mineo

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[sengokus]

[ . . . . he nods.]

.... overeager and reckless.

[ . . . sips his water and looks away.]

Maybe it's why I can't be too mad...

[it's like

a fucking mirror]

[dotcom]

No? You can still be mad. It's still fucking stupid.

[ takeru's opinion on white is already like

dirt level

but still ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

I don't think I stay mad as long as you do in general, Takeru....

[dotcom]

[ he is trying to decide whether to be offended or not ]

[sengokus]

[he laughs, just a little]

.... I didn't say it was a bad thing.

[a beat]

.... are you okay? Over what Harrow-san said today.

[he knows how angry takeru looked, but also assumed that it was at least something easier to get over since it was just a poorly phrased joke]

[dotcom]

I'm fine. Shouldn't the concern be on you? You reacted poorly.

[ just shoves the attention off of himself ]

[sengokus]

Yeah, so did you?

[shoves it back onto takeru]

One at a time here. I asked first.

[dotcom]

I have a similar sense of humor to her [ aka they both are mean to people in the same way ] so I know she wasn't trying to be too shitty.

[sengokus]

[he nods without question]

That's true. [they are both so mean]

I think it was just a pretty bad accident that she couldn't have guessed. [that takeru has gun ptsd and mineo has getting shot to death triggers] I'm not mad or anything.

[dotcom]

Well, hopefully people won't make comments like that again.

[sengokus]

[ . . . he shrugs.]

I can get over it.

[and he does, once he gets past the initial jolt.]

.... I'll just ask her not to talk about guns again without reason.

[because takeru suffers from it worse than he does, he thinks]

[dotcom]

No, it's fine. I'd prefer to not have people wondering why.

[sengokus]

[he shrugs]

I can say it's about me and my problems.

[which

technically not untrue]

There's just no need for it, right? You need to be able to focus and work, too.

[dotcom]

It might come up in trial eventually as someone relevant.

Anyway, everyone else mentions them all the time. We can't stop all of them.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he frowns and sips on his water bottle. he knows takeru's right! but. he still wishes he could stop some of it when he knows it bothers him]

... I guess...

[stop pouting you fool]

[dotcom]

[ ... he just rolls his eyes. ]

I'll be fine. As long as people are waving around the actual thing, a few comments aren't that bad.

[ like. he will still react and get mad, but it won't be anywhere near as bad as

actual gun ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . mineo refrains from shifting like he wants to, knowing exactly what's still strapped to his hip. at least he's theoretically the only person around with a gun now?]

Fair enough. I'll drop it then.

... I don't know what else to talk about. [well at least he's honest] Kinda weird to have at least one confirmed, huh.

[dotcom]

It took us long enough.

[ just thank god they got someone ]

You can go talk to your friends though.

[sengokus]

[ ? ]

I guess I can?

[but he doesn't hate talking to takeru either]

Do you want me to go?

[dotcom]

You said you don't have anything else to talk about.

[sengokus]

[ . . . shrugs.]

I mean, we both used to just hang out at the office, right...

[he's at least comfortable with companionable silence with takeru]

[dotcom]

Mm.

[ he'll pull out his phone to click through it then ]

[sengokus]

[mineo will also do the same thing, just slumping over the conference room table because he's fucking tired. so tired.

though as he does think of something a couple of minutes later, he'll look over to takeru - ]

By the way, how'd you check out which items belonged to which Avatar? I gotta solve the mystery of Ashiya-san's rose now.

[dotcom]

Hm?

Oh, we worked as a group and each took pictures of the items, and then we just asked them. Even if you choose the wrong Avatar, they'll give you a hint.

[sengokus]

[nods.....]

Ah... And that's how you got your cool sword?

[takeru's jrpgness.....]

Was Molly and Harrow-san's glasses related to that?