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[priceofmagic]

 [those rumors though.

Satou has to address them. Calmly, smoothly, and without digging her own grave:]

I-I'm not having secret love affairs! I would never keep secrets of that degree! I would be really super open, okay? Love isn't something to be ashamed of anyway, right?

Mr Dante, Ms Hikaru, please don't fire me for having gained a weird reputation! It wasn't a secret love affair! It's just sparring and making cake and playing video games! I'm not a bad girl, I promise!

Also, hi Ms Elsa. I haven't met you yet. Let's be friends.

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[alwaysimpaled]

I'm not going to fire you for love affairs, secret or otherwise. What you do on your time is none of my business.

[lovesopendoors]

Hi! Since you're going to be friends with my sister and I mean I'm sure you two will be amazing friends, she needs more friends and she's amazing and you seem great and I don't think you sound like a bad girl at all... What I was saying is, let's be friends too! I'm Anna!

Ohhh and love is definitely not something to be ashamed of! But that sounds more like a really wild misunderstanding instead of super secret love affairs.

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[micancion]

Kid, what are you talking about?

[priceofmagic]

Everyone is town is saying that I'm having a secret love affair..! That's more exciting than reality!

[priceofmagic]

Ms Elsa has a sister? Ooohh... Then yes! We're going to be great friends! I have a sister too! Maybe that's what the rumors meant? Maybe they were confused about all of the sisters here!

Hi, Ms Anna! I'm Satou~!

[priceofmagic]

You're the beeeest. I'm sorry this is happening. I'm not trying to tarnish the good name of the Attleton Office.

[micancion]

Ah, you heard the rumors? Eh, they're just rumors. People forget them when the next big story comes along.

[priceofmagic]

My reputation will be dead and buried by then.

[micancion]

[D-don't make that face!]

Ay, Satou, there's bound to be something by next week. this place is huge and look, you're...trying? to clear it up?

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[hot_handed]

You don't have the fucking finesse to pull that off. Why do you even care?

[priceofmagic]

OH YEAH? Watch me, then!

... I-I mean. [huff.] I care about my reputation! I want people to trust me!

[priceofmagic]

I-I guess... awoo. But that means someone else's reputation will get tanked. I don't want that either.

Perhaps, as Deputy and Detective, I ought to be taking one for the team...

[hot_handed]

Idiot. If they're petty enough to lose their trust over a rumor, they weren't worth your time to begin with.

[micancion]

Ah, but then if you take one for the team, your reputation will get...tanked? How would that work for a deputy?

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[brbgettingwrench]

It's best to not acknowledge it as those who do will potentially keep it up for longer thinking you are saying something because really it's true.

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[snowballfever]

I would love to be your friend, of course.

Just to be sure we're on the same page, I don't harbor any secret crushes on you. Or anyone, in fact. So, you can rest at ease.

[Video]

[fashionably_strong]

I believe you, but it wouldn't make you a bad girl if you had a relationship that you wanted to keep private until it got more serious. Some people are just private about their personal lives.

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[bigbadrose]

Not all affairs are other people's business. Even when you aren't ashamed, sometimes they're not supposed to be advertised.

Or so I'm told.

[Video]

[deadlybang]

It can't, like, be a love affair unless you are, like, currently in a relationship anyway. And it's not, like, any of those rumours have any credibility.

[Except the voodoo one it seems, but even that seems to be triggered due the rumour rather than the other way around.]

People here just, like, seem to love to make up weird rumours from what I've, like, gathered when I asked around.

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[sengokupocky]

Relax, Satou-san. Those rumors are just made up by bored ... people. We know they have no merit. It's best to ignore them. They'll move onto something else.

[ Refrains from calling the people NPCs, which is her interpretation of people without pendants not being real.]

And you're right, there's no shame in love.

[alwaysimpaled]

Would you stop with that? You're entitled to a life beyond your job.

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[myfayevalentine]

*Huh. So what she heard wasn't true. That's a shame - gossip that's true is always good fun*

Well hey, people only spread stuff about other people when they're jealous. So look at it that way - someone is clearly jealous of you, and they think you're cute enough to be homewrecking with love affairs; lucky you!

[priceofmagic]

Fine then. I'll try not to tarnish my good-ish name.

I'm already the Witch of Sins back home. I don't want to upgrade to Witch of Scandal here.

[priceofmagic]

You're right... nngh. W-Well... I have to protect the public, right?

[priceofmagic]

[A valid point, actually. It earns a little giggle from her.]

Yeah, I guess so. But it doesn't matter if they deserve my time: I want to protect them, right? So they need to trust me a little bit...