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[protectivemuses]

❝ sorry, i lost that a little while ago. ❞ // kojiro -> ryusei

"What? Your sanity?" He asked, laughing softly as he looked to one of his closest friends. "Or is it that you never had it?" Of course though, after all these years, could either of them really be considered sane? Sitting up, he rests an elbow onto one of his knees, chin resting into his palm. "Something going on that you need to talk to me about?"

[protectivemuses]

ryusei: kill baji or chifuyu

This.. This would be a hard choice. He had grown so attached to both of them, but now here he was with a decision. Granted, it wasn't like the choice had to happen but even thinking it over was enough to make him feel uneasy.

Baji was one of the first ones he had known. It was part of where his time with Toman had started in a way. And Baji was always the type to have his friend's back without a doubt. But Chifuyu.. Chifuyu had come in and somehow proven himself just as loyal as Baji. Even if he had the nerve to lie about who he was when he first met Ryusei, but that wasn't important to things now. Not when they had come so far.

But given everything, how could he bring himself to pick one to kill if it came down to it? A hand grips his hair, and there's visible stress. Either way, hypothetical guilt is still going to eat at him.

"I guess.. I guess I'd have to pick Chifuyu. My past goes further back with Baji, and I doubt Chifuyu would want me to pick Baji either, seeing his loyalty to him. So that's going to have to be my answer."

[protectivemuses]

Kuro sighed, his head popping out of Mahiru's backpack to get a better whiff of something in the hot food case of the convenient store. There were too many people around for him to talk, so telling him what to pick up was out of the question. Instead he patted him on the shoulder with a tiny paw, trying to silently direct his attention to the fried chicken and cheese cutlet calling his name.

Traveling around with Kuro had become normal for Mahiru, and any time he had to be without Kuro was now weirder than it had been. More lonely. When he had picked up what seemed to be just a plain black cat, he had never expected the ways things to be how they had played out. But now? In an odd way, he appreciated it. Kuro could be a pain sometimes, but he had grown a lot from where they started, and while Mahiru wouldn't outright admit it, he wouldn't want things any different now.

Mahiru had paid no mind to the food case he was walking by in the store, mainly having just chosen to stop to get a drink and a snack for the two of them for when it was safe for Kuro to turn back to a human form. Feeling the paw, Mahiru stopped to glance at Kuro before noting the direction. Ah. That must be what he was wanting, noting the only thing that seemed it would be of interest is the package of the cutlet on the hot bar.

Giving a chuckle, he shifts the items in his hands before walking over and picking up the package, shifting to glance at Kuro when no one was directly around to see, quietly asking if this was indeed what Kuro had been trying to point out. If anything, it looked like it would be the least of a pain to eat compared to the other items.

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And he can't even be surprised the two groups are fighting.. seems like everyone has a dislike for Fling Posse and its members. Sigh.