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[ After practicing with van Zieks for several rounds, you would've thought this would be easier. Still, she's never contacted him this way before, and Susato finds her hands to be a little shaky from adrenaline. Her handwriting starts incredibly uneven, but it seems she corrects herself mid-way. ]

Hello? Father are you there?

Sorry for writing you so suddenly.

Kazuma and I have discovered a type of plant-life he felt would be in your interest to study. It's a flower that appears to have some affect over his Noctaere side; repulsed by it, even, but seems to calm him down enough to return to his right mind when crushed and exposed to that.

I've a sample that I can deliver to you, whenever the best time for that may be.

[He may or may not currently be sitting out in the Wildlands somewhere with a very naga-like Kazuma, but details.]

One of the two similarly-wrapped boxes that finds its way to the Mikotoba residence contains a sturdy leather briefcase with a number of different pockets, meant for storing documents as well as any other small supplies that may be needed for traveling in this wilder world they've found themselves in.

Sadly, there's no label to mark where it might have come from, but hopefully Yujin can appreciate the gift regardless.

[ It certainly has been another eventful month at the Mikotoba household. Glowing dawn petals litter the floor everywhere you walk, and while Kazuma did insist that he would fix the entrance he ruined when he was less snake, Susato has taken it upon herself to put a pink Japanese-style curtain over the damage. If nothing else, it would at least remind her of home.

One morning, Yujin will wake up to find that Susato is not there. Instead, on his nightstand, he will find a necklace; a small bottle attached to a chain, resting neatly on top of a note that looks like it's been ripped out of one of Susato's many notebooks:

I made this same charm to protect Jack, after he was hurt, and then another to protect Kazuma-sama. Now I have made one for you.
I never would have thought in a million years that it would amount to anything, but Kazuma-sama's bottle was empty when he returned, and he insists that he felt my presence that night. I have to believe it accomplished something, even if I do not understand what.
Wear it. Then tell me if it ever runs empty.
But do me a favor, and do not let it run empty.

She doesn't bother signing it.

The charm itself is filled with an array of colors, made up by tiny origami paper cranes filling the whole bottle.

When Yujin wears the necklace, he will find that the pain from any wounds he may receive will be numbed, be they from knives, thorns, or other sharp objects. Any bleeding will slow, and the natural healing of those wounds will be greatly accelerated. Bullets and other foreign objects will be ejected during the healing process, and in the first place, they will find his skin more difficult to penetrate, meeting a deep resistance, as in muk or a very thick rubber.

The catch: every time the effect is used, the cranes are slowly burned off, and when they disappear, so does the charm's protection.

He doesn't have to wear it as a necklace; anywhere on his person will do, but she will certainly look for it when she sees him next. ]

. . . Father?

[ Susato calls out, opening Reverein's clinic doors slowly. Things have calmed down in the days since the Flower Festival, yet after coming home from Kazuma's, Susato still hasn't been able to bring herself to say anything about what's happened. At some point, even she realized she was making excuses, and today she's found yet another one.

This is where she finds her father nowadays. Even during the festival, it was difficult to tear him away, and she's just realized why. ]

I... I just realized Dr Mathis is no longer here. You should have said something... Do you need help?

Sender: Susato Mikotoba

Sender: 76 | around the middle of November

late December

within the week (?) of kazuma showing up near death at their doorstep

Backdated some days after flower fest