Mizuki's gift arrives in her email inbox -- there's nothing too exciting about the automated Starbucks email that comes with the purchase of a $50 virtual gift card, but it's accompanied by a cheery message from everyone's favorite blond joker. 'Merry Christmas, Mizuki,' reads the attached message, followed by, 'Coffee's on me. Ten times.' Attached is an image -- a hastily Photoshopped picture of Mizuki's Facebook profile picture, ten times on ten cups of coffee. What talent.
after the holiday festivities have died down a bit -- ok, a lot -- she decides to check her em-ail in the first time in what feels like years, ev-en though its probably only been a month.
she’s amassed quite the collection of unread mail, almost 500 messages, in fact, and half of it isn’t even spam and advertisements. sh-e’s about to delete an email from starbucks, but its the fact that its in english that catches her eye. for god’s sake, if you’re going to se-nd spam to a japanese email, why wouldn’t you make it in japanese? ah, but the title -- merry christmas, mizuki! -- this must be from lee.
mizuki clicks on the message and she’s gre-eted with multiple images of her face -- is that her profile picture? -- on coffee, which makes her smile; but being around lee does that, so perhaps its no surprise his messages do too. in any case she’s grateful for the gift, her gat-eway into caffeinated heaven. she sends a quick thank-you message, coupled with a few emoticons and a return edit of a picture of lee’s face on top of the starbucks mermaid’s face. it’sonly fair, right?
