Everyone's been working hard on SNS lately.

...Well β€” "working hard." I think.

Aine's emotional hashtags are still going strong.
Hinata manages to mess something up every single time.
Shizuku's getting a little swept up by notifications but she's still replying.

Whatever you want to say about it,
everyone's posting more than before.

And.

Watching all of that, something occurred to me.

Rei's probably seen all of it.

Not that she'd ever say that.

But whenever Aine posts something new,
there's a like on it pretty fast.

Hinata's video had an audio sync issue β€”
Rei messaged her about it in seconds.

When Shizuku started sending replies again,
apparently Rei sent her exactly one thing:
"If it's not too much on you, I think it's fine."

She's watching.

Not long ago,
I was going to message Rei in the middle of the night β€”
opened the chat, and she was online.

"Rei, you still up?"

She replied:

"Asleep."

Clearly awake.

And her Discord light was green.

We ended up in a call for a bit.

She was in the middle of working β€”
I could hear keyboard sounds the whole time.

"Rei β€” you actually watch everyone's posts, don't you."

"Well. More or less."

That's a pretty wide range of "more or less."

"I mean, if someone puts something weird out there, it's a problem," she also said.

But I don't think that's all it is.

Rei really does watch everyone.

The only one who hasn't noticed
might be Rei herself.

After that,
I posted a new selfie.

The neon lights at night looked kind of beautiful,
and it was one of those rare shots where I actually looked good.

A few minutes later.

Notification.

"Rei liked your post."

...See?

β€” Ruka πŸ“Έ