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209 later afternoon/evening

[sancrimony]

higanbana: Is now a good time?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Yes. Now's fine.
CEO: Your place or mine?

[sancrimony]

higanbana: I'll come up to yours.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: I'll leave all the doors open.
CEO: Come to the lab.

[maidenheaven]

[ i think this might be his first time going in. second? who knows

it does not take him very long to find the lab-looking room though, and he's stepping in, voice a little higher than usual ]

Pardon my intrusion.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[It's not nearly as clean as the description would make it out to be - there are machine parts littered here and there. Looks like someone just finished up another batch of limbs and weapons again.

He turns as he's clearing off some of the table and---

Blinks. Once. Twice.

It's only been 24 hours since he saw you, Lucifel. What are you...?]

...?

I'm going to take this as a sign that it either went extremely well or extremely poorly.

[maidenheaven]

Ah, this and that are unrelated. Though, he is doing well.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Oh? Then you'll have to tell me what the special occasion was.

[maidenheaven]

. . . It's nothing so wonderful as a special occasion. It's just my own pitiful attempt to avoid facing my own problems.

[ there's a pause ]

For a while now, Dia-sama was unable to look at me, because of something that had happened while we had guest idols in the city.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[That gets an eyebrow raise]

I must have missed that completely as I was dealing with my own... surprises.

It must have been serious if it managed to bother Dia.

[maidenheaven]

A member of the unit YOU-kai kidnapped her and held her for a day to do as he liked with her. ... Well, though if you asked her, she'd say she was there willingly.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

YOU-kai, huh?

Let me guess. They stole your face? Seems like a common MO for them.

[maidenheaven]

Oh, well, I'm sure he did that too, but it would be very easy for him regardless, since he was born with this face.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

Another facetwin?

[maidenheaven]

Right.

I'm not exactly certain of the details, but it seems this other me is a terrible person.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And so Dia has ... issues looking at your usual form? Of which she probably underplays which means they just must be that much more traumatizing.

[maidenheaven]

[ with a nod ]

. . . Though, well, this morning . . . She came to tell me that I shouldn't do that anymore. She found out about it.

[ a beat ]

That is, Avenger told her.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Avenger. Why? (Besides the obvious avoiding the underlying problem anyway.)]

And are you going to stop?

[maidenheaven]

[ because avenger tattles on him for every problem he avoids addressing ]

There's no reason to continue doing it, now that she knows. Besides that, I think the effectiveness has started to subside.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Why are rivals like THIS?]

...

Has she seen you without an AlcheME! potion since this started?

[maidenheaven]

I've been diligent about it, but . . .

She saw me in Avenger's heart. I didn't have it on me at the time.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

[Well.




Shit.]

I'm guessing she took his heart as well as Angel did.