Imagine a darling leaving this somewhere for fae!soap because she doesn’t want him to consume her so she tries to keep him fed on her own will as a means of trying to escape his insatiable hunger. It’ll just be on her window sill standing on top of a note that says something like “please leave me be” like a little snack.
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Soap stares at the little deer, wondering what he's supposed to do with it. It's definitely a gift for him, but he doesn't really receive gifts. Even with his artists, it's not really a gift if he pushes them to make it. Maybe that's why they've all started feeling so hollow. Why he can't remember the last time he was full.
He turns the little deer over in his hands, the soft wax, the little twiggy legs. It's not art of him, but... it's for him in a way that he hasn't had in years. His eyes land on the neat, crisply folded paper that served as the deer's display. He flips it open with curious fingers, eyes scanning the single sentence penned in the middle. Right over the folds' crossroad.
"Please leave me be."
He flips the paper over to check that, that's the only thing written. He didn't even know there was an artist here. Weird. He'd know if he was hunting someone. Well, a trade was a trade. He'd leave. For now.
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The next few days yielded no results. His annoyance only waylaid by his lack of hunger. How long had it been since it hadn't gnawed at him to find someone new to feed off of? Soap pauses his walk past the house, spotting a long legged man made entirely of twigs, precariously glued together with wax and neatly sat on the window sill. Soap turns it over in his hands with a small chuckle. Another gift. The weight of it settling in his stomach pleasantly.
"Who do you belong to wee man?" He asks the sculpture, plucking the new note off the sill. It's similar to the last.
"Please don't take me."
He raises a brow, mutters a quick, "Fair enough I suppose," and heads on his way. Not that he knows who he's supposed to avoid taking. Although, he supposes the gift should keep him from snagging the wrong artist.
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It's almost enough to make him giddy spotting another twiggy man the next time he walks by.
"Oh you are a wee beauty," He tells the sculpture. The tiny fae sculpture smiles at him, helicopter seed wings almost comical. He always forgets how humans think of the fae. Reminds him a little of Price. He'd get a kick out of this. Soap unfolds today's note. Same as the first.
"Please leave me be."
Hard to leave you be when you keep leaving gifts, he thinks. Maybe another fae would, but he's been starved too long.
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The gifts continue at regular intervals. The notes stay the same. Until they don't. Soap scoops up the little sleeping fawn sculpture, wrapping some protection magic around it as he flips the note open.
"I don't know who's taking these, but thank you for leaving me be. I won't have any more gifts for a while, I hope you'll stay away while I resupply."
Soap smiles to himself. No ask, no deal. He'll see you soon little artist.
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Ride 749: The last Straight Road*
(NdT.: same pun Kinaka always makes with his name and the word for straight road)
Pag 1
1: I....
3: Imaizumi-san!!
4: Go- good work!!
Good work!!
You were taking a long time for this lap
Pag 2
1: Yes, teh, I got a fl-fl-flat- my bike!!
Yessir!!
2: It's the tire!!
4: Only tires can get a flat
Ah- damn, yes, that's right
Right!!
6: I thought something like this might have happened, so I brought these
Replacement tubes, tire levers, and a pump. Use them
Pag 3
2: This is unusual!! I never thought Imaizumi-san was the attentive type – is it just for us!?
Yeah!! I thought first and second years were just not important to him....
3: You don't want to use the,?
We'll use them, thank you so much!!
4: You saved us, teh....!!
That's true
6: Ah, uhm... but..... Imaizumi-san
Earlier you said that
7: Sugimoto-san won't come”, what did you mean?
Pag 4
1: He retired
Pag 5
1: He's still displayed on the board, but
3: There's still time until midnight
If Sugimoto-kun....
4: Please leave the possibility open in case Sugimoto-kun wants to come back!!
5: Onoda insisted
6: Re... tired.....
Sugi..... moto-san....
Pag 6
1: He used up all his stamina and mental strength in his fight against Danchiku, and he was defeated
2: You didn't notice because you've been on the course the whole time
4: Ah... actually, when it got dark, Sugimoto-san and Danchiku-san passed us various times... teh
Huh!? That? So at that time-!?
5: You have no time to talk about unimportant things
As soon as you're done with the repairs, run, first years
6: Soon
Pag 7
1: Waa, ye-yes, teh, thank you for the tools
Yeah, there's still 40km
2: If we join our strengths....
Don't cooperate
5: Teh!?
7: From now on, you can't allow yourselves to run like friends
8: Huh....
Our “buddies” stickers.....!?
You have to fight
Pag 8
1: And win the last spot to be an Inter High member!!
Pag 9
1: Fa.... ight....
2: Against.... Kinaka-kun
3: Against.... Rokudai
4: 35km left!!
Gooo!! Kinakaa, Rokudaii!!
Do your best...!!
5: I feel like they'll be able to run the 1000km!!
Amazing!
Ah, but there was no distance between them just now?
Pag 10
1: Fight....
2: The spot as a regular in the two-times national champion, Sohoku....
3: I can't take it by just being friendly....!!
4: And also
5: There's Sugimoto-san's wish!!
Pag 11
1: Wa- wait, please, Imaizumi-san
But.... if in this training camp the condition to become the sixth regular was to finish the 1000km first....
2: Then why did Sugimoto-san and Danchiku-san race!?
4: I came here to give you a message from Sugimoto
5: I think, I think it's necessary, you know
Sohoku is a team that connect and support each other
6: Just like during our first year, you, Naruko, and Onoda, connected your wishes and aimed for the goal
7: And last year Kaburagi ran with Aoyagi-san and carried the team until the mountains on the third day
8: So I think we need it
9: Our third year Inter High members
Pag 12
1: Definitely need a “first year”!!
3: Even if he knew he was making his own situation worse, he thought about the best shape for the team would be
4: He accepted it, and fought
Pag 13
1: For the fifth place
3: Among the first years, those two are left, I look forward to see what they do!!
That's too much food
4: Danchiku probably understood it, too
That's why he fought with all his strength
6: Now you two have to run with the weight of those expectations on your back!!
7: Fight, against your opponent and against yourself!! Use all your strength
Pag 14
1: And pull to yourself that last jersey!!
2: Straaa-
Pag 15
1: Straight roaaad!!
2: - traight!!
3: …. ngh
Ugh.....
4: Kinaka-kun.....
5: Don't cry, Rokudai!!
Pag 16
1: What are you doing, oi!! I'll leave you behind like this!! I'll tear you off!!
If you give up, then it's lucky for me!!
2: My goal has always been the Inter High jersey!!
To get back at those senpai who made fun of me!!
3: To show it to the Onii-san who taught me how to ride bikes!!
So, for that....
6: So I'm telling you not to cry!!
Pag 17
1: But, Kinaka-kun....
It's that your “Straitgh road”, wasn't fast at all....!!
4: You knee? It's your knee, right?
Since when? Since a while ago?
5: Since when we were at about 800km
Pag 18
1: It's a race, Rokudai
2: You should have told me, teh
I didn't notice, teh!!
3: I'm such an incapable former manager, teh....
4: Since when I lost to you in the first years' race
6: I've been thinking that I would definitely not lose the next time we race
7: Even though the truth is that I don't really care about that anymore
So, once again...
Pag 19
1: It's a race, Rokudai!!
3: Let's do it, Rokudai!!
I can't, teh
4: Race me, pedal!!
I don't want to, teh....
5: Fight me!!
I won't pedal, teh
Pag 20
1: Because, if I fight you now, Kinaka-kun, I'll end up winning, teh
Pag 22
1: With that kindness of yours, support our senpai during the Inter High
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