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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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[She raises an eyebrow here.]

So how'd you get roped into helping again, Mahiro-kun?

[Cuz wow that is a lot of eagerness on display.]

Tiki wouldn't shut up about it after she started dragging me around.

[Bananaphones also may or may not have been involved...]

[...I see Mahiro always has the most intriguing stories to tell nobody.]

So you helped out because you wanted her to shut up?

[She's not doing it physically, but she's shaking her head.]

That's charming of you.

[Stated in a tone that's not purely sarcastic. There's a pinch of teasing in there.]

[they'll go with him to his graaaaave

Also judge him all you want Misora, he's used to it!! Ain't nobody gonna tell him what to do (except a dragonchild being annoying apparently)]

If you don't like it, I'll hand her over to you if there's a next time.

[~~does this mean he'll tell her when they're both in deadland??~~

But she raises an eyebrow here.]

You know if I didn't know any better... I'd say you're talking like this because you care, Mahiro-kun.

[Suspicions are forming!!]

[~~he didn't think that far ahead...~~

But uh. What is he listening to...?! This is an absurd line of questioning...!]

And just what the hell's giving you that impression?

It's just a feeling.

[Relax, Mahrio, you're not giving off vibes of deep compassion or anything ok!! After a beat, she'll elaborate.]

You could have said no and slammed the door on Tiki. You wouldn't have even heard her protests considering how thick the walls are.

She was literally hanging on to me at some points. I wasn't just gonna kick around a kid.

[He can be terrible, but apparently not that terrible!? Also he's 95% sure that even if he did, he would've been lynched by the yakuza...]

That wouldn't make the slightest difference to a lot of sick people out there.

[There's a pinch of genuine anger here, though not directed at Mahiro. It's the table that gets a scowl before she starts laying out the silverware.]

But you're right, that doesn't mean you necessarily care.

[That gets a bit of an aside glance from him. It's probably only natural, considering her occupation and dislikes but it's still simultaneously normal and abnormal. He hasn't heard an adult speak like that in a while.]

Yeah. So don't read too much into it when it's something most people here would've done anyways.

I guess that's one thing to be thankful for.

[She pause, giving him a side glance.]

You're pretty strange though. Most would rather people assumed good things about them over the opposite.

I don't need people to get a false impression of me, and I'm not gonna pretend I care about things when I don't. Saves me and the other person the time and effort if all those pretenses are taken away.

[Blunt as usual, and he seems pretty sincere about it.]

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