Akira flushes. 

"It's that obvious, huh. Yeah, Joker was teasing me about it. We'll see how it ends up. I mean, I could lose." She looks away. 

"You could. I'm gonna make sure you do," he teases with a blushy grin.

She grins back. "We'll see about that."

"We will."

He sips his drink and takes another bite of his burger.

"What's your favorite anime?"

"Oooh, good question... Probably Black Butler. Sebastian is just so alluringly evil. And excellent at his job. And, uh, Ciel in a dress kind of helped me realize I was trans."

"Oh, yeah! Been a while since I've seen that. You're totally right, though, Sebastian is such a fun kind of evil."

"And Ciel did look surprisingly good in that dress."

"He really did."

Akira smiles. "So what's your favorite?"

"Gurren Lagann! Kamina is just awesome, and the way Simon eventually learns to think like him and it makes his spiral power stronger is so cool."

"Oh yeah! It's a shame they messed up the ending, but the whole idea of spiral power is so cool."

"Yeah! Why the hell can't spiral power make Nia a new body, or fix her old one, or something like that? And fixing death is the one impossible thing spiral power — the power of shouting that impossibility is dumb and making it stick — can't beat? That's fucking stupid."

"Yeah, agreed. It's always the love interest who gets screwed by the plot as well, yeah? Gurren Lagann does so many things well with Spiral Power, but fails at that one simple hurdle..." She shakes her head. "Biggest robots ever, though."

"Big enough to punch out a galaxy. So fucking cool."

"Yep. That's spiral power for you."

She picks up one of her onion rings and hums to herself, looking at it thoughtfully for a moment. 

"Spirals are really everywhere. Not in my onion rings, I guess, but they're all over the place... There's a horror manga about that I think..."

"Yeah? I haven't read a lot of horror. Usually stick to adventures and pirates."

"Me neither. I bet you like One Piece, huh?"

"Hah, yep! Sailing the Grand Line in search of adventure!"

"If you had a Devil Fruit power, what do you think it'd be?"

"Rumble-Rumble fruit, hands down. You?"

"I'm not sure. Maybe string-string fruit? Something versatile like that."

"Yeah, flexibility like that suits you. You're adaptable, miss Wild Card."

"Heh. Thanks." Akira takes another bite of her burger. "Competence is a virtue, you know?"

"One that looks good on you, too," he replies with a blushy grin.

She flushes. "I, um. Thanks."

"Gonna have to get used to gettin' complimented all the time, Fearless Leader, if you're gonna keep bein' so awesome, on top of datin' all of us," he teases.