piteous | HOMOPHONIC 🌺 MIZUKI OKIURA

It just randomly disappeared.

[ Sometimes you're bald suddenly. ]

Huh…

—You look good!

[ I KNOW YOU ARE TRYING YOUR BEST BUT PLEASE ]

Thanks.

[ there’s a brief moment of ?? but then: ]

No, really! You have this perfectly egg-shaped head you rarely see on someone!

[ EGG? ]

[ how is she... hearing him... huh well anyway, ]

Yeah! It's kind of cute.

[ I'll go along with it. ]

It's better than black hair, I guess.

Huh? What's wrong with black hair?

Oh, nothing!

[ It's just a bad omen on me. ]

[ ... ]

A bad omen, huh...

... I guess you have heard about it on your mission, maybe vaguely.

But... It's related to the Black Decay that happens to plants.

[ An indication of a shortened lifespan. Basically, on the brink of unnatural death. ]

—Oh.

Right... I remember it being a huge problem, though I never considered that could happen to us. Or, uh, you.

It comes with using up all your energy, so... I'm imagining you guys didn't get pushed to your limits, which is good. The Black Decay in independent plants has not been studied.

[ Because you know as walking plants they evade researchers. ]

They think it means I'm going to keel over and die.

Hmmm... Nope. At least, I never noticed my hair turning black... I guess that makes sense. You may be an independent, but you're still a plant.

But maybe you should avoid that, yeah.