Still, he was able to get a Senzu Bean despite his injuries, right?"

"Yeah, sure, but he's been asleep for a while now!" she shouts, and then the girl starts to hyperventilate as she recalls her brother's condition. "And he has all that scarring on him, and, and-" she's heaving.

You hold your hands up, "Okay, okay, let's calm down, he's gonna be fine, he just needs some rest is all! Now just breathe in, and out. Like that, do it with me."

Peppa's nostrils flare, but she slows her breathing, getting to a more comfortable tempo. Then, she takes out a pen-looking device, and inhales from it. She sighs out a puff of black air. "Thaaat's better!"

You smile and nod, then your legs give out. "Oh, down I go," you mutter as you topple from your perch, and after some thrashing about in your coat, you get back up and put your hat back on. Using all the authority an Inspector can muster, you inquire, “Young lady, are you smoking!?”

“No.” She inhales again.

“Then what is that you’re doing there?”

She explains as easily as she exhales, “It’s called vaping, it’s the new thing and has no drawbacks and/or health issues whatsoever.”

“Is there science behind that?”

She shrugs. “Everyone at school is doing it and they’re just fantastic~”

“If everyone at school jumped off a bridge-”

“Pff! Cough!” Before you can get any further with the moralizing, Peppa sputters, and her body quivers as she coughs into her fist. "Sorry, sorry."

You quirk your brow as you observe the girl before you. Her eyes are dark, naturally black but not reflecting any light.

She smiles up at you. "It helps me vent."

You're about to ask if she just vented up a lung, when one of your stubby torso arms holds up a notepad with a message saying: "ASK MORE PERTINENT QUESTIONS."

You scowl, but let it go for now. "I see. Well, in the interest of you not needing to vent more, let's talk about something light! So, you said Gohan-" Her face drops at the mention of his name, "You said he had new girlfriendS? Plural? What's that about?"

She clicks her tongue. "Yep, four of them."

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“Four? …huh.”

>Common Knowledge: SON GOHAN
Son Gohan’s been good friends with Pantea Briefs for 15 of his 15 years now, and when he was dead for a year, became good friends with Phantasma, a ghost girl.

“So, Pantea and Phantasma, are they-”

“Nope.” Peppa then pinches her nose to relieve some strain. “Neither of them.”

“Oh.” That’s disappointing… but hey, Gohan has a good head on his shoulders! He wouldn’t pick someone bad for him… let alone four??? Who are these girls!?

You grit your teeth, and do some vapeless venting yourself, this topic is getting you riled up. What to ask her, something pertaining to the case- ah! “Right, there’s something you said before that brought up a conundrum, I was hoping you could help me clear it up?”

She lounges on the pool leg, and blows out some smog. “Shoot.”

Grrr… “You see, you said you didn’t sense a struggle before Son Gohan was found.” She nods. “So how did you find him?”

Peppa blinks. “Eh?”

“You didn’t sense anything from him, so how did you know to go find him? He was unconscious when you found him, so it’s not like he could transmit a telepathic SOS.”

Peppa winces, and the vape pen straining in her fingers shoots a jet of smoke at her face. “Gah!”

You wave away the smog from her face, and confiscate the contraband for the time being. “Peppa, you didn’t sense your brother in peril, but you found him after the fact. How?”

Peppa wipes at her eyes with a handkerchief, “What does it matter ‘how?’ I found him when he needed help. It’s not like whoever found him is guilty of-” She stops, and glares at you with anger and wetness in her eyes. “I’m warning you, this had better not be leading where I think it is.”

(When blue statements from a character appear, that means they have refused to answer a question. These can potentially be overcome depending on your approach. Write-ins encouraged!)

“And where’s that?”

Peppa bares her saiyan teeth at you. “You, you’re going to accuse me, you’re going to say I did it. All that. To him.”

…

“What happened on Valentines? Between you and Gohan?”

Son Peppa answers, “He ran over my puppy and I swore vengeance on him- What do you mean what happened on Valentines!?”

You read from the notepad, “‘The two of you stopped talking recently, there was the thing on Valentines.”

“Oh. Uh. Yeah. That.” Peppa cringes, and her tail twitches. “Before I tell you that, can we have a drink? I’m thirsty.”

“Sure, but our both our drinks had better be non-alcoholic."

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Peppa pops up from behind the bar, wearing a bartender get-up. “What poisons do teetotalers fancy, Miss…” She tilts her head. “Sorry, I don’t believe I got your name before you shook me for info.”

You do a salute with a tip of your fedora, and your torso arm holds out your badge. “Inspector Momiji Hi-Fumi’s the name, it means-” The torso hand shoves the badge in your mouth as you explain, “Mrphph, ann Hi-Fumrph mrphs Wh-hu-phee.” You snatch the badge away from the torso hand and put it back in your pocket of your trenchcoat a bit too hard, “It’s a punny name that alludes to my secret nature!

Peppa polishes a glass, and wonders aloud, “Why would you have a punny name that reveals your secret nature?”

“To encourage the players to look out for that!”

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chocolat noir
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Thanks for playing y'all! Fair warning, this isn't really going to have live times, more something I'll update whenever I get the chance.

With that said, some choices for you!

>A. Continue with Q&A
>Question / Answer (write-in)
>B. Stop with the Q&A for now, hear what happened on Valentines
>C. Update the notes (write-in)

>>5954222
Did the original QM approve of this or not?

>>5955274
Last we discussed this story in particular (before I retooled it as a quest), she was okay with it, though that was a while ago and she had only seen the beginning of it. Still, if her approval is the deciding factor for yours, it's best to go ask about it straight from her. https://x.com/KatoQm?t=OgXypN2V8cDtMhbRmtlRdg&s=09

>>5955041
>B. Stop with the Q&A for now, hear what happened on Valentines
>C. Gohan had a senzu bean, but he's in a coma and he has scars from his injuries
OP, slight error here, Senzu beans heal injuries completely. In the trunks special Future Gohan could grow back his arm with one.

>>5955274
>can't do a fanfic quest of a fanfic quest without permission
Lol, lmao even

>>5955041
>A. Question
>Do these new girlfriends seem like they would do that to Gohan?
>Did any of them tell you where Gohan was at the time?
Then
>B.
>C. Somehow Gohan has 4 girlfriends

>Momiji - Maple
>Hi-Fumi - 1-2-3
>in a trenchcoat.
but why?

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Gonna focus on resting tonight, will update tomorrow. Thanks for playing! formatting spoilers is a nightmare

>>5955274
Did you get an answer? I hope to see you around if so!

>>5955564
Good catch, anon! Notes updated!
Also, please don't troll the other players, I needs all I can gets!

>>5955787
>but why?
An inspector can inspect a lot more from higher up!

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>>5956002
>Notes updated!
>Gohan had a senzu bean, which should have healed him completely, but he's in a coma and he has scars from his injuries.
...yay?

See you tomorrow, OP!

>>5955564
If you call something a "spinoff" then there's usually an implication it's done with the other QM having some acknowledgement.

>>5955345
>>5956002
She said she was not contacted about this, has no part in this, and wants no part in this. So that's a hard no. Should make it clear in your OP if you do something like this again.

>>5956092
She actually gave me much critique with the story and advice on how to handle the characters last year, so she has some part in it.

Still, is that a hard no from her, or you?

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Here's one way you can get Kato's approval.

Interesting, will be following this quest.

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>>5956455
Anon, how is jerking it supposed to help?

>>5956762
A-thank-you! Will deliver!
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You review what you’ve jotted down on Gohan and his girlfriends, and Peppa makes you a Virgin Bloody Mary. …although, she adds a bit too much Tabasco for your liking.

You take a swig, wheeze out some red mist, and ask (as well as you can with a burning throat),
>”Do these new girlfriends seem like they would do that to Gohan?”
These four hussies were most likely taking advantage of Gohan, and when you get their number you’ll cross them out, one by one!

Peppa sips her own drink as well, and considers for a bit… before adding a drop more. She swirls her glass around, and recalls, “They don’t seem strong enough to take out Gohan? But even then, I didn’t sense Gohan fighting someone.” You nod, perhaps they got a lucky shot in.

She sips some more. “As for personality… they seemed fine? One seemed kinda nervous but was also very accepting, another was kinda bossy but in a sensible way? One had a singing voice like an angel and a smile like sunshine, and the last one was, uh… angry, but also competitive.” To your horror, Peppa smiles a bit as she tells you this.

Then, her face twists. “Though I gotta tell ya, the sheer word vomits of adoration they went into about Gohan sometimes, honestly made me want to vomit for real…”

You’re fighting down some heartburn yourself, but you carry on. “I see, I see!” Some overly complimenting girls seducing that sweet boy into their clutches! And to build on this hunch,
>”Did any of them tell you where Gohan was at the time of the incident?”

Peppa sets her glass down, and stares into you with narrowed eyes. “No, they didn’t.”

You nod gratefully. “Thank you, missie! And now,” you begin, picking up the bubbling red concoction, and slipping it inside your trenchcoat, “What happened on Valentine’s Day? I heard a little bit, but not the part involving Gohan.”

Her face softens from the hard stare, but she looks down instead. “Oh yeah, Valentines. The Chocolate.” She takes a drag of her vape-pen (how in the-), and sighs, black smog swirling up around you and inking the room pitch black.

A projector turns on, illuminating this canvas.

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A documentary plays, educating the class on how the Red Ribbon Army fell, not due to force of arms, but rather to embezzlement, too much budget on wonder weapons, and color coding every strata of commander when there could be like 20 max before they’d run out of names. It all came crashing down in September of Age 749 when a brief fit of infighting and engineering mishaps destabilized the whole operation and revealed the location of their headquarters, which the World Government pounced upon immediately at the direction of King Furry, our number one prime minister for 49 years and counting!

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“Didn’t this saga have Mom and Dad in it?” Peppa thinks as she doodles scenes from the stories her mom told her while simultaneously taking notes, which is really no trouble for her since she can autograph bullets before sending them back the way they came.

Maybe she should put her name on more of her things, then maybe no one else would mistake them for theirs… the clothes which are kid-sized to begin with. She can’t help but shake the notion that the person responsible is in her class. Her class follows the same schedule everyday barring the time some students leave for electives, and they generally all stay in the same homeroom with professors going in and out. To keep at this as regularly as they have, they would have to both know her schedule and be able to access the same areas she can at times when it wouldn’t be suspicious to others.

So there wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary if a student from her class did things her class did… but who in her class would do something like that to her? Is it to play a prank on her, make her look silly, have her make enough of a scene that she would have to reveal her chocolate to everyone before getting it back? She asked them nicely, and still nothing!

She thinks about who all she knows in her class, there’s Videl, Erasa, Gohan, Izzy, Sharpner… uh, Pen, and Angela. And none of them would have a reason to take her things, so who else would? Peppa then realizes she doesn’t really know that much about the other students. But even if she doesn’t, someone among them is still targeting her specifically. Is it celebrity worship, taking mementos? Are her running shoes a collectible she could find up for auction?

The thought of that makes her chuckle a bit. Heheh, eww, who would want her dirty clothes? She didn’t have time to wash them, they’re all dirty and sweaty and smelly- Oh hi, intrusive thought!

https://youtu.be/m18qsZ8jDyg

She shudders as that worst case scenario makes its way into her mind as it has every time something of hers had been stolen: Could the motive behind this be perversion?

The thought of her chocolate, the one she made that way, in a pervert’s hands… It upsets her stomach.

But, it can’t be that, no way. The clothes are being taken from her locker in the girls’ locker room, a guy wouldn’t have any business going in there. Well, maybe they could figure out a way, and she could investigate to see if that had happened at all the past weeks, but the thought of actually finding something down that route makes her sick. So, say it’s a girl who’s taking her clothes for some reason. She doesn’t think anyone else in her class is a lesbian, in fact she has to go to the other side of the world just to date someone her age. Well, there is the Alliance Club, but she doesn’t recognize any of her classmates from the last… and first time she went. Maybe she could check later, but no one there struck her as the type to do something like,

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…well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? No one strikes her as the type to do something like this to her.

>Common Knowledge! ALLIANCE CLUB
The Alliance Club is a school club of that the LGBT (and ally) kids meet in, tell stories of their challenges they faced or are still working out, hang out to play games or do homework, and support each other.

Maybe someone has a grudge against her. Has she done anything to make someone hate her? Nothing really springs to mind. She’s always been a good student who’s focused on class when it’s class and has fun when it’s time to have fun. Who would take issue with that? Well, there was that one issue with Sharpner where he thought she had problems with him because she wanted Videl to focus on class and told him to quit flirting.

She huffs. If you have time to develop yourself, you should. Did Sharpner never get that memo? Always fooling around and playing games. And to think a guy like him gets to go out with Videl, her crush of some odd years-

Once this crosses her mind, she does a double-take. The hell was that? She has no reason to be jealous of others, especially with her Cocoa. It’s perfectly fine with her if Videl prefers a future of mediocrity so long as she can get di- “Oh, peas and rice!” she hisses.

“Peppa?” Videl whispers, looking at her with concern. Telepathically, “What’s the matter?”

Peppa shakes her head, smiling. “It's all good, I'm fine.”

https://youtu.be/1fM1Ox7fxAo

“C’mon, if you’re upset, let me know,” Videl tells her like she’s the big sister Peppa never had, and were that petty side of Peppa to have it her way, wouldn’t have even wanted as a sister. All in all, it makes her feel like junk.

“It’s just…” she looks away, and sees the screen, showing some old footage from the Loony 2 probe showing the Moon Shattering of September 13, 749. Gotta get those dates down… Ah ha! She lies via telepathy, “It’s scary how devastating our power can be. The moon isn’t small, and the Kamehameha turned it into space dust.” (Officially it was a freak comet that would have nearly hit the Earth were it not for the timely intervention of the Furry Administration.)

Videl frowns, but nods. “Just be careful with what you can do. And if you need help with something, just let me know and I’ll lend you a hand.”

Peppa nods, smiling. Videl really is too good a friend for her-

“Also can you let me and Erasa borrow your notes? I lost track around the age of the dinosaurs getting suffrage.”

Peppa nods, smiling. Equivalent Exchange!

>Common Knowledge! EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE
"While it may seem complicated, the simple concept is absolute: something cannot be made from nothing. In order to create something, another thing of equal value must be exchanged and is then lost." Peppa's mom trades favors and techniques using this reasoning.

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Peppa focuses on taking notes, and figures she really shouldn’t be green with envy, or petty about others' success. She has friends, food, and the best girlfriend in the world. She has it all- waaaiiit a second!

Could it be that someone was envious of her? They want to have what she has, but can’t. So they get their petty kicks in by taking her things!

Only, this time around, something was replaced. They had replaced her chocolate with chocolate Poop. She would have looked foolish in front of Cocoa if she didn’t check it earlier. Though, she’s gonna look foolish regardless with no chocolate. And after all that work too…

Wait, she can’t admit defeat just yet! If she does that, the terrorists win. She’ll find a way to get Cocoa her chocolate, ain’t no one getting in the way of that! With newfound resolve, Peppa peps up, and coincidentally the lights come on.

The huffing and puffing professor walks to the front of the class with his clothes draped over his shoulder, his muscles glistening. “Now, that video was on the 740s. Here’s a question that should be easy for those who weren’t napping (Mister Hiro): In what ways was the Age 749 significant?”

Peppa knows the answer to that one, even if it’s not the one the curriculum is looking for, and murmurs, “A space alien met a monkey boy.”

https://youtu.be/6g2d7r2vwb0

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(We'll pause the story here for tonight. Still, a vote for y'all!)

>A. Continue with the story
>B. Ask Peppa a question (write-in)
>C. Update the notes (write-in)

>>5956929
>A. Continue with the story
man, what a complicated web

>>5956929
>A. Continue with the story
>C. Gohan's girlfriends don't seem strong enough to do this to him
>King Furry is taking credit for what Mom and the others did
>Peppa's class stays together for PE

>>5956950
Heh, thanks for the compliment!
The thing with complicated webs is that once all strands are traced, they become very simple to mop up. So, good hunting!

>>5957143
Like this here, notes updated! Keep it up!

I will continue tomorrow. Also, should mention this is being run on fiction.live at the same time, so now, when an update occurs, you'll see stuff like "Anon-kun asked/answered yadda yadda."

>>5957733
>I will continue tomorrow. Also, should mention this is being run on fiction.live at the same time
hmm, will keep that in mind

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Anon-kun posits the theory, "Maybe it didn't have to be a girl who was behind stealing the chocolate. Angela could have stolen it for her boyfriend."
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You hold up a hand, and point at Angela and Pen. "Hold on, I think I might have something here. So Pen, that nerdy lookin' boy with the glasses, he's going out with Angela, that red-headed hottie, ya dig?"

"I dig?" Peppa asks, confused.

>Common Knowledge! PEN SUTAPA and ANGELA CAPELLI
Pen's into anime, Angela's into dramas. They watch anime dramas together! After hitting it off during a dating game held by Peppa and Cocoa at Dream Land, the two are smitten with each other and inspire disgust in onlookers with their cutesy shenannigans!

"Glad to hear! So what if he asked her to steal your chocolate and your clothes and whatsits!"

Peppa thinks for a bit, frowning. "Why tho?"

You raise a finger as you go to explain, and come up short. "...hmm. Why indeed."

Peppa nods. "I've been wondering over what the culprit's motives must be, and if it is Pen and Angela working together, it doesn't make sense. Say the motive was to sell my stuff for money, how much is my chocolate to someone else worth to them? If the motive was envy, what do I have with my Valentines Chocolate that the happy couple doesn't? And now, say it was perversion on Pen's part, would his girlfriend go along with it?"

...those are excellent questions, the kind that answer themselves. You cross out some of your notes, and sheepishly ask Peppa to continue the reel.
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(I've been doing some thinking, and from how I've had it planned out, the Inspecter just listening to Peppa's flashback and commentating and taking notes... it didn't seem very fun. So I have decided, the POV characters of flashbacks get to be the PC for the time being, and you get to slightly alter the course of the story with their decisions, even though some denouements are set in stone. And from what Kato, QM of Tuffle Quest, has told me, some of the decisions I had originally outlined for characters to make didn't gel with "good sense.")


As the history class continues, Peppa frets over what to do about her chocolate. Videl said she would help, but also, her earnest advice to be careful using power lest she cause collateral damage rings in her head. She also has commitments to follow up on and things to look into that may reveal information less immediately but more peaceably. She also has to talk with Izumi to get an idea of what's up, the chocolate thing is big, but so is her cousin.

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But, Peppa worked really hard on that chocolate. She molded and crafted it especially for her Cocoa to enjoy, and followed the advice of an older lesbian to do it. She wrecked her mom's kitchen to make it, she is going to go without homemade dinners for weeks. If Peppa doesn't have the chocolate she made to give to her girlfriend in time in the hour after Peppa's school ends (which is also the hour before Cocoa's school starts, Time Zones), she's gonna lose it!

So, on a new page of notebook paper, Peppa weighs the pros and cons of the two routes before her:

ROUTE A: Let it go
>Peppa gives up on finding her chocolate on this day, the day of Valentines
>Chance to catch up with Izumi
>Opportunity to investigate with other suspects from the girls in class
>imagine not being able to get your girlfriend something for Valentines

ROUTE B: No One Leaves!
>Peppa subjects the class to a bag search, checking them out of class one-by-one
>No time to check in with Izumi
>Her friends' trust in her may be tested
>High risk, high reward of finding out clues

>ROUTE A
>ROUTE B

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>>5958469
>ROUTE B

>>5958724
So far, unanimous across the boards on Route B! I'll get to writing now.

>>5958469
>and followed the advice of an older lesbian to do it
did she put her body fluids in it ?

>B

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>>5958936
It's not Shimoneta, but that is in the ballpark.
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Towards the end of class, Peppa communicates with Videl via telepathy to let her know she needs help with a quick plan. Videl agrees to help.

Professor Ivorgett dismisses the class and heads out. When students get up to leave, Peppa floats in front of the exit with her arms crossed, smiling. The students stand in front of her, feeling a bit awkward… until they remember the other door! They turn to the higher door, only to see Videl Satan also standing guard in front of it, inspecting her nails.

Peppa pipes up, “This is a pickle! You all seem to have forgotten something, so I’ll remind you real quick: I’m still looking for my chocolate.” Her smile develops into a smirk, and she holds out her hand. “So, cough it up, and you can leave!”

The room is silent… until someone coughs.

Peppa sighs. “The hard way it is. I’m gonna need to look inside your bags!”

The students are hesitant. Murmurs of “Really?” “You gotta be kidding me.” and “No way, Jose!”

Peppa tilts her head at them all, hands on her hips. “Is there a reason you don’t want to?”

…

Then, her cousin Izumi steps forward. “Peppa, I don’t have time for this. I have a study session to get to.”

Peppa nods. “Okay, so show me your bag.”

“Really.”

“Yeah, really. I can’t make exceptions, even for family.”

Izumi blinks a few times in disbelief, then lets out an offended “Hah?”

Peppa quirks an eyebrow. “Izzy? What’s the holdup, c’mon, it’ll be super quick. I’m just looking for my chocolate.”

Izumi glares back. “You're the holdup! How dare you accuse me of stealing from you!"

"I'm not accusing you, Izzy," Peppa says, shaking her head. "If I find my chocolate in your bag, then I'd accuse you of taking it. And I won't, right? But even if I know that, I still have to be fair."

"Fair?" Izumi repeats, scathingly. "You're talking about keeping people captive and searching their things until you find some chocolate, just go buy a replacement real quick."

Peppa's eyes go dark, and she rebuttals, "This chocolate was special, I put a lot of work into it, I can't let the thief get away with it."

Izumi's eyes narrow, and she ponders, "What if they ate it already?"

In response to that question, Peppa's breathing intensifies, and a gale starts up in the classroom.

Izzy waves a hand, "Okay okay okay, so what does your chocolate look like?"

Having calmed down to consider the question, Peppa thinks. She can't say what the chocolate looks like, as it was intended for Cocoa's eyes only. And her mouth. So instead, she answers, "“That, uh… that doesn’t matter. I just need to get it back, and everything will be hunky dory!”

"...it doesn't matter what it looks like?" Izumi repeats... then chuckles.

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Peppa nods, "Yeah, I'll just need to search and I'll know it when I see it!"

https://youtu.be/7Sbcm-Hb8Sk

Izumi snaps, "That's really rich Peppa, one can only hope your chocolate is the same quality. That is, unless anyone's will do because you lost yours?"

Peppa puffs up in indignation. "Hey, I'm not gonna steal anything!"

Izumi dryly smirks, "I'm not accusing you of being a thief, that is, until you take someone's chocolate with only your word against theirs."

"It's not like that!"

"Peppa, that's what it looks like. So what does your chocolate look like?" she asks, hands on her hips and using her regular human height to lean over Peppa.

"I can't tell..."

"Then we have a right to our privacy too."

Peppa cringes as she considers that and the mean looks she’s getting. Why is Izumi like this? She should be helping her out. Is there some reason she doesn’t want people looking through her bag-

“Izumi hasn’t been showing up to PE lately.”

Peppa goes pale. Could her cousin be the culprit? Izumi does know magic, which includes the Clothes Beam, so she could forge another package. She could as well feasibly sneak into the girls’ locker room in the middle of PE. Is this a prank that’s gone a bit overboard? Or is it possible that Izumi has a grudge against her big enough to inflict this cruelty?

>A. Accuse Izumi of stealing it
>B. Fess up what the chocolate looks like to Izumi
>C. Let her go without searching her bag
>D. Write-in something else to do or say
>E. Update notes

>>5958980
>B. Fess up what the chocolate looks like to Izumi
Unless it's something inapropriate, we can tell the shape of it.

>>5958980
>>5959019
Supporting

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>>5959019
>>5959047
>Unless it's something inapropriate, we can tell the shape of it.
...writing!

>>5959092
>inb4 it's our gf naked
funny scenarios aside, I'm sure that said older dyke didn't suggest such a thing to such young ladies. Also kinda funny how our cousin is a debate me sister, and since I hate those types it made me wanna punch her OOC.

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With these questions running circles through her mind, Peppa looks her cousin hard in the eye… and then gets her answer.

Izumi’s eyes reflect the same iron that Peppa’s experienced from her aunt and uncle. She’s stern, but only because she has to be. And Peppa is the reason she will be, because Izumi will look out for her.

And that would be appreciated by Peppa, were these any other circumstances. Sure, it's a touching reminder that her cousin's got her back, but right now it's a royal pain in her ass.

At the very least, Peppa puts the thought of her cousin betraying her right out the door, and her shoulders slump in defeat. "Okay, you have a point."

Pen asks her, “So, does that mean we can go?”

“No."

The class groans in response.

Peppa explains, as much to herself as to the class, “I need to find it, I need to find the thief, and I need you all to help me.”

“But Peppa,” Izumi says, kneeling down and placing a hand on the shorter girl’s shoulder, “You won’t let me help you. You won’t tell me what it looks like.” Gah, now it's the warm sun melting Peppa's obstinacy like butter! Then, she telepathically transmits to Peppa, “Not even like this? No one would overhear us.”

Peppa considers that. After all the time and effort she spent working her chocolate from the concept into a physical form, she definitely knows what it looks like, and can envision such perfectly in her mind. Were she to share that image with Izumi, Izumi would also know it backward and forward, with every nook and cranny! So with a smile, she telepathically transmits back to Izumi, “Hard pass!”

Izumi snarls, and growls out, “Peppaaa!”

Quickly, Peppa whispers, “I can’t share it with telepathy! …just, hear me out for a moment.”

Obviously confused, but thankful that she’s finally getting her cousin to share, Izumi leans in to hear Peppa’s explanation.

Peppa hisses, “promsnotel.”

She agrees, “Yeah, I promise.”

“gud.” Peppa then explains to Izumi what her chocolate looks like in a word.

“Oh, that's cute! I don't know why you'd be so upset about," Izumi says, nodding along, but then whispers a question, "...so wait, we're talking about the kind with whiskers, right?"

Peppa shakes her head, saying she took care to have perfect hygiene before going through with the molding process.

“Mmhmm, hygiene is important when molding… um..."

Doing her best to be vague and clear at the same time, Peppa makes gestures to form an idea of what the chocolate should look like to her cousin.

Izumi blinks. “Wait, you mean you actually-” She pulls back to catch sight of Peppa’s face…

…but Peppa is busy studying the ground.

...

Izumi stands up.

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The rest of the class, just wanting to go home, hopes Izumi managed to convince Peppa to let them out… but for some reason the girl looks like she's blue-screened?

“Izzy, did she tell you what it looked like?” Angela asks. “I’ve got tickets to see a movie later!”

Pen pipes up, “So do I, weird right?"

"Oh you, teeheehee!"

The rest of the class's desire to be anywhere else spikes.

Pen smiles at his girlfriend, then turns back to Izzy, "So Izzy, what's the word- whoa, are you alright?!"

Whereas before Izumi looked like she had blue-screened, now she’s looking like she’s overheating. Her body quivers as if something is itching to burst forth from it, and her face contorts as it fights down a steadily widening smile. With her face now steaming red, she turns to Penn and Angela.

With perfect royal deportment in her speech she gets out an, “Excuse me for one second.” She exits the classroom past a petrified Peppa.

…

Sharpner asks Videl, “Sooo, what are you doing later?”

Videl looks at Sharpner. “...‘what are We doing later,’ you mean?”

Sharpner raises an eyebrow. “Huh?”

Videl’s temple flares up. “For Valentine’s Day. You have something planned, right?”

Sharpner eyes go wide. “You’re telling me that’s To-”

“PAAAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!”

Videl looks over her shoulder toward the hallway, then over at Peppa, who is covering her face with her hands. Sharpner uses this as an opportunity to retreat, and

“AAAAAAAAAA! HEHEHEHEHE, HEHAHAHAHA!”

The laughter gets further away, but if anything it's getting louder, and then building shudders.

Gohan looks out the window and spots his cousin breaking the sound barrier in her ascent to the heavens.

“SQUEEEEEEEEEEE~!”

Fireworks burst in the sky from where Izumi has become a shooting star with a smiley face.

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A minute later, Izumi steps back into the classroom, face flushed. “Hoohoohoo, sorry, I needed to get some air real quick!”

“No, it’s fine!” A perfectly gracious Peppa transmits to her with the grin of a chimpanzee, “Hope you got it all out of your system!”

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that,” Izumi grins back. “I’m gonna be holding onto this for some time!”

“Ugh,” Peppa groans. Then, she looks up at Izumi earnestly. “But you won’t tell, right?”

“Of course not,” Izumi tells her, honest. She even winks! “Not in a million years.”

Peppa lets out a sigh of relief. “Thank y-ACK!” Peppa rubs the spot where Izumi’s flicked her. “What was that for!?”

“Ya gross." Izumi teases. Then, she announces louder, “And we got a show to get on the road! Chop-chop, people! Those bags aren’t going to search themselves! Line up alphabetically!”

Still stuck 10 minutes past the ending bell, the rest of the students figure this isn’t going to end anytime soon, so they give in and cooperate.

“Why alphabetically?” Peppa asks Izzy as they set up a booth with curtains.

“If there’s an order to the line, we can presume the culprit to be among everybody rather than towards the end of the line from being the last to voluntarily join. This way, we have a higher chance of finding your chocolate sooner.”

Peppa nods. “The important thing is that I get the chocolate back, especially before Cocoa’s school starts… which is 49 minutes from now.”

Izumi nods, thinking aloud.. “And that’s If we get the chocolate back, you still gotta figure something out for if we don’t.”

Peppa starts to breathe faster and faster.

Izumi pat pats her cousin, “Happy thoughts!”

---
Well, I gotta get some sleep, spring cleaning tomorrow. Hope y'all are enjoying this, and thanks for playing!

>>5959512
>“Oh, that's cute! I don't know why you'd be so upset about," Izumi says, nodding along, but then whispers a question, "...so wait, we're talking about the kind with whiskers, right?"
of course, kek
>>5959520
sleep tight, QM

And now we get to the real mystery: whyyyyyyy?

TFR OP

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As part of the deal before Izumi agrees to help, Peppa shows the contents of her bag to everyone. "Hey, wouldn't it be really embarrassing if it was just in your bag-" "Cram it, Izzy!" As is plain to see, there's nothing really notable, just study materials.

And in Izumi's things, she sees study materials, a first aid kit, and some christmas candies, but no chocolate. “Annnd, you’re clear!” Peppa tells her cousin with a smile. "No chocolate!"

The rest of the students are looking at them and their things with… sympathy? Pity?

Izumi nods, her eyes closed. "…this is fine, I'm not distracted is all."

"Good?" Peppa says, just glad her cousin didn't steal from her.

Izumi clothes beams up some curtains, and forms a booth for people to get checked out. "This is best for their privacy."

"Hey, good idea!" Peppa agrees, then reads from a list, "Okay, first in line!

===

https://youtu.be/u6ikBJePm_w

Peppa has paused her recollection as she busies herself with polishing your glass dry. She’s gotten really into it, swirling a cloth round and round, leaving not one red splotch behind.

“I think that’s clean,” you tell the girl.

“Eh? Oh.” Peppa puts the glass down. “Sorry, got distracted.”

“Something come to mind?” you ask, your gaze fixed on the sparkling glass.

Peppa shakes her head. “…no?

You look down at your notes, much of which is written about her chocolate, and not much written about Gohan. "So about Gohan, what disagreement did you have?"

Peppa sheepishly nods, "Oh, sorry! Still getting to that!"

"Right. Well, it did feel like you and Izumi were about to fight. Would have figured he'd step in to deescalate that."

"Nope, no fight between me and Izzy!" Peppa says, looking proud of herself. Then, she recalls the next part, and her good mood dissipates. As clammed up as an oyster, she starts rubbing her upper arm. "Well. There was that one thing."

You hop on that train, notes ready. "That one thing!"

===

The first student they check is that girl with the glasses, Book. They don’t find packages, just textbooks, a green spiral with her initials "BB" on it, a fashion magazine, a glasses case, and a knit doll.

“You’re clear,” Peppa says, smiling at the girl… who looks very uncomfortable. Aw, woops, it’s probably because she had to have her things looked through before she could go home. Well shoot, she doesn’t want her class to hate her before they graduate. What’s something she can use as an icebreaker… Ah ha! “Ooh, this is a cute doll!”

https://youtu.be/qwpzEpPkBE0

Peppa holds up a little keychain plush of a blonde bunny girl in a green outfit. “This that new super popular idol? My girlfriend talks about her, ‘LeLe’ something. You a fan?”

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The girl’s glasses fog up, and she stammers, “Awawawa… no? I mean, I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, desu, I’ve just kept up with her since her debut… and sent some messages to her on social media with songs for her to sing, desu…” The girl blushes, and she waves her hands at Peppa, “But it’s not like I’m a fan of her exactly!”

“Aw, she’s shy!” Izumi laughs. She also holds up the magazine. “Hey, what’s this? You’re into fashion?”

The girl looks to the side. “I dabble here and there...”

“Hmmm…” Peppa and Izumi consider the girl for a moment.

“Y’know, we can make clothes with the clothes beam,” Peppa tells Izzy.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” Izumi asks Pepp.

““Fashion Show!””

The girl blushes some more, and waves her hands, “Oh, it’s nothing I’m serious about, I just have a few pages bookmarked, for uh, later reference.”

Peppa huffs through her nose. “Outfits are serious business.”

Izumi nods. “Truth. Call us up, but only if you’re serious.”

The girl has out her phone. “I, I suppose I could.”

After an exchange of numbers, the girl goes on her way, much cheerier, though she ducks her head down as she exits the room.

Peppa grins. “That wasn’t so bad, we made a friend!” She stretches, and rubs some stiffness out of her neck.

Izumi nods, rubbing her neck as well, but frowns at her phone. “Uh, 43 minutes left...”

With no time to waste, Peppa frantically calls out, “NEXT, NEEEEEEXT!”

https://youtu.be/KvgCDk_tBiM

The next student comes in, revealed to be Angela! She also looks very uncomfortable, pointedly looking away from Peppa. Odd.

“Angela? Why are you after B- oh right, last names,” Izumi reminds herself. “‘Angela Capelli!’ Please reveal your belongings, and any not-belongings, to us!”

“Alright, here,” Angela says, revealing her stuff. School supplies, tickets to see something called “Ride Your Wave,” a zPhone with a pic of her and Penn on the lockscreen, and a package!

Izumi carefully unwraps the package in plain view of Angela and Peppa, and reveals…

“That’s from Pen,” Peppa says. How could it not be? "Chocolate 'Grief Seed.' Pink ribbon tied at the top… and the cake coating is Silver Metallic.”

Izumi whistles. “Very nice! When did Pen get so tasteful?”

Peppa kicks herself under the table. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of that for Cocoa.”

Izumi holds up the chocolate by the ribbon, staring at it appraisingly. “Look at those subtle engravings, the delicate care given to it…” Her eyes go wide, and she inspects the wrapping she had previously glanced over. She whispers out, “Chiyou… it even has a Soul Gem.”

“He even went that far!? Damn, way to go Pen!”

“Thanks!” he shouts from way down the line.

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Izumi inspects the tickets, then asks Angela, “Wait, doesn’t this movie come out in… Uh, something wrong, Angela?” Izumi asks. “You’re shaking.”

Peppa looks from the chocolate to a nervous Angela, and sees the girl's eyes glancing around nervously. “Um. Hey, Angela. What’s up?”

Angela doesn't meet Peppa's eyes, but asks, "So, uh, since we're sharing, what does your chocolate look like?"

Before Peppa can think up a response, Izumi replies, “A rose.”

“A rose?" Angela asks, then nods, smiling. "That's cute! Hope you find it!"

Peppa looks at the ribbon in her fingers, and then at Izzy. “What's she nervous about? You think she took it?"

Izumi rubs her arm a bit, then responds, “If she took it, she would have looked at it, right? But- I could be wrong- but it seems like she was genuinely curious just now, and accepted that easily. Maybe she's simply nervous about missing her movie?"

Peppa nods. "In any case, her bag doesn't have any evidence she did take it." She daintily hands the chocolate back to Angela, and Izumi with the tickets. "Hope you enjoy your movie!"

Angela winces. "Hopefully Pen can too," she says, then shouts at the line, "I'll get you a snack, sweetie!"

"Ha, you're the only snack I need, my darling!"

"Aw!" Angela giggles, and she walks out.

…

Peppa finishes her gagging, and then looks to Izzy. “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea?”

Izumi's face is grave. "This is the path of thorns, Peppa. We don’t have to keep going down it, but the damage that’s been done can’t be undone.”

Peppa sighs. "In for a penny, in for a pound." She then side-eyes her cousin. “And c’mon, a ‘rose’ and ‘thorns’? Really flowering it up, your highness!”

Izumi sticks her tongue out. “Shaddup, it’s romantic.” She then calls out to the line, “Next!”

They go through a couple more students who look uncomfortable from what they overheard before, but comply with the search. Peppa’s chocolate is not found among them. When they ask what her chocolate does look like, Izumi gives them such responses as “An apricot!” and “A chocolate orange ball.”

After they usher the next student forward, Peppa hisses to her cousin, “Stoooop!”

Izumi transmits back, “But if I give a different story to each person, they won’t line up?”

“If you give out enough half-truths, they’re going to add up eventually!”

Izumi smirks. “Trust me, I think not saying anything would get them to ask each other.” She then points at Peppa, “Besides, it’s improved your mood!”

Peppa crosses her arms. “Mm-mm!” She definitely is not smiling. No siree.

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They get to Sharpner, who pops his head into the booth to glance around a bit, and asks them, “What we got going on in here? Thought I heard a love confession.”

>Common Knowledge! SHARPNER HIRO
He's a conventionally strong high schooler with a flashy fashion sense. He and Peppa had a slight dislike for each other, on Peppa's part because he doesn't seem to take school seriously and took every opportunity he could to chat with Videl, and on Sharpner's part because Peppa would give him the stink-eye and also be stupid strong and famous and take up Videl's notice.

Peppa raises an eyebrow. “Eh? No, nothing like that, just doing some quick checks.”

“That's cold!” Sharpner whistles, then winks at them. “But I gotcha. I also gotta get out quick so I can esca- cough, figure out how to make this evening the best it can be for a certain someone!”

“Godspeed,” Izumi tells the damned boy. But as she ponders the love confession part, she scratches her head, and asks Peppa, "That ring any bells with you?"

"Maybe he didn't get the memo that Pen and Angela are dating?"

"Snrk!"

“Without further ado,” Sharpner sets his bag down on the table. Despite its size, the bag lands with a “Pomf=3” as if it weighs nothing.

Izumi unzips the bag, and pulls out a pillow.

Peppa stares at the pillow.

Sharpner twirls his bat around as the two girls regard him and his silently.

…

“So… what does your chocolate look like?” he asks, wanting to escape from many awkward conversations today.

“A choco taco!” answers a smiling Izumi.

“Izumi no!” a flustered Peppa shouts.

“Okay,” Sharpner says with an easy shrug. As he packs the pillow back into his bag, he remarks, “That’s got Ice Cream in it, right?”

Holey shirt, he’s buying it! “Yes! Yeah yeah, of course it has ice cream.” She nudges her cousin in the arm. “Right, cous?”

“Eh!?” Izumi flinches, quickly looking between Peppa and Sharpner. She refocuses on the topic. “My apologies, what’s this about ice cream?”

Sharpner raises a finger, “It’d melt, yeah? Maybe you could find it by seeing some white stains on people’s bags.”

Izumi blinks a few times. Then, a knowing smirk spreads across her face. “White, you say? Honestly, I’m not sure if Peppa would go for that.”

Peppa smiles, liking when her cousin makes jokes. However, when she realizes this joke is going to be on her, she frowns. “Izzy.”

“Whaaat?” she shrugs. “I just didn’t think you’d be the type to like vanilla. Filling, I mean.”

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Izzy sighs and shakes her head. “As for the flavor, vanilla does have its virtues, but I just thought you would be a bit more adventurous, I mean, especially with the chocolate you made. But I guess I’m learning a lot about you today!” she says cheerily.

Sharpner nods along, Izzy’s words zooming over the baseball player's head. “Well, good luck finding it. The sooner you do, the sooner Videl and I can… Actually, taking that back, I need to bounce way-hay-hay before Videl gets out of here, gotta figure something out, quick!”

Peppa nods at that, uneasily. She needed to come up with something too.

Izumi whispers to Peppa, “Don’t worry, we’ll find it.”

Peppa nods at that, thankful.

“But, if we don’t… cuz someone ate it,” Izumi reasons, cheekily, “maybe that means you have a Secret Admirer~!”

Peppa’s last nerve snaps at that, and she shoves her cousin on the arm. “Give it a rest, will ya!” Really, there’s a limit to how far you can take a joke! “Okay, you can head out Sharpner. Next!”

The next student opens the curtain, but Sharpner hasn’t left yet. “…the fuck?”

“Huh?” Peppa grunts.

Sharpner looks at Izumi with concern, and asks, “Are you okay?”

Peppa follows his gaze, and sees some red on Izumi’s sleeve.

https://youtu.be/Z6CYek7Mrtw

Huh, had Izumi spilled a drink just now? Wait, the spot is growing. How’s it doing that?

“Hey Izumi, what’s that red stuff?” Peppa asks, looking at her cousin for answers.

Izumi’s skin has gone pale, her posture is rigid, and she’s staring off into the distance.

Peppa snaps her fingers in front of her cousin. “Izumi?”

Izumi winces at the mention of her name, but she finally looks down at her sleeve. “Oh. Sorry.”

Peppa sniffs the red spot. It smells like iron. “Huh, that smells like… and looks like… it’s blood.” She asks her cousin, “Why are you bleeding?”

Izumi responds with a small, “I’m sorry.”

Peppa tilts her head in confusion. She blinks a few times, then it registers with her that this is not, in fact, okay. She rises from her seat and asks, “Izumi, what’s-”

Izumi flinches away from Peppa, and covers the bleeding spot with a hand. “I’m sorry!”

The line of remaining classmates breaks out into whispers.

“Peppa did what?” her brother asks Erasa, and hops up into the air to get a better view. “Izzy?!?”

Peppa reaches over to her cousin to comfort her, but a metal bar pressing against her chest prevents her from doing so. A baseball bat. She looks over her shoulder at the one responsible. “Sharpner?”

He glares at her. “Peppa.”

“Get out of the way, please.”

“Hmm, nope.”

Peppa moves the bat away, but Sharpner insistently bars her path again. She chops the bat in half… and hurts her hand in the attempt. “Ow,” she hisses as she waves the pain away.

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Still holding an intact bat before her, not dented at all, Sharpner asks her, “Aw, did the monkey bump her hand?” He grasps the collar of her shirt to yank her up, and points the bat at Izumi, “How do you think she feels!?”

Alongside Gohan, Videl barges into the booth, “Guys, what’s going on-” she begins, but then sees Izumi bleeding. “What happened!?”

Gohan swoops over to his cousin’s side, “Izzy, are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” Izumi says.

“You’re bleeding!”

“I’m fi… ngh… gh, hah, hah…” rasps out Izumi as she considers her wound that has seeped past what she can hide, and everyone’s eyes on her. “It’s just… This is just… Urgh…” She gets to her feet, and briskly walks over to the classroom door.

Gohan puts a hand on her shoulder, “Izumi-”

Izumi’s body jolts and she lets out a shriek.

Gohan pulls his hand back as if he touched a branding iron, or maybe it’s the other way around with how Izumi reacted. He looks to Peppa for answers.

But Peppa was on the same page as her brother, albeit with Sharpner holding her in a vice-like grip with his bat. “Leggo!” she cries. The thought of going Super Saiyan to get out of Sharpner’s hold crosses her mind, but that would be overkill and send the wrong message to Izumi.

Izumi lets out a few gasps to compose herself, and wipes her face dry. However, the blood has seeped down her sleeve to her wrist. With a red face, she gives her classmates a polite bow. “Sorry for troubling you.”

Everyone stares at her, speechless.

But for one, Erasa, who helpfully points out, “Izzy, you got blood on your face!”

Izumi smiles, and she touches her face. “No, no, that’s just, it’s… I need to go freshen up!” She runs out of the classroom.

With Izzy gone, the curtains pulled aside, and Videl no longer guarding the other door… What happened next was obvious.

The other students make their way out of the classroom, though a few do give Peppa comments such as “Psycho” and “Freak” and “Meaniepants.”

Soon, it’s just her friends and Sharpner and her brother left in the room.

“Explain what happened,” Videl tells her.

>A. Peppa can explain! (write-in, consulting notes recommended)
>B. Uhhh... (no she can't)
>C. Forget the chocolate, an explanation can wait, run after Izzy!
>D. Update notes (write-in)

>>5960212
shit, considering a light shove made her bleed, the reasons for her trips to the nursery are worse than we thought. now do we wanna already talk about this thing to the others or do we try reaching her first ?

>>5960263
I think it's probably
>>5954292
>Izumi's study methods involve pain
And the self-harm warning

...I'm not sure if we should tell anyone else? Izumi's in a tough spot, and leaking that might be seen as a betrayal

>>5960212
>C. Forget the chocolate, an explanation can wait, run after Izzy!

>>5960212
>C. Forget the chocolate, an explanation can wait, run after Izzy!
well, let's try help our friend before spilling the beans. also wtf Sharpner isn't a deadweight ? wasn't expecting the jock lusting over Videl to be a decent fighter.
>>5960507
>...I'm not sure if we should tell anyone else? Izumi's in a tough spot, and leaking that might be seen as a betrayal
you kinda have a point

>>5960208
So we know what's happening, but we're not telling? I guess this does fit with Gohan being mad at us.

>C.
>D. Peppa followed the advice of an older lesbian with her chocolate
>She wrecked her mom's kitchen, no dinner, could be why Gohan's mad at her
>Izumi knows the Clothes Beam
>The chocolate resembles some sort of whiskerless cat, Izumi laughed
>Sharpner forgot it was Valentine's
>Angela and Pen had plans to see a movie
>Izumi had a first aid kit and some christmas candies, no chocolate
>OP is using the perceive mechanic from Apollo Justice despite it being panned
>book girl had a doll and fashion magazine, no chocolate
>Angela looking very nervous around Peppa, had tickets to see a movie, and chocolate her boyfriend made her
>Sharpner had a pillow and some kind of super bat, surprisingly strong
>Izumi bled from her arms from being lightly shoved, also seems panicky

>>5960747
>OP is using the perceive mechanic from Apollo Justice despite it being panned
what's that ?

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>>5960759
In the fourth ace attorney game there was this minigame where you had to spot a habit done by a character that revealed they weren't telling the whole truth.

So, I think Angela? that's a decent lead after talking with Izzy.

>>5960767
Nah man, it's glasses girl

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>>5960263
>>5960507
Nicely linked, you two!

>>5960599
>also wtf Sharpner isn't a deadweight ?
For what it's worth, his arms are deadweight now.

>>5960747
Good job on the note taking! Updated! And yes, their actions may hint towards them lying or link to something else. Jiiiiiiii...

I'll write during work tomorrow, gotta focus on sleeping tonight.

Here's a note from Anon-kun:
Angela was nervous around Peppa. Possibly gay for Peppa?

>>5960895
glasses girl gay for peppa, that's why she ate her chocolate

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>>5960895
>>5960904
But what if Izumi gay for Peppa, and the forbidden love for her cousin is driving her to torment?

>>5960927
Good point

>>5960895
alright, waiting warmly OP
>>5960927
zam

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Suspended in the air, Peppa thinks hard. At first, this seems to be coming out of left-field, but then she recalls the circumstances surrounding her cousin. She hasn’t been showing up to PE lately and going to the nurse’s, why would she do that unless she had something to hide? And that thing with the flashcards earlier, where she pinched herself for mistakes? And that first aid kit in her bag? There’s a way these all fit together, and Peppa unfortunately found out first hand by bumping into it.

“Well?” Videl asks, her voice brooking no nonsense.

Peppa considers Videl, and her brother Gohan, and Erasa the gossip, and Sharpner whose first resort was literally barring her from helping her cousin. She really wants to tell them what’s going on with Izzy, and then they can all do something to help her with her secret… and it’s the last word in that thought that clenches it for her.

Peppa shakes her head in response.

Sharpner scoffs, and drops Peppa to the floor. Panting a bit, he rants, “Really? It’s super obvious that you hit her too hard!”

Gohan snaps at him, “Let her talk! She hasn’t had a chance to explain herself at all, thanks to you.” He walks over to Peppa, “But for real, what happened?”

“...not now,” is all Peppa says.

Gohan’s expression morphs into disbelief. But then, he considers her words, and glances at the others. He transmits, “Is this fine? Come on, tell me.”

Peppa sighs, and transmits, “I said not now, I have to talk with Izzy first.”

Her brother looks like he's been slapped. Gohan jostles her. “Sis, no. You have to tell us what that was just now.”

She shoves him off, a bit harder than she shoved Izumi, and says, “Not until I talk with Izzy!"

Videl glances over Gohan, and says, “Peppa, we can’t trust you around Izumi right now.”

…

“Why?”

Videl explains, “Something happened, and unless you can tell us what it was to have her, like that,” she grimaces as she recalls, “we can’t let you get a moment alone with her.”

Peppa blinks, and looks up at the girl who’s been like a big sister to her for some time, a true ally against many a threat. “Do you honestly think I’m going to do it again?”

Sharpner goes, “Ah ha! See? She admits it!” and tries to point at her, but his arms are dead from holding her back.

Videl turns her head to her boyfriend. With a dojo voice, she wills, “QUIET.”

Sharpner stands up straight, jaw clicked shut.

Videl explains, with a bit of pain in her voice, “I don’t think you’re going to do it again. I don’t want to think you did anything on purpose. But right now, unless you tell us what happened, it’s going to look like you want to talk with Izzy so you can…” She squirms, but finishes, “So you can get your story straight.”

Peppa laughs at that, and the others don’t.

…

Okay cool. Peppa grits her teeth. “Yeah, I suppose.”

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Gohan gratefully exhales, and says, “Glad you’ve come around. So what happened?”

She thinks of her cousin, how she must be hurting right now, where she would go, and then she puts two fingers on her head, “Tell you when I can.”

===

https://youtu.be/AV0OnZtHHz4

“And then you teleported away…” you jot down. You can’t help but ask, “Why not spill the beans about Izumi to the others?”

Peppa shakes her head. “It wasn’t my secret to tell.”

“Not even if giving it up would clear up this misunderstanding? Keeping mum soiled the others’ opinion of you.”

Peppa frowns. “I don’t think trust should be weighed like that.”

“But it did weigh you down, didn’t it?”

Peppa rubs her arm. “I’ll admit, it was… frustrating, having that misunderstanding I couldn’t clear up, and I do think it’s annoying whenever you see that in dramas, like, ‘Why don’t they just talk?’ But living it out…” She takes a drag, and sighs.

“Though if I’m being honest, I didn’t think it would be that big a deal at first. I figured it would simply be something I could talk out with Izzy, or at least get the others in on once she let me, and then this would all just take an evening to sort out and we’d be back to normal the next day.”

“And did it go like that?”

Peppa shakes her head.

===

Peppa sifts through the chaos of the teleportation zone her technique takes her through, a place both separate from time and weaved within it, moving forward and never backward, falling upward and not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling into chaos. The Yardrats who came up with the technique treat going into the zone the same way as seeing if a baby chick can fly for the first time. If the traveler has it together, they’ll succeed for sure! But if their spiritual control is out of whack, what control do they have over chaos?

Peppa considers that as she spirals into and out of nothing. Thoughts of those she cares about let her phase back in, and then those same thoughts of Videl and Gohan unravel her. But eventually, in one of the fleeting moments that her dreamlike existence gets lucidity, she thinks of her cousin, the thoughts of whom crystallize up an actual crystal, and Peppa reaches for it.

Snapping back into reality, Peppa hits the wall, or is that the ceiling, then meets the floor. She remembers what gravity is before her eyes do, and picks herself up. She looks up to see Izumi standing by a running sink, looking down at her.

“Hey Peppa.”

“Hey Izzy!”

…

“That hurt!” Peppa says, standing up, rubbing her head.

“Do you need a band-aid? I have some.”

“No, just bumped my head is all.” Then, Peppa’s face twists into a sadistic smirk. “Now give me your planet, Earthling!”

With her thumb. Izumi squirts the faucet at the invader. “Peppa, no.”

“I give, I give!” Peppa sputters.

Izumi mercifully relents, while smirking a little.

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“So did you find the chocolate?” Izumi asks, dabbing at her arm with a towel.

A doused Peppa blinks, cringes, but only a little. “Oh, right.” …welp! “The chocolate. The chocolate for Cocoa. The chocolate made especially to give to Cocoa. My chocolate.”

Izumi puffs some air from her nose, shaking her head. “Nada?”

“Nope.” Peppa clothes beams a towel for herself, and wraps her entirety in it. “There goes Date Night.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Peppa says while emerging from her cocoon. “You were a big help!”

“Until I wasn’t.”

“...” Peppa makes a ball of wind energy, and blow-dries herself with it. “So you know how to heal, right?”

Originally a technique of Namekian Mystics, the handy method of healing wounds was thankfully introduced to their circle thanks to her mom’s chain of equivalent exchange.

Izumi nods, going back to wrapping bandages on her arm, and not doing that technique at all.

“So why not heal that up?”

Izumi goes quiet for a bit. She finally says, “Memorization.”

Alone with her cousin, for as long as it will last, Peppa considers what questions to ask her.

>A. Can we book an appointment with my therapist?
>B. Why do you need to study this hard?
>C. Where did you get this method from?
>D. Are you comfortable with letting others know?
>E. Write-in

(Oh right, seeing as how this is a bit time-sensitive, in the quest that is, if you want to vote for more than one option, please place priority on the options you think are most important, listing your first choice as high and your last choice as least.)

Example:
>B. I miss my mom
>A. I miss video games

>>5961565
>B. Why do you need to study this hard?
>D. Are you comfortable with letting others know?
>A. Can we book an appointment with my therapist?
>E. ...it's Valentines, do you have to study, or do you wanna go somewhere fun? As cousins, of course
We can find out C later

Had trouble deciding what to do because this is kinda uncomfortable

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>>5961618
We won't be lingering on this part too long.

Anon-kun's votes factored in.
---

There is one thing Peppa needs clarification on immediately. "Are you comfortable with letting others know about this?"

Izumi pulls the sleeves on her new blouse down, and says, "Please don't."

Peppa nods. "Then I won't."

Izumi closes her eyes, and her shoulders slump in relief. "...thank you, Peppa."

In response, Peppa hugs her cousin, and hides her face against her cousin's shirt, "You can let me know, you know. You can tell me anything. I'll, I'll help."

Izumi pats her shuddering cousin on the head. "Hey now. What are you crying for?"

"Cuz I hurt you! ...you, hurt you!" she shouts. "Why are you doing this?"

"It helps me study-"

"Why do you need to study this hard?!"

Izumi draws Peppa away, and hunches down to look her cousin in the eyes. "Peppa, you remember when I turned fifteen? What did we celebrate?"

Peppa snorts in some snot, "Uh, your queencenera?"

Izumi pulls out a hanky for Peppa. "Yep. Though I'm still a princess, that's when I was given responsibility for my kingdom, and to keep being responsible, I have to study. I have to know enough so I don't fail."

"You won't fail-"

Izumi draws a finger along her bandaged arm, and bites down the pain to say, "Every mark is a reminder for a time I made a mistake. I can fail, and yet I can't fail. I can't fail those who will be relying on me."

"Reminders?" Peppa looks aghast. "But that looks like it hurts!"

Izumi shakes her head. "It does, but it's the path I've chosen."

"..."

Izumi ruffles Peppa's hair. "Hey, if it makes you feel better, Yamcha's face got all scarred when he trained to be stronger. Y'know what, yeah! This is training, so don't worry about it!" she says with a grin.

"...training? ...okay."

"Okay!"

But Peppa still doesn't feel good about this, and there is something she wants to do she think can help her cousin. "I want you to do something for me."

"Yeah?"

"Can you book an appointment with Chansu? Y'know, my therapist, and I think she could really help you out!"

Izumi backs off with a scowl. "I don't need help, Peppa."

"I know, I know, but she's great, and she's confidential! I trust her, so if you can let me know, you can let her know!"

Izumi looks at her cousin's pleading eyes, and grits her teeth. Rolling her eyes, "Fine, I'll go see her the once."

"And what if the once is helpful?"

"...I'll go see her twice, then. Happy?"

Peppa is very happy, already dialing Chansu's office on her scouter goggles! "Hey, it's me, Peppa! I wanna book an appointment for someone else. Uh huh, my cousin. Yeah, with Chansu! ...hm?"

>>5961618
>+1
I'd prefer to ask her now how she got it, but it's something that we can find later anyways.

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Izumi observes Peppa's face frozen in a smile, only for the girl's temple to flare up.

"What do you mean she's on vacation?! ...Yes, I know what a vacation is! Well, can I book any openings for after she gets back- Whaddya mean she didn't say when?!? Grrragh!" She ends the call, and flings her goggles away.

Izumi coughs, and gets the attention of a huffing and puffing Peppa. "It's fine, Peppa. I appreciate the thought!" She strokes Peppa on the back soothingly. "But are you alright? You look pretty stressed out."

Peppa's eyes narrow. Is she... Is she being consoled right now? This day is nuts!

But if Izumi confided in her, she may as well do the same. "I'm fine, I'm just wishing today went better though. It's like everything that could go wrong went wrong in ways I didn't even know they could!"

"Yeah. But hey, you shouldn't let it get to you! Sometimes people just have off days." Peppa swears there's a mirror behind her, but Izumi doesn't seem to notice as she continues, "And just because the chocolate you made was lost doesn't mean you can't give her chocolate at all. How about this, go get her her favorite kind, clothes beam up another package, and uh... draw her a picture! You'll know what to draw."

Peppa snarls at her cousin's words. They make too much sense! "Ffffffine."

"Just be sure to do it in..." Izumi checks her phone, then her already pale skin pales just a little bit.

"Do it in what, Izzy? A sketchbook? My room? In-"

"Five minutes."

Peppa's eyes go blank, and she wheezes out a Ghost Peppa, her palms pressed together and flapping her wings as she ascends to the heavens. But then, a Sexy Halloween Devil Peppa pops out of her mouth and catches the ghost's tail, murmuring with her tiny voice, "Get back in here, you!" and the Ghost is pulled back in, wailing "Noooooo!" as flames erupt within Peppa's throat.

Peppa shuts her mouth, and coughs. She blinks, then looks at Izumi with evident worry, and confirms, "Five minutes, you say?"

Izumi, who has had her gaze locked on Peppa for all of that, pries it away to look down at her phone once more. "...now it's four."

Ugh, another lethal amount of time! This time around, Peppa accepts the idea that her initial plan may not be feasible, and she could always do something for Cocoa after school, during her bedtime. She'll just have to call in sick tomorrow, she can do Mom's voice pretty well.

And she considers Izumi, if she has eight hours till Cocoa gets out of school, she could spend the time hanging out with her cousin! Could get their mind off some things. "So do you have to spend the whole day studying, or do you wanna go-"

A banging on the door cuts her off!

"What ARE you two doing?!" Gohan shouts. "I thought you said something about telling me what's up!"

"Ah shiitake, Gohan again," Peppa grumbles. "And for sure, you don't wanna tell him?"

Gohan bangs on the door again. "Finish wiping your dirty butts and get out here!"

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Both Izumi and Peppa's heads slowly turn towards the door, producing a creaking sound as they do.

Izumi says with much restraint, high-pitched enough to be a squeak, "Nah, I'm good."

>A. Confront that rude little boy for your collective honor, beat his ass into the dirt
>B. Go see Cocoa before her school begins, teleport in front of Gohan again
>C. Call Cocoa up, tell her you'll have something after school to give her, hang with Izzy
>D. Write-in

>>5961618
>>5961771
Thanks for playing, y'all! Hopefully tomorrow I'll get downtime again.

>>5961800
>A. Confront that rude little boy for your collective honor, beat his ass into the dirt

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>>5961800
>C. Call Cocoa up, tell her you'll have something after school to give her, hang with Izzy
Thanks for running!

>>5961800
>C. Call Cocoa up, tell her you'll have something after school to give her, hang with Izzy

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If the QM or players are interested at all interested, I'd like to cordially invite you to participate in that greatest of /qst/ community events, the official crossover husbando/waifu (or king & queen) contest! As a long-running, character-driven quest, I thought you folks might be interested in joining the festivities!

Taking nominees now, and for the next four days.

>>5961634

>>5962131
You should check with the original QM instead, this is an unofficial spinoff using borrowed QMCs.

>>5962445
Anyone can nominate, but if you know how to reach the QM or the QM sees this, their participation would of course be appreciated.

>>5962454
Recent thread's still up over here, original QM and most players should be there >>5928713

The update is coming, the update is on its way, tomorrow. I have draft I've been tinkering with for some time, and now I gotta make sure all the images compliment it.

>>5962445
>this is an unofficial spinoff using borrowed QMCs.
There will be original characters eventually, and I have been brainstorming nonstop the past two days with ideas for them.

>>5961823
>>5961851
>>5961858
And heads up y'all, B got 3 votes on anonkun, so it wins.

I must thank you all for playing, I appreciate your support!

>>5963713
no problems OP, waiting warmly

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She doesn't have time for this, she's got a Valentine's Day to salvage! "I gotta get, but can you deal with Gohan and tell him, I dunno, something, I guess? Oh, and What Not To Say, that's important! Some girl might get offended by what he says and take it out on him or something."

Izumi nods. "Yeah, that would be a shame, Gohan better watch himself!" Saying this, she casually hands Peppa a tube of glitter.

Peppa grins and pockets it, then gets a cheeky idea and grins wider. She opens the door, and says to her waiting brother, "Hey, baby bro! Watch this!" She raises two fingers.

"...are you going to teleport again?" he asks with a disbelieving smile.

Peppa places them on her head.

He shouts more angrily, "Are you actually gonna teleport AGAIN-"

Yes.

Peppa is back in the zone, in two regards! Sure, she'll have to clear up some things with Gohan later (and glitz them up), but with Izumi back there to put him at ease, she has less to worry about, and can navigate through here much easier!

===

You nod. "Okay, I think I can tell where you two got off on the wrong foot."

"Yep!" Peppa then thinks a bit, and quirks an eyebrow. "Well, considering what happened later, I think I should have talked with him a bit more there. But, I was in a hurry, and he did get on my nerves, so even still probably not."

"Probably not??? Not even with how he was injured so severely-"

Peppa winces. "Oh, yeah. That too."

"...that too?" You point the pencil at her. "Go on."

Peppa crosses her arms, and frowns. "I could have stuck around to advise him against the four-timing, is all."

"Ah, so That started on Valentines."

"Mmhmm, he had the four chocolates to show for it."

You huff, and nod. "Okay. So, in the end, did you have anything to give Cocoa?"

Peppa swirls the ice around at the bottom of her glass with a frown. "Kinda." She pours the ice into her mouth, and crunches down while she recalls.

===

"Okay, Peppa, you got a chocolate, still need to work on a drawing, and Cocoa's school starts in... eh, that clock's probably fast, going through the zone and all, hahahahaha!" She puts two fingers to her head, and teleports to Cocoa-

CLONK!

Within a hallway of Blue Hal High School, two girls collide with each other!

“Agh…” Peppa groans as she rubs her head. Is this gonna be a trend? She looks down to see her girlfriend on the floor, doing the same. "Cocoa! Are you hurt? Who did it?!"

“You did! Sss…” Cocoa looks up, “So, what took you- wait, hold up, what happened to you???"

Peppa sheepishly runs a hand through her disheveled hair, and her grin reveals some chipped teeth. Her shirt has some stretching and tears, and is that a black eye? "Oh, this? Just some last minute shopping."

Cocoa is bemused, to say the least.

Peppa helps her up, and says, “Okay, so it’s a long story-”

Cocoa waves a hand and hurries past, “Later then, right now I gotta-”

-BONG, BONG, BONG, BOOONNNNNNGGG-

"..." Cocoa slumps to the floor in defeat.

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And so, the tardy Cocoa Amaguri stands out in the hall during homeroom, holding a bucket of water.

“So, long story, you said?” Cocoa asks with a pleasant smile, cheek twitching.

Peppa frowns. “Well, I could tell you all about it…” She doesn’t feel like doing so right now. “...or, I could give you your chocolate!”

Cocoa nods, her smile much smoother now. “The chocolate, please~!”

Peppa smiles, then reaches into her pocket, and grips it within her hand.

Cocoa squints. “You do have some, right?”

“I do,” admits Peppa, a lot nervous. She withdraws her hand.

Cocoa observes her slightly shorter girlfriend. "It's gonna melt like that. Open your palm."

Peppa gulps, and obeys.

https://youtu.be/aLVr0VfeLmk

A lone chocolate truffle, no wrapper, somewhat melted, and covered in coconut.

Cocoa picks it up with two fingers in a V, studying the candy. “Coconut?”

Excuses gush through Peppa's mind. "It was the only one I could forcibly buy from the other shoppers! I'm still learning what all flavors you're into, and I both love and fear that I have more to learn with you! I really did my best, you see, I had this super special awesome chocolately fudge-coated mega super va-"

"Peppa." The runaway train of thoughts stops short as Peppa meets her girlfriend's intense gaze. "Do you know what the problem is with coconut?"

Peppa screams internally, and spirals into a whirlwind of thoughts on the mysteries of how coconut sucks and also how she sucks and she failed failed failed at Valentines and she's a bad girlfriend who will never get her girlfriend to count to 238 and-

Peppa smacks her cheeks, and breathes in and out. She looks up at Cocoa, and ventures, "You hate it?"

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>Cocoa confirmed worst girl
Should have gone with Izzy

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“What? No.” Cocoa pops it in her mouth, and chews. Then, she notices some chocolate on her fingers, and-

https://youtu.be/Xp2ROiFUZ6w

Peppa is blessed with the sight of Cocoa licking the chocolate from between her fingers.

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She finishes licking, and grins. "It makes me go.. cuckoo!"

"...nuts to that," an unamused Peppa says, pouting... which makes her notice some moisture on her own upper lip. She wipes away some redness with her thumb.

"Whoa, is that blood?!" Cocoa leans in, her face close.

"What, no!" Peppa shakes her head. Then, she thinks about what she's saying, then nods. "Yeah, uh, one of those shoppers got a lucky shot in when I hopped over their spot in line." It's definitely that.

Cocoa's face scrunches up in confusion. "So, you're telling me you got in fights for that chocolate?"

"No, not fights, that would mean I fought back." Then, Peppa cringes. "All I did was... claw some packages open, snatch that ball, and uh, throw my allowance at people." This was not the plan. This wasn't worthy of being the plan. She had a plan, but now she-

"Oh. Sounds hectic," Cocoa says with an easy smile. "Thanks for getting me some."

Peppa frowns, running her hands along her tail. "I was gonna do something better for you, but-"

https://youtu.be/hH91cwQnVMk

Cocoa sets the bucket down, and hugs her girlfriend. "Hey, you went that far for me. That's enough."

...

Peppa leans into the hug. "fanku."

Cocoa strokes Peppa's back. "Now lemme kiss it better-"

-WOO WOOP!-

A Security Robo wheels around the corner, and blares, "WARNING! Troublemaker: You will resume your punishment or face further punishment."

"Mrrgh," Cocoa growls as she picks the bucket back up. "Sorry, they'll zap me with stunners if I slip up again."

"Jiiiiiii..." the mono-eyed robo chimes as it peeks from around the corner.

Peppa observes the bucket, and gets an idea. Using TK, she lifts the bucket up out of her girlfriend's hands, then hugs herself around Cocoa.

"JIIIIIII?" "Peppa-"

Peppa catches the bucket with a foot. "Now you're holding me, holding the bucket," she explains. "That's fine, right?"

The robo's lens goes from red to green, and wheels back around the corner.

Cocoa giggles, "Eheheh! Clever!"

"Don't think you're off the hook that easily, I've got my eye on you!" Peppa affects a robotic monotone, and says, "Troublemaker."

"Aw, not you too!"

The smaller girl snuggles up against her, saying, “Peppa battery low, recharging!”

"I'm an outlet now?" Cocoa says, then shrugs. "Eh, not the worst way to spend five minutes."

Her monkey perks up, "You can do a lot in five minutes!"

"Like what?" Cocoa asks, leaning in closer. "Something like this?"

-chu-

"Something like that," agrees a pink Peppa. "Or maybe something like,"

-chu chu chu-

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All the smooching manages to melt Cocoa's composure, and she lets out a disappointed moan when Peppa pulls away.

"You know what the problem with Peppas is?" the girl whispers huskily.

"Whuh?"

Peppa leans into resume their makeout. kiss, kiss, nibble

"Ah!" Cocoa jolts involuntarily.

Peppa smiles, a fang poking out, "There's a bite to 'em!"

A thoroughly flushed Cocoa stares back intensely. "I know a way nip those problems in the bud."

"Oh?" Peppa grunts, then closes her eyes and leans in for another kiss- her eyes go wide at the feel of Cocoa’s finger at the base of her tail, tracing it’s way along the length. “Ah!”

Sticking her tongue out at Peppa, Cocoa questions, “Ah?” Her finger coils around Peppa’s tail.

She futilely begs for reprieve, “Cocoa, don’t, I can’t-”

But Cocoa’s eyes reflect no mercy! “Can’t what~?”

When Cocoa runs her finger up and up Peppa’s tail, and then gives the tip a little pinch, all the nerve endings and hormones and pleasure finally makes Peppa jolt, and her leg kicks up.

And it is then that Cocoa realizes. “Ah.”

-sploosh!-

===

Peppa chuckles as the recollection finishes. “Looking back on the last few of weeks, I think that was the last time I was allowed some happiness.”

---

>>5964426
Keep up with the quest, and there will be something for you later.

Thanks for reading y'all, gotta tell ya, this scene kicked my ass with the rewrites it inspired. Hope it kicked off the way I wanted!


Now, a vote:
>A. Ask Peppa if anything else happened with Izumi
>B. Ask Peppa what else she saw with Gohan
>C. Ask about another topic you want to pursue (write-in)
>D. Update Notes (write-in)

>>5964952
>B. Ask Peppa what else she saw with Gohan
cute and horny scene, OP. liked it.

>>5964952
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>>5965060
Supporting!

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3 votes for Gohan, 1 for Izumi
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"So, that's what went down on Valentines and..." Peppa trails off when she notices you, the Inspector, aka the one who inspects, doing your best... not to?

https://youtu.be/1fM1Ox7fxAo

You really do have your hands over your eyes and keep muttering, "She's growing up, she's growing up, she's growing up..." ad infinitum.

Your torso arm wags the notepad in your face, and when you don't acknowledge it, the arm smacks you upside the head with it, knocking you over.

Adjusting a bit, you climb up and take a seat at the bar. You stroke your fake beard, and apologize, "Sorry, those scenes were a bit, intense. I'll do my best to keep an eye and ear out for any details that could be of use in the investigation."

"Why do you have a fake beard?"

"To hide my face, now, you had said that Valentines was when you and Gohan had that misunderstanding, and not only that, it was when he started dating four girls." You point at her with the pencil's eraser, "Are there any vivid scenes you can recall with them?"

Peppa looks unsure, and says, "I'm unsure how much use they would be, they're kinda slice-of-lifey and gross after a certain point."

"I'll do my best to find anything useful that could explain how Gohan got from Point A to... Point Z, over the course of a month."

Peppa nods, considering. "Let's start with Girl A then." She steps out from behind the bar, and walks over to the pool table.

You follow, and see a shadowy figure reclining on the pool table.

Peppa claps, and a light shines down, revealing it to be a girl, who also wears her hair tied up with a ribbon!

"Hey, the two of you look like you could be twins!"

Peppa waves that off, "Nah, we got different eye and hair colors."

"I meant fashion-wise."

"Oh, fashion?" Peppa considers that. "Honestly, I don't think I've ever put that much thought into what I wear."

"Really? You always wear that ribbon though-"

Peppa snaps her fingers, "Hey hey, never mind my ribbon, can we focus?" She points at the girl. "Your go."

The girl nods, and lines up a shot. With a thrust, the cue ball kicks off the game and sends the rest scattering.

===

Though covered in lipstick and water, Peppa is fairly satisfied with how things went with Cocoa. Sure, today hadn't gone as planned, but the comfort she received after all the trouble had given her more than made up for it. And if Izumi was still around to hear, Peppa would admit that the original chocolate she had made had her feeling a little anxious, even though she had it on good authority that it was the perfect thing to communicate a desire to move to the next level. And Peppa was totally ready! She was sixteen, and given she had spent a year of her youth training in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, she really was seventeen, a semi-perfect age if there ever was one!

And so, the semi-mature young lady sneaks into her house, crab walks along the ceiling, and uncaps the tube of glitter over her brother's bed.

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"Don't even think about it, Peppa," her brother warns, not even looking up from his game.

"Gah, how'd you know I was here?"

"I sensed you on the other side of the planet, then I didn't sense you at all."

"Hmph." Thinks he's so clever, using clever reasoning. She recaps the glitter, then drops onto his bed, pomf. Peppa crooks her head over at her brother's guest. "Whozzat?"

The girl sitting next to Gohan doesn't turn around, but gives a quick peace sign. "Hey."

...

After getting the notion that she won't be getting more than that from the girl, Peppa nudges Gohan with her foot, but his tail smacks it away, ouch.

>A. Peppa introduces herself, and makes it flashy!
>B. She volunteers to play winner, sabotage bro to play against her.
>C. She telepathically asks Gohan how much Izumi told him.
>D. Write-in
>E. Update notes (write-in)

>>5967772
>C. She telepathically asks Gohan how much Izumi told him.

>info update: Peppa likes to wear a ribbon everytime, even though she herself said she doesn't care about what she wears.

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>>5967736
SERENA

>>5967772
>B. She volunteers to play winner, sabotage bro to play against her.
>E. Peppa has trouble using Instant Transmission when she's unstable
>Izumi is cutting herself over failures
>Peppa's therapist is on vacation
>Cocoa's school has way better security than Peppa's
>monkey tail lewd

>>5967844
Supporting >>5967772

>>5968455
uhhhh

>>5967772
Supporting >>5967844

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>>5967844
>>5968206
Thanks for the diligence, notes updated!

>>5956092
>>5961823
>>5962445
>>5967844
>>5968206
>>5968458
Working on the next scene, C's won with B also getting a part, and here's a vote for y'all while I do.

How should this part be handled?
>A. Meet each girlfriend individually where Peppa can decide how her first meeting with them goes (more updates, more votes)
>B. Hell, put each meeting in one big update and just have Peppa do things that get info (Big update, more time)

>>5968625
>A. Meet each girlfriend individually where Peppa can decide how her first meeting with them goes (more updates, more votes)

>>5968625
>A. Meet each girlfriend individually where Peppa can decide how her first meeting with them goes (more updates, more votes)

OP ?

>>5971279
Hey there! Wanted to let you know I'm working hard, got so much planned for this quest, but the thing that kills the Productivity is putting the pieces together in the same room and trying to get words out of them. Also, ADD meds really get you focused, which can really hamper you when distractions are what you focus on. Enough excuses, I will get this next scene done!

Also, have remembered which letter goes to which option.
3 votes for "Peppa introduces herself and makes it flashy"
2 votes for "Telepathically ask Gohan how much Izumi told him"

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Peppa realizes she’s being quite rude here. Not only did she drop into the room uninvited, she hasn't even introduced herself! She flips off of the bed, and lands in front of the two, earning shouts from them as they both move to pause the game at the same time but keep unpausing and pausing it over and over.

"Hello~!" she bellows while she does a pirouette, then comes to a stop with jazz hands! "I'm Son Peppa, limit breaker, current Champion of Earth and sister of this guy here!"

The girl, confused, asks, "Limit breaker?"

Gohan notes with distaste that Peppa spiced up her intro with the glitter, and grumpily grumps while twinkly sparkles sprinkle around his room. "It means she's out to break all limits, including mine."

Peppa rolls her eyes, and with a ball of wind, vacuums up the glitter that hasn't embedded itself foreverly in the carpet. "So what's your name?"

The girl gapes at the display of airbending, then snaps out of it. "Oh, uh," she says, then... makes gestures with her hands, saying, "Call me Arabiota!"

Peppa blinks. The girl was hearing and speaking fine, what's with the hand gestures? "Okay?" She looks to Gohan. "Bro, explain!"

Gohan gives her a flat look. "Nope."

Peppa's face falls. "C'monnn!"

Gohan shakes his head. "You're blocking the view, sis."

She is tempted to block even more, but Peppa considers their company, and steps aside. "Sorry," she murmurs.

Gohan and his guest go back to gaming, and Peppa considers what those gestures mean. She had had some run-ins with ninja before, could this girl be a ninja? "Hey Gohan, is this girl a ninja?"

"Whoa, how'd you figure it out?"

Peppa gasps, then groans when she sees Gohan smirking. "So I take it she's not then. What's with the hand signs?"

"I think," Gohan locks eyes with her, then goes back to playing, "You should ask her, it's probably something personal you can't share with just anyone."

Oh. Ohhhh. So he was playing that game with her. Peppa asks them aloud, "Hey, gonna go to the kitchen real quick. I think our fridge made it out okay, you guys want apple juice or orange juice?"

The Arabiota girl pauses the game, and considers. "Hmm..."

Gohan frowns.

Peppa smiles. "Which do you want?"

The girl thinks a bit. "If I had to compare the two..." she mutters, weighing her hands like a scale.

Gohan puts his face in his hands.

She points at Peppa, and wheels her fingers about, "Do you have the kind without pulp?"

Peppa grins. "Sure do! I'll go get it!" She skips out of the room.

Gohan lets out an exasperated sigh as his sister returns with some cups.

"Thanks!" Arabiota gives a thumbs up, then takes a sip.

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She spits the apple juice out on Gohan, then shouts at Peppa while flinging her hand around wildly, "Oi, what gives?

Peppa fights down some snickers, but it's a losing battle. "It doesn't, pfft, it doesn't have pulp, kihi, you said, hehehee..."

Arabiota blinks, then narrows her eyes. She swirls the cup a bit, reflecting, "Ah, I see I have been made a fool of, fallen victim to a practical joke." She sips her apple juice, then sets the cup down. Cracking her knuckles, she says, "I got beef. We will address this right now."

Peppa tilts her head. "Huh?"

Arabiota thrusts her fist at Peppa's face. "Duel me!"

"...kay." Peppa takes the offered controller, then sits down next to her challenger. "What do you want if you win?"

She wags her finger. "You say 'I'm sorry' ten times, and bring me some orange juice!"

Nodding, Peppa asks, "And when you lose?"

"IF," she rebukes with a raised finger, then thinks. "If, you somehow win, you can bring me some orange juice,"

Peppa gets up. "I can go get you orange juice, just a sec-"

She raises another finger. "And! ...and a toothbrush and toothpaste."

Peppa gasps, covering her own mouth. She looks to Gohan, who, although doused in apple juice, stares wide-eyed at his guest.

He looks to Peppa with concern. "Don't."

Peppa ignores him, saying, "One thing to know about me, Arabiota? I never back down from a challenge!"

The two girls lock eyes, sparks going off in the air between them, and they get their game on, so to speak.

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Rolled 1 (1d2)

1 = Peppa
2 = Arabiota

https://youtu.be/3EqHbN6jaz4

>The two girls lock eyes, sparks going off in the air between them, and they get their game on, so to speak.
Kiss!

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Rolled 1 (1d2)

"Ha!" Peppa cheers. "Glad to help you, brush up, hehe"

"Grr, just you wait!" Arabiota growls.

https://youtu.be/P33MkgarK0g

>>5971855
>>5971860
yup, we won bo3

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"Grrk, will you ever stop teleporting?" she whines, futilely trying to stave off the death of a thousand cuts behind her shield.

"Well, if you insist," Peppa says, a bit sadistically. She gets up nice and close, and unleaches a torrent of Down-B spam till she gets the all clear to kick Arabiota into space.

GAME!

Peppa thrusts a fist up in the air, Arabiota grabs her head and wails out "NOOOOO!"

Arabiota shakes her head in denial, no way she could lose! But then, she gets tapped on the shoulder, and turns her head to see Peppa, doing a ^_^ once more. And she's holding some orange juice! And in her coiled tail, the rest.

https://youtu.be/Ln7UXJxpUH4

Arabiota gulps.

Gohan steps in front of the poor girl. "Hey, let's not do anything crazy now, just put those down-"

"She lost tho!" Peppa opens her eyes a smidge. "Why does she do all the things with her hands, Gohan?"

Gohan scowls. "She doesn't have to-"

"No, I do, I lost," Arabiota says, taking the brush.

Gohan wipes at some sweat, and transmits, "She's from Gurumez! They talk with their hands!"

"Oh," Peppa grunts. She observes the girl diligently brushing, and transmits back, "Her hands say she's resolved to go through with it."

Prostrating himself on the floor, Gohan begs, "I implore you, don't do this, it's too cruel!"

"Blubblubblubblublub, blublublu," Arabiota says, and that's final.

>>5971934
>Gohan wipes at some sweat, and transmits, "She's from Gurumez! They talk with their hands!"
oh, that's kinda anticlimatic

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>>5972255
Arabiota's hands can be read, but it doesn't necessarily mean she's red-handed. This means nothing, it's just a pun.
---

"Take back what you said at the school, broseph," Peppa says, looking down her nose at her baby broseph.

Gohan whips his head up in shock, then his eyes shift into a glare. He spits, and smirks. "You deserved it."

Unimpressed with his blockheadedness, Peppa points it out for him. "Did Izzy deserve it? After today? You really gotta read the room."

He winces, so there's some decency in him. "Okay, point. But I apologized to her already."

The playful mood having flipped to earnestness, Peppa offers her brother a hand, and helps him to his feet. "So, did she tell you after I left?"

Gohan closes his eyes. "She told me you spilled some paint on her." They open again, his eyes looking down. "Why can't you two trust me? How am I supposed to back you up when you go and do the things that make you look bad and I can't know why?"

... "It's not a secret she wanted me to know about either. For now, just trust in me that..." Peppa grimaces. "That we can't trust you with it."

He turns away. "Get out of my room then."

"Hm?" the new girl tilts her head.

Peppa takes in a deep breath through her nostrils, and counts backward from five.

...

She lets it out, and forms a grin. She waves a hand and tells Arabiota, whose teeth are shining, "Just kidding, you don't have to."

The girl looks disappointed. "You're bailing on the wager?"

"Yeah?" Peppa says, backing out of the room with the juice in hand.

"But I'm thirsty," she says, looking down. To the side, Gohan facepalms.

Peppa quickly hands her the juice, and in a voice of strained cheer, gets out, "Okay, here ya go, nice meeting you, bye!"

She steps out into the hall, closing the door behind her. She grumbles out, "One thing, is there gonna be one thing today where I don't step in it?"

Behind her, she hears an "ACK" and a "why" from Gohan's room.

Peppa laments on all the ephemeral beauty in the world kept from her gaze, and determines that she needs another outlet, i.e. a person to vent her problems at. Videl's mad at her, Gohan banished her, Izumi has her own situation, her therapist is on vacation, and Cocoa's still in school...

Ah, there is one person left!

Peppa goes back to the kitchen, which was once a smoking pit of sparks and scrap metal and runoff the day prior, but thanks to the technician working to fix it, all that rubble has been put outside in a pile. The monkeygirl's tail twitches from the feel of a cool autumn breeze, which makes sense seeing as how a good portion of the kitchen wall has been taken down and put in the pile.

She opens the battle-scarred fridge and pulls out some spicy veggie juice, and closes the door to see

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"PEPPA, DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY COOL FLAMETHROWER AND GAS MASK?"

Peppa screams! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

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"Ahaha!" A witch's laughter rings out from the mask, and the figure lifts it to reveal none other than Maple Son-Mahogany, sticking her tongue out. "I can still get you~!" she teases, pointing up at her slightly taller daughter's face.

Peppa goes from pale to pink, and swats away her mom's hand. "Mooom, I'm not a kid anymore!" she grumbles. Her mom had, in fact, taken to scaring them from a young age with classic Tuffle stories such as "Der Struwwelmunky" which taught naughty monkeys the consequences for bad habits (and it rhymes with "snips their snails!").

"Oh, you'll always be my kid," says Mom. Then, she considers, and proposes, "But, if you really wanna show how grown you've got..."

"Huh?"

Mom raises a finger. "You can help clean this mess!"

Peppa winces. "Sure thing."

"And," Maple looks around, clicking her tongue. "If you insist on having the kitchen to yourself again, we should teach you how to use it. But that's for later!"

Peppa scratches her head, her smile sheepish. "Yeah, I guess. So what needs cleaning?"

She points at the wreckage outside.

Peppa nods, and whirls her arm about. "Alright, one kamehameha coming right up-"

"Peppa no," Maple says. In response to her daughter's confused squinty bitch face, she explains, "We're gonna bring it back to the classics today."

"The classics?"

Maple holds up a sledgehammer and a fire axe. "We gonna smash some shit!"

Peppa gasps. Her mother's the type to materialize soap bubbles in her mouth for foul language!

Maple waves a hand. "I know, I know, but I wanna take out some stress today."

"Ah, sorry for putting all that on you," Peppa apologizes with her hands behind her back, and kicking her foot ashamedly.

"Oh, don't be!" Maple hands her daughter the fire axe. "Been thinking of remodeling the kitchen anyway, getting new appliances, going for more of an open concept, with room for Clone-Me's running around!"

>Common Knowledge! MULTI-FORM
Multi-Form is a technique that lets the user make (at most) four copies of themselves, dividing their power among each.

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They walk out to the scrap heap, and Maple continues, "And they all told me taking out fire, flood, earthquake, tornado, and nuclear radiation insurance for a remote mountaintop property was foolish. Joke's on them, it's fools who obtain the world!"

"Eh? How do fools obtain anything?" Peppa asks.

Maple wags a finger, coming off as quite the Gurumezza, and explains, "Nothing is guaranteed no matter how much you keep doing the sensible thing. There's always a risk to doing anything, so if it's worth it you really just have to gamble and hope it all works out."

Peppa thinks on the day she's had, and that bit of reasoning her mother is using to justify getting five kinds of insurance from the elements. To her annoyance, Peppa can't argue against it with how everything went.

Maple grins cheekily. "And a bit of foresight doesn't hurt neither!"

>Common Knowledge! FORESIGHT
Maple can see the Future, and on some occasions it proves useful!

"Eh," Peppa eloquently replies, "If the future is uncertain, betting everything on your interpretation of a vision could harm your chances as much as it helps."

"That's where hoping helps," says Maple. She looks up at the sky, seeing dark blue clouds clashing with the orange light of the setting sun.

---
"The fool will get their world back any day now. They have to."
===

"-and then we took turns smashing shit. Mom said it took her back to her early days of getting welcomed to Earth, going all 'Maple Smash!'"

You cough, a bit scandalized, but ask, "Any other details from that evening?"

Peppa flips her vape-pen around, and recalls, "For all that she was venting, there was this bit where she was doing a combo on our old oven with the yellowed glass, going 'EFF, YOU! EFF, YOU!' She seemed like she had it out for that one oven in particular, but not enough to say Fu-"

"Shush with that, you!" you interject. "Children frequent this bar."

She glares at you, temple flaring. "I own this bar."

"Glad we're on the same page!" You flip to a new page. "Now, Girl B?"

Peppa rolls her eyes, instead contenting herself to take a drag of the pen. "So, next was Girl B... Krysmus."

You pause your writing, and frown. That name doesn't start with a B! Your pattern is ruined!


(Welp, that should be a fair amount of words, I'll continue later, for now I have to catch up on the sleep of last night I skipped over. Hope y'all enjoyed it.)
>Update Notes (write-in)

>>5972340
waiting warmly

>>5972348
Glad to hear! Have a goodnight, and a good eclipse.
https://youtu.be/WUhOnX8qt3I

>>5972353
>a good eclipse.
eclipse ? where ?

>>5972340
>Arabiota not a ninja, or so the Gurumezans would have us believe
>Peppa breaks limits and doesn't back down from challenges, also plays Fox competitively so pbbbbbbt
>Arabiota kinda dumb, could have just drank apple juice if she was thirsty
>Peppa and Gohan also dumb
>And their mom dumb, or "lol i'm so quirky"
>Der Struwwelmunky is a tuffle childrens book about cutting off monkey tails
>Whatever Peppa did in that kitchen, Maple got lots of insurance money
Looking forward to the next update OP

>>5973475
same

Updating tomorrow, and will be marathoning this over the weekend. Also,

>>5973475
>>5974949
Notes updated! Thanks for keeping up, see you!

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Wind howls and a cool draft sweeps into the bar as a result of the door opening. In steps a new girl!

Peppa calls out to her, "Krysmus! How timely, we just talking about you!"

There's a pun there about the girl in a white sundress coming early or late or precisely when she needed to... However, to a good majority of your dismay, when you're on top of things, you only care to hear others speak something of use, rather than blab your own mouth uselessly. And so, you tip your hat, "Charmed!"

The girl grins at you in response, and takes a seat beside you.

Peppa takes out a sphere of ice and an icepick, and rapidly chips it over a cup until a pile of snow forms. "This is the second one of them he brought home." She frowns, and rolls her eyes. "Sorry, that was a horrible way to describe her, as merely part of a set."

You ask, "So how would you describe her?"

Peppa tops the snow cone with some syrup, and scoots it over to the girl. As the girl happily munches on some ice, Peppa begins, "Welllllllll,"

===
https://youtu.be/BhaNZ-4HOJ0

After another day of school, Peppa and Gohan find themselves walking down the hallway together. It is not because they have smoothed out that previous issue, more that they have the same homeroom and the same homehome. Sure, Peppa can teleport, and Gohan can too in a different fashion ever since learned a bunch of mystic techniques from the Supreme Kai, but teleporting in the middle of a crowd of their peers draws a fuss. Like, getting asked to teleport somewhere to get a thing, why only they can teleport and if it has something to do with their being space monkeys, or why Peppa has to put two fingers on her head and why Gohan has to say "Kai Kai," fussiness like that.

But, Peppa is a bit surprised to discover she doesn't much care about all those petty consequences, so much as she was feeling the cold from Videl Satan. She couldn't take back what she said or did on Valentines, but teleporting around her seems like the wrong thing. Hopefully, should she show good behavior, Videl would willingly meet her eyes again! And even more hopefully, whenever their eyes do happen to meet, Peppa won't feel like she's been cut down.

Peppa shivers as she recalls that feeling, and Gohan pauses his own gait, despite himself.

"Cold?" he asks, his own breath forming a puff of steam. He observes the sight of it with widening eyes.

"No-" Peppa refutes as a matter of course, then does a double-take when a chilly breeze hits her face. "-yes, yessssyesyesyes!" She quickly uses Clothes Beam to get some jackets for her and Gohan, and even though it's not like they're on speaking terms or anything, Gohan gratefully takes the winter wear and puts it on.

"Thanks," grunts Gohan from under his new scarf.

Peppa flashes him an OK sign, and suffers immediate regret, rectified by new mittens.

Then, a girl's voice rings out from across the courtyard, "Gohan!"

>>5976500
>Peppa flashes him an OK sign, and suffers immediate regret, rectified by new mittens.
I don't get it

>>5976569
her exposed fingies cold, she makes new mittens

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The siblings turn to see the speaker, a girl with green hair and a blue windbreaker. When they see her jumping and waving at them, she subdues her motion and reclines against a pine tree. But, when she leans against the tree, it proves to be the straw the broke the camel's back as all the jumping and the shouting and the leaning jostles fresh snow from a branch, sending it falling on her head. "ACK!"

Ah, Peppa's heard that distinctive yelp before, it's that Arabiota girl from the day prior!

The girl shakes and swipes at the snow, and looks around to see if anyone saw that. She sees that a lot of students passing by had, in fact, noticed the girl jumping and shouting and getting snow dumped on her. She looks down at the ground, her messed up hair hiding her face, then she scurries over, skidding to a stop a few feet in front of Gohan.

Now, fun fact about tuffles being two to three feet shorter than their peers, in order to maintain a respectful gaze, they really have to bend over backwards to accomplish that. And so, both Gohan and Peppa lean back and crane their necks to where their eyes can't be construed as being locked onto to that absolute territory between her thigh-highs and short-shorts.

She presses her fingers together and utters, "...hi."

Huh, this really throws everything she knows about this girl in a complete 180, but then again, Peppa has only known this girl for one day. So, she greets her brother's new friend, "Hey Arabiota! Did you dye your hair?"

"Huh?" The girl looks confused.

Gohan explains, "No, this is Krysmus."

Peppa nods. That didn't explain anything at all. "What does Christmas have to do with your hair?"

Already pink from the chill, her cheeks go a bit further beyond as she tentatively fiddles with a lock of her hair. "Well, I don't have to do that much. Why, does it look bad?"

Gohan shakes his head, "You just got some snow in your hair, it's fine."

...

Peppa side-eyes her brother's tragically narrow perspective and his spiky 'do. "She doesn't have to do that much?" With hair that long, tangles were already starting to form, and there's stray bits of foliage sticking out! Ugh, this was why ponytails were superior.

She twirls a lock around a finger, amazed at the sight of it. "Oh thanks! It's my first time having hair." She winces. "Having my hair like this, I mean. Of course I have hair, haha!"

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Her face goes from pink to green as she keeps digging herself deeper into this travesty. "Eh, your hair's fine too, Gohan, it reminds me of a pineapple... Soaree! I haven't had pineapple before, it seems like it would hurt to bite into. Haha, that was a joke, it's stupid, I know you eat the inside part, uh, nevermind. We don't get much tropical fruit back home, is what I was getting at. We also didn't get pizza but once a month, so, I've never had pineapple on pizza neither, I hear it's a contentious topic and, heheh, I'm always up to join sides in a gang war! Uh, I've never been in a gang, I don't why I said that, please forget I..."

As the cringe keeps coming and it don't stop coming, Peppa eyes her brother. "Bro, what happened with Arabiota? It's like her moxie just evaporated."

He rolls his eyes. "I told you, this isn't Arabiota, this is Krysmus. New girl."

"New girl?"

===
"Huh, they look like they could be twins!" you note.

Peppa waves that off, "Nah, they have different hair and eye colors."
===

Peppa taps her chin. "But that's weird, why are you so popular all of a sudden?"

Gohan slowly turns his head towards her, and gives Peppa a ^_^ smile. "And why are you so, Not?"

Low blow. Now, how best for her to hit him where it hurts-

She shakes her head, blech. Her thoughts were a slimepool lately. Why is it turning out like this? She just wants to know why girls are gathering around her brother Gohan. Gohan, who hasn't had a girlfriend ever. Gohan, who no girl in their grade would seek out because he's shorter than their younger siblings. Gohan, whose closest candidates to girlfriends lived on the other side of the world, and Otherworld. It's a real mystery!

And it's not like it was worth debating the point with him. Popularity shmopularity, she already has a girlfriend, and he don't. It would be the height of pettiness to rub that in his face, and she's better than him that.

"Why are you looking so smug?" he wonders, scowling once more.

"Um. Um!"

The two of them whip their heads back to Krysmus, who seems to have finished expelling all that word vomit.

"I'm finished talking, thank you for listening!" She bows, then stands there, twiddling her thumbs, with much concentration and effort. With all her fretting she looks like she's about to sink into a puddle despite it being below freezing. After a long pause with only the wind for company, she attempts to bail. "This was a bad idea, we don't have to hang out if you don't want to-"

Gohan cuts her off, "No, it's fine, I want to hang out!"

The girl's smile goes from manic to relieved. Mechanically, she crosses her arms and shifts her posture to look relaxed. She nods enthusiastically, flaring her nostrils. "Oh cool, cool! Yeah, you betcha, we can hang out. Hang loose! Just a couple of buds hangin' loose, don'tcha know!"

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Speaking of hanging, Peppa feels like she could die of second-hand embarrassment right now. There would be an easy way out of this for her, just gotta raise two fingers to her head, and she can leave this world, then pop right back into it anywhere else but here.

Ah, but if she teleports right now in the middle of an unpleasant conversation, what's that gonna tell Videl?

...heh, that reminds Peppa of the time Videl asked her if she should cut her hair short before the World Tournament. Peppa had told her no because she thought Videl looked cuter with long hair. But, Videl could pull that off was the thing, whereas this girl doesn't seem like she could pull off the lid of a can of pringles without injury.

What to do...

>A. Teleport away from this natural disaster, yesterday teleporting worked... eventually!
>B. Recommend she get her hair cut short, would look pretty cute!
>C. "Why do you wanna hang out with Gohan?"
>D. Write-in
>E. Update notes

>>5976671
>B. Recommend she get her hair cut short, would look pretty cute!
>C. "Why do you wanna hang out with Gohan?"

>>5976783
>+1

>>5976671
>>5976783
Support
>D. "Your hands look cold, would you like some mittens?"

waiting warmly

OP ?

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Anons, I appreciate you, and will strive to deliver this while it's still warm.
Also, fun fact and big surprise, if you pull an all-nighter on Friday, you will be dead the following week? Something I'll have to keep in mind going forward!

5 votes for "Why do you wanna hang out with Gohan?"
4 votes for Recommend she get her hair cut short, would look pretty cute!
]And using that write-in.
---

Even though the sheer cringe has her own face radiating steam in the chilly air, Peppa does have to admit she’s a little curious about the girl, and what she’s after so far as Gohan is concerned. However, any answers to be had from her seem like they’ll be buried under a heap of non sequiturs and self-deprecation. What would be the best way to get her to chill?

Eh, given the circumstances, maybe Krysmus is chilled enough- wait a minute, hold on, that’s something!

Peppa points a finger at Krysmus’ fumbling hands, and magicks her up with a pair of mittens! “Clothes Beam!”

For some reason, Krysmus yelps and shields her face in response to being shot with a laser. She opens her eyes upon realizing she feels no pain, and better yet, less cold! She examines the new gift, and then looks to Peppa with awe. “...m-m-m-magic?”

Peppa nods triumphantly. “Yep, magic!”

Krysmus’ eyes sparkle with wonder. “Wow!”

Gohan coughs, and pipes up, “Yeah. Hey, if you think that’s cool, at home we got a little magic man!”

“Hm?”

He explains, “He can turn things into candy!”

>Common Knowledge! MINI BUU
Mini Buu is a bubblegum creature who it is easier to describe as the personification of innocent desire than anything else. He's used to be a universal threat, but his badness was exorcised by the Supreme Kais and Gohan. He does do magic, mostly to satisfy a sweet tooth.

“Sounds neat!” Krysmus grins. “Thanks for the mittens, uhhh, Gohan’s Sister? Soaree, didn’t catch your name.”

In response to this innocent admittance of ignorance, world-famous champion Son Peppa nearly falls over were it not for her tail propping her up. This girl doesn’t know who she is? Well, guess that’s how Equivalent Exchange works out sometimes… holy smokes, her mom is super right about the flashy introductions being important.

But if this girl doesn’t know who she is, how does she know enough about Gohan to want to be friends with him? This is a question that sane people ask and Peppa is a super sane person, so she does ask, “Why do you wanna be friends with Gohan?”

Gohan says nothing, but elects to pluck a hair from his sister’s tail.

Peppa slightly curls in on herself, but keeps her twitchy gaze focused on Krysmus, who is currently thinking the question over.

She huffs a bang away. “Well, if I had to say it, he’s just this really cool guy, y’know?”

“I am?” Gohan asks, just as Peppa asks, “He is?” (Her tail manages to dodge his hand this time!)

Krysmus nods.

>>5984447
>Anons, I appreciate you, and will strive to deliver this while it's still warm.
thanks
>Also, fun fact and big surprise, if you pull an all-nighter on Friday, you will be dead the following week? Something I'll have to keep in mind going forward!
isn't that the case for most all-nighters fucking you over ?

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Peppa's eyes narrow.

Krysmus' reason would be an okay one, but since it's concerning her brother Gohan, it just leaves Peppa confused. Sure, her brother has done cool things, but he hasn’t famously done cool things. Sometimes he makes the occasional quip and gets the laughter due a class clown, and his grades on tests are good, but this girl is not in their class. Same goes for any cool thing he did in PE, Peppa hasn’t seen green hair nor hide of this girl during that time, and Peppa really has been keeping an eye out lately!

The last reasonable avenues for his name to be known at all (and not just as “Maple’s son” or “Peppa’s bro”) are a World Tournament where he bailed out midway… Then, the Tag Tourney where he got wished back to life, and celebrated by playing something on his guitar in front of the crowd. And after that, there was her and Cocoa’s Dating Game hosted at a theme park and broadcasted on TV, where Gohan was competing as a couple with Phanty on TV.

But even with all of those, Peppa was still a big part, so how would this girl know about him and not her?

...perhaps, there is the teeniest chance that Krysmus wants to hang out with her brother solely because her bro, is someone girls want to hang with?

She shrugs her head. If that is the case, it wouldn't do to scare off his new friends with questioning centered around how she's, gasp, heavens to betsy! not as popular as she thought!

And she can always fix that! Peppa's a people person. Lessee, she already gave the girl some mittens. A+ job on using the Clothes Beam there, way better than your first time Peppa!

...Peppa idly wonders if Cocoa was wearing that bra yesterday. Damn that blue sweater vest, getting in the way!

"Is your sister okay there, Gohan?" Krysmus asks.

Gohan waves her off, "Oh, this? My sister goes off to space some times, we can probably just leave her here, let's go-"

Peppa bursts out of her thoughts with the well reasoned out suggestion, "Let's go get you a haircut!"

"Eh?" "peppa what"

Peppa flies up and points out some pesky tangles, "Krysmus, you have pretty hair, but you have to put in the work to keep it pretty!" (Below, Gohan mumbles out an instinctual "equivalent exchange")

"I do?" Krysmus asks, smiling, then frowning. "But what should I do?"

"Like I said, we just gotta trim it down and get you something more manageable, and just because it's easier to handle doesn't mean it won't be cute! Trust me, my girlfriend knows a stylist-"

"Hahaha, yeah!" Gohan cuts in, grabbing his sister. "Hey Krysmus, a moment please, we gotta talk for a bit?"

"Uh, okay?" "gohan what"

Gohan pulls Peppa over some distance, and faces her. "What are you doing?"

Peppa blinks. "I... can't think of Anything I'm doing that would warrant a dressing down."

Gohan nods. "Right, right, you're just being friendly, you're being your friendly self." He interlocks his fingers, and begs. "Can you not?"

"What?"

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He explains, "Look, you already have Cocoa, and Videl, and Lime, can you just let me have this?"

"..." Peppa blinks a few times. "I already have who?"

Gohan nods, whispering, "You already have friends, girls, girl friends, all of which you hang with, and I want the chance to do the same with my new friends."

Peppa's mouth has gone dry. "And, you... don't want me to?"

Gohan looks uncomfortable, which doesn't make a bit of difference because he still nods his head. "I mean, you're popular with girls, so they tend to go your way when you're around."

While her brain is busy loading a response to this new information from bro, Peppa recalls something from the day before in her brother's room. A brief glimpse of four Valentines Chocolates on shelf, one of them unwrapped and eaten.

He's hanging out with a bunch of girls, who gave him chocolate. And he doesn't want his sister around, because he's afraid she'll get the girls, in addition to the... ones she has.

Bile rises within her.

Gohan asks her once again, "Please?"

>A. [smack him]
>B. "Fuck you?"
>C. Write-in
>D. Update notes

>>5984719
>B. "Fuck you?"
we may be friendly, but we're not gonna cuck our gf or take someone's else gf. wtf bro ?

>>5984719
>>5984727
Supporting, bro's being homophobic

>>5984719
>B. "Fuck you?"
>C. Get Krysmus hooked up with that stylist anyway, bro can stuff it.
>D. Arabiota and Krysmus look similar
>Krysmus doesn't know much about Peppa
>Or how to maintain her hair? Is she an alien?
>Gohan thinks Peppa is out to steal his girlfriends

>>5986349
Notes updated!

Will update tomorrow, and this weekend will be the one I won't pass out on or have to celebrate a birthday over, and I'll reach the endpoint I've intended for this part before the thread falls off!

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7 votes for "Fuck you?"
2 votes for the write-in, "... You think I would betray Cocoa like that?"
1 vote for the write-in, Get Krysmus hooked up with that stylist anyway, bro can stuff it, doesn't make it
1 vote for [Smack Him], doesn't make it
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Now, Peppa would do anything for her brother's sake. She would avenge his death, wish him back to life, and even copy notes for him when he's out with a cold.

This... grub, grubbing before her, grubbily, was not recognizable as her brother.

The only thing she can say to his request, she does.

...

"...'fuck me'?" asks Gohan.

Peppa sniffs. "Y'know what? Yeah, fuck you, dude."

Gohan recoils, as if he had been smacked. As if she was being unreasonable. "Why?"

She wonders if her brother had hit his head and lost his mind, but tries to focus and put into words what he is doing that makes her want to throttle him-

The boor interrupts her thinking time. "Why can't you let me have this? Do you not have plenty? To call your own? You have to win mine over?" he rants, getting more bitter with each whine he makes.

Hoo boy, Peppa has to tap deep into her lessons on Spiritual Control from Yardrat, to prevent herself from doing anything she would regret, though the more he lashes out the more she thinks taking this from him any longer would be the most regrettable thing she could do.

She narrows down her thoughts, and finally asks him, "You think I would betray Cocoa like that?"

He looks at her like she said something stupid, like she's a stupid dumbass, and asks, "What?"

Peppa bites her lip, ah, too hard, ouch. She repeats, "Do you think so little of me, that I would betray her trust?"

...

"What are you-" Gohan begins, then shakes his head, mirthlessly chuckling. "Y'know what, screw it, don't care. But, I will admit, that's funny, you're funny with that, good one sis."

Peppa elects to look at snow falling instead. "I'm a joke now, huh." Her eyes are hot despite the cold. "Care to let me in on what's 'funny'?"

"Heh, it's just, you're one to talk about trustworthiness, the trustiest one to ever trust, when you don't have that for others."

"Oh." She looks at her brother's shoes. "You can trust me then. You don't have to worry about me being, 'friendly.' Around them." She looks up at his face. "Around you."

Despite his block for a head, Gohan does note the venom in that last statement. He snarls, but bites down whatever retort he has. He instead opts to plaster a smile on his face, and says, "Thank you."

They turn back to see that most have left, but Krysmus is still waiting, in the cold.

Gohan walks up and apologizes to the girl, and looks around, noting there's no bystanders he cares about seeing them. Then, he offers to show her a neat trick, and she nods. They teleport away.

Peppa thinks of teleporting herself, and raises her hand... but it's trembling. The mittens, they do nothing.

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Oh right, she has a pair of goggles! Doy, better put those on to keep the wind and snow out. She does, but her sight is still blurry.

...hmph.

===

Things come to a pause.

You look up from your note-taking and observe your host.

Son Peppa is looking down.

You look back down at your notes.

>A. Continue this line of questioning, get through what else she saw of his girlfriends for any useful info.
>B. Ask what Peppa did after.
>C. Enough questions for now, it's time to reason things out and connect some dots.
>D. Write-in
>E. Update notes

>>5988400
>B. Ask what Peppa did after.
then we can connect things

>>5988400
>C. Enough questions for now, it's time to reason things out and connect some dots.

>>5988400
>>5988444
Agreed. Supporting!

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4 votes for, Enough of retellings and questions for now, it's time to reason things out and connect some dots.
3 votes for, Ask what Peppa did after.
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You feel you should lay off for now, largely in part to the hand urgently tugging on your blouse to switch places.

You tip your hat, "Thanks for the help, miss!" You turn around on the stool, and duck your head.

You whip your head out, and let your hair flow freely, before putting on your hat again. You turn back to Peppa, and flip to a new page of your notes. You give her a smile. "Now, I feel we've talked about Gohan at length, no?"

Peppa squirms. "There's more to it, the next girl was-"

You place a hand on her shoulder. "It's okay."

"Huh?"

"We're gonna take a break from talking about Gohan."

She looks relieved... but despite herself, she asks, "But you're here to find out what happened to Gohan, right?"

You let out a sympathetic sigh. "Someone caused a lot of pain to Gohan, it's true." You rub her shoulder. "He also caused you pain."

Peppa shakes her head, "No, no, he's my brother, this is just a spat, it's not as important as-"

"It is important." You pat her twice, then pull back. "And we don't have to dwell on him. At least, not for now. A little break. We do have other aspects to consider."

Peppa wipes her face with a cloth, then nods. "Okay. Like what?"

You smile. "Well, what did you do after that? On, lessee, February 15th, the snow day?"

Peppa shrugs. "Oh, not much. I was feeling upset, so I called my therapist, but she was still on vacation. So then I decided to go see..." Peppa pauses, then smiles. "I headed over Cocoa to talk with her and feel better! But I was worried about teleporting, given, y'know. So I flew to her school instead. Missed seeing her before school, so we decided to eat together during lunch.

"Oh, you two had a... lupper together?" you say, smirking.

"Heh. Yeah, and I told her about bro's bull...loney, and also vented about how everyone was mad at me for something completely out of my hands."

You nod. "Did you tell Cocoa about Izumi?"

Peppa shakes her head, then laughs. "Ha, when I told Cocoa I couldn't tell anyone, not even my brother, not even her? She understood."

You feel the hands holding onto your legs squeeze in frustration. To soothe those qualms, before that rears its head into this delicate situation, you ask, "Though you were going to tell someone eventually, right?"

"Of course!" she declares. Then, a bit less confidently, she rubs her arm and says, "My therapist was never available though, and every time I would suggest Izumi let someone know the concerns she had, and the pain she was inflicting to better herself, she would refuse."

You frown. "Uh, hold on, your therapist was Never available?"

Peppa frowns. Then, she shrugs, and lets out a single chuckle. "She's on vacation!"

"HMMM..." you hum, cheerfully nodding as your body quivers with anger.

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Before you can blow your top and your cover, you gather up your things. "Okay, I think that's enough questions! It's time for me to go work my magic!"

"Okay!" Peppa says, then tilts her head. "How?"

You get up, and make your way towards the exit.

"Inspector, where are you going?" Peppa calls after you.

"I'm gettin' some coffee, I'll be back!"

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https://youtu.be/xpHH3stpIc4

You arrive in a diner, and undo your trenchcoat. You hop off of your Scolding self's shoulders, and land on a stool.

You hops off of your Inquiring self, and sit next to Doting.

Not having to put in the legwork for those two, you swing up onto your own stool, and hold up three fingers in the Tuffle Three (or Drei). "Three coffees please."

The Maple working the counter asks, "And how would you like them?"

"Oh, I'd love something fruity with a lotta froth on top~" "Do you even have to ask, you know the higher the beans and the higher the froth means the higher I'll soar!" "Do you have any acidic beans, and are you able to include some frothed milk?"

The Maple takes your orders and nods. "Good, good, that happens to be the only way we make coffee: Perfect."

Another Maple comes over and lays the three prepared mugs in front of you three Maples.

You each take a sip of froth, and watch the white cream swirl in your cups.

>You will be asked to roll Insight. Roll a 1d100, and you will get a hint on something depending on how well you roll. These hints could be bogus, and they could sound smart and still be wrong. The reverse is true as well. It will be up to you to cherry-pick what works by using the facts you have.

Roll 1d100.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>5988736
Let's roll!

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>5988736

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>5988736
literally 3 beings in a trenchcoat were passing as the inspector them ? sheesh. ALso I dunno how I missed this doot

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>>5988744
>>5988779
>>5990172
37, 54, 21

Anon-kun rolled 54, 94, 81

These are going to be in a random order.
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Inquiring ponders her coffee, and leads off, positing, "Maybe our Gohan's got game?"

The other two Maples nearly spill their drinks at this. Doting whines, "He's got his game already?" and Scolding goes, "Gohan's not the kind of boy to juggle four chicks!"

Inquiring shrugs. "We don't know what kind of man he's become. Gohan does a lot of things we don't expect, and I don't think we should hold him to any standard. Well, all but the one that matters: he's our son. We still have to raise him right tho."

Doting sighs. "I hear ya, Inky. We have to set him straight, and these fights with his sister are too much. Granted, her not letting him in to her circle of trust is a reason for him to be mad, but... agh, he doesn't have to reciprocate! That's not the spirit of Equivalent Exchange! It's about sharing, not tit-for-tat pettiness!"

Scolding chuckles. "Heh, if Gohan does have that many girls, Dr. Raichi and Baby are gonna be rolling in their graves. Imagine, The Tuffle Race, making a comeback!" Then, her humor drops, as she feels the weight of the Implications. "And the Saiyan Race. He's not going to be able to feed four kids, us having to taking care of the twins was hell! We have to teach him about protection!"

Doting tilts her head. "I think he knows how to use protection. He has had enough years in high school and biology classes to know the basics."

Inquiring shakes her head. "Ehhh, I think we should check in on his school's curriculum. I mean, even I would feel embarrassed asking either of the twins how much they know."

Doting nods... then smirks. "Hey, remember when our loving son had lumped Mini Buu onto us and we had to educate the bubblegum genie on the Birds and the Bees?"

Scolding snickers. "Oh lord, I'm still waiting for the payoff on that! Buu better do us proud!"

Inquiring grins. "Yes, yes, our ticking time bomb. Although, we are still waiting on Gohan to wake up as well..." She sips her coffee, her and the others' mood now gloomy. "...so, what did you get, Dottie?"

Doting observes her coffee. "There was something weird about Izzy in that classroom."

"The bleeding and panic attack?"

Giving a so-so gesture, Doting explains, "A little bit before then. She seemed to respond negatively when she was called her name, like, in full, 'Izumi.'"

Scolding hums. "She did seem off when called that, but not 'Izzy.'"

Inquiring frowns. "Her full given name is triggering for her? What could be responsible for that?"

Scolding harrumphs. "We need to look into what that tutor of hers is teaching her."

Doting nods, and sips her coffee. "Okay, what do you got, Oldie?"

"A mug of hot coffee for your face if you call me that again~!" chirps Scolding.

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"But something seemed weird to me. So, Peppa was all like, 'I don't wanna bring up what's happening with Izzy in front of the others, such as Sharpner with his big mouth and Erasa who's a gossip.' But for all Peppa was worried they would talk, sure, Sharpner was talking a lot, but, I don't think Erasa said a single word back there."

Doting and Inquiring gasp. "Whoa, nice catch!" "What could this mean?"

Scolding shrugs. "Now, I don't know what's normal for Erasa, or her dynamic with Peppa, and I'm not saying it's indicative of her guilt or that she stole anything, but since we have no little to go on, it could be something to look into. But, I'm also still not sure how the incident on Valentine's Day relates to the one on March 14th, so we oughta put a pin in that till we get a link of some kind." She sips her coffee.

Doting hums. "Valentines and March 14th, huh..."

Inquiring sighs. "I don't see a link either. Maybe one will come up when we hear more from Peppa." She jots the dates down on the notepad, and plentiful question marks around them. "Dottie, you got anything else?"

Doting smiles. "So that theory from before, about Angela stealing the chocolate on her boyfriend's behalf? Maybe it's true!"

Scolding scoffs. "There are so many reasons why that's bunk! We already went over them!"

Doting tilts her head. "Eh, if we paint a suspect with 'there's no way they could do this because of this reasoning,' doesn't that give them a pretty good alibi?"

Inquiring squints. "How so?"

Dottie shakes her head. "I dunno, we could get blindsided is all I'm saying. Like, in Detective Conan, it's usually the least likely person who's the culprit." She finishes her coffee.

Scolding rolls her eyes. "So your basis is a fictional story, cool! Great reasoning, Dottie." She takes a sip of her coffee as well, then recoils, wincing. "Aaaatatata, hot!"

Inquiring laughs. "That's what you get for dissing Conan, Dingbat!" She pats her sister on the back, "Any more theories on your mind, or on the tip of your tongue?"

Scolding sticks her tongue out, then looks at her coffee, ruminating... "my mind?" Then, she draws her head up, her eyes wide. "Actually, now that y'all mention it, there is a blindspot we might have."

"A blindspot?" Inquiring inquires.

Scolding nods, and levitates her mug up using telekinesis. "Psychic powers."

"Psychic powers!?" Inquiring repeats, before getting her mouth covered by Doting's hand.

"Let's let her explain, okay?"

The mug lifts up to Scolding's mouth, and she finishes the coffee hands-free. She taps the side of her head. "Peppa has psychic powers. She knows telekinesis, and did open a bunch of lockers with that ability on Valentines Day. She can also communicate with other people via telepathy, and she can also read minds and block others from reading her mind."

Doting tilts her head. "Yeah? We can do that too."

"Exactly!" Scolding points at Doting, nodding. "We can do that too!"

Inquiring asks, "What?"

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Scolding, "For you see, Inky and Dot, our psychic powers are something able to be learned by anyone with the drive. It is rare for a given person to have powers like them, but not impossible."

Inquiring blinks. "You're saying the culprit could have powers they used to steal the Valentine's Chocolate?"

"It's possible, there could be a lot of hidden gems we don't know about." Then, Scolding scowls. "And one of them could have used their power to hurt Gohan."

Doting points out, "But Peppa didn't detect a fight, no power struggle at all."

Scolding looks aside. "Yeah... yeah, I don't know." She grits her teeth. "Shoot!" She tosses the mug, but the busboy Maple catches it and gets to work washing it.

Inquiring pats Scolding on the back. "Good observation! Though, I do wonder why Peppa didn't use that mind reading ability to find the culprit?"

Doting presses her index fingers together. "Eh, it is kinda invasive."

Scolding pffts. "A bag search is also kinda invasive."

Inquiring scratches her head, then takes another sip of her coffee. "Anyway, going off of that theory, Score," ("suitably rad") "What we consider unique to us has the potential to be copied by someone else, this is true. And Peppa made that package containing her chocolate, one-of-a-kind. And besides one modification for a joke at her expense, that other package she found was the same as hers. Whether it was the same one with one change made, or a second one with one change made, I think it doesn't matter so much as that package she found had to have been the result of the Clothes Beam. And who do we know, who knows the Clothes Beam?"

The other two consider who knows it... and don't like the answer.

Scolding waves her hands. "Now, now! Just because someone knows the Clothes Beam doesn't mean they did it!"

Doting nods. "Yeah, it's like Score said, we don't know who at her school knows it, it could be anyone!"

Inquiring frowns, and opts to peer into the last of her coffee. "It's bitter to think about, but like you said, Dottie? If we paint suspects with 'there's no way they could do this because of this reasoning,' we could blind ourselves to the truth."

Doting slams a fist on the counter, making their mugs clatter. "Not our Izzy though!"

Scolding comes over and pats her on the back, "Hey, we have to at least look into it so we can put these doubts to rest. That's part of believing in people. Trust, but verify."

Doting shakes her head, "Maple, no..."

"Maple, yes." Inquiring nods, sadly. "But, we don't know if the thing with the chocolate actually factors into the big picture. Perhaps Izzy could have just played a prank on Peppa and it went poorly?"

Doting bites her lip. "Perhaps... yeah, maybe. I'm probably jumping to conclusions. Sorry."

Scolding grins. "It's fine, we caught it before it became a problem. Now, I think that about wraps it up, let's get going."

Inquiring finishes her coffee. "Alrighty."

Zam, so our mom was the detective

>>5955787
>>5990870
Momiji does mean "Maple" in japanese.

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The three Maples each pay for the drinks by preparing cups of coffee for the staff, just the way they like it. Then, they GATTAI into their Inspector totem pole, and leave the diner.

Inquiring looks over her list of questions.

Who is responsible for mutilating Son Gohan?

Why is Izumi skipping PE and focusing on studying all of a sudden? / Evolved!
>
What is causing Izumi to find, specifically, her full given name distressing?
And where did she get this study method of learning with pain?

What were Videl and Erasa whispering about? (What was Peppa doing when they were doing this?)

Who stole Peppa's chocolate?

Would there be a reason for someone to steal Peppa's chocolate?

How would Krysmus know about Gohan and not Peppa?

How does the incident on Valentine's Day relate to the one on March 14th?

Why didn't Peppa use her ability to read minds in order to find the thief?

Perhaps Izzy could have just played a prank on Peppa and it went poorly?

There are a lot you don't know the answer to, needing more testimony, but perhaps some very specific ones, those you can answer, and possibly link some questions together to produce answers of their own...

Scolding and Doting look over the list, and consider some answers.
Doting hums as she thinks on Valentine's Day and March 14th.
Scolding sneers as she reckons how Izzy possibly could have pranked Peppa with a theft.

You are about to tackle these questions. Do not fret about answering all of them, answer what you can. You can always try again later.
>A. Write-in answers (any theory you put forth will be discussed by the Inspector Trio as to how possible it is)
>B. Pass for now, go back to Peppa.