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post palace takeout! [week 5]

( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.

this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.

as one does. )

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[ Sunrise looks at Celeste, then looks at Izou...before tilting her head in the universal expression of confusion, like she's trying to figure out what Izou has to do with "manlayer". ]

..."Layer"? ..."Lay-er"...? What does Mr. Izou have to do with laying men?

[ She is literally just making salad out of this word and somewhere there are at least two people who would be aghast at what she's saying. ]

Edited 2024-09-09 03:35 (UTC)

[POINTS AT SUNRISE]

Now look what ya did, ya confused Sunrise!!

[HE'S CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN IT.]

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[ PFFFFFFFhhh——

Okay, now he does laugh out loud. Oh god, now Sunrise is in on it. ]

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[Oh he's this close to losing it, too. What a blessing Sunrise is.]

[She's perfect. A menace without even trying. But alas, he does hit her with the dreaded-]

You will surely understand when you are older.

[She's got that little sister energy...]

[ Some day someone is going to find out she is also literally 5 years old on a technicality, and suddenly it will make so much sense. ]

Older how?

[ Also literally cannot age... ]

[It will make so, so much sense.]

Hm. Chronologically. [Since he can't age anymore, either.]

With time comes experience.

Oh. Is that so?

[ ...There's this long pause, as Sunrise considers if she'll ever get to be "old enough" to understand this. She gets the feeling that if she did, it would probably be a sign she's overstayed her welcome. ]

I think so.

[Maybe she'll never reach it here - but someday, surely.]

[ Flatly, while everyone else is dying. ]

Nothing. Man. Slay. -Er.

[ He punctuates every syllable to help. ]

It's another way to describe a killer, murderer, or assassin. I suppose it sounds more threatening to the general populace by using "man" in the combination, thus adding a literal connection of human mortality for those who cannot realize the threat of someone who kills purposefully.

Edited 2024-09-09 03:52 (UTC)