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It's a peaceful day at Leblanc. Sojiro has a couple customers in his shop, both sipping coffee, one eating a curry. Mellow music is playing, the lighting is cozy, and the coffee is as good as ever.
He nods a greeting as Akira enters the shop on her way home from school.
Akira looks away. "Different person, actually — I'm not cheating on Ryuji, he knows. Everyone in the group is, uh, dating everyone else." She ducks her head. "But thanks, I'll let them know."
Yeah boss says evening is fine. sorry, I wasn't thinking at all
"Polyamory. It means 'many loves.' And yeah, I mean, we've literally fought for our lives together... trying something unconventional in our personal lives is comparatively easy." She ducks her head. "Shiho would know more, she's the good researcher of us all."
He nods. "Heard of it once or twice, just never been interested in trying it myself so I didn't really remember the name."
He takes Morgana's bowl and washes that as well.
"Is Shiho the one you've got the date with tomorrow, or the other one?"
"Yeah, it's her. Here's hoping it goes well."
She finishes off her curry and passes Sojiro the plate.
He grabs Akira's plate and mug as well and washes those.
"Enjoy, kid."
"Thanks, boss."
She heads upstairs and flops on her bed.
She wishes she had a book. There was totally a bookstore in Shibuya, she passed it when she was getting supplies, but she completely forgot to stop in. So here she is, bookless.
She goes over to her work desk instead, and gets out her textbooks. She can study, at least, even if it's late. Better than just lying in bed with nothing to do.
Akira smiles at Morgana and gives them a light pet before going back to her studies.
After about an hour she's all out of brainpower, so she lies down in bed, fishes out her phone and finds something popcorny to read online. Some web series about superheroes all trapped together on an island...
She drifts off with her phone still in her hand.
She sits up and rubs her eyes. "What a day," she says. "We're really having a lot of those."
Joker puts her boots up in Akira's lap. "Yeah, but this one was good for once. You saw the look on Takemi's face."
Akira laughs. "Yeah, that I did. What a day..."
She looks away from Joker, but makes no attempt to remove Joker's feet from her lap.
Joker gives Akira a smug look, but then her face goes serious. "Look, we need to talk. I know you hate the idea of fusion, but if we're going to take on Oyamada and Futaba's palaces, we're going to need power. You've barely touched your Wild Card abilities so far, and it's vital that you start to use them before you end up far, far behind. Not everyone's going to be as easy as Kamoshida."
"Mmmm." Akira hums. "I don't like it, but I have been thinking it over. I can't help but be intrigued, despite the fact that it's... like that."
She looks down at the feet in her lap. "Convince me."
Julie looks off to the side, her expression pensive, her cheeks faintly flushed. "To be completely honest, chérie, although it feels un peu frightening, the idea of feeling one of my moitiés tear my heart out while the other watches is rather... exciting. What's the word the Americans came up with? Ah, yes, scarousing."
Joker pinches the bridge of her nose. "That is a thing you're into, in strict point of fact. You're a sadist, Akira. It's not complex."
"What kind of serial-killer bullshit is that?"
Akira stares Joker down. "I'd never harm someone deliberately."
"It's a fantasy, Akira, it doesn't have to make sense in the real world."
Joker takes her feet out of Akira's lap and scoots closer. "People fantasize about all kinds of things that make no sense in reality. It doesn't mean you're a bad human being if you fantasize about this kind of thing: it's what you do with it that matters."
"She's volunteering. And she comes back, unlike people on the real world. Those are some really critical differences."
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