Pranking

Taku is not above pranking people either. But I guess it's a good thing he doesn't do it all too often. ;;

Now, this dialogue looks very simple, but I had to think quite a bit how to phrase things. In the beginning and mostly as placeholder text, Taku was just like "Looks like she's dead," but I wasn't very fond of that for various reasons. For one, outright telling an already worried person that someone died, even though it's only a joke, is not only in bad taste, but would scare poor Kei even more. The mirror comment does too, but "the mirror getting to her" is a pretty vague comment and could imply ANYTHING. Taku is pretty tactless at times, but I didn't want to go too far with his dialogue. Of course, it was still a mean prank to pull, since Kei automatically assumed the worst anyway because he's just a worrywart like that...

Comic transcript

While Kei stays at the door, Taku walks around the sofa and looks down at the girl lying there.

Kei: "W-What's wrong...?"

Suddenly, Taku bends down and a squeaky noise can be heard. Then, he declares something ominous.

Taku: "Looks like the mirror got to her."
Kei: "WHAT!?"

Worried, Kei finally rushes into the room and looks at Serika. Apparently, she is just sleeping and that squeaking noise was caused by Taku scribbling two 'X' over her eyelids as if she were dead.