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[dormition]

Hi. I'm awake again.

I keep missing class, but they still want me to apply for university. Is anyone else a senior this year?

What has everyone else been up to?

Riku, do you want to coordinate our costumes for the masquerade? We can get something from the store I work at.

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[rassera]

not school thats for sure

[dormition]

I thought Kaneda-san was my age. Did you drop out?

[rassera]

more like never showed up in the first place

[dormition]

Is that okay?

[Japan's high school drop out rate is less than 2%. Minato is a little bemused, but it's not like he'd ever cared about Shinjiro doing it...]

[rassera]

probably not but whos going to stop me

[Vocational school wasn't exactly school anyway it was just 'mandatory place you had to show up']

[dormition]

Truancy officers.

[Sometimes he's just Mr. Literal.]

[rassera]

fine

no one who can catch me


that better

[dormition]

Maybe I'll send Gogo-san after you. She's smart, so she probably approves of education.

[rassera]

im learning how to cook thats education

[dormition]

I don't think that counts.

How is that going?

[rassera]

ken approved the tamagoyaki i made


i owe you for that one

[dormition]

It's nothing. You're feeding my teammate, right?

What do you want to learn next?

[rassera]

next

[He...didn't consider that. There was more?


Give him a minute.]



fried rice or udon

[dormition]

[Gosh, you can't just stop at eggs, Kaneda.]

Let's start with fried rice. It's versatile and hard to mess up. And it uses up day old rice.

[rassera]

[Shut up.]

sounds like my kind of dish


my house or yours

[dormition]

You should come here. I wanted to talk to you about something.

[rassera]

talk


what about

[dormition]

Nothing serious, just something I'm curious about. Would you like to come over now?

[rassera]

[A quick check to see if he's busy. Off the feed: he looks up, only to see Capsule, who is busy chewing on one of Charlie's shoes.

...


....]

yeah im free ill be over in a minute.

[dormition]

Great.

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[rassera]

[De Chima 04 he seemed to have hardwired into his brain by now, because it certainly doesn't take him long to get there with the Porter's help, and the rest made by riding his bike.

Stepping off it, he snaps it back into the hammerspace it resides in, walking up to the house and giving two casual knocks on the door.

Funny...


What could Minato want to talk to him about?]

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[dormition]

[Minato lets him in, one hand still in his opposite pocket. It really isn't anything important that he wants to discuss-- at least, it's not urgent. Important might not be quite right.

He just can't repress his desire to understand the bonds of those around him. And he knows Kaneda and Tetsuo are connected, but he doesn't know how. Normally he'd leave that be, to be revealed to him over time however that fell out, but if Ken is in at least peripheral danger from Tetsuo-san, he's pressed to be more proactive. His new resolution to look out for Ken less passively demands it.

At this exact second he just says,] Come in.

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[rassera]

[Kaneda walks in, hands stuffed in his pockets as he dodges his way past the house's rapidly growing number of cats. He could've sworn there were only three the last time he was here...]

Looks like the place didn't burn down while you were sleeping. Guess that's always good, right?


[Haha you're hilarious, Kaneda.]

[dormition]

[Minato doesn't ever seem to really notice the increasing number of cats. He just mutely feeds them and lets them lay on him and occasionally drags a ribbon around for them to play with.]

It's because Gogo-san knows not to let you in, [he shoots back, perfectly bland. If this house burned down, it probably would be because of Kaneda. Be real.]

[rassera]

[Minato you are either the chillest person in existence or we need to talk about your awareness to things around you.]

Like a door would really stop me.

[It's partially a joke back, because HAVE A LITTLE FAITH MINATO!!! GOSH!


Ok it's not an inaccurate assumption.]