[ hello kuranosuke! on this fine afternoon, lu bixing is walking with kuranosuke. maybe they're going shopping? they are probably shopping. but all of a sudden, a bunch of water comes like, flying down out of a window over their heads.
bixing makes a little noise and throws out his soccer mom arm like, immediately to keep kuranosuke from running into it with a little - ] Oh, careful.
[ there's silence for a second before bixing looks up from where the water came from, and sticks his fingers in his mouth and whistles, loudly.
a second passes, and he calls out: ] Hey, come on, now, neither of us have a lot of money! Plus, you'd use an old trick like that on a couple of cuties like us? I'm offended!
[ and eventually... someone appears at the window! it's a demon woman. she's very scantily clad. hm. she doesn't seem particularly offended, but she does lean out of the window and blow a raspberry, then laughs.
more quietly, to kuranosuke, bixing says; ] It's an old scam to get people to come into a brothel, even if they don't want to.
[ questionably demonic fashion i leave up to you. also good morning britt go back to bed.
he waves up to the lady. ] I'll just take whatever the apology is, how about that, we can call it even!
[ and after a moment, the woman laughs, and then tosses something down to them - it's a pack of cigarettes. he catches it with relative ease, and then taps it twice to his mouth, blows a kiss, and tucks it in his breast pocket. then waves!
as for kuranosuke's question, bixing grins, a little mischievous. ] This kind of city's almost exactly the kind of city I grew up in. When I was really little, I couldn't really move a lot, but I used to park it out on the street corner close to my house and read books. Whenever I got bored, I'd just sit and people watch; I must've watched a scam like that a thousand times. What, did you think I spent a lot of time in brothels?
[been trying to for like an hour and a half and have not succeeded so i gave up and did tags instead u_u
huh! kuranosuke watches the cigarettes drop down from the window, then waves to the demon lady along with bixing before they continue on their way. the more you know...]
I mean, maybe! It kind of sounded like you were speaking from experience! [he chuckles. he can just imagine someone dumping water on lbx and getting him to go into a brothel to change ... he can also imagine ljh storming in after him like "NO."] But that makes sense too. Does it actually, like... work on people?
Mhm. What they do is - well, if someone spills water on you from overhead and you get soaked, people get pretty mad, right? And so the people who work there will usually get them to come in, so they get a chance to give the person who did it a piece of their mind, or they lure them in with the promise of an apology and a clothes dryer. Then, usually, one thing leads to another, and they find themselves in a drinking, debauched haze, and then a couple hours later, they're out on the street in their boxers with all of their valuables gone.
[ he explains this with a touch of amusement, pushing his hands into his pockets and giving a gesture forward with his shoulders. onwards! back to our shopping! ] You'd be surprised on how easy it is to convince people to do things when they're angry. They almost got Lin with it, the first time we went to Milky Way City, because he's a First Galaxy hotshot who'd never met a poor person in his life until he came to the Eighth.
I managed to defuse the entire thing before he even knew what was going on. We were halfway down the street after I said goodbye to the ladies before he figured it out, and I had to stop him and keep him from going back in there to try and kill someone.
[ help his incredibly feral lin ] It was kind of cute, actually. Even the great Marshal's a sucker to the Eighth.
[i managed to get back to sleep and woke up just in time for my shift..........]
Sounds like that would've been absolutely hilarious to see. [he glances back at the window the water had come out of before...] ...hopefully the demons won't try that on him here though. For their sake and his.
[ it's wild to hear someone talk about ancient earth tokyo like it's not a whole ass planet.... wow.... ]
I think, across time, some things are always going to be the same. Like - cities are always going to be lively, and people like me and you are always going to thrive in them. Right?
Across time, across space - there's so many different worlds out there than I ever realized existed. When I get back to Tokyo, no one's gonna believe me about all the stuff I've seen and heard about here.
They'd only publish it as fiction anyway! But it kinda sounds like that sort of thing would be more legit where you come from. Are you gonna write about any of this?
[ he thinks about that for a moment, actually? making a thoughtful noise. ]
Well - not anytime soon. I don't really have time to do... anything. Maybe when I retire! I told Lin I just want to be a house husband when I'm done in politics - I could definitely pick up an author gig on the side.
[ he allows himself like. two minutes to fantasize about that for a second. taking care of the kids... getting a dog... writing a novel about his hell adventures...getting a dog.... ]
How long are you in office for, anyway? It's not gonna be a lifetime thing for you, is it? My old man and my uncle are, like, ancient, and they don't seem like they're gonna retire anytime soon...
[ he tries not to make a face but fails at not making a face, and then rubs the back of his neck. ]
That isn't to say that I'm not grateful, and I'm happy to help, but... I really just came into power through succession and necessity. I want to set up an electoral system once things at home calm down so I can step down. So...hopefully just another year or so. Maybe less.
You've got this! Worst case scenario, if it goes on for too long without an electoral system getting set up, appoint a good successor who will carry the torch and then, like, IDK - be a house husband and an elections activist.
[ i love that kuranosuke says IDK verbally. we stan. bixing laughs, though. ]
I think the last thing I want to be is a very old, irrelevant person with far too much power. And... honestly, I don't think politics is very fulfilling, anyway. Being here reminded me of some things; I have an academy to rebuild. And a dog to adopt. God, I really want a dog.
Ooh, what kind of dog? ...and the academy getting rebuilt's gonna be great. There's a bunch of people out there who'd be totally lucky to have you as a teacher.
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bixing makes a little noise and throws out his soccer mom arm like, immediately to keep kuranosuke from running into it with a little - ] Oh, careful.
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Whoa, what the heck was that...?
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a second passes, and he calls out: ] Hey, come on, now, neither of us have a lot of money! Plus, you'd use an old trick like that on a couple of cuties like us? I'm offended!
[ and eventually... someone appears at the window! it's a demon woman. she's very scantily clad. hm. she doesn't seem particularly offended, but she does lean out of the window and blow a raspberry, then laughs.
more quietly, to kuranosuke, bixing says; ] It's an old scam to get people to come into a brothel, even if they don't want to.
[ why does he know this ]
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kuranosuke looks up at the demon woman, though he seems to be evaluating how fashionable her scanty outfit is more than anything else, then shrugs.]
I see.
[a beat.]
Sooooo... how do you know that?
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he waves up to the lady. ] I'll just take whatever the apology is, how about that, we can call it even!
[ and after a moment, the woman laughs, and then tosses something down to them - it's a pack of cigarettes. he catches it with relative ease, and then taps it twice to his mouth, blows a kiss, and tucks it in his breast pocket. then waves!
as for kuranosuke's question, bixing grins, a little mischievous. ] This kind of city's almost exactly the kind of city I grew up in. When I was really little, I couldn't really move a lot, but I used to park it out on the street corner close to my house and read books. Whenever I got bored, I'd just sit and people watch; I must've watched a scam like that a thousand times. What, did you think I spent a lot of time in brothels?
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huh! kuranosuke watches the cigarettes drop down from the window, then waves to the demon lady along with bixing before they continue on their way. the more you know...]
I mean, maybe! It kind of sounded like you were speaking from experience! [he chuckles. he can just imagine someone dumping water on lbx and getting him to go into a brothel to change ... he can also imagine ljh storming in after him like "NO."] But that makes sense too. Does it actually, like... work on people?
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Mhm. What they do is - well, if someone spills water on you from overhead and you get soaked, people get pretty mad, right? And so the people who work there will usually get them to come in, so they get a chance to give the person who did it a piece of their mind, or they lure them in with the promise of an apology and a clothes dryer. Then, usually, one thing leads to another, and they find themselves in a drinking, debauched haze, and then a couple hours later, they're out on the street in their boxers with all of their valuables gone.
[ he explains this with a touch of amusement, pushing his hands into his pockets and giving a gesture forward with his shoulders. onwards! back to our shopping! ] You'd be surprised on how easy it is to convince people to do things when they're angry. They almost got Lin with it, the first time we went to Milky Way City, because he's a First Galaxy hotshot who'd never met a poor person in his life until he came to the Eighth.
[ bixing says this so affectionately. awful. ]
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well he's about to say something but as soon as he hears they almost got ljh with it he just cracks up laughing i'm so sorry.]
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THINKS ITS HILARIOUS ]
It took him ten minutes to realize it was a scam!
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[HELP he can't stop laughing]
What did he do?!
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[ help his incredibly feral lin ] It was kind of cute, actually. Even the great Marshal's a sucker to the Eighth.
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Sounds like that would've been absolutely hilarious to see. [he glances back at the window the water had come out of before...] ...hopefully the demons won't try that on him here though. For their sake and his.
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[ don't joke like that
anyway!!! onwards!!! ] How about you, Kuranosuke? Is city life new for you?
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I've always been a city boy.
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[ it's wild to hear someone talk about ancient earth tokyo like it's not a whole ass planet.... wow.... ]
I think, across time, some things are always going to be the same. Like - cities are always going to be lively, and people like me and you are always going to thrive in them. Right?
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[he grins]
Across time, across space - there's so many different worlds out there than I ever realized existed. When I get back to Tokyo, no one's gonna believe me about all the stuff I've seen and heard about here.
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[ stop ]
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They'd only publish it as fiction anyway! But it kinda sounds like that sort of thing would be more legit where you come from. Are you gonna write about any of this?
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Well - not anytime soon. I don't really have time to do... anything. Maybe when I retire! I told Lin I just want to be a house husband when I'm done in politics - I could definitely pick up an author gig on the side.
[ he allows himself like. two minutes to fantasize about that for a second. taking care of the kids... getting a dog... writing a novel about his hell adventures...getting a dog.... ]
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How long are you in office for, anyway? It's not gonna be a lifetime thing for you, is it? My old man and my uncle are, like, ancient, and they don't seem like they're gonna retire anytime soon...
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[ he tries not to make a face but fails at not making a face, and then rubs the back of his neck. ]
That isn't to say that I'm not grateful, and I'm happy to help, but... I really just came into power through succession and necessity. I want to set up an electoral system once things at home calm down so I can step down. So...hopefully just another year or so. Maybe less.
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[ i love that kuranosuke says IDK verbally. we stan. bixing laughs, though. ]
I think the last thing I want to be is a very old, irrelevant person with far too much power. And... honestly, I don't think politics is very fulfilling, anyway. Being here reminded me of some things; I have an academy to rebuild. And a dog to adopt. God, I really want a dog.
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Ooh, what kind of dog? ...and the academy getting rebuilt's gonna be great. There's a bunch of people out there who'd be totally lucky to have you as a teacher.