Dear Diary,

We decided to paint the lotus, to make it even more ornamental. Mika gave us all paint and told us which petals should be which color. At first she tried to have us do a complicated design, but any time our paint touched someone else's, their paint would change to our color. So Mika gave up on her beautiful rainbow design and instead went with a cool rainbow design. I like the effect. The player we trap in it probably won't notice, but others might.

We might make more lotuses when we’re done, because building it was actually pretty fun. So was painting it. It kept us busy. We won’t make them death traps, though.

Our final marble race is tomorrow. Unless Aya gets all four of her marbles to the finish line before mine, I’m going to get championship gold. Aya is super nervous about the race tomorrow. I’m pretty confident. Kimi is in the bronze spot right now, but even if all her marbles crossed the finish line before all the others, she’d only get championship silver. Aya and I have won most of the races, but her team failed to get a medal three times. My team has only failed to medal once. So at worst, I’ll get silver.

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I’ve already started to build a special shelf for them in my house. They will hold a place of honor on my wall, for being the best marble team a catgirl could ask for.

I think the players will get here soon. I hope they will, at least. I’m pretty nervous about the plan, and how it will go. Especially since the first part is all me, I kind of worry that if we end up having to use the lotus it’ll be my fault. I just want it all to be over.

I don’t have all that much more to say. I could fill out the rest of the page with squiggles or letters, but I don’t have actual words to describe how everyone is feeling. It’s just… waiting. Always waiting.

Goodnight, Dungeon.

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