"Good for her, he sucks. I have legitimately no idea why omegas keep doing this to themselves."

"This whole SJ stuff," repeats Naoko.

"What! It's not SJ stuff, Tōta is in fact an asshole and is more specifically an asshole to omegas and thinks they're barely people! Just from a purely practical individual perspective, I cannot imagine what she was getting out of it."

"Maybe but what you said was 'omegas doing this to themselves'. Which is kinda sexist, when you think about it."

"...yeah, it is, you're right, my bad."

"—you were meant to tell me that was bullshit and I was being oversensitive, not agree!"

"No, you had a point, generalising like that just isn't cool. Just, man, did you know I still have fucking nightmares about this one time I was playing in the playground and then the omega and beta kids all left because they said that alphas are above them and they shouldn't mingle, my father had said so. We were five. That was fucked up."

Tamiki looks around warily then says, in a lower voice, "Your father's kind of a dick, to be fair."

"...my parents weren't much better," Naoko admits.

"And my guess is that their parents weren't, either. I dunno man it just makes my blood boil every goddamn time."

Tamiki pats Tōkan's knee and says, "There, there," before returning to her food.

...right, she shared food with him out of the goodness of her heart, he should not be ignoring it to wax poetic about how much alphas suck. "This is very nice," he tells her after eating a bit.

"Thank you! I could bring you more tomorrow if you'd like."

"I might take—" But his phone rings in his hand and interrupts him. It's Harutsugu. "Hi?"

"Tōkan-kun. Inori-kun's been detained by the police."

"Motherfuckers. Have you called Ōta-san?"

"I don't have her number—"

"I'll call her. When?"

"Just five minutes ago."

"Fuckers. But it's good that it took them this long, I think, means they're struggling to build a case—this isn't legal advice. I'll call Ōta-san. I'll be on my way to your place soon."

"Thank you, Tōkan-kun. Also if you could message me her number...?"

"Of course, I'll do that now. Thank you for calling me, Haru."

"Of course."

Tamiki and Naoko look rather spooked. "What happened?" Tamiki asks.

"My guess is the police decided to detain Inori. Fuck."