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Me, right? Well, I guess it's an honorable concession if you just don't want to make a fool of yourself.

Who said anything about giving up?!

[There's nothing honorable about it whatsoever. If anything, he's just an embarrassment.]

[ That's why she's trying to goad him into it. ]

Then get to my desk.

H-hold on, that's just ain't fair! A guy should have to arm wrestle another guy, it's obvious!

And a guy shouldn't judge a woman's strength by what body parts they have. I can guarantee you no matter what your strength level is I can beat you in an actual fight, so we should probably stick to the arm wrestling for fun.

There's no way in hell I'm touching you!

[That's the real problem here. He's not even afraid of losing or anything like that. He's just making up excuses because he's... shy...]

[ On one hand, it could be a situation like Accelerator's.

On the other hand, Yuri is legitimately just reaching out to touch his arm now. ]

[And he falls right into the trap, too... When she reaches out, he jumps so far back, it's kind of embarrassing.]

Wh-what's your problem?!

[She's messing with him and he knows it! ...but there's nothing he can do about it, he's just that afraid of girls.]

[ She won't try again, at least. ]

Is it a personal reason or are you going to explode my hand if my skin comes in contact with you?

I-I don't know what you're talking about!

[Either he's in denial or he's a poor liar, it's impossible to tell...]

I really need to know the question, because if it's about respecting you I can do that but if my hand's going to explode when I'm trying to pull you up from a cliff because you accidentally fell off, then to have your back I need to know an effective way to do it.

[Yata grits his teeth, slightly conflicted over how to answer.]

Your hand's not gonna explode, okay?

[...that sounds so dumb to say. He'll take the possible exaggeration over any other kind of response, though—he is a man, okay, he's not going to admit that he's actually just a huge virgin who doesn't know how to deal with girls at all.]

See? That wasn't hard.

[ She smiles at him encouragingly. ]

Whatever your reasons are, they're yours. If you want to tell me someday that's fine, but I'm not going to pressure you about it.

[ Accelerator's not the only one she's dealt with that doesn't like to be touched. Of course, those reason were pretty different than Yata's. Not that she knew. ]

[ It took Inaba a while to look over some of the network posts to figure out who had the most information about the afterlife here, and then she found something rather recent. She didn't comment on it, because she knew that she would make herself look pretty bad as a first impression, especially since Taichi ended up calling her by first name. Which is something she's rather sure about and it disturbs her greatly.

Not that she's going to say anything about it yet, because there's a lot more important things to deal with.

But, nevertheless, she'll shoot a text message. It's not that hard to do that, at least, especially when the convenience of having everyone listed under contacts is there. ]

I heard that you're one of the people who have been in the afterlife the longest. Can you tell me anything about this "atomic restructuring"?

[ Since it seems important to her and can be rather useful in the future. More information means more power to her, after all. And that's something that she needs, regardless of how long or short she's been in the afterlife.

That doesn't matter. ]

[ Yuri stares at this text. It isn't as though atomic restructuring is the easiest thing in the world to do. A lot of people suck at it, even if they're told how to do it, and Yuri's neither in the state of mind or in free time to be able to want to test how quick and apt a learner this person is. ]

There are a lot of people who know how to do it by now, I'll set you up with one of them. I'd help you myself but given that I've been out of everything lately, I need to focus on catching up so that the SSS can make its next move. I'll definitely find you someone though.

Don't worry about it too much. This predicament has left a lot of people in a mess. But thank you nonetheless.

I'll let you know as soon as I find someone.

[Remember how Yata said he'd figure out that watch thing in case he ever got caught by those shadows? Well, that happened. It took a little while—the only experience he really had with taking things apart or putting them back together was with his skateboard, so on top of the atomic restructuring thing, this was definitely a learning experience. Still, with so much time on his hands here, it wasn't a problem to figure out! He's definitely done tougher things before.

Anyway! He doesn't try to deliver it personally (he's such a wimp), but he will leave it in the mailbox of the house Yuri's been staying in with a simple note attached:

for yurippe
-from yata

If she were to investigate it, she'd find that it functions like a normal watch, even though it probably looks a little fancier than that. Whatever, it's close enough, he thinks it should still get the job done if anything happens.]

[ Uwah, it's a present. But no, she knows what it is, so she takes it inside and puts it in her room in a safe place so that she doesn't lose it. ]

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