ukimiya | we're gonna afterparty and you're GOING TO FUCKING LIKE IT

[Tiki wanders into the great hall expecting company, expecting a full room just like before to abate her loneliness and what she finds instead is...Mahiro, chillin'.

And no one else.

Okay. Cool. Fine. She'll throw a goddamn party herself IF THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING, TRY HER.

So she drags one (1) rude teen into the kitchen despite protests that he can't cook, finds Eizen actively in the middle of cooking, and takes full advantage of the situation and also her own cute charm until curry for two turns into curry for twenty four.

Everyone will find notes slipped under their door, courtesy of Tiki's new gopher since he refuses to cook, the first part written in loose, loopy handwriting like an elementary schooler who hasn't quite gotten the hang of the cursive they've been taught:]

Let's meet in the Great Hall together in about an hour and have dinner again this time, so nobody has to be alone.

[aaand under that in a completely different set of handwriting:]

I don't know why we're doing this after someone died from getting poisoned through food but at least there won't be any fucking cake. Don't come if you don't want to.

[hm. well.

in the Great Hall, Tiki's hard at work setting up Eizen's mabo curry for the taking (and she's bullied him into making exactly one plate of non-spicy curry because she loves Hanyuu), and also hard at work into bullying Mahiro into helping her set up silverware and plates and beverages. It's not much, but it's here.]

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Huh. Guess ya really are a nice family, then.

[ Lord knows how many times he and Billiken had their arguments, but they loved each other in the end... This almost warms his heart. How sweet. ]

Ya better treasure that, pal. Place like this? They could take it from ya in a blink.

[ Speaking from experience... family is important. ]

That's what I'm going to make sure doesn't happen. Not while I'm alive.

[Interesting choice of words, but yes. Yes.]

[ Not so weird when Nishitani is definitely dead. ]

Ya got a death wish, Eizen-kun?

No, but according to Edna I've already passed on.

[Little sister and all, right? Yet she's somehow older than him. He's accepted there's a time discrepancy going on.]

Ah.

[ Well, that's weird. But it's not like Rosalind isn't from some weird past, so time doesn't have to make sense here. ]

No wonder she was so fuckin' pressed ta see ya on the suspect list last week. It'd suck a big one ta lose yer bro after ya ain't seen 'im in so long.