This is a collab I did with @hachiibun for Thoma’s birthday! I’m really thrilled to have been able to work with him!! This is canon-compliant…ish (takes place during the Proof of Guilt quest in the Inazuma Archon quest, though with a few changes). Hope you enjoy! :)
It’s mid-afternoon when Thoma gets to cleaning the teahouse.
Sayu is infiltrating the Tenryou Commission to find Kujou Takayuki’s reports. Ayaka and the traveler are meeting up with Yoimiya so they can set off fireworks by the Statue of the Omnipresent God to lure away the guards. And Thoma—
Well, Thoma can’t say he’d expected to be caught up in all of this. But while everyone’s risking their lives to procure evidence of the Tenryou Commission’s betrayal, he figures the least he can do is make himself useful before they get back. Besides, he worries. It’s not as if he doesn’t trust them to be capable enough—Ayaka is one of the most capable people he knows, and the traveler is the one who’d prevented his vision from getting taken at the Vision Hunt Ceremony.
But even with a plan, he knows they’re putting themselves at risk.
Thoma is no stranger to doing things discreetly—he’s gotten his own influence in the Yashiro Commission that way—but still, it feels wrong to watch from the sidelines when there’s still so much at stake. It feels like he should be doing something.
So he preoccupies himself with cleaning. Usually, it settles his nerves—this time, he thinks if the teahouse is spotless when everyone comes back, surely it’ll ease their minds a little, even after everything.
He retrieves his usual supplies from the storage room behind Taroumaru. From there, he leaves nothing untouched—he starts off by dusting the seats atop the tatami mats, the taiko drums that sit in the room to the left of the hallway, the dividers that section off the rooms. He lights the lanterns around the rooms and wipes down the wooden floors until they shine.
It’s not long before he finds himself rubbing his nose with a raised hand, rummaging through his pockets for a pack of tissues which he doesn’t find. He’s always been sensitive to dust. It’s a well-kept secret—an unfitting characteristic, given his role as a housekeeper, so it’s not something he prides himself in admitting. Still…
…his nose shouldn’t be this ticklish.
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