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Hotaru comes back upstairs to find a random woman staring at a jar of pickles at Cade's kitchen counter. @Rey ✨Hotaru

Huh? There’s a woman sitting with a jar of pickles. Her features are blurry to Hotaru, having taken off her contacts before she stepped into the showers downstairs. Her guard is up. “Who’re you?” @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"Oh. Kanemaru-kun." Roll SHARP?... @Rey ✨Hotaru

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.... This is very confusing for you. You hear Cade's voice, but you're 100% sure you see boobs. @Rey ✨Hotaru

… What’s going on. “One moment.” She walks to the table and sets down her contact lenses case. And starts putting them on. Blink. Blink. “Kinoshita-san?” @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"Hello." @Rey ✨Hotaru

She looks down.

"Yes."

She feels like she should ask more questions. But she's still hung up on what happened with Almond earlier that she just takes the jar from Cade and tries to open it. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

It's like it's sealed shut with cement. Roll HARD?.... @Rey ✨Hotaru

Why is it hard. 🎲73 @li 🚭 five (kazik)

Your hands start to tremble, your fingers cramping up. It just won't give.

He's watching this with rapt interest, before blinking back up to look at Hotaru. "It was an interesting day today," he remarks. @Rey ✨Hotaru

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Defeat. He tilts his head. "I am pretty light." @Rey ✨Hotaru

"I now that now." And it's easy to tell from his frame alone. Hotaru move around the kitchen, in search for a spoon. "If you were alone, would you have killed the guards?" @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"Probably." She doesn't feel a need to lie. He watches her go around. @Rey ✨Hotaru

He's got to have a spoon somewhere, right? She keeps rummaging around. "I would have as well." ... "So why didn't you?" Kill them. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

There's a spoon. You find it. "I was curious." @Rey ✨Hotaru

Now armed with the spoon, she tries to release some pressure on the jar to open it. Yes, she's still trying. 🎲57 "Curious of what?" @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"What would happen." It was an interesting situation. Mr. Wixom was fighting for someone's life. Would they survive? @Rey ✨Hotaru

The spoon bends.

The spoon's head snaps off.

Cade watches this happen. "He could have made it." He doesn't particularly care if the man suffered. He doesn't think it's ideal. He would have killed the man himself for that reason. "I suppose I just didn't feel like moving." In that moment. @Rey ✨Hotaru

She watches the spoon snap off. "... I'll buy you a new spoon later. " She sets the broken end down on the table and tries again, one more time, to get the lid off. 🎲41 "Was that really it?" Struggling. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"I see." You really don't have to do that. But in the same way he was curious to see what Z.W. would do over a cold body, he's curious to see what sort of spoon Hotaru buys. "Yes." @Rey ✨Hotaru

Hotaru pushes the jar towards Cade in defeat. "I see." She doesn't get it. "Are you hungry..?" @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"No." "I just wanted to see if you could open it." Hotaru doesn't know she superglued the lid shut. The jar is two years old. @Rey ✨Hotaru

She looks up it thought. She shakes her head no. She's been entertained. "It was funny." To see you struggle. @Rey ✨Hotaru

She frowns. "... You're a sadistic one, Kinoshita-san." @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"Do you think so." @Rey ✨Hotaru

"Maybe a little." Indifference can be sadistic, can't it? She crosses her arms and leans against the counter. "So. What are your plans for tomorrow? Just going to enjoy the crowded festival?" Doesn't seem very safe, considering there might be someone out for him. Her? Whatever. Hotaru doesn't have the braincells to figure this one out right now. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

It can. "I see." She's not sorry. "More or less." "I don't stand out in a crowd." So it should be OK. It's not safe at all. But he doesn't seem like the sort to live in fear. @Rey ✨Hotaru

It’s a good thing that she doesn’t stand out. The problem is that everyone else here does. She hums. “Maybe we can go on some rides. Or try the food.” That’s more fun, isn’t it? @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"It would be nice if we could." "How have you felt about the assignment so far." @Rey ✨Hotaru

“It’s been… more eventful than I expected.” She didn’t think that the person they’d be guarding would turn out to be a hitman. She chews her cheek. “Other than that, I don’t think much of it.” Work is work. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"I see." No indication of how she feels about Hotaru's report at all. If anything. "Is eventful bad?" @Rey ✨Hotaru

“In this case, yes.” She huffs. “Any time you’re in some sort of danger or potential danger, it jeopardizes our job.” “We‘re supposed to make sure you stay unharmed, for as long as we need to.” But she’s sure Cade knows this. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"I see." That is correct. "Do you mind if I have some more fun?" @Rey ✨Hotaru

“I don’t mind. You should be allowed to live your life as usual, even with us around.” If that’s his usual routine then so be it. @li 🚭 five (kazik)

"I see." There's the slightest upturn of his lips again. ... `"Have you ever been to a carnival before? It is not exactly like a Japanese festival."` @Rey ✨Hotaru

“No… This will be a first for me.” She hums. “What’s the difference?” @li 🚭 five (kazik)

`"It's very American." "A lot more contraptions. More like an amusement park." "And processed food."` @Rey ✨Hotaru

She’s not sure if she’s going to like the festival. “You like those kinds of things?” @li 🚭 five (kazik) QUICK

`"So-so."` tyfrp /JOKE @Rey ✨Hotaru