expiationlogs | (open) June catch all

Who: Naoto Shirogane and ???
Where: Various around Aldrip and the nearby meadows/woods
What: Things Naoto is doing this month AKA, training, moping, investigating
Warnings: Content warnings should be here. If there's explicit content in your log, it should be locked.

Call the tiny detective

[It was rare to see Naoto not clean and dressed smartly. But early on that morning she could be found furiously scrubbing a damp brush against all. Wearing her normal black trousers and a white shirt that now had splotches of paint on it.

It was also rare to hear her curse in any way... Granted, growling 'damnnit' was very minor. But this was Naoto after all.

And she wasn't very happy to leave her apartment this morning and find a crudely painted stick figure in a cap and the words 'TINY DETECTIVE! FOR A LOWER PERSPECTIVE!' next to it.

She was going to keep grumbling as the paint barely came off.]

Must raise that Endurance stat
[On other mornings, Naoto was also undressed compared to normal. Though probably overdressed for the weather. Given she was wearing a full tracksuit. Because she was making an attempt. Her lack of physical prowess had been what had let her down in the tower. She'd just not had the stamina.

That was part of the reason she'd chosen to try this in the early hours. Because how many people would go to the club building at 6am? She'd noticed the gym during her brief visits.

Except... She didn't really know how to start. Her favorite sport was billards! She wasn't built for this.

Just going to do some stretches? Maybe some jogging around the outside of the court lines? Failing at situps? Oh, she just fell on her face...]

Hunting on the outskirts
[With the festival on the horizon, and a part of it taking place near the farmlands. There had been a few jobs to go and make sure there weren't any monsters, there shouldn't be any too close. But just to be safe, so there weren't any accidents.

That worked for Naoto. While she could practise her shooting at the small range, after months of fighting shadows it didn't help much. Was it the best idea? Coming out alone like this? Probably not, but she didn't want to bother her senpai. Didn't want to worry them, clearly it was best not to mention it.

Besides, she had to stand on her own two feet. Even if she was trying to get better at working as a part of a team, wasn't it best if she could be independent as well?

She could be found trying to track monsters, or maybe after

The raptors had been bold. Making their nest in an old, abandoned toolshed. Though they'd not laid any eggs yet. It was best to scare them off before that happened and they got territorial about the area. That had been the idea at least.]

Persona-!

[Buuut, they'd decided Naoto and a loud bang wasn't particularly intimidating and had started spitting fireballs at her. Summoning Yamato Sumeragi to just stand in front of her and.... He wasn't affected by the flames at all.

She huffed, frowning at the two birds. What to do? She didn't want to kill them, but if they really wanted this spot...]

Wildcard
[You can pm if you want something else or I have a plotting post here.]

Threaded | Flat

[Since there had been a slight uptick in monster removal jobs, Levi was out hunting more than he'd normally be. They were usually easy enough money and it kept his firearms skills from getting rusty. He ran into people out here often enough that doing so wasn't really surprising.

Still, in case it was surprising for them if they hadn't noticed him yet, Levi coughs a bit and speaks up. Hopefully nothing was all that close.]

Hey.

[Tsuna isn't usually up all that early in the morning. He's never been much of a morning person. But sometimes, the sun comes in your window at just the right angle that you're awake and you know that the chances of getting back to sleep are minimal. So he's up, and doing things. And maybe it would be nice to talk a walk at this time in the morning.

He sees Naoto on his way back, and well, he's also seen situations like this before. Usually happening to him. Or at least, they did in the past. So he stops.]

Do you need a hand?

[ Thankfully the pollen symptoms of last month had subsided, but it can't be called a dull week at Willow Clinic. With monsters roaming the fields and even encroaching on the solstice celebrations, patients continue to come in with scratches and injuries that needed to be healed up. ]

I'm Marianne. [ She introduces herself to one such patient, her hand over her heart. ] Will you show me where you were injured?

Elizabeth was exploring, it was early and she found there were fewer people about in the morning so she could get into more places she probably shouldn't without having to answer a bunch of problematic questions about it. Still watching Naoto fall on her face was not what she expected.

"This is not a proper way to prepare to fight shadows...."

.. tiny detective, huh?

[ Okay, so Ange saying that - in her usual dry tone - probably isn't helping. But it's hard to not notice the painting, especially when Naoto is only drawing more attention to it with the way she's so furiously trying to scrub it off the wall.

Besides, Ange isn't really as interested in the direct contents of the message - despite pointing it out just now - as much as she is in these scribbles in general. That's why she's even bothering to stop mid-walk and comment on it. ]

I'm imagining you didn't put up that advertisement yourself. [ Obviously. Since Naoto is trying to get rid of it.

Besides, it doesn't even really.. look like an advertisement.. ]

[Caitlyn didn't know Naoto well, yet. Of course, she had welcomed Naoto to join her and work together in the detective agency she had created, but they both worked independently, so she didn't always see her often. It didn't help either, that she had started helping at Lupin Bar more, now that Vi took it over officially, so that was less time in her office.

It wasn't surprising that Caitlyn would be up early, wanting to get an early start on her current requests, so she would have the evening free to help Vi, but as she was walking to the office, she couldn't help but notice Naoto was a mess, scrubbing and trying to clean something off the wall.]

Naoto? Is everything alright?

Hunting

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wildcarding!

Endurance training

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