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[ichibukuro]

❝ Ichiro here. What's up?❞

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blocked! blocked for these crimes!

[ichibukuro]

[What in the fresh fuck. Ichiro's about to text back that Sasara should be a bit more thoughtful of his time blah blah blah, but...

He'd been meaning to stop and check in on Sasara since Rosho left, but never did. Then too much time had passed and it felt too awkward to try. He feels bad.

So, Ichiro swings by, as asked, after his shift at Moondrop.]

Y'know, Sasara-san, if this is about cleaning you could have said so over text.

[He's joking, obviously. Unless this really is about cleaning.]

[whosaysdajare]

[ He'll probably not feel so bad real soon. It's called self-preservation. Sasara won't waste any time to have Ichiro reconsider. ]

Hmm? Ya still do that sorta thing? When it's cleaning day I always end up over-sweeping! Ahahaha!

[ Who's writing the jokes here— Wanna hear some laundry puns? He's got loads of them! Luckily, the Brownies are actually keeping this place live-able so Ichiro can just let himself be ushered into the living room. You might say he's getting swept in...? 🥁 Ok. ]

I gotta catch up with my junior! So, what'cha been doing?

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Uh. [Ichiro lets Sasara sweep him in, right off his feet. This all seems innocent enough, puns aside.]

Quests n' stuff. I finally got a full-time job, though. [At a flower shop, of all things, but it's a job and he likes his employer. He's also been on dates with Jyushi but as if Sasara needs to know that! He especially doesn't need to know how they've barely done more than holding hands!]

The sky looks like shit but it's still pretty mundane here. What about you? [A pause.] I uh, heard about Rosho-san.

[whosaysdajare]

[ Ichiro, laugh a little! Or Sasara-san will have to pull your frown into a smile with his fingers. ] A job? Geez, you're all work and no play like always, ain't cha!

[ Heh! It's fine though, as Sasara gives him a solid pat on the shoulder and keeps his own grin for a moment longer. W-well, if Ichiro so much as breathes a word on that other thing... Sasara so needs to know!! He'd spilled it all about MCD's time, but in the end Jyushi had kept a tight lock on the details of his own budding love story.

But lucky him(?), it ain't what Sasara plans to dig into. At the mention of Rosho, however— ]

E-eh... ya heard, huh? [ So even he is, suddenly but honestly, somewhat sullen.

In the end he still got Rosho's half of it, that he'd talked to Ichiro; so suppose Ichiro got the parts Sasara never told about while they were running Tokyo.

His glibness now has gotta come across similar. ] I suppose, I know as much as ya do about it. It'll work out some way, though.

[ichibukuro]

Mm. It'll work out. [He agrees.] And, well. At least for now, you know he's waiting for you at home, safe and sound. [That fact remains one of the few things keeping Ichiro from worrying himself sick over his brothers.]

So why'd you really want me to come over, then?

[Out with it, clown boy.]

[whosaysdajare]

Ya gotta be thinking the same about your younger brothers back home. [ Yep, Sasara can guess that that's what's on Ichiro's mind, while he's relieved thinking about Rosho that way too. But speaking of— ]

Speaking of! About that time ya came up to Osaka, sorry about badmouthing them a little... [ His smile is a little more sheepish now, but he really thought it was worth the performance. ] The three of ya are gonna show for it, I'm sure. But no hard feelings, ya see, I had to get a rise outta ya!

[ And speaking of...! ] Ahem...! Family matters, yeah? [ As in, family is what's the matter. Sasara pauses on that cliff hanger of an answer. ]

[ichibukuro]

[Hm, the little voice in Ichiro's head is telling him to leave now.]

Yeah... And?

[The old man better be dying or something. Otherwise what the fuck.]

[whosaysdajare]

Ahem...

[ He definitely expects Ichiro to bolt! Which is just why Sasara rushes back to the doorway between living room and entryway. He wedges himself in the frame in some X-stance, a barricade that'd snap like a twig. But with a conviction and an eye for prying! ]

Your old man keeps making excuses about not seeing ya and you're about the same, I'm thinking!

[ichibukuro]

[Ichiro may not be as prone to violence as he was back when Sasara knew him originally, but it's good that he knows his junior is still just a few pushed buttons away from knocking him out in his own home.

It's the fact that Sasara knows he's digging where he's not supposed to that annoys Ichiro the most.]

It'd be real fuckin' weird if we started being all chummy just because we're in another world. Don't see how it's any of your business anyway.

it's an idiot sandwich 🥪

[whosaysdajare]

[ Like playing a particularly volatile version of "Simon Ichiro Says", it's Sasara's business because he can't just have Rei's mute rejections stop him from meddling! Nothing that he's got in his notes is something Ichiro's gonna like hearing either... ]

Well, ya see, Rei's my teammate now— [ ...that's for sure. ] —and you and I used to be on the same squad. After squeezing those particulars outta him, I s'ppose I feel a little responsible.

[ Nah, that's a bit strong. Even if Sasara did get a little relentless in the moment, with magic and all. ] O-or more like, I'm sandwiched between the two of ya!

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[He's really grasping at straws here. Ichiro continues to look wholly unimpressed.]

This isn't grade school, man. Your friends don't have to be friends with each other.