lumatriarch:
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Rosalina only caught the tail-end of the interaction, or else she would have intervened sooner. She watched as Dice finished his transaction at the register, having just handed over a small bag of groceries to the cashier to be returned to the shelves as they could not be afforded.
She’d made up her mind by the time she paid for her groceries, and moved quickly out the front door of the convenience store, hoping to catch him before he got too far. His coat and hair were easy identifiers, so she was able to spot him and catch up to him before too long.
“Excuse me,” she said as she came up behind him. Bowing her head and holding her own bag of groceries behind her, she held out with her other hand the bag that Dice had to return, now paid for by Rosalina instead.
“For you.”
THE embarrassing thing was that Dice had totally thought he could afford groceries. He had assumed he’d stopped himself before betting it all, hadn’t even wanted to wager the clothes on his back as he normally would but evidently he’d spent more than he planned.
A look at his account confirmed it. He could barely afford a candy bar like this. His dejected face must have been visible from a M I L E off and he missed Gentaro who would surely have taken pity on him in such a sorry state.
Someone else seemed to have taken pity, too, though, for he heard a voice behind him. Green eyes widened at the sight of his groceries and he nearly felt like crying with relief.
“Really? Are you sure?” he asked her. “I’ll pay you back if you want, when I have the money! I promise!”








