Okay guys, you know the drill. Go in, blow stuff up, wipe down the--oh, wait, wrong drill. Well, I can't believe it, but this marks it as two hundred chapters already, so let's party!

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As you approach the building, you can hear...sounds. You know, rationally, it's music, but everything is all mixed up. Violins and base guitars, pianos and synths; all of them seem to be screaming their hearts out all at once. You shrug and go in.

As soon as you open the door, the sound hits you like a wall. Once you recover a bit from that, you see the other readers already there, engaged in dancing, eating, talking (or, rather, shouting at the top of their lungs), among other things. A familiar head of brown hair emerges from the crowd for a moment, but is the swallowed back up by the much-taller people. You smile and go in a bit closer to help out your short friend.

She eventually pops out, sweating a bit but grinning. She opens her mouth to speak, though shout seems like a Kore appropriate term here, but her voice is lost in the other noises. You move in, and she repeats.

"WELCOME!" You smile. Should've expected that, after all.

"What's this party's theme?" you ask, then realize she probably can't hear you either. Geeky rolls her eyes and drags you outside, where you can hear the thrumming of the music still.

"There we go! So, what did you say?" she asks. You repeat the question that had previously been lost. "Ah! Well, see, for this party, I had no plan whatsoever as to what theme. Then it hit me! Music! When you go back inside, there's an area for pretty much any music, from Vocaloid to classic rock!" She stands up, offering you a hand. "Come on! Let's go!"

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Thank you guys so so so much for staying with me this entire time! I can't believe that you guys have actually stuck around for four hundred chapters total! I'm just so happy that this could happen!