good cop, bad cop

[insincerely]

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[feminitis]

[thwacks him on the arm]

No I'm not, and no it isn't! Stop being such a pessimist, you jerk!

[insincerely]

Yeah, yeah.

[he will not stop being a pessimist or a jerk, however.]

You just need to know how to pitch, how to hit a pitch, and how to run laps. As long as you've got those down, no one's going to fault you for not knowing the finer details of baseball.

[feminitis]

Running will be easy enough!

[she runs a lot for training, anyway.]

Let's get down to the school. It's late enough now, I doubt anyone will be there.

[insincerely]

Fine.

[time to shadow portal...]

[feminitis]

[whoo teleportation]

Let's see, what do we need... a ball, and a bat, it sounded like? Are we meant to catch the balls bare-handed when they're hit?

[insincerely]

Whoever's out in the field does—so, the same team as the person throwing the ball to the batter. Also, they use gloves.

[he goes to fetch a ball and a bat.]

If you're the batter hitting the ball, your job is to run around the bases. You'll want to be right on one when someone catches the ball. If not, then you're out.

1/2

[feminitis]

[she looks around for gloves.]

That shouldn't be too difficult. I'm one of the quickest members of the Shinsengumi, you know! My speed is one of the advantages I have over everyone else.

2/2

[feminitis]

[and, well.

they're not spared the stardust.

and sei is not spared from reliving one of the most embarrassing moments of her entire life.]

...uh.

[




fuck.]

[1/2]

[insincerely]

[.........................

this face because wow the secondhand embarrassment of that?]

[insincerely]

One, I forgot how terrible sex ed is. Two, this explains so much, actually?

[feminitis]

—what the hell does this explain, exactly?!

[insincerely]

[he throws up his hands in a pacifying gesture.]

Oh, things.

[feminitis]

[she grabs for his shirt in an attempt to shake some answers out of him]

[insincerely]

[he swiftly jumps back

and then throws the ball in his hand at her.]

[feminitis]

[she catches it barehanded because her reflexes are actually on point]

Answer me!!

[insincerely]

[he lifts up the bat. pitch the ball, sei.]

... Well, for one, you only let the doctor check you back in Whole Ass. [he makes a bit of a face recalling hannibal. anyway.] And I'll admit my Japanese history isn't really up to par [sometimes you leave the country when you're eight] but I don't remember "feminitis" being a formal condition in the Bakumatsu period?

[one of those things you first just chalk up to being from alternate worlds, but.]

So I'm guessing that's bullshit, huh.

[feminitis]

Yeah, that was a mistake. [vore... anyway, even when she's annoyed, she's incapable of wasting time, and they came out here for a reason. so! she tosses the ball at him, since he's got a bat.

as for the rest - ]

Yes and no? It's not what was happening to me. But there have been some cases, from what Matsumoto-sensei said, of the things he was claiming were happening to me. They were really, really rare, though.

[the manga has a passing mention of one of the troop captains looking up medical journals and finding references to it but i imagine the actual condition was lost in translation.]

[insincerely]

[he swings it! baseball is not exactly his thing but he is a swordsman, and jan is not going to research the correlation between skill with a bat and skill with a sword but i'm saying he hits the ball.]

Well, convenient for you. [...] Guess you have to be a guy to be part of the Shinsengumi, huh?

[feminitis]

[




the ball hits her smack in the face because i rolled a fUCKING ONE]

[insincerely]

[











eh he knows she's made of tough stuff so he figures she's probably fine.]

... Whoops.

[feminitis]

[



yeah, she's good. she'll walk it off. she sits up, rubbing at her face. luckily, it didn't break her nose.]

It moved so fast when you hit it! Dodging these could be a really effective way to train...

[moron.]

[insincerely]

... Musclehead idiot. Like I said, you'll be fine at baseball.

[feminitis]

I need to be sure I'm playing it right! If I caught the ball without a glove on Wednesday, they'd definitely think something was weird.

And stop calling me an idiot!

[insincerely]

Maybe they'll just think Lila was an idiot too.

Anyway, let's try that again.

[feminitis]

Some of them knew her! Aikawa-san knew her, even! I can't afford to screw this up.

[anyway! she hops back up to her feet, holds the ball again, and pitches it once it looks like he's ready to hit! this time she is poised to catch it if it comes flying straight at her or run after it if it does not.]