THINGS TO DO IN OCTOBER. / @dawnedbreak Send a ☕ to go to a cozy café. STATUS: ACCEPTING!
There’s a quaint, little café Eijun likes to visit on his off-days. Which isn’t often, considering he’s almost always doing something baseball-related one way or another. It takes Kuramochi’s Muay Thai kicks and Miyuki’s badgering to convince him to take his much-needed break seriously. Preferably, somewhere far away from Seidou dorms, lest he’s hit with the sudden urge to run around the vicinity of the field. ( He already got ten laps in when the other two were too preoccupied to notice. ) This particular café, so to speak, acts as a sanctuary of some sort; a hideaway void of all things baseball and all things peaceful and quiet and still.
And it’s in this refuge of his that he met and befriended fellow sportsmen Kozume Kenma, in which, their meetings go a little along the lines of something like this:
His voice resonates within the hushed atmosphere, half-booming, half-flabbergasted.
An accusatory finger points to the boy in question, who mutters a silent: “What?”
“No, no, no! Don’t what me…! You… you…!”
“Eijun, you’re too loud.”
“You were supposed to wait for me to take a picture!”
He finally bellows out in between huffs and puffs, closed fists slamming onto the table in a moment of evident frustration. It’s here that Kenma is already frowning at this point, either too weary or too listless to dissuade the oncoming rant from Eijun’s loudmouth. Trust Eijun to get hungover on something so trivial as a missed photo opportunity. Bundling up his emotions would prove the opposite effect, for he was the type to hold insane and long grudges. It’s situations like these where it’s best to let him go on and on until he realizes how idiotic he sounds.
“Listen here, you! It’s proper etiquette! Proper etiquette to take a photo before gobbling up your meal like a beast! A true gourmet has to take his time and appreciate the plating! The colors and aesthetics! Then they must expertly find the right lighting and the proper angle and voila! A perfect picture! WAHAHAHA!”
But, his boisterous laugh is only short-lived before he releases an audible gasp.
“Oh… OHHHH!!! Could it be?! Has Kenma… Has Kenma turned into a beast?! AHHHH, of course, that’s it! You were looking a little thinner than usual. You must’ve been starving! You’ve been training so hard that you haven’t gotten enough time to properly eat three bowls of rice for every meal! Which means… You’re no longer a cat…! You’re a ━━ CAT DEMON!”
Before Kenma even has the chance to tell Eijun off on how incredibly wrong he was, they’re interrupted by the waitress.
“…Excuse me, could you two please leave? You’re disturbing the customers.”
And like all the previous times, they weren’t banned; they just weren’t allowed to visit until the next three weeks.