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“Kimiko, may I ask a…a question?” Omi asked hesitantly as he appeared outside of her cubby.
Kimiko looked up at him, skeptical. “It’s going to depend on what the question is. If this is something about me being a girl again—”
“No no, my confusion over that has been cleared up! Mostly,” He insisted, letting out an embarrassed laugh, “It is not that. I have a much more important question! I have just overheard Raimundo speaking with Master Fung and he has said that he is leaving! He cannot leave! He is one of the chosen ones! Obviously not as important a chosen one as me but—“
Kimiko reached out to stop the panicking little monk’s frantic pacing around her room. “Let me stop you right there Omi. Raimundo isn’t leaving for good. He’s just going home for the holidays.”
Omi paused at this new information, looking down at Kimiko with a frankly adorably confused expression. “The…holidays?”
“Ya. You know?” Kimiko waved her hand vaguely, “December is full of them.”
“Oh yes! Of course! How foolish of me!” Omi forcefully put on an obvious fake-air of bravado, “He is returning home for winter festivities! I obviously know much about this!”
“Uhhu…“ Kimiko agreed doubtfully.
“Yes! Celebrations such as…as…” He trailed off, obviously trying to frantically think of celebrations before he snapped his fingers. "Bodhi Day! And the…the Laba Festival! A-and there is the Dongzhi Festival too! Which I have very obviously celebrated—“
“I don’t think those are the ones that Raimundo is going home to celebrate.” Kimiko told him, holding back a laugh. Omi blinked owlishly up at her.
“He…is not? But what other holidays are there?!”
Kimiko let out an amused sigh and patted the spot next to her in her cubby. “Well, in Japan we don’t really have anything really big until New Years, but there are a lot of winter celebrations around the world. Here look,” she indicated to her computer as she quickly typed in ‘Winter Holidays around the world’ into the search engine. On screen a whole list of holidays popped up. “A lot of people celebrate something or other for the winter solstice, but there are more specific celebrations. The big ones are Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, and obviously Omisoka and New Years. In Japan those are considered the second and first most important days of the whole year.” She explained as she pulled up some pictures to show him. Most of them were pretty generic photos. Christmas trees and advertisements full of Santa Claus, aesthetic pictures of people playing dreidel with manoras in the background, Black, green and red candles at a family celebration. Omi looked at all of them, enthralled.
“So Raimundo is going to go celebrate all of these?” he asked, all but crawling onto Kimiko’s computer.
“Probably not all of them. If I had to bet, him and Clay are probably just going home to celebrate Christmas and maybe New Years.”
It took a long moment for her words to sink in.
“CLAY IS LEAVING TOO?!”