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princess❤maker

Who: Prospective parents
Where: Game Tower
When: Day 42, morning (forward dated)

[ Good morning, idols! Isn’t it a nice day today? . . . Well, actually, it’s a little chilly, and it looks like it's going to rain, but don't think about that! Think instead about warm things, like toasting marshmallows over an open fire, snuggling with your loved ones, raising a little girl as best as you can . . .

Your phone buzzes off. Guess it’s time to go!

The elevators lead you directly to a stark-white hallway that only has your unit’s door at the end and then a vending machine next to it. No currency is necessary for the vending machine; you just need to press a button. Hey, why are there keys in this vending machine . . .

Well. Well, you know why; your phone comes with the instructions right off the bat. Pick and choose one to get the game started, basically - though there’s really nothing else for you to do anyway, given that the elevator’s already disappeared and there’s nothing else in this hallway besides this vending machine, this door, and you (and your unitmates, presumably).

It doesn’t matter which key you choose - as soon as you do, the vending machine disappears in a poof; the key will fit snugly into the door and open it like it was meant to be, so you might as well go through now. ]

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[Does he want to let go of Yasuragi's hand? Not really. And he's visited Taisho. Shouldn't be an issue.]

If it's not intruding.

I'll just drag you along with me, then.

[ tugs on his hand once when the elevator doors open even, a small joke. pulling his phone out again to let them in and leading the way straight through to his room. he has a tea set and a couple of fanmail letters and an oblong wrapped in cloth on the floor by his bed and not much else in here, aside from the pipe and flint and tobacco which he goes to fetch and put in his obi ]

Yeah? What a pushy guy.

[Also a joke, and he absolutely takes in Yasuragi's room when they get there. Curious about it but not going to ask, really. Personal possessions are, well, personal. He's not going to hide that he's looking though.]

Or you're just easy to push around.

[ he doesn't seem bothered or alarmed at Phoenix looking at his stuff but he maybe is a little antsy to get back to the elevator and down again. still a normal walking pace but just a little less languid about it. ]

Well you don't have to call me out on it.

[He's really easy to tug back out to the elevator though. It's nice enough that Yasuragi brought him into his space, he doesn't have to linger.]

Maybe I just like picking on you.

[Goddess he's really fond of Yasuragi, especially when his face is all cute.]

Oh well. Who am I to deny you that, then?

[He even sounds a little more animated, with the gentle banter.]

Talking like that is exactly what makes you so easy.

Maybe I just like being picked on. Honestly, it's more relaxing when people don't treat you too politely. At least to me. Maybe that makes me easy but I'm way happier with you teasing me than not.

[ something in his shoulders goes a little looser; it's hard to tell if he's smiling or not. even though what he says is ]

Are you sure you aren't simply a masochist?

I mean, I don't think I am especially? Maybe a normal amount.

[Is there a normal amount to be a masochist? He's a little teasing but also a little honest. It's. Tired teasing. But still.]

[ muffles a laugh with his non-handholding hand as they come out of the elevator ]

[Oh no, Yasuragi is laughing and it's the most endearing thing. He doesn't want to call attention to it and make it ahead but it does put a super soft look on his face.]

Is that too weird?

Who can say what would be too much, really? But it was a weird thing to say, absolutely.

Maybe it is weird to say, but it's not weird to be a little masochistic or sadistic or even both, I think? At least... If that is weird than I'm going to say I don't mind being a bit weird.

Even if it's common, most people still wouldn't consider it "normal." Certainly not to the point of having a particular expected measure of it.

Maybe I've been desensitized by being called a sadist all the time.

More often than I am? That must be some sort of mistake.

Do people often call you a sadist?

[Somewhere between amused teasing and just sheer curiosity.]

I am a sadist.

[ somehow he thought this had already come up. ]

[It sort of had? Not really directly. He laughs though, at the expression. Just soft and a little relieved.]

You look so put out...

But I mean to your face? Or is it one of those things you don't call someone who actually is one?

That's just my face.

I haven't strictly kept track, but perhaps it's only been strongly implied.

Yeah, but I like your face.

[Don't just say that Phoenix.]

WELL... you were just saying it's not normal to go talking about. I mean, I don't know, but you probably don't want me just going "hi sadist" in friendly greeting.

Not in polite company, no. I wouldn't call myself polite company.

I really can't tell if that's a "yeah call me a sadist" or not, Yasuragi.

[He's, endeared, smiling, definitely in a better mood, though still not as energetic as he might normally be.]

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