Little Cricket

  None of them can go beyond experience, or establish any principles which are not founded on that authority  

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gwittulami:

Baeoo nods his head rapidly. He had hidden the gift from his roommates since he hadn’t gotten them anything for Christmas. He is already getting plenty of flak from them about his run-in with Reagan, and wasn’t about to let them subject him to more torment. 

“Oh, absolutely! I didn’t know what to get you, but I think you’ll like it~” He notes that he didn’t ask permission to open her gift and feels a small twinge of guilt as a result. He pushes it away as he waits for her to open the gift. He had spent a pretty considerable amount of time looking for something that he thought she would like, but was decently confident. 

“It’s just how I was raised, it’s still a habit to ask.” Pushing aside thoughts of “get back to work” for just a little longer, she carefully opened the package to reveal the teddy smiling up at her. She gasped happily, and smiled as she lifted it from the wrapping and held it fairly close, humming appreciatively.

‘I love it, it’s so cute!’ she said, looking up at him with a big smile on her face, her heart involuntarily skipping a beat… Wait, what? This time, she placed the bear sitting up on her desk, and gave him a hug of her own, slightly firmer than he had been with her. ‘Thank you very much, Baeoo-san!’

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"You're welcome Mimi! I'm so glad you like it~ I hope Rina likes it too." He wears an indelible smile as he watched her light up with delight, his heart throbbing just a little bit (Fuck she's so cute). In the back of his mind, he suspected that she is the kind of person that would be happy with any gift, so long as the thought was there, but he is still put at ease by her warm reception of his gift. He breathes a small sigh of relief.

"I have another gift for you, but it didn't come in the mail just yet!"

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm…You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

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gwittulami:

“Yeah! It should be loads of fun! And we’ll leave a not for Miss…Chow? I don’t think I’ve met her yet.” He scratches his forehead but continues to beam at Lili. Finally he’ll have another opportunity to be a real detective!

 “Where is Miss Chow’s desk? We should do that note right now before we forget.”

“Ms. Chow is the vice-leader of the Agency. I think her desk is next to Mr. Sanun’s office. I usually catch her in the hallway, though. She’s so busy.” Lili gave a light laugh. “but, okay, we’ll leave a note!”

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"Wow! The vice leader, huh? She must be pretty important if she's Sanun's #2 person~" He writes while speaking, scrawling a quick few sentences before straightening up and grinning at Lili again. "Alright! Let's drop this off and be on our way!"

He hails an uber once outside and within the hour they're outside of the crime scene. Baeoo leans over the police tape, reaching into his pocket to pull out his magnifying glass.

"Let's go see what we can find~"

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gwittulami:

Baeoo’s face lights up at the sight of the small package. He leans over and gingerly plucks the package up and upwraps it, his smile growing even wider as he sees what it is.

“I love it! It’s so cute~~ Thank you so much Mizuki, It’s fantastic.” He leans in and givers her a really gently hug (pfffttt as if he could hurt her with those twigs he calls arms). He had taken into account the fact that it was gift giving day, and thus wore his nice perfume (that he definitely didn’t “borrow” from Emily). 

Mizuki managed a genuine smile when she saw Baeoo light up, and happily returned his hug, forgetting for a minute all the stress of her work and studies and just enjoying seeing people happy.

‘You’re welcome, Baeoo-san,’ she said, and her attention diverted back to the present she had received. ‘Can I open it?’ she asked, remembering that she still had to be polite. She had always been raised to ask before opening a present, she had no explanation as to why, it had always just been a thing.

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Baeoo nods his head rapidly. He had hidden the gift from his roommates since he hadn’t gotten them anything for Christmas. He is already getting plenty of flak from them about his run-in with Reagan, and wasn’t about to let them subject him to more torment. 

“Oh, absolutely! I didn’t know what to get you, but I think you’ll like it~” He notes that he didn’t ask permission to open her gift and feels a small twinge of guilt as a result. He pushes it away as he waits for her to open the gift. He had spent a pretty considerable amount of time looking for something that he thought she would like, but was decently confident. 

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm…You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

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“Yeah! It should be loads of fun! And we’ll leave a not for Miss...Chow? I don’t think I've met her yet.” He scratches his forehead but continues to beam at Lili. Finally he’ll have another opportunity to be a real detective!

 “Where is Miss Chow’s desk? We should do that note right now before we forget.”

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm…You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

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gwittulami:

“…Nope! The agency isn’t on TV…but how cool would that be! We’d be soo famous~” He really isn’t sure of what to do either, so drawing from his knowledge of Crime TV shows and movies will have to suffice for now. 

“Maybe cases that the police won’t handle! I hear the Port City police aren’t the least corrupt cops in the world. How about something having to do with Mafia?”

“I just got a TV. I’m not even sure what to watch there are so many channels. What did you mean by it being on TV, though?” She tilted her head in question.

Cases the police won’t handle. “Port City has a mafia? I-I suppose that might be something that the police won’t help with. Maybe we could help people feel safe that way.” Goodness knows Lili was beginning to become fearful now that she knew the city had a mafia.

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“I-uhm...Never mind! Anyways~~~~~~”

He scroll through the google news tab on his laptop and stops at an article describing an arson. He points excitedly and opens it.

“Here we go! The police seem to have abandoned this crime scene! Do you wanna go check it out? There’s lunch and everything nearby, we can make a day of it’~”

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm…You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

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gwittulami:

“Hi! I’m Baeoo, I’m sure we can get this all worked out in no time!” He neglects to mention that he was stabbed and had spent a majority of his time in the hospital for the few weeks that he had worked here. That was the main contributor to his lack of understanding as it pertains to his responsibilities at work.

Well, at least he still got paid.

“I’m sure we can find something to investigate! Usually it’s stuff that the police wouldn’t handle or have given up on!…Or at least that’s what the movies and TV tells me.” He shoots her a meek grin and scoots over to make room in front of his laptop, whilst pulling up a chair. 

“Come here! Let’s see if we can find something~”

This change of subject interested Lili, “Wait, movies and TV? The Agency is on TV? I’m not from Port City so I haven’t really seen anything.” Plus, she only recently got a television and can’t really tell the difference between reality and fiction on it, yet. Her family thought it was a waste of money for the longest time.

“Ms. Chow said that about the police, too, but… how do we know if the police can’t handle it?” She gently sits in the chair next to him, glancing at his laptop.

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“...Nope! The agency isn’t on TV...but how cool would that be! We’d be soo famous~” He really isn’t sure of what to do either, so drawing from his knowledge of Crime TV shows and movies will have to suffice for now. 

“Maybe cases that the police won’t handle! I hear the Port City police aren’t the least corrupt cops in the world. How about something having to do with Mafia?”

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm…You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

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She blinks a few moments, overwhelmed by both the fact that he called her cute and the difficult to describe emotion wafting off of him at the moment. It wasn’t ‘love’ necessarily, or at least it wasn’t the emotion she felt coming off of her family members that did care for her. Her empathic senses could tell that he was feeling something akin to affection, however, and it made heat rise to her cheeks. She pretended to ignore the fact that he’d called her cute in favor of avoiding embarrassment. 

“Oh… We-we must’ve started at around the same time, then. Ms. Chow has tried to teach me what she can, but… it, um, it still seems like I’m missing something. I’m not even sure what I-I should be investigating and what I should leave for the police.” She gave a small sigh.

Holding her hand out for him, she offered a shy smile, “I’d be happy to figure it out together. I’m Lili, it’s um- it’s nice to meet you!”

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“Hi! I’m Baeoo, I’m sure we can get this all worked out in no time!” He neglects to mention that he was stabbed and had spent a majority of his time in the hospital for the few weeks that he had worked here. That was the main contributor to his lack of understanding as it pertains to his responsibilities at work.

Well, at least he still got paid.

“I’m sure we can find something to investigate! Usually it’s stuff that the police wouldn’t handle or have given up on!...Or at least that’s what the movies and TV tells me.” He shoots her a meek grin and scoots over to make room in front of his laptop, whilst pulling up a chair. 

“Come here! Let’s see if we can find something~”

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"Oh, you work here too, right? Do you have any tips for me? I haven't been a very good employee so far, I feel like..."

His eyes widen for a moment, his expression blank. Oh my god it’s the cute girl who sits across the room. He tries to clear his throat, but chokes and ends up coughing. 

“But you’re too cute to be bad at this jo-” He sputters, before quickly shutting up. He successfully clears his throat, and tries again. 

“You should, uhm...You’re probably better at it than I am, to be honest! I just got started here a few weeks ago, and I’m still not really sure what I’m doing!” He bites his lip, not really sure whether or not this is the kind of thing he should be confessing to someone that he just met. 

“We can try to figure it out together though!” 

[ladypurple-ada-blog]

gwittulami:

“I got you a Christmas present!!” 

Baeoo slams a box down on Mizuki’s desk, clearly anxious. His face is a nice festive shade of red and he fumbles his fingers while intermittently looking from her face to the floor. 

“I-uhm, I hope you like it!!”

@ladypurple-ada

Mizuki jumped at the sudden voice and slam on the desk and whipped her head around to the source, only finding Baeoo looking anxious and fiddling, and a box on her desk.

‘Aww, that’s so sweet, thank you so much, Baeoo-san,’ she said, thankful that she looked somewhat decent that day, the concealer she had remembered to put under her eyes had been doing a good job so far. ‘I got you a Christmas present as well, I wasn’t planning on giving it until later, but I have it now so I can give it to you.’ She reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a small wrapped package. ‘It’s not much, but I hope it at least makes you laugh.’

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Baeoo’s face lights up at the sight of the small package. He leans over and gingerly plucks the package up and upwraps it, his smile growing even wider as he sees what it is.

“I love it! It’s so cute~~ Thank you so much Mizuki, It’s fantastic.” He leans in and givers her a really gently hug (pfffttt as if he could hurt her with those twigs he calls arms). He had taken into account the fact that it was gift giving day, and thus wore his nice perfume (that he definitely didn’t “borrow” from Emily). 

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“I got you a Christmas present!!” 

Baeoo slams a box down on Mizuki’s desk, clearly anxious. His face is a nice festive shade of red and he fumbles his fingers while intermittently looking from her face to the floor. 

“I-uhm, I hope you like it!!”

@ladypurple-ada

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Weeb

“Excuse me! Do you have any books about Japan~?”

@dakotadeadmanwalking

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[she walks into a cupboard near Baeoo's desk looking for something (idk what), when she comes across a hidden Halloween decoration and she screm]

[The Halloween decoration in question is a spoopy bunny rabbit. Baeoo had bought it off of a melodramatic street vendor and now greatly regrets it.] [In fact, he’s rounding the corner as her shrill screm rings out, causing him to jump up at least a foot in the air]

Is everything ok! Did you get hurt or-

[He sees the scary bunny and screm] 

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[she jumps slightly, turning and looking up… and up… and up at the man who was kind of a giant in comparison to her smol frame]

Mhm, it just scared me a little. [she waves her hand in the general direction of that damned spoopy bun] I thought I saw it around just before I went to Japan, but in the dark when you’re not expecting it… It is a little scary.

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Y-Yeah. You’re right…I don’t know what I was thinking when I got that. [He felt bad for the street vendor] [The only reason he got it in the first place] 

Oh? You went to Japan! That’s so cool! What’s it like~ It must be so beautiful!!

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[she takes advantage of the height difference and blinks, attempting to make her eyes appear more doe-like] Well if you were thinking about what would be a scary Halloween decoration, then it worked!

It is beautiful! My city, Kitahiroshima, which is near Sapporo, has a lot of snow right now because it’s in the north of Japan. And I saw my family, so that was nice as well. Where are you from?

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[his heard does a little ‘BADUMP’] [fyuk Mizuki ur gonna charm his socks off] [He takes a step back, so that he can look at her without having to stare straight down.]

That’s really swell! I’ve never been to Japan but I want to go soooooo, bad! There are so many places that are super romantic and sweet. [He lets out a playful groan and fishes through his pockets until he finds his phone]

I was about to go grab lunch at the cafe downstairs! Do you wanna come with me? I would love to hear allllllllllllll about Kitahiroshima~

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Mistakes were made

Baeoo approaches Sheng with a bounce in his step, his jubilation barely concealed on his face. Apparantly, if you wanted to actually be Armed™ at the Armed Detective Agency, you talked to Sheng. 

“Hello!! Are you Sheng~? I’m Baeoo, I’m new here!” He doesn’t even realize that he confessed to his sister only hours ago.

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Listen it wasn’t like Yusheng wanted to be the guy that gave out guns and other sorts of weapons to the agency, but he was pretty much the only one who knew how to properly use them. 

At least he got a raised since basically being promoted to training newbies as well. Speaking of newbies…. “Uh, yup that’s me.” Pretty sure he’s heard that name before.. Wait, was he the guy that basically confessed to his sister ? Without even having a proper conversation at all? 

“Baeoo? So the new Casanova, interesting! Though I can’t really give you tips on wooing people, not after your trainwreck earlier.” He’s being mean, yeah, but that’s his little sister! He has to play the overprotective big brother shtick until it becomes too unbearable for her.

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“Casanova....? Oh, you must be talking about...Mei.” He deflates and averts his gaze. Sheng’s not wrong, that was a trainwreck. Not something that he wanted to be reminded of although Sheng definitely should at every opportunity. 

“...That was pretty bad, wasn’t it...” His shoulder droop and he tentatively makes and breaks eye contact with Sheng, shifting uncomfortably where he stands. 

[sovereignsmile]

Actual Bloody Hell

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sovereignsmile:

gwittulami:

He flinches as she approaches, squeezing his eyes shut before reopening them as her voice softens. He had always figured that this would be an inevitable eventuality. A beautiful woman stabbing him to death. Wait, beautiful? 

He watches her come closer, momentarily easing the blinding pain in his thigh. She was in fact, really, really beautiful. Maybe to was just to avoid thinking about the pain, but he couldn’t help but fixate on her face.

“You’re going to help me…?” Look he’s not used to this kind of treatment. People (Neela and Emily) actually being nice to him after doing something awful is particularly foreign. 

She stared at him and raised an eyebrow, this guy was off in la la land. Reagan crinkled her nose and made a face at this guy.

“If you’re going to make a big deal of it, then no I won’t be. Handover your cardigan and promise that you’ll help me find bandages.” Completely ignoring that he had a stab wound, but she knew that she was going to have a nasty scrape when this was done. She put her hands on her hips, squinted at the other, and tapped her foot impatiently. 

If he would not cooperate, the next option would be to stab him to death. 

Hurriedly shedding his cardigan, he nods profusely, inching closer to hand his cardigan to her. He can’t help but note that she kinda looks like a princess, what with all of her hands on hips and irate expression. 

“I can get bandages! I have a whole bunch in my-” He winces as he puts his weight back onto his wounded leg and immediately regrets ever moving. Tearing up again, he stops talking and defaults back to nodding ineptly. 

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Mistakes were made

Baeoo approaches Sheng with a bounce in his step, his jubilation barely concealed on his face. Apparantly, if you wanted to actually be Armed™ at the Armed Detective Agency, you talked to Sheng. 

“Hello!! Are you Sheng~? I’m Baeoo, I’m new here!” He doesn’t even realize that he confessed to his sister only hours ago.

@zhaohun

[sovereignsmile]

Actual Bloody Hell

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sovereignsmile:

“W-Wh-Why would you just come up and grab me?” She was certainly mocking him, probably not best in the situation. Reagan looked at her knife and saw that she did not actually stab him that deep, maybe half an inch. She was almost starting to feel bad for stabbing him with how much he was blubbering.

Reagan walked back to the other, best to not have a dead body lying on a roof top, especially with her fingerprints on him. She sighed as she watched him writhe on the ground, it was not that big of a deal. “At this rate, Darwinism is going to claim you faster than anything.” She’s going to take pity on him. “Listen… I can help get you down, but I’ll need access to bandages like immediately. Oh, I’ll also need your cardigan. That will help.”

He flinches as she approaches, squeezing his eyes shut before reopening them as her voice softens. He had always figured that this would be an inevitable eventuality. A beautiful woman stabbing him to death. Wait, beautiful? 

He watches her come closer, momentarily easing the blinding pain in his thigh. She was in fact, really, really beautiful. Maybe to was just to avoid thinking about the pain, but he couldn’t help but fixate on her face.

“You’re going to help me...?” Look he’s not used to this kind of treatment. People (Neela and Emily) actually being nice to him after doing something awful is particularly foreign. 

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[she walks into a cupboard near Baeoo's desk looking for something (idk what), when she comes across a hidden Halloween decoration and she screm]

[The Halloween decoration in question is a spoopy bunny rabbit. Baeoo had bought it off of a melodramatic street vendor and now greatly regrets it.] [In fact, he’s rounding the corner as her shrill screm rings out, causing him to jump up at least a foot in the air]

Is everything ok! Did you get hurt or-

[He sees the scary bunny and screm] 

[ladypurple-ada-blog]

[she jumps slightly, turning and looking up… and up… and up at the man who was kind of a giant in comparison to her smol frame]

Mhm, it just scared me a little. [she waves her hand in the general direction of that damned spoopy bun] I thought I saw it around just before I went to Japan, but in the dark when you’re not expecting it… It is a little scary.

[gwittulami-blog]

Y-Yeah. You’re right...I don’t know what I was thinking when I got that. [He felt bad for the street vendor] [The only reason he got it in the first place] 

Oh? You went to Japan! That’s so cool! What’s it like~ It must be so beautiful!!