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[justforyou]

Why won't it change back to the search engine?! I wasn't doing anything wrong, I swear! I just wanted to look up roses. How am I supposed to get any information on this site?

Oh--wait, maybe you guys can help me out? A friend of mine has this huge rose garden. Must be the biggest in Mitikihara! I don't know anything about roses though. What kinds there are, what the colors mean, how to care of them... Can anyone tell me what they know?

It's really important, alright? If I can't get back to the search engine then I'm doomed for sure!

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[bag_has_snapped]

[Flowers? Right up Tsubomi's alley!]

I can help! My grandma runs an arboretum and I've learned a lot from her. What do you need to know exactly?

[justforyou]

Really? Oh, thank you! I'd be really gateful!

How can you identify different species of roses? That's what I was looking up when I got switched to here.

[bag_has_snapped]

It's all about how they grow and how you find them. Your usual type of rose that you see in stores and the like are called Hybrid Tea and roses that are seen wrapped around walls or other items are called Climbers, for example.

[justforyou]

Oh - that makes sense! How about the more expensive types? Are there any like that? They're the kid of this big-name congressman, you see...

[bag_has_snapped]

Oh, no, roses are actually cheap! What makes them expensive is if its a holiday and if you're having them arranged a certain way.

At least, that's what I've seen so far with my parents' shop.

[wildmelody]

Roses? I'm not very good at flowers to be honest. I could run a search on this end though.

[justforyou]

Please, please. That would really help!

[wildmelody]

All right, lemme see... looks like Tsubomi is giving you the info for the care. Lemme see if I can find anything on the meanings...

[justforyou]

Tsubomi--oh...! I guess I should tell the people who's helping me out my name. After all, it's you guys who're saving my hide!

I'm Kure Kirika. Kirika Kure if you want the western version.

[wildmelody]

Kirika is it? I'm Houjou Hibiki. Nice to meetcha.

And lets see... google says... Rose Meanings. Does this help?

[selfished]

... Mitakihara, huh?

[ It isn't often that she actually hears people in this place talking about.. well, places she actually recognizes. :| ]

[justforyou]

Yeah - she's the kid of one of the congressmen there so it'd make sense she'd live there, yeah?

[Said politician recently committed suicide...which probably made the news but shh. Kirika is ignoring that.]

[selfished]

'course. The name just sounded familiar. [ She's not going to give away too much right off the bat though, nope. ]

Why do ya even wanna help 'em out though?

[justforyou]

[Help? She didn't say she wanted to help them, did she... Oh. Crap. Well. Kyouko did ask...]

Uh...haha. I just figured if I knew a lot about what they liked then they'd talk to me more!

[selfished]

[ It's pretty obvious when you're talking about a friend with a rose garden and then how to take care of them, Kirika.. Kyouko might be a hobo, but she can put one and one together. ]

.. Hah, really? You're going that far just to become friends with 'em?

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Pinged by, though not really here to talk about, huge rose gardens.]

Just posting here and establishing intent to post again later is usually enough. This is how the community expands its membership.

[justforyou]

[Not to mention the fact that she lives in the same city Karen's girlfriend does.]

It really is magic!

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Then again, Minako was from the same city as Karen, sort of.]

Or sufficiently advanced technology, I suppose. But yes.

[justforyou]

Magic! It's probably magic.

[stillneedawish]

Oh, you're from Mitakihara? [ another magical girl, maybe...? but she wasn't mentioned in her notebook to herself... better play it safe for now. ]

It looks like the community's causing trouble for you, but the good news is you should be able to get back to the search engine yourself if you just talk to people here for a while. But in the meantime, maybe I can help? I don't know much about gardening myself, but well, I have a search engine here.

[justforyou]

Nah, I think I've got enough info for now at least. [Who's this friendly kid? Probably no one important. Certainly not anyone that she'd want to kill in the near future or who will end the world, nope.]

You from there yourself?

[stillneedawish]

Oh, okay! That's good. I'm glad you were able to get what you needed.

Yep! I guess it's a small world.

[justforyou]

Heh, thanks.

Name's Kure Kirika. I'm a third-year at Mitakihara Middle School. What about you?

[enshrined]

Roses are wonderful flowers!

Does your friend keep them outside or in a greenhouse?

[justforyou]

Outside! It's quite a large garden.