How can someone like you exist and this guy just passes up the opportunity for - how long have you known each other! How long do gods live! How do you not drop everything and not just fall crazy in love with your best friend like some kind of immortal celestial romcom?!
[her cheeks look a little pink, but it's hard to get a good look at them with how rapidly she's fanning. also that might just be from how she's giggling.]
We gods live for such a long time! Can you imagine how complicated things would be in the heavens if we were falling in love with each other left and right? My goodness, my goodness...
she looks delighted, anyway! also incoming - mineo is getting a hug and a hair ruffle. his hair is in easy reach, because he's only 2cm taller than her.]
Why wouldn't that be alright? Anyone would be delighted to get such sincere compliments! You're too sweet, Mineo!
But you stand there in the Field Operations Office, surrounded by the men who treated you like their beloved younger brother, and you receive no orders. A man who you regard like a mentor, almost like a father, stands in front of you and shakes his head. “... The higher-ups don’t want to move yet. This could still be a prank, so they don’t want to let our resources go to this.”
It’s the first time that you get a taste of rage. Your hand curls into a fist, because someone you know has gone missing, and no one cares enough to find them. “That’s bullshit,” you mutter under your breath, and the saving grace is that even if you’re heard, you aren’t punished.
For the next few weeks, you are kept so busy that you can’t think about the video - but it doesn’t leave you alone. It’s in your bones. The feeling that something’s going to go wrong. The longer that you go without seeing Yuuta Fuji, the worse you feel.
he stumbles. he stumbles away from her, as if he's been the one who was struck again, hands hovering just moments ago now shaking until he clenches them so tightly his palms might bleed.]
this is the first she's heard of an x-day, or of "adonis," or anything like that. but she doesn't have to be familiar with it to know that it's horrific, anyway. she flinches at each of the gunshots in the memory, and comes out of it feeling more than a little sick -
but mineo's so obviously affected by it, stumbling back, his hands shaking.
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anyway, shi qingxuan looks. really surprised by that suggestion.]
About me? I'd doubt that...
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Why?
Aren't you guys like - together?
[did mineo just fucking assume this i guess he did]
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We're [(escha voice)] coworkers.
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because he's just
pausing]
Are you sure?
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I know who my coworkers are, Mineo.
[1/2]
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How can someone like you exist and this guy just passes up the opportunity for - how long have you known each other! How long do gods live! How do you not drop everything and not just fall crazy in love with your best friend like some kind of immortal celestial romcom?!
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she bursts out laughing, fanning herself rapidly with her fan (when did she even untuck it from her belt and open it? a mystery)]
Ahahaha, really, what a thing to say!
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he's recognizing his outburst as a very impassioned one bUT!!!]
I'm serious, Shi-san....!!
[DOUBLING DOWN]
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We gods live for such a long time! Can you imagine how complicated things would be in the heavens if we were falling in love with each other left and right? My goodness, my goodness...
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Not left and right.... That kind of thing - if it's the right person, then it's supposed to be forever, right?
[mineo
you pure-hearted fool]
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Aaaah, I wish there were more people like you in the heavens.
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I just don't get it....! You're like the perfect person, Shi-san....
[SO HOW IS SHE NOT DATING MING YI?????]
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[yes feed her ego]
[1/2]
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Erm, that's - alright for me to say, right?! Endorsi said girls like being told nice things....
But I'm not trying to be weird or anything!! I'm just saying... what I think....
[this LOSER]
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she looks delighted, anyway! also incoming - mineo is getting a hug and a hair ruffle. his hair is in easy reach, because he's only 2cm taller than her.]
Why wouldn't that be alright? Anyone would be delighted to get such sincere compliments! You're too sweet, Mineo!
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[he's flustering worse and - his hands are hovering like he's not sure if he's allowed to hug her back? dumb. so dumb.]
Well, it's... you know...
Even if it's sincere, I don't want to come off as creepy or anything....
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[ . . . . hrrmmm.]
Then... if you're sure....
[if both sqx and endorsi say it's okay??? he still feels awkward about being a fucking simp]
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I'm sure, I'm sure! Would someone with five hundred years of experience steer you wrong?
[1/3]
[he pulls back then, just enough to look her in the eye
big mistake.]
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And then: a declaration (22:59 - 23:18).
But you stand there in the Field Operations Office, surrounded by the men who treated you like their beloved younger brother, and you receive no orders. A man who you regard like a mentor, almost like a father, stands in front of you and shakes his head. “... The higher-ups don’t want to move yet. This could still be a prank, so they don’t want to let our resources go to this.”
It’s the first time that you get a taste of rage. Your hand curls into a fist, because someone you know has gone missing, and no one cares enough to find them. “That’s bullshit,” you mutter under your breath, and the saving grace is that even if you’re heard, you aren’t punished.
For the next few weeks, you are kept so busy that you can’t think about the video - but it doesn’t leave you alone. It’s in your bones. The feeling that something’s going to go wrong. The longer that you go without seeing Yuuta Fuji, the worse you feel.
Until another video proves you right (16:40 - 17:35).
And with every sickening gunshot, and with the word ‘justice’ in your mouth like a poison - you feel like maybe you died that day too. ]
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he stumbles. he stumbles away from her, as if he's been the one who was struck again, hands hovering just moments ago now shaking until he clenches them so tightly his palms might bleed.]
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[yikes.
this is the first she's heard of an x-day, or of "adonis," or anything like that. but she doesn't have to be familiar with it to know that it's horrific, anyway. she flinches at each of the gunshots in the memory, and comes out of it feeling more than a little sick -
but mineo's so obviously affected by it, stumbling back, his hands shaking.
she steps forward and reaches out to take them.]
...Mineo.
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