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A trip..to her tailor? Oh, so her coat wasn't supposed to look like that? A part of Junko's hair twitched and her eyes seemed to glow a little brighter. Someone needed repair? She even had her sewing supplies with her just in case! Not all of them but..enough! Though she didn't seem to have anything that could help Riyo with her trench coat but...ohohoh! Maybe she could make her a brand new trench coat! Her hair wriggled with glee. She wanted to do that! Could she? Could she please?! "I can fix your coat for you!" She offered to Riyo with a bright smile, giving Mitsu a gentle pet on the head as she successfully convinced the new ghoul to try some of her taiyaki. Such a sweet ghoul! Though Shun has right, she needed to be careful. "I should write a little sign warning everyone that the gnomes messed with my booth and to check their taiyaki before they eat it. I'm glad those're the only things with filling." The cupcakes and spookies were all fine. Thank Jack for that.

While Riyo set to picking out a taiyaki Junko turned to Mitsu again, noticing the ghoul was beginning to shift like she was going to leave. Junko blinked, some of her hair coming around to press down on Mitsu's shoulders as if to sit her back down should she get up. "Everything alright? I haven't forgotten about you, silly." She told her cheerfully, giving her a bright smile as she took some of her hair in her hands and ran them through with a thoughtful hum. What to do, what to do. This was more of a length Junko was used to playing with! Braids, maybe? It was how she often did her own hair. It had to look nice, and it had to have the chopsticks in it. She began to separate it into sections, experimentally holding parts of it this way and that as if to gauge how it would look.

Suddenly she heard hissing. What. Why was there hissing.

Junko's head whipped up to find the source, eyes stopping at Riyo who looked like she was dying. What?! Water?! Why did she..?!

...Wasabi. Who the... "Stupid gnomes." She glared down at the taiyaki. Maybe she should just take the taiyaki off the table entirely? She couldn't just make more though. She didn't have that kind of time or resources. Damn! The taiyaki was something new and different, too! The other booths didn't have taiyaki! Maybe she could find the bad taiyaki and sort it all out.

Lizzy! "Hi Lizz--what the..." She watched as Rosenthal attacked Lizzy's taiyaki, blinking and just staring at the strange minipet. She'd never seen him before!

Okay. This was getting ridiculous. Junko frowned and let go of Mitsu's hair to duck underneath the table again. She popped up holding a small wooden platter with a pile of wiggling mochi on it. The treat was held out for Riyo for whenever she was finished drinking the water Lizzy was offering her. "I am so sorry! I swear I..I need to write a sign or something. Or maybe just get rid of the taiyaki entirely." She sounded so disappointed about that. The good flavors were popular when they were found... "These aren't for eating. I wouldn't advise it...just...I am so sorry, Miss Riyo." Even the pretty ghost ghoul was tossing her taiyaki into the garbage. But wait...wasn't that one of the good flavors? Maybe it wasn't something she liked...

((For being the first poor sucker to get a taiyaki full of WASABI..Riyo gets a Mochi Buns. XD!))

Riyo only hesitated for a second before taking the bottle of water from Lizzy and chugging down THE WHOLE THING. When the bottle was completely empty, the feline pulled back with a gasp. Her face was turning back to it's normal pale hue and the panic in her eyes had settled. "Who in the name of Jack... Hosts a fish festival... With no water in sight?" She asked between deep breaths, finally beginning to regain her train of thought. It was apparently about what Shun was thinking.

"And you!" It was apparently a popular thing for her to say today as she pointed at Junko with rage in her eyes. "You..." She'd been ready to tear the ghoul a new one for feeding people these atrocious baked goods... But...

As much as she liked to pretend otherwise, Riyo DID still have a small tumor of a conscience left in her. Slowly, she started to deflate, the clawed hand returning to her side as she glanced down at the mochi peace offering. Oh, she certainly had no intention of eating them. Not after this fiasco.

"I tell you what." The feline started. "Repair my coat and I'll forget this ever happened." It was an unusually forgiving act, but seeing as the word 'gnome' was mentioned, Riyo could only imagine the ghoul in front of her wasn't at fault for this.

Turning back to Lizzy momentarily, the cat demon reached into her pocket and retrieved a couple of pumpkin seeds to offer the ghoul for drinking her water. "Here. I apologize for drinking it all."

(( LOL. Fantastic. ))

"OH! No, it's alright!" She smiled sheepishly at Riyo, holding up a hand before shaking her head, "There's no need to pay me back for that! I'm glad that I could help." Although she wasn't sure what she had just helped with.

Now that the ghoul was no longer dying, she turned to Junko, giving the ghoul a tight, affectionate hug, "Just popping by to say GOOD LUCK!" She then let her go before grinning sheepishly, gesturing to Rosenthal, "And sorry about that... Meet Rosenthal. He's a little... Overprotective of me at times. Apparently, he thought that the taiyaki was not safe for consumption..."

There seemed to be quite a few people gathering around Junko's booth now. Mitsu was handling the crowd a little better than she used to but it was still making her antsy. And it also seemed her warning to Riyo had come a little too late. "S...sorry Riyo. I ...I should have warned you sooner." Poor ghoul, at least Lizzy had given her something to drink.

Oh! Lizzy was here! "Hey, Lizzy." Mitsu greeted softly. The lupine had contemplated getting up when she felt pressure on her shoulders and looked up to see Junko using her hair to hold her in place. "I..it just seemed like...you were busy." She stuttered. "I..I don't want to be in the way." But Mitsu sat obediently still as Junko started to mess with her hair. At least until the poor ghoul was forced to deal with another taiyaki incident. Seemed there were more bad flavors than she thought. How many did the gnomes mess with?

Looking over toward Shun while all this was going on, Mitsu realized the reaper was being fairly quiet. Since so many people had shown up she had sort of lost her focus. "Did you want to see any of the other booths after this?"

Junko didn't notice the new banshee approaching her booth at first, trying not to lose face in front of Riyo as she pointed accusingly at Junko. Don't back down! Don't back down! You can do this! Backbone! Yes! You have one, Junko! Now use it! It pleased her to see the ghoul deflate though, sighing with relief and placing the mochi buns down in front of her. Good, good. She was calmed. Her hair perked as she began to make some kind of offer, humming curiously and tilting her head.

...Seriously?

"That's all I have to do?" Junko asked with disbelief. This was something she'd been wanting since the moment Riyo said the coat needed repairs! Heck, she'd make her a brand new coat just like that one! It didn't look too difficult! An excited smile replaced Junko's worried face and she clapped her hands, giving the ghoul a nod. "I'd love to! I won't be able to get to it today, but leave it here with me and I'll see it's returned to you as soon as I'm finished!" Yeah, finished repairing and replicating it. She could save this! She could win the ghoul over! Bribery wasn't something Junko was a fan of, but if she had to stoop to that level then so be it. She'd do what it took to win their votes!

See? Roch was sold...even...if it was just because of her food. Junko chuckled and waved to him as he made his leave. "You're welcome! And thank you as well~!" Hopefully he kept to his word. It was one thing to say you'd vote for someone to look good, it was another to actually do it. Not that she didn't trust anyone! But...but she didn't want to get too excited. It was hard not to.

She heard someone mumbling about something being yummy, her hair perking as she turned to see what said person was eating. Ooooh! She got a good taiyaki?! YAY! Not all hope was lost! Junko brightened a bit more, giving the ghoul with...very, very long hair a wave. Whoa...it was so long..it..how long as it?! She leaned around the booth with wide eyes to get a better look at it, eyes wide and jaw dropped. She had more hair than her! She...h-how did...what...?! Junko's eyes glowed with envy as she stood straight again, playing with Mitsu's hair again. She had an idea on what she wanted to do with it, she was just so distracted.

So much hair...

"I-I'm glad you like it! It's a relief to see not all of them were messed with. I'm hoping it's just the ones on the table and not my extras for when I run out..." Oooh! Maybe she should just clear this batch and bring out the new batch! That might be a good idea! Junko smiled. It was only then that she realized the ghoul hadn't just eaten at it like any other person would. She'd just...shoved the entire thing in her mouth. She blinked. "Are you alright?"

Junko suddenly found a pair of arms around her and squeaked with surprise, turning wide eyes to her attacker only to discover it was just Lizzy giving her a surprise hug. Oh thank Jack! That was a relief! Junko giggled and returned the hug, nuzzling her cheek against the ghoul's. "Thank you! And good luck to you, too! You're running for something as well aren't you?" She looked down at the minipet being introduced to her and sighed. "He might have been in the right, some of the taiyaki was tampered with by gnomes. Stupid gnomes.." She smiled again. "You're welcome to try another one though! I'd just recommend maybe checking what's inside first before you bite into it. I want to see if I can weed out the bad ones...I really hope there's not too many..."

She grinned at Hel as she complimented the work she'd done on her hair, her hair puffing up around her with the pride she was feeling. "You're welcome! Anytime!" It made her even happier that Hel took one of her pins. She heard Mitsu speak up shortly after and smiled, turning to reach down and give the shy little ghoul a gentle hug from behind. "You're not in the way, I promise! Ah...I have one problem, um." She frowned a little and eyed the mask Mitsu was wearing. "The string of your mask..." It was in the way. Junko couldn't properly toy with it without removing the mask. And it seemed like Mitsu preferred to wear it. Maybe if she held it over her face? Surely there was a way they could compromise! Junko didn't want her to be uncomfortable.

A movement headed for her booth caught her eye as she began to carefully separate Mitsu's hair into a few sections even with the string in the way, looking up a little to see who it was. When she realized just who her new visitor was she gasped with delight, holding Mitsu's hair carefully between the fingers of one hand so she could bounce on her toes and wave to him. "Hi~! Tomo-chan, look! It's Seiji~." Junko turned back to the quiet little kitsune beside her, looking very excited to see him again. "Did you get my present?" She asked him with a proud grin, looking to Seiji and then down at Mitsu's hair again so she could figure out how much she could do with the string in the way. She could twist them together..but that was about it unless Mitsu didn't mind the string being stuck under the hair. That sounded like it could get uncomfortable.

Watching the exchanges quietly, Shun just stood by while Junko continued to work with Mitsu's hair. Lizzy had taken care of the little issue with Riyo needing water so he didn't feel that there was anything they had to do in particular.

While there was something mildly amusing about the way Junko handled the request to fix the demon girl's coat, the Reaper couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the feline when she said she wouldn't warn the masked wolf the next time she was about to do something stupid. He didn't know this girl well enough to know if this was a joke or not, but even then he wasn't very amused.

Furthermore.. she seemed to have another coat under her other coat.

".."

Shaking his head to himself, he briefly glanced at the others around the booth before settling his attention on Mitsu.

"It doesn't really matter to me," he shrugged, "Unless you have a preference."

It had taken quite a while for Tomoko to get all of the glitter out of her mouth..or as much of it as she could, sniffling a bit and brushing it off of her lap. Somehow, she'd managed to not get any of it onto her ball of stars. A miracle worker, that ghoul.

Magically so. She hadn't manage to get it all off of her however... hnnggghhhhh. She looked up at Seiji when he made his inquiry and nodded. "Yes! It will be a good break to see Hahaue and Chichiue..." she spoke of her mother and father very formally. Carefully so, at that. It was almost a reverence.

She turned to look up at Junko, beaming as the older ghoul went to work. It was already obvious to Tomoko who she was going to be voting for for the Student Council. Well.. she was pretty sure of it, anyways.

Not that she would share. She didn't want to hurt any feelings! Oh snaps, should she have not been voting at all??

"It should be a great time." she added with a smile.

Somehow, despite being right next to Riley's booth, the hunchback overshot it, wobbling forth with dimming recollection of what he was doing in the first place.

By the time he had reached the paper-crane adorned booth, he was positively baffled. Wait. This wasn't the right place at all. He wobbled in place, trying to figure out where he had gone wrong.