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If you asked Kanako ketsukane how her life is she would say “it's great” of course she wouldn't mention her time as a white mass in a sterile laboratory being tormented by hallucinations of a blue figure, but that's a story for another day.
She has her mother, her uncle (stepfather? she doesn't know how to feel about that.), Dalv, Axis, Martlet and last but not least Clover (who no matter what Dina tells you she doesn't have a crush on him... totally not) and thanks to Ambassador Frisk they are on the surface!
...more or less.
That is to say, they can come out of the underground, but not from the mountain, King Asgore says that this is so as not to cause mass panic in humans.
But she can't contain her excitement, the dream of seeing the sun is in front of her and she can't even enjoy it due to something her father would call bureaucratic sh-...she can't finish that sentence.
But here she is sitting on the dune swing just waiting for time to slowly pass, swaying.
Forward.
Backward.
Forward.
Backward.
Forward.
Backward.
Forward.
Backward.
Fowa- she gets up and kicks a nearby rock with as much strength as a 14-year-old girl could have.
“ARGGGGG. why? Why do we have to stay here longer? Freedom is literally in front of us, but we cannot leave to avoid 'panic'.
Even though she said the last part with a mocking tone, she understands that humans, from what Clover and Frisk said, would not react very well to the existence of an entire species reappearing out of nowhere after being defeated in a war in which humans apparently forgot it existed.
She sighs and gets ready to go home, wondering if Clover wants t-.
“Howdy!”
“HAAAAA” kanako screams after something comes out of the ground in front of her.
“Wow, you also need to jump for joy when you see me”
After recovering from the shock, Kanako looks towards the voice and sees a flower.
“Flowey?” Kanako says when she finds herself face to face with Clover's strange friend "what are you doing here?"
“What can’t a flower check out a friend’s girlfriend?” Flowey says with a smug smile.
Even though Kanako is covered in fur, her face turns red “he’s not my boyfriend”
"yet"
"What do you want? “says the fox, trying to change the subject.
Flowey, pretending not to notice the obvious attempt to change the subject, continues “I brought the solution to your problems” says the flower with a smile.
Kanako’s shame is replaced by genuine confusion “problems?”
"Yes"
“What problems”
“That problem”
“Ha” says kanako “you can really help me with this” says the fox with an encouraging tone.
This not being quite the reaction the flower was expecting, he continues “Of course, what are friends for?”
“Wow Flowey, thank you so much, I didn’t know you could help me with this”
“What can I say, I am a flower of many talents”
“I mean I’ve been stuck in that phase for days I could really use some help”
“So come-” Flowey stops and reviews the fox’s words “phase?”
“Yes, level 22 of mew mew love blaster 2 no matter how many times I try I can never get past the boss his pattern is very complica-” she is interrupted by an indignant Flowey
“Not that problem”
Kanako stops and thinks what the problem with “my shower burnt out?”
"No"
“My wobbly bed?”
"My homework...?"
“THE SURFACE YOU IDIOT FOX IS YOUR WILLINGNESS TO SEE THE SURFACE” says the flower with an angry tone.
Kanako, upon recovering from Flowey's sudden reaction, raises an eyebrow and asks him "the Surface, how can you help me with this and how do you know that?"
When he recovers his posture, he responds “Well, you don't hide your desire to see the surface very well and I'm sure all the monsters that know you know about it” says the flower, hiding the fact that he's watching her just to see when she goes to confess to Clover.
Kanako, a little embarrassed, responds “ okay, maybe I’m not the best at hiding it, but how exactly would you help me?” says the Fox to the flower “the king forbade us to leave the underground”.
“and who said he needs to know? “the flower responds with enthusiasm
Kanako is taken aback by Flowey's response, "but he is the king we can't just disobey his orders."
“but kanako don’t you want to see the surface? These democratic issues can take months or even years to resolve,” says Flowey with a surprisingly sincere tone of honesty.
She stops and thinks, knowing that her father has come home several times complaining about a project being postponed or canceled due to these reasons “even as you intend to leave the underground, the Barrier or what's left of it is full of guards”
Flowey was already expecting this answer “Well, my dear fox, unlike what most monsters believe, the barrier wasn't just a 'door locked with 7 keys' it was more of a sphere that surrounded the interior of the mountain, so even if we dug a tunnel in any direction the result would be the same”
Kanako didn't understand what he was getting at. “And?”
“Well Frisk and your beloved Clover didn't enter the underground through the front door, they arrived through a hole at the beginning of the ruins and even though some time ago it was just an entrance now and an exit completely guard-free and with my help you could easily use it”
After hearing these words, her tail began to swing frantically, imagining the possibilities, several thoughts filled her head until one that made her expression sour and the tail stop wagging.
“thanks Flowey I really appreciate it, but even though I really wanted to go to the surface,I can’t”
Flowey had an idea why after all he was probably the best example even if no one but Frisk knows “and what would it be?”
Kanako responds with discouragement “well the problem is the humans themselves, even though Frisk and Clover are good souls, you can't guarantee that all humans will be like them SHE is a good example not to mention that humans don't even remember the existence of monsters ”
Flowey was expecting that exact answer “not all humans”
Kanako is taken by surprise “what?”
The flower continues “Not all humans have forgotten the existence of monsters, in fact they even try to maintain their culture even today”
Her surprise is replaced by confusion “culture?”
“well as the barrier no longer exists I took the opportunity to leave the underground myself in a short time I coincidentally found someone who was going to climb the mountain they where very excited about what I told them, but promised to keep our conversation a secret and gave me something very useful"
Flowey didn't mention that this certain someone was a YouTuber who was going to investigate the disappearance of 5 children on a mountain only to come across Flowey holding them upside down with a thorn inches from they neck forcing them to give him something' useful' before releasing it and watching it run faster than he imagined
Kanako comes back to cheer up” what would be something “useful”?”
“This” Flowey emerges one of his vines from the ground holding a rectangular object with a screen and gave her
Kanako holds the object, recognizing it as a cell phone with many cameras on the front and is considerably large “a cell phone? Why did they give you a cell phone?”
“it's not the cell phone itself and what it can do, it is connected to the human counterpart of the undernet, of course it doesn't work down here, but open the application with a 3-color circle there is a saved page that will interest you”
Kanako does what Flowey said and finds some kind of flyer advertising a convention and in the image are...MONSTERS?
She stops Flowey with a look of disbelief and he returns with a confident smile “remember what I said that not all humans have forgotten about monsters?
Kanako has difficulty formulating her sentence, “bu-but why are you showing this to me and not the king? And why did Clover and Frisk never mention this?
“Well, Clover is not oniscient and Frisk is only 8 years old, you can’t expect them to know everything” Flower seems to get excited “Besides, Asgore may not be the best option for that”
Kanako was more confused than ever “isn’t that the best option? he is our king and he is a very kind monster and cares about his subjects.”
Flowey already had an argument “that may be true, but how long will it take for the bureaucracy to resolve itself? and more importantly, how long will it take for humans to discover that Asgore was directly and indirectly responsible for the deaths of 5 human children.”
Kanako stops and understands the flower's point, "but why me and not any other monster like one of the skeleton brothers ?"
“about the brothers, one is too lazy to do anything and the other is much energetic and lively, now you are a common monster, a child who, like many others, dreamed of seeing the sun and felt in your skin the desperation of your species to get out of this place” Flowey says with a cheerful expression “you can show humans what monsters really are like, instead of speeches or complicated words that Asgore would say”
Kanako looks thoughtfully at Flowey, undecided.
Flowey soon becomes impatient “so what do you think?”
Kanako withdraws from her trance, “but my mother will notice that I’m gone”
The flower already had a plan “Tell her that you are going to spend time at the birdhouse with Clover and tell Clover that you are going to stay at home all day, the event will go from morning until late at night you You can tell your mother that you are going to have a sleepover whint clover, there is a house in ruins where you can spend the night when you get back and the next morning you go home as if nothing had happened”.
Kanako finds herself speechless, “but why exactly this event specifically What's so special about him that he has to do all this work?”
The flower's smile only enhances “the event and as if it were a time capsule you can use this cell phone and record how humans and monsters lived together before they were sealed and show other underground monsters how current humans viewed them”
She cheers up her tail wagging like never before
Flower sees her mood and decides to say something more “you can also take a look at the romantic relationships between monsters and humans, you could learn a lot,right?”
Even though she is covered in fur it clearly failing to hide her embarrassment, the fox changes the subject again “ri-right when do we leave?”
Flowey feels proud of himself “in 3 days meet me at the door of the dark ruins I will take you to the hole and take you up there, make sure everything goes according to plan, understand?”
The fox happily responds “yes”
“good to see you there then” says Flowey before disappearing into the ground
The fox girl would see herself with a very excited tail wagging and an uncontrollable urge to run, not only would she be able to see the surface and the sun with her eyes but she would also be able to help the monsterkind.”
She decides to look at the cell phone again and when analyzing the poster more calmly she sees that the event will run from 10 in the morning until 10 at night in 3 days, she also notes its rules, the location (this is the tricky part) and its contents.
Obviously Kanako didn't know what most of the things meant, but she said there was going to be a cosplay contest with a cash prize (she also said it was going to be live? Live on some YouTube channel, whatever that was) but if that was like her ancestors acted she will happily participate
After letting the excitement pass and decided to go home, he prepared for the event with only one thought in mind.
“do I wear a blue or red kimono ?”