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Xiu's lips were pressed into a thin line as she tried to be as careful as possible. There wasn't much she could do about the stinging, though, and it was clear that she didn't like hurting her friend (even if it was for his own good). After a few more minutes, she finally drew away. "That...that should do. I'm going to bandage it up, okay?"

She would probably have to bear through the pain and use both hands to do this--just as she had done for Mitsu--but hopefully it wouldn't be too bad. At least it had been a week since she got the injury, so it had healed a fair bit. Biting down on her bottom lip, she withdrew the bandages from the kit and got to work, taking care to work slowly and carefully for her own sake as well.

She listened to Hel and Roch's conversation silently, but she couldn't help but pipe in after a moment to add her own two cents. "Hel is right--I think you should hug boils too! What's wrong with hugging boils anyways?"

Hel blinked as Roch called out for her to do something, and the reaper stood to move over and sit next to Xiu, looking at the cleaned up welt on Roch’s back. “Yes, if that’s too much for you friend, I will take over!” The reaper snorted softly at Roch’s comment. “That’s not a good reason, friend! If you’re going to hug some, you might as well hug them all.”

Look at that, Xiu and her were double teaming the poor punk reaper!

He thought about it for a moment, trying to figure out how to put this. "Okay, lemme put it this way. When two ghouls hug, they're just being friends--well, most of the time. But when two guys hug, either they're bros, like me and Mot, and that usually comes with back slapping--which I DO NOT want right now, or they're... gay," he said finally.

"Sure there's some exceptions, usually the childlike guys, like G," he told them. "But I ain't about to hug guys like Nahm, for sure, or Calder--which is twice as disturbing cuz he's freakin' pretty--or abso-jackin'-lutely not Sparrow or Johnny Danger."

"Why does it matter what others think?" Xiu tilted her head, looking genuinely puzzled, "Besides, it's not as if such things are looked down upon here in Hallo--"

She cut herself off, eyes widening as Hel gave Roch a friendly pat on the back. Xiu was silent for a second, and then she managed to utter a quiet, "Oops." Well, uh. Hopefully that hadn't hurt too much? B-because, well...at least no one had slapped him in the back, right?

“Eh…heh…” Hel rubbed the back of her neck again, and stood after she packed the stuff back into Xiu’s first aid kit. “Try it out?” The valkyrie echoed, perking up as she looked over at the machine. “Sure, I would like that very much!”

She was grinning now as she placed her hands on her hips.

Roch blinked. For a moment he just stared at her with a strange mix of emotions on his face. "Well..." he said, finally. "So sometimes you got cat type minipets, right? And then you got dog types. And even though both of them seem perfectly fine when they're separate, when you put the two together, you sometimes get... problems, see?" he tried to explain. "Me and Sparrow... we're like that, I guess."

"There's a book on that shelf over there, Hel," he added, pointing. "There's a little code next to the song you can type in and it'll come up on the screen in the wall."

"Oh." Xiu blinked at his answer, but after a moment of thought, she frowned. "Then what am I? I like both of you!"

Xiu smiled, but before Roch could answer, she trotted over to where Hel was and peeked over her shoulder. Ooh, this was interesting! So many songs! To be honest, the baku had never been in a karaoke booth before, so this was definitely a new experience for her. "I'm looking forward to hearing you sing, Hel!"