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"...a boy with a mask," confirms Tōkan, looking at the two beat-up teenagers.
In which Than and Azem are in the Omegaverse and also Than has a lead pipe
Suzume makes them her pancakes in the morning and makes sure everyone eats as much as they can—except Inori, who doesn't have a maximum amount of food that can fit inside him so he instead just eats all of the leftovers—before she lets them go to school/work.
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And Inori starts walking with Tōkan to school for the stretch of the way they share, pipe over his shoulder.
freed_heir
Ahhhhhh.
"So, uh... how's school?" Holy shit Kokonoe that was some amazingly smooth conversation opener, are you going to ask about the weather next?
freed_heir
And without asking the reciprocal, obviously.
...but actually the thing is that he wants to get to know Inori better. Crushes are stupid and often happen even absent that—if nothing else, he's been sprayed with concentrated Inori personality in the face rather a lot, recently—but he'd still... like to know who Inori is, what he likes and dislikes, all that stuff.
And actually actually, he's not in the same position as Subaru at all, because Inori and him have only known each other a few weeks. He doesn't know that Inori won't reciprocate his feelings. What he has is a regular crush, the normal kind people have all the time, the kind he's never really had before but he knows how this dance goes, he's seen it play out enough times.
He's going to woo Yamada Inori.
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"Later," he says suddenly, when they reach the intersection where they go their separate ways.
freed_heir
As predicted.
"On a date. We go out somewhere you might like to go, we spend time together, we chat about anything an everything," those aren't landing, "we buy manga and go to a nice café and beat up anyone who's being sketchy we run into," there we go now he's got a reaction.
freed_heir
...does he say it directly...?
Yeah. Yeah, he does. Yamada Inori likes straightforwardness.
"Because I like you. And I want to make you like me too."
freed_heir
"Not like that, Inori-kun. I mean I like you. I have feelings for you." He said this already, did it just not go through this boy's thick skull at the time, or...?
freed_heir
...oh of course Inori had forgotten. Honestly that one's on Tōkan, for confessing in the height of Inori's heat.
freed_heir
"It means that I want to spend time with you even outside your heats," because fuck that meagre compromise, "and do things other than just fuck—of course fucking's still fine—but I want to know you as a person outside that. Being around you gives me butterflies in my stomach and makes me feel happy and giddy. And I want you to feel the same way."
