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[Oh, woof. At the mention of Vargas, Azul grimaces in distaste.]

He does flex in front of everyone, but typically it's accompanied by telling the rest of us how we should be trying to get buff like him. Classes with him are a nightmare, especially with all the laps he insists on having me run sometimes...

[Or maybe that's just an Azul problem because let's be real, he does not look like a guy who wants or spends any amount of time "running" if he can help it. Still...]

But in your case, it does sound like he's... erm, flirting with you since it doesn't sound like he's given you an accompanying lecture about your own muscles along with the flexing...

[Sympathetically:] Isn't that unfair? Running is hard enough for people who have always had legs. Exercise is important, but you should be allowed to swim or something.

[Like, that sounds like speciesism to her?]

Honestly, I'm this close to challenging him to a spar so I can kick his ass. That'd be a great stress reliever for me.

That's what I said! But apparently that's considered unfair to the rest of the student body who already take swim classes as well. Apparently they want everyone to take part in all forms of physical activity, unless you've got a disability that isn't just "still getting used to having human legs"...

[At the mention of sparring, however, Azul lights up.]

Honestly, that sounds like it would be enjoyable to watch. I'd even sell tickets for it, as I'm sure there are plenty of students who would want to see someone fight Vargas.

Oh, well in that case I definitely have to challenge him. I'll save you the best seat in the house to watch him get his ass handed to him.

[Solidarity of Fuck That Guy In Particular.]

I guess this is kind of a late question, but are you technically allowed to sell alcohol here? Obviously I'm not going to tell on you, I just don't want you to get in trouble for me.

Yes, we do have a liquor license. We're allowed to sell alcohol at the Lounge.

[...]

Provided that we are not selling it to any students, especially not any first years.

[So, just the teachers... and Leona maybe, are the only ones who usually try to take Mostro Lounge up on it.]

Oh, good. I'm not usually much of a drinker - my boss used to spend as much time as possible drunk off the liquid form of overblot stones and I kind of just felt bad for him? - but it's good stress relief now and then.

... I'm sorry, he did what now?

Oh, right, so, how my studies are going! It actually took a while to figure this out but as soon as I heard about the effects of those stones on Grim it clicked right away - the energy that Lobotomy Corporation extracted from monsters and the stones left over from overblot are the same thing, just in different forms. If you melted those down you could use them as an incredibly powerful fuel source, and ingested they'll get you super buzzed.

[She talks more animatedly than usual - it's always exciting when she figures something out.]

Oh, I see...

[There's a pause, before he then frowns.]

That probably means we should be more forceful in telling Yuu not to let Grim try to eat those anymore.

Yeah, that's probably for the best. They're addictive. Not the worst drug we had at work - that would probably go to the monster whose spines got people high until their heads literally exploded - but it was definitely a known problem.

Have you told Floyd that story yet?

[Because that sounds like a story Floyd would want to hear about...]

In the meantime, I'll make a note to try talking to Yuu about it the next time I see them, if you haven't tried talking to them already about this.

Not yet, but it was coming up on my list of stories he might like.

[Yes, she has a mental list of things she should tell Floyd specifically about. She always feels good when he enjoys her stories.]

I did give them a warning. Grim is really awkward talking to me for some reason so we haven't spoken much, but Yuu promised to tell him.

I... think that may have to do with what happened the first day you were here, during the lecture.

[As in, the question someone threw out about whether or not Grim was considered "fuckable" on Evangeline's scale for monster fucking.]

...That's fair. I guess most guys don't like it when you call them small, huh.

I'm afraid not.

[... Even if it is true. Sorry Grim.]

That said, Yuu is, for the most part, the reliable sort when it matters. I'm sure that they will at least try to talk to Grim about it and get them to not eat those stones anymore.

[Hopefully...]

I appreciate it, thank you. Ideally we wouldn't have any more overblots and that would solve that problem, but that's more difficult than just not eating them.

Indeed. [At this point, the tweels have returned with a list of alcohol for Evangeline to choose from as desired, as Azul taps his arm thoughtfully from where he has them folded across his chest.]

I wasn't there when Riddle and Leona had their incidents, so I can't really say anything about what it was like when they had succumb to overblot. [And his own incident... the less he has to remember about it, the better, he thinks.] The one connection I've been able to determine with all of the incidents so far is that it has been happening to the dorm leaders so far, as opposed to just any student at random here.

[As such, it might be worth looking the dorms that have not had any notable overblot incidents just yet, such as Scarabia, Pomefiore, Ignihyde, and Diasomnia...]

[Evangeline orders the heaviest drink on the menu. Go big or go home.]

The dorm leaders... Well, that makes sense. It's related to heavy stress, so I'd expect the people with the most responsibilities to suffer it first. The biggest indicator of an upcoming overblot would be someone acting strangely or suffering intense distress, but I don't know the students here well enough to really identify that. I've recommended to the headmaster that he hire a counselor, for what it's worth.

[Azul can't help but scoff a little.]

As useful as a counselor would be here, I wish them luck in getting anyone here to actually agree to seeing one.

[That includes himself, because there is no way in hell he wants to confide his anxieties to a stranger.]

...Yeah, that could be rough. Regular mental health checks were mandatory in LobCorp, but I kind of don't want to enforce that in the same way they did?

[They would literally just kill you for not submitting to them. No thank you.]

The situation's not quite as serious here, at least. It still sucks, but nobody's been stuck like that so far.

Yes, thankfully that has not been the case.

[Before the tweels walk away to obtain her drink order, Azul ends up whispering something to them first, and then proceeds to actually sit across from Evangeline proper rather than continuing to stand hovering nearby like he had been before.]

Have you discovered anything else of interest during your stay here?

[Oh, actually joining her properly this time, that's new.]

Did you know that people without innate magical abilities can technically overblot in certain circumstances? You need a lot more emotion involved than someone inherently magical would, but it's possible.

Really?

[Hmm...]

In other words, that means even someone like Yuu or... well, you, could potentially experience overblot here?

We could, yeah. It shouldn't happen, because the level of emotion required is so high. But it's especially bad when they do, because getting them to use up their magic to tire them out and turn them back to normal isn't an option.

[In other words, they'd probably be stuck like that.]

I see.

[That's... not good.]

I'm assuming you've already warned the headmaster about this?

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