post palace takeout! [week 5]

[beathollow]

( 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. )

Comments

[goei]

[Well now he's just been challenged so he's powering through on bravado;]

What, you don't think I can? I may not be the smartest guy, but I know how ta use my body.

[fullmoonmutt]

[ THIS TIME ELI IS KICKING IZOU FROM UNDER THE TABLE. ]

Oi. Geezer.

[goei]

I told you ta stop callin' me that!

[fullmoonmutt]

[ never ]

You really talking about using your body like that in front of all these ladies? For real?

[ Mafuyu, Kirumi, Sunrise, and Argenti are all right there! Wow! ]

[goei]

[WHY IS THAT HIS COMPLAINT]

It's called subtlety, ain't it yer own fault if ya read somethin' inappropriate into that?

[He is 100% stealing this gambit from Jeno. RIP.]

[fullmoonmutt]

That was about as subtle as a goddamn brick! Everyone here knew exactly what you were talking about!

[ McGillis was right after all. These two did have a second wind to cause some chaos, but at least it isn't a fistfight. Yet. ]

[goei]

You don't fucking know that! Besides how's you drawin' attention to it helping??

[fullmoonmutt]

We're all sitting in the same damn booth! We can hear you even without me doing that!

[goei]

Ok but again, how is yellin' about it more helping???

[cirquedesang]

[Izou is absolutely just getting a 'we'll see' Look while being lectured.]

[goei]

[HOW IS HE THE ONE GETTING IN TROUBLE AND NOT YOU!?]

[cirquedesang]

[He already got in trouble!!! He just didn't start shouting about it.]

[beathollow]

( just sort of watching all this like let me know if i need to spend the night somewhere else i guess while she drinks shitty coffee. )

[vogelfrei]

[ This is... in all honesty, this is really funny. McGillis may not show it beyond a faint smile, but he's deeply entertained.

To Celeste, while the fight is being broken up: ] They both still have a lot to learn, don't they?

[cirquedesang]

[Sometimes a faint smile is all that's needed. Those who can See will See.]

They do. [Though if they (Izou especially) haven't yet... hm.] If they are able to, that is.

[And if they're not, then he'll get several more weeks of all this, so really he is the winner here.]

[vogelfrei]

It shouldn't be too late, as long that they're willing to do some hands-on studying.

[ Is he saying it like this just to be a shit in case they overhear him? Yes, maybe. But you'll never be able to prove it. ]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ AAAA SHOVE IT, MCTITS! ]

[vogelfrei]

[ looking at his chest, are we ]

[fullmoonmutt]

[ there isn't anywhere else to look?!?!?! they're the biggest part of him?!?!? ]

[cirquedesang]

[And Eli is right at eye level with them..............]

[cirquedesang]

[Shaking hands in the Dennihop...!]

Indeed... But if you should find yourself wishing to study for the advanced courses, I am not so difficult to find.

[Since McGillis has gotten himself involved, he also gets flirted with a little bit, too. As a treat. Whether it goes over the heads of the barking dogs is anyone's guess.]

1/2 cw: mildly implied sexual violence

[vogelfrei]

I think I passed that class a long time ago.

[ Based on the wording it should be bragging but it really does not sound like bragging. ]

[vogelfrei]

[ The shadow passes very quickly though, and the next line is accompanied by a suggestive smile once more. ]

Which is not to say I believe you'd be anything less than a formidable study partner, of course.

cw: mildly implied sexual violence............

[cirquedesang]

[Ah. That darkness is... familiar. It passes quickly, to be sure, but it's just present enough that his own response isn't nearly as playful as it ought to be.]

With honors, I'm sure.

[As if there was any other option.

But soon enough the flirtatious tone returns, like it never left.]

Perhaps we'll have to take a day off sometime to find out.

[Workaholics...]

[vogelfrei]

[ There's too many shades of recognizing the self in the other at this Dennihop tonight. McGillis might be mistaken about the way Celeste's look seemed knowing but... knowing what he knows now about his past, he might also not be. Maybe at some later point, not in front of so many people, he'll ask. ]

A day off? I can barely recall the last time I had such luxury.

[ Isn't every day in Sunset City a day off???? No. ]